A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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I don't recall the old Who, but even with the very apparent adult vibes, there is also a... delicateness and avoidance of certain things that I assume is catering to the viewership that is made up of a new generation of kids.
It's more of a whole family show, than an adult show. The delicate skirting around things is plain to the adults who enjoy the references, with the tacit understanding that kids who are too young to "get it" won't learn it there. Kids who do "get it", well, they were obviously corrupted by some other source well beforehand.
Family Show. That's it. Good term, that.
Apparantly Stephen Moffat was quoted at Comic-Con that he wants to bring back Who to how he remembers it in his own childhood- scaring the shit out of him.
I think it's a show for everyone. It's well written (mostly) and well acted (usually) and everyone on it seems to love it and have lots of fun making it. I think the genre of "children's tv" is pretty marginalized and comes from this (relatively new) theory that children ARE DELICATE FLOWERS and WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN? and how they shouldn't be exposed to loss or death or fear or unfairness or unpleasantness.
I love reading the Fear Forecast on the BBC site- those kids, even the young ones, love the show and get the show. Kids aren't stupid and can actually be remarkably empathetic and insightful, even when it comes to a TV show.
(I know I'm sort of stating the obvious in this particular community but I think that people denying kids their intelligence and emotional depth is what leads us to the ghettoization of "children's TV.")
I can't think of anything that I wouldn't have let my (imaginary) kids watch in Who, but I wouldn't call it a kids show.
It's no more a kids show than classic Star Trek was and I watched that when I was eight years old. There was nothing there that was overtly inappropriate (other than the occasional shot of a bare-chested Kirk or a little kissy face), the same as Who today.
There was nothing there that was overtly inappropriate
There was that shot of Kirk pulling on his boots...
Which totally goes over any eight-year-old's head, unless they're mighty precocious.
What can I say, my parents slept in separate beds.
Apparantly Stephen Moffat was quoted at Comic-Con that he wants to bring back Who to how he remembers it in his own childhood- scaring the shit out of him.
He's certainly made a good start with his episodes of the first 3 seasons. Though I wasn't left with a particular fear of drumstick-eating shadows the way I was with gas masked children or mobile religious statuary.
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