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Post by Lady on Jan 6, 2010 12:36:57 GMT -6
I never really got into this until the new series came out. Not that I haven't seen the older episodes. David Tennant made a great doctor pity he decided too go make a career somewhere else though after 3 seasons. Billie Piper wasn't that bad better then she is at singing. She's not really my fav actress though. I liked the girl who played Martha Jones more.
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Post by edify on Jan 7, 2010 2:12:05 GMT -6
I was first introduced to Doctor Who in the television movie made back in 1995, I believe it was. Then when they started airing the new seasons of Doctor Who on Sci-Fi Channel I started watching, and I was hooked. Now, I love British programming anyway, but this was one show I was sad that I had missed for so long. I managed to watch the first season and a half on YouTube, but the accounts that had them posted were taken down.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jan 7, 2010 10:00:36 GMT -6
You must be talking about the movie with Paul McGann as the Doctor and Eric Roberts as the Master. I liked that one, too.
Lately I've been watching it on the BBC America channel, but the last few specials have not been that good. "The End of Time" with Timothy Dalton was terrible! Sadly it's looking like they've used up all their good ideas.
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Post by Lady on Jan 7, 2010 12:25:24 GMT -6
Well they have been running the show a really long time. The last two eps weren't the best and how the Doctor died could have been done better. It seems kinda funny that he survives so many different things just too die from radiation. I hope the next doctor does good. I don't really know the actors other works so I can't comment on what sorta actor he is.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jan 11, 2010 9:46:13 GMT -6
I didn't even watch the one about Mars. "The Planet of Death" really bothered me because I can't imagine the Doctor helping a thief to escape. That didn't make sense.
I particulary like episodes where he meets genuine historical figures, like "The Girl in the Fireplace" and "The Shakespeare Code".
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Post by Lady on Jan 27, 2010 8:18:42 GMT -6
Anyone know when the new season is gonna air?
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Post by Arkroyal on Jan 27, 2010 23:58:06 GMT -6
Spring 2010 in the UK
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Post by Lady on Jan 28, 2010 6:30:47 GMT -6
Thanks Arkroyal
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 30, 2010 7:45:09 GMT -6
The new season with Matt Smith is airing now on the BBC America channel, Saturday and Tuesday nights.
Personally, I'm starting to cool on it. The first two episodes I've seen just aren't that good. For example, if you think about it, there is no reason in the world for Amelia Pond to go along with the Doctor. She's already seen TWO examples of him promising to "be right back" and missing the date by years! I get the feeling that she only joined him because, well, the companion is supposed to!
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Post by TaxmaN on May 13, 2010 7:54:54 GMT -6
That's actually a good point, and in new episodes he's always asking her to trust him lol, I really like the new series though, it's because Steven Moffat has taken over as the series producer on it.
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Post by Atoz 77 on May 17, 2010 7:58:48 GMT -6
I just watched the second part of the story about the "Weeping Angels", and I guess I'm a little disappointed. One of the drawbacks to being such a big Star Trek fan (well, the only drawback, come to think of it) is that I tend to expect things to be logical. The whole biology of the Weeping Angels just doesn't make sense. It played out more like a horror movie ("The Ring") than science fiction. Plus, notice the big revelation in this episode -- that Time can be Rewritten! What a perfect excuse for the new head writers! Now they don't have to worry about contradicting anything that happened in the first five seasons!
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Post by Atoz 77 on May 28, 2010 8:17:28 GMT -6
In the United States, this weekend (the last weekend in May) is Memorial Day Weekend. If you get the BBC America channel on your satellite, you're in for a treat -- a 3-day Dr. Who/ Star Trek TNG marathon, starting Saturday at 6 Eastern time!
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Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 28, 2010 9:10:05 GMT -6
Okay did anyone see the Dr. Who "Christmas Carol"? Boy was that awful!!!! I have to resist the temptation to get up on my soapbox and write a long boring essay on just how awful it was, but I'll try to restrain myself.
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Post by Luke on Dec 29, 2010 12:47:35 GMT -6
I don't really follow Dr. Who,but I watched it mainlybecause there wasn't anything thing else on Christmas Day I hadn't already seen about a milion times. My reaction was What's the big deal? The story wasn't all that interesting. And the Doctor seems more like a standup comic than the hero of a science fiction series. Am I missing something here?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 30, 2010 8:33:30 GMT -6
No you're not missing anything, but you've really GOT to watch some of the earlier episodes with Christopher Ecclestone or David Tennant. The Doctor has always been an odd character, a little on the eccentric side. But with this new actor, Matt Smith, they're just going completely overboard. It's just too hard to take him at all seriously. Honestly, if this had been the very first Dr. Who episode I had ever seen, I wouldn't have hung around past the first station break! I would have thought, "Oh this is just total crap," and changed the channel.
The story made zero sense. We're supposed to believe that with a spaceship carrying his two closest friends about to crash in less than an hour, the Doctor jumps in his Tardis, travels back in time to when the miser was a little boy, then spends every Christmas playing with him, just to win him over and make him a nice guy? Oh come on! And this breaks the first rule of Dr. Who time travel: Once the Tardis lands somewhere, the Doctor becomes part of the events unfolding, and he can't go back in time to change them. Gosh, you know what this means? It means the next time the Doctor is racing against time to get some machine working to save the day just in the nick of time... oh wait, let's just use the Tardis and go back. Then we can put it together in plenty of time. The whole Dr. Who concept just comes crashing down around our ears!
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