New Dr.Who

[Lew]

"Allow me to pop a jaunty little bonnet on your purview and ram it up your shiteter with a lubricated horse c--k!" says Malcolm Tucker to a Dalek  :lol:

I'm a big fan and I'm sure Capaldi will add much needed depth and maturity but it would be even better if he played it as Tucker  8)

[Philly Q]

I'm very pleased with the choice, the recent series have been well done but I've been uncomfortable with the Doctor getting increasingly younger.  And there's always that "will they, won't they" romance/sexual tension aspect with the assistants, which, frankly, I don't like....

I think Peter Capaldi would have been a very good choice even if he was younger, but as it is having a more "mature" Doctor again can only be a good thing, IMO.  I'll certainly start watching again, for a while at least, to see how he gets on.

Then again, I don't think my opinion is relevant really, I'm not the target audience.  "My" Doctors were Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. 

[JJretroTONEGOD]

Tom Baker is the best Doctor ever, when it was about actually being weird and as extreme as possible. I thought eccleston was really good as well, shame he didn't go on for longer and it was great to see a mancunian with such a central role, that might be why it was so successful? lol

yeah but looking forward to the new series and like phil said I actually prefer an older doctor who as it seems more 'real' somehow.

[JJretroTONEGOD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYSj3rJGO4I

[_tom_]

Anyone seen this yet? :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Blf073f2Lc

[Elliot]

Personally, I would say that Patrick Troughton was the best Dr ever - and is the model that has been gone back to again and again.

But I am glad Peter Capaldi is the Dr - although a series with John Hurt would have been awesome.

[Lew]

Anyone seen this yet? :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Blf073f2Lc

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[Philly Q]

Personally, I would say that Patrick Troughton was the best Dr ever - and is the model that has been gone back to again and again.

Patrick Troughton?!  His stint was during my lifetime and I probably watched some of the episodes, but I don't remember them and I'm sure you're younger than me.  You must have seen them at a later date?

[FELINEGUITARS]

I do look forward to the new Doctor and I too like that he is older and hopefully will have a bit more gravitas than recent doctors, although I liked Ecclestone.

I grew tired of Tennant and Smith trying too hard to turn it into a zany Saturday morning kids show
I grew tired of the "romantic tension" that always had to be there
I grew tired of the overblown melodrama of it all -why did every storyline have to be about the end of the universe and life in it's entirety
I grew tired that the answer to this impending doom was all locked up in the Dr or his assistant.
I grew tired of the sonic screwdriver that now seems to be able to do almost anything

I grew up with Jon Pertwee and then Tom Baker as my Doctors, and kind of liked the eccentric grumpy curmudgeon character that the doctor always had - albeit tempered with wit and humour - something that had been there since day 1

Hoping the new series will be interesting

[Philly Q]

I grew tired of Tennant and Smith trying too hard to turn it into a zany Saturday morning kids show
I grew tired of the "romantic tension" that always had to be there
I grew tired of the overblown melodrama of it all -why did every storyline have to be about the end of the universe and life in it's entirety
I grew tired that the answer to this impending doom was all locked up in the Dr or his assistant.
I grew tired of the sonic screwdriver that now seems to be able to do almost anything

I grew tired of all the touchy-feely, love-conquers-all, Daleks-aren't-bad-they're-just-misunderstood storylines.  Let's have some proper villains and blow the $%&#ers up.

[Nadz1lla]

I tried to watch a modern episode recently. There was a whole bunch of stuff about the assistant being the mother of a woman who looked older than her who also regenerated into Moll Flanders or some such nonsense.

I turned it off.

[Elliot]

Personally, I would say that Patrick Troughton was the best Dr ever - and is the model that has been gone back to again and again.

Patrick Troughton?!  His stint was during my lifetime and I probably watched some of the episodes, but I don't remember them and I'm sure you're younger than me.  You must have seen them at a later date?

Yeah Phil - there was this thing called the VHS video cassette player that existed in the 1980s, when the BBC released all the surviving Dr Who episodes in black oblong boxes that you pushed into the VHS thingy :-)

I have liked all the new Dr Whos, Tennant the least - but I have generally hated the female companions, especially Karen Gillan.  I  did like Catherine Tate, however, who acted with the old skool skill of many of the 1980s companions ;-/

[FELINEGUITARS]

Personally, I would say that Patrick Troughton was the best Dr ever - and is the model that has been gone back to again and again.

Patrick Troughton?!  His stint was during my lifetime and I probably watched some of the episodes, but I don't remember them and I'm sure you're younger than me.  You must have seen them at a later date?

Yeah Phil - there was this thing called the VHS video cassette player that existed in the 1980s, when the BBC released all the surviving Dr Who episodes in black oblong boxes that you pushed into the VHS thingy :-)

I have liked all the new Dr Whos, Tennant the least - but I have generally hated the female companions, especially Karen Gillan.  I  did like Catherine Tate, however, who acted with the old skool skill of many of the 1980s companions ;-/

Ah - Philly was exclusively Betamax so would have missed out :P

[Philly Q]

We actually did have Betamax initially!  :lol:

It was the superior format, should've won over VHS, goddammit!  :x


Believe or not, I never really collected videos - even at the time I thought the picture quality was so shite it wasn't worth buying pre-recorded tapes.  I didn't catch the home cinema bug until DVD..... then Blu-ray..... now they're talking about 4k....  :?

[Elliot]

It is shocking how bad the picture quality of VHS was - I still have a Sony player and played some cassettes that a neighbour was disposing of - they looked absolutely pants.

Although the picture quality of 1960s black and white BBC productions (e.g. pre-Pertwee Dr Who) don't really suffer from transfer to VHS and the trouble with the modern DVD versions is that you can see more than you are supposed to.  The original cybermen (as in my avatar) look even spookier when you can see the actor's eyes moving behind the mask.