the show has sadly dipped in quality
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So far this series the episodes have a bad early 80s feel to then.
Short attention span stories with a not very scary monster
All wrapped in 20minutes with a very tea time kiddies feel
Compare these to the john sim master episodes of recent years and some of the donna episodes
Short attention span stories with a not very scary monster
All wrapped in 20minutes with a very tea time kiddies feel
Compare these to the john sim master episodes of recent years and some of the donna episodes
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So far so good.
In one story, The Doctor is saved by people chanting his name. In another, an Ice Warrior is rescued by his own people whom he believed dead, and so decided to spare the Earth.
Remind me, which one is more childish again?
*sigh*
And for the record, Seasons 18-21 (1980-1984) is my personal favourite era of Classic Who, so comparing Series 7 to them is glowing praise IMO. (Dodges brick)
Yes, but this one's complaining that the stories are too simple. It's therefore entirely different from the past two years' worth of threads complaining that the stories have become too complicated.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a473903/doctor-who-50th-daleks-cybermen-to-team-with-zygons.html
Which just goes to show that you really can't please any of the people any of the time
By the way...And this is sort of 'Who' related. I was watching an episode of Robin of Sherwood on DVD two hours ago, and it was the Series 3 episode 'The Pretender'. It featured William Russell (Ian Chesterton from 60s 'Who'), as the Duke of Gloucester. He was credited as Russell Enoch, and not William Russell.
I googled Russell Enoch and found out that his full name is William Russell Enoch.
Kiddies Feel? With the amount of analysis i see on here after each episode about hidden meanings in episodes etc the kids don't stand a chance
The Master episodes were good, shame that it was probably the only original series finale in RTD's time (bar The End of Time and The Parting of Ways), every other episode seemed to be "Oh no! Daleks/Cybermen invading London!"
The episode for me could've been better. All this hype about the Ice Warriors returning, and then we get a less than perfect 45 minutes.
I was hoping for loads of Ice Warriors. Instead of which, we only get one, and he takes his head off too!
I'm not as excited about the rest of the series. I just hope that the show gets better. I mean, it is the anniversary year. Surely, you can expect great episodes to be broadcast. <Tut! Tut!>
Definitely, hey... Is that a fact?
Actually, no. It's not a fact. Just your opinion. There's nothing 'definite' about any perceived dip in quality. Typing it ALL IN CAPS doesn't make it anymore a fact, either.
Waris Hussein made similar comments just a number of days ago. Go figure.
Yes, a lot of the stories from 2005 onwards have been set in London. As I heard someone say a few years ago, Why doesn't the Doctor go overseas or to a few other places in the UK?
It seems to be London this and London that, more than it doesn't. I don't know if anyone thinks the same, but to tell you the truth, I AM getting quite bored when it comes to London in 'Who'.
It's one of the things that I prefer about Moffat Who, we've only had The Power of Three and The Bells Of St. John that have really been about London
This^^^
Yet another thinly veiled "I want everyone to agree with me and prefer Davies to Moffat so I'll try and convince them it's the majority view" thread.
I quite agree, though it's not as much of an issue now as it was during the RTD era, when it felt like every other episode was set in London. It's been less predominant since Moffat took the reigns.
On a similar note I feel it's time for an overseas companion after Clara goes. All of the main companions so far in Nu-Who have been from the UK, and most of them from London. How about somebody from a part of the world that hasn't been explored yet, or hasn't been explored much?
It seems odd that with all of time and space at his feet The Doctor almost invariably ends up travelling with people from 20th/21st century Britain.
Oh and Doctor Who is a kids show. The fact that thousands of thirty somethings are obsessed with it, myself included, doesn't actually change that.
Couldn't agree more
Another thinly veiled attempt at keeping the RTD versus Moffat or Tennant versus Smith discussion going, and everyone, as always, latches on to it.
As for if being a "kids show", if it were a kids show it wouldn't be on BBC1 any more or have the same budget.
But it is becoming a kids show that's for sure. I fear for it's future.