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]

Something else that occured to me - I *hated* Andrew in Buffy, but loved this. I don't know if it's a tone difference or I feel more like a Buffy fan than I do a Dr Who one.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I hated Andrew originally but grew to love him, and I thought Storyteller was the only genius episode of series 7.
But yes, I am probably more emotionally attached (in fact, definitely) to Buffy than the Who canon.