Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

(xpost) Nyssa and Tegan particularly are a huge PITA. Possibly that's what puts a lot of people off Davison, because from the very first post regen story (Castrovalva) they have N & T lugging a box with the Doctor in it around the place and complaining to each other.

I'm not much of a fan of him either, but Kinda and Enlightenment are pretty cool.

Four to Doomsday has its peculiar charms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSaD0g8xY_k

^Some inspired 'casting' in that.

WTF is this all star perfect day????????

is this a thing?

over here we do not know

10-year-old anti-poverty charidee record - it topped the charts for ages.

Also Heather Small's solo sounds like Tardis takeoff/landing REAP REAP REAP REAP REAP...

but perfect day is SO FUCKING CREEPY!!! how could it be charity record? world will you please make sense?

been meaning to do an all-star perfect day poll for ages. no time now.

the original BBC charity song from 1997, it was in aid of Children in Need, would you believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJpQJWpVJds

so now that they've shown all of the new season over here, can I just say that Matt Smith is a fucking fantastic Doctor and Amy has the possibility of being a great character now that they don't have a plot device sucking her backstory into a void, turning her into a one-note cypher?

Kind of amused that Rory turned out to be the interesting companion.

Cosign although I have noticed that fans online are all kinds of creepy about Rory, which is off-putting. They act like he is the star of the show and complain about the Doctor and Amy taking away from his screentime? It is so weird.

ha I am glad I stopped paying attention to online fandom; I don't really think I could bear watching people going all TEAM RORY

Episode quality was super patchy at times the season, especially compared to last year; "Victory of the Daleks" is probably the worst of the entire series (or at least on par with "The Idiot Lantern") but "The Lodger" was fantastic.

I kind of feel bad for ragging on Mark Gatiss now because I really liked his writing on Sherlock, but he probably should never write for Doctor Who again.

Watching the interview with West Country News on the Revenge of the Cybermen disc, I have become convinced this was Eugene Levy's template for Mitch in A Mighty Wind.

"The Lodger" was fantastic.

I'm surprised so many people rate this episode, I thought it was unbearable. Easily the worst of the last series for me. I didn't like Victory of the Daleks much at first, but I've softened on it a bit now. It was designed as a silly, colourful, knockabout thing; it didn't quite succeed but is mostly harmless. Saying that I was kinda dreading Gatiss' Sherlock episode, but it was really good.

What didn't you like about it? I thought it was pretty good stuff with a more interesting proxy companion and a really great example of 11 making his alien weirdness into an asset when dealing with people rather than a liability.

There were three episodes I hated: Victory of the Daleks, and the two-parter with the Silurians. Otherwise, I thought the season was very enjoyable and probably my favorite of the new series (I keep waffling between this and the first season w/Eccleston).

I thought the Silurian story was okay, but mostly because I thought it was kind of hilarious how many times the Doctor told that woman she was a horrible, horrible person

That part was funny, but the Silurians just really annoyed me. They are like the Shakey Mos of aliens.

I thought it was a little problematic that all of the male were reasonable and the females were bloodthirsty xenophobes, although thinking back I think the entire warrior class was female...?

xps I dunno, I think the humour was a bit too broad for my taste, but mainly the writing for the Doctor seemed really... off. His character didn't feel consistent with the rest of the series. Something felt amiss anyway. I've only watched it once though.
I'll give it another crack when I buy the boxset - which'll be the first time I'll do so since series one. Like Nicole, I think this and the Eccles season have been the most enjoyable.

The second Silurian episode was terrible, the first was okay though. I did quite like how the Silurians were redesigned as a - mainly - female race of lizard warriors.

As for the 'classic' series, I'm doing that thing where I'm going through the lot in chronological order. Slowly, in my case, via an online DVD rental service. Last one rented was Dalek Invasion of Earth, the last story to feature Susan. Which at least means I won't have to hear Carol Anne Ford's story of how she rescued a (real) lizard from the set this one time. And Hartnell is great.

Hartnell really is great; I wish stories like "Marco Polo" were still in existence

be very interested to get your take on Susan vs Vicki

Where did they get the box?
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/08/_by_june_q_wu.html

http://news.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/the-k9-series-channel-5-trailer/

http://www.k9official.com/

admit it viceroy,leee,dan, kingfish etc you're gonna torrent this, aren't you?

What have they done to poor k-9? It's like Daft Punk and Poochie threw up on him at the same time.

He moved to Brisbane.

what was that shit, because that was not K-9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTlf_Rvh0q4&feature=related

It's John Leeson at least

I guess tin dogs can regenerate too

looks like it was first shown on the disney channel. I'm sure that explains a lot

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slitheen
2 months ago

It is pretty crap...but I can't stop watching as Jorjie is proper fit....I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit....total babe (the actress is 17 nearly 18....she only plays a 14 year old in the show).

*wonders how many of you are google image searching*

K-9 DOES NOT LAUGH

WTF

I GOT YER FULL-ON INAPPROPRIATE NERD RAGE RIGHT HERE

Never change, Dan.

It doesn't bother me as I (challop warning) never liked K-9. Can totally understand the desecration angle though.

admit it viceroy,leee,dan, kingfish etc you're gonna torrent this, aren't you?

I somehow grabbed the first 9 episodes of this several months ago. Haven't watched it yet though. Not liking the new K9 build. He's not boxy enough.

I wonder who is Champions League Fit?

These rubbish alien menaces.

I WANT TO CRUSH THAT THING, AND THEN CRUSH THE PERSON WHO DESIGNED IT, AND THEN CRUSH THE PERSON WHO MADE THE DESIGNER DESIGN IT, AND SHOVE THE RESULTANT PASTE UP THE ASS OF THE PERSON WHO BUILT IT

I felt the same way about the new big & tall daleks.

WAHT

At least the new big & tall Daleks had precedent; ever seen any of the pics of the Emperor Dalek from Troughton's "Evil of the Daleks"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn4ysFLEgM4&feature=related

did Aussies have something to do with this?

The only problem I have with nu-Daleks is the rubbish plots.

can we get back to the matter at hand, which is that this new K-9 is a fucking travesty and we owe it to future generations to hunt it down and beat it with bats

bats with spikes in them, that may or may not be on fire