Awards

Doctor Who won a bunch of awards that I haven't heard of again. There's been some share of debate about whether the Hugo awards were important for Doctor Who.

I think it's unquestioned that Doctor Who is one of (if not the) most successful drama series in Britain -- but there are very few British dramas that crossover to the US, so really, when Doctor Who wins a British Drama award, it's winning an award in a small pond -- and not the pond that I'm really a part of. And you've got some criticism of British drama in general making big news stories.

However, when Doctor Who wins the Hugo, it's a pond that I'm at least more familiar with. It's still certianly a small pond -- the Hugos aren't the Emmys, and I think the criticisms of the nominees including two sketches from the previous award but not an epsiode of Lost are certainly valid.

Of course, being critical about Doctor Who winning awards is a bit silly. All of this proves that Doctor Who has won awards in a wide variety of contests. It's a success in the realms of British drama. It's a success in the realms of Sci Fi television drama. There's no down side. But it's nice to have some of the awards be ones that you've heard about before you've heard them -- and while for many people in the UK, that's the various television awards that it won there, if you're an American science fiction fan, that's the Hugo.

Unless it wins an Emmy. Which isn't terribly likely.