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Doctor Who article at Vox Nova

claresiobhan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:09:57 +0000

Henry Karlson kindly sent this link to his article about Doctor Who:
http://vox-nova.com/2007/06/15/doctor-who/

See yesterday’s post about Doctor Who…

claresiobhan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:16:42 +0000

…there’s a good comment from someone from Vox Nova. It’s the second one down. Long, but worth reading. Enjoy! (I think he tried to leave some links to follow, but they didn’t format through. I’ll see if I can contact him and get the permalink to his original post…)

Doctor Who stuff on Catholic websites

claresiobhan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:46:48 +0000

I did a Google search for “Doctor Who Catholic” and was directed to Catholic Blogs (www.catholicblogs.com), where these articles were listed.

At Vox Nova:
Vox Nova At the Tele: Doctor Who, Partners In Crime

At Veritas nunquam perit:
It’s bigger on the inside than on the outside. (A reference to the Doctor’s mode of travel, the TARDIS). He’s a Catholic seminarian and on his sidebar he lists as one of his current reads a novelization of based on the new Doctor Who episodes.

There’s got to more out there than this, so I’ll keep looking.

More on Doctor Who

claresiobhan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:58:49 +0000

Yesterday I mentioned that I thought the intermittently long-running British television series Doctor Who was no longer suitable for children.

I received as gifts the 1st and 2nd seasons of the brand new version of the show that they’re doing now, and after watching the 1st season episodes I’ve banned it from my house due to unacceptable sexual references. Too bad. When I was a kid watching the Doctor there was no hanky-panky in the Tardis: no mention of people waking up in bed with their executioners (Capt. Jack Harkness), no allusions to the female companion and her boyfriend getting a hotel room and spending the night (Rose and her boyfriend–Micky, I think his name is…), no long, lingering kisses between the Doctor and his female companion (the Doctor and Rose), and certainly no kisses between the Doctor and his male companion (the Doctor and Capt. Jack Harkness).

I was bummed, but oh well. It is a high quality show: the production values (special effects, cinematography, locations, sets, sound, music, costuming, and so on) are much better than when I was watching the show in the 70s and 80s, the stories are as imaginative and vast in scope as they ever were (nothing but the fate of the entire universe is regularly at stake…), and that inimitable British humor is refreshing and enjoyable, but…sigh. Why do they always have to ruin things by the “sophistication” of sexual innuendo and subplot, especially the homosexual references?

I haven’t even removed the shrink wrap from my season 2 episodes…I cringe to imagine what I may find.

I’ll look around the blogosphere a bit to see if other SF-Catholics concur. Comments welcome on this subject. (And all other subjects.)