If it's the culture of Upper Boat, then it seems very likely that he's the one who largely shaped it. Which explains why other writers on these shows, even better ones than RTD, have been guilty of the same failings. The ending of "Silence In The Library"/whatever it was was a similar fudge.
As for unpicking the scary questions, I'm not convinced. The comments I have seen that touched on that have mostly been about how scheming and evil the politicians were, how the military can be a tool of oppression, and so on and so forth, and realWho did all that back when it was essential family viewing. We don't need a telly programme to tell us those things these days. They're so clichéd their essential truth is all but obscured.
Quatermass? Well, maybe, but the one with John Mills (the one to which, if any, this was an oh Marge, or to be less polite, of which it was--structurally--a ripoff) showed me, when I watched it originally, that the Quatermass productions had been successful in spite of themselves. Kneale's standpoint was similar to Lovecraft's, that humanity was a pathetic puppet of vast indifferent forces beyond its understanding. This was never a philosophy likely to find much favour with people in general, and as with Lovecraft, the audience at large enjoyed the Quatermass stories and let the philosophy go, which puts the onus back on the storytelling. That last Quatermass, in which the defeatism and the negativity were most blatantly displayed, was I think the least successful in storytelling terms, and its failings were the failings of Children of Earth.
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On that we agree.
If it's the culture of Upper Boat, then it seems very likely that he's the one who largely shaped it. Which explains why other writers on these shows, even better ones than RTD, have been guilty of the same failings. The ending of "Silence In The Library"/whatever it was was a similar fudge.
As for unpicking the scary questions, I'm not convinced. The comments I have seen that touched on that have mostly been about how scheming and evil the politicians were, how the military can be a tool of oppression, and so on and so forth, and realWho did all that back when it was essential family viewing. We don't need a telly programme to tell us those things these days. They're so clichéd their essential truth is all but obscured.
Quatermass? Well, maybe, but the one with John Mills (the one to which, if any, this was an oh Marge, or to be less polite, of which it was--structurally--a ripoff) showed me, when I watched it originally, that the Quatermass productions had been successful in spite of themselves. Kneale's standpoint was similar to Lovecraft's, that humanity was a pathetic puppet of vast indifferent forces beyond its understanding. This was never a philosophy likely to find much favour with people in general, and as with Lovecraft, the audience at large enjoyed the Quatermass stories and let the philosophy go, which puts the onus back on the storytelling. That last Quatermass, in which the defeatism and the negativity were most blatantly displayed, was I think the least successful in storytelling terms, and its failings were the failings of Children of Earth.