Louisa Mellor May 17, 2017
Oxygen and Thin Ice show that the monsters aren’t what’s truly scary in Doctor Who series 10…
Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who series 10 episodes 1-5.
See related Was season 4 Arrested Development's best yet?
Sci-fi is often a testing ground for our fears. We take something that scares us, dress it up in a tentacled bug suit, and write a comforting story about how we defeated it. (Sometimes we write stories about how it defeated us, but those don’t tend to sell as well.)
From the very start of the genre, writers have shaped monsters from the stuff of their anxiety—hubristic scientific advance or disease or enemies from this war or that—and designed scenarios in which, through pluck, luck and brains, we send them packing or squash them flat. Nuclear war, AIDS, terrorism? Bug suit. Story. Defeat.
Like any good sci-fi show,...
Oxygen and Thin Ice show that the monsters aren’t what’s truly scary in Doctor Who series 10…
Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who series 10 episodes 1-5.
See related Was season 4 Arrested Development's best yet?
Sci-fi is often a testing ground for our fears. We take something that scares us, dress it up in a tentacled bug suit, and write a comforting story about how we defeated it. (Sometimes we write stories about how it defeated us, but those don’t tend to sell as well.)
From the very start of the genre, writers have shaped monsters from the stuff of their anxiety—hubristic scientific advance or disease or enemies from this war or that—and designed scenarios in which, through pluck, luck and brains, we send them packing or squash them flat. Nuclear war, AIDS, terrorism? Bug suit. Story. Defeat.
Like any good sci-fi show,...
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