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Apr. 6th, 2012 06:03 pm"Dr Who only finally manages to beat whatever threat is about to destroy civilisation by abandoning all his encyclopaedic knowledge and making some simple act of faith and courage. This to me is one of the essential messages of all fairy stories. It is about the fact that science is not enough. This is something we really need to think about more today." - Educational psychologist John Miller, quoted in a Listener recap (14 April 1977) of the Lively Arts doco Whose Doctor Who?.
Discuss. The baddies in Who are often scientists too; but how often does Miller's description fit the resolution of a story?
(Don't worry - these philosophical excerpts don't presage my conversion; they're just the result of three intense days at the National Library of Australia. Although I have recently come into possession of the word 'resacralization'. You have been warned.)
Discuss. The baddies in Who are often scientists too; but how often does Miller's description fit the resolution of a story?
(Don't worry - these philosophical excerpts don't presage my conversion; they're just the result of three intense days at the National Library of Australia. Although I have recently come into possession of the word 'resacralization'. You have been warned.)
