mothers and fathers

list of stuff, can be safely ignored

Rose and Pete
Rose and Jackie
Nancy and James

Ace and her mum
Benny and her dad

Paternalism:
Rose and the Doctor (sometimes)
Ace and the Doctor (sometimes - but a different kind of "sometimes" to that of Rose and the Doctor)
Benny and the Doctor (sometimes)

Everything has a time and everything has an end

Working my way through the first season of the new series and one of the emerging themes is loss. That's a key theme in anything to do with change. There are obvious examples such as the Doctor's challenge to Cassandra, however what for me was so startling and powerful to watch is to see the loss both Rose and Jackie experience.

There is no future in England's Dreaming

I have given myself the challenge to map two transitional eras of Doctor Who and ask whether the first, Virgin Publishing's New Adventures, has had an influence on the second, the new series of Doctor Who?

I think that a substantial aspect of the nature of both these eras of Doctor Who is that they are both posses qualities of transition, that there is behind both series a force of modernity.

There are many examples of both series that I can sight to suggest this, in an attempt to summarise these are -
+ reflection on the series' past and to make a change from that past;
+ both have attempted and succeeded to set up a new language;
+ engagement with its medium as a means to attempt something different;
+ meditation on the contemporary political and social eras in United Kingdom - though their subjects are very different, the NAs refelcted on a post Thatcher/Major past (and even further) and the RTD era is concerned about the future UK is creating.