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TARDIS Eruditorum - An Unofficial Critical History of Doctor Who Volume 4: Tom Baker and the Hinchcliffe Years QUOTES

TARDIS Eruditorum - An Unofficial Critical History of Doctor Who Volume 4: Tom Baker and the Hinchcliffe Years QUOTES

1 " Objectivity is for things I love less than this. That doesn't mean ignoring the flaws or pretending they don't exist. It just means forgiving them. And, more broadly, it means forgiving our own childhoods, and even to some extent forgiving ourselves. Doctor Who is rarely perfect. But it's frequently good enough to be enthralling, and it enthralled an awful lot of people over the years. It was precious to many of us. "

― Elizabeth Sandifer , TARDIS Eruditorum - An Unofficial Critical History of Doctor Who Volume 4: Tom Baker and the Hinchcliffe Years

2 " In practice, the US has more of a problem with theocratic lunatics than the UK does, so it's not like fundamental separation of church and state is a panacea or even, for that matter, particularly effective. "

― Elizabeth Sandifer , TARDIS Eruditorum - An Unofficial Critical History of Doctor Who Volume 4: Tom Baker and the Hinchcliffe Years

3 " The answer is this: Doctor Who doesn't do epic sci-fi on a BBC budget. It does BBC television theater on an epic sci-fi scale. "

― Elizabeth Sandifer , TARDIS Eruditorum - An Unofficial Critical History of Doctor Who Volume 4: Tom Baker and the Hinchcliffe Years