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Post by sparacus on Sept 13, 2012 14:23:40 GMT -5
How far does this story indicate a creeping Americanisation of the show?
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Post by richflair on Sept 13, 2012 16:35:52 GMT -5
Not very.
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Post by youthofoz on Sept 14, 2012 3:59:36 GMT -5
I don't see anything. Remember, JNT introduced an American companion. RTD introduced an American companion and then gave him a spinoff for four years!
Compared to that, a single Western (harking back to the original 1966 zeitgiest of the William Hartnell era) is not even counting as an agenda.
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Post by thecoordinator on Sept 14, 2012 5:18:19 GMT -5
How far does this story indicate a creeping Americanisation of the show? This is not a patch on Innes Lloyd's Americanisation Agenda. |
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Post by youthofoz on Sept 14, 2012 5:26:00 GMT -5
Well said.
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Post by Bernie Fishnotes on Sept 15, 2012 18:00:49 GMT -5
Some people said the TV Movie was Americanised because it had car chases. These people obviously never saw the Pertwee Era...
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Post by youthofoz on Sept 15, 2012 19:25:51 GMT -5
Yeah. What about Bill Filer and American delegates and that angry American who shouts "WAR!!!" in Frontier in Space or the constant trips from Lavinia Smith to the USA or...
Ugh! The UNIT era is so American!
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Post by sparacus on Sept 19, 2012 15:52:41 GMT -5
The episode was shamelessly aimed at increasing the US audience. It whitewahed US History; there was nothing about the native Americans and slavery didn't get a mention either.
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Post by youthofoz on Sept 19, 2012 19:00:06 GMT -5
The episode was shamelessly aimed at increasing the US audience.
How? It was a cowboy western shtick - NOT the first ever done by Doctor Who - and a single episode which would reduce exposure. It was filmed in Spain. It focussed on three English characters. It started with Amy bemoaning that they were in America and not in Mexico. It criticized gun laws, vigilante justice, obsession with long-over conflicts, and the importance of redemption.
It whitewahed US History;
Apart from Isaac's speech about the American Civil War and the resentments of the losing sides that meant that any given community was a powerkeg of violence.
there was nothing about the native Americans and slavery didn't get a mention either.
Why would they be? The town was under siege by a cyborg who shot people. Why would anyone start blabbing on about redskins or slaves? What would that have to do with the plot?
Did last week's episode shamelessly whitewash Egyptian history? Nefertitti never got called up for leaving her husband, owning slaves or having a history of tortuing people. What about the trigger-happy nuclear Indian Space Agency?
Apart from anything else, A Town Called Mercy was written by Toby Whithouse, not Moffat.
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Post by adamricketfan69 on Jan 21, 2018 13:17:43 GMT -5
The episode was shamelessly aimed at increasing the US audience. It whitewahed US History; there was nothing about the native Americans and slavery didn't get a mention either. There also wasn't anything about demeted fish people but you don't see me complaining. |
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