Why you should be watching Doctor Who

[tazza_di_jo]

After my entry on Castle yesterday, I realized that for all my ramblings about Doctor Who on this journal, I never actually made a post, with no spoilers, for the non-Whovians here (if there are any left!) on why I love it so much and why everyone should watch it.

Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction TV series in history, airing

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[tazza_di_jo]

It's not about how great it is to be a boy or a girl or young or old or alien or human--it's about how great it is to be alive, to love, to have friends, to find meaning in even small things

YES! That's exactly what I mean. I wish I was as eloquent as you... do you mind if I ETA the post to include this quote by you?

I guess in Italy we have all the same problems that you do, plus the language (everything has to be dubbed!) and the nonsensical tv-programming. Doctor Who was bought by a channel on Sky, and it doesn't air on primetime tv. Plus, for some reason they transmitted S1 in 2007, and then S3 in 2008! Whatever happened to S2?? So if anyone was following (and there are a few followers) they became veeery confused. A friend of mine keeps the website http://www.doctor-who.it, where they offer fanmade italian subtitles, because apparently the dubbing of what little they aired is shit. The only people I've managed to convert are university classmates who speak English well enough to watch the original version. It's a bit of a lost cause... and the worst thing is, everyone on the media keeps complaining that there are no good programs for children anymore. I don't know how they could overlook Doctor Who. They aired MERLIN, FFS! On primetv, Saturday nights! *shakes head*