Okay, not really.
I did, however, have something of an epiphany the other day when I was on Tumblr, and saw some pictures from a Doctor Who table read with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Davrill. I thought BOY THERE ARE SOME HIPSTERS. and then I realized that I didn't care that they were hipsters, mainly because I love them all so much.
This is, I grant you, a TERRIBLE comparison, but I thought Oh. Wow. Is this how some people feel when they realize someone they know or see every week on television is gay? Having grown up in the San Francisco bay area my initial reaction when I find out someone is gay is pretty much "Oh. Huh, didn't know that." or "Wow, good for you for coming out. That can't have been easy, I can't even imagine what you're going through." In other places, in other families, such revelations can be much more shocking and earth-shattering. That's not to say it's easy here, I'm sure it never is, but that's not my point in this post, so let's move on.
I've absolutely adored Matt and Karen from the moment they showed up on my screen. I think they're fantastic additions to the Who lineage, and from the interviews I've watched, they seem like genuinely likable people. They are, however, unabashedly hipsters.
I tend to have a knee-jerk eye-roll reaction when it usually comes to hipsters, and I think that should change. Obviously, you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, even if that cover is something someone can totally control and is a guise of their own making. So from here on out, I am going to try very hard to not dismiss hipsters out of hand merely because many of them look silly or act like holier-than-thou asshats. While many of them do, many more (or at least some) do not, and it is very wrong to paint those who do not with the same wide brush.
So here's to Doctor Who for once again changing my outlook on life. Well done, folks.
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