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Dr Who. It ain't scary no more?

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  • 25-05-2013 1:39am
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    Kettleson
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    In the 70's kids used to run behind the settee when Dr Who was on.

    Or is there a a deeper sociological reason for kids not getting sh1t scared no more?


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    JD DABA
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    I think its just that you were a wuss.


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    Duggy747
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    Kettleson wrote: »
    Or is there a a deeper sociological reason for kids not getting sh1t scared no more?

    Bring back the Irish mammy's weapon of choice, the wooden spoon, and you'll have them terrified again.


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    Kettleson
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    JD DABA wrote: »
    I think its just that you were a wuss.

    Thank you Doctor. It took all of 30 seconds for you to come up with your diagnosis. I shall remain forever scarred.

    (ps, to whom should I make the cheque payable?)


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    Senna
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    Kettleson wrote: »

    Or is there a a deeper sociological reason for kids not getting sh1t scared no more?

    I ran into my daughters bedroom last night while she was sleeping with a chainsaw and blood stained clothes. You should have seen her face.


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    niallb
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    Don't know about that. My 10 year olds were banging our door down around midnight after just chatting about an episode they saw a few weeks back.
    (Hint: Gasmasks)


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    The Backwards Man
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    Dr. Who?


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    Kettleson
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    Gasmasks? Why not check out "maggots"? Them goddam maggots nearly took over Wales, and as we all know, Wales is near Leitrim.


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    Jimoslimos
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    I know it was done on a shoestring budget, and perhaps kids years ago had more active imaginations, but who in their right mind thought Daleks would be terrifying?!


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    entropi
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    I was watching it earlier. Those Weeping Angels would scare a lot of kids I reckon.


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    BNMC
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    I ran behind the couch not the settee.


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    [Deleted User]
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    BNMC wrote: »
    I ran behind the couch not the settee.

    You had a couch?

    I just had fields.


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    Archeron
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    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    I know it was done on a shoestring budget, and perhaps kids years ago had more active imaginations, but who in their right mind thought Daleks would be terrifying?!

    People who lived in bungalows mostly.


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    iDave
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    The Borg would beat the Daleks.....just saying


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    oldyouth
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    Dr Who was/is never scary. Those of us who thought it was, were just at an impressionable age and it was one of the few scary type things The Mammy would let us watch


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    YellowFeather
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    You had a couch?

    I just had fields.

    Ahhhh, I remember when this was all couches. *Nostalgia*


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    CruelCoin
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    It was ever scary?


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    mike65
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    The OP is probably 45, if Dr Who is still sending viewers behind the couch/sofa/settee at that age there are bigger issues at hand.


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    looking_around
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    Was it ever??

    __
    I watched freddy crougar at 10, and remember laughing at the "effects". My best friend at time was scared sh!tless though.
    And Sandman at a 11/12 (not with parents permission on that one XD..)

    Idk, stuff on tv never scared me, was raised knowing it's all b/s, and therefore not frightening.


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    kylith
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    From what I hear from friends with kids it's still plenty scary. I thought that the one with the pocket universe was particularly creepy.


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    Ava_e
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    The warping vortex style theme tune still gives me the shivers.


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    Grayson
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    I started watching the new one and watched it up till the second last season with David Tennant. It got really crap then. Every episode he'd run in with a socic screw driver and go Whoosh. Episode over, bad guys defeated.

    In the 70's & 80's it could take weeks for a polt line to develop. Now it's pretty much over in every episode. It's Doctor Who, if americans made Doctor Who.


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    Pumpkinseeds
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    Do kids not get to see a lot more graphic violence and view things with a far more adult content then we kids did in the 70's. I think kids are just a lot more precocious these days. I saw a 12/13 year old girl on her Confirmation day a few weeks ago and:eek: The child looked like she'd been sewn into a mini dress that was basically a sleeveless rectangle of cloth that didn't leave much to the imagination and a pair of sky high platform stillettoes.

    The child looked like a hooker and that is being kind.


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    Thwip!
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    I imagine the Weeping Angels and the Cybermen would send kids running


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    asdfg!
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    My kids find it scary, admittedly they're six and four. But they can run't behind the couch because it's against the wall, so they sit on my lap clinging to me and shaking. But I dare not turn it off. They love it. I enjoy it too it has to be said.


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    stefan idiot jones
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    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    I know it was done on a shoestring budget, and perhaps kids years ago had more active imaginations, but who in their right mind thought Daleks would be terrifying?!


    Stephen Hawking.


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    Duckworth_Luas
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    Knock knock!

    Who's there?

    Doctor

    Dr Who?

    :eek:


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    Kettleson
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    According to the Brigadier they were caterpillars and not maggots.

    http://youtu.be/y95tlY6RASg


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    Kettleson
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Knock knock!

    Who's there?

    Doctor

    Dr Who?

    :eek:



    http://youtu.be/Adk1ujjmguo


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Scary stuff indeed :eek:





    stick with it to the end :pac: it's ROFL


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    Aoifums
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    I'm guessing it's because the OP was a kid. The only Classic Who clip I have seen that sent a shiver down my spine was this one. I watched it there without a bother. But it freaked me out the first time I saw it


    The Weeping Angels are creepy and I found the Silence mildly scary but I'm easily scared. I can imagine them being a lot scarier to a child. I'd like to test it but I don't have any children that I can force to watch it.


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