Enabling a friend

[hildy89]

confettiofstars watched her first episode of "Doctor Who" with the "Lazarus Experiment". Unfortunately the monster squicked her a little too much. She wants to know if it's typical for the series or whether she just picked a bad episode. I could answer most of her other questions. I do remember "Blink" scaring people, but I don't remember which others caused problems. Anyone help?

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I dunno, there's an awful lot of running from rubber monsters in Doctor Who.

[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll have to watch another ep or two, see if the problem repeats. Monsters really *don't* generally bother me-- I watched almost all seasons of X-Files, watch Supernatural, didn't mind Scorpion King (and that's a similar-looking beastie), hell, I'm a Goa'uld fan, for crying out loud. But bugs crawling in people/people mutating into bugs/anything that looks like a tapeworm (Flukeman in XF squicked me BADLY), that eeks me out in a really bad way, and this guy had all three going on. Snakes in people=okay. BUGS in people=eeeeeerunforthehills! Rather embarrassing, really.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. Well, there aren't a lot of *bugs* specifically. IIRC, Lazarus Code is really the only insect-like monster we've had in new Who. Statues, demons, blobs, androids, green humanoid things, and the requisite pepper shakers, but no more bugs.