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Post by personunknown on May 8, 2022 18:27:10 GMT
I am absolutely furious that the new Doctor incarnation is that of a black man. Bad enough that the current one is a woman. It started going wrong with David Tenant with a Scottish accent.Everyone knows that Time Lords are middle aged white males. What next?
A Muslim lesbian cat?
Political correctness gone mad.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2022 18:33:23 GMT
I'm sure Tenant had an English accent which infuriated some Scots.
Personally, I've not watched it for years. However, it's only a matter of time before there's a transgender Time Lord.
Give me Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee anyday and the crap special effects and cardboard sets.
Better still Get Blakes 7 back on which looked even cheaper🤣
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Post by politician2 on May 8, 2022 21:01:10 GMT
My prediction was that the next Doctor would be black, as the last one was a woman. Like Roguey, I suspect the next one will be transgender.
I haven't seen the new actor in anything else, so I'll reserve judgement, but I think he – like any actor – will struggle with the pacing of "new Who", as the 45-minute standalone episode format doesn't allow for much character development.
I wish they'd managed to get Kris Marshall, as he does "otherworldly" very well, and my yardstick for a great Dr Who is whether the actor can convince me he's an alien, not someone behaving wackily to appear alien.
I'm currently rewatching the original series from the beginning, and William Hartnell managed to pull off "alien" very effectively – he's brilliantly aloof and mysterious. He, Tom Baker (the greatest of them all) and Matt Smith were to my mind the three actors who gave the best performances in the series, though I have a soft spot for most of the other Doctors.
The astonishing thing is that Hartnell was the age I am now when he started in the series, yet he looks 70+. Admittedly, the long straggly wig helps, but men certainly aged badly in those days…
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2022 22:51:34 GMT
I think the modern Doctors were all a bit contrived to be honest apart from Christopher Eccleston.
The best Doctor Who was, of course Peter Cushing in the 2 films they made in the 60's. He was certainly the most likeable anyway.👍
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Post by doug61 on May 12, 2022 16:45:20 GMT
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Post by doug61 on May 13, 2022 13:07:16 GMT
Troughton and the Cybermen in the London underground was how I started with Doctor Who, terrifying stuff it seemed at the time. Pertwee was okay and then baker and the rubbish tin dog put me off until the reboot, although I vaguely remember some good things about the one off with the bloke from Withnail and I.
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Post by zeopold on May 13, 2022 14:00:51 GMT
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Post by jonpunk on Aug 26, 2022 16:02:20 GMT
I think it is truly awful these days .Plots are minimal , like the BBC it is so woke these days , I have barely watched it since Jodie Whitaker took over. , though that was because she looks a bit like a team leader who I sometimes work with at work , who I can't stand .I get the idea sometimes that the stories are made up as they go along, sometimes it is just ridiculous n, like a recent one where a Sea Devil does jumps like something out of a platform game. I think I would rather they just kill this off and bring back Blake's 7 instead , though the BBC as it currently is would probably fill that with 7 of its supposed 150 different genders .
I thought Evcleston and Tennant were both good. Smith fairly poor but some good scripts , Capaldi was good but had poor scripts, while everything about the Whittakervera just poor.....but that's also down to the director too .
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Post by zeopold on Aug 27, 2022 20:42:31 GMT
I have barely watched it since Jodie Whitaker took over. Pertwee was the end of the line for me. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 28, 2022 6:40:23 GMT
Troughton, Pertwee and Baker were good
Other than that 😬
No great fan though
Caught the odd few minutes here and there since the 70s and seems very silly. Not for me
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2022 7:44:30 GMT
Other than watching it in the early 70's as a kid I thought it was easily surpassed by ITV's sc-fi shows such as UFO, Space 1999, The Prisoner etc which were a lot more ambitious and radical.
The Daleks also have to be the most puny adversaries ever. Fancy wheelie bins with a plunger attached taking over the universe?
This advance halted by a couple of stairs?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2022 8:07:22 GMT
Watched a few in the 70's (Pertwee & Baker) but wasn't that bothered. Not something I'd revisit.
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Post by zeopold on Aug 28, 2022 16:12:26 GMT
I thought it was easily surpassed by ITV's sc-fi shows such as UFO I loved UFO. I was deeply disappointed when 1980 came and women weren't going around in silver catsuits with purple hair like Nick Drake's sister  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2022 20:03:28 GMT
I thought it was easily surpassed by ITV's sc-fi shows such as UFO I loved UFO. I was deeply disappointed when 1980 came and women weren't going around in silver catsuits with purple hair like Nick Drake's sister Dr Who was so one dimensional and stuffy. UFO was a lot cooler and sexier. I also thought that the first series of Space 1999 made a decent enough attempt at some serious sci-fi. However nerdy that sounds.😄 |
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