I don't like Star Wars. The computer screens are too 70s, and it pulls me right out. Where are the retina displays?!!?!?!
You seem to dislike a lot of the more recent Who stuff, which is fine and whatever people tastes opinions blah, but you're framing it in the weirdest terms. Not that the scripts are bad, or the acting is hammy! But the military guys are too...21st century?
Granted it was a minor point but I framed it that way because the characters, in the story in question, are from well in the future. Now the future is unknowable, but it won't look or sound
too much like (insert year of production here). In a weird kind of way I'd probably buy it more if they looked like
monks. Just some token to place it outside the here-and-now.
My framing might seem weird but aesthetics are part of things too. You mentioned Star Wars. Alien, a film nearly as old as Star Wars (while somewhat dated in its own way) still just
works. Their screens probably look a bit seventies too, but oddly I can't remember what they look like. That is my last word on that.
Actually some of the scripts have been atrocious, but I'm reserving that slam for the last year or two that RTD was in charge, and which I am most familiar with of the revived show. Waaaay too besotten with contemporary British pop culture as the be-all and end-all of human endeavour. Really, while something about it just threw me right out of the story four or five episodes into his first season, I can't and won't say that the Matt Smith era is
awful or anything. Not familiar enough.
The first few years, Ecclestone, and the first two seasons with Tennant let's say, while far from flawless, I was pretty on board with a lot of that stuff.
"The kid with the gas mask" aka the Lost Child if I'm not mistaken. I agree, it was fantastic. Wasn't implying any different. Great story, absolutely chilling scenario, and, just incidentally wartime London looked about 100 times more believable than in a dalek story filmed four or five years later (bear in mind this isn't a low budget show anymore, and I'm not prepared to cut too much slack the way I might have done for ye olden days).