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R1ch1e
August 7th, 2017 - 2:56pmThanks mate. I’ll set that to record!
Doctor Stu
August 7th, 2017 - 1:16pmJodie Whitaker is on Lorraine tomorrow morning for her first tv interview since the announcement if anyone’s interested (already posted but I thought it would make more sense it post it in this section)
T.A
August 6th, 2017 - 2:10pmI like NuWho more in the RTD era. I also think Moffat wrote better stories in the RTD era.
The Outcast
August 6th, 2017 - 8:16amNuWho could easily be better. A start would be getting rid of that Doctor romance trash. He’s an alien, not some cosmic boyfriend. The next would be realising that the Doctor’s backstory is better left alone. How many times has Moffat interfered in the Doctor’s past? Remember Name of the Doctor’s TARDIS scene? Or the Listen scene? Or the implication he only left Gallifrey cause he was scared of some ________ Hybrid prophesy?
I reckon the gender change can work, but I’m worried we’ll end up with a Doctor who makes the biggest deal out of becoming a female and sprouts lines like “why didn’t I become a female earlier, I’ve so much less ego” or ____ like that.
______ means whatever rude word you want.
The Moffat Paradox
August 6th, 2017 - 2:12amI’m actually between two stools here.The classic series set the bar but the modern series has at its best been event TV. Probably Inevitably with a bigger budget and also a more significant international audience they would go for self contained or linked 45 minute episodes and ones with story arcs over a whole series.
Where there has been a let down is in the writing with story arcs that become anti climaxes,or become too labyrinthine ( particularly when Moffat took over in the Matt Smith era) with resort to the now more notorious plot device of ” Timey Whimey” and the seeming in particular Moffat presumption that we just accept things as a given without a more logical explanation ;e.g. how Missy has appeared in “Extremis” for judgement without any background of how she escaped or was let go from Skaro without just being hexterminated by the Daleks at end of the The Witch’s Familiar”.
Which makes me wonder if this isn’t being plotting lazy if it’s because Moffat was as head writer a practioner of post modernism in his writing which certainly isn’t always jto my taste and not something he can get away with so easily when it’s Sherlock.And then of course there’s the implicit politicisiation of the modern series with pandering to political correctness and it’s ultimate expression with in universe tinkering to change the gender of the central character.which has grown from irksome to alienating.
Yet I think the really annoying and maddening thing about Moffat was that he can,as with the Weeping Angels have some GOOD IDEAS! Which is why I think he is a bit of a paradox and call myself here The Moffat Paradox.
Adam
August 5th, 2017 - 11:32pmBeautifully put nygel harrot….sadly the series has become a parody of it’s once great self under Moffat’s awful tenure!..and now nothing more but ‘Doctor who’ in name only under the BBC and Chibnall’s ‘alternate universe TIME LADY PC agenda driven’ rendition of a once great character….
Pats86
August 5th, 2017 - 2:35pmIndeed I have, and you will have noticed that others are of the same opinion as ourselves keep voicing your feelings and don’t let anyone try to stop you, Moffat, Chibnall and the BBC would like nothing more!
nygel Harrot
August 5th, 2017 - 8:51amGood morning Pats86, thank you for replying to my comment…I heart felt replied to some of your contributions before i left this one of my own . Hope you’ve seen them. 🙂
The Outcast
August 5th, 2017 - 8:10am^ Yes, I am like that too, but I really want a more manipulative Doctor.
Pats86
August 5th, 2017 - 7:20amIndeed the classic series had many CLASSIC stories, Nuwho has had some classic stories but nothing that can touch the original classics.
nygel Harrot
August 4th, 2017 - 10:41pmHere here Chris… but what i would really like to see is a black lesbian in dr.who. …WAIT a moment…Darn!! That didn’t work :/
nygel Harrot
August 4th, 2017 - 10:35pmCrumbs!!! You think the program is a success today!!!! I’ve said before on here … if it wasn’t for the ORIGINAL series this new version would have been taken off the air… It’s been feeding off its past achievements more than it’s been giving back.
nygel Harrot
August 4th, 2017 - 10:24pmPats86 I know what you feel, your story of the school assembly, your deep feelings about the program.. I agree with you totally. I’ve been watching the prog since 1963. I too have been very upset at the last 7 years… Its SO good to know that we are not alone in how we feel about this marvellous program. It used to be so very very good 🙁
nygel Harrot
August 4th, 2017 - 10:11pmWhat IF… They made some BRAND NEW stories that were as good as the old ones… Now that WOULD be a turn up 🙂
nygel Harrot
August 4th, 2017 - 10:04pmIts a funny thing.. people keep saying dr.who is all about change… when it’s change that’s killed it. Look back at the very first episode (well 1 and 2).. The wonderful Barbara Wright,(a mature woman who’s very likeable) ian ( a mature man … who’s very likeable) the marvellous Tardis were the Dr looks like he’s actually working and flying it. The excitement of travel. The mystery of the Dr. Its all there…. the more they’ve gone away from this formula the worse it’s got.
All the best dr.who’s have been the same formula…. Monster, invasion, defeat.
Just think the new who has been on the air for 12 years now… When the original had been on that time we’d had some CLASSIC really CLASSIC stories, monsters, companions … cant say that for this last 12 years 🙁
If this last seven years had been a brand new series with no link to the past… it would have been taken off the air… What makes Dr.Who great is the ORIGINAL series.
nygel Harrot
August 4th, 2017 - 9:49pmIf the choice of a female actor WAS that courageous they would have chosen someone over 55. Just PC.
nygel Harrot
August 4th, 2017 - 9:44pmIf Missy was so good … why didn’t she have more to do in this last season ???
booboo
August 4th, 2017 - 1:21pmIt was very heavily promoted on social media both here and the USA, the way most people in that age group get there info these days and people had to watch it to see if they liked it but they just weren’t watching in the first place.
Because of its very adult content the connection had to be kept low key one would imagine.
The viewing figures were terrible even taking everything into account.
(should say i enjoyed most of it but it get a bit repetitive towards the end)
The Outcast
August 4th, 2017 - 12:53pmI think Class failed because:
A) it didn’t have a good connection to the show (its set at that one school that appeared a couple of times and some Doctor Who things appear for about 5 minutes, wow, what a connection, unlike Torchwood or the Sarah Jane Adventures, where the main characters in the main show and had Doctor Who villains like Slitheen and Sontarans).
B) it wasn’t very good (Most people I’ve seen who have watched the entire thing dislike it)
C) it wasn’t well advertised and was put in the worst slot.
I think in future, if more spin offs are made they need to be well advertised, have characters we already know and have more of a connection to the show.
booboo
August 4th, 2017 - 12:32pmAgreed
It may also be the right time to look at another CBBC spin off, plenty they could do there
Does concern me that Class, aimed at young adults and those calling for wide representation of today’s society was an outright disaster both here and the states.
Doctor Stu
August 4th, 2017 - 12:21pmDoctor Who doesn’t know what it wants to be at the moment, back with RTD it was simple, Doctor Who was for the family, SJA was for the kids and Torchwood was for the adults. With Moffat series 5 and series 6 part 1 kind of followed this formula, then series 6 part 2 and definetly series 7 got a bit goofy and dumbed down and then series 8 and 9 were all over the place with series 10 trying again to be for the whole family. Chibnall needs to come in and set his tone from the outset and continue it for the duration that he’s in charge
Whovastron
August 4th, 2017 - 10:47amDavid Tennant was in Doctor Who before Harry Potter
Ralph
August 4th, 2017 - 8:05amI hope they never do this you can’t replace troughton, would be pointless watching.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2017 - 12:48amThankyou, perhaps the most sensible comment I’ve seen heard since July 16th.
booboo
August 2nd, 2017 - 7:11pmdepends on the audience its aimed at, but then things aren’t what they were
In the old days it used to be Doctor Who, Bath, bedtime story then sleep by 7.00
Prof Horner
August 2nd, 2017 - 7:05pmWould putting it on at 6.00 pm be such a bad think?
Ade
August 2nd, 2017 - 5:42pmCapaldi (who imho is the greatest Doctor since Tom Baker) chose to leave. I watched him being interviewed and he said that it’s ten months of extremely long days that goes into a series, and almost “factory like”. He wanted to leave while he was still doing his best work on the show.
Ade
August 2nd, 2017 - 5:39pmExcellent post.
Ade
August 2nd, 2017 - 5:31pmWhen I was a boy I had my Timelord hero.
Now that I am an old fart I still have my Timelord hero.
booboo
August 2nd, 2017 - 1:17pmunless of course they are going to turn it back into the “family show” to air around 6.00pm