Quick nonspoilery Doctor Who question

[donutsweeper]

I don't get BBC America, but my internet provider has 'On Demand' where it shows recent episodes of a lot of shows and one is DW so I am catching up on the newest series.

Every episode, after the opening sequence but before the credits has an opening soliloquy thing with scenes from S5 and a voice-over by Amy.

Did this air in the BBC version? Just the BBCA version? Or just a random weird thing.

Comments

[unfeathered]

No, we didn't have that over here, but I've seen some posts linked to from the newsletter with other people complaining about it in America.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It makes me feel like it doesn't trust us to understand the show without it.

[unfeathered]

Yeah, that seems to be the general opinion. And I must say, I agree. Most people are perfectly capable of working out what a show is about within minutes, even if they've never heard of it before, without some condescending outline at the beginning!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Agree with unfeathered - it's pretty dopey.

I guess people just tuning in to Doctor Who for the first time won't be too bothered by it, though.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

For the first episode, yeah, maybe.. but in overall? Dumb

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of the Charlie's Angels opening which explained the show...for years!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

that *used* to be the way of things. The old battlestar galactica, Star Trek, heck even going way back- land of the giants and whatnot.

Today though? Not so much

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wrote about that little narration thing in my post about the series premiere. We're getting it on Space here, too, but I think we probably get our version from BBCA. Ama doesn't have cable, so she's been watching online and she says the Brit version doesn't have it.

It reminds me so much of when the Yanks asked due South to put something at the beginning of each show to explain the concept and they ended up doing the 'I first came to Chicago on the trail of the killers of my father' bit in each episode.

It's just such a 'viewers are morons' thing and it really seems to smack of Americanization of the show. My first episode of DW was The Christmas Invasion and the only thing I knew about it was that he had a TARDIS and it travelled in time. I was able to figure things out without it being spelled out at me.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Somehow I was able to figure it out as well. *sigh* I don't need to be talked down to thanks...

[noirrosaleen.livejournal.com]

Huh. Never heard it, and I've used Netflix when I'm lazy...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Some cable companies have it, usually on channel one or something like that. The nice thing is it'll often (but not always) have episodes a day or two after they air and sometimes have several up at a time. So in the past two or three weeks we watched all of S5 and the first half of S6 of Doctor Who