Doctor Who

Squonk19 wrote: Too young for Hartnell, but grew up on Troughton, Pertwee and Baker. Drifted away after that (life and other things got me out of the routine). Loved the re-boot and it coincided with my children being of an age to enjoy it with me. I thought the Tennant years were wonderful - the writing was top notch, and even Smith and Capaldi maintained the high standard (helped by good companions too). Never liked the idea of a female doctor, but gave Whittaker a chance - but she is just not a good actor (never liked her in Broadchurch) - although to be fair she is not helped by the dreadful scripts - most of which are so worthy and educational, you feel patronised by their messages. It's a real shame - I don't get the buzz at present - but hopefully it'll return - but think a new re-boot is called for again

Exactly, she isn't a good actor at all. And Yes it is so preachy and socially correct all the time, so boring. It's like watching a primary school teacher taking her class on an outing, where they are all so well-behaved.

Edited by LAM-SGC - February 20 2020 at 00:38

LAM-SGC wrote: Tom Baker Sylvester McCoy Peter Capaldi Patrick Troughton Jon Pertwee

Too young for Hartnell, but grew up on Troughton, Pertwee and Baker. Drifted away after that (life and other things got me out of the routine). Loved the re-boot and it coincided with my children being of an age to enjoy it with me. I thought the Tennant years were wonderful - the writing was top notch, and even Smith and Capaldi maintained the high standard (helped by good companions too). Never liked the idea of a female doctor, but gave Whittaker a chance - but she is just not a good actor (never liked her in Broadchurch) - although to be fair she is not helped by the dreadful scripts - most of which are so worthy and educational, you feel patronised by their messages. It's a real shame - I don't get the buzz at present - but hopefully it'll return - but think a new re-boot is called for again

Watched the Byron/Shelly episode the other night...and again while I enjoyed the 19th century tale...it was a mediocre episode. I'm starting to get tired of the fact of them reusing Cybermen and Daleks whenever they run out of ideas.

Long, long dead. The only thing I enjoyed about Dr Who, after Tom Baker, was the theme music. Which is why I did my own variation it. I'm considering doing another jam track around the Dr Who theme for the next album. 

https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/track/1variations-on-a-theme

^That's my thought too. 

Logan wrote: I haven't been able to bring myself to watch any full episodes from this season. I started on the Skyfall, erm Spyfall episode, but stopped when Stephen Fry's character was killed. It felt like a chore to watch the last season -- something that last happened to me in the 1980s with Doctor Who. Here's a young Chris Chibnall criticising Doctor Who in 1986 (he has now distanced himself from his early criticism calling it nonsense, perhaps because of the amount of criticism he gets). Forget the title of the video, that's a joke as he wrote 42 for 2007's Doctor Who (I actually rather liked that episode).

Edited by dr wu23 - February 03 2020 at 15:04

Just watched the latest episode...Praxeus...am I the only one that thought it was lame..?

I think most Doctor Who fans would agree that the Daleks were the scariest monsters of all.

richardh wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: In my view, Jon Pertwee was the best Doctor Who and Sylvester McCoy was the worst.   the same for me The very early B/W episodes with Pertwee were the scariest ever imo McCoy was horrendous. The only other Doctor I liked in that era was Colin Baker ( and I also seem to remember he had a 'well endowed' companion played by an American actress ) . It recovered a much needed darker edge until McCoy turned it into pantomime.