Knock, Knock.
Who’s here.
Okay. I love the new Doctor Who. I liked the Slitheen story-line. I liked the London Blitz story-line.
I like story-lines that combine other story-lines. It’s basic story telling. Vergil incorporated the Trojan War story and the separate Romulus and Remus legend with a (probably totally) made-up story-line about Aeneas and Dido, to explain the classic and traditional enmity between Rome and Carthage. (It was really territorial and small ‘i’ imperial ambitions and trade rivalries, but the slighted mad-woman love story schtick sold the whole thing a lot better than pie-charts and drawing pins on a map…)
So anyhoo, I think that maybe they shouldn’t have brought back the Slitheen so quickly (how ever much I liked the episode). It’s kind of like what all the Star Treks did in their first seasons, which was to bring out all the kick-ass TV SF tropes; in case the show didn’t last, they wanted to go out with a bang.
I don’t think this show has to worry about that.
If Russel T. Davies stays associated with it, I think this show will be around for a while.
Told you the Brits can do TV SF better than the Americans. Pace my beloved Battlestar Galactica.