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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9390691" data-attributes="member: 18">I would literally have stopped watching Dr Who if I'd been 10-13 and that episode had come out directly after the goblin one.14 and up I might have been mature enough to laugh at it again, but I yeah there's this "danger zone" where kids are too old to appreciate that as little kids do, and too young to appreciate it more ironically, and where it's deeply embarrassing if media you're watching is mawkish and ridiculous. I don't think RTD realizes this zone exists, or if he does, he doesn't care.Nah. My friends have kids entering precisely that age range (the very oldest ones) and a couple of them are the same way - they've gone from liking that kind of silly business like that to being embarrassed by it - I was discussing this with one of my friends just recently. There will be some kids who don't care but I think most kids through the period sooner or later. Whether it's 10 or 12 or 14 or 16 probably varies a fair bit (EDIT - Tumblr culture in the '10s shows some people were able to put it off to like 22 but they still went through it lol).Bollocks mate. ClassicWho/oldWho was absolutely never that kind of show, not even accounting for the difference of time period. nuWho is rather returning to S2 nuWho and onwards. It had whimsy but not remotely that type of whimsy.</blockquote>