Doctor Who

I'm having a hard time with Pertwee. Breezed through Hartnell and Troughton (even the reconstructed episodes), but Pertwee is a slog, probably my least favourite Doctor so far. 

chopper wrote: Kotro wrote: I'm having a hard time with Pertwee. Breezed through Hartnell and Troughton (even the reconstructed episodes), but Pertwee is a slog, probably my least favourite Doctor so far.    Wait till you get to McCoy then.

I more or less gave up on Dr Who at Davidson, back in the day. The few episodes with McCoy left me completely cold.

I actually thought Paul McGann would have been a really good Dr Who for the comeback, based on his performance in the one off feature length, even if the story was utter guff.

I thought Eccleston & Tennant were both very good. Peter Capaldi can only ever be Malcolm Tucker to me, and this latest offering, I really don't have a strong opinion either way. I do like Jody Whittaker as an actress generally.

I loved The Thick of It (and various films Capaldi had parts in), but I was most excited about Peter Capaldi as the Doctor because of his, I think superb and tragic, role in Torchwood's Children of Earth as John Frobisher.

I'm okay with Jody Whittaker, even if I wish she would enunciate more in Doctor Who and I hope the character evolves in a rather different direction. I would love for her to get a "Heaven Sent" sort of episode (my favourite episode of NuWho). I really would like to see both better scrips and a rather different "Team Tardis" dynamic. If the show is successful as it is, though, good on it. I'm more excited about the next series of Westworld, Game of Thrones, Fargo, Stranger Things, Black Mirror and Inside No. 9.

I had stopped paying attention to Doctor Who when Davison was doing it. Although now I like many of his episodes and him as a Doctor, at the time I lost interest in the show -- even before that during the latter part of Tom Baker's career, much as, say, I love Douglas Adams, as I was more into Blake's 7 than Doctor Who back then.   By the way, I really love Peter Davison's 2013 The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot with Peter Davison, Colin Baker and McCoy (to me that was the 50th anniversary highlight, much as I did like The Day of the Doctor.   I was sad that Davison got hate for his comments about the Doctor as a woman issue, which I thought reasonable.

McCoy is my least favourite Doctor, he's too vaudevillian and his rolling of the R's I find unappealing. That said, I still like some of his episodes such as The Curse of Fenric, and I don't dislike him.

I hadn't thought of McGann as quite canon before with just his made-for-TV movie, and I have never made it all the way through that, but I liked the short Night of the Doctor very much, he's done fine Doctor Who Big Finish work, and I loved Withnail & I, and Paper Mask I found really terrific. He's an excellent actor.

With Pertwee, as he was my first Doctor when I was small (think I was four when I started getting into Doctor Who), there is some nostalgia factor there. "Inferno" is one of those episodes I never seem to tire of -- the "Mirror, Mirror" (Star Trek) of Doctor Who, though instead of a character getting a beard, one lacks a mustache --. The Claws of Axos, The Sea Devils and The Monsters of Peladon had a big impact me when I was very small. I like the pacing in the Pertwee era, the stories and dialogue, and have never found any of those episodes to be a slog, but we all have different personalities so different aspects resonate....

Edited by Logan - January 07 2019 at 11:30

Well, season 12 just started on New Year's Day. I have to say I rather enjoyed the first episode. It had a kind of "James Bond" feel to it, including the return of one special character (won't mention who if you haven't watched it yet) that was thought to be dead and a new set of interesting aliens that The Doctor has never encountered before. 

In my view, Jon Pertwee was the best Doctor Who and Sylvester McCoy was the worst.

Love the show. STILL making efforts to follow it these days. Nothing else like it on TV.
It's hard to pick favourites, but I didn't warm to Colin Baker. In his first episode he tries to strangle his companion!
Fans have attributed this to "post-regeneration" madness. To which I say, OK, YOU come live next door to a wife beater and dismiss that! Plus his pompousness rubbed the wrong way.

But I still enjoy it. I still can't believe the discussions and rage it's generating when if you watch the show... It was always a flawed series! That's why it's great to watch! Stuff isn't set in stone. Writer's conveniences keep happening. And I can live with it.
People taking it far too seriously, they seem to be watching a different show!

Sublime hand in hand with the ridiculous. And basically, the only BBC thing I bother with. Licence fee can't end quickly enough.

essexboyinwales wrote: I really enjoyed the latest series, and (importantly) my 13 and 16 year old daughters both loved it!  They've watched the last few series with us, but we had comments about how great it has been to have a female doctor

Edited by BaldJean - January 09 2020 at 14:28

Also a fan of Dr Who.....liked all the Docs to some degree, but I agree that McCoy left a lot to be desired.

Edited by dr wu23 - January 09 2020 at 15:02

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 Logan - February 03 2020 at 12:02