An interesting article about Doctor Who from The Spectator
toady...
"The horror of Doctor Who isn’t Daleks or woke politics, it’s
that these days we are asked to treat a mediocre kids’ TV show
as a major artistic achievement."
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/doctor-who-fans-and-its-writers-need-to-grow-up/
An interesting article about Doctor Who from The Spectator
toady...
"The horror of Doctor Who isn’t Daleks or woke politics, it’s
that these days we are asked to treat a mediocre kids’ TV show
as a major artistic achievement."
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/doctor-who-fans-and-its-writers-need >-to-grow-up/
In message <xn0p1jizw61hzco000@post.eweka.nl>, Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> writes
An interesting article about Doctor Who from The Spectator
toady...
Typo, or are you just seriously unimpressed by the writer?
"The horror of Doctor Who isn’t Daleks or woke politics, it’s
that these days we are asked to treat a mediocre kids’ TV show
as a major artistic achievement."
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/doctor-who-fans-and-its-writers-need
-to-grow-up/
Perhaps one of the show's problems is that, like the writer of the
article that you've quoted, RTD seems to view it primarily as a kids'
show. If a survey was carried out, I think he might be surprised by the
age profile of its viewers.
On 2025-02-01 18:23:37 +0000, John Hall said:
In message <xn0p1jizw61hzco000@post.eweka.nl>, Blueshirt
<blueshirt@indigo.news> writes
An interesting article about Doctor Who from The Spectator
toady...
Typo, or are you just seriously unimpressed by the writer?
"The horror of Doctor Who isn’t Daleks or woke politics, it’s
that these days we are asked to treat a mediocre kids’ TV show
as a major artistic achievement."
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/doctor-who-fans-and-its-writers-need >>> -to-grow-up/
Perhaps one of the show's problems is that, like the writer of the
article that you've quoted, RTD seems to view it primarily as a kids'
show. If a survey was carried out, I think he might be surprised by the
age profile of its viewers.
The average age of the viewers may be older, but that doesn't change
the fact that it is made as a kids' show, albeit slightly older kids
than say teh Sarah Jane show was. Many kids' shows are actually better
and more interesting than the boring, over-sexed, and/or over-violent
garbage made for supposed grown-ups, (even ignoring the infestation of >"reality" TV garbage made for adults).
In message <xn0p1jizw61hzco000@post.eweka.nl>, Blueshirt ><blueshirt@indigo.news> writes
An interesting article about Doctor Who from The Spectator
toady...
Typo, or are you just seriously unimpressed by the writer?
"The horror of Doctor Who isn’t Daleks or woke politics, it’s
that these days we are asked to treat a mediocre kids’ TV show
as a major artistic achievement."
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/doctor-who-fans-and-its-writers-need >>-to-grow-up/
Perhaps one of the show's problems is that, like the writer of the
article that you've quoted, RTD seems to view it primarily as a kids'
show. If a survey was carried out, I think he might be surprised by the
age profile of its viewers.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
In message <xn0p1jizw61hzco000@post.eweka.nl>, Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> writes
An interesting article about Doctor Who from The Spectator
toady...
Typo, or are you just seriously unimpressed by the writer?
"The horror of Doctor Who isn’t Daleks or woke politics, it’s
that these days we are asked to treat a mediocre kids’ TV
show as a major artistic achievement."
-to-grow-up/
Perhaps one of the show's problems is that, like the writer of
the article that you've quoted, RTD seems to view it primarily
as a kids' show. If a survey was carried out, I think he might
be surprised by the age profile of its viewers.
John Hall wrote:
In message <xn0p1jizw61hzco000@post.eweka.nl>, Blueshirt
<blueshirt@indigo.news> writes
An interesting article about Doctor Who from The Spectator
toady...
Typo, or are you just seriously unimpressed by the writer?
Typo. I have stronger words for writers who don't impress me! :-)
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/doctor-who-fans-and-its-writers-need"The horror of Doctor Who isn’t Daleks or woke politics, it’s
that these days we are asked to treat a mediocre kids’ TV
show as a major artistic achievement."
-to-grow-up/
Perhaps one of the show's problems is that, like the writer of
the article that you've quoted, RTD seems to view it primarily
as a kids' show. If a survey was carried out, I think he might
be surprised by the age profile of its viewers.
I don't think RTD would be surprised, he knows all about Doctor
Who fandom. He just doesn't care and makes Doctor Who the way he
wants to. (There are many examples of his views on this in "The
Writers Tale".)
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