Dr Who

This is a TV show which means it is a lot harder to spot theory’s such as Propps’ theory’s because there will be a lot of different types of characters throughout the series’.

Theory’s

  Props theory - There are a lot of different characters in this as the whole series lasts a long time. There are villains, heroes, donors but there are more that one of each of these characters and some people have more exaggerated characters than others, especially towards different people.

    Levi Strauss – In Dr Who there are loads of different binary opposites ranging from people living in different planets therefore acting with different morals, Aliens compared to humans, very male dominant characters to females and people from centuries ago compared to people from the current century. From all four examples I looked, Dr Who appears to have more Levi Strauss theory than any of the other examples.

     Todorov-.Dr Who ranges from starting of completely normal (equilibrium) then they go on an adventure and something goes wrong(disequilibrium), then everything gets resolved(New Equilibrium) and starting in the middle of the disequilibrium and then everything gets resolved. It alternates between these two liner’s to keep the audience involved and interested in the storyline.

  Narrative structure - Dr Who is set in a variety of century’s, countries and worlds so there are lots of costumes, weapons and décor to represent these different ages and places to the audience. Dr Who is known for always traveling back and forwards in time. Even though it goes back in time it isn’t really a flash back, they are just time traveling so the story is usually in chronological order. There are usually a lot of flash backs during Dr Who and sometimes only the Dr will travel back and change the future which disrupts the narrative. So overall Dr Who doesn’t keep a linear structure 

    Structure- Like I said above, Dr who’s structure is always different. Sometimes it starts in the equilibrium, and sometimes it starts in the disequilibrium. There is always score/soundtrack in the background. Sometimes there are flashbacks sometimes there aren’t any. Dr who always travels back and forwards.