Dr Who. It ain't scary no more?

Kettleson

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?

JD DABA

I think its just that you were a wuss.

Duggy747

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.

Kettleson

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?)

Senna

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.

niallb

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)

The Backwards Man

Dr. Who?

Kettleson

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

Jimoslimos

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?!

entropi

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

BNMC

I ran behind the couch not the settee.

BNMC

BNMC wrote: »

I ran behind the couch not the settee.

You had a couch?

I just had fields.

Archeron

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.

iDave

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

oldyouth

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

YellowFeather

Deleted User wrote: »

You had a couch?

I just had fields.

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

CruelCoin

It was ever scary?

mike65

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.

looking_around

Was it ever??

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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.

kylith

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.

Ava_e

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

Grayson

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.

Pumpkinseeds

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.

Thwip!

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

asdfg!

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.

stefan idiot jones

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.

Duckworth_Luas

Knock knock!

Who's there?

Doctor

Dr Who?

:eek:

Kettleson

According to the Brigadier they were caterpillars and not maggots.

http://youtu.be/y95tlY6RASg

Kettleson

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Knock knock!

Who's there?

Doctor

Dr Who?

:eek:

http://youtu.be/Adk1ujjmguo

Capt'n Midnight

Scary stuff indeed :eek:





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

Aoifums

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.

Kettleson

Aoifums wrote: »

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.

Thanks Aoifums.

The point I was (probably) putting up for discussion was that kids back then seen very few sci-fi programmes (trying to think what others there were). And with very few effects, costuming etc. Nowadays computer generated effects and elaborate costuming are the norm, and kids see enough of it not to be scared by it, nearly to the point where it would have to absolute in-your-face blood and gore to freak anyone out.

I ask my own kids do they think Dr Who is scary, and they look at me like I got 2 heads.

Then again, Dr Who was on about 6pm back in the 70's which would have meant a lot younger kids were watching it.

Maybe it's just me, but it was a sort of laughingly accepted that a lot of kids were scared sh1tless by some parts of Dr Who back then, and did hide behind the couch or whatever. And I'm not aware of any other TV programmes before the watershed that has that effect nowadays.

So it's probably not about whether Dr Who was scarier back then, it's probably more that kids weren't used to seeing stuff like that, whereas they see it all the time now.

LoonyLovegood

Well considering it's gone to shite lately, it's not scary anymore. It's more like a madman's playground.

DAMMIT, MOFFAT!

kylith

CTYIgirl wrote: »

Well considering it's gone to shite lately, it's not scary anymore. It's more like a madman's playground.

DAMMIT, MOFFAT!

Never have I been so disappointed to get what I wanted as when Moffat took over (except for Gaiman's second episode).

At least when RTD was in charge The Moff could focus on writing and we got shows like The Empty Child/Doctor Dances, The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit, Girl in the Fireplace, Human Nature/Family of Blood.... There hasn't been one show since Matt Smith took over that's come close to touching any of those.

Apolloyon

kylith wrote: »

Never have I been so disappointed to get what I wanted as when Moffat took over (except for Gaiman's second episode).

At least when RTD was in charge The Moff could focus on writing and we got shows like The Empty Child/Doctor Dances, The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit, Girl in the Fireplace, Human Nature/Family of Blood.... There hasn't been one show since Matt Smith took over that's come close to touching any of those.

Actually Matt Jones wrote The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit and Paul Cornell wrote Human Nature/Family of blood. *tips Nerd hat*

kylith

Apolloyon wrote: »

Actually Matt Jones wrote The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit and Paul Cornell wrote Human Nature/Family of blood. *tips Nerd hat*

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that he wrote all of them, though he did write many good episodes, I was just trying to demonstrate the previous quality of the programmes, and make the point that there's been nothing comparable since Moff took over the reins.

OneArt

CTYIgirl wrote: »

Well considering it's gone to shite lately, it's not scary anymore. It's more like a madman's playground.

DAMMIT, MOFFAT!

He seems to have forgotten that Doctor Who is science fiction and turned it into some sh!tty wannabe Narnia crapfest.

krudler

Only thing I ever liked about Dr Who was the theme tune, which is fantastic, the Daleks are the sh1ttest enemies ever. Run up some stairs, problem solved :pac:

SEPT 23 1989

LSD usage ramped up the scare factor in 70's kids TV programmes

Iwasfrozen

krudler wrote: »

Only thing I ever liked about Dr Who was the theme tune, which is fantastic, the Daleks are the sh1ttest enemies ever. Run up some stairs, problem solved :pac:

They can fly.