One of the best things about the massive success of the Beeb's kids title
'Doctor Who Adventures' (
and I mean bizarrely massive success, last year it had the largest rise in regular readership of any other publication in the UK) is that it's starting to do what the old '
Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly' did for us older fans back when
we were kneee-high - get us hooked on The Backstory. Actually, to call it backstory is a little disingenuous and makes it sound like i'm talking about a story arc in an American sf tv show. No, what
DWA is doing is getting kids hooked on The Myth. Think back to when you were first finding out about the show, and that it had a past. A past... one that stretched back to
before you were born. And that you could find out about this past, and that it even cropped up from time to time in the show you 'know and love' today. (
what? The Doctor met the Macra before?? Who's Davros?? When did the Doctor and the Master fight the Sea Devils??)All part of the magic. And it means we now have the younger fans treating the 'classic series' as the same as the 'new series' - as it should be!! Hence this extremely delightful picture in this weeks'
DWA...
'Doctor Who Adventures' - its grammar might be ocassionally indecipherable (
'Cool makes!') and it has far too many adverts for books about farting dinosaurs, but on the whole you gotta love it.
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