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No you haven't because:
a) You're still a boring tit.
b) Fry is wrong in saying that Dr Who is for children.
He is correct though in saying that they're wonderfully written.
Which, I would contend, Dr Who does, and always has aspired to do. ( Though Merlin, also mentioned in the article doesn't. It's still a bit of a laugh though ).… Fry said he was not arguing that all television should be pompous, academic or intellectual.
"But they ought to surprise and to astonish and to make us feel perhaps the possibility there is a world outside that we know nothing of to provoke us, to provoke in the best sense of the word, sometimes in the worst sense," he said.
Not all entertainment needs to be stretching or challenging. I'm currently reading Stalingrad. When it gets rather heavy, I'll pick up something lighter, like Calvin and Hobbes.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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I'm not sure that trying things that are disturbing and wrong is what being adult means at all.Originally posted by The nations favourite loveyWhile you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Not so sure I like that comment. Not very nice is it?Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostComment
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Well it's definitely not "wonderfully written". It's definitely been going downhill since the end of series 2....my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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I think Stephen Fry would be right if the TV audience comprised solely of intellectuals who aren't interested in a bit of light weight escapism... but it's not so he's wrong.
IMO there's fair balance of programming to suit everyone, I'd suggest he sticks to BBC4 and steer well clear of tea time TV on the populist channels.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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Did you ever see anything he did in the 80s?Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
He offered a more balanced view than the article suggests.Comment
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May not be nice but completely accurate.Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
You're a common or garden pub bore.
HTH, but IDIHard Brexit now!
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It might do if you come from the same "mould" of adult that Stephen Fry does.Originally posted by doodab View Post
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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