Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9.\n
\nIs yours? Yeah, I thought so.\n
\nIs anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, I thought not.\n
\nSo what does slitty-vision bring to the party?\n
\nDaft, I call it.\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nNever mind all that – did tha like her Yorkshire accent lad?\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI did. I never thought I\u2019d want to cuddle a Doctor Who until today!\n
\nMy Mum was Yorkshire, so I\u2019m on home ground with that.\n
\nDon\u2019t know what William Hartnell would have made of all that CGI and bally-hoo though. Doctor Who has evolved somewhat, but he would know that of course, because he\u2019s seen the future.\n
\nGreat pictures too, and superb sound with music not too loud for a change.\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce <\/strong><\/h3>\nNOOOO! The Doctor is supposed to be an Alien – from another planet – she would have learned English-as-a-Foreign-Language, i.e. Received English. (or American English, which would be completely unacceptable! Can’t have the Doctor talking about "Train Stations", even if BBC Journos do.) \n
\nIf she’d crash-landed in Yorkshire, completely lost her memory and had to relearn her whole language – that might have been acceptable. But this is the second Northern Doctor. Why? The line about, "A lot of planets have a North", was too pathetic when Christopher Eccleston said it. You can’t get away with it again – particularly since we’ve had two Scottish Doctors, who must be even more Northern than Northern. So, why no Irish, Welsh, West Country, East Anglian or Cockney Doctors? It’s discrimination, I tell you! A completely Alien accent, never heard on Earth before, would be clever, but probably too difficult. So please can the Doctor act like a proper Alien, and stop being so identifiably and parochially terrestrial.\n
\nAnd as for the moment when she said, "Would of" AAAAAGH!\n
\nAnd wasn’t the plot nicked from "Predator"?\n <\/h3>John Howell<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m guessing "coo-mon" replaces "allons y<\/i>"\n <\/h3>Dave Buckley<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u201cQuotes of the week\u201d in last Sundays \u201cMail on Sunday\u201d carried the following…..\n
\n\u201c…I’m from Hoodezfield…\u201d. Jodie wrongfoots a US chat show subtitle writer with her Yorkshire accent!\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nDoesn\u2018t that not quite into the lens picture look as if it wasn\u2018t the camera the photographer just exposed? She looks startled.\n <\/h3>Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou might too if just having had an unexpected gender re-orientation?\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nNot sure if this is Politically Correct, or not – The Doctor Who Barbie Doll!\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nNever mind all that – did tha like her Yorkshire accent lad?\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI did. I never thought I\u2019d want to cuddle a Doctor Who until today!\n
\nMy Mum was Yorkshire, so I\u2019m on home ground with that.\n
\nDon\u2019t know what William Hartnell would have made of all that CGI and bally-hoo though. Doctor Who has evolved somewhat, but he would know that of course, because he\u2019s seen the future.\n
\nGreat pictures too, and superb sound with music not too loud for a change.\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce <\/strong><\/h3>\nNOOOO! The Doctor is supposed to be an Alien – from another planet – she would have learned English-as-a-Foreign-Language, i.e. Received English. (or American English, which would be completely unacceptable! Can’t have the Doctor talking about "Train Stations", even if BBC Journos do.) \n
\nIf she’d crash-landed in Yorkshire, completely lost her memory and had to relearn her whole language – that might have been acceptable. But this is the second Northern Doctor. Why? The line about, "A lot of planets have a North", was too pathetic when Christopher Eccleston said it. You can’t get away with it again – particularly since we’ve had two Scottish Doctors, who must be even more Northern than Northern. So, why no Irish, Welsh, West Country, East Anglian or Cockney Doctors? It’s discrimination, I tell you! A completely Alien accent, never heard on Earth before, would be clever, but probably too difficult. So please can the Doctor act like a proper Alien, and stop being so identifiably and parochially terrestrial.\n
\nAnd as for the moment when she said, "Would of" AAAAAGH!\n
\nAnd wasn’t the plot nicked from "Predator"?\n <\/h3>John Howell<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m guessing "coo-mon" replaces "allons y<\/i>"\n <\/h3>Dave Buckley<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u201cQuotes of the week\u201d in last Sundays \u201cMail on Sunday\u201d carried the following…..\n
\n\u201c…I’m from Hoodezfield…\u201d. Jodie wrongfoots a US chat show subtitle writer with her Yorkshire accent!\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nDoesn\u2018t that not quite into the lens picture look as if it wasn\u2018t the camera the photographer just exposed? She looks startled.\n <\/h3>Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou might too if just having had an unexpected gender re-orientation?\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nNot sure if this is Politically Correct, or not – The Doctor Who Barbie Doll!\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
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\n\n\n
\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI did. I never thought I\u2019d want to cuddle a Doctor Who until today!\n
\nMy Mum was Yorkshire, so I\u2019m on home ground with that.\n
\nDon\u2019t know what William Hartnell would have made of all that CGI and bally-hoo though. Doctor Who has evolved somewhat, but he would know that of course, because he\u2019s seen the future.\n
\nGreat pictures too, and superb sound with music not too loud for a change.\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce <\/strong><\/h3>\nNOOOO! The Doctor is supposed to be an Alien – from another planet – she would have learned English-as-a-Foreign-Language, i.e. Received English. (or American English, which would be completely unacceptable! Can’t have the Doctor talking about "Train Stations", even if BBC Journos do.) \n
\nIf she’d crash-landed in Yorkshire, completely lost her memory and had to relearn her whole language – that might have been acceptable. But this is the second Northern Doctor. Why? The line about, "A lot of planets have a North", was too pathetic when Christopher Eccleston said it. You can’t get away with it again – particularly since we’ve had two Scottish Doctors, who must be even more Northern than Northern. So, why no Irish, Welsh, West Country, East Anglian or Cockney Doctors? It’s discrimination, I tell you! A completely Alien accent, never heard on Earth before, would be clever, but probably too difficult. So please can the Doctor act like a proper Alien, and stop being so identifiably and parochially terrestrial.\n
\nAnd as for the moment when she said, "Would of" AAAAAGH!\n
\nAnd wasn’t the plot nicked from "Predator"?\n <\/h3>John Howell<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m guessing "coo-mon" replaces "allons y<\/i>"\n <\/h3>Dave Buckley<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u201cQuotes of the week\u201d in last Sundays \u201cMail on Sunday\u201d carried the following…..\n
\n\u201c…I’m from Hoodezfield…\u201d. Jodie wrongfoots a US chat show subtitle writer with her Yorkshire accent!\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nDoesn\u2018t that not quite into the lens picture look as if it wasn\u2018t the camera the photographer just exposed? She looks startled.\n <\/h3>Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou might too if just having had an unexpected gender re-orientation?\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nNot sure if this is Politically Correct, or not – The Doctor Who Barbie Doll!\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
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\n\n\n
\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Roger Bunce <\/strong><\/h3>\nNOOOO! The Doctor is supposed to be an Alien – from another planet – she would have learned English-as-a-Foreign-Language, i.e. Received English. (or American English, which would be completely unacceptable! Can’t have the Doctor talking about "Train Stations", even if BBC Journos do.) \n
\nIf she’d crash-landed in Yorkshire, completely lost her memory and had to relearn her whole language – that might have been acceptable. But this is the second Northern Doctor. Why? The line about, "A lot of planets have a North", was too pathetic when Christopher Eccleston said it. You can’t get away with it again – particularly since we’ve had two Scottish Doctors, who must be even more Northern than Northern. So, why no Irish, Welsh, West Country, East Anglian or Cockney Doctors? It’s discrimination, I tell you! A completely Alien accent, never heard on Earth before, would be clever, but probably too difficult. So please can the Doctor act like a proper Alien, and stop being so identifiably and parochially terrestrial.\n
\nAnd as for the moment when she said, "Would of" AAAAAGH!\n
\nAnd wasn’t the plot nicked from "Predator"?\n <\/h3>John Howell<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m guessing "coo-mon" replaces "allons y<\/i>"\n <\/h3>Dave Buckley<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u201cQuotes of the week\u201d in last Sundays \u201cMail on Sunday\u201d carried the following…..\n
\n\u201c…I’m from Hoodezfield…\u201d. Jodie wrongfoots a US chat show subtitle writer with her Yorkshire accent!\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nDoesn\u2018t that not quite into the lens picture look as if it wasn\u2018t the camera the photographer just exposed? She looks startled.\n <\/h3>Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou might too if just having had an unexpected gender re-orientation?\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nNot sure if this is Politically Correct, or not – The Doctor Who Barbie Doll!\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
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\n\n\n
\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
John Howell<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m guessing "coo-mon" replaces "allons y<\/i>"\n <\/h3>Dave Buckley<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u201cQuotes of the week\u201d in last Sundays \u201cMail on Sunday\u201d carried the following…..\n
\n\u201c…I’m from Hoodezfield…\u201d. Jodie wrongfoots a US chat show subtitle writer with her Yorkshire accent!\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nDoesn\u2018t that not quite into the lens picture look as if it wasn\u2018t the camera the photographer just exposed? She looks startled.\n <\/h3>Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou might too if just having had an unexpected gender re-orientation?\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nNot sure if this is Politically Correct, or not – The Doctor Who Barbie Doll!\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
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\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Dave Buckley<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u201cQuotes of the week\u201d in last Sundays \u201cMail on Sunday\u201d carried the following…..\n
\n\u201c…I’m from Hoodezfield…\u201d. Jodie wrongfoots a US chat show subtitle writer with her Yorkshire accent!\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nDoesn\u2018t that not quite into the lens picture look as if it wasn\u2018t the camera the photographer just exposed? She looks startled.\n <\/h3>Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou might too if just having had an unexpected gender re-orientation?\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nNot sure if this is Politically Correct, or not – The Doctor Who Barbie Doll!\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
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\n\n\n
\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nDoesn\u2018t that not quite into the lens picture look as if it wasn\u2018t the camera the photographer just exposed? She looks startled.\n <\/h3>Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou might too if just having had an unexpected gender re-orientation?\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nNot sure if this is Politically Correct, or not – The Doctor Who Barbie Doll!\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\n==========\n\n
\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
\n==========\n\n
\n\n\n
\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou might too if just having had an unexpected gender re-orientation?\n <\/h3>Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nNot sure if this is Politically Correct, or not – The Doctor Who Barbie Doll!\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\n==========\n\n
\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
\n==========\n\n
\n\n\n
\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nNot sure if this is Politically Correct, or not – The Doctor Who Barbie Doll!\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\n==========\n\n
\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
\n==========\n\n
\n\n\n
\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nPutting my anorak on for a moment, anyone know if the train sequence was filmed on the Barry Tourist Railway?\n <\/h3>Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\n==========\n\n
\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
\n==========\n\n
\n\n\n
\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
\n\n\n
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\n <\/h1>\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith mine on- when I saw them fiddling with the door handles I asked my wife if she’d noticed what date it was set.\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m sure that some of you will have already seen this – but if you haven’t, you may find it interesting.\n
\nThe question comes from a Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA.\n
\n*Doctor Who had a Rosa Parks episode. Has Doctor Who always been political?*\n
\nAnswered Oct 22 <\/a>\n
\n\u201c… Only in America would a depiction of a sixty-three year old event in which a woman demanded to be treated like a human being be perceived as political<\/i>. Silly me, I thought we\u2019d reached the point where we all agreed that people should be treated as equals. I didn\u2019t know that was a bold political stance.\n\n
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
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\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading
The purpose of science fiction is to speculate on how science could impact the human experience. It is a creative means to examine the human condition. Science fiction that occurs in the realm of space and alien worlds is used for allegory. It examines ideas that may be uncomfortable to discuss in their native context by giving them distance. We view aliens facing choices that parallel our own and that makes us assess our choices.\n
\n\u201cStar Trek\u201d was well known for this. As a small child, I remember watching the episode \u201cLet That Be Your Last Battlefield\u201d, in which two aliens had great racial animus towards each other but the only difference between them was that one was white on the left side of their face and black on the right side and the other was white on the right side and black on the left side. Kirk and crew found their bigotry astonishing and so did my young self. That story imprinted the idea that racial bigotry is stupid and ignorant onto my brain.\n
“Doctor Who\u201d is even more suited to this type of storytelling because the Doctor is very judgmental. The Doctor flies around the universe in the TARDIS disrupting the status quo, chastising authority, and setting wrongs right. Part of the original BBC charter for the show is that it was to be educational for children – a way to teach them history.\n
\nThe second \u201cDoctor Who\u201d story, back in 1963, introduced the Daleks. The Daleks were a militaristic alien race obsessed with racial purity. They were based upon the Nazis. They were commentary. Now, I always thought that opposing Nazis was no longer political – something everyone agreed upon, but in August 2017, I learned that isn\u2019t really true.\n
\nThe following year, 1964, the story \u201cThe Planet of Giants\u201d provided a pro-environmentalism message. In 1967, in \u201cThe Ice Warriors\u201d, Doctor Who was ahead of its time – get it, ahead of its \/time\/ – in doing a story about anthropogenic climate change.\n
\nDoctor Who stories like \u201cThe Savages\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Kroll\u201d indirectly criticized Britain\u2019s past colonial efforts.\n
\nDuring the time the Third Doctor, in 1972, the show had a story called \u201cThe Curse of Peladon\u201d that paralleled the discussions happening in Britain about joining the European Union (which happened the following year).\n
\nThere are many, many other examples. The show is all about questioning ideas. Fiction that questions ideas shouldn\u2019t be described as political, it should be described as intelligent\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nThere are many more answers here:\n\n
\nHas Doctor Who always been political?<\/a>\n\n
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\n\n\n
\nAs a corollary to this, last week we had to look after grandsons Sam (8) and Harry (5). They had recorded the Rosa Parks episode – and watched it over and over and over again during the week – about 6 times if I recall correctly. Each time there were questions, so there are now at least two children fully versed in the anti-segregation movement in America. "…There’s Martin Luther King!…"\n\n
\nHurrah for Doctor Who !! \n\n\n
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[Ed: with, of course, a new Doctor: Jodie Whittaker] Nick Ware \u201cDoctor Who\u201d – well OK great, but why is it not 16×9? My tellies are all 16×9. Is yours? Yeah, I thought so. Is anyone\u2019s not 16×9? No, … Continue reading