OK...I don't know who Scott Brown is but I DO know Doctor Who. Heck, I've been watching it since I was about 12 years old. I fought it. I didn't want to do it. I would hide in my room and watch M*A*S*H on a tiny black and white TV in order to NOT fall into what my father and sisters were watching in the living room. After all, if my dad was watching it, it had to be crap. I mean what did he know!?! Honestly, this must have been one of the few things he got right...or maybe he was introduced to it from one of my sisters. Either way, M*A*S*H was preempted one evening and begrudgingly I headed out to the living room. I remember the doctor...Tom Baker. I remember the episode..."The Leisure Hive". I was hooked in one viewing and never looked back.
Doctor Who was (and can still be at times) an obsession. It was incredible. Awesome. It was everything to a little 12 year old. I would tape record the episodes so I could listen to them when the show wasn't on PBS. After we finally got a VCR I would record the episodes and watch them constantly. I used my allowance to purchase the Doctor Who books and I read and read and read. Doctor Who began my love affair with reading, with Shakespeare, with history! What a positive impression on young ones. Someone who fights for what's right with a certain flair. He doesn't come out with guns blazing...he uses his MIND (something people should do nowadays!) He resorts to the extreme when no other option is open to him. He is a fictional hero, a thrilling adventurer, and (sometimes) a rather sexy man!
I've certainly "poisoned" my childrens' minds with Doctor Who. My youngest son, now 3, has been saying "Doctor Who" since he was 10 months old. Not quite his first words, but one of them! Am I proud of that? You bet'cha (Ick...I'll try not to use that phrase again)! With all the awful role models out there that our children can watch on TV, isn't it lovely to have one that we wouldn't mind our children watching on TV? What a refreshing change! Not so new though...the Doctor has been around since November 1963. And I'm delighted that after a not so brief hiatus of 15 years, he's back and better than ever!
So, you've heard my views on the Doctor. I could go on, but I love what Scott Brown wrote and he is, after all, what inspired this post. Read on, and if you haven't given the Doctor a try be sure you do! Tune into BBC America for episodes. You can still catch some on SyFy (what a stupid name) from time to time, but none of the upcoming seasons...just the first four, which are superb. You can even throw Doctor Who in your rental queue on Netflix. Don't wait. Try it. See what all the rage is about!
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/pl_brown_drwho/
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