General / Off-Topic Doctor Who is making no sense
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It gets completely garbled for a while up to the point where you want to slap him, then everything is magically wrapped up in time for Smith to snuff it and turn into someone interesting.
I think the meaningless complexity of Series 6 is regarded as a bit of a mistake even by the production team!
To each their own, I enjoyed S6 a lot more than the S7/impossible girl stuff, which started strong, flopped around a bit in the middle and fell completely flat in the end. While I'm liking the new Doctor, I can see why
Clara is rumoured to be leaving, her arc this year has turned Who into Brookside... IMO I'm just waiting now for the cybermen to turn up and crash their ford escort into the tardis, then kidnapping one of his petunias and holding it for ransom
and also a bit let down by
the obvious budget cuts this year
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Doctor Who is such a bipolar program. At its best it can be utterly wonderful, but all too often you get patronising, lazy sci-fi that smashes your suspension of disbelief like a bullet through glass. I really don't understand why the producers do this. As they have demonstrated in many episodes, it's entirely possible to do episodes that do not rely upon the silly and utterly implausible.
Series 6 makes perfect sense, as long as you watch Series 4 and 5 first!!
Series 8 has been great so far ...
That is all!
Series 8 has been great so far ...
That is all!
The River Song part is wired.
I think they took the wrong actress to play this. But the idea of such a character fits perfectly into the Doctor Who saga.
After all the whole Dr Who is one wirness after another.
I watch Serie8 every saturday but I don't like that new doctor Capaldi of Serie 8. He doesn't shows any interesting character to me in the very contrast to the 2 younger ones Matt Smith and David Tennant before him and the one before them.
I think they took the wrong actress to play this. But the idea of such a character fits perfectly into the Doctor Who saga.
After all the whole Dr Who is one wirness after another.
I watch Serie8 every saturday but I don't like that new doctor Capaldi of Serie 8. He doesn't shows any interesting character to me in the very contrast to the 2 younger ones Matt Smith and David Tennant before him and the one before them.
What about the ones before them?
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The River Song thing just got too complicated by half. The writers tried to be too clever in my opinion and to be honest I got bored with it.
I am warming to Capaldi, I think he has a great sense of timing and has delivered some very cutting and sarcastic one liners. The first episode was utter tosh though.....
I am warming to Capaldi, I think he has a great sense of timing and has delivered some very cutting and sarcastic one liners. The first episode was utter tosh though.....
I haven't seen them.
I discovered Dr Who this year.
I started to watch from Series 1
I didn't know UK has good movies!
I haven't seen them.
I discovered Dr Who this year.
I started to watch from Series 1
I didn't know UK has good movies!
William Hartnell?
You've got quite a bit of Dr Who to catch up on.
The River Song part is wired.
I think they took the wrong actress to play this. But the idea of such a character fits perfectly into the Doctor Who saga.
After all the whole Dr Who is one wirness after another.
I watch Serie8 every saturday but I don't like that new doctor Capaldi of Serie 8. He doesn't shows any interesting character to me in the very contrast to the 2 younger ones Matt Smith and David Tennant before him and the one before them.
He's a bit edgier, there's almost a sinister side to him, which is what I like about the character.
The River Song thing just got too complicated by half. The writers tried to be too clever in my opinion and to be honest I got bored with it.
I am warming to Capaldi, I think he has a great sense of timing and has delivered some very cutting and sarcastic one liners. The first episode was utter tosh though.....
Yes indeed, Madam Vastra is shockingly awful...
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The River Song thing just got too complicated by half. The writers tried to be too clever in my opinion and to be honest I got bored with it.
I am warming to Capaldi, I think he has a great sense of timing and has delivered some very cutting and sarcastic one liners. The first episode was utter tosh though.....
That last episode with the moon-dragon thing was very very bad. Did the Doctor really think he could make some judgement call on the gravity of the Moon by just jumping up and down when he was still on a spaceship that hadn't yet landed?
And I'm not even touching the whole conservation of mass thing, but it might be a good idea for the script writers to let a physicist have a wee squint at the script before they start filming.
The worst part of the episode is that explanation about why the Doctor didn't interfere with historical events. I know that it's a big gaping plot-hole with the show, but there was no point in getting him to gather everyone around and point at it. Basil Exposition from Austin Powers has a better explanation of the time travel plot-hole, "Don't think about it. Just lay back and enjoy the show."
I know that Dr Who's a fantasy but the original premise of the show was to give kids a grasp of history and science.
I pretty much wrote off the Matt Smith years. It was a pity because the acting was reasonably good, let down by dodgy scripts and unnecessarily complicated plot lines - it became a soap opera.
TL: DR I agree with the OP.
TL: DR I agree with the OP.
Capaldi has impressed me so far, a handful of episodes in and he's the most interesting Doctor I've seen since Christopher Eccleston, probably ranks in just behind Tom Baker (and no one beats Tom!). I even quite like Clara, because her interaction with 12 is adversarial, she's off balance and not just coming across as a smug cow leading a puppy (which is my summary of her relationship with 11).
I watched Doctor Who since the 70's but quit when David Tennant turned up. This new one looks interesting though. I grew up with Baker as my doctor, used to sit on the sofa with my bolt action cap rifle and shoot all the bad guys.
One part of a series I vaguely remember about 35 years later was about a plant that possessed people, gave me nightmares for while lol.
One part of a series I vaguely remember about 35 years later was about a plant that possessed people, gave me nightmares for while lol.
I watch Doctor Who and am an avid collector of the memorabilia - except the new who series. It aint Doctor Who to me.
Now I do watch it but it doesn't stand up to the shows hayday in the 70's with Pertwee and Baker.
I was getting use to the Russell t Davies era and when they bought Sarah Jane back it was genius. But don't like Moffatt at all. I thought I would like capaldi- and whilst he isn't terrible I think hes going to need another season at least to find his character.
Now I do watch it but it doesn't stand up to the shows hayday in the 70's with Pertwee and Baker.
I was getting use to the Russell t Davies era and when they bought Sarah Jane back it was genius. But don't like Moffatt at all. I thought I would like capaldi- and whilst he isn't terrible I think hes going to need another season at least to find his character.
The Seeds of Doom, yup scary as hell.
Horror at Fang Rock (another Tom Baker story) and The Brain of Morbius had me behind the sofa too!