So just watch.
Words Fail Me
So just watch.
25 responses to “Words Fail Me”
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Perhaps quacks might do.
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I don’t think I’m capable of quacking at that level.
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Now, if I saw that on Doctor Who, I would get really, really nervous.
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There was a giant duck on Dr. Who?
By the way, was it you who recently said something good about Murder Must Advertise, the BBC version from the ’70s? We watched that over a couple of nights and really enjoyed it. -
No, but there are frequently odd things around Big Ben and none of them bode any good.
Yes, I’m glad you enjoyed. Carmichael kind of grew on me, although having seen Petherbridge first, it was an uphill battle. My friend Barbara had the opposite experience.
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On Dr. Who, a giant duck in London would inevitably be there for homicidal, possibly genocidal reasons. Or, if innocent, would nonetheless be tangled up in a situation involving more murderous parties.
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Yes, that was exactly my point.
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Trojan Horse kind of thing, maybe? Certainly no city would hesitate to receive an enormous duck with honor and affection.
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Exactly.
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Sounds like the Autons – they liked making plastic toys which turned into murderous weapons; a giant duck of death would be exactly their style.
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I don’t remember them. Old or new Who? I’ve mostly watched the Tom Baker ones, though I did see a certain number of the David Tennant ones.
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Old, first appeared in the 3rd Doctor times. Were made of, and could create, intelligent plastics, allowing them to infiltrate human society disguised as small useless plastic objects. I think they appeared in the new series once, though.
I’ve watched virtually no Dr. Who, but when I was a lad I read vast numbers of the novelisations. (When I finally saw a Dr. Who episode I was amazed and slightly appalled. My mother had told me how bad the special effects were, but I didn’t understand until seeing it.) -
Oh dear, I have a house full of small plastic ducks. They were in a few of the new ones, but no David Tennant, I think.
AMDG -
A quick check on wikipedia reminds me of what they were famous for… for me, reading the novels, the scariest and most memorable bit was a small dashboard toy in a car killing someone; apparently, for those with a TV, the most memorable and terrifying scene was when a load of shop window dummies came alive and started gunning people down in the street. This stuck in people’s minds particularly as it was very much considered a children’s show at the time.
(Kids’ reading and viewing material in the UK back in the 70s and 80s did not have much inhibition about inducing quivering terror in children. My mother remembers hiding behind the sofa when the daleks appeared. Comics could be seriously scary and demented too – I only got into 2000AD as an adult, which was probably just as well; as I kid I mostly consumed Transformers comics, but Marvel UK’s homemade Transformers stories could be seriously bizarre and intense.) -
It was the Santa Clauses killing people that was really freaky.
AMDG -
Goodness, I missed that. When was that?
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I’m pretty sure it was in the very first episode of the new shows with Christopher Eccleston. They may have come back in one with D. Tennant, too.
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Is it true that the new Doctor Who shows feature noticeably gay themes and characters?
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I don’t know about themes. I’d have to think about that, but I would say no. There are gay characters–not the main ones.
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The thing is, while Dr. Who is fun to watch for many reasons, it’s definitely anti-Christian and maybe anti-religion in general.
AMDG -
I’ve never really watched the show, just a few scenes now and then because my daughter and grandson like it.
I asked about the gay themes and characters because I saw a mention on the Web a few days ago that a BBC review of LGB presence in programming praised Doctor Who as one of the shows making an effort to feature them. -
“making an effort to feature them.”
grrrr
Obviously with the intention of influencing viewers. Yet in the next breath the entertainment industry will deny even the suggestion of responsibility for negative consequences of their presentations of violence etc.
I repeat, grrrr. -
Scary to think that the entertainment industry pretty much calls all the shots re our culture today.
I was just remembering the other day when Tipper Gore back in the 1990s (or was it the 1980s?) tried to have parental warning labels put on music albums that had vile lyrics, and she was practically hounded out of the Democratic party. -
I think it was the early ’90s. Could have been late ’80s. She’s distanced herself from all that now, of course. Learned her lesson. Which is too bad because I liked her for it. She did succeed, btw–the warning labels were instituted, and are still with us.
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