Doctor Who is aimed squarely on the 18-49 demo in America, a crowd that may be unaware of how different the audience in great britan is. Across the lake, Doctor Who is manufactured for and consumed by just a "family" audience, and it goes out at 7: 00 pm or earlier on BBC One. It's some sort of difference that matters. Doctor Who means something different in great britan from what it means here in america. Here, its audience of "geeky" teens and twentysomethings is largely unconcerned using the program's five-decade pedigree regarding scaring children "behind your sofa, " while in england that's simply what Doctor That is.
That's why children who fear monsters are becoming a recurring motif from the revived Doctor Who, as well as Doctor is so often positioned as being a comforting presence for children like this. Just last year we saw him reassure fresh Amelia in "The Eleventh Hour" as well as Elliot in "The Keen Earth" and "Cold Blood". See also Reinette within 2006's "The Girl inside the Fireplace", Chloe in "Fear The girl, " or pretty much another small child in Health care provider Who since 2005. The folks who now write Doctor Who're the children who cowered from its monsters in the sixties, seventies and eighties, with this episode's scribe Mark Gatiss being no exemption. And these fan-writers love that kind of metatextual commentary on Health care provider Who's cultural position. When you finally know what you're trying to find you see it all around you. Don't even get me started on the number of times they've written analogies with the program's demise and return (try "Last of that time period Lords" and "The Significant Bang" for starters).
Naturally, this week's story revolves surrounding the eight-year-old George, who is so terrified from the monsters in his master bedroom that his fear registers around the Doctor's slightly psychic pieces of paper. The Doctor, Amy and Rory visit his rescue, but Amy and Rory are trapped inside the child's problem world, a creepy older dollhouse. They are terrorized by means of living dolls who turn trapped humans into their own kind, and Amy himself becomes a doll. Meanwhile, the Doctor meets George's pops Alex, and investigates George's cabinet, which seems to terrify him. It turns out that George is in fact not a human, but an alien foster child that has used a perception filter to assimilate into your lives of a couple who can't have young children. When the Doctor starts the cupboard, he and Alex are in the same headache world as Amy along with Rory. The world of horrors has been created by George's fearfulness, focused on the cupboard, and Alex is in a position to dissolve the nightmare universe by reassuring George that will he still loves him or her and accepts him even with his alienness. Everything is returned to normal again.
It's a quite simple story, and one using a genuinely touching human core to it. Alex makes a likable in addition to compelling pseudo-companion as he runs over the various emotions of headache for his son, frustration using the Doctor, and uncertainty about how precisely to react to this revelations that his son is definitely alien. Not to mention that the episode is flat-out creepy and scary just about from start to finish off, which given its premise is really important.
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