I have read, Heinlein, Azimov, Clarke, Bradbury, etc. I have watched Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, etc.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, I have read and viewed so much science fiction fantasy and comic book heros......
....but I dont get nor will I ever understand Dr. Who. It must be a “..its a British thing, you wouldn’t understand” thing.
This is bullcrap, Dr. Who is supposed to be older. He is supposed to be a mentor to the young people he totes about the universes. I don’t watch any of the newer episodes although my 16 year old daughter likes them.
When I was a kid, Dr. Who was good, campy fun. The shows were real kitschy at times and obviously produced on a shoe string budget. But the actors who portrayed Dr. Who back in the day - especially IMHO Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker - and the Companions made the show fun and exciting for kids.
Now, well, the show looks cleaner and sharper than ever, but the writings seems so typically politically correct, preachy, pro-gay (yeah, I’m serious), and it’s lost all its campy fun.
Just my opinion. Others here love the new show.
The newer series is far, far more watchable than, indeed, the ‘it’s a Brit thing, you wouldn’t understand’ classics. Though, you know, you watch a little Red Dwarf, some Blake 7, you remove some of that mystery to the classics. But no matter, you can certainly enjoy the new Doctor Who series if you feel like giving it another shot.
I used to watch the video tape recorded Dr. Who series with Tom baker and Peter Davidson years ago because they were campy and kitschy. Now it's too slick and not even good Sci-Fi.
Of course, there's no good place to view good Sci-Fi now that the Sci-Fi channel has become the Scary Reality and Ghost Chasers Channel. Time to start dusting off the classics. I think I'll start with Niven's Known Space short stories and novels.
I used to agree with you. I hated Dr. Who. After all, it was never supposed to “be” anything but campy kid’s fun. However, this new series has aspired to something a bit better in its writing and I think it now approaches fairly good sci fi.
I felt the same way until the “modern” Doctor Who started on the BBC in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston and later David Tennant. Much of it is literate science fiction at the highest level.
It owns the dramatic-presentation Hugo award every year. The third-season episode that took place in a society where everyone is born and lives their entire lives in one enormous, unmoving traffic jam, is as good as any written science fiction published in the last 20 years.
I have a problem with the accents sometimes when they talk fast, talk over each other or there's loud background music or sound effects. (Yeah, that's probably most of the time.)
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to purée of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I’ll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
Harlan Ellison
Check out a classic DW serial like Infero. It wil l have you hooked. Star Wars isn’t even Science Fiction. It’s a hokey Wild West shoot out in space.