Re: Doctor Who Fans & Writers Need to Grow Up [article]

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?

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"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."
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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.
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John Hall
                "I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
                 will hardly mind anything else."
                                            Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)