Please tell me some of those choices were ironic.
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There has yet to be a doctor that I didnt want to fook!
Quote: Charley @ July 3 2010, 8:55 PM BSTThere has yet to be a doctor that I didnt want to fook!
Shipman?
Quote: Godot Taxis @ July 3 2010, 8:14 PM BSTTalons of Weng Chiang
Brain of Morbius
Ark in Space
Robots of Death
Planet of Evil
The Time Warrior
Genesis of the Daleks
Carnival of Monsters
Hand of Fear
Masque of Mandragora
Horror of Fang Rock
The Ribos Operation
The Caves of Androzani
Someone has a boner for Baker, T. Some good picks, though I was extrmemly dissapointed with Morbius, which I watched for the first time last year.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ July 3 2010, 9:58 PM BSTSomeone has a boner for Baker, T. Some good picks, though I was extrmemly dissapointed with sexual intercourse, which I watched for the first time last year.
You little tinker.
Oh fy faan! It's the actors who make it worth watching. I find Troughton, Pertwee (especially Pertwee) and Tom Baker always watchable, even when the episodes are of dubious quality. Hartnell is also watchable, sometimes because of good stories, other times merely for the historical interest. Peter Davison was a little bit ordinary, having some great stories (Earthshock, The Visitation*) and some lame ones (Castrovalva, Warriors of the Deep). Colin Baker, well he made the part his own, but he took a bit of getting used to, partly because of the rainbow chunder cloak he had to wear (and because of Bonnie Langford toward the end). McCoy, saddled with awful companions (Bonnie Langford and Ace) and crap early episodes, also took some getting used to. With old Who, you may get occasional padding and some weak cliffhangers, but at least there's none of the excessive schmaltz ("woe is me, I'm the last of my kind and my companion has romantic feelings") of the latest series. Anyways, it's a just a kids' show. One of the high points of the DVDs is the special features. Some are excellent, particularly because they make it seem as if interest in an old kids' show is valid, and not a symptom of horrific social disorders that prompt one to watch old TV shows in the futile hope of returning to the simpler days of childhood.
* Good because they chucked away the sonic screwdriver; something that Moffat could do.
My life felt peculiarly partly empty this weekend because there was no Doctor Who.
You could always move to Australia, which is a couple of weeks behind the UK in the airing of Doctor Who. Last night I watched the first part of the Pandorica's Box story. Aside from my usual complaints (sonic screwdriver overused, romantic schmaltz, crying, etc), it wasn't too bad. I can only hope they keep him locked in the cube and we never see him again.
Quote: billwill @ July 4 2010, 10:04 PM BSTMy life felt peculiarly partly empty this weekend because there was no Doctor Who.
I found I missed the 'after-Who' forum debate...!
Episode 14 was a bit disappointing but Matt Smith was great. I think that's what I usually say.
Quote: Kenneth @ July 4 2010, 10:21 PM BSTI can only hope they keep him locked in the cube and we never see him again.
If you never watch the show again, then your wish will be granted.
Quote: Gagsy @ July 4 2010, 10:22 PM BSTI found I missed the 'after-Who' forum debate...!
Don't worry, we tend to make the same points every couple of weeks.
Quote: chipolata @ July 4 2010, 10:51 PM BSTDon't worry, we tend to make the same points every couple of weeks.
Godot will say why it's shit and the writers have no idea what they're doing, I'll blindly defend it, refusing to accept it had any faults; it's like a warm, cosy blanket of sameness. 
Quote: chipolata @ July 4 2010, 10:51 PM BSTDon't worry, we tend to make the same points every couple of weeks.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ July 4 2010, 10:54 PM BSTGodot will say why it's shit and the writers have no idea what they're doing, I'll blindly defend it, refusing to accept it had any faults; it's like a warm, cosy blanket of sameness.
Quote: sootyj @ July 3 2010, 8:28 PM BSTPlease tell me some of those choices were ironic.
You're out of your f**king mind-tank - every one of those stories is solid f**king gold. Brilliant scripts, brilliant sets, top acting, top rubber...
Just look at the brilliantly alien set of zeta minor in Planet of Evil, the design of the Voc Robots, Eldrad, the Morbius Monster, the original sontaran mask... Marcus Scarman stepping out of the time vortex and smokin' the fez fella in Pyramids, Tarran Kapel glammed up like Aladdin Sane addressing a room full of robots, Harrison Chase feeding raw meat to Keeler (not Christine) tied to a bed while he slowly changes into a krynoid, Davros slowly buckling in his chair when the Doctor switches off his life support, Morbius shouting in his tank in the cellar on Karn:"I see nothing, feel nothing. You have locked me into hell for eternity. Trapped like a sponge beneath the sea. Yet even a sponge has more life than I. Can you understand a thousandth of my agony? I, Morbius, who once led the High Council of the Time Lords, reduced to this - to the condition where I envy a vegetable..."
'Ironic choices'? F**k all the way off.