Suspend Disbelief And Love The Doctor (Doctor Who)

Member Name: davidwicks99

Product:	Doctor Who
Date:	08/01/01 (31 review reads)
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Advantages: thoroughly enjoyable, stories can be watched countless times and still enjoyed as much as they were the first time

Disadvantages: none

I love Doctor Who. I don't care who knows it. I just plain love the series.

Doctor Who did not have the best special effects. The storylines were fraught with inconsistencies and inaccuracies. And the acting often left a great deal to be desired. So why should one be so enamored with this otherwise unremarkable B-movie quality scifi series?

Doctor Who has an incredible emotive power. One cannot help but become entranced by it precisely because of all of its faults. You see the shoddy special effects and the simplistic plots and you realize how you would never see any of these things as a child. You love it because to enjoy the series you need to become childlike in your viewing. You need to ignore the inconsistencies, suspend your disbelief, and let Doctor Who take over. It is then that you begin to feel for the Doctor and the plight of the characters. The situation becomes "real" and it is no longer a television programme, but rather a window into another world at another time.

There is humor and pleasure to be found in the campiness - the dumb extra that you know will be killed by the monster, the token screaming girl, the person who needs to be saved, the end of the world catastrophe that must be avoided, and of course the mysterious man who knows all.

You have to love Doctor Who precisely because of all of its faults. In a day of super special effects and rerun storylines, it's nice to return to an old scifi series that might have had predictible storylines, but was remarkably original in the actual story settings and perfected the art of campy scifi and didn't take it self so seriously. Doctor Who enables you to lose yourself in it precisely because it doesn't try to get you to believe in it as these modern scifi movies and programmes try so hard to with their special effects. Doctor Who lets you relax and enjoy it for what it is. There is no pretense. It's wholesome, it's f
unny, at times it's even thought-provoking and best of all, it's the Doctor.

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