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[Dr. Who] Who's Back

Started by Ghost Whistler, September 01, 2012, 01:48:13 PM

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One Horse Town

#15
September 09, 2012, 09:35:34 PM
I think i'm totally alone in thinking that Christopher Ecclestone's Doctor is the best of the revamp...

brettmb

#16
September 09, 2012, 09:40:01 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;581397I think i'm totally alone in thinking that Christopher Ecclestone's Doctor is the best of the revamp...
Actually, I'm with you.

Koltar

#17
September 09, 2012, 11:22:37 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;581397I think i'm totally alone in thinking that Christopher Ecclestone's Doctor is the best of the revamp...

You're not 'alone' - my store manager has the same opinion.

I'm pretty much 'okay' with all three of the contemporary era versions of the Doctor. Tho, the David Tennant version got to be a bit too heavy with 'angsty/companion' in love with him stuff...

The Matt Smith episosdes have felt a bit more like a romp through space again.

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Bedrockbrendan

#18
September 10, 2012, 07:48:41 AM
Quote from: One Horse Town;581397I think i'm totally alone in thinking that Christopher Ecclestone's Doctor is the best of the revamp...

A good friend of mine who is a huge dr who fan agrees with you.

beeber

#19
September 10, 2012, 10:05:59 AM
Quote from: One Horse Town;581397I think i'm totally alone in thinking that Christopher Ecclestone's Doctor is the best of the revamp...

i'm also coming around to that camp.  everything seems so hectic/frenetic/over-the-top with a lot of the relaunch episodes.  old who i could watch for a couple of hours (and did). . . new who, only in occasional 1 ep. doses.

Ghost Whistler

#20
September 11, 2012, 04:56:58 AM
I would liek to have seen more Ecclescake. Tennant was ok until it got all maudlin and stupid but he's a good actor. I'm not really sure Matt Smith is. But the show is hopelessly infantilised now. There's no going back.
That last episode had some decent writing but also some gaping contrivances: oh the ship needs two pilots genetically connected. Well that's handy! Oh, he shot the dinosaur (the things he's come aboard to steal and profit from, er...) and we feel sad. Oh the robots have camp voices (well, PC and Mac, at least :))

If only the beeb would show Tom BAker's run again, or at least stop charging fucktastically stupid prices for the dvd's.
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#21
September 12, 2012, 12:14:04 AM
Quote from: Broken-Serenity;579511Also theres technically more than 5 episodes in this season they just chose to split it again so we get 5 then the xmas ep(new companion joins) then next year the back 8 follwed by a ton of anniversary stuff and a full season in the fall(along side a movie length special on anniversary night).

Is that all confirmed? Or just speculation?

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#22
September 12, 2012, 12:15:18 AM
I've already posted my detailed opinions on my blog, but for the record here, so far both episodes of this season were a big hit from my point of view. They were great.

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#23
September 13, 2012, 06:49:56 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;581833Is that all confirmed? Or just speculation?

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The split in this season is (Five episodes, special, eight episodes), but I don't think anything official has been said about next year's season yet.

I think Ecclestone played a great Doctor, with just the right level of survivor's guilt. Tenant did well, until the entire god-complex thing, which... went a bit far. Honestly, I like all of them, but I probably wouldn't watch the later Tenant stuff again.

Smith actually uses time travel extensively in the storyline, which I love. It's bloody confusing though.
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beeber

#24
September 13, 2012, 07:46:21 PM
Quote from: Ladybird;582282The split in this season is (Five episodes, special, eight episodes), but I don't think anything official has been said about next year's season yet.

I think Ecclestone played a great Doctor, with just the right level of survivor's guilt. Tenant did well, until the entire god-complex thing, which... went a bit far. Honestly, I like all of them, but I probably wouldn't watch the later Tenant stuff again.

Smith actually uses time travel extensively in the storyline, which I love. It's bloody confusing though.

agreed.  i like the river song stuff, too.

beejazz

#25
September 14, 2012, 12:35:29 AM
I agree with a lot on this thread. Loved Eccleston, Tennant was a good actor, Smith is... okay. I think the new seasons' blame/credit lie with Moffat. Not as much history, more messing with scifi and time travel weirdness, different character dynamics (the domestic stuff), and it sometimes seems like he doesn't know what to make of the Doctor himself.

tellius

#26
September 14, 2012, 05:45:40 AM
Quote from: One Horse Town;581397I think i'm totally alone in thinking that Christopher Ecclestone's Doctor is the best of the revamp...

+1 to this as well from me. I totally dug his portrayal, but for the record I don't mind Matt Smith, possibly because he exceeded my lowered expectations.

I would have to almost agree with you so far on this season to Pundy. The first one ep was solid, but the second ep was just plain old fun.

Ghost Whistler

#27
September 14, 2012, 07:15:32 AM
Evil man shoots kindly old triceratops.

Hmmmn.
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#28
September 14, 2012, 08:28:28 PM
Yeah, I had yet to hear anything about what they're actually doing for the 50th anniversary, I don't think anything's been announced yet.  The obvious and proper choice (and keeping with tradition) would be a multiple-doctors story, but its hard to say how many past doctors would actually be both viable and available; Tennant might do it but it might also be too soon for him; Ecclestone wants nothing to do with the series; McGann did say he was interested but hardly anyone knows him outside of the serious fandom; and the old-series doctors that are still alive are all relics now (and in some cases, shambling behemoths, like poor Colin Baker).

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#29
September 15, 2012, 03:20:57 PM
That was absolutely fucking atrocious.
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