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From: doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
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Subject: Re: how to save Dr. Who
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 19:11:47 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <506D9CD7.4...@RADW.USENET>, MDS  <M...@RADW.USENET> wrote:
>solar penguin wrote:
>> 
>> T987654321 wrote:
>> 
>> > This regeneration has been very hit or mostly miss.
>> 
>> True, but you could say the same about almost any drama series from
>> the past 20 years.  After all, gameshows are the only things that are
>> actually fun to watch nowadays.  There's nothing special or magical
>> about DW that makes it an exception.
>> 
>> >  To bring the show back they need to kill it.
>> 
>> Bring it back from where?  And more importantly, to where?
>> 
>> While it's artistically as bland as any modern drama, it's doing
>> exactly what the BBC want it to do (which is to appeal to the sort of
>> mindless sheep who like bland, modern drama.)  Changing it away from
>> that is more likely to get the BBC to take it off the air for another
>> 15 years at least, maybe forever this time.  That's a funny way of
>> saving it!
>> 
>> >  Or more exactly put it on hiatus for two or three years.  Then
>> > bring it back with a new Doctor and new producers and most
>> > importantly new writers.
>> 
>> Nice idea, but in only 3 years time, will TV really have undone all
>> the mistakes of the past 20 years?  I don't think so.
>> 
>> Face facts, as crap as DW currently is, it's the best it's going to
>> be.  And even crap DW is better than none at all.
>
>
>
>Now if all the DW haters took your last line to heart and stopped their
>incessant bitching...
>
>
>-- 
>MDS (Mister Doctor Sir)

10/10 SP and MDS.
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