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Finished The Peripheral. All was going well until the last episode - it just felt rushed and confusing. A couple of jump the shark moments ruined the whole show too, but I think it's to set up season 2. A shame really as most of it was fantastic sci-fi. 7/10


I felt the same about that last episode but was looking forward to Season 2. The show was renewed but now it's cancelled due to the ongoing writer and actor strikes. Amazon didn't want to wait the time to get the next season, which would have been 2025 at best.
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Just finished Yellowstone Season 3.  Ended with a massive bang and now onto S4. Great late night watching and Kelly Reilly's character is a real hoot. 9/10
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Now I'm returning back Heroes. Another series I missed when it was originally aired. Quite a roller coaster ride. I finished the first two seasons prior to my watching Babylon 5 and now I'm in the middle of season 3. It's kind of hard keeping track of all the stuff going on in this, and that's what I like about it. Especially some of the time travel angles. I'll reserve giving this a rating until I finish season 4, but I'm leaning towards 9/10.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2023 at 00:44
My Neice was a massive fan of Matt Smith when she was a teenager before she realised she preferred girls over boys. I think she had a large cardboard version of Smith If I recollect correct. May ask her when I see her next.

A little bit of an aside but I wonder if they ever considered Jon's son Sean Pertwee for the role? I always enjoyed his work especially the film Dog Soldiers whihc is probably one of tbe best British horror films of the last 20/30 years.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2023 at 18:58
Hartnell was only 55 when he took the role, but he seemed like an old man. Capaldi was the same age when he took it on and older when he stopped. Pertwee was only 50 when he started in 1969 (seems older). They all seemed rather older to me.

Eve Myles was definitely my fave of the regular cast, and I forgot to mention her.

I really liked Matt Smith and he was my favourite for quite some time and he still is up there with Capaldi for me. Eccleston and Tennant were very good too. The Whittaker era has been my least favourite in Who. I do think it helps to get someone familiar with the show. She could have been good, I think, but poor writing and too many on the Tardis to let her shine. And she was too busy with her hands and her sonic, and a bit too goofy and awkward in the portrayal for me. She was always playing with that sonic screwdriver (a Time Lady's best friend). I felt she lacked a sense of strong authority and maybe that was on purpose, as well as gravitas. Not really for me. I felt like she was kind of doing Matt Smith antics but that Smith could pull it off.

Matt Smith was brilliant -- no doubt I have watched his episodes the most due to repeat viewings of New Who. Something my eldest and I shared in common. My house boasts a rather large art exhibit featuring Matt Smith and others (okay, it's a large cartoon like print in the family room, near the ping pong table).
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Yep very interesting indeed. I watched Torchwood a bit and enjoyed it. Eve Myles is another great actress who deserves a bit of recognition. She never did the Hollywood thing presumably because she was happy in the UK (or maybe the gappy teeth and refusal to get them fixed blocked that particular avenue for her.)

The funny thing about Peter Capaldi is that I had come round to the idea of a young Doctor even though I loved Pertwee who was almost the oldest actor to ever play him (I think Hartnell probably has that accolade) . Matt Smith was maybe my favourite from the modern era, absolutely fantastic actor who made even The Crown watchable! I was actually  bit disappointed they went 'backwards' going for an older actor to play the role. He was very good but I missed Matt Smith too much to give him a proper chance I suspect.

Yep well remember Sapphire and Steel. The episode set in a railway station is undoubtedly one of the creepiest TV episodes of anything I've ever watched. Only early Pertwee Doctor Who beats it for me.


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If we are talking Doctor Who then I loved Jon Pertwee's dead straight as an arrow interpretation but then felt that Tom Baker was too quirky for my liking. Peter Davison (trivia - his daughter Georgia married David Tennant after meeting him on Doctor Who) was just a bit miscast and wet (but great actor who did some wonderful work such as All Creatures Great and Small and A Very Peculiar Practice). The other Baker (Colin) was fantastic but I had lost touch with the show by then. I would like to get more of his DVD's if I can find them. Had a dark edge to them if I remember correct. Sylvester McCoy just killed the whole thing before the brief reincarantion with Paul McGann who was perfect but lacked the great writing that brough it back. Eccelstone,Smith and Tennant were all brilliant and that became its golden age realy. I think since then brick by brick its just become a lesser thing. I would have loved Joanna Lumley to have got a chance, think she would have been perfect. Also Olivia Coleman would have been great but she had already played a character in it so that probably ruled her out (that said it didn't stop Colin Baker getting it in the old era)


Not only is Georgia Tennant the daughter of Peter Davison who played the fifth DOctor, but she was in the Tennant as Doctor episode The Doctor's Daughter where she played Tennant's Doctor's daughter (well, really a product of his DNA, a sort of cloning-like technology).

Peter Capaldi was in the Tennant episode The Fires of Pompeii playing the lead guest character. Karen Gillan who went on to play the next Doctor's (Matt Smith) initial companion, Amy Pond, played less significant role in that. More important to me was that Peter Capaldi played a very significant character in Torchwood's Children of Earth series -- that series/ season and his character were the best thing about Torchwood for me. A very tragic character. He is my favourite of the modern Doctors, and Pertwee of the classic era. I do like the older more authoritative Doctors, the kinds who often do not suffer fools very gladly, and both also have comedic chops and sides. Tom Baker got sillier as he went on. I had hoped for Olivia Coleman as the Doctor (she with Whittaker, and Tennant were in Chris Chibnall's Broadchurch for those that don't know).

I grew up watching All Creatures Great and Small with my parents.

As far as I'm concerned Joanna Lumley has been the Doctor due to the Moffat penned Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death for Red Nose day. Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Grant, Richard E. Grant and Jim Broadbent also played the Doctor in that. And Jonathan Pryce was a very fun The Master. By the way, my favourite episode of the latest Black Mirror season was called Demon 79 and I was very excited when the Sapphire and Steel opening was used in the show. Joanna (Sapphire) Lumley is absolutely fabulous! I believe that she would have been amazing as one of the canonical Doctors.

A lot of people feel that Doctor Woo got significantly worse when Moffat took over, thinking him a much better writer than show runner, but I largely love the Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi years despite the inconsistency. That said, sharing those years of Who with the kids made it all the more special to me.
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^ It's somewhat of a coincidence that you mention both Doctor Who and Wolf the same post because both of these shows had the actor Sacha Dhawan. I haven't seen any episodes of Wolf but recognised Sacha Dhawan in an advertisement for the show. In Doctor Who, he played an incarnation of The Master who was an archenemy of the Thirteenth Doctor.
 


Dhawan is great but I found the too many plot twists to be a contrivance too far. Entertaining though. John Simm made a great Master as well imo.
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If we are talking Doctor Who then I loved Jon Pertwee's dead straight as an arrow interpretation but then felt that Tom Baker was too quirky for my liking. Peter Davison (trivia - his daughter Georgia married David Tennant after meeting him on Doctor Who) was just a bit miscast and wet (but great actor who did some wonderful work such as All Creatures Great and Small and A Very Peculiar Practice). The other Baker (Colin) was fantastic but I had lost touch with tye show by then. I would like to get more of his DVD's if I can find them. Had a dark edge to them if I remember correct. Sylvester McCoy just killed the whole thing before the brief reincarantion with Paul McGann who was perfect but lacked the great writing that brough it back. Eccelstone,Smith and Tennant were all brilliant and that became its golden age realy. I think since then brick by brick its just become a lesser thing. I would have loved Joanna Lumley to have got a chance, think she would have been perfect. Also Olivia Coleman would have been great but she had already played a character in it so that probably ruled her out (that said it didn't stop Colin Baker getting it in the old era)
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I was not a fan of the Chibnall/ Whittaker era partially because I found her companions largely did not engage me (Ryan was wooden and Yaz was Yaz). The show has long been kind of preachy and had messages (The Green Death is a favourite classic one of mine) but I feel like it was done so clunkily with Cbibanll's era, and there was a lot of unnecessary exposition of the show AND tell kind. I did quite like the Power of the Doctor at the end as I recall (nice to see the old faces at least for me), so it left on a kind of satisfying note. I had adored Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, and I love Steven Moffat's era, which would have made it harder for me to fall for Whittaker's doctor and in fact the Capaldi Doctor's "fam" of Bill, Nardole and Missy was brilliant to me. The ensemble in the two-parter World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls, which includes another familiar face, was so brilliant to me ("brill" as Whittaker would say). Ensembles can work. I felt that Chibnall's, as showrunner, Doctor Who drew a lot on the Peter Davison and 80s Who era, and Davison's Doctor had various companions. I had hoped that Jodie Whittaker would get a Heaven Sent moment (that was an episode where Capaldi basically had a one-man show, and that and the aforementioned Capaldi two-parter were Doctor Who at its very best for me.

I've been into Doctor Who rather on-and-off since the 70s, starting with Jon Pertwee and then Tom Baker, and then I grew out of a it (would have loved a better served and longer time with Colin Baker on the telly). I now enjoy the post Tom Baker years much more than I did as a youngster (into my 30s I got very nostalgic).

From Doc Who to doc-dramas, I just finished both series/ seasons of Love on the Spectrum Australia and the one that takes place in the US. I really enjoyed it. It is a feel-good show (a bit creepy at times) and having gone through some of the difficulties of raising a child on the spectrum, it can be anything but feel-good dealing with an autistic child. Before that I watched Down for Love which is about Down Syndrome people on the dating scene. I had a Down Syndrome aunt who had very loving and lovely relationship with a cognitively impaired man.

The last "fiction" drama series before that I finished was 1983, which is a Polish alternative-timeline thriller.
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^ It's somewhat of a coincidence that you mention both Doctor Who and Wolf the same post because both of these shows had the actor Sacha Dhawan. I haven't seen any episodes of Wolf but recognised Sacha Dhawan in an advertisement for the show. In Doctor Who, he played an incarnation of The Master who was an archenemy of the Thirteenth Doctor.
 



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Got bored with the preachy nature of Doctor Who and also many assistants are needed, deeply chauvinistic if you ask me.

Just finished Wolf. Not sure I understood everything but had a touch of Saw and Luther about it in terms of the major twist. Well made but not entirely convincing. Asking a lot to believe all these things can happen like they do. Could have done with more black humour (like Killing Eve for instance) but that didnt come through. 7/10
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I recently finished watching Doctor Who. I started watching it around the end of last year during the time of the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith). I continued to watch it three episodes a week until it finished at the final episode of the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker).
 

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I'm half way through Twisted Metal. It's loosely based on an old Playstation game (I admit I've not heard of). 10 shortish episodes - from IMDb: Follows a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It's a blast - violent, funny and action packed from the word go. Think of it like a cross between Mad Max and Damnation Alley. The acting and editing are a bit ropey buy you hardly notice as there's so much going on. Anthony Mackie is surprisingly good and keeps the comedy flowing throughout. And Sweet Tooth the mad clown is violently bonkers but hilarious too (voiced by Will Arnett but played by an ex wrestler, but seamless). It's trash of the highest order, easily 9/10.
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Invasion has a strong start to Season 2 with the first episode aired this week. Enjoyable sci-fi going along at a cracking pace (unlike Foundation as mentioned above)
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Just finished 'Witcher'.....great  fun but I agree that season 3 went astray....and I am upset Cavill is leaving.
Finished season 2 of 'Good Omens'....it also went a bit astray but I love Sheen and Tennant so much I dont care. 
Watching 'Foundation' on Apple TV.....well done but slow moving at times,  but enjoy Jared Harris as Seldon.
Disappointed in the new season of 'Only Murders...' storyline is a bit lame for me.
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I recently finished the entire Babylon 5 series. I've wanted to re-watch this for years after seeing it and enjoying when it was originally aired. The only things I missed this time around were the several made-for-TV movies that they aired I think between seasons 4 and 5 and maybe another after the final fifth season. Instead of buying the DVDs (which I still normally do), the entire series was free on my Roku. I think a lot of you have watched this one before, so I'm not going to say much more about it other than I enjoyed this as much as I did when it originally aired. I probably would give this an 8.5/10.

Now I'm returning back Heroes. Another series I missed when it was originally aired. Quite a roller coaster ride. I finished the first two seasons prior to my watching Babylon 5 and now I'm in the middle of season 3. It's kind of hard keeping track of all the stuff going on in this, and that's what I like about it. Especially some of the time travel angles. I'll reserve giving this a rating until I finish season 4, but I'm leaning towards 9/10.

Nice tie-in with Babylon 5 with Bruce Boxleitner appearing as the governor of New York on two episodes. Quite accidental on my part as I had no idea he was going to make a guest appearance. Also a Star Trek connection between the two series with George Takei appearing in Heroes and Walter Koenig appearing on Babylon 5.
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Personally I think The Witcher went down hill when it started taking itself too seriously. The first series was a hoot because it was so silly and had a feeling of how did my agent get me into this nonsense. Highly enjoyable. Second series was just meh. After that it was around that time I cancelled my Netflix subscription because there was so little on there I was watching or anticipating coming back. Even Stranger Things peaked around Season 2 for me. The reviews for the recent Black Mirror don't seem that great either although I've not seen it so can't comment.
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Secret Invasion - A marvel series focussing on Nick Fury. Only 6 episodes and we rattled through them over a couple of nights. It's okay-ish and that's about it. It did start to improve as the episodes got shorter in length. 6/10

Series 3 of The Witcher. I've only watched 2 episodes so far and all I can say is 'Oh Dear'. I'm shocked at how bad it's got and you can't blame Henry Cavill (he's not even in it much this series) for sacking this off. It looks amazing and some of the monsters are the best I've seen (the second episode in particular); the acting and cinematography are all top draw. However, the script is nonsense with an incredibly confusing storyline and scenes jump around in a horrible mess. There are so many character names thrown around you have no idea who is who or where they are; there is no character development at all, or back stories to justify anyone's actions. It's a real shame, but I'll see it out just for the action parts that do look stunning in 4K HDR. I doubt there will be any more seasons after this shambolic mess.
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Wrapping up season 1 of Only Murders in the Building.   Fun--  and I like the mix of old-school comedy with young & modern styles.

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