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Subject: Re: On Violence in Dr. Who (22nd Season Spoilers!)
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 08:37:19 EST
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Violence on Doctor Who comes and goes.  Perhaps the worst was episode
three of the Deadly Assassin, where the Doctor is shot in the leg, and
we get to watch the blood dripping, his foot is run over by a train, 
he is later shot in the shoulder and at the end has his head held
under water in a (burning) swamp.

His opponent doesn't get off lightly.  A grenade explodes behind him,
we see him wrapping a bandage around his body with a large blood stain.
He is poisoned with a poisonous dart, blown at him by the Doctor, and
he actually catches fire, when he fires his gun in a swamp infested
with methane.

This episode resulted in the producer "retiring" and the BBC establishing
standards on violence on television.

Another recent violent story was "Vengeance on Varos", which featured
a planet which exports video violence:  torture and executions.
Some of my recent signature quotes are from that story.

The governemnt of Varos has a governor selected, and his ideas must be
ratified by the people (a highly advanced system of TV feedback).  If
the idea is not ratified, he is hit with a blast from a cell disintegrator.

The story is a spoof on a recent video nasties controversy in Britain.
-- 
James C Armstrong, Jnr.   ihnp4!abnji!nyssa

Chap with wings there, five rounds rapid!