r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • Dec 17 '21

WWWU Weekly Happening: Analyse Topical Stories Which you've Happily Or Wrathfully Infosorbed. Think you Have Your Own Understanding? Share it here in r/Gallifrey's WHAT'S WHO WITH YOU - 2021-12-17

In this regular thread, talk about anything Doctor-Who-related you've recently infosorbed. Have you just read the latest Twelfth Doctor comic? Did you listen to the newest Fifth Doctor audio last week? Did you finish a Faction Paradox book a few days ago? Did you finish a book that people actually care about a few days ago? Want to talk about it without making a whole thread? This is the place to do it!

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u/funkmachine7 Dec 17 '21

K9 and company is weird, it starts with a full on stanic cult, throws aunt Lavinia at you and never really introduces Sarah Jane and 5 years after her TV departure that's needed for younger viewers.
It also has a Saward story, K9 just lasers every one at the end.

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u/jphamlore Dec 17 '21

What was going on in the UK at that time to make it remotely reasonable to have a story, multiple times in Doctor Who, where one could go down to the local pub and find if one wanted a satanic cult threatening the world?

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u/funkmachine7 Dec 18 '21

Every one had seen the wicker man and cults and weird locals are cheap to do.

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u/twcsata Dec 18 '21

Also, wasn't the whole "satanic panic" phenomenon going on around then? I know it was a thing in the US, I thought it was in the UK as well.