Hi Tom.
That makes sense, though it is odd a program in the Uk wich for years was
famous for being shown at 5 pm on saturday nights got such a shabby
treatment in the states as regards scheduling, ---- since needeless to say
startrek and babylon 5 didn't get that when picked up by tv stations over
hear.
Actually though I myself didn't really get into doctor who until we got sky
since being born in 1982, I was only 7 when the bbc canceled the series.
Thus, while I'd red several audio books when I was around five and saw the
odd episode, plus I do remember a very awsome tardis display when I was in
hospital for six weeks when i was 7. I only fully got a handle on the
series, regeneration and the various doctors when I was 10 or 11 and could
watch the episodes rerun on the Uk gold channel, as well as swapping videos
with a friend of mine, that was when I became a major and serious fan of the
series and pretty much have been ever sinse.
Regarding a game and playing as the Doctor, to be honest I don't agree with
you on that one. Doctor who is generally about! the doctor, rather than
centered on him, and given that the Doctor is a pretty mysterious character
and up until the recent series was always something of an inigma, playing as
him in a game would be a little too familiar, or at least it'd seem that way
to me, particularly since the Doctor's intelligence and way of perceiving
the world have on several occasions been noted as being very different to
what a human would experience.
This is why even in the mainstream most doctor who adventure games, such as
the 1998 pc title Destiny of the doctor feature the player as an external
party who is set puzzles or challenges to help out the doctor, indeed
Destiny featured clips from all the then past 8 doctors and involved the
player having to sort out problems in the time of each.
Regarding confrontation and action, well you are right that it'd be pretty
inappropriate to have the Doctor as the main character in an action game for
all that the Doctor, ---- accept perhaps in his fifth encarnation hasn't
exactly been passive much of the time. There's a particularly lovely scene
I remember in the 8th Doctors' first audio appearence where the 8th doctor
meets a man in 1931 aboard a British airship who has got hold of an alien
weapon and plans to retro engineer it to allow Britain to control the world.
After trying to convince the chap this is a bad idea, the 8th doctor says
"oh never mind!" and proceeds to deck him and respond with "oh, so I'm the
sort of doctor who does that!" :D.
I tend to think of the doctor in this sense rather like Sherlock holmes.
Yes, he usually solves problems with his brain and always tries to come to
a properly peaceful solution, but he's got the skills to engage in other
methods on those rare occasions they become absolutely necessary.
All the best,
Dark.
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