Finally, Dr. Who is Back!

[MichaelBits]

I'm so excited the new season of Dr Who premieres in a couple days. It's been so long since I got to watch a new episode...

American premier that is... I know we are way behind the actual broadcasting in the UK.



I'm assuming we have plenty of Whovians around here.

 

[Moltuae]

I do enjoy watching it, and I always look forward to a new series, but I find some episodes better than others. Some can be excellent, while others can be quite disappointing.

It seems to depend largely on who the writer is, since they alternate the writers of course.

Steven Moffat (also the writer of the excellent 'Coupling' sitcom), for example, seems to write some of the better episodes, IMO.

 

[Krynn72]

Over the last month or so I've been rewatching the whole series (not the classics, just from 2005 and up) in binge sessions. Got one more season to go. Not sure if I will make it!

I also still haven't watched the newest Christmas special, looking forward to that, though I'll be sad to see Smith go. As long as its not as devastatingly sad as it was with Tennant, I should be ok.

Its definitely got its ups and downs, but I find myself enjoying all of them. Blink, Midnight, and Silence in the Library have got to be my favorites.

 

[PCSupportGlasgow]

Looking forward to Capaldi being the doctor roll on tomorrow night

 

[bertie40]

"The girl in the fireplace" is one of my favourites.

Ah, family saturday night in front of the TV with a takeaway.

Bliss [emoji2][emoji2]

 

[4ycr]

I have by box set to record, just encase I am out when it starts. Can't wait

 

[PCSupportGlasgow]

I have by box set to record, just encase I am out when it starts. Can't wait

Steve are you really wanting to say "bloody biiiitccchhh got the remote and xfactor is on other channel"

 

[Markverhyden]

Yep, looking forward to it.

 

[MotzTech]

One of my favorite shows, though I tend to wait till stuff is free on amazon prime so it will be a while for me.

My favorite scene of all time is the Rings of Akhaten speech. I don't know if anything will ever top that for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoVLhUxhdSw

 

[Moltuae]

Does anyone else find the new series a big disappointment?

I had great hopes for this series. I thought Peter Capaldi as an older doctor would be a big improvement, but it just isn't. I think I'd rather have Tennant back to be honest. The first episode was just dreadful, Peter Capaldi played the part very awkwardly. That has improved somewhat, and he seems to have settled in a little, but the storylines aren't great. There's too much romance in the shows too now -- It's beginning to feel more like soap than sci-fi.

 

[frase]

I would agree, though it may be how it plans out in the end.
I didn't like the last doctor much, David Tennant has been one of the best Drs ever.

 

[Porthos]

Tell me what you knew, Doctor, or I'll smack you so hard you'll regenerate.

As soon as I heard that I knew there would be a t-shirt.

 

[Xander]

Just watched that one this evening and, yeah, I had the same thought about some kind of merchandise.

 

[Moltuae]

Tell me what you knew, Doctor, or I'll smack you so hard you'll regenerate.

Yeah, what a drama queen. I think she was going for the BAFTA with that performance. I think I'll give the T-Shirt a miss!


I watched the episode, to give it one more chance, hoping that this might just be the episode that redeems the series, but no ...

So, it turns out the moon is a giant egg, and has been all along. WTF.

Soap and nonsense -- They've ruined it.

I won't be watching any more.

 

[frase]

Give it some time, lol time..anyway the writers are seeming to go into another direction. l want David Tennant back, maybe somehow he can regenerate, please.

 

[Xander]

I want David Tennant back,

Doctor Apologetic? Doctor Tearful?

Doctor ActsWithHisTeeth?

Nope. Didn't miss him for a moment. And the whole Doctor/Rose thing should never have happened. They're still recovering from that.

So, it turns out the moon is a giant egg, and has been all along. WTF.

Soap and nonsense -- They've ruined it.

I won't be watching any more.

You know that, at the core of the show and its roots, it's for children?

 

[Moltuae]

You know that, at the core of the show and its roots, it's for children?

All the more reason to make it credible, in my opinion. At least most adults are probably old/wise enough to know what's scientifically ludicrous. Do we really want kids believing such nonsense?

 

[Xander]

Call me after you've reviewed Harry Potter

 

[Moltuae]

Call me after you've reviewed Harry Potter

lol Good point

I've never watched/read Hairy Pothead (nor would I watch it, even if you paid me to), but I think the difference - in my mind at least - is that stories/movies like those don't pretend to be anything but make-believe. You expect them to be completely ridiculous from start to finish and they don't try to explain how any of the 'magical' things work because we all know they don't. They're simply not meant to be taken seriously.

With more 'serious' sci-fi like Dr Who, however, you expect some amount of believability, especially when things are explained during the show as though they're real science. It's not so bad to when they're describing how some make-believe story element works, such as an alien craft or life-form, since it's possible to believe that the explanation might be correct (assuming it's not too far-fetched), but to take something that's well understood and known to science, like the moon, and explain it's existence in a way that is verifiably ridiculous, even at junior-level science, is just plain lazy writing in my opinion.

Perhaps it's just me (my g/f does say I have no imagination), 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, as it is in the greatest sci-fi creation of all time (which of course is 2001: A Space Odyssey ).

 

[Xander]

"....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?

And no problem with these little guys?

* Note the emphasis.