Fear Factor Five
Jun. 2nd, 2006 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
barringtonOne of my favourite bits of the BBC's Doctor Who web site is Fear Factor, where four kids, aged 5, 7 9 and 13, get to watch the next episode before broadcast with their Mum and Dad and give a score out of five for how scary it is. I've noted that the recent Cybermen episodes scored scarier with the older kids than the younger, while the reverse was true of last week's episode, The Idiot's Lantern.
This week is the first of two parts, an episode titled The Impossible Planet. Five year old Amy wasn't too fussed, giving it a three, while only-just-a-teenager Adam gave it the full five. What has me really excited isn't the warning given on the site this week - "Children are warned that some adults have found this episode especially frightening. Get ready to hold your parents' hands if they get too scared..." - but the fact that the middle kids, Harry and Samuel, somehow got their hands on scorecards reading six...
Doctor Who is always best when it's scary. So I'm thrilled.
PS: Astute readers will have noted that I am procrastinating a lot at work today; I've been feeling a bit off today.
This week is the first of two parts, an episode titled The Impossible Planet. Five year old Amy wasn't too fussed, giving it a three, while only-just-a-teenager Adam gave it the full five. What has me really excited isn't the warning given on the site this week - "Children are warned that some adults have found this episode especially frightening. Get ready to hold your parents' hands if they get too scared..." - but the fact that the middle kids, Harry and Samuel, somehow got their hands on scorecards reading six...
Doctor Who is always best when it's scary. So I'm thrilled.
PS: Astute readers will have noted that I am procrastinating a lot at work today; I've been feeling a bit off today.
