What I am saying is that we're talking about the only long-running TV drama where you can do *anything*. Having the central character collapse in the TARDIS in '66 and wake up as Patrick Troughton was revolutionary. It's a show where one story is about an alien war on another planet, another can a historical adventure in the 18th century and a third could be about the Doctor having conversations with Gulliver and Rapunzel, and you could run all three in a row and it would not only not look out of place, but would seem like par for the course.
And for parts of the viewership to look at a show that changeable, random and gloriously mad, and to say "X could not ever happen" or "Y would be a terrible, terrible idea", is something that I think runs very counter to the spirit of the programme.
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Date: 2009-01-05 05:41 am (UTC)And for parts of the viewership to look at a show that changeable, random and gloriously mad, and to say "X could not ever happen" or "Y would be a terrible, terrible idea", is something that I think runs very counter to the spirit of the programme.