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[eye_of_a_cat]

Why oh why oh why, BBC, must you insist on showing scary potentially unsuitable material before the watershed? Tonight's episode of Doctor Who was REALLY CREEPY contained scenes that I some viewers shrieked at in a completely wimpish way could have found disturbing. ESPECIALLY, I might add, since this is FAMILY entertainment, and such material is clearly unsuitable for 25-year-old PhD students young children.

I am a decent, law-abiding viewer who's only just got over the trauma of seeing the first Cybermen fifteen years ago, and I demand to know why my license fee is being spent on this kind of thing. What sort of example are we setting to young people when grown adults are tempted to dive behind the sofa when the creepy thing starts talking?

Yrs,

Mrs Trellis of North Wales.

p.s.: if this gives me nightmares, it's ALL YOUR FAULT.

Comments

[julsiggy.livejournal.com]

Heh! I'm still waiting for it to download. Nice to know it was creepy...they've needed some creepy. The modern Cybermen just don't do it for me.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Watch it with ALL THE LIGHTS ON!!1!

The modern Cybermen really weren't all that scary, were they? I think it had a lot to do with their storyline, though - in the first half of that two-parter, when the Doctor was scared of them too, they were a lot creepier.

[julsiggy.livejournal.com]

True, they were creepier in the first part...and then that massive cliffhanger was resolved in about two seconds, and the Doctor's fear of them seemed to just evaporate. Then they were given emotions and what not, and it was no longer "AHHH! CYBERMEN!" it was "Awww, poor Cybermen."

Anyway...

HOLY CRAP that was creepy!! Seriously creepy! And unpredictable! The best episode this season...no contest. Next week is too far away.

[kiaforrest.livejournal.com]

it rained last nite. Finally.

I skipped the doctor to go sit in the rain, washed the week away and was blessedly cool in a quiet, listen to the frogs party sort of way.

Poor Mrs Trellis in North Wales... sounds like she needed a front deck, rain and frogs!

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

You can never have too many frogs.

[bonita-chaotica.livejournal.com]

That all? I know a bloke who's scared of the theme music. I mean, really fucking terrified to the point of running out of the room the moment the music starts. Old school Doctor Who warped a fragile little mind and the poor never did recover.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

My uncle still hasn't quite got over being scared of the Daleks when he was young (possibly because his family won't let him forget), but running scared from the theme music is a whole new level of Who-induced terror.

I remember being unbothered by the Daleks, because, ha, everyone knew what a Dalek was, and I was young and brave and obviously they weren't scary. But nobody warned me about Cybermen.

[lookingforwater.livejournal.com]

...you know, nothing about Dr. Who scares me at all. And The Satan Pit was more like "ARGH PEOPLE DO YOU NOT READ? THIS IS ONE OF THE OLDEST GODDAMN HORROR STORIES OUT THERE!" It's always vaguely disappointing when I'm smarter than most of the characters. I had liked Dr. Who previously because the only thing I could predict was that the Dr. wasn't gonna die.

Now I'm just in it for the Tennant. Mmm, David...