General / Off-Topic Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary

Majere

Majere
Pretty Good

Right-ho, thought I would chip in.

I don't watch Dr Who, I have watched one or two of the recent ones but otherwise a few from Tom Baker and I think I gave up with during Peter Davidson's tenure.

From memory I saw (sorry about the names)
Ecclestone: First one, one with darlek chained up.
Tennant: Werewolf one, Titanic one with Kylie
Smith : none

Anyway, point I am trying to make is that as someone who is not a 'fan', I thought it did a great job. Might go back and watch some of recent series at some point.
The companion, Clara (?), she seems to be great casting as I could not for the life of me work out how old she was, which I thought was quite apt.
 

Nagual

Nagual
Slawkenbergius said:
Thanks! I enjoyed that one better than the actual episode. The new series of Doctor Who has a classic case of spectacle creep, which makes me long for the days of William Hartnell, where he only saved the Earth a three or four times in his whole tenure.
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You've hit the nail on the head here, Steven Moffat has been slowly re-writing all the dross RTD created. Moffat has managed to reset the Doctor so that he is no longer the all out action hero etc. The 50th was the final touch on that. It means in the future the Doctor can simply be what he was 'back in the day'.
 

Commander Thane

Commander Thane
In fairness, the RTD era wasn't all bad. "The Girl In The Fireplace" is my all-time favourite Doctor Who TV episode. (Although I acknowledge that was written by Moffatt)
 

Frank

Frank
Majere said:
Anyway, point I am trying to make is that as someone who is not a 'fan', I thought it did a great job. Might go back and watch some of recent series at some point.
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You really really should watch "Blink", There's a reason why everyone says it's a fanatic episode, and why the Weeping Angels became a monster favourite overnight.

It was the start of the "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey" catchphrase, and like most catchphrases the joke is better when seen in context.

Mat Smith plays the Doctor very well. He's worth watching in his earlier adventures but the quality slowly tails off. None of the Clara episodes really appealed to me. It was like they were saving all the best jokes and ideas for the 50th Anniversary show.
 

Slawkenbergius

Slawkenbergius
holdmykidney said:
In fairness, the RTD era wasn't all bad. "The Girl In The Fireplace" is my all-time favourite Doctor Who TV episode. (Although I acknowledge that was written by Moffatt)
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There was a lot of absolute nonsense though... To me it was almost like going through the Sylvester McCoy era again. The Adipose episode was roughly on a par with something like Dragonfire. All that Bad Wolf/Big Brother stuff was like The Happiness Patrol regurgitated. I guess the rare gem equivalent to The Girl in the Fireplace would have to be Ghost Light.
 

Majere

Majere
Frank said:
You really really should watch "Blink", There's a reason why everyone says it's a fanatic episode, and why the Weeping Angels became a monster favourite overnight.

It was the start of the "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey" catchphrase, and like most catchphrases the joke is better when seen in context.

Mat Smith plays the Doctor very well. He's worth watching in his earlier adventures but the quality slowly tails off. None of the Clara episodes really appealed to me. It was like they were saving all the best jokes and ideas for the 50th Anniversary show.
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A friend of mine is a massive fan, he even has a blog on it and has been watching all of the recent ones, one a day, in the run-up to the anniversary.
Here if you are interested. http://demonsrun.wordpress.com

I'm sure he would lend it to me. Looked up the description, sounds interesting.
 
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