2023-11-22 19:00:00
“Doctor Who” is 60 and is considered the most successful science fiction series in the world. Do not you know? Luckily there is the Internet!
It was the time of the great science fiction series. The Starship Enterprise took off in 1966, as did the Orion space patrol, but the “Doctor” had already appeared in a BBC series three years earlier. In a blue police emergency call box, a disguised time machine, the so-called Tardis. And if the Tardis wasn’t “bigger on the inside”, it would probably have been dismissed as a low-budget quirk like the iron handles of the Orion space patrol.
“I’m a crazy person with an emergency call box. Anything could happen.” This quote from the Doctor best describes the plot of the series. Although it follows storylines in different phases, sometimes historical, sometimes utopian, it varies greatly depending on the screenwriter. Above all, it is one thing: more time travel nonsense than scientific and technical fiction. The series doesn’t want to address the questions of what happens when an AI takes control, like HAL in the masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey.” It is still a social fiction like “The Machine Stands Still”, a short story by EM Forster that was published in 1909 and was republished a few years ago because more than 110 years ago it aptly described the effects that we see today from social media knows. And it’s not a series that created concepts like William Gibson’s novel “Neuromancer”, which coined terms like cyberspace. Nevertheless, the series is an essential part of British pop culture. The Doctor himself gives one reason: “Growing up was never for me.” The fact that he or she was able to stay for over 60 years is thanks to a trick: regeneration. And this brief death and reawakening almost always ends in a new main character. “Am I ginger? Aww, I wanted to be ginger!”
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