Chiara Francesco Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 The new Dr. Who, Matt Smith, is terrible I think! He makes the Dr. seem goofy and silly. Bad choice in the new Doctor! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npj8YbXG7AA&feature=player_embedded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Sorry, but Tom Baker was the best Dr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Well, Smith has been the Eleventh Doctor for two years now...series 5 and 6. Are you completely caught up? And the next two years will be his last - after the 50th anniversary in 2013 there will be a new doctor (2012 is mostly without Doctor Who because of the Olympics in London). Part of it is that Russel Davies left the show when Smith came on, and Steven Moffat took his place. I thought it was a really bad move for Davies to have Ten's last words be "I don't want to go!" - it totally split the fandom. But with Moffat the whole feeling of the show changed - much darker, but the villains and aliens were much less goofy. I actually think that Tennant's Tenth Doctor was much more a fluffy messiah doctor than Eleven. But Moffat has said that series 7 will return with more "episodic" stories, and fewer greater story arcs. Nine is my favorite Doctor, Martha was a rubbish companion and Rory is the best ever and is totally a person every man should aspire to be like. But I've only watched New-Who. I'm totally fine with Baker's reign as greatest Doctor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissMaro Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I agree that Tom Baker was far and away the best doctor, but I like Matt Smith quite a lot more than I thought I would. I was a fan of Tennant, but I'm starting to like Smith's doctor more. Smith does a good job with some pretty crazy material. Don't be too hard on him. It's okay to like both Tennant and Smith! (Or to dislike either for that matter, but it is just a matter of taste, not fact.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman82 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 (edited) The minute that Tennant picked up the sword and challenged the Sycorax to a swordfight in "Christmas Invasion" I knew I was going to like him. He also had a dark side to him. Unfortunately, it seems like the writers seem to run out of good storylines after awhile (especially during the sixth and seventh doctors in the 1980s). Interesting trivia question: does anyone know the significance of the relationship between the actors who play the fifth and tenth doctors? Edited October 27, 2011 by Norseman82 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmaD2006 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 (edited) [quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1319660018' post='2327408'] Sorry, but Tom Baker was the best Dr. [/quote] YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. My Dr. Who addiction waned and dwindled down about 3 or 4 doctors after him. But he's the one that had me completely hooked. Along with (if I remember right -- I'm going back like 15 years) Zoey. And for some reason this browser that I'm using is reporting an error so I can't give CatherineM a prop yet ... but its coming for sure! Edited October 27, 2011 by cmariadiaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I've never seen the old Baker stuff, so of the ones I have seen, love Tennant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmaD2006 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Well I'm old ... I remember watching the beginning episodes on public television. NJ42 (I think? It was the NJ public television station). Could barely get it in West Philadelphia, but I was dying to watch. Even at like 1am. I believe I saw all of the episodes up to Sylvester McCoy. And looking up on wikipedia ... now I know why my addiction stopped. THE SERIES STOPPED. lol There was another show too that was on in the same time period. Blake's 7? LOVED IT. Now ... I don't know what the connection between #6 and #10 is ... but I *thought* there was a limit to incarnations, and one of the doctors ate up a whole bunch of them. Or so I thought (was it Colin or Tom Baker?) Ah, the good ol' days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 [quote name='Norseman82' timestamp='1319679678' post='2327567'] Interesting trivia question: does anyone know the significance of the relationship between the actors who play the fifth and tenth doctors? [/quote] YES ITS THE COOLEST EVER. As far as the incarnations, there were originally only 12 per time lord, but the writers got around that in the past season. The Doctor was dying and River Song saved him by giving him the rest of her regenerations (she overdid the "saving" a bit), so she's back down to basically being mortal and the Doctor has at least ten more before they have to figure out what to do next. I see so many christological themes in the New Who. It's amesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Oh, I wish I could watch the old episodes! My thesis chair from my Masters watched them on public TV too when she was younger. She once spent three hours explaining one plot to me instead of reading my Lit Review. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmaD2006 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Oh I'd be in so-much-trouble if I ever got my hands on the entire series on, say, DVD. Big trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Then you could educate people though! So people as lost as I was wouldn't go "What do you mean regenerate? He's not the same guy, it's a different actor. Wait, he becomes a new person but is still part of the old and essentially the same guy?" I fell in love with Tennant's performance in the episode on Mars where he declared himself the Timelord Triumphant before the Master showed up again. Then his sheer human emotion when all the members still died, despite his intervention... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccountDeleted Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I was living in London when Tom Baker was the Doctor and I went to a book store where he was autographing books and posters and things. I bought a large poster of him as the Doctor and had him autograph it - he wrote "Love from the Doctor TDS" (TDS is medical jargon for three times a day). I was in seventh heaven at the time! lol I stopped being a fan after he left the series but really loved David Tennant as the Doctor years later. Then I watched a show about finding one's past ancestors and it turned out that David Tennant and I are related through our Scottish and Irish ancestors - it was so amazing to watch it unfold and realize that we shared some of the same ones! I don't watch it anymore because I work evening shifts but sometimes the writing is good, sometimes not so good. As for Blake 7 - I loved that series too - on around the same time as Tom Baker... and loved being in England at the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 [quote name='BG45' timestamp='1319686060' post='2327600'] Then you could educate people though! So people as lost as I was wouldn't go "What do you mean regenerate? He's not the same guy, it's a different actor. Wait, he becomes a new person but is still part of the old and essentially the same guy?" I fell in love with Tennant's performance in the episode on Mars where he declared himself the Timelord Triumphant before the Master showed up again. Then his sheer human emotion when all the members still died, despite his intervention... [/quote] The show definitely offers some interesting ideas about the relation between body and soul... And oh my gosh that episode was heartbreaking. The Vincent Van Gogh episode from Smith is one of the few I think is comparable in how many tears I shed at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmaD2006 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 [quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1319686279' post='2327601'] I was living in London when Tom Baker was the Doctor and I went to a book store where he was autographing books and posters and things. I bought a large poster of him as the Doctor and had him autograph it - he wrote "Love from the Doctor TDS" (TDS is medical jargon for three times a day). I was in seventh heaven at the time! lol I stopped being a fan after he left the series but really loved David Tennant as the Doctor years later. Then I watched a show about finding one's past ancestors and it turned out that David Tennant and I are related through our Scottish and Irish ancestors - it was so amazing to watch it unfold and realize that we shared some of the same ones! I don't watch it anymore because I work evening shifts but sometimes the writing is good, sometimes not so good. As for Blake 7 - I loved that series too - on around the same time as Tom Baker... and loved being in England at the time! [/quote] Gosh the memories. I was really hooked on Blake 7. I think at some point I was part of a mailing list and I had synopsis written on Blake 7 and on Dr. Who. Alas this was in the late 80's/early 90's before the web was the web, and it was still a college/university experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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