Well, I got to admit 10 in his cute brown suit, sneakers, and glasses is totally my nerd girl fantasy. I guess in comparison to 11 he seems emo. When you compare 9 and 10 though 9 seems way more emo. Though I enjoy the energetic madcap attitude 11 has.
I don't know if this was posted before, but it is still awesome:
Started on the 11th, now going back through 9th and 10th (just entering Martha Jones...' season.) Now watching all of Perwee's Dr. It's the adaptability of the Dr. that makes it most enjoyable and continuously socially aware. The 3rd Dr.'s first adventure has him dealing with the Nestine consciousness, a living alien, hive-minded plastic entity that used display dummies to attack England. The 9th Dr.'s first appearance has him battling them again. David Tennent dealt with a TV that stole people's identities and faces. With the 11th, I find Moffat has a great doctor, young-hearted, spontaneous and kooky but dangerous if provoked. His first season with Amy Pond felt like a Fairy Tale (being an imaginary friend, a girl's dream and then, the magical genie at her own wedding). This current season I find the first story arc bizarre and contradicting a lot of rules set in the last incarnation, or even in the last season. I feel Moffat is sacrificing his AMAZING cast (love the 11th and his relationship with child-at-heart Pond and everyman, Rory) to tell a very ambitious story. I'd see X-Files dealing with the story a little better, but I'm watching the show because I love the characters.
Dr. Who has always been about the Deus Ex Machina solves-all mentality. He's the Doctor, after all. I just felt more consistency and, if I may stretch the term, believability in the 10th universe. When he found the secret to defeating the enemy, it made sense for the rules of the universe as set earlier in each episode. (this observation is made before encountering the new master, and anything involving Martha Jones and Beyond). The 11th seems to pull loopholes out of nowhere.
I enjoyed the extreme polarization and change between the 9th and 10th: the guerrilla, embittered surviving warrior becoming the openly emotional, caring but rude interloper. The 11th feels like he's trying to make his choice as to what the Dr. should be. But not everything needs labels, and since time can be rewritten, and everything is open to change, I'm interested to see where Moffat takes this season.
Most people hate spoilers and that goes double for writers and creators. As story tellers, the plot is only a part of what they have to offer, but knowing the full plot ahead of time can nullify the other elements utilized in crafting a full show for the viewer because it can then feel stale. What is there to think about it beyond the fact that one could see how it is annoying for the writers? If you watch the video in the article, it kind of says it all.
Moffat is a genius, and has been a fan of DW since he was just a little kid. I fully understand and identify with his reason; spoilers don't help you love a show or work, the work itself is the only proper means of conveying that message.
I pretty much agree, I hate spoilers myself. If I wrote something and someone spoiled it even before it was really out with a crapply written summery, I'd be pretty pissed also. Large part of what makes Doctor Who great are the surprises and spoilers are like a punch to the gut to the story.
God god, it will be too long before new episodes start coming out. I may not like the 11th or Amy that much, but there is just too much for me to not continue watching at this point. I mean really, Hitler?
And It did not see a David Tennant-shaped anything in that trailer, and I'd rather not have my hopes up only for them to be crushed mercilessly.
Really? I agree that Sherlock was good but man it feels like he is screwing everything up. River Song was painful, Amy Pond has lost all character and the stories are just a bit flat. I know people will list some of what they feel to be his best episodes, and some are, but then look at those that aren't so good. It feels like the older vibe of polar extremes to just 'Look at the doctor being all loopy-fruity-doopy lets try this thingamyboby'. I don't get the feeling that the Doctor is a man haunted by his actions trying to vainer over it. I would also raise the point that it was Russell T Davis that brought the series back. As for Torchwood just don't get me started, its like watching someone brake dancing in their own vomit. Yes it does look nice and I'm sure that they are very talented but it is still someone brake dancing in their own vomit.
I can only think of one or two episodes since the start of season five that I didn't think were excellent. Also, you do realize that Davies is the one responsible for Torchwood, right?
I could maybe see how people don't like River Song, but personally I like her at least the idea, presentation could be better, but it's nothing that could be called painful. Amy and Rory I like a lot. I just love it how Moffat has the right balance of scary, action and humor is his episodes. They are quite dark and serious, but are still able to throw in some of the best jokes in the series, pulling that well is respectable skill I say.
I take it back entirely over the Torchwood. For some reason everything that I read pointed me towards Moffat being one of the writers for Miracle day. Apparently I was wrong the internets lied to me. Sorry.
I couldn't place a single episode but none of them have made me want to set my pants on fire. Its a feeling that I have been getting with some of my friends here. I would be interested to see the difference of views between the UK and US audiences over what they felt were the good parts of Doctor Who.
I would be interested to see the difference of views between the UK and US audiences over what they felt were the good parts of Doctor Who.
I'm from neither the US nor the UK, but I'll answer anyway.
I couldn't place a single episode but none of them have made me want to set my pants on fire.
On average, I'd say there is around one such episode every season of the new Who; this current season hasn't had one yet. However, the 2010 Christmas special, "A Christmas Carol", was brilliant. It was a Moffat episode, and looking back through prior seasons for the episodes that truly stood out, most of them were as well.
From this season's episodes, I feel like the two-parter with the Flesh had a lot of potential, but it was far too blunt at times, and its execution could've been much better.
Its just a trend that I have notice in tallking to my other friends. They found the older Eccleston/Tennant episodes to be the best with Smith falling rather flat. Conversly those that I know in the US found the newer episodes to be better.
had a lot of potential, but it was far too blunt at times, and its execution could've been much better.
I think, for me at least, that sums up the latest session for me. There was a lot of cool things that could have been done but just weren't. I don't know if I have been drunk on the heady days of Tennant for to long or that the series is spiralling down the plug, but for me Doctor Who has lost a lot of what made it good.
So, I just finished up Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords, and I just have this to say:
Russel Davies can write, but they need to keep that man 200 feet from any ending to any series ever. Granted, it wasn't as bad as Parting of the Ways, but still...
So, I just finished up Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords, and I just have this to say:
Russel Davies can write, but they need to keep that man 200 feet from any ending to any series ever. Granted, it wasn't as bad as Parting of the Ways, but still...
My question is, that no matter what we do at the end of time humanity will become those little flesh eating cyborg/brains monsters? Well, that kind of sucks. I hope Steven Moffat fix that ASAP.
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Well, at least so far :O
I don't know if this was posted before, but it is still awesome:
It's the adaptability of the Dr. that makes it most enjoyable and continuously socially aware. The 3rd Dr.'s first adventure has him dealing with the Nestine consciousness, a living alien, hive-minded plastic entity that used display dummies to attack England. The 9th Dr.'s first appearance has him battling them again. David Tennent dealt with a TV that stole people's identities and faces.
With the 11th, I find Moffat has a great doctor, young-hearted, spontaneous and kooky but dangerous if provoked. His first season with Amy Pond felt like a Fairy Tale (being an imaginary friend, a girl's dream and then, the magical genie at her own wedding).
This current season I find the first story arc bizarre and contradicting a lot of rules set in the last incarnation, or even in the last season. I feel Moffat is sacrificing his AMAZING cast (love the 11th and his relationship with child-at-heart Pond and everyman, Rory) to tell a very ambitious story. I'd see X-Files dealing with the story a little better, but I'm watching the show because I love the characters.
Dr. Who has always been about the Deus Ex Machina solves-all mentality. He's the Doctor, after all. I just felt more consistency and, if I may stretch the term, believability in the 10th universe. When he found the secret to defeating the enemy, it made sense for the rules of the universe as set earlier in each episode. (this observation is made before encountering the new master, and anything involving Martha Jones and Beyond).
The 11th seems to pull loopholes out of nowhere.
I enjoyed the extreme polarization and change between the 9th and 10th: the guerrilla, embittered surviving warrior becoming the openly emotional, caring but rude interloper. The 11th feels like he's trying to make his choice as to what the Dr. should be. But not everything needs labels, and since time can be rewritten, and everything is open to change, I'm interested to see where Moffat takes this season.
And It did not see a David Tennant-shaped anything in that trailer, and I'd rather not have my hopes up only for them to be crushed mercilessly.
As for Torchwood just don't get me started, its like watching someone brake dancing in their own vomit. Yes it does look nice and I'm sure that they are very talented but it is still someone brake dancing in their own vomit.
I couldn't place a single episode but none of them have made me want to set my pants on fire. Its a feeling that I have been getting with some of my friends here. I would be interested to see the difference of views between the UK and US audiences over what they felt were the good parts of Doctor Who.
From this season's episodes, I feel like the two-parter with the Flesh had a lot of potential, but it was far too blunt at times, and its execution could've been much better.
Russel Davies can write, but they need to keep that man 200 feet from any ending to any series ever. Granted, it wasn't as bad as Parting of the Ways, but still...