Finally, Dr. Who is Back!

[Moltuae]

"....I like my sci-fi* to be factually correct...."

Soooo, you otherwise believe that there are regenerating TimeLords who travel both space and time, a race of subterranean lizards, and regular alien visitors to our planet but are NOT okay with the suggestion that the moon is a giant egg?

Well, you're quoting me a little out of context there to be fair. If you re-read, what I actually said is: "but I like my sci-fi to be factually correct, at least the parts that science already knows. I enjoy sci-fi most when the writers have taken the time to check their facts, to make the story as believable as possible".

By which I mean, I don't mind a little fiction in my sci-fi -- as you point out, it is science-fiction after all -- but when sci-fi steps outside the laws of physics and common sense, I find it annoying .... like they did with the whole 'by the way, the moon is an egg' thing.

And no problem with these little guys?

I don't exactly warm to those creatures, if I'm honest, no. I didn't say this was the only episode I disliked, but in many ways even those creatures are less far-fetched than the moon-egg thing.

Some of the fiction in Dr Who, and other sci-fi, is entirely possible, if a little improbable. I've no problem accepting the improbable as possible, but sci-fi, for me, oversteps the believable when it portrays the impossible as probable.

 

[kpk1]

Weren't the 'little guys' fat cells??

 

[Jim]

I've only seen the first episode of this new series - does it get better? The last few seasons seemed ok, sometimes... they had their moments anyway.

Personally I think it peaked with Tom Baker. Perhaps now they're using an older doctor again they will bring him back for the next regeneration?! Although they better not leave it too long.. he's no spring chicken!

 

[Moltuae]

Personally I think it peaked with Tom Baker. Perhaps now they're using an older doctor again they will bring him back for the next regeneration?! Although they better not leave it too long.. he's no spring chicken!

lol

Yeah, Tom Baker will always be 'The Doctor' to me too. I stopped watching after he left and never watched it again until it recently came back.

 

[frase]

The cricketer wtf where they thinking? Nearlly annoying as that multicouloured gaylord.

 

[Moltuae]

The cricketer wtf where they thinking?

Ah, yes, I remember that one, though I never watched it.

His uncanny resemblance to Tristan from 'All Creatures Great and Small' put me off

 

[MobileTechie]

Really Doctor Who has always been silly. It's not supposed to be proper sci-fi but more whimsical.

I actually like this series and I especially like new Dr. I think he's better than a lot of the recent ones. I like old and grumpy.

Having said that, the last one with the moon monster was annoying. Talk about a non-dilemma - who the heck would worry about killing one monster that might destroy the planet just because it's "innocent"? Do these peoples cry and hold a vigil every time they swat a mosquito? I'd have pressed the button 30 seconds into it.

 

[Moltuae]

Really Doctor Who has always been silly. It's not supposed to be proper sci-fi but more whimsical.

I don't mind 'silly' sci-fi -- in fact Red dwarf and Hitch-hiker's Guide (the original TV series) are two of my most favourite shows, ever. I think the thing that I find annoying about the recent Doctor Who's is that they're neither silly nor serious. They put forward silly notions like the moon-egg thing as if it's science when everyone with a mental age greater than 5 years knows it's nonsense. I mean, c'mon writers, at least put a little effort into making it believable. I don't mind the silly monsters and aliens from distant planets, because we don't know for sure they don't exist; it's just possible they may. But storylines that fly in the face of science fact just ruin the show for me.

Talk about a non-dilemma - who the heck would worry about killing one monster that might destroy the planet just because it's "innocent"? Do these peoples cry and hold a vigil every time they swat a mosquito? I'd have pressed the button 30 seconds into it.

Yeah, way too much drama. What with all the romance in the show too now, it's turning into Coronation Street.

 

[AndyM]

I miss K-9

Andy

 

[Moltuae]

K-9 was the mutt's nuts.