Yeah, I'm definitely too fandom-young to have experience of that. On the other hand, my previous experience of D. does give me enormous confidence in her ability and willingness to say "No, just deal, you people."
It's an interesting point - one of the reasons I'm not a very good advocate for DW is that part of my faith in it is based on the fact that I know D IRL and based on our conversations, I actually think she can pull this off. That's not very communicatable though, and I suspect that if I *didn't* have that experience, I might well be more inclined to the wait and see approach. I suppose on the other hand though, if all the moderate sensible people do that, then it makes it harder to get things started so there'd be that to argue towards giving it a go.
I'll be cross posting here anyway so the post was more just a curiosity thing but your comment thread with D got me thinking about it again :)
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Date: 2009-03-29 07:47 pm (UTC)It's an interesting point - one of the reasons I'm not a very good advocate for DW is that part of my faith in it is based on the fact that I know D IRL and based on our conversations, I actually think she can pull this off. That's not very communicatable though, and I suspect that if I *didn't* have that experience, I might well be more inclined to the wait and see approach. I suppose on the other hand though, if all the moderate sensible people do that, then it makes it harder to get things started so there'd be that to argue towards giving it a go.
I'll be cross posting here anyway so the post was more just a curiosity thing but your comment thread with D got me thinking about it again :)