Ahh, but the thing is, comic books have been getting less and less black & white, more complex in the last couple decades. Though really I wasn't talking so much about morality when it came to human emotions - just reactions. You can have a moral story that's still relatively realistic; people can choose to do the right thing, and it becomes all the more significant when they actually have the choice.
Really, DW is more moralistic than SV, I'd say - partly because it's, if not a kid's show, then a family show. The good guys and bad guys are quite clear-cut (bad guys = trying to destroy life, the universe, & everything! EXTERMINATE!; good guys = trying to stop them and help people). But the Doctor and his Companions still come across as believable people, because of how they react to these events; the pain they go through, or the pleasure and excitement of success. Rose and Martha both do and say things that, were I in their position, I could conceivably do, even when in situations that no one would ever be in in real life (e.g. dealing with the Doctor's regeneration.).
While as in SV, the chars react relatively realistically to ordinary things like relationship drama, but have totally nonsensical reactions to the unrealistic, scifi events. Such as the way everyone ignores the meteor mutants - yes, there's a degree that people will do that, but not to the psychotic extents seen in Smallville. The writers just don't bother with the effort of imagining what real people might do in those situations.
You possibly think more seriously about fandom than anyone else on my flist
Eheh...I'm glad you enjoy it, rather than thinking I'm a total lunatic! ^^; I enjoy a good debate and analyzing my enjoyment (or lack thereof!), but sometimes I worry I spoil the fun of people who don't want to spend so much time pondering their entertainment!
(in more standard lj-style - squeeee! to your icon! eeeee I want that next ep~!)
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Date: 2007-06-22 05:13 am (UTC)Really, DW is more moralistic than SV, I'd say - partly because it's, if not a kid's show, then a family show. The good guys and bad guys are quite clear-cut (bad guys = trying to destroy life, the universe, & everything! EXTERMINATE!; good guys = trying to stop them and help people). But the Doctor and his Companions still come across as believable people, because of how they react to these events; the pain they go through, or the pleasure and excitement of success. Rose and Martha both do and say things that, were I in their position, I could conceivably do, even when in situations that no one would ever be in in real life (e.g. dealing with the Doctor's regeneration.).
While as in SV, the chars react relatively realistically to ordinary things like relationship drama, but have totally nonsensical reactions to the unrealistic, scifi events. Such as the way everyone ignores the meteor mutants - yes, there's a degree that people will do that, but not to the psychotic extents seen in Smallville. The writers just don't bother with the effort of imagining what real people might do in those situations.
You possibly think more seriously about fandom than anyone else on my flist
Eheh...I'm glad you enjoy it, rather than thinking I'm a total lunatic! ^^; I enjoy a good debate and analyzing my enjoyment (or lack thereof!), but sometimes I worry I spoil the fun of people who don't want to spend so much time pondering their entertainment!
(in more standard lj-style - squeeee! to your icon! eeeee I want that next ep~!)