tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post1645892671442646736..comments2024-03-17T20:50:21.456-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Doctor Who #719: The Empty ChildSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-2294257466038022452013-11-11T04:56:33.725-04:002013-11-11T04:56:33.725-04:00Also, the fact that you can't reason with the ...Also, the fact that you can't reason with the gas masks. Same with the weeping angels, the shadow critters in the library, and most of the scarier villains.<br /><br />It's as soon as you can debate with the bad guys that they lose their scariness; there was no bigger example of this than the Borg in the Trek franchise. Initially they were menacing because they were simply a program executing its function and there's no reasoning with a program; by the time a haughty Borg queen showed up, the Borg ceased to be anything special. (The Borg were even wearing logos by that point, a stylized hand. Because there's nothing a program needs more than a visually-pleasing metaphor for what it does.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-32668446531936336122013-11-10T15:07:10.441-04:002013-11-10T15:07:10.441-04:00Every day thing are scarier than make-believe, and...Every day thing are scarier than make-believe, and Doctor Who really shines when it tries to do this. I have a friend who swears Blink gave her a new phobia, for example.<br /><br />Not that gasmasks are "every day", but they are real items.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-10206775576962461032013-11-10T13:02:14.346-04:002013-11-10T13:02:14.346-04:00For some reason the gas-mask people are the only m...For some reason the gas-mask people are the only monsters that every truly scared me, and I was an adult at the time. I think it was watching the transformation that really did it.ShadowWing Tronixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16854662169769646210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-30201970241008094652013-11-10T10:56:01.221-04:002013-11-10T10:56:01.221-04:00The TARDIS phone ringing is like the TARDIS becomi...The TARDIS phone ringing is like the TARDIS becoming a normal police box, something Kim Newman mentioned in his BFI book on the series as something he was surprised hadn't happened before.Craig Oxbrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com