How about the new Doctor Who series. When referencing Americans, it is usually less than polite about it.
You have the rich, evil corporate madman who collects alien toys in his vast underground museum. He's a shamless capitalist. Greedy, selfish. Arrogant beyond belief. Unconcerned about the potential death of millions of innocent Americans from his new toy.. And he's the most pathetic caricature of that type of villan.. as soon as things get bad he's a huge coward trying to sell everyone else out.
Or in Tennant's first story (
The Christmas Invasion). Where the Prime Minster, in response to being told the American President wanted to take charge of the crisis, responded saying "You can tell him, and use these exact words, I'm not letting him turn this into a war!". (and then she later blows the ship out of the sky.. and yes, I can appreciate the attempt at irony. I still find it a political dig with a convenient backdoor).Well, the AP at the time was rather a
Then in the episodes where the Master returns.. the American president shows up on scene and is a completely typical and slimy politician, mugging for cameras and trying to take credit. And so full of bluster and threats towards the Master as Prime Minister. I wonder if any in the UK weren't inclined to want to defend him. Sure, he's the most evil criminal in history.. But hey, it was some American trying to tell the British PM what to do!
But still, it's not all bad.. the Americans portrayed in the
Daleks in Manhattan stories were pretty good and inspiring. Maybe America is only bad in the recent past, or only at certain times in history. Say.. 1968-1976, 1980-1992, and again from 2000-2008. Or something like that.
And maybe I still don't get the point of this thread, in which case, please excuse my morning rambling and ranting which is probably more heated than I would normally intend. Where is that damn coffee???
