Themes from Doctor Who (Season 1)

The time travelling two-hearted alien is back! Doctor Who returned to our screens at Christmas and has been fantastic.

Christmas Special: The Church on Ruby Road

• The Doctor likes to dance.
• A ‘Foundling’ is an abandoned baby.
• Repeated accidents are a sign of Goblins.
• Golbins are real, sing and have a King.

Episode 1 – Space Babies

• The Doctor lives for days of adventure.
• The law doesn’t always make sense.
• Every person or creature is unique in the universe.
• Nobody grows up wrong.
• Sometimes technology takes things literally.
• Good people sometimes do bad things whilst trying to protect others.

Episode 2 – The Devil’s Chord

• Life without music would be awefully dull.
• The impact The Beatles had was global and transformative.
• Music can be wonderful or terrible.
• According to The Doctor: “Music is the highest form of thought.”

Episode 3 – Boom

• Dad’s should never let their children down.
• The Doctor is enough annumition to destroy only half a planet. To be honest, I expected him to take out at least half a solar sytem.
• War, business and an Artifical Intelligence make a bad combination.
• The Doctor has excellent control of his adrenealine and other human involuntary processes.
• Churches can become armies.

Episode 4 – 73 Yards

• Saving the world can be done through fear, fright and flight.
• The Doctor can disappear without a trace.
• Sometimes it takes a lifetime to work out what’s going on.
• Rejection is emotionally harmful and can be a devastating and heartbreaking experience.

Episode 5 – Dot and Bubble

• Spending too much time in social media can lead you to missing what’s happening in the real world – including human eating monsters.
• Sometimes The Doctor saves people who are not nice. Think when Lindy said to The Doctor: “You’re not like us, are you?”
• Some people will do anything to save their selves. Including sacrificing others.
• Some human eating monsters like to work through their list of prey alphabetically.

Episode 6 – Rogue

• The Doctor could fall in love with a man. This makes The Doctor not only wonderfully complex, but gay, lesbian and bisexual depending on his/her current gender.
• Some aliens come to Earth for entertainment.
• Some aliens have faces inspired by birds.
• Rogue gets lost in another dimension forever. This is emotionally painful for The Doctor, showing that he can experience love-like feelings.

Episode 7 – The Legend of Ruby Sunday

• Susan is the name of The Doctor’s granddaughter.
• Everyone loves Davina McCall.
• An old enemy returns with the power to kill.
• Kate Commander in Chief of UNIT cares about the lives of her staff.

Episode 8 – Empire of Death

• Kate puts her hope in The Doctor.
• The mysterious old white-haired woman (photo in episode 7) “had such plans.” But what where or are they? And who is she?
• The Doctor is the one that brings death.
• Sometimes a happy for now ending is more than satisfactory. In fact it’s wonderful and heart touching.

Blog soon,

Antony