Earlier I was in the habit of watching the episode (usually live) and then, if I thought he'd enjoy it / understand it / not be too, too scared by it we'd watch it on catch up. This worked well when Moffat was attempting more complex story arcs as I got to watch the show twice.
Now he's five we're now watching it together mostly and that depends on what mood I'm in and how the timings work out around bedtime and Strictly and so on.
He's actually pretty unflappable. He was busy telling me during the first part the Lake two parter than he wasn't scared because there were no such thing as Go-Hosts and the Doctor couldn't be a Go-Host because they don't exist, so he was okay. Was I okay?
So he's alright, but I'm not sure how his P1 class mates would have coped.
The simple two-parter structure makes it easier to watch with him because I'm not trying to explain longer, more complex stories which a) don't often hang together and b) which I have little confidence will be successfully resolved.
It's the nub of an argument I keep having with a mate of mine about Moffat. He points out that Doctor Who is essentially a children's programme so it doesn't have to have a logical narrative. My response is that is actually a family programme, so it needs to satisfy both adults and children and, in my experience, children are less likely to brush over huge narrative inconsistencies (in story telling or politics) and that learning to shrug one's shoulders and ignore internally inconsistent nonsense is a learned skill. And one I do not want S Moffat to be teaching the Captain right now.
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Earlier I was in the habit of watching the episode (usually live) and then, if I thought he'd enjoy it / understand it / not be too, too scared by it we'd watch it on catch up. This worked well when Moffat was attempting more complex story arcs as I got to watch the show twice.
Now he's five we're now watching it together mostly and that depends on what mood I'm in and how the timings work out around bedtime and Strictly and so on.
He's actually pretty unflappable. He was busy telling me during the first part the Lake two parter than he wasn't scared because there were no such thing as Go-Hosts and the Doctor couldn't be a Go-Host because they don't exist, so he was okay. Was I okay?
So he's alright, but I'm not sure how his P1 class mates would have coped.
The simple two-parter structure makes it easier to watch with him because I'm not trying to explain longer, more complex stories which a) don't often hang together and b) which I have little confidence will be successfully resolved.
It's the nub of an argument I keep having with a mate of mine about Moffat. He points out that Doctor Who is essentially a children's programme so it doesn't have to have a logical narrative. My response is that is actually a family programme, so it needs to satisfy both adults and children and, in my experience, children are less likely to brush over huge narrative inconsistencies (in story telling or politics) and that learning to shrug one's shoulders and ignore internally inconsistent nonsense is a learned skill. And one I do not want S Moffat to be teaching the Captain right now.