Dr Who is crap !

[Edward Cowling]

Just realised I haven't seen any Dr Who this year. Not because I forgot it
was on, but because I knew it would be another panto, another huge
dissapointment.

Bring back McCoy I say :-)

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"Edward Cowling" <edw...@genghis0.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:pLJlt.61963$Mx7....@fx17.fr7...

> Just realised I haven't seen any Dr Who this year. Not because I forgot it was on, but because I knew it would be another panto,
> another huge dissapointment.
>
> Bring back McCoy I say :-)
>

You had us going till that last bit.

Ecclestone could act. Tennant was an even better actor.
Matt Smith is not in their league, and is a step back to
the 70s and 80s (well, not quite as bad as McCoy!)

Then you have the companions. Billie Piper and
Catherine Tate were surprisingly good, given they'd
made their names in other fields. Karen Gillan had
great screen presence but was anchored to a tree
named Rory. Jenna-Louise Coleman: the jury's out
but the character Clara has not yet gelled.

The main writers? Russell T Davies cared more
about characters than plots, which he would
generally tie up in the last five minutes with
the deus ex machina of the week.

Stephen Moffat is the opposite, with complex
plots, time paradoxes, and all those fashionable
"hero's journey" ideas, but often the characterisation
goes to pot. (Oh, and jokes.)

--
NST.

[Theodore Pike]

On May 18, 12:38 pm, "Edward Cowling" <edw...@genghis0.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

> Just realised I haven't seen any Dr Who this year. Not because I forgot it
> was on, but because I knew it would be another panto, another huge
> dissapointment.
>
> Bring back McCoy I say :-)

It always was a children's tv show IMO, I've never understood the
attraction to adults.

[MC]

It is, and always has been, a "family" show. Children just would not
understand the complex ideas and the complexity of some of the back
stories, plots and paradoxes etc for it to be soley a childrens show.
It is left for the adults to explain (assuming they understand what is
going on) this the the kids. If it were merely a childrens programme
then most of the plot would be lost on them as there will be no adults
to keep them up to speed.

MC

[MC]

Edward Cowling wrote:

> Just realised I haven't seen any Dr Who this year. Not because I
> forgot it was on, but because I knew it would be another panto,
> another huge dissapointment.
>
> Bring back McCoy I say :-)

This last series has been a bit hit and miss. Probably the worse
series of the the modern Dr Who era, which is a shame because I look
forward to it on a Saturday evening.

The Ice Warrior episode was a huge missed opportunity to bring back a
"character" from the distant Dr Who past (Jon Pertwee I believe) and
the Cybermen episode made a huge mockery of the what the Cybermen are
and the fear and terror they are supposed to induce. Instead we had a
pantomime with very poor writing (and the two kids were the worst
actors ever). This Cyberman episode made me think back to why Dr Who
was scrapped in the first place, bad acting, bad storyline, bad script
and cheap production quality.
I put the poor nature of the current series down to inconsistant
writing and a dire new assistant. I would rather Dr Who had no
assistant if this current one carries on like this. It is expected for
the Dr to ham it up occassionally but the Clara character is so hammed
up to be laughable. She seems like she is always trying to outdo Matt
Smiths portrayal of the Dr whereas a Dr Who assistant should be
slightly vunerable and know their place. They may as well name the
programme "Dr Who and Clara".

MC

[mick]

Mmmm, not sure about that. Don't think I fully understood everything that
was going on in Timeslip but it was still a kids show. And if any adult had
tried to 'keep me up to speed' while I was trying to watch it I would have been
decidedly dischuffed.

mick

[Commander Gideon]

I enjoyed Saturdays last episode which contained a few surprises.Am I
allowed to say here?

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"Commander Gideon" <i.d...@like.spam> wrote in message news:kncsvj$bse$1...@dont-email.me...

>I enjoyed Saturdays last episode which contained a few surprises.Am I allowed to say here?

It was very clever, with Clara being distributed throughout
the Doctor's timeline to interact with (clips of) previous
incarnations, but it left me slightly empty and asking: so what?

The previous doctor clips seemed to have been rather
lazily compiled, with only the (colourised) Hartnell clip
looking realistic. It is ironic that Clara mentioned
the Tardis's faulty navigation because nearly all of
Moffat's stories depend on its pinpoint accuracy.

[Yellow]

In article <XnsA1C5C17...@127.0.0.1>, Gor...@freeman.invalid
says...

>
> "MC" <a...@any.any> wrote:
>
> > the Cybermen episode made a huge mockery of the what the Cybermen are
> > and the fear and terror they are supposed to induce.
>

> The Cybermen were the only enemies that really scared me as a child. The
> Daleks were kind of silly but the Cybermen really had me hiding behind the
> sofa! The menace of their cold invulnerability is like the Borg in Star
> Trek (I expect the Borg were inspired by the Cybermen in fact).


The original concept for the Borg was the character Lord Dread from
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future.