tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post6053549064917008247..comments2024-03-14T05:07:57.110-07:00Comments on Doc Oho Reviews...: What does Doctor Who Mean to Me? Doc Ohohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01819922630249965949noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-57760476119463335912013-11-25T09:35:35.802-08:002013-11-25T09:35:35.802-08:00Thanks for sharing your story :-)Thanks for sharing your story :-)Doc Ohohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01819922630249965949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-16584114647573372072013-11-23T11:43:38.744-08:002013-11-23T11:43:38.744-08:00May 2007. I am almost thirteen years old, and Batm...May 2007. I am almost thirteen years old, and Batman and the Justice League cartoons are the latest pop culture fad that I am obsessed with (the other major interests of my life up to that point being Scooby-Doo, Winnie the Pooh, Letterland, The Land Before Time, Godzilla and friends, Dinosaurs and Jurassic Park, Star Wars, SpongeBob, Jimmy Neutron, Alien, Predator, and Indiana Jones). The only major fellow fan I know is a family friend who we meet up with semi-regularly. At one of these get togethers, he gives me an early birthday present: two DVDs of a science fiction series I'd heard of, Doctor Who. The DVDs were called "Genesis of the Daleks" and "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". My friend told me a bit about the show, and also that was really bad - an absorbed prejudice that took me years to overcome (though I had some help from "Blink" and Matt Smith in doing that.)<br /><br />Having raised myself on a very decent helping of old monster movies, I took the terrible special effects in their cheesy stride, but what impressed me even more about Genesis (the first to be watched) was its story. Having grown up to be a very compassionate person, Batman's no-guns-or-killing rule was something that helped vindicate my values. In that respect, the Doctor was like the next step towards an adult perspective. The Doctor loved life in all its forms and abhorred violence and taking lives, but he was willing to kill and to use guns when he had to in order to do the right thing. If Batman was an idealist, than the Doctor was a pragmatist, and I feel that he has helped me a great deal in dealing with the depressing often horrifying realizations about human nature and the world that come throughout adolescence. The Doctor acknowledged that there were grey areas in life, that sometimes death was inevitable...but he kept his values anyway. He didn't give up.<br /><br />Of course, I couldn't have summed it up at the time without the retrospection of several years. Genesis was slow but turned out great, but it was Talons that laid the groundwork for me to be hooked on the show (and later, that story's spin-off audio series Jago and Litefoot). My friend lent us Pyramids of Mars, but I didn't like that one as much even though there was lots of good stuff in it, due to the Doctor's attitude (however justified) throughout the story. But the special features on the DVDs - clips of all these different stories, with all these strange creatures and strange sounds, from all different eras; look at them all! I was well and truly hooked. <br /><br />Now I'm planning to write my high school Senior Thesis paper on Talons of Weng-Chiang, and just today I came up with lots of terrible Wholiday wishes such as "Happy 5atWh0day!"<br /><br />Happy 50th, Doctor Who. Long may you carry on. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com