10 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy Doctor Who

Facts that will help you to enjoy the bonkers world of Doctor Who...

Willing suspension of disbelief is hugely important in enjoying fiction, particularly when it comes to science-fiction and fantasy. Characters often survive events that should almost definitely kill them, do incredibly stupid things that nobody picks up on, and tend to have dialogue that even the most pretentious Jacobean playwright would find unrealistic. And since it€™s such a bright and fast-paced adventure with all of time and space as its backdrop, Doctor Who requires a great deal more suspension of disbelief than most things. Because, the purely historical stories notwithstanding, the aim of Doctor Who is give realism a hefty kick in the groin. Teaching children about science and history was the original aim but five decades on, the thought process of writing an average episode is pretty much something along the lines €œThe hospital teleported to the moon is great, but it needs a space vampire and rhino monsters€. That€™s Doctor who in a nutshell. Complete and utter wonderful nonsense. Nonsense which can sometimes be hard to swallow if you€™re not prepared for it. A lot of the time, suspending disbelief is something that has to be done on the fly but there are some facts that really help you along. Foreknowledge that will help Doctor Who go down much more smoothly and allow you process the more bizarre moments with a quick €œOkay, that happened€ rather €œWhat the hell was that?€. So while Series 8 is still relatively grounded by Doctor Who standards (apart from the exploding T-Rex in Deep Breath), we€™ve come up with 10 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy Doctor Who...
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JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.