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Doctor Who - Season 5 (2010)
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: polaris on April 19, 2010, 12:35:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on April 19, 2010, 09:40:21 am ---Doctor Who (the show) isn't really british at all. The only odd thing about that show is that when he's on earth, 99% of the time he's in the UK and all of his companions just happen to be from the UK. IMHO, unless they are trying to make the doctor a tad bit racist this is very unrealistic. By sheer population numbers alone the doctor should have visited america, china, and india far more than he has and should have had companions from each country.
I realize that this happens on American television as well, but that makes sense. America is a large place with a lot of people in it. The UK is a postage stamp of a country and yet in any scifi show that comes out of the UK all the super natural oddities and/or alien invasions just happen to occur either in london or south whales. ;) Don't feel bad though, this also happens with Japanese media. That is even more laughable because Japan has NO strategic value what-so-ever despite it's rather large population per square foot.
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:laugh2:
where does one start with a post like this.
was the xenophobia and america is awesome chat really necessary, has it added anything to this thread do you think?
:dunno
you're not really as ignorant as this post implies are you? i suspect you're just trolling for kicks
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How do you get Xenophobia out the fact that I pointed out that the Doctor travels all over the universe to every period of time and yet when he's on earth his travels are pretty much limited to the UK? If anything, yes, the producers of Dr. Who could be seen as very xenophobic, but I certainly am not. I evne pointed out that the doctor never travels to india and china.... my point wasn't that america was superior in any way, but that the UK is very tiny and it sure would make a lot more sense for an adventurer like doctor who to explore the WHOLE planet, and not just europe.
I also don't see how pointing out facts like the UK is significantly smaller than the US China or India makes me ignorant either.
My guess is you've had an emotional, rather than intellectual response to my post.
I suggest you look at the thing logically.
Just as an example, let's say you are an alien race from the doctor who universe. Now if you were going to take over the world would you choose to start in a crowed country like england with minimal natural resources, virtually no place to hide, and a realitively small population, or would you start in a place like China or the US, where you have vast, unpopulated stretches of land to hide in, large stores of natural resources and a massive, population of humans to destroy/experiment on.
Now don't you think it's a little silly that nearly every plot to take over the world on doctor who starts in london or south whales?
I don't think I sad anything bad about the UK as a country or it's people and if you read it that way you are mistaken as to my intent... it just happens to be a small country, which makes it a rather silly choice for a show about traveling.
You seem to be the one trolling from my perspective.
One british doctor who fan asked how americans perceived doctor who and another american doctor who fan (me) replyed.
Getting back to the discussion. Doctor Who never really felt british to me because they never dwell on the fact that the "earth base of operations" seems to be the UK adn they are often traveling about in time and space. BUT the fact that the UK IS the base of operations tends to take me out of the story sometimes. Other than that I find it to be show with great international appeal.
polaris:
i think you're a little too american to understand, sorry , carry on. :cheers:
Epyx:
--- Quote ---Its strange i can't imagine someone in the US or Aus to watch somthing so British,
But then you think about it and all the American stuff I watch on TV in the UK (How i met your mother, friends, scrubs, fraiser, my name is earl etc) and it dosen't feel strage at all.
What other British programmes are watched internationally?
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I grew up with the Doctor here in Canada on our local KVOS tv 12 station...every Sunday Morning at 1am they would play each episode in movie format (back to back). So roughly 2 hours of the Doctor each weekend. They showed every surviving episode back then (early 80s) from Hartnell through Colin Baker and of course Baker was my favourite.
I love the new series as well.
Then again here in Canada we get a lot of British television.
Level42:
The last time the doctor was aired over here in holland was the 80's I guess. Stupid TV ---uvulas--- here, nothing but talk-programs and stupid quiz shows.
Anything SF is categorically blocked. The last SF series aired here was ST.
One of the WORST things to do is to move a story from it's location. I absolutely HATE the recent The War of The Worlds movie for it. How arrogant can one be that every time aliens attack, the story is in the US ? I if were an alien, I'd start out in a place like Africa with very little technology around you and weak defenses.....
Epyx:
--- Quote ---One of the WORST things to do is to move a story from it's location. I absolutely HATE the recent The War of The Worlds movie for it. How arrogant can one be that every time aliens attack, the story is in the US ? I if were an alien, I'd start out in a place like Africa with very little technology around you and weak defenses.....
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That is one way...but then again when Lion and Hyenas converge at a kill site the male lion will target the strongest hyena in the hyena pack and kill it, sending a message to the rest of the pack.
What is to say that Aliens wouldn't use this same philosophy? ;)
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