Dr Who

[CJ]

Why didn't we have a Dr Who thread? Or have I missed it?

Well April 3rd brings the first outing of the 11th Doctor, the youngest ever actor to play the part.

Best to date? IMO Patrick Troughton. Scared the living daylights out of me from 6 to 9 years old!!

[klr]

Why didn't we have a Dr Who thread? Or have I missed it?

Well April 3rd brings the first outing of the 11th Doctor, the youngest ever actor to play the part.

Best to date? IMO Patrick Troughton. Scared the living daylights out of me from 6 to 9 years old!!

There have been discussions on this elsewhere IIRC, but no full-blown thread to date. Just search for David Tennant or Tom Baker ...

[CJ]

Why didn't we have a Dr Who thread? Or have I missed it?

Well April 3rd brings the first outing of the 11th Doctor, the youngest ever actor to play the part.

Best to date? IMO Patrick Troughton. Scared the living daylights out of me from 6 to 9 years old!!

There have been discussions on this elsewhere IIRC, but no full-blown thread to date. Just search for David Tennant or Tom Baker ...

Could do but this thread can be for the latest Dr !!

[War Arrow]

Why didn't we have a Dr Who thread? Or have I missed it?

Well April 3rd brings the first outing of the 11th Doctor, the youngest ever actor to play the part.

Best to date? IMO Patrick Troughton. Scared the living daylights out of me from 6 to 9 years old!!

Good man! Hartnell's actually my favourite but you'd still have to go a long way to beat the Troughton. I've been a bit luke warm about the revival to be honest - the writing is embarrassing at times, and they cover it up with edits, effects, and queasily manipulative cheap tugging of heart strings - though the exceptions have been great and I like David Tennant a lot.

The new guy - I dunno... every time I see him I just get a visual of Tommy Cooper.



Man walked into a bar.
Ouuufff!!!
It was an iron bar.

Spoon jar spoon spoon jar spoon jar jar spoon!

[CJ]

It'll be an interesting series for sure. While the Russell T Davies has definitely revitalised the franchise, effects are no longer cringworthy, there is something not quite right with the flavour and I think it the centring on the relationship of the Dr with his assistant who is, after all, only a plot device so the Dr doesn't end up talking to himself all the time! Now Russell T Davies is out of the picture it'll be interesting who the stories, character and direction goes. I hope story lines start to take on a more prominent roll.

I must say though that I do think the Darleks with their rotating gun are a much more effective foe that the rubber sucker mod of the 60s.

[War Arrow]

Oh yes - there's definitely a lot of improvements. I suppose my main problems are he's just too touchy-feely. The last time he got emotional over a companion was Jon Pertwee quietly sneaking away from Jo Grant's wedding with a single tear in his eye - all over in about five seconds and ten times more powerful than all the boo hooing over Billy Piper - I mean BILLY PIPER ffs!!! I think also the need to turn each one into an explosion filled action adventure suffocates some of the more subtle menace the show used to do so well. Not always, I mean The Family of Blood was great (though that was originally a pretty fat novel) but er.... I mean for example The Daemons was made in 1970 at the height of rubber monster ropiness and unconvincing chroma-key and yet the pacing and the sheer sense of sub-Hammer Horror menace still scares the crap out of me for all its faults. I think the main problem for me though is just the music. It just drowns everything. If the writing's there, you shouldn't need an orchestra telling you how to feel. At full volume. Every single second.

Mmmmmmm.... that show was my life when I was a kid which is probably why I'm now such a moaning git on this subject.

[Bella Fortuna]

I've heard of Dr. Who my whole life, yet am just getting into it - currently in the middle of watching the Tom Baker 'Stones of Blood' series with my son, and we are loving it. He can't wait to watch them.

[Clinton Huxley]

There's nothing wrong with Dr Who that pitting the time-travelling fop against some intelligent moss or something won't rectify.
I agree that there are WAY too many explosions, ropy plots and too much blubbing. Need to get off EArth som more, too.

And more UNIT!

"Eyes front, pop that chap, somebody"

[CJ]

Well I did like the Billy Piper romance bit but the trouble was that the nature of the programme meant it could never go anywhere except disaster really. It's a dead end plot line, however if it got a new generation on board the great. RTD is a bit of a drama 'queen' at the best of times and I quite like Cpt Jack as a character but if that ever make the Dr a woman I will remove all televisions form my house and stop paying the licence fee!

[ficklefiend]

Yay! Who thread! I will make a proper post here soon, but for now - yay!

[CJ]

Yay! Who thread! I will make a proper post here soon, but for now - yay!

[CJ]

There's nothing wrong with Dr Who that pitting the time-travelling fop against some intelligent moss or something won't rectify.
I agree that there are WAY too many explosions, ropy plots and too much blubbing. Need to get off EArth som more, too.

And more UNIT!

"Eyes front, pop that chap, somebody"

Yes more of Earth stuff would be good. Explosions on other planets!

[Faithfree]

The various Doctors seem, on average, to be getting younger with time. If the current trend continues, by the 15th Doctor we'll have a foetus in a trench coat. And there must be a female Doctor coming up soon; don't recall anything in the regeneration rules that forbid it (are there any regeneration rules?).

[CJ]

The various Doctors seem, on average, to be getting younger with time. If the current trend continues, by the 15th Doctor we'll have a foetus in a trench coat. And there must be a female Doctor coming up soon; don't recall anything in the regeneration rules that forbid it (are there any regeneration rules?).

My wife keeps telling me they'll be a female Dr at some point just before we see Daleks wearing pink frilly knickers

[War Arrow]

There's nothing wrong with Dr Who that pitting the time-travelling fop against some intelligent moss or something won't rectify.
I agree that there are WAY too many explosions, ropy plots and too much blubbing. Need to get off EArth som more, too.

And more UNIT!

"Eyes front, pop that chap, somebody"

"Sergeant Benton, chap with wings - five rounds rapid..."