DR Who is DEAD!!!!!

[Mega]

They lip along for awhile, then just make any more............5 to 10 years from now after a Revolution he ( & it will be a HE) will return

And the "Brig"

[dcarrigg]

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I never really watched Dr. Who. So I don't really get the hubub. Something about casting the doctor as a lady this time or something sofar as I can tell.

To me, it's all symptomatic of a bigger problem: Endless reboots and sequels and rehashing of the same old 1960s stories and songs.

If there is a revolution, I hope in 5-10 years the only way all that 50+ year old culture exists for public consumption is at a flea market or in a dollar discount shop next to the zoot suits and ragtime music. A half-century of constant rehashing is more than enough. Let the Dr. Who (1963) and Star Trek (1966) and Led Zeppelin (1968) and Beatles (1960) and Stones (1962) and X-Men (1963) and Avengers (1963) and all that overtrod and tired 1960s reboot nonsense go the way of the dinosaur and wind up in the dust bins of old folks' homes. There's no way not to ruin this stuff when you're on the 10th reboot some 50 years later. Best we can hope is that at some point we just let it go.

Of course, I tend to get in this mood come Christmas time. Do You Hear What I Hear? (1962) Because we're stuck with Christmas music from the damn 60s forever. But I guess It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (1963). So Have A Holly Jolly Christmas (1964). And I mean all of The Twelve Days of Christmas (1961). Thanks to that Little Town of Bethlehem (1964) Christmas Time is Here (1964). So enjoy sitting back this December and watching The Grinch (1966) or maybe Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964) or Frosty the Snow Man (1969) or maybe A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) or the Little Drummer Boy (1968).

It's like we're stuck in our own time machine and every christmas must be baby boomer post-wwii christmas forever.

[Mega]

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I agree with most of what you say, but the fault is the BBC.

They always been "Left" but gentle left, sence-able left................then they got into SWJ Left!

They killed Top Gear, whats left will be dead very soon, DR Who is just the latest.

But there is a push back as the BBC has no adverts, its paied for by a "Fee" that everyone has to pay for owning a TV............but you don't need a TV any more!

Most nights i am on the lap top, do not watch TV any more can do with out ...no troubles!

Times are changing
Mike

[dcarrigg]

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Weird to me that the BBC would be "Left" when UK has been under Tory rule for 65 of the last 100 years; 10 longer if you consider Blair and "New Labour" basically Conservative anyways. I mean, he was certainly no Clement Attlee.

In any event, reading BBC or catching BBC on the radio as a Yank across the pond, a few things are immediately noticeable.
1) It gives way more time to stories from the former British Empire, and underreports stories from the rest of the world.
2) They hate Russia. Way more than even the Clintons. BBC stories are always very Russophobic.
3) They follow Fox News and US right-media in beating the war drums. Much more so than French or German news outlets, and slightly more than American center-left media outlets.
4) They're hostile to the Catholic Church in a way that felt weird in the 90s and 00s, but is becoming more common in US right-media in the 10s.
5) They think the rest of the world cares a whole lot more about London and cricket than it actually does.

Of course, US media is guilty of many similar analogues. But these are the big 5 things that come to mind when I listen to the BBC vs other news sources. They don't strike me as particularly left, so much as particularly British. I only get the news a couple of the biggest shows, though, not the channels, so I might get a skewed view of it.

Always thought it was funny the BBC banned this clip in Blighty:

[Mega]

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"Anti Catholic"?
Anti Christan, they started with Church of England & worked their way into every other one....except one.

They been forced back resently, but they will never give up!
Mike

[Mega]

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