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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

TIL you need to watch Dr Who as a period piece.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Never thought I would live to see the day that what used to be a contemporary episode of Doctor Who would have to be viewed as if it was a time travel episode

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The original series went from 1963-1989 and some of those episodes were contemporary for the time, too.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Everything is a period piece 20 years later.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

All the time, constantly

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not necessarily. Most scifi and fantasy are not.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Scifi tends to be a time piece on what people at that point in time thought the future would look like, which changes every couple of decades.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The Doctor doesn't really wear eccentric clothes, he's just completely fed up with trying to be accommodating to the period he's in. He's a very very old person after all.

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