From: john_e_russell@hotmail.com 
  
  wrote in message 
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 >I disliked the new series because it lacked the sci fi spirit of 
 > 'enquiry' or 'subversion' - not because it failed to compare to other 
 > franchises. Compared to the best of the Star Trek (which was often 
 > generic garbage), the new Dr Who was simply unadventerous - it didn't 
 > boldly go anywhere except up its own narrative arc. 
  
 Sc-fi  has no spirit of anything. It's nothing more than a modern style of 
 telling the same old stories. If the stories you like are of "enquiry" or 
 "subversion", that dosn't mean all stories told using the sc-fi style have 
 to be like that. That would be like saying all stories set in the 30's have 
 to be "who dunnit's", just becuase the majority are! 
 We each have a choice as to what "style" we like our stories told in. 
  
 Dr Who, of all the sc-fi  series, has the flexibilty to tell any story you 
 care to chose. 
  
 On occasions, apart from arriving, or departing, via the Tardis, there 
 hasn't been anything Sc-Fi in the presentation of the story  at all. 
  
 Again, it would be intertsing to know if those who dislike this series 
 dislike those past episodes like I have described. 
  
 The Black Nascissus comes to  mind. 
  
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