My Daughters are now Hooked on Doctor Who- Does that make me a pusher?

[JCMach1]

They are only 8 and 11 and have gotten hooked on the new Doctor.

As we live in the UAE, we typically download the whole seasons on torrents and watch. They are addicted now in the same way I was back in the early 80's.

Yikes!

[UndertheOcean]

1. You Live in the UAE ???

I lived there up to age 14 , left in 1993.

How is life in the UAE nowadays ?

[JCMach1]

5. For the last 5 years, yes

I suspect you wouldn't recognize the place... I sometimes get that when I don't go to a part for just a few months...

Dubai is becoming the next NY or Hongkong.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. More a Doctor shopper, IMO.

In its insidious way it's just as dangerous a beast.

:evilgrin:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. I like Doctor Who too.

And Torchwood.

[JCMach1]

4. Hmmm... Torchwood is a bit adult for the girls

but I like it as well... Only into episode two though.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

6. Yeah Captain Jack Harkness is a bit too much for the girls.

I liked the first season but I hope that the second season is more developed and intensed.

[Deja Q]

7. Try re-watching the episodes and see if they hold up.

Series 1 is garbage.

Series 2 is rather better, but Rose didn't get any better - she's the perfect gen Y stereotype CNN Money loves to gripe about...

Series 3, despite proving producer Russell T Davies' cookie cutter style, actually makes this one worthy under repeated scrutiny. Especially the sci-fi/historical hybrid stories (Shakespeare Code, Human Nature, et al) -- these truly do take WHO to the next level.


I've also sat through Torchwood. When I heard "Adult audience", I was hoping for deeper, complex, more intellectual storylines. I mean, adults are supposed to be capable of using their gray matter... Well, for Torchwood there's even less plot and more superficial activity that is definitely for 18+ folks only. Episode 2 sums up what the show is: An intellectually devoid hacked up string of tacky set pieces held by the thinnest, inconsistent mess of a plot that falls apart if you even blink in its direction that HAS to use controversial elements to sell itself. Indeed, watching the COnfidential sister series for Torchwood, that's where RTD blissfully tells us WHY he wrote it. Gee, if only he had the skill to have conveyed his point in the story, rather than requiring a whole separate television show to explain it. Especially when there's plenty of room in the actual show to do proper plot exposition. Other people can love it, but I take pride in saying it's unstimulating tripe.

[Bridget Burke]

14. Torchwood got better as the season went along.

But the season was done in a hurry--& it showed. Not much time for overall character development. And far too many shows illustrating the criminally incompetent shortcomings of the Torchwood gang. The producers heard the complaints & will face them in Season 2. Which begins on BBCamerica in January; we'll be about 2 weeks behind the UK instead of having to wait for months. (Or finding nefarious means to see the shows.)

But I've liked most of the New Who, personally. Guess I don't watch enough CNN Money!

[Perry Logan]

8. I'm afraid Dr. Who has always been a bit too cutesy for me.

[philosophie_en_rose]

9. Yes. You are a pusher.

There is nothing wrong with that.

If you haven't seen it yet, there was a short Doctor Who charity special a few weeks ago. It's called "Time Crash" and involves Tennant meeting the fifth Doctor. It's odd, but it bridges the last episode with the upcoming Christmas special.

[DarkTirade]

10. You mean this? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn_NDKNlUa8

[philosophie_en_rose]

12. That's the one.

:)

[JCMach1]

13. I will see if I can get time crash...

[DarkTirade]

11. If you got them hooked, then yes. You're a pusher.

But in this case I wouldn't call it a bad thing.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Only until you start charging them for it.

No Doctor Who until you take out the garbage/set the table/give me a foot massage... etc

[AllegroRondo]

16. I got my daughter hooked too

its one of the few shows we'll take time to watch together.