We have just passed the 60th anniversary of Dr Who. I found this upload
I
have a deep fondness for this
show that started when I was a child, and have many happy memories of
watching it on TV. It's hard to describe the impact of Dr Who and or the
Daleks when it first appeared on TV.
So, when people dump on the show I tend to bristle.
So. I’ve been watching Doctor Who lately…
And despite its popularity and acclaim. The writing is kind of atrocious?
My ReplyThe show is constantly changing its own established rules.
The Doctor can’t change fixed points in time until he can.
He can’t visit a point in time twice until he can.
The level of technobabble is off the fucking charts.
Speaking of the doctor talking. God does he fucking love to talk and the bad guys just let him do it.Speaking of the villains. The show clearly wants us to take them seriously. But also makes them really silly at the same time.
The Doctor himself is such an uninteresting protagonist.
Not saying the show is not creative.
What do you guys think?
Arguably,
one can make a case that a show with time travel, and the nature of the
Doctor (an entity that can feel time), can remake the rules just
because every-time he gets out of the TARDIS he's in a new time-line.
Some
time-lines have fixed points, some do not. Some you can visit the same
point twice, or arguably the second time you visit is not actually the
same place, because it's a different time-line.
As for the
Doctor's non-stop talking, words have power. It's the equivalent of
knowing the secret name trope in stories with magic.
As for the scariness of any monster, the point is that Doctor Who shows us that overcoming fear is the way you beat monsters.
The show is all metaphors.
I got a lot of positive feedback for the post, so again sharing just because I can, and because I like Dr Who.
NB: Had to re-upload this, because YouTube was playing stupid buggers with the original poster.
And as this looses the comments, I've posted it below from anonymous:
Or... just show to em THIS FLIC ;-P
Rowan Atkinson is Doctor Who | Comic Relief - YouTube
And if they STILL wouldn't get it -- throw em out of TARDIS. ;-P
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