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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.