The Dr Who thread

[phattslagg]

Still a big 'Meh' from me.

Tennant was shit.

And there was I thinking how well he'd settled in already

I remember being pretty uncomfortable about certain aspects of Eccleston's Doctor this early on in last season. It took me quite a long time to see him as The Doctor and not 'Eccleston playing The Doctor' - with Tennant, I'm not finding this so much.

As for last night's episode - thoroughly good fun IMO. 8/10

[Spirit]

The music with me, it wasn't a case of being too loud, just overall a bit crap, didn't seem to work with me with this ep at all.

[HGFB]

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch? ... .org.uk%2F

[IronGiant]

Still a big 'Meh' from me.

Tennant was shit.

Couldn't disagree more (well, isn't that what we're here for? ) - I find Tennant immensely more suited to playing the Doc than Eccleston. He has though been saddled with some poor to mediocre lines from the pen of Davis.

I think the main problem that some people are having with this series are down to expectations - series 1 was a great hit (despite some stinker episodes) and people expected this series to hit the ground running. It hasn't, simply because of some lousy writing from Russell T Davis (which thankfully wasn't too bad in last night's episode - he would have been hard pushed to make it any worse than the first episode!).

Still, it's all subjective and what some people hate, others will love.

Thank goodness Davis hasn't written next week's episode with Sarah and K-9 .........

[IronGiant]

I do wonder what people are doing to make the music so loud, it never seems to get in the way of the dialogue for me. I take it you've calibrated your surround sound system with it's built in white noise
feature?

White noise feature? Nahhh, this is a 5 year old widescreen Panasonic.

Centre speakers are usually rather small, and rarely cope with the amount of sound a modern surround mix will throw at them. As such you usually either need to turn down your left and right to lowered levels anyway, regardless of Doctor Who, or turn up the center levels.

It sounded fine through the Centre speaker only, at least the dialogue doesn't drowned out by the music.

[HGFB]

The new Tardisode is up on the BBC website. Complete with Torchwood reference

[Snakey]

Stop it!

Heh, I'm not doing this on purpose, you know I WANT to like it but the guy doesn't appear to know what he's doing...

[merman]

There was a lot I liked - the mystery room, the way the Doctor added up the various clues, the valiant last stand and the general atmosphere of the episode.

Still, the explanation of the werewolf was a bit rushed, the Royal Family bit at the end was overplayed and they could have been a bit more subtle with working Torchwood into the plot.

[Ollie]

a bit rushed

I think that's been true of most of the new Doctor Who so far. They ought to do more 2 or 3 parters. The old stories had more time to develop.

[PVB]

a bit rushed

I think that's been true of most of the new Doctor Who so far. They ought to do more 2 or 3 parters. The old stories had more time to develop.

Then some will complain the stories are dragging on too long.

"You can't please all of the people all of the time."

[IronGiant]

a bit rushed

I think that's been true of most of the new Doctor Who so far. They ought to do more 2 or 3 parters. The old stories had more time to develop.

Then some will complain the stories are dragging on too long.

I was just about to say that ..........

I keep thinking that expanding the episode length (or making stories as 2 parters) would help with *certain* stories, but the opposite approach would be to fit stories into the 45 minute slot a lot better with improved writing, script editing and the like.

Due to Amazon's great pricing I've been watching a heck of a lot of X-Files episodes of late and many of these go a long way to showing what can be done in a 45 minute timeslot. There are some stunning episodes that have excellent plot and character development with great scripts and yet don't drag OR feel rushed.

It CAN be done ........ with the right people.

[Matrixxx]

a bit rushed

I think that's been true of most of the new Doctor Who so far. They ought to do more 2 or 3 parters. The old stories had more time to develop.

Then some will complain the stories are dragging on too long.

"You can't please all of the people all of the time."

True that, plus, we live in a faster world now - people demand instant gratification. I WANT THAT CAR NOW (credit), I WANT THAT FILE NOW (8meg broadband), IWANT TO SEE THAT SITE FULLY LOADED IN 3 SECONDS OR I SURF ELSEWHERE (browsing)... I WANT THE WHOLE SERIES OF LOST NOW INSTEAD OF WATCHING E4 EACH WEEK (newsgroups)

Some people have the patience to Babylon 5 it for the whole plot arc at one ep a week plus breaks between seasons, others want the series one all-in-one done and dusted episodes.

So as I said, a very different world to when Baker Baker and Davidson were at the helm.

[PurpleChair]

I'm preferring this series over the last one so far (off the back of two episodes etc etc).

Regarding this week's episode, I don't really see why they had to shove a load of bald kung-fu monks into the victorian Scotland. Except to give it a bit more C00L M4TR1X SH1ZN1T etc, of course. I guess the kids probably lapped it up.

What bugs me is that there's loads of little details that narrowly prevent it from being really good. Like the way the laser thing just stopped after the thing had left. I mean, I guess it made sense, if the moon moved out of the focus of the scope, but the way it just abruptly ended as soon as it was no longer needed really bugged me. If they'd just waited a few seconds and had it fade out a little slower, I probably wouldn't have noticed.

Also: "GIVE A HOOT - READ A BOOK!"

[Mayhem]

No HGFB spotted this?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 76,00.html

Possible reason why SJS and K9 are back next weekend?

[IronGiant]

A that picture a potential spoiler for the episode?