I do need to get back into it. Lost track of it the more Rose got on my nerves. I know I commit heresy on the fandom when I say this, but I didn't like her. No wonder the good Doctor needed a second companion :p.

However...I adored Martha, what little I saw of the season(s?) she was in (yeah, I partially watched for Jack's appearance). I hear the new season is gonna do a bit of continuation where Torchwood's mini-series left off. In any case, from what I understand Jack's gonna be back on the TARDIS....



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Grew up on this program - if you enjoy it's worth looking at some of the older ones. Pleased to see it brought back!

I've been watching Dr. Who since 1963. Yes folks, that's how long it's been around for. I guess that might make it the longest-running tv series. The really early episodes were terrible, the "special effects" and "aliens" were awful (I remember one particular alien strongly resembled a mobile scrubbing brush!!!). But, that being said, if you can, try to get hold of all the early episodes and watch them right through, it will be worth it.

This show RAWKS!

David Tennant set the bar pretty high, but I'm really anxious to see how the "new doctor" works out.

So what villains are you hoping to see again in upcoming seasons? I don't doubt we'll see Daleks again.

I'm hoping to see more Cyber-Men




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well, ive been watching the doctor since... the new ones. mainly the David Tennant seasons.
because i adore the pants off him ^^
I'd love to watch some more of the crappy old but awesome seasons, i just cant seem to fund it.
Rose Tyler. she was pretty good when she actually travelled with the doctor and didnt get sucked into that parallel universe, but recently they replayed the Turn Left episode on ABC2 and i watched it because if i dont, the rest of my work doesnt quite fall into place. But god, she has a weird mouth. like her overbite? so it makes her talk funny. So it was kinda annoying.
But i have Season 3 with Martha Jones, and i watch an episode or 2 or 3 or 4 a day, and i watched the weeping angels episode for the first time so now im worried about this goth angel statue in my moms garden and have locked the doors and look at it every so often.

This Thread is so DEAD! c'mon bring it back to life, allons-y!

I'm not quite ready to let tennant go, that and they havent started playing the next series on TV yet.
But when i am, im going to watch it alone, and cry. alot.
i nearly accidently spoiled it all, and ive never closed a site so quickly in my life.
but yeah im interested what matt smith will be like, he looks okay, and has a bow tie. so thats 2 positives on his behalf. although he'll need a lot more to be better than tennant.

Joan Cootes posted:

I've been watching Dr. Who since 1963. Yes folks, that's how long it's been around for. I guess that might make it the longest-running tv series. The really early episodes were terrible, the "special effects" and "aliens" were awful (I remember one particular alien strongly resembled a mobile scrubbing brush!!!). But, that being said, if you can, try to get hold of all the early episodes and watch them right through, it will be worth it.

The special effects may have been terrible, but the early episodes with the first four doctors was when the show was at its peak. None of the more recent actors can touch William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker.

During the original run (63-89) the stories were 4-6 episodes, so a really good story could be developed, now it seems like they are mostly wrapped up in under an hour. Plus it's too flasy now.

RhettButler posted:

During the original run (63-89) the stories were 4-6 episodes, so a really good story could be developed, now it seems like they are mostly wrapped up in under an hour.

Yeah, just about every story had time to really breathe in those days, but how often did the four-parters struggle to fill those 90 minutes? For every Talons of Weng-Chiang or Pyramids of Mars, there was also a Robot or an Underworld (where even the writers give up halfway through and start amusing themselves with lines like "Whatever blows... can be sucked!" ). Meanwhile, we get three cliffhangers a year these days, or just under half of each season with exactly the same amount of time available to the writers. Not such a bad deal, really; have there been any stories since the show got going again where you found yourself saying "Christ, have they been captured again? When will this end?"?

By and large, I preferred Sylvester McCoy's run to the others (though even I won't make excuses for The Greatest Show in the Galaxy), but I'd love to see something new along the same lines as the old Hartnell story, The Chase. Not in terms of the writing or acting, mind you, but the idea of quickly blowing through a handful of short stories instead of laboriously building up to yet another massive CGI invasion of Earth... it appeals to me for the same reasons that I mostly read magazine articles and short stories these days and generally pass on novels/entirely pass on series.



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RIP Sarah Jane

Try to check out DW from the 60s-70s, blows the newer episodes out of the water. No comparison.

Sarah Jane will be sorely missed...

On a lighter note, great season premiere.

Season premier was good shit. That show packs more "WTF"s per minute over episode than any other I can think of.

I need to watch the new episode on iplayer. I was working. I love doctor who also got into torchwood as well. Sad to hear about Elizabeth Sladen I started buying all the original episodes I could get. I started from the beginning. I'm currently on the second dalek story: 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' from...1965?

They have the audio from many (all?) of the episodes. You can buy some of them on amazon but they are expensive.

You can get an odds & ends compilation of "orphaned" episodes from the 60s (for example, a 4 part story where only episode 1 survives).

They had a nice way of completing the 60s story "The Crusades" - only episode 1 and 3 (of 4) exist, but to tie it all together they got one of the actors from the story to do some linking sequences. His character in DW was Chesterton, a schoolteacher from 60s London.

Basically they had him now (ie a really old man) sat in a plush office full of books, recounting his bizarre story for the viewer - it works really well!

Also for the story "The Invasion", on the dvd the missing episodes are animated, and it's pretty awesome tbh




Anybody see Neil Gaiman's episode yesterday? Have to say I really enjoyed it, probably one of the best episodes since the 80s. It got a bit of a hammering on the DW forum I frequent though XD