Happy 60th Birthday Doctor Who!
23 Nov 2023 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisbluespiritIt's Doctor Who day! (I mean, I realise all the US people are all off celebrating something else, but clearly that is obviously much less important. ;-p Though I hope you also enjoy yourselves!)
A multi-era vid that, though I've recced this before at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
tardis_library, I don't think I've ever posted it here - Regeneration by Andriy Griffin.
I love this - it's such a great look at the show through the years, the way that change is essential to it, both in the optimism of adventure and friendship and renewal, but the balance of that in that every friend must leave, every Doctor must fall and die, and all things must change, whether we like it or not. (And quite often, DW fans, being as resistant to change as most human beings, do not like it, very vocally.)
Anyway, congratulations to the most go-anywhere, be-anything show ever made, the longest running Science Fiction TV show in history, and the cheap little show that nobody but William Hartnell thought would last more than 13 episodes in 1963-4, was wiped and burned in the 1970s, and which got cancelled for good by the BBC in 1989, but just regenerated again, because of course it did in the end. It's always exactly the same and yet completely different, and I love it very much.
Somehow, it's still here, or most of it is, one way or another, and so are we. ♥
A multi-era vid that, though I've recced this before at
tardis_library, I don't think I've ever posted it here - Regeneration by Andriy Griffin.I love this - it's such a great look at the show through the years, the way that change is essential to it, both in the optimism of adventure and friendship and renewal, but the balance of that in that every friend must leave, every Doctor must fall and die, and all things must change, whether we like it or not. (And quite often, DW fans, being as resistant to change as most human beings, do not like it, very vocally.)
Anyway, congratulations to the most go-anywhere, be-anything show ever made, the longest running Science Fiction TV show in history, and the cheap little show that nobody but William Hartnell thought would last more than 13 episodes in 1963-4, was wiped and burned in the 1970s, and which got cancelled for good by the BBC in 1989, but just regenerated again, because of course it did in the end. It's always exactly the same and yet completely different, and I love it very much.
Somehow, it's still here, or most of it is, one way or another, and so are we. ♥
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Date: 25 Nov 2023 08:12 pm (UTC)I suspect that, as well as William Hartnell, Verity Lambert may have thought that the show would last for more than 13 episodes. On Thursday evening, I enjoyed watching "An Adventure in Space and Time" again after ten years, and hope that it will be repeated again for the seventieth anniversary, and that I'll still be around to see it. One of my few claims to fame is that I watched the very first episode back in 1963 (yes, I'm really that old!). Also on Thursday evening, I watched the shortened, colourised version of "The Daleks", and was pleasantly surprised that I didn't find either of those changes intrusive. The story didn't feel rushed, in fact was still a lot slower-paced than modern Who.
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Date: 25 Nov 2023 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 25 Nov 2023 08:26 pm (UTC)I just managed to fit in catching up on my Dreamwidth feed between watching today's new episode (great fun!) and watching Channel 5's Who documentary at 8:30.