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No. I hate Whoville and all the Whovians that inhabit it.Surtur said:
The Hunter said:No. I hate Whoville and all the Whovians that inhabit it.
You should make room in your chest for your heart growing a couple sizes in the near future.
I love Doctor Who, but can never keep up with it when the season is current; I wait until I can marathon-watch it.
It's weird because it's not the kind of show I would typically watch and for a while I poo-poo'd it, but there is something really endearing about it and it's made me cry like a baby quite a few times.
It's weird because it's not the kind of show I would typically watch and for a while I poo-poo'd it, but there is something really endearing about it and it's made me cry like a baby quite a few times.
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I've been slacking on the last few seasons because the Pond's are kind of grating, IMO. So I'm very excited to get to the new companion.
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Oh she's cute enough, I just can't pinpoint what it is I don't like about her. It might be her accent or just the character itself. Rory too.
It's like, I watch the extra stuff when they're not in character and they're so likable but I can't sit through a season of them without being bored and annoyed. However, Vincent and the Doctor is one of the most amazing episodes of anything ever.
I love Doctor Who.
I watch it whenever it's on.
I watch it whenever it's on.
I'm a Doctor Who hipster; I liked it before it was cool. In Winnipeg, where I lived when I was really young, maybe 3, the old black-and-white episodes of Doctor Who were on right before Ninja Turtles so I would watch it all the time waiting for the Turtles to come on. Even the theme song scared the hell out of me, and at that age I totally bought the crappy costumes. I'm probably one of the few people under 30 and outside of the UK for whom the Daleks are genuinely menacing, owing to them being a childhood fear.
I can't remember what year the Canadian version of the American specialty channels came out (like Space: The Imagination Station) but whenever that was was when I started watching Doctor Who again. It's almost quaint to think of how we watched television back then, at the mercy of scheduling. And I kept with it right until and through the new series. I was one of the stupid pissy nerds who were all upset by Eccelson's costume when it was announced, the whole thing.
As an aside: the two kind of obscure-at-the-time franchises I liked as a child (Aliens (plus Aliens vs. Predator) and Doctor Who) suddenly became really popular when I became an adult. It's weird because I don't remember anyone liking that shit but me as a kid. Now there are entire stores in Taiwan and Japan (at the very least) that exclusively sell Aliens and Predator sculptures made out of scrap metal.
Both of my sisters are really into it too, probably more than I. My youngest sister built a life-sized replica TARDIS which she keeps in her apartment. She has all kinds of ridiculous nonsense like that. She bought me a Martha Jones life-sized cardboard stand-up for Christmas one year which is as embarrassing as it is cumbersome.
The show is and always will be very hit or miss. RTD is a decent Executive Producer but he's a terrible writer and it boggles my mind that so many people think he's good. Every one of his Doctor Who season finales can be summed up with the following pattern: Davies writes himself into a corner, then someone briefly becomes god and undoes everything.
Stehpen Moffat was consistently writing the best episodes every season so making him EP was a great choice. At the very least the story arc episodes are better now. The Big Bang, despite still having a bit of a Peter Pan ending at the very end, is easily the best finale they've done. At the very least the central problem is dealt with in a way that doesn't feel like cheating.
I can't remember what year the Canadian version of the American specialty channels came out (like Space: The Imagination Station) but whenever that was was when I started watching Doctor Who again. It's almost quaint to think of how we watched television back then, at the mercy of scheduling. And I kept with it right until and through the new series. I was one of the stupid pissy nerds who were all upset by Eccelson's costume when it was announced, the whole thing.
As an aside: the two kind of obscure-at-the-time franchises I liked as a child (Aliens (plus Aliens vs. Predator) and Doctor Who) suddenly became really popular when I became an adult. It's weird because I don't remember anyone liking that shit but me as a kid. Now there are entire stores in Taiwan and Japan (at the very least) that exclusively sell Aliens and Predator sculptures made out of scrap metal.
Both of my sisters are really into it too, probably more than I. My youngest sister built a life-sized replica TARDIS which she keeps in her apartment. She has all kinds of ridiculous nonsense like that. She bought me a Martha Jones life-sized cardboard stand-up for Christmas one year which is as embarrassing as it is cumbersome.
The show is and always will be very hit or miss. RTD is a decent Executive Producer but he's a terrible writer and it boggles my mind that so many people think he's good. Every one of his Doctor Who season finales can be summed up with the following pattern: Davies writes himself into a corner, then someone briefly becomes god and undoes everything.
Stehpen Moffat was consistently writing the best episodes every season so making him EP was a great choice. At the very least the story arc episodes are better now. The Big Bang, despite still having a bit of a Peter Pan ending at the very end, is easily the best finale they've done. At the very least the central problem is dealt with in a way that doesn't feel like cheating.
Surtur said:
Even being a movie buff/geek thing is exploding from my perspective. When I was a kid it couldn't even sustain a monthly comic series, it was all just different limit series. The concept was taken about as seriously as "Batman vs. Terminator" or, possibly the greatest such series, "Alien vs. Predator vs. Terminator vs Darkness vs Witchblade". Even having one movie was just a beautiful impossible dream when I was super into Alien vs. Predator. Now there's multiple movies, merchandise, all kinds of shit and I couldn't care less.
As an aside: I'm so knowledgeable about this Aliens bullshit that I was able to identify the movie Prometheus as an Aliens movie after viewing maybe a 1/4th of the original teaser. This more than any of the new Aliens stuff I wish existed when I was young and might have cared.
Edit: Oh shit yeah, Doctor Who
Here are the 5 best episodes, in order:
5) The Big Bang: This episode grabs you from the start and doesn't let go until... just before the end. Okay the actual ending ending sucks, but everything up to and including the solution of the central problem is fantastic. This would have made a great last episode of Doctor Who if
they just let the Doctor sacrifice himself to save the universe and become just a legend.
4) Remembrance of the Daleks: I love the Seventh Doctor and his whole deal, and this is him at his best and against his most iconic foes. I don't want to ruin it but suffice it to say that the Seventh Doctor is great because he acts like an idiot while simultaneously manipulating everyone around him (even and especially his companions). It does have some stupid stuff with a technobabble Dalek killing baseball bat, but whatever they needed to give Ace something to do.
3) Genesis of the Daleks: This is the definitive Dalek episode, and it has one of the most powerful and telling character moments that the Doctor ever faces. As an added bonus for fans of the new series it was also the the first strike in what would become the Time War.
2) The Pirate Planet: I don't even need to say why this episode is great, I can just list the ingredients: Tom Baker Doctor, Romana I, and Douglas Adams. This is the episode I show to people who have only seen the new series and who want to get a sense for the old series at it's best.
1) The Girl in the Fireplace: When I first saw this episode is blew my mind that a new series episode was actually better than any old series episode I could think of. This is my favorite episode of Doctor Who, bar none. It has everything that makes the series great and then some extra stuff they usually don't do well. This is the episode I show to people who have never seen the series to trick them into getting emotionally invested in Doctor Who. It also has "what-could-have-been" Micky Smith where the character is actually written entertainingly for the first and only time.
I could have bought a DVD of Remembrance of the Daleks yesterday. (it was the first Doctor Who story I saw)
I ended up getting a different DVD.
I ended up getting a different DVD.
Not a fan of it anymore. I used to love it, but the quality has gone way down recently.
Bad Wolf was a hard storyline to top and nothing's come close. It feels like Moffat is trying to make every episode as scary and intense as Blink (which was a brilliant episode) and it's not working. Oh look, they're in a dollhouse. Oh no, spooky living dolls! Oooooooo! Good heavens, poorly-CGIed rubbery doppelgangers! Horrifying! The Weeping Angels only THINK you're looking at them! That didn't ruin the effect at all! And don't get me started on Asylum of the Daleks, which was probably the worst episode of modern Doctor Who I've ever seen.
I don't really know how to finish this post, can't think of a snappy conclusion.
Bad Wolf was a hard storyline to top and nothing's come close. It feels like Moffat is trying to make every episode as scary and intense as Blink (which was a brilliant episode) and it's not working. Oh look, they're in a dollhouse. Oh no, spooky living dolls! Oooooooo! Good heavens, poorly-CGIed rubbery doppelgangers! Horrifying! The Weeping Angels only THINK you're looking at them! That didn't ruin the effect at all! And don't get me started on Asylum of the Daleks, which was probably the worst episode of modern Doctor Who I've ever seen.
I don't really know how to finish this post, can't think of a snappy conclusion.
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