In the two Part Doctor Who episode ” The Forest of The Dead”  and ” Silence In The Library” evil  creatures are hiding in a city that houses a computer-

a big computer, a huge computer, a living computer.

And those evil creatures that feed off of organic material ( well, human flesh ) are living in….

books.

Lots and lots of books.

Books that are made out of wood pulp.

Paper.

This made me think:

When we give kudos to the new ” Sci Fi ” stories, those kudos get tossed around like confetti because woman can now shoot big guns and sometimes even get to be Captains on actual spaceships and have ripley muscles just like their male counter parts.

But come on how is that cutting edge exactly?

Some writers just figured out that you can substitute male characters for female characters because really, they can do the same exact job.

Sort of like real life.

Anyway.

In this Doctor Who episode we did see something cutting edge, we saw something unique we saw a story that takes place in the future ( well, that’s a guess where Doctor Who is concerned-but stick with me here ) and in that future were books.

Books with pages that you can turn, pages that crackle and pop when they’re new and whisper when they get old.

How cutting edge is that?

Very.

After all.

A Science Fiction story about Time Travel had at it’s core…books…

books in a Library.

In these times when we walk around with a phone that is sort of like having a second brain that you can hold in your hand ( also a addressed in Doctor Who episode: Planet Of The Ood )

I found ” The Planet Of The Ood “episode to be more of a shot across the bow of the hi-tech ship everyone I know seems to be sailing on then then to be story a story about slavery or disease.

So I will freely admitt I thought is was a riot when my Cell Phone enslaved friends watched this and didn’t seem to see the comparison between themselves and the Ood and the guy who gets ” turned “.

I think that seeing a story about books

made me realize

how much I would miss them if they were gone.

So that must mean on some level

I must feel like they’re being taken away…made irrelevant.

When did that happen?

The funny thing is, The Doctor would know.

Doctor Who.

It has more then a real hot guy playing the lead role.

It happens to have some excellent stories too.

Enjoy…

and THINK next time you watch it.

a.m.