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Oh, that picture on the IGMS banner is going to drive me nuts all month... (not a bad nuts, just going to keep asking myself that question over and over.)
It's a Dr. Who episode. Alien bio-tech tried to heal a boy during WWII who was wearing a gas mask. It didn't know that wasn't part of the boy, so it grafted the mask onto his face.
Then, in Dr. Who style, it started to spread and eventually the whole world would look like the picture above.
Because patient zero was a little boy, he was looking for his mummy. And kept saying "are you my mummy" over and over. It was quite creepy.
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Yes! I was thinking the exact same thing. That was definitely my favorite episode (OK, two-parter) from the Christopher Eccleston season: great story, the introduction of the awesomeness that is Captain Jack ...
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I kinda liked the older runs of it, with all the cheesiness and cheap special effects. The couple of episodes of the new run were good...they just didn't engage me like the older ones did.
By the way, how many Doctors are they up to now? Way back when, they had an upper limit of how many there could be, twelve or thirteen, I think...
See, I'm the opposite. I haven't watched any episodes from before the reboot because I'm afraid the cheesy special effects and lower production values would turn me off to the stories they're telling.
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It's an age thing...when the series started turning up in the USA in the early eighties, mostly on PBS, I was still in my early twenties...now I'm much older, less easily dazzled, and it takes other things to engage me now. If I'd'a seen then what they've got now, I'd've probably loved it even more...
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Love you for this topic. I just discovered Doctor Who, in reboot form on Netflix, a couple months ago, and I am passionately in love, completely hooked... and, like a good little writer, trying to figure out why, which aspects of it pull at me so, hoping of course to ultimately steal those individual tugs and use them for my own nefarious fictional purposes.
To use Holly Lisle's terminology, it clearly hits me right in the sweet spot, and so I'm trying to identify what exactly that is...
I'm also hoping to watch some of the old ones, though I know they're something of a different animal.
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My kids watched some of the old Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker episodes and all they were concerned with was the story lines. The effects were completely irrelevant as far as they were concerned. They were glued to the screen for ages. Some of those old stories were six episodes long
Just had to point to this story. Amyone remember the David Tennant episode on the planet made of diamond?
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