In Torchwood some of the worst things they came up against ended up being human monsters in Countrycide. Nothing alien there but even in the Who universe you don't have to be alien to be nasty.
In Torchwood some of the worst things they came up against ended up being human monsters in Countrycide. Nothing alien there but even in the Who universe you don't have to be alien to be nasty.
I totally agree. What made that episode so powerful was you sat there all the way through thinking they were fighting aliens then at the end....they just turn out to be evil humans.
It'd almost be good if there wasn't hugely misleading things about the power and speed of them in it.
would people be disappointed with a purely historical story that featured no alien threat to Earth?
I'd be disappointed. I think futuristic episodes are better for having non alien threats, as there has to be some sort of sci-fi element in the show (apart from the Doctor and the TARDIS of course) and having futuristic technology in it is the sci-fi element, rather than aliens.
If you have no aliens in historical episodes, it's not sci-fi, it's an historical drama.
Why write into a NATIONAL NEWSPAPER about it, anyways? I'm certain that TV weekly have pages devoted to this kind of opinionated bile.
People used to write into local and national newspapers with extreme and fanciful ideas to elicit any kind of response from whatever bored lunatic happened to be reading at the time.
Thankfully, internet forums have put an end to this.
would people be disappointed with a purely historical story that featured no alien threat to Earth?
Not at all - there have been some good ones in Old Who, and it was originally meant to help educate as well as entertain, there's all of space to have aliens, why not just have clever plots and historical interaction when travelling in time?
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I totally agree. What made that episode so powerful was you sat there all the way through thinking they were fighting aliens then at the end....they just turn out to be evil humans.
It'd almost be good if there wasn't hugely misleading things about the power and speed of them in it.
I'd be disappointed. I think futuristic episodes are better for having non alien threats, as there has to be some sort of sci-fi element in the show (apart from the Doctor and the TARDIS of course) and having futuristic technology in it is the sci-fi element, rather than aliens.
If you have no aliens in historical episodes, it's not sci-fi, it's an historical drama.
People used to write into local and national newspapers with extreme and fanciful ideas to elicit any kind of response from whatever bored lunatic happened to be reading at the time.
Thankfully, internet forums have put an end to this.
Not at all - there have been some good ones in Old Who, and it was originally meant to help educate as well as entertain, there's all of space to have aliens, why not just have clever plots and historical interaction when travelling in time?