I did my fair share of cringing at the Tennant-isms during 11th Hour but I decided that I liked Smith enough in the other moments to continue watching the rest of the series ( except for the one with James Corden in ).
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I did my fair share of cringing at the Tennant-isms during 11th Hour but I decided that I liked Smith enough in the other moments to continue watching the rest of the series ( except for the one with James Corden in ).
I am partial to the 'Vampires in Venice' episode, i like the Vampires (who didnt?) and i thought it was a fun little romp in a nw setting. I will however say how much i hated the literal flick switch ending but passed it off as a swipe at the old regimes tactic, i also didnt like the male antagonist.
The Lodger and Beast Below episodes fall on my most disliked episode lists, Lodger simply because i dont like looking at James Corden which sounds petty but it bothers me lol and Beast was just a poor feeling episode but i passed that off as being a point where Moffats regime needed to find its feet.
I will admit i laughed at the new Dalek design and i do prefer the RTD era ones most but the iDaleks have grown on me, i love the scale of the things most as they look imposing again.
The Lodger and Beast Below episodes fall on my most disliked episode lists, Lodger simply because i dont like looking at James Corden which sounds petty but it bothers me lol and Beast was just a poor feeling episode but i passed that off as being a point where Moffats regime needed to find its feet.
I will admit i laughed at the new Dalek design and i do prefer the RTD era ones most but the iDaleks have grown on me, i love the scale of the things most as they look imposing again.
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The Lodger was a strange one. It felt like it was meant to be one of those episodes like Love and Monsters or Blink where the Doctor only pops up sporadically on the peripheral of the story, but he's there for the whole thing and it just ends up as some kind of bad Odd Couple type sitcom.
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I loved 'Vampires in Venice'! It was a really fun episode that introduced us to Rory! And who doesn't love Rory?
Please don't answer that...
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I'd just like to make my inaugural post in this thread by saying that I like each episode of the revitalized Doctor Who series in its own light. 
I'd just like to make my inaugural post in this thread by saying that I like each episode of the revitalized Doctor Who series in its own light.
Well put.
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I'd just like to make my inaugural post in this thread by saying that I like each episode of the revitalized Doctor Who series in its own light.
Even Daleks in Manhattan?!
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That's a perfectly acceptable position on "The Lodger", I can't stand the sight of Corden either.
I didn't really like "Vampires in Venice" as living in a house with a Twilight fan has made me a bit sick of them but the ones at the Live show looked nice
I liked the new Daleks right from the off and their extermination of RTD's Daleks was for me one of the high points of the series.......seeing them from around 30 feet away in the Trent FM Arena was even better
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That's a perfectly acceptable position on "The Lodger", I can't stand the sight of Corden either.
I didn't really like "Vampires in Venice" as living in a house with a Twilight fan has made me a bit sick of them but the ones at the Live show looked nice
I liked the new Daleks right from the off and their extermination of RTD's Daleks was for me one of the high points of the series.......seeing them from around 30 feet away in the Trent FM Arena was even better
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I really like the new Daleks too, I'm a bit surprised to see the overwhelming amount of hate they're getting. I just wish they'd have done away with the goofy plungers as well. I can't imagine why they've been so loyal to that silly design element for so long.
Apparently the "hump" at the back was supposed to open and the weapons were interchangeable but the budget ran out so they couldn't incorporate the feature in their first story.
Be intresting to see whether it gets incorporated next time they show up.
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From what I hear the backlash has been so great that they are going back to the old design.
Good riddence too, the new ones are just ugly. It really annoyed me that with the already reduced budget, they blew god knows what on these things just for the sake of a change that no one was asking for.
Good riddence too, the new ones are just ugly. It really annoyed me that with the already reduced budget, they blew god knows what on these things just for the sake of a change that no one was asking for.
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I'd just like to make my inaugural post in this thread by saying that I like each episode of the revitalized Doctor Who series in its own light.
Always glad to have more people in the Who thread.
Now, let me welcome you by informing you that you are absolutely bonkers for finding anything to "like" in "Love and Monsters".
Again, welcome!
Man, Love and Monsters is still one of my favorite NuWho stories.
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Actually I don't hate that story all that much. Its really trite, but it was a bit of mindless fun. Kept me relativly entertained. Atleast it didn't have any of the ridiculously stupid moments present in some of RTD's stories such as "The End of Time", or "The Last of the Time Lords"
'End Of Time' pretty much an entire episode of being melodramtic, wasnt the best way for Tennant to go at all, i liked how he fell out of a spaceship through a window and on to marble and was fine but Baker fell from less and died. The Last of the Time Lords was all good up untill (in typical RTD style) the last 15 minutes, i loved the first story and most of that one plus i was a fan of Simm's Master. I think of the master a bit like a cartoon villain always having the opportune moment to kill his adversary that he despises yet never actually doing it, Doctor Who would of lasted about one series if the bad guys stopped having a chat with the mortal enemy and just fired.
The Master was originally concieved by Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts as being the Moriarty to the Doctor's Holmes with the Brigadier as Dr Watson.
Which is why the Roger Delgado & Anthony Ainley versions were very much gentleman villains with a bit of Bond villain style insanity thrown into the mix.
The decaying version went a bit more pantomime but still conveyed a sense of menace that the modern incarnations failed at despite all their superpowers, silly voices and facial expressions.
Eric Roberts was bad, but Simm was far, far worse.
If the hideous attempt at Moriarty in his version of Sherlock Holmes is any incarnation I really don't want to see Steven Moffat bring the character back to face Matt Smith either.
Which is why the Roger Delgado & Anthony Ainley versions were very much gentleman villains with a bit of Bond villain style insanity thrown into the mix.
The decaying version went a bit more pantomime but still conveyed a sense of menace that the modern incarnations failed at despite all their superpowers, silly voices and facial expressions.
Eric Roberts was bad, but Simm was far, far worse.
If the hideous attempt at Moriarty in his version of Sherlock Holmes is any incarnation I really don't want to see Steven Moffat bring the character back to face Matt Smith either.
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Ah, see i always saw the Master much like Wile E. Coyote always being fooled and for me the Master felt like a comic Villain. The Simm master didnt need the sound of drums in his head by any means but i did like his relish at being everything the Doctor hated.
I didnt see the Sherlock Holmes by Moffat, i dont like Cumberbach as i dont have great hearing and his voice is odd and his dialogue is quite difficult to understand.
I didnt see the Sherlock Holmes by Moffat, i dont like Cumberbach as i dont have great hearing and his voice is odd and his dialogue is quite difficult to understand.
If you liked Simm as the Master you may well have liked Moriarty in Moffat's Holmes as he was very similar.
I just dislike the modern trend with villains who utilise silly voices and mannerisms to convey how "unhinged" they are as for me it just doesn't work........if someone like that threatened me I'd kick 'em straight in the nuts and take my chances because I couldn't take them seriously.
The super polite Roger Delgado style villain however.......I'd be heading for the hills
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If you liked Simm as the Master you may well have liked Moriarty in Moffat's Holmes as he was very similar.
I just dislike the modern trend with villains who utilise silly voices and mannerisms to convey how "unhinged" they are as for me it just doesn't work........if someone like that threatened me I'd kick 'em straight in the nuts and take my chances because I couldn't take them seriously.
The super polite Roger Delgado style villain however.......I'd be heading for the hills
That's why Delgado is still the best version of the Master to me. You have this cultured, reserved, well-mannered guy on the outside, but on the inside he's a completely amoral monster. Maybe he'll reason with you, maybe he won't. He was Hannibal Lecter before Hannibal Lecter. All of the versions that succeeded him were more of the mustache twirling variety and never seemed as threatening becuase there was nothing hidden behind the eyes, it's all right there in the open.
Well put!
I've just read an account of an early screening of the Christmas Special and I can reveal that the Doctor will get another new hat...........Character Options are seeing the pound signs already
Oddly enough I'm looking forward to this one as it's the first time in 3 years I'll be watching the Christmas episode instead of watching a favorite Classic story on DVD.
With the current team I reckon there's every chance of getting through it without the aid of alcohol
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