More on the Great Dr Who debate..

[green_amber]

.. from email conversation..

Reasons why people didn't like Love and Monsters

- it's not Who
- the Doctor (and Rose) wasn't the main character
- it "confounds expectations" (as if that was a bad thing!)
- it's like a soap opera, and that's NOT WHO

I think at root what we're seeing here is the naked faaaan mentality - we want it to look like the Who
we remember, monsters, aliens, no characterisation and no emotional development - that's for GIRLS. There's also a lot of gender and class issues floating around in there - Dr Who is above soap opera, and , god help us all, popular culture references - it's POSH and for BOYS. (oddly enough, exactly the kind of boys who will get the ELO references - which makes the hostility all the oddder.)

I do think anyone who could say it wasn't funny has had a complete sense of humour failure- but this seems to include people like Swisstone, so I'm utterly bemused..

It's CHANGE. Like I always say, nobody likes that :-)

Comments

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

Also, I clearly need to return my geek card. When I see Shirley Henderson I always think of The Way We Live Now rather than HP.

[andrewducker]

I think of either Trainspotting or Intermission.

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

Isobel from Hamish Macbeth. And Katherine in the recent modern mini Taming of the Shrew. Very talented young woman.

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

I still think of Hamish Macbeth..... and 24 Hour Party People.... and Dirty Filthy Love. Great actress, she even made Hamish Macbeth watchable!