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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 13:35:10 GMT -5
First episode I saw was "A Good Man Goes to War" during the BBCA Christmas marathon a couple years ago. I've seen all of the Matt smith run, except the sixth season episodes before that one. I've started watching from the re-lanuch and am up to the episode where the Ood first appear. I've seen one episode of the original run (the first) and really disliked the Doctor.
I've also read a handful of the novels and have probably a dozen in my to-read pile (they're so cheap). I enjoy them just as much as the TV series. I have two of the Dark Horse omnibuses, but haven't read much yet. I really like the strip in the magazine when I can find it. Anybody know if that gets collected?
Matt Smith is my favorite Doctor, and my favorite companion is Rose.
I watched the first episode of Torchwood and didn't care for it. That may be partially because I was expecting the same tone as Doctor Who, but I really don't like Harkness much. I really want to watch some of the Fourth Doctor's run, because even before I knew what Doctor Who was I knew his image.
edit: Weeping Angels and The Silence are my favorite villains.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 27, 2014 14:22:27 GMT -5
The first season of Torchwood is not very good. Everyone in it is a total a-hole except Gwen, and even she has her moments for sure. I watched it before I saw the Captain Jack episodes of Doctor Who and was befuddled why anybody would like him as he's a complete tool.
The second season is much better than the first. And Jack is much more likeable on Doctor Who than he ever is on Torchwood.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 27, 2014 16:29:23 GMT -5
The first season of Torchwood is not very good. Everyone in it is a total a-hole except Gwen, and even she has her moments for sure. I watched it before I saw the Captain Jack episodes of Doctor Who and was befuddled why anybody would like him as he's a complete tool. The second season is much better than the first. And Jack is much more likeable on Doctor Who than he ever is on Torchwood. I could never get into Torchwood for that very reason, I liked Jack in Doctor Who but he wasn't the same in his own show. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 16:43:07 GMT -5
My first exposure to Doctor Who was the comic adaptation of Dr. Who and the Daleks, the first Peter Cushing movie. So when our PBS station started running the Fourth Doctor stories, I spent the first part of Revenge of the Cybermen waiting for the white-haired Doctor Who and his granddaughter to show up, and wondering why they kept calling the weird guy w/the scarf Doctor. I've seen all the classic Who from Pertwee on, and most of the Hartnell and Troughton stories, and all of the new Who.
It took 2 or 3 weeks for me to warm to Eccleston. While I liked Matt Smith's premiere, I didn't really like his Doctor until a year later, w/The Christmas Carol. David Tennant, I loved from the start. My favorite companion is Donna Noble, w/Martha second. And I'm expecting good things from Peter Capaldi. Who knows, with all the 'impossible girl' stuff out of the way, I may even find something to like about Clara.
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Post by berkley on Jul 27, 2014 20:09:23 GMT -5
Being from the UK, I grew up watching Dr. Who in the late '70s and early '80s -- Tom Baker and Peter Davidson were my era. But I sort of fell out of love with the series as I got older. I have absolutely no interest in watching anything from the post-2005 reboot and only a mildly nostalgic desire to watch old episodes from when I was a kid. There's no doubt that the series and characters are iconic, especially here in the UK, but since I turned 11 or so, the Dr. just hasn't interested me, I'm afraid. I think that's largely why I didn't get into it when it first began to air in Canada: I was around 10 years older than the target audience at the time, and had no nostalgic feelings from childhood to draw me into looking at it. I started watching the reboot in 2005 out of a mild curiosity and a lack of SF to watch on tv at the time, and was pleasantly surprised that this new version was geared to an older audience. Eccleston's performance was probably the main thing that kept me watching, but the writing was quite good at times as well. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 28, 2014 7:27:27 GMT -5
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 28, 2014 13:40:49 GMT -5
Funny story, when the wife and I were watching the episode where Clara was first shown (as a Dalek)... I said to her 'She's going to replace Amy next season'. My wife was totally incredulous, and thought I was an idiot, since Clara was a Dalek and clearly died at the end. Sometimes I think I've watched/read too much Sci fi  I'm looking forward to Capaldi's Doctor... I liked both Matt Smith and David Tennant, but, when you get right down to it, they played the character very similarly to each other, but very differently from just about everyone else. A new take should be really exciting. |
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Post by berkley on Jul 28, 2014 16:19:08 GMT -5
I like everything I'm hearing about Capaldi's Who - the darker, more serious air, ditching the misguided romantic angle ... the latter especially is something that has annoyed me ever since I started watching.
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Post by foxley on Jul 30, 2014 5:35:24 GMT -5
I certainly won't be upset if the new season concentrates a little more on the Doctor and a little less on the companions. I'll be extremely happy if it stops trying to make us interested in what is happening with the companion's family back on Earth. And I will be ecstatic if I never see River Song ever again.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 19:39:20 GMT -5
Still not sure if I'll like Daddy Doctor Who Capaldi...might be harder to adjust to after Matt Smith and David Tenant.
Spotted the Daleks in the trailer...where are the Cybermen??
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 30, 2014 22:34:50 GMT -5
I certainly won't be upset if the new season concentrates a little more on the Doctor and a little less on the companions. I'll be extremely happy if it stops trying to make us interested in what is happening with the companion's family back on Earth. And I will be ecstatic if I never see River Song ever again. Awww.. I like River..she was a nice foil/love interest, and they didn't explain too much. Just finished re-watching modern season 1 (some with the wife, some with my almost 14 year old)... my daughter's definitely now a fan... the 'Bad Wolf' story really hooked her |
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Post by foxley on Jul 31, 2014 2:26:08 GMT -5
To me he appears more of what the Doctor is supposed to be, but I'm a curmudgeon who has been watching since the days of Jon Pertwee. All this snogging just doesn't feel like the Doctor to me. I really liked John Hurt's War Doctor's reaction to hearing the phrase 'timey-wimey'. It just felt so perfectly Doctor-ish.
It's probably the curmudgeon in me, but River just rubs me the wrong way. I watch the show to see the Doctor, not watch some smug woman who knows everything that's going to happen before it happens, and can do everything the Doctor can do, only better. It just smacks of Mary Sue.
But that's just me and my curmudgeonly ways.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 31, 2014 3:37:58 GMT -5
I'm wondering if Capaldi is the Doctor Who actor who was the most famous before he did Doctor Who (not counting Curse of Fatal Death-actors and Peter Cushing).
Peter Davison did do All Creatures, which was pretty big, but he was a supporting actor in it, while Capaldi has been the lead several times. Pre-Tom Baker Doctors I know little about.
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Post by foxley on Jul 31, 2014 7:57:54 GMT -5
Doctor Who was Jon Pertwee's first major television role, but he was hugely popular as a radio comedian, starring in the long-running The Navy Lark on BBC radio (which he kept appearing in even when Doctor Who was on air).
William Hartnell was also quite well-known when he took on the role of the Doctor, having appeared as Sgt. Major Percy Bullimore in the sitcom The Army Game and as Sgt Grimshaw in the first Carry On movie Carry On Sergeant (which had so many of the cast of The Army Game in it, it could practically be considered a spinoff).
Patrick Troughton was a well respected character who was known, but not necessarily famous as he did not have a particular role associated with him.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 31, 2014 9:18:38 GMT -5
Looking at their IMDB pages, Jon Pertwee was Worzel Gummidge, which I recall was also quite popular, so he probably also scores high.
It could be because a lot of it was recent but Capaldi just seems to have had more high profile work. (And as a big fan of both Iain Banks and Neil Gaiman, he's had roles in Crow Road and Neverwhere, so that's bonus points to me. Though I realise that neither were actually succesful.)
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