So spake Harlan Ellison ...

[fajrdrako]

Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! ...This TV viewing will not harm you ... will, in fact, delight and uplift you, stretch your imagination; tickle your risibilities, cleanse your intellect of all lesser visual SF affections... Doctor Who is the apex, the pinnacle, the Louvre Museum, the top, the Coliseum, and other et cetera. -- Harlan Ellison

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

He certainly hit the right note with me in this quote - who'd have guessed he'd appreciate both Doctor Who and Cole Porter? In the same breath, practically?

I really can't bring myself to approve of Harlan Ellison (especially insofar as he was once gratuitously rude to me), but he does have his moments.