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


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> "The Bronze" <stevesimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> 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:
>
> But they didn't manage to suppress them. These events all actually
> happened and they were re-enacted in the true life docudrama Doctor Who.
>
>>
>> 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?
>
> None of these events caused the destruction of Big Ben and 10 Downing
> Street or them murder of the PM.
>
>>
>> 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!
>
> Face it. RTD has lost the plot. Look at the X files and its the same thing
> as calssice Doctor Who. Nowhere in the X files was the President of the US
> murdered or the White House destroyed by a Sea to Sea missile. All of
> these stories were plausibly deniable so could have actually happened
> since they did not tamper with historical constants, but RTD has thrown
> away the rule book so the only way that his stories can be plausably
> deniable is if they occurred in a different parallel universe like the
> Dalek conquest of Earth in Day of the Daleks or Inferno. Therefore the RTD
> era so far is not real Doctor Who.


So England really sent an astronaut to Jupiter in the 1970s? Pre-RTD.


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