Doctor Who: The Warriors of Death
Apr. 5th, 2011 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16Doctor Who: The Warriors of Death
This episode was very interesting. It was all about that moral dilemma of: If something's a tradition or perhaps part of a religion, does it make it wrong to make them change even if you know that tradition to be wrong by current standards?
I totally understand why some people don't like the current format. By having to fit the entire plot in one to three episodes, the more complicated stuff usually has to simplified or hammered home in much less time. It does lose some of the effectiveness of subtlety.
It was also interesting to have the Doctor defend their religion. I suppose it could have just been to preserve time lines or because Barbara pissed him off with her attitude but it was very different than the more recent reincarnations that seem to feel religion is for simpletons and/or has no point.
However, it's still weird to watch "Aztecs" played by white Englishmen.
This episode was very interesting. It was all about that moral dilemma of: If something's a tradition or perhaps part of a religion, does it make it wrong to make them change even if you know that tradition to be wrong by current standards?
I totally understand why some people don't like the current format. By having to fit the entire plot in one to three episodes, the more complicated stuff usually has to simplified or hammered home in much less time. It does lose some of the effectiveness of subtlety.
It was also interesting to have the Doctor defend their religion. I suppose it could have just been to preserve time lines or because Barbara pissed him off with her attitude but it was very different than the more recent reincarnations that seem to feel religion is for simpletons and/or has no point.
However, it's still weird to watch "Aztecs" played by white Englishmen.
