Doctor Who: New and Old

[gavgav]

I've enjoyed the new modern ones, though I always take a while to adjust to a new doctor. I hated the last two of this series, don't know why, though I didn't like the character Missy, though I admit the performance was brilliant.

Spot on. I thought this series was much better than the last, up until the last 2 episodes which were dreadful (last week) and a bit less dreadful (this week). That subject matter is just not Dr Who for me.

 

[Tin Pot]

The Green Death scared the life out of me, as did The Pyramids of (possibly from) Mars. I gave up half way through last night's episode as it was dull dull dull. I've watched the rest of the series as I love Peter Capaldi but what is it with the scripts. Full of school kids going in the Tardis, taking selfies and uploading to facebook etc. I can't see that Tom Baker would have put up with a lot of that (had mobiles and facebook been invented).

I thought that this series was going to be so much better than the others. Better actor (not the others were overly shoddy), sensible sort of age, comic timing etc. I can't be doing with clara though, she really gets on my nerves. Hubster has infomed me that she didn't cark it last night. Shame. I suppose she is better than that Ace character from the McCoy era.

Hubster taped the back end of last night's episode and I might watch it if I run out of paint to watch while it dries.

Taped?!

Like magnetic tape?

From the 20th century?

iPlayer.

 

[ufkacbln]

Taped?!

Like magnetic tape?

From the 20th century?

iPlayer.

 

[swee'pea99]

The Doctor and I have parted company in recent years, but I thought I'd give it another go this time round, not only because I rate Capaldi as an actor, but because I thought he was perfectly cast for the part. But episode 1 was such a pile of poo that I lost heart and couldn't be bothered to come back for any more. Proof once again, if it were needed, that piling a big budget on a crap script is a sure recipe for capsize & sink. As a paid up grumpy old man, I suspect it basically reflects a new generation taking up the positions of power at the BBC - the generation raised on video games and YouTube, who live by the three minute hit and wouldn't know a narrative arc if it bit them on the bum. Shame really.

 

[Saluki]

Taped?!

Like magnetic tape?

From the 20th century?

iPlayer.

Tivo'd then. Hubster Tivo'd it and as soon as I work out how to use the bloomin' thing I might watch it. Probably not though. However, feeling all empowered now I have a new writing pen

 

[John the Monkey]

I've enjoyed the new ones, although I felt we were cheated slightly of the darker, more irascible elements of the Doctor's character by Ecclestone only doing one season, and Tennant and Smith's turns being comparatively light & friendly. Capaldi puts me in mind of the grumpy Jon Pertwee Doctor, and there are a lot of nice touches in this season (the "Bigger on the inside" observation is continually undercut, for example, to the Doctor's chagrin).

 

[cisamcgu]

[QUOTE 3370436, member: 259"]The last Doctor Who I really liked was the Green Death, closely followed by the Daemons.

I remember being utterly petrified - and having to sleep with my mum and dad - by the Web of Fear (about robot yetis invading the London Underground and spinning webs of death. ).

I suspect that even Peter Capaldi's going to struggle to recreate that kind of engagement.[/QUOTE]


Green Death ? Was that the huge maggots that lived in tunnels ? - Scared the bejeezus out of me

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

giant maggots I remember them. I was very young but it still sticks in the memory.

 

[Saluki]

Green Death ? Was that the huge maggots that lived in tunnels ? - Scared the bejeezus out of me

giant maggots I remember them. I was very young but it still sticks in the memory.

Funny how an excellent storyline and a bit of green goo can stay with you for a lifetime. Maybe the current lot of scriptwriters could learn a thing or two.

Can anyone remember the Jageroth? Big green things that came out of the sea. I watched from the dog's basket, with the dog between me and the TV. Safest place in the house

 

[mr_cellophane]

Patrick Troughton - The Mind Robber

The "new" series relies too much on the Chronic Screwdriver

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

I'd like a series with standalone episodes, with no series arc where they shoehorn in a peek of something that they have set up for the series finale. This series was full of little nods to the Nethersphere that in a couple of cases seemed tacked on to the end of an episode. I would also like the Doctor to be companion-less for a while, and to spend less time on Earth/in Victorian London. It seems there is always a threat to Earth that everyone conveniently forgets about the next day. Was it always like this?

 

[mr_cellophane]

Was it always like this?

No - threats to Earth were always localised - due to budget constraints and no CGI back in the 60's

 

[Saluki]

No - threats to Earth were always localised - due to budget constraints and no CGI back in the 60's

Very localised, generally threats to the same gasworks that Jon Pertwee ran around a lot.

 

[jefmcg]

Terror of the Autons (had to google it) sticks in my mind. Homicidal dolls that come to life when heat is a applied. Nightmare stuff.

 

[Dan B]

Thing is, I'll watch ANYTHING with Peter Capaldi in it.

If you saw the bit in this week's episode where he's hanging onto a rope to avoid being sucked out of the hole in the plane by a roaring wind, you might remember a previous quite similar occasion

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QlCfW39fE