My favourite Dr. Who bit is where the BBC don't show a hyped up trailer about it for ten minutes.
Funnily they weren't so keen in it for sixteen years then as soon as it made a tentative return and became a massive money spinner ... It's the greatest thing ever. The most dramatic thing about the show now is the music. Why is way OTT. It waned in the Nineties with Sylvester McCoy and the budgetcardboard sets and flaky scripts. Now it thrives with budget CGI and flaky scripts and an audience who never saw it in its heyday during the Tom Baker/Pertwee era to compare how good it really was. Now it's all hype. Recycled stories, surprised expressions and of course .... Dramatic sounding music. Nevertheless I am pleased it's come back even if it's more style than substance.
Oh and can I just say one more thing...
Bah Humbug!
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Its not even good sci-fi (and that's a genre where liberties are taken). Its full of plot holes, badly written, terrible over-acting from all the leads and generally pretty poor.
Its a kids tv show* lauded as drama.
*As a kids show its ok, but its nothing more than that. |
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"Who is your favorite? "
Joint First Place, David Tenant, Christopher Eccleston
Joint Second Place, Matt Smith, Tom Baker
Joint Third Place, John Pertwee, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton...
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The Doctor when I was growing up was Silvester McCoy. But I really like Matt Smith. He has such energy, and a darkness to his performance that I really enjoy. |
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"My favourite Dr. Who bit is where the BBC don't show a hyped up trailer about it for ten minutes.
Funnily they weren't so keen in it for sixteen years then as soon as it made a tentative return and became a massive money spinner ... It's the greatest thing ever. The most dramatic thing about the show now is the music. Why is way OTT. It waned in the Nineties with Sylvester McCoy and the budgetcardboard sets and flaky scripts. Now it thrives with budget CGI and flaky scripts and an audience who never saw it in its heyday during the Tom Baker/Pertwee era to compare how good it really was. Now it's all hype. Recycled stories, surprised expressions and of course .... Dramatic sounding music. Nevertheless I am pleased it's come back even if it's more style than substance.
Oh and can I just say one more thing...
Bah Humbug!
Thanks! . "
utter shit scifi, when it was revamped it was okay enough, then it became a pretty stupid show..killer alien xmas trees was the crux for me especially |
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I agree with op.. e.g the killer christmas trees.
I think the chris eccles episode about the little boy in the blitz with the gas mask was brilliant!!!! very scary with brill endimg BUT parents complained and watered it down terribly |
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"My favourite Dr. Who bit is where the BBC don't show a hyped up trailer about it for ten minutes.
Funnily they weren't so keen in it for sixteen years then as soon as it made a tentative return and became a massive money spinner ... It's the greatest thing ever. The most dramatic thing about the show now is the music. Why is way OTT. It waned in the Nineties with Sylvester McCoy and the budgetcardboard sets and flaky scripts. Now it thrives with budget CGI and flaky scripts and an audience who never saw it in its heyday during the Tom Baker/Pertwee era to compare how good it really was. Now it's all hype. Recycled stories, surprised expressions and of course .... Dramatic sounding music. Nevertheless I am pleased it's come back even if it's more style than substance.
Oh and can I just say one more thing...
Bah Humbug!
Thanks! .
utter shit scifi, when it was revamped it was okay enough, then it became a pretty stupid show..killer alien xmas trees was the crux for me especially"
Fully agree! Russell T(wat) Davies may. Have been revered as it's saviour but just cos he's a lifelong fan does not make him a decent writer. I fully agree with the Xmas Tree "monsters" and also find it odd that the computer animate adversaries never actually 'catch' the Doctor or his cohorts because the budget doesn't stretch to such advanced techniques. So it's all leering, shouting and mugging. Each episode follows the exact same format bit with different "aliens". Super politically correct throughout and knowingly smug that there's no other similar UK made scifi programme out there to rival it.
I like Doctor Who. Well. I did. But new viewers will never understand that it's a shadow of what it was. So to ask people not of.a certain age who their favourite Doctor is will always elicit the response Matt Wotisisface or David Tennant because nobody has seen any of the first batch! |
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