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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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The problem is that kids grow up. I'm sure there ARE people who enjoyed the Ewoks, or Jar Jar on their first few hundred viewings.
But ultimately as adults, we demand more from our entertainment. When you can entertain kids and please adults simultaneously you're onto a winner.
But the more you write in one universe, the more you grow as a writer, the more the universe grows with you (thereby giving you the "dreaded" canon problem) and fundamentally, the more your audience grow.
The only way around this that springs to mind for me is to gradually increase the adultness of the show. The Harry Potter movies are a recent example of this. If you were a kid when Philosopher's Stone came out, you were old enough to handle Deathly Hallows by the time it rolled around.
To KEEP insisting it's a kid's show seems to me a little silly when surely the vast majority of people watching it now started doing so, at the very least, a few years ago when they were varying degrees of younger. No?
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: just behind you!
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 | | | | paulzolo wrote: First and foremost, that’s what it is, and that is what it has always been. With that in mind, flights of fancy, imaginative story telling and audience engagement should be right at the top of the list of things to do with the show. This gives the writers a lot of scope to bend the rules, and make sharp turns in ways that grown up telly may not. Who is not, therefore, constrained by its mythology in the same way Star Trek became. With Trek, the writers became so bogged down in the mire of decades of canon that it became hard to move. Who seems to nimbly dodge and simultaneously embrace the obstacles left by previous writers. | | | | |
as they have had the time war where the fabric of time and space was rent asunder there is plenty of scope there for all sorts of differing timelines or changes that can happen like extra regenerations etc Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 _________________Finally joined Flickr
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pcernie
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_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
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_________________Still the official cheeky one 
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timark_uk
Moderator
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Location: Belfast
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Now there's a headline the Daily Mail would get mileage from. Mark
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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Trailer for 'The Science of Doctor Who'Looks like fun.
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timark_uk
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Yeah. I'll be working so I'll have to watch it on iPlayer the following day. Mark
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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who in the Whoniverse are youI came out as a cyberman. I think it may possibly be entirely random.
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: IoW
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Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
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Amnesia10
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I was Tardis as well.  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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BigRedX
Doesn't have much of a life
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No. I am the Tardis.
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Yes, very good. 
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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No, I'm the TARDIS and so is my wife! Actually, she is the master, apparently, but that wouldn't have been anywhere nearly as funny Sent from my C6833 using Tapatalk 4 _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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I've just realised there's more than one way of interpreting that phrase.
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
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Location: on the naughty step
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cute google doodle today
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