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

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

Well my trouble with it was not the idea, but that it was badly done. Peter Kay just played Peter Kay, the rubber suit was just crap, and I have never found fart jokes funny. The idea of the absorbothon held no logic -- where were all his previous victims?

What could have been interesting, Elton's past encounter with the Doctor continuing to haunt him, was skipped over with a glib comment. 'A shadow came out of the howling walls' So much for character development there. I get the feeling that RTD started down a fertile line then got cold feet, which is worse than not going there at all.

Only the Jackie/Elton flirtation was really taken to a proper conclusion. Jackie's dabbling with the idea of seducing Elton as an expression of her loneliness and feeling of being left behind was in character for her and in keeping with one of this series themes.