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ALRIGHTY! It is official! Mr Andrew Lloyd Webber has gone mental! Insane! Looney-wooney-swooney! Explanations? Well; during my daily reading (skim-through) of the British tabloids, I came across this interesting piece of garbage (hopefully) which definately proves it! How can he do this to us fans? We stand by him pretty faithfully, for Heaven's sake, and this is how he thanks us? First the Beyoncé-scandal at the Oscars (haven't forgiven either of them yet) and now...

Hang on! Does this actually mean that he intend to place Gerry and Emmy in New York and let him suffer all that makeup and shit all over again? Does this mean he intends to spend impossible, unheard-of sums of money from his own account to make an equal epic? Does this mean Gerry may reprise his role and flop?! It's SO not worth it! It's going to be a disaster! You don't write a sequel to the best musical-film ever with the best, most subtle, most frustrating, most heart-breaking ending EVER! I won't cry my heart out in a cinema again, not over such an obvious attempt of easy moneymaking! Reasons? Well. No-one listens to us phan-gals and we're the only ones who know how the story could be continued. They won't make that version anyway. And there were no "to be continued"-warnings at the end of the PotO-credits and we wouldn't like any. That's why we wrote all the fanfics. Second: Gerry probably won't do a reprised Phantom, regardless, and you don't replace Gerry. Third: it's going to be more than a disaster, it's going to be ridiculous, and nothing can match up to the original - especially not a Forsythe-thriller with new music. God, I'm actually scared now. We wanted a different ending, of course we did, not because the one we got was bad, but because we felt sorry for our beloved Phantom and we would NOT want anything similar to anything these two crazy old men could ever cook up! Christine with children, happily married, screwing up the entire PotO-sepia-storyframe and context? Oh no, the sequel-problem! I can't bear the thought. I'd want to write, direct, produce and provide the music myself, if they ever make another Phantom-film, or else I KNOW I'll be davastedly disappointed!! Plus, we all remember the Leroux-novel. And that's a bit of a problem. The novel was utterly brilliant and they deviated enough from that story as it was, in the first place. And last but not least, there can be only one Gerry as the Phantom - really! - and the magic only happened once. Take notice. Beware! And love the one and only, like I said! ;)

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And a p.s.: which is yet another thought - perhaps the reason why I didn't react to the John Smith + Joan-affair was that it prevented Martha from getting more intimate with the Doctor, and I was indeed very joyous about her not getting any response from the Doc, since any chance of seeing Martha Jones a tad jealous is pretty welcome as far as I'm concerned! And the Doctor in a different role - new dimensions to his character - is a sensible way of developing the show. We need more turnabouts and variation. He's no uncomplicated man to be around, and his companions need to feel the heat. Moreover moreover, Martha has become victim to unreciprocated love, and since the overly enthusiastic Whovian Scaramouche is a passionate supporter of Billie Piper's imminent return, that is a great advantage, for we might have seen some predictions of the possibility that this might happen last weekend - a glimmer of hope! - and thus; knowing that when the Doctor dreams, he dreams of Rose! is always a nice piece of knowledge to hold for fans in depair. Yes, it is a fact; I am rather too fond of my Doctors, but don't you dare tease me about it. You may instead quote Pierce Brosnan infamous, ingenious phrase from "The world is not enough" - "Oh, I don't know any Doctor-jokes!"