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eye_of_a_cat ([personal profile] eye_of_a_cat) wrote2006-06-03 10:38 pm
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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.
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[identity profile] julsiggy.livejournal.com 2006-06-03 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] kiaforrest.livejournal.com 2006-06-04 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] bonita-chaotica.livejournal.com 2006-06-04 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] lookingforwater.livejournal.com 2006-06-18 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...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...
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