I even have a special collectors edition pewter chess set, with 7 different kings on the white side (one for each Doctor), that's how much of a fan I was of the show.
I am careful with what episodes I let him watch, and I vet them first. Sometimes though, things scare him that I can't anticipate, like Davros, who I always thought looked a bit like my Nan, is particularly scary. Who'd have guessed it?
Mind you, I never tidied my room in order to erect a shrine to the show, made out of drawings, merchandise, books and pictures. I never decided to name my chicken Doctor Who Chicken, or politely ask when I would be old enough to legally change my name so I could change it to Doctor Who. Yes, I have explained that the Doctor is never referred to as Doctor Who, just the Doctor, but he's adamant that's what he wants to change his name to. That's the reason the chicken is going to be called Doctor Who chicken you see, so he will be able to tell whether we're calling him or the chicken.
It's nice to have an interest but at what point does an interest cross over into an obsession? Anyway, I'm off to read Travels Beyond the Tardis, and marvel at the quarries that old school Doctor Who used to be filmed in.
*in Doctor Who circles it's known as Doctor Who (2005), which was when the show came back to our screens.
6 is old enough to start him on Roleplaying Games. Head over to Cubicle 7 and get him a copy of Dr Who: Adventures in Time and Space! And a pre-emptive Happy Birthday.
ReplyDeleteMy son has been a Who fan for about a year now (he just turned 6 a couple of months ago). We also vet them before he sees them and it's only been David Tennant and Matt Smith. He adores it. Not at all scared about it, and likes to practice being an Angel of Death when I'm not looking!
ReplyDeleteHeather saw the start of 2011's Christmas special (it was on after the Gruffalo's Child, and the pre-credits scene is on the end of that recording) and liked what she saw. At least the million questions I got - "who's that? is he a doctor? why did he do that? what's he doing now? what's that thing?" etc - suggest that she did.
ReplyDeleteI know I was watching Doctor Who at her age, because I can remember playing with my K-9, Cyberman, Tom Baker and the TARDIS (which was MAGICAL and could make said figures disappear and reappear!) in a house we moved out of when I was 4. But it's quite a different show now, so I thought I'd wait a bit and maybe let her watch the 2012 Christmas special - she'd be 4 by then.
And then I saw it was all about killer snowmen, so that plan went out the window.
I've got a post half written in my head discussing this very topic, and how old is old enough. I might even get it written before the new series starts!