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1 hartly  Fri, Nov 22, 2013 1:06:19pm

Back in the day Dr. Who was the one show on PBS that never got any love from the toney Anglophile crowd. It says something - and in my opinion not a good “something” - that the likes of NPR, Slate, and The Atlantic are now paying attention to it. It’s a sad sign that apart from some superficial sci-fi trappings, my childhood favorite show has metaporphosed into “watercooler television”.

2 No Country For Old Haters  Fri, Nov 22, 2013 3:52:14pm

re: #1 hartly

Back in the day Dr. Who was the one show on PBS that never got any love from the toney Anglophile crowd. It says something - and in my opinion not a good “something” - that the likes of NPR, Slate, and The Atlantic are now paying attention to it. It’s a sad sign that apart from some superficial sci-fi trappings, my childhood favorite show has metaporphosed into “watercooler television”.

Do you really want to present yourself as a Doctor Who hipster?

3 The War TARDIS  Fri, Nov 22, 2013 6:49:35pm

re: #2 No Country For Old Haters

He does this a lot.

I think I have gotten into arguments with him in the past over this.

This “water cooler” television tore me out of a depression.

4 klys  Fri, Nov 22, 2013 6:50:35pm

Here’s a photo for you, PLL: I’ve seen the Tardis in real life.

5 The War TARDIS  Fri, Nov 22, 2013 6:51:41pm

re: #4 dr. klys

You….lucky…lady.

Also, I think I will go into teaching.

6 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Nov 23, 2013 6:18:26am

re: #1 hartly

Once upon a time on Saturday night I’d watch first Dr Who and then after that I’d have the unalloyed joy of also watching “Blake’s 7” fight against the evil Federation. Then on Sunday evening I’d watch Masterpiece theater.

It’s never been about being either/or but rather both/and. That is the real essence of art. One without the other would make William a dull and trollish boy.

“Fantastic!”

7 Stoatly  Sat, Nov 23, 2013 6:24:16am

re: #4 dr. klys

Ha! I can top that… I spent a night drinking with Tom Baker some years ago
(a friend tells me this is no biggie, a lot of people have spent a night drinking with Tom Baker)
He was gratifyingly as barking mad as I had hoped.

Just watched “an Adventure in Time and Space” (dramatised telling of the birth of Who) and it was proper time travel for me.
It took me back to BBC Television Centre as I remembered it - OK the actual time portrayed was mid-sixties and I joined the Beeb in the late eighties - but the look and feel resonated hugely from people smoking like chimneys to the gilded buttocks of the Ariel statue in the centre of the “doughnut”

The portrayal of Verity Lambert reminded me of how women and minorities still needed to be assertive to get noticed (and then tended to be seen as “difficult” as a consequence)

8 The War TARDIS  Sat, Nov 23, 2013 7:52:59am

re: #7 Stoatly

Seeing that, Verity Lambert was awesome. A fine woman,

The actress you played here also was a character in the show itself. Emma Grayling during Hide. One of the best episodes of New Who. Name is Jessica Raine.


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