Saturday Evening TV
Wasn't going to write this post as it will have the propensity to make me sound like a gushing fan boy, but the last two episodes of Doctor Who were frankly fucking spectacular. The fact that a British TV series managed to show a drama questioning the nature of war, love, being human and immortality is surprising in itself, given the general standard of British TV today. It is something else that these themes were explored in what is nominally a kid's TV series on Saturday evenings, between the People's Quiz and the National Lottery results*. And with such great artistic success too.
I appreciate that Doctor Who is not to everyone's taste, but if you've haven't tried the new Who yet then I would recommend tuning in this Saturday to watch Blink - it is written by Steven Moffat, who has produced The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances and The Girl In The Fireplace - three of the best episodes not only of the revived series, but also the series as a whole...
*Possibly, possibly not what was on TV on Saturday nights on BBC 1 - but I am 100% sure that whatever bookends Doctor Who on Saturday nights is trite shite.
Labels: BBC, Doctor Who, TV
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 3:48 pm
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4 Comments:
And wasnt Blink absolutely amazing...I *am* a gushing fan boy who's followed the show for thrity years and I can honestly say this was one of the best ever.
Blink was pretty spectacular - even though it didn't have too much of the Doctor in it. A simple idea - moving statues - made into the stuff of nightmares. Which is what the best Doctor Who has always been.
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Somebody else at the above link has the audacity to talk about Sally Clark death and the most heinous miscarriage of justice ever carried out in the UK.
Why are you not jumping into that blog and the hundreds of others that express the same opinion?
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Who is DR.D?
As for the blog you mention, there is precious little to comment on in that post to be perfectly honest with you.
TNO
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