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April 11, 2005
The trip of a lifetime
It's the usual practice to preface an article such as this with the saying that "nostalgia isn't what it used to be." Do that, and I'll cut off your hands.
Doctor Who is back on TV now. This is old news, I know, but with one thing and another I haven't managed to see an episode until today. It's good - it's appropriately shiny for the 21st century, the acting's good and it doesn't take itself too seriously. It's just like I remember Doctor Who being.
Being a child of the mid-80s, I don't actually remember Doctor Who that well. I gained a measure of cultural consciousness just as the Sylvester McCoy incarnation was coming to an end. I don't remember any specific episodes, just a middle-aged man in a scarf wondering around a quarry. I haven't really seen any of the previous series - I caught a couple of John Pertwee episodes here and there, the Peter Cushing movies, but mostly I only ever saw clips on shows were people go on about how great Doctor Who was.
Maybe that's why this version seems so right, for want of a better word. I remember Doctor Who being good but not why that was. This Doctor Who, for me, seems alright for its own reasons. But because of that, it's also reclaiming its past, reinforming my past experience of it. Time, it is said, is not a straight line.
Posted by jonny at April 11, 2005 02:16 AM
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