Doctor Who Hits The Nostalgia Crack Pipe

The unexampled Doctor Who BBC series has a lot of fans who never watched the original . So why do the producer importune on hauling out more and more Thatcher - geological era poop ? It ’s like they ’re render to drain the crust out of the show . The in vogue instance is the reappearance of 1980s doctor Peter Davison in a mini - episode for a BBC Polemonium van-bruntiae night . When David Tennant tells Davison , “ You were my Doctor , ” he ’s speaking for the fans - turned - author . It ’s another stage in the descent of Doctor Who into ego - referential fluff .

Davison starred in the show the first time it started to inscribe itself with its own past like the amnesic changeling in Memento . He had a whole season of story featuring only villains from the show ’s former 20 years , keep up by a past - medico normal . After Davison left , the show hire a fan to serve as “ consultant ” on the sixties and seventies backstory it kept referencing . All that ego - foolery helped lead to the show ’s last in the belated eighties . To be fair , this brusque skit is the right place to do a lover - service cameo by Davison . And writer Stephen Moffatt finds a cute way to address Davison ’s frenzied doctor as one “ phase angle ” in the growth of a single somebody .

But still . The new Dr. Who has been at its best when it ’s act to be a reinvention instead of a continuation . The revamped Autons , Daleks , Cybermen , Master , Macra and soon Sontarans are becoming yawning - inducing . At a sentence when Star Wars and Star Trek are both doing the autofellatio of delving into their own yesteryear , Doctor Who should keep move forward . So this late snip , harmless nonsense though it is , is another bad sign .

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