Reflection Task 2b

DOCTOR WHO

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC from 1963 to current day. It is about time and space adventures of the Doctor who is a Time Lord from Gallifrey. He has a spaceship named Tardis, and he travels in time and space with it. The Tardis looks like a police box from outside and bigger on the inside. This programme has such a significant part of the British culture that the words “Tardis” and “Whovian” ,meaning fans of the Doctor Who, have places on dictionaries. According to scenario, the Doctor always travels with a companion generally a human. I believe with this situation, producers reveal that human beings are going to be an important part of the space in the future. I also agree with them in that point because I think people

will achieve some great space missions in the near future. In planets he visits, the Doctor tries to stop wars, save innocents, prevent and punish evils, so we can say that he is a good man fighting for good people or other creatures of universe. In this TV serial he is shown as the clever and merciful guard of goodness. Whenever he hears of a devil on a planet, he teleports to there and tries to clean that planet from evils. Although he makes some mistakes, he always finds a solution to them. Moreover, the fact that the Doctor goes through regeneration and changes his appearance, maybe convey a nice message. To explain, he changes his physical appearance not his personality. No matter what he looks like –old, young, handsome, poor- he always behaves in the virtues of morals. In my view, here the producers show us that physical features are not important. What matter are the characteristics of a person, the way he treat to others, the way he sees the events. Apart from all these, what is interesting for me is that most people in the serials do not know that the Doctor saved them. This can mean that even

though we do not know there are always somebody who trigger the movement of goodness, who try to make all people live in peace, who bring happiness to place they arrive. All in all, I believe the implications and messages that Doctor Who conveys are very meaningful and lovely.