Re: Michelle's Thoughts on 'The Christmas Invasion' (Spoilers)


Agamemnon wrote:
> What a decent Science Fiction writer would do would be to create scenarios
> of events that a TV station would not cover on the main news or set the
> events so far into the future that it wouldn't matter.
>
> You don't kill off the PM, destroy one of London's major landmarks and then
> destroy 10 Downing Street all set in the year after the show first goes on
> air. How does the BBC expect to sell this series to broadcasters in 2007
> when everyone expects Blair to still be in office at No 10 and Big Ben still
> chiming. Its like having the Doctor meeting Charles Darwin in a London where
> the Daleks exterminated Queen Victoria when she was a baby and then doing an
> episode set in the present where George Bush is president.

Between Troughton, Pertwee and Baker, we are expected to believe that
the authorities managed to suppress all news coverage of:

1) Yetis in the Underground attacking people and spraying creepy web
stuff everywhere. London evacuated.
2) Cybermen walking around the St Pauls region of London
3) Two attacks by the Nestene Consciousness, one of which devastated
the whole country with shop dummies coming to life in the high street.
4) Axos calling Earth... Please set up international arrangements to
distribute our weird alien substance... Chinn seemed to manage this,
IIRC
5) A World Peace Conference attacked by Daleks and Ogrons
6) Sea Devils attacking oil rigs, sea forts and Her Majesty's Navy?
Surely a few soldiers would be tempted to go to the press with that
one?
7) A giant Zygon spacecraft travelling from Scotland to a quarry
outside London, where it lands very loudly.
8) A giant alien plant monster smashing a stately home to bits before
being spectacularly bombed to bits by the air force

Blimey, does this planet need better investigative journalism or what?
Some of these could be sealed off from the public (Day of the Daleks,
for instance), but even then the press were in attendance earlier. And
does no-one on the 'inside' ever talk about what they've seen?

Face it, Doctor Who has always been horribly inconsistent and
implausible. If you think it's asking too much of us to believe that
the Slitheen attack has been suppressed, you should retcon your
dissatisfaction back to the Golden Age of Doctor Who. RTD didn't invent
inconsistency and absurdity in DW! It's traditional!

The Bronze

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