Random Doctor Who Hugo comment
Made this in a comment on someone's thread; top-posting here just 'cause.
I am thrilled beyond belief that Doctor Who won a Hugo - and even more thrilled that the episodes I would have voted for won. IMO, The Empty Child/Doctor Dances were everything that any good action story should be - funny, freaking terrifying (who would think that a small child asking "Are you my mummy?" could practically get adults to wet the couch in fear?), and stuffed with interesting characterization with a minimum of technobabble. I think it's the best Doctor Who story ever written, period, so it deserved that rocket ship!
Dalek... Dalek was a damned good story, and if EC/DD had gone down to it, I would have still been satisfied. Fantastic action, great characterization. I think its only "failing" is that in order to really get the biggest gut impact you had to know WTF a dalek was. And while that was comprehensively explained for the new kids in the fandom, without that foreknowledge the whole revelation scene is missing something.
As for Father's Day - it's a lovely, heartwrenching story. But it already won its Hugo back in 1968 when it was titled "City on the Edge of Forever" and it doesn't need another one.
I am thrilled beyond belief that Doctor Who won a Hugo - and even more thrilled that the episodes I would have voted for won. IMO, The Empty Child/Doctor Dances were everything that any good action story should be - funny, freaking terrifying (who would think that a small child asking "Are you my mummy?" could practically get adults to wet the couch in fear?), and stuffed with interesting characterization with a minimum of technobabble. I think it's the best Doctor Who story ever written, period, so it deserved that rocket ship!
Dalek... Dalek was a damned good story, and if EC/DD had gone down to it, I would have still been satisfied. Fantastic action, great characterization. I think its only "failing" is that in order to really get the biggest gut impact you had to know WTF a dalek was. And while that was comprehensively explained for the new kids in the fandom, without that foreknowledge the whole revelation scene is missing something.
As for Father's Day - it's a lovely, heartwrenching story. But it already won its Hugo back in 1968 when it was titled "City on the Edge of Forever" and it doesn't need another one.
