Dr Who

[carolegif]

So the beginning of Dr Who shows the shooting down of an airliner. Bad taste or what?!!!

[iloveher]

my thoughts entirely... Can't have been filmed recently enough to be deliberately publicity seeking, but could possibly have been edited out considering the circumstances

[vernonk]

No one at the BBC realisted? Were they all askeep?

[iloveher]

In the words of Victor Meldrew: I DON'T BELIEVE IT. What were the Beeb thinking?

[bednobs]

i don't understnd what the problem is really

[interele]

When I watched it I thought 'Very poor taste'
But in the end it was very anti war so I think
on balance it was OK

[bednobs]

a russian airliner was not shot down over an african country this week. How does this have any relevance at all to a UK saturday night program?

[Mamyalynne]

No I don't think it was in bad taste, disasters happen somewhere in the world (tragic it is too) every single day - if we followed that mode of thinking, there wouldn't be much to watch.

I find it very simple to distinguish fiction from reality.

[TheChair]

It's 16 months since an airliner was shot down. How long do you think is a decent interval?

[douglas9401]

Yeah, I remember Daleks floating up stairs just a week after one fell down a flight and broke it's plunger.
Typical leftie BEEB insensitivity.

[Old_Geezer]

Get real. It's a prerecorded story line.
Are we still moaning about the twin towers with hobbits and how the American emergency services abuse the 911 number ?

[Stephen_G]

It was on the end of last week's episode, but, last Saturday morning there were reports claiming that IS were taking responsibility for downing the plane over Egypt.

I remember thinking at the time that it could have been considered inappropriate to show it, but I don't think the BBC could be blamed - they couldn't have foreseen what was going to happen with that Russian Jet. Just an unfortunate coincidence.

[tonymclark]

Location filming for that episode took place in May this year, maybe you should have warned the BBC then that it would become insensitive 6 months later.
There was some editing of a Doctor Who episode last series around the time of the beheadings.

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-doctor-peter-capaldi-is-spotted-with-a-parachute-during-news-photo/473900080

[carolegif]

I just thought that in the light of recent events, they may have mentioned it beforehand.

[carolegif]

It also appears I was not the only one. Lots of viewers complained! They even showed wreckage strewn over the ground.

[bednobs]

then lots of viewers are fr too sensitive for their own good

[carolegif]

Tell that to the relatives!

[Retrochic]

The problem was that one scene showed Dr. Who next to three seats from the crashed plane on the beach. Earlier on the BBC news there had been film of almost exactly that same scene in connection with the downed Rusian plane.

I thought these two episodes were very interesting, and if you replaced the 'Zygon' race with 'Muslim' it was a very interesting theory about integration and fundamentalism.

[SeaJayPea]

How many Russians would have watched Dr Who last night? I agree that a brief warning may have been warranted, but nobody knows yet whether that plane was shot down.

[bednobs]

i'm still struggling to see why a foriegn airliner that by all accounts was NOT shot down over a foreign country (while a tradgedy) is at all relevnt to a storyline on DR who, where two aliens (a zygon nd a time lord) get shot ut of the sky by another alien, a british program shown in Britain. I am not advocating that this trgedy is any less tradgedy becuse it hppened to foreigners, just questioning the relevance.

[Ken4155]

The first missile missed the plane, so viewers who might be upset had plenty of time to either switch off or change channels.