Board Thread:The Celestial Toyroom/@comment-188432-20141209010058

You may not know it, but Wikia annually run a December contest to choose the best fandom moment of the year. But let's face it: as Doctor Who fans we probably wouldn't know much about that, because regular, chart-topping performance in the UK isn't flashy anymore. We've just come to both accept and expect that Doctor Who will provide us with excellence every year. And when it happens, as it inevitably does, we find it no more extraordinary that the fact that hummingbirds can fly. Never mind that hummingbirds are an aeronautical marvel — or that Doctor Who is performing in its eight year like most hits do in their first: it's just what they do.

But this year, we can't afford to be blazé about our favourite programme. We had to fight our way into the tournament. Wikia — God love 'em — didn't even give Peter Capaldi's smashing debut an automatic bid.

Well, in the words of the War Doctor, it's time for us to say "No More!" We cannot accept the indignity of being the reliably excellent beaches on the great ocean of fandom. We're not Myrtle or Brighton or Pensacola. Doctor Who is a good, expensive beach. We're the Maldives, the Seychelles and Lanikai rolled up into one. And if the metaphor is lost on the truly North Americans out there, lemme just make it clear: we're the best fandom on the planet, and we've just had one of our most extraordinary years.

So even though we've been given the stiffest possible competition — we get to face Star Wars immediately after taking on Guardians of the Galaxy — we're still going to make it through to the finals of this thing.

Because everyone here has the Doctor's back.

So go here and vote Capaldi today.  