What Would Mary Whitehouse Think?

Doctor Who episode Gridlock has been nominated for an Epiphany Prize for increasing “man’s love and understanding of God”.

  • tarquin

    Can’t the programme-makers sue?

  • http://lonelocust.com Lone Locust

    Is this because they all sang a song at the end?

  • http://lonelocust.com gridman

    Is this because they all sang a song at the end?

  • http://www.littlestorping.co.uk Simon

    Spirituality and Doctor Who Day. The bandwagon starts rolling?

  • http://www.littlestorping.co.uk Simon

    Spirituality and Doctor Who Day. The bandwagon starts rolling?

  • http://lonelocust.com Lone Locust

    I can’t help think that RTD is throwing these themes into DW as a way to diminish their credibility, but there’s always someone who doesn’t get the joke…

  • http://lonelocust.com gridman

    I can’t help think that RTD is throwing these themes into DW as a way to diminish their credibility, but there’s always someone who doesn’t get the joke…

  • http://www.littlestorping.co.uk Simon

    Did you see the interview with Mark Lawson? Despite his devout atheism, he clearly has some interest in (and respect for) religious symbolism…

  • http://www.littlestorping.co.uk Simon

    Did you see the interview with Mark Lawson? Despite his devout atheism, he clearly has some interest in (and respect for) religious symbolism…

  • http://lonelocust.com Lone Locust

    Undeniably, religious symbolism makes for some of the most powerful and universally shared storytelling elements we have.

    I think that shows from everything to the near-ubiquitous nature of the same themes recurring in the various religions over the ages all the way up to comic books and superheroes.

    They are always with us.

  • http://lonelocust.com gridman

    Undeniably, religious symbolism makes for some of the most powerful and universally shared storytelling elements we have.

    I think that shows from everything to the near-ubiquitous nature of the same themes recurring in the various religions over the ages all the way up to comic books and superheroes.

    They are always with us.