BeauLarkyBuff
4:12 Wed Nov 3
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Haven't watched it since William Hartnell.
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twoleftfeet
4:08 Wed Nov 3
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The next Dr Who is going to be a gay black man.
The BBC are elated.
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El Scorchio
3:40 Wed Nov 3
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Yes- all that 'unveiling show' stuff was absolute cringe. Pretending that the world didn't already know. And why should we care about having a 30 min interview with the actor blowing smoke up the BBC and showrunners arses and going on about how honoured they are to have the gift and responsibility this character bestowed upon them.
If anything, just get the actor on the fucking One show the week before the series starts for an informal chat about it.
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GBHammer63
3:39 Wed Nov 3
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Couldn’t watch it now but was a regular viewer growing up into my teens, Sarah Jane Smith was probably the best reason for watching. Say no more.
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Jez
3:19 Wed Nov 3
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It began taking itself too seriously at the end of the Matt Smith era, most notably the 'reveal' show the BBC had when they 'unveiled' Peter Capaldi, even though the world knew after bookies shut betting on him.
There's never a need for more than one companion, and Christopher Ecclestone was the best since its reboot, though David Tennant had the best scripts.
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Moncurs Putting Iron
2:25 Wed Nov 3
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Ha ha Nurse is into Dr Who. What a fucking saddo.
Ooo that will get her weeping you being cut down by an intellectual colossus such as yourself.
Watched less after Tennant but still an entertaining UK institution why is it sad to watch it Swiss?
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Swiss.
2:20 Wed Nov 3
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Ha ha Nurse is into Dr Who. What a fucking saddo.
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the coming of gary
1:12 Wed Nov 3
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i've never really watched it , although i thought Christopher Eccleston was a good UPDATING of image with leather coat and crew cut
.. i think after him though, it went back to bow ties and stripey scarves
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Northern Sold
1:08 Wed Nov 3
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Not seen it since they had a metal dog on it... watched it when Pertwee drove around in bessie being chased by Giant green maggots... and then I kissed a girl... and have never bothered watching since
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El Scorchio
12:59 Wed Nov 3
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It became 'the Clara show with Jenna Coleman and Peter Capaldi'.
That's exactly it- and it was why the Capaldi Doctor was so shit. They made him basically a weak bumbling secondary character. I remember there being talk at the time that it was a swerve and Clara had actually been the Doctor all along.
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zebthecat
12:54 Wed Nov 3
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Nurse Ratched 8:42 Tue Nov 2
Those were good and very dark.
They had to cut some scenes from them as they were deemed too scary to broadcast in the family entertainment slot.
The last series of Torchwood (Children of Earth) showed where Who could have gone.
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Nurse Ratched
8:42 Tue Nov 2
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I despised Martha. She was such a drip. I've seen the actress in other things and she is dire.
I loved the double part story 'The Empty Child'
Also there was a very unusual episode that had the marvellous Marc Warren in it. It was a different sort of pace and The Doctor was barely in it. Not even Shirley Henderson could spoil it.
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plankton
8:35 Tue Nov 2
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It's really not a lot to do with the actors - it's to do with the scripts. if you don't have a decent script in front of you it'll make any actor tear their hair out.
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zebthecat
5:31 Tue Nov 2
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Russel T Davis is back in charge after the current series finishes so that is promising.
Silence in the Library was excellent.
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Athletico Easthamico
5:28 Tue Nov 2
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Silence in the Library.
The girl who waited. ( Fit Amy and old wrinkly Amy)
A Christmas Carol. With Katherine Jenkins .
All very good but again with Tennant or Smith.
It's now too PC, has too many companions, and needs a thorough overhaul or just be binned.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
5:25 Tue Nov 2
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The decline is most obvious in the companions, who have become far too important.
Rose was OK, although I find Billie Piper extraordinarily irritating. Martha was pretty good, but was booted out far too soon for the appalling celebrity turn, Donna (Catherine Tate). Amy (sighs...) and Rory was a return to form, but Clara, fucking Clara... It became 'the Clara show with Jenna Coleman and Peter Capaldi'. As for the companions since her, they have all been mere cyphers, caricatures of various woke stereotypes. Poor Bradley Walsh. Matt Lucas is a cunt who probably doesn't know how shit he was.
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zebthecat
5:15 Tue Nov 2
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Forgot about that one mashed.
Helped that Lesley Sharpe was creepily brilliant in that one.
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El Scorchio
5:08 Tue Nov 2
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Out of the new ones, David Tennant's (the best of the new doctors by a mile IMO- Capaldi could have been good but the writing was atrocious and they almost made him the secondary character) first two seasons were the best. There were some really great standalone stories and clever season arcs.
It all went to absolute shit after that with horrible cringeworthy celebrity cameos, stupid inexplicable plots that were trying to be overly 'clever' and didn't really make sense, weak writing, and some sort of weird focus on sex, sexuality, relationships mixed with schmaltzy teary eyed family crap which totally overshadowed what the show is meant to be- simple light hearted sci-fi/horror stories with a lot of tongue in cheek humour. There has been the odd good one off episode but mainly total garbage.
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Athletico Easthamico
4:48 Tue Nov 2
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Family of Blood
Girl in the fireplace.
Vincent van Gogh
All those stories were fantastic.
But you've got to go back pre Capaldi for those ones.
Can't remember a decent one from Capaldi or Whittaker.
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