Guitar Hero: Nu-Who Season 9

I only watched the first two seasons of Torchwood which were patchy at best, but a lot of people say it gets better.

Some Hartnells are very well written fwiw, but the pace remains old-fashioned, shall we say.

Torchwood is pretty good.

I like Tom Baker era Who which is a bit closer to current than Hartnell was. it's 10 years later and I think the difference in culture shows.
I think several of the recent Whos have cited Patrick Troughton as n influence. Unfortunately there's less of them than one would really like thanks to the BBC wiping old episodes. A couple of complete stories appeared in Africa a couple of years ago, though one episode of Web Of Fear the Yetis on the London Underground system story was nicked before it made it to the West.

Pertwee is also really good.

I don't really like the Davison era overmuch. I never really connected with the doctor and weird things happen with aliens costumes tahnks to lack of budget etc though i guess that might be a constant to the series, 2 people in a horse costume playing an alien seems to be an absolute nadir. having Linda Bellingham karate chopping the main alien in the same story seems about as bad.
Colin Baker was a decent actor who had some pretty naff scripts.
I like Sylvester Mccoy as an actor but again he had some decidedly naff stories though he did have a couple of semi decent ones.

I think Hartnell did have some pretty interesting stories, may have loosened up as he went along too.

There are a number of other British Science fiction series from the era too. Sapphire and Steel, Doomwatch, UFO to name a couple.

Torchwood: Children of Earth is the best Who-related program of the nu-Who era.

It's Ingrid Pitt that karate chops the Myrka.

Back end of Children of Earth is a bit of a mess imo, I think S2 is about as good as it got. Just never go near Torchwood: Giant Space Vagina.

oh man THAT one is the one where IMO the end just spectacularly falls apart

I might re-read that thread just to see us all say Giant Space Vagina repeatedly.

Torchwood is almost all terrible.

If you'd like a list of recommended stories from each Doctor for a newbie, that's been done a few times on the Who threads. Or I can just give you a correct list.

lol sic

Which Hartnell serials are interesting? I'm at The Sensorites (#7), and so far the only one I'd say was decent all the way through would be The Aztecs (although I have problems with its theme).

Sensorites is mostly pretty boring. Try The Time Meddler, or The Ark.

I have just read the Torchwood thread, which about 20% people going Giant Earth Vagina (mainly me), and have just lost my shit when Tuomas claims a paving slab can engage in consensual sex.

Wait, that's your problem with the scene? I thought that it was 'jokey'?

Great Hartnells:

The Daleks
The Time Meddler
The Aztecs
DIoE
The Romans

YMMV but I love:

Reign of Terror
Planet Of Giants
The Ark

My Love is inexplicable:

The Web Planet

I love Planet Of Giants so much

The Daleks isn't not meandering in fairness - there's an episode which is just hiking through caves, and another which is Ian trying to convince the Thals to punch him in the face (and Ian is very punchable).

It also suffers in modern viewing from the fact that it's called The Daleks and the cliffhanger at the end of the first episode is OMG it's a Dalek - a defect passed on in its DNA to every other Dalek story.

Dalek Invasion of Earth >>>> The Daleks

Glad you liked The Aztecs already. Sensorites would make a good four-parter.

Dalek Invasion is good (but the movie is paced better), first ep of Space Museum is great but bail out if you get bored during later eps, Time Meddler is fantastic, I love The Gunfighters and you might too if you don't break down crying with frustration if your children's TV show has the temerity to do a comedy story occasionally, instead of spacemen shooting laser guns. Never read or seen The Rescue and The Romans but they're probably good given the writers. The Tenth Planet is worth watching when you get there.

(if you can handle a recon or a narrated soundtrack, carry on into Troughton's Power Of The Daleks. There are no complete stories at all from his first season, though.)

You might want to move to the C or D thread.

Yeah, that's a better thread for this.

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/838803941458608128

Stoked for Automated Bessie.

I hope they ignore "Attack of the Cybermen" and come up with an understandable explanation.

everybody should ignore "attack of the cybermen"