@@ToddReacts And the appearance of Alonso - played by Russell Tovey - was a call-back - among many in the final minutes that swan song Tennant story - to a previous episode and character from his era. This incarnation of The Doctor gets his "reward" and former companions and friends of his get a final farewell from him.
Doctor Who is wonderfully supportive of the LGBT+ community and let's everyone know that it's ok to be who you are. That's one of the things that make it so great.
For a kids show there was the Sarah Jane Adventures. Sarah Jane Smith was the most popular companion of the classic era and became the most welcome to see in Nu Who.
While the revival lacks the classic’s use of big bloody violence, even from the first story, there’s no doubt that all the innuendos and lgbt characters would absolutely drive Mary whitehouse, a highly conservative “activist” who constantly criticized the show’s violence in the 70s, fuming mad.
I grew up watching new who and recently rewatched the series from the beginning. The number of jokes that completely went over my head when I was younger!
Doctor Who was originally a kids show in the 60s when it originally aired to teach kids about science and history. Ofcourse now that all changed and Doctor Who is no where NEAR being a learning show to teach people but still
@@ToddReacts You still did get pieces of dialogue slipped in. for example, this union between a bit of Carl Sagan - let's say - and Lewis Carroll, juxtaposed within an episode with a vampiric mummy. Eleventh Doctor: "It's not a god. It'll feed on your soul, but that doesn't make it a god. It is a vampire, and you don't need to give yourself to it. Hey, do you mind if I tell you a story? One you might not have heard. All the elements in your body were forged many, many millions of years ago, in the heart of a far away star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so, so many millions of years, these elements came together to form new stars and new planets. And on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart, forming shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. Until eventually, they came together to make you. You are unique in the universe. There is only one Merry Gejelh. And there will never be another. Getting rid of that existence isn't a sacrifice. It is a waste!" 'The Rings of Akhaten': Written by Neil Cross. This dialogue also features as part of an over-narrative of series dialogue to the video short, 'Doctor Who: 50 Years of Humanism' - which is a nice little show itself in the Whovian spirit!
Classic Who writers would slip in little pieces of dialogue that give those, who were paying attention, the odd chortle, snigger or two. Basically what they could get past the censor. Along the lines of "If you don't come soon then I'm leaving!" and "Let's toss shall we?" I remember - I think it was - the comedian Bob Monkhouse who said, "I used to get complaints from little old ladies about the filth, but then, come to think of it . . they had to have known what the joke meant anyway!" The post-2005 series of Doctor Who is far more obvious. Btw. There's a really good Doctor Who parody, by 'Hillywood', of 'The Time Warp' from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' that's worth a look, if interested, performed just after the Tennant era. The masked phantoms are played by various monsters of the series.
@@ToddReacts It would be word meisters, like Terrance Dicks, for example, who writes dialogue that could mean something, but sounds ever so slightly naughty. The Doctor's dialogue to explain another character's description of 'space lightning' as more of a "controlled superlucent emission". A piece of dialogue in the Dan Dare comics in the 50s would twiddle a few knobs for me. "Old Uncle Ivor's down there, digging amongst the ruins" had connotations that caused a fit of the giggles.
@@ToddReacts The actors playing the Second Doctor and his companion Jamie had a special flair for ad-libbing, including trying to sneak in what became their catchphrase: "Look at the size of that thing, Doctor!" "Yes, Jamie. It *is* a big one!"
If you were wondering, Capt. Jack isn't actually psychic; in that scene the Doctor sent him a note with Alonso's name as an ice-breaker.
@@ToddReacts And the appearance of Alonso - played by Russell Tovey - was a call-back - among many in the final minutes that swan song Tennant story - to a previous episode and character from his era. This incarnation of The Doctor gets his "reward" and former companions and friends of his get a final farewell from him.
Doctor Who is wonderfully supportive of the LGBT+ community and let's everyone know that it's ok to be who you are. That's one of the things that make it so great.
For a kids show there was the Sarah Jane Adventures. Sarah Jane Smith was the most popular companion of the classic era and became the most welcome to see in Nu Who.
While the revival lacks the classic’s use of big bloody violence, even from the first story, there’s no doubt that all the innuendos and lgbt characters would absolutely drive Mary whitehouse, a highly conservative “activist” who constantly criticized the show’s violence in the 70s, fuming mad.
Nicely though, unwittingly, such complaints would jump up the ratings as people would be curious as to what all the fuss was about.
I grew up watching new who and recently rewatched the series from the beginning. The number of jokes that completely went over my head when I was younger!
Doctor Who was originally a kids show in the 60s when it originally aired to teach kids about science and history. Ofcourse now that all changed and Doctor Who is no where NEAR being a learning show to teach people but still
The learning bit didn't last a full ten years.
@@ToddReacts You still did get pieces of dialogue slipped in. for example, this union between a bit of Carl Sagan - let's say - and Lewis Carroll, juxtaposed within an episode with a vampiric mummy.
Eleventh Doctor: "It's not a god. It'll feed on your soul, but that doesn't make it a god. It is a vampire, and you don't need to give yourself to it. Hey, do you mind if I tell you a story? One you might not have heard. All the elements in your body were forged many, many millions of years ago, in the heart of a far away star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so, so many millions of years, these elements came together to form new stars and new planets. And on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart, forming shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. Until eventually, they came together to make you. You are unique in the universe. There is only one Merry Gejelh. And there will never be another. Getting rid of that existence isn't a sacrifice. It is a waste!"
'The Rings of Akhaten': Written by Neil Cross.
This dialogue also features as part of an over-narrative of series dialogue to the video short, 'Doctor Who: 50 Years of Humanism' - which is a nice little show itself in the Whovian spirit!
Classic Who writers would slip in little pieces of dialogue that give those, who were paying attention, the odd chortle, snigger or two. Basically what they could get past the censor. Along the lines of "If you don't come soon then I'm leaving!" and "Let's toss shall we?" I remember - I think it was - the comedian Bob Monkhouse who said, "I used to get complaints from little old ladies about the filth, but then, come to think of it . . they had to have known what the joke meant anyway!" The post-2005 series of Doctor Who is far more obvious. Btw. There's a really good Doctor Who parody, by 'Hillywood', of 'The Time Warp' from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' that's worth a look, if interested, performed just after the Tennant era. The masked phantoms are played by various monsters of the series.
@@ToddReacts It would be word meisters, like Terrance Dicks, for example, who writes dialogue that could mean something, but sounds ever so slightly naughty. The Doctor's dialogue to explain another character's description of 'space lightning' as more of a "controlled superlucent emission". A piece of dialogue in the Dan Dare comics in the 50s would twiddle a few knobs for me. "Old Uncle Ivor's down there, digging amongst the ruins" had connotations that caused a fit of the giggles.
@@ToddReacts The actors playing the Second Doctor and his companion Jamie had a special flair for ad-libbing, including trying to sneak in what became their catchphrase: "Look at the size of that thing, Doctor!" "Yes, Jamie. It *is* a big one!"
@@natsmith303 "Yee-es . . well . . . it's grown!"
Yep.
The show has everything.
It's also a lesson for kids to get out of the room, when adults start to say those kind of things or look at each other in those ways. 🤣🤣
Finally watch the series, at least from season 1 (2005)!
You really should just react to the show