This will not end well.A few decades ago this news would have had me punching the air. Today, it merely confirms that the current series is nothing but a sex-obsessed (in a family programme!), treacly, sentimental, romantic, pop-culture centered, self-referential, gratuitous homosexual referencing (family programme!), aimed-at-the-fourteen-year-old girl-demographic vampire sucking on the corpse of a classic science fiction series that hasn't a blind bit of thought about what made the show great in its heyday and will undercut and betray whatever it is allegedly "reviving".
Stand by for the glacier-paced, self-indulgent, talky, watch-the-villain-get-in-touch-with-his-feelings road crash.
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Don't hold back, Mr. Szondy. Let us know how you feel!
You damned kids! GET OFF MY LAWN!
Seriously, though, nostalgia is a dangerous, dangerous thing. In 20 years, the current Dr. Who series will be just as "classic" to people your age as the old one, and people'll be griping about how the new 2020s series is just -- all those adjectives you used.
Anonymous 1 here.
I'm not sure that this nostalgia thing is simply a matter of time. I'm not a Dr. Who fan (low-level trekkie in my formative years, found the Prisoner when an undergrad, never got into Who), but it sounds like there was some kind of innocence thing going on in the old series, and that this has been lost. Innocence is by definition, difficult to regain.
When Star Trek went all touchy-feely (TNG) I thought it a qualitative shift into shark-jumping territory, even if there were other (new-)Trek series. If the BBC has pulled a similar stunt with the Doc, changing around basic premises, I guess I can feel the pain of fans of the old series.
Hm, speaking of which, how do y'all think the Prisoner could be reimaged to make it edgier and releventer and stuff?
I'm afraid I don't see the connect between the press release linked and Mr. Szondy's venom.
What's wrong with a series revisiting old villains? That's part of the appeal of Dr. Who, after all. We don't complain when Star Trek re-used Klingons and Romulans instead of coming up with new bad guys who acted exactly like the established ones.
Am I missing something?
Yeh, you're missing something.
Looks like, olden days, Doc Who and his merry band of persons operated under one set of assumptions, assumptions reflecting a more innocent, more confident time. Not so much of the belly-button-staring, not so much of whichever fashionably edgy attitudes/story lines are fashionably edgy these days.
Like when they brought back Star Trek (yay!), but with a twist (oh?). Yeh, the Klingons are our friends now (uh, OK I guess...)! Yeh, and the captain (fine upstanding example of humanoid mainliness?) you wish---the captain often resorts to his most feared weapon (his two-fisted phaser-wielding skillez? his irresistable attraction to interplanetary females? his daily habit of wiping his fundament with the Prime Directive? What?) his Diplomatic Abilities! (Man, that's lame.)
Are you dissing the Picard? True, he's no Kirk. But he is still awesome.
Also, that's a pretty awesome boomstick the Sontaran's wielding. If they can stay away from the awful emotional side of things, then they could be pretty awesome.
Picard? That baldy-headed, panty-waisted touchy-feely excuse for a starship captain? Who needed the services of the ship's shrink to tell him when his captaining skills were needed? "I sense hostility." G'uuuh. What gave it away, Consellor Spandex? the lusty singing of "kill the humans" or the acidic droolage dripping from the rows of razor-sharp teeth? Matter of fact, Picard's only redeeming quality was that we used to hope he'd break into the French soldiers' lines from Monty Python's Holy Grail (which he never did). Aside from that, no, no problems with Captain Jeen-Luk Picknose at all.
Now, Janeway, this one had zero redeeming qualities.
(and listing "homosexual-referencing") as somehow anti-family sort of proves that, frankly, you're not exactly one of our race's brightest members. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm halfway through rewatching The Monster of Peladon.)
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