Each one started off with high hopes and not much else and only Star Wars was successful right out of the gate and even it stalled. But each one came back, and came back with a vengence; the usual question for these sort of things is "will they last? even M*A*S*H wasn't as good at the end of the series" but as time goes on the movies get better and there's something about these three that has endeared them onto the culture worldwide.

For my own self, I saw Star Trek when it was first broadcast on television, Star Wars about a year after it came out. But it wasn't until fifty years after the first Doctor Who was broadcast that I started watching it.

There's a certain detached newness when you're learning about something, that interstitial period between "never heard of it" and "I know a bit about it" when you're in a position to uniquely understand what the important bits to know are when you're first finding out about something.

So, only days after I began watching Doctor Who I wrote this up. Consider it an introduction or a Dr. Who redux - either way it's the same thing.

rjs 30 mar 2012