Anyone into Dr Who?

Throatpunch

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I have watched some of the David Tennant series and read one of the books, so I was curious if anyone on here was a fan?
 
I liked it when New Who first came on. But it kind of lost its way a bit when Moffat went on board, bear in mind I didn't mind his first few Seasons, but I noticed the storylines were get disjointed, and there would be ridicules mid-seasons breaks which just broke up the storylines even further.
It was like when David was on board, you knew you were going to get a crap episode every now and then, but it didn't hide the fact it was crap, Moffat just tried to make every episode too good, and for that, some episodes fall too flat. My favourite episodes in the Matt Smith era were the ones with James Corden, and that's because those episodes just shut up for an hour and let the episodes just roll with themselves.

There's no doubt I will go back and watch through the new who again, just to see what I've missed, and considering Moffat has one more series in him, I look forward to seeing what a new showrunner can do.
 
The pre-reboot Doctor Who is some classic British television (Well, most of it) and I'd highly recommend watching it, particularly the eras of the 2nd, 4th and 5th Doctors. Post-2005 stuff was good too, for a while. With Eccleston and Tennant you still had that campy British feeling with moments and ideas of genuine science fiction. However, after David Tennant left the show began to take itself a little too seriously and whilst I enjoyed Matt Smith's first season it kind of sloped into shittiness from there and I dropped the show.
 
No but it's something I can see myself obsessing over. Like I do with scrubs, buffy, and fallout. I've been meaning to give it a fair shot.
 
I could never get into the classic Doctor Who series (too disjointed, pacing always felt off because of the 20 minute episodes).

I'm with Spacemunkey. Big fan of the Ninth Doctor. I like the fact that he's a condescending arsehole. Also, no episode topped Dalek.

I enjoyed the later seasons, but started to hate it when Moffat took over in 2010. The writing was just garbage Season 5 onwards.
 
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Hoh, boy. Yeah, I was a big fan.

I've watched pretty much every episode of the series and I've read a lot of the books; if it's an obscure piece of lore, chances are I know about it.

In my humble opinion as a major whophile, Classic Who was better for the most part. Eccleston was mostly good and so was Tennant in his first half, but the rest of the new series is pretty much wank as far as I'm concerned.

That isn't to say I dislike any of the new Doctors (with the exception of David "J. H. Christ" Tennant) but the episodes really are total shit. Capaldi was such a perfect opportunity to go back to the kind of hard sci-fi, coherent plot and just fun that made the old series so enjoyable, but instead, they decided to just go on again with their overarching plots and "clever" stories instead of intelligent ones.

Not only that, but it was somehow worse than Matt Smith's Doctor's stories, bless him. The only really good episode I can think of was Heaven Sent and that's only because Capaldi was the only fucker in it.

That's not to say that the old Doctors didn't have their own share of terrible plots; hell, that's a summation of Trial of the Timelord's entire arc. But the old ones weren't made with this expectation of greatness, this notion that the Doctor is the Space Messiah and that everything he confronts has to be "THE MOST X IN THE UNIVERSE".

Except for Seven, that is. And Eight.

You know what, never mind; the only thing worth your time is the extended universe stuff. I'd advise starting with Eight's audios or the Virgin New Adventure books.
 
I like Pertwee & Baker best; and liked the "Mountains of Mars" episode.

*I made this last month or so:
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