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A few months ago my brother started watching Doctor Who. After he told me how blown away he was, I gave it a shot too. And now I am utterly hooked.
The first season takes a few episodes to get going but once it does it is fantastic, as the Doctor would say. The Daleks are now among my top 10 villians of all time, everytime I hear them scream "EXTERMINATE" I get shivers.

And now I have just finished season 2 and... well....



That ending makes me sadder than Toy Story 3 did. Gork damnit, this show is touching...

So else loves Doctor Who?

I loves it me!

Most recent season is amazing. Seriously good use of Time Travel!

Mr Mystery wrote:I loves it me!

Most recent season is amazing. Seriously good use of Time Travel!

+1

Like it, but some of the stories have parts which make me just retch. I preferred the Christopher Ecclestone series, as that Doctor actually had some balls in a fight.

I honestly don't get people's obsession with it. Terry Pratchett made a very good point that it often relies on Deus ex machina i.e. is a plot device whereby a seemingly inextricable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new character, ability, or object.

However, they have started to tone this down and I genuinely enjoy Matt Smith in the role. Amy Pond despite her short skirts is a bit annoying though and I preferred Martha Jones.

I'm at a point where I can not imagine any other companien than Rose.

Anung Un Rama wrote:I'm at a point where I can not imagine any other companien than Rose.

Don't worry martha is very good Then you get to the one played by tate.

Tom Baker VS Tennant anyone?

jargonmultiplier wrote:Tom Baker VS Tennant anyone?

Tennant easily

The new christmas special was amazing, and very touching.

corpsesarefun wrote:

jargonmultiplier wrote:Tom Baker VS Tennant anyone?

Tennant easily

Heretic!

Mr Mystery wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:

jargonmultiplier wrote:Tom Baker VS Tennant anyone?

Tennant easily

Heretic!

Meh Baker had a fantastic voice but lacked the passionate chaos bubbling under the surface of Tennants doctor

Nonsense, twaddle and flim flam. Baker had cheek, fun and gravitas.

Seriously, the most telling part? Genesis of the Daleks. The Doctor has just placed explosives in the Dalek incubation chamber. He's standing there, and all he has to do to end the Daleks forever and indeed complete his mission assigned by the Time Lords, is touch those wires. You genuinely feel his concern. Brilliant stuff. Tennant would just say some bollocks about 'The shadow proclamation'

Mr Mystery wrote:Nonsense, twaddle and flim flam. Baker had cheek, fun and gravitas.

Seriously, the most telling part? Genesis of the Daleks. The Doctor has just placed explosives in the Dalek incubation chamber. He's standing there, and all he has to do to end the Daleks forever and indeed complete his mission assigned by the Time Lords, is touch those wires. You genuinely feel his concern. Brilliant stuff. Tennant would just say some bollocks about 'The shadow proclamation'

The second part is true, Tennants doctor suffered several episodes of bad writing.

The latest Doctor is easily my second fav, behind Tom Baker.

GG

I guess for the reason of continuity/sanity Dr Who should be categorised into the Old, long running Dr Who series and the new Dr Who Series.

Apart from a regenerating main character, his vehicle and some of the villains it is a completely different show, for a different era.

Of the old Dr Who Tom Baker is superb and had several great storylines.

I liked Ecclestone and Tennant I found to have some very poorly written episodes and he was just to OTT random for my tastse by his last season.
Matt Smith however is awesome in the role, left field, has gravity in the role. It has turned Dr Who into must watch TV each week for the wife and I.
Amy Pond's short skirts are my favorite companion.

i hate the new guy like david tenant alot better.

The only thing I've seen from Matt Smith so far are a few pics and he loks terrible in every single one.

There is some bad writing here and but I love it when Tennant really gets going. Like in his first christmas special.
"Look at these humans. They're so young, so eager to explorre the universe. More to see that can ever be seen. More to do.. no wait, that was the Lion King"

And I really dug Ecclestone. Valkyrie said it, he was more of a fighter. I loved his finale when he's facing an armie of Daleks and they demand his surrender and he just looks at them and says: No.

Tennant gives up a lot.

If you liked that from Ecclestone, you'll love the finale to Matt Smith's first season.

Mind blowing!

Mr Mystery wrote:If you liked that from Ecclestone, you'll love the finale to Matt Smith's first season.

Mind blowing!

GEEERROMMINNOO



Matt Smith is the best Doctor out of the lot for me, to be fair I havn't seen any of the show before the relaunch so YMMV.

Lots of easter eggs in the latest series as well.

When he flashes his library card whilst pretending to be a policeman...



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From the end of the Tennant era:

I like Matt Smith. He does what he does fairly well. Overall, however, the writing in this past season dialed up the sap-factor way past tolerable. The Van Gogh episode in particular felt like a cliche at the beginning, something potentially profound by the middle, and a barrage of emotional cheapshots by the end. And the Dalek episode was utter trash! I struggle to think of a single redeeming aspect in that episode. Karen Gillan's cuteness only carries Pond so far as she's merely shallow when it comes right down to it. On the upside, the Weeping Angels two-parter is riveting and the Silaurian two-parter is very solid despite failing to ultimately deliver. Smith is the big selling-point of this season and he does deliver . . . in an eccentric, benevolent, paternalistic sort of way.

I prefer Tennant myself. He can also do eccentric but he's very convincing at being down there in the trenches, so to speak, with "mere" mortals. His anguish and frustration as well as faith and hope are vivid. Whereas Smith is endearingly smug, Tennant is all passion and tension.

Manchu wrote:I like Matt Smith. He does what he does fairly well. Overall, however, the writing in this past season dialed up the sap-factor way past tolerable. The Van Gogh episode in particular felt like a cliche at the beginning, something potentially profound by the middle, and a barrage of emotional cheapshots by the end. And the Dalek episode was utter trash! I struggle to think of a single redeeming aspect in that episode. Karen Gillan's cuteness only carries Pond so far as she's merely shallow when it comes right down to it. On the upside, the Weeping Angels two-parter is riveting and the Silaurian two-parter is very solid despite failing to ultimately deliver. Smith is the big selling-point of this season and he does deliver . . . in an eccentric, benevolent, paternalistic sort of way.

I prefer Tennant myself. He can also do eccentric but he's very convincing at being down there in the trenches, so to speak, with "mere" mortals. His anguish and frustration as well as faith and hope are vivid. Whereas Smith is endearingly smug, Tennant is all passion and tension.[/quote

there were spitfires in space, fighting daleks

Yeah, I thought that was ridiculous rather than cool. It would have been cool before 1977. But X-wings have been around for well over thirty years now and adding a magical (because science and magic are exactly the same thing in Doctor Who) forcefield around a Spitfire so that it can fly into space is a step backwards. I accept that the episode was mainly a set-up for future encounters with the Daleks and that it is quite a bit better than other such episodes (like the abysmal Destiny of the Daleks episodes) from the past. But I think we can rightfully expect much better from Matt Smith's era than Tom Baker's.

The weeping angels episodes were phenomenal.

And I hope we see an end to Psychic Paper.

Bring back the days of 'just look like you're meant to be there, and twiddle as many knobs as you can before anyone twigs'.

Them were the days!

Mr Mystery wrote:And I hope we see an end to Psychic Paper.

Bring back the days of 'just look like you're meant to be there, and twiddle as many knobs as you can before anyone twigs'.

Them were the days!

As far as I recall tennant barely used the paper.

Only every other episode at best....

Mr Mystery wrote:Only Russel T Davis episode at best....

Fix'd

Same difference!

I'll always respect RTD for ressurecting Who....but he was rubbish at writing for it!