50th Anniversary Fanwork-a-thon-a-thon, Round Nine: Three

[jjpor]

50th Anniversary Fanwork-a-thon-a-thon, Round Nine: Three

(Secondary prompt: Who Spinoffs)By now, my friends, I can't help but feel that the end is near and sooner than we might expect we are going to be facing the final curtain (figuratively, hopefully). But not quite yet! We still have a trio of excellent Doctors to get through before the big

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[akashasheiress]

Oh, yeah, you definitely have a point there. But even then, it's certainly not worse than New Who. With the whole lip-service thing, I mean. It just annoys me when people use (for example) the Three-era contradictions to 'prove' how much more progressive and enlightened NuWho is when it's actually much worse in several ways. I do think that Three would have genuine issues with Churchill that weren't all about competing egos (although that would certainly take place, too).

And yes, the good thing about the Mao line is that we can handwave it as an acerbic joke on Three's part. And I actually do think that's a genuine possibility, although if it really is the case, I think the writers ought to have been slightly more obvious about it. 0.o Let's hope it was just a subtle dig. ;)

The Dominators is definitely very uncomfortable (albeit somewhat amusing). There seems to have been some sort of ideological tug-of-war, whether deliberate or not, in the Two era. Thankfully, I think The War Games proves that the more progressive side finally ended up with the upper hand.

[jjpor]

To be honest, I don't think the old series would have gone near any historical characters who had been alive within living memory (dead less than a decade in Churchill's case during the Three era), but I agree the level of social conscience and "political" sophistication in almost all of old Who generally puts the new series to shame. But then again, I think that's more to do with the way popular culture and society has changed in the past thirty-odd years than with the actual TV programme or the people making it during the two eras. Then again, we have had this conversation a few times by now and always end up agreeing in the end. ;)

And I think that's exactly what was going on in the Two era, even if none of the people involved were consciously aware of it at the time. After Hartnell left, the whole nature of the series and its (far from guaranteed) future was up in the air, and I don't think it really sorted itself out and decided what it was until Four came on the scene eight years later. It was a fun ride while they were deciding, though, with stuff like The Dominators passing quickly by, thankfully. Although as you say, there's a lot to laugh at and keep your self amused with even in that story, while you're trying not to notice the unsightly subtext sticking out. ;D

[akashasheiress]

Yeah, I agree. It's more to with the state of telly today than with Who in itself. But it's just especially sad when it's Who, due to its history. :(

Those outfits in The Dominators. Hell, just the title of the story. ;D