More actions
I was a big fan, as a kid, of the mid-80's Doctors; started off with Peter Davison, then Colin Baker; after that it was a bit hard getting hold of episodes (not living in the UK at the time) - but we still saw stuff like "Happiness Towers" (build high for happiness) with Sylvester McCoy. I never /did/ see the movie, and it seems I wouldn't enjoy it. Then came 2005 and the awesome news that "Dr.Who is back!" - I was very uncertain of my feelings toward that news - reboots usually destroy what was originally so loveable about a series. But RTD (Russell T. Davies) was a "true" fan, naturally meaning "one to my liking", he had rejuvinated the series. While his tenure was ongoing I wasn't too hyped about all of what he'd done, but that would've been seriously curious anyway. But now .. .. now everything has changed. Reboots! Pah! The whole Steven Moffat tenure has just gotten worse and worse. And here I'd been praising all the excellent episodes he'd done in the RTD-led years - although I conciously always picked out "Blink" as one I'd not liked much myself - but I was really hopeful it'd get even better. No such luck. The new Doctor is a bit of a blundering, dangerously distracted and slapstick-heavy fool; always the plot has to suffer in favour of stupid innuendo, more slapstick, one-liners or semi-cleverly constructed puns. And it definitely isn't as much fun to watch as it seems to be to write in a disjointed-time-flow manner; Moffat loves telling stories back-to-front. This may be excusable in some cases, when it actually makes sense - I mean, if you understand the reasons for it after seeing it all. But this just seems, for me, to be some sort of incentive to make you "need to" watch the episodes a couple of times before you get all the pre-references. Sorry, but they're not worth watching again. So, I'll be going to watch from "Rose" till "End of Time"; call me when a new head-writer takes charge, maybe this show will be back on form then. --Flowtron 00:13, May 15, 2011 (UTC)
Your input is needed!
You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:00: Tue 20 Dec 2011