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it was the first episode of season 3. "Smith & Jones" .

the hospital where the new assistant works is transported to the moon.
when the Dr gets on the scene, there is a bit where he is barefoot (for
a reason I can't remember) and he realises he has no shoes on. He
says to the girl in a forced kind of voice "Barefoot on the moon!" and
snaps his teeth together to emphasise the point.

Now, Eccleston was pretty good, I wasn't really sure of Tenant during
season 2, but the moment described above was singularly the most
annoying, irritating thing he had so far done. I watched the rest of
the episode (which was quite honestly, garbage) and never bothered
tuning in for the rest of season 3.

I did, however, see the very end where the Titanic crashes thru
the Tardis walls (which is ludicrous but at the same time a neat
idea) and points the way to the Christmas Special, which I will
probably watch.

I watched the previous Christmas special with the annoying
Catherine Tate (surely the most overrated comedienne ever?)
saying "Am I safe?" instead of "Am I bovverred?". Tedious.
And the Tardis flying down the motorway while she jumped
from a car across to it was like something out of Indiana
Jones mixed with Rentaghost. Stupid. And Tate is due to
be the Dr's next companion? Jesus Please Us.

Do yourself a favour. Watch the originals instead. The
Pertwee and T.Baker years. loads coming out all the
time on DVD and available to rent for £1.30 or so from
your local library for a week. Splendid stuff. Key to Time
season comes out in October which is sublime fun. And
Adams wrote one of them. "Pirate Planet".

Watched "The Time Warrior" and its DVD documentary
recently and was surprised to see it was filmed at
Peckforton Castle near where I live in Chester! By
the way, that location is on a huge, steep hill, not
mentioned in either doc or story. Strange to think
in '73, Jon Pertwee, Liz Sladen and a Sontaran
golfball spaceship were in that woodland....

So: the new Dr Who is terrible. we need a new
tenant in the Tardis instead of Tenant. Derek
Jacobi played him on radio, can you imagine
how could he would be on TV? or Richard E.Grant?

The Old will forever be brilliant - even the bad ones.

And Janet Fielding not backward at coming forward
in the "Timeflight" commentary in calling the whole
4 episodes "utter crapola".

that's "how good he would be" rather than "could". sorry.

Do yourself a favor and watch Human Nature/Family of blood and, particulrly, Blink before dissing Tennant and this series completely but I have to say I tought it was generally more rotten than ripe and Smith and Jones was well into the mushy and beginning to smell category

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i don't care what else he's been in, or his performance in other dramas. all that concerns me re: dr who is that is completely unsuitable for the role of the Doctor. besides, he always plays the same part whatever he does, either in english or scottish accent. who told him he can act?

I'm sorry, so sorry.





P.S.: also woppable to the Doctor Who forum, eh?

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what gusty and stef said. i´m also sorry that you don´t like tennant´s doctor, nutsy, but that makes you part of a very small group. nothing wrong with personal taste, of course, but you really might want to check out "human nature/family of blood", especially what with you thinking tennant can only act one person.
for me personally, ten (nant) is one of the best "wonderful chaps".

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Yes I like him too very up to date persona for the Doctor, and although sometimes the stories verge on the edge of believablity, or conceivability, even for a sci fi fan, I don't see why you have all this negativity oh nutty one, maybe you have a thorn in your foot?

There were some great episodes last season and a couple of not so good ones but on the whole I think it's great and I'm pleased to see Dr. Who back on TV, apart from sport it's pretty much the only thing I watch on TV these days.

I have to say that for me the whole argumentation regarding Old and New Who can only be explained by severe clouding of memory. I discovered Doctor Who through this forum and, in addition to enjoying the new show, started to watch all of the original series. I've watched some highlights of every Doctor and then began the marathon with "An Unearthly Child". I'm now nearing the end of the Pertwee years, "The Time Warrior" is next in line. I liked the Hartnell and Troughton years but found Pertwee very annoying because he seemed to be so full of himself. Thank God for Katy Manning et al, without the supporting cast it would've been very boring in my opinion.
The little I've seen so far from Tom Baker has reminded me a lot of David Tennant because both are not afraid to sometimes act downright silly. Which seems alien to us but that's just what the Doctor is, eh? Pertwee's Doctor misses that alien aspect completely. Therefore, to diss No. 10 and suggest No. 4 instead, is a concept that I don't understand. But then, taste differs and thankfully so. The only thing that annoys me a bit is the rather preaching style ala "Do yourself a favour. Watch the originals instead."
I say, watch both with an open mind and you'll encounter good and bad in either runs. I find the overwhelming majority of the new show very entertaining, in addition to the episodes already mentioned I thought that Gridlock was quite good as well. Heck, only Evolution of the Daleks disappointed me and even that episode had some marvellous moments. I think Doctor Who Mk. II is miles ahead of most other things populating the telly. Except for Sumo, of course!

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Wow, I didn't know anyone hated Tennant in the role!

My wife and I think he is great. Put it this way, if I come home with the new DWM she grabs it and takes it to read it in the bath before me. This would NEVER have happened even three years ago as she always thought my love for Doctor Who was rather odd.

Dr. S.

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I had a bit of a challenge adjusting to Tennant as the Doctor but now I can't think of anyone who is better suited for the role.

What I don't enjoy as much with the new series is the fixation with romance. Rose, Lady Pompadour, Martha, it all gets a bit tiresome after awhile. I like the adventure and the humor but the mushy lovey stuff bogs it down. That, really, is the only place where I think the old series is so much better.

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I’m not much of a Who fan. As a 6 or 7 year old, I was raised on the Pertwee Who, and his uber-seriousness was part of his character. As such, his replacement by Tom Baker seemed to me a betrayal, a trivialisation of what I perceived to be “the originalâ€

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Well, thanks, Tony. You're not a slouch either.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Eh? I got that series for Christmas last year, and it sounds odd that America would have that kind of thing before the UK.

I haven't seen any of the Tennant episodes yet, but that's because I don't get Sci-Fi channel at college and I don't want to see them out of order if I can help it. But from what I've read here, they've sadly sounded like a bunch of hits and misses.

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"Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death?"

Well, I have found that if there is bad episodes in the new Doctor Who, it is usually written by Russell Davis. Don't get me wrong. Not all bad episodes are written by RTD and not all of RTD's episodes are bad, but most are. Bad plots, cringeworthy lines and just about always ending with a deus-ex-machina. I am sure that the old show also used deus-ex-machina, but not in every other episode.

It is definently not Tennants fault, who, especially when the episode is good, is an excellent actor. Like, Human Nature and Family of blood. I will dare say that that was not only two of the best episodes of Doctor Who, it was two of the finest examples of TV entertainment I have seen.


As a former producer of Doctor Who once said, "The mind lies". Because you have grown up with Doctor Who, you have managed to gloss over all the bad things about it and sees in through a pink cloud of nostalgia. That is that way that it is with things that you liked as a child. I, who had never as much as heard of the show before I was 16, and Nellodee, who was, what, in her thirties(I seem to remember her being in her thirties, without being sure) before she heard of the show, we have no such fond memories, which allowed us to get into the show with a clean slate. In that way, we are luckier that the ones who have been following the show since they were children. We have no "our Doctor", the one that we grew up with.

I think that is a problem that has plagued the show since at least Peter Davison, when the first viewers had grown up and after a seven year period with Tom Baker, who had become the Doctor of a generation. No fruit can ever be as sweet as the one you remember from your childhood.

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You did, and it is odd. They released the set some time ago - but I am told they were straight transfers to DVD from the VHS tapes, the quality is not that good and there are no extras - I've got the set here.

The new one that has come out is much better quality and is brimming with extras! It's also got an extra disc.

Dr. S.

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read again ...
sure, not all of the eps were winners, but even the underwhelming ones were losing on a very high scale. like, imagine tv as the new york marathon: even the worst new who eps would still be runner-ups for medals and get a mention in the review, maybe even a photo, instead of the vast majority of mediocre or bad runners. and the best eps would make the headline of the NY times, so to speak.

i enjoy them immensly, love tennant (and the supporting cast, i´m regularly delighted by the choice of actors for secondary characters, very high standard there), have no mind to bash RTD, agree that the lovey-dovey stuff needs a major break and look very much forward to things to come. i´ll even take a second helping of catherine tate*.

*i think stej and i are the lucky ones: not only have we no old who nostalgia, but we also don´t know many of the british actors/tv celebrities that get to star in new who. so no pre-conceptions there, just the show and the fiction. comes in handy, believe me.

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Lets not forget that this is a kids program! There have been a few, (and I think those were written by RTD,) that were not up to the general high standard. But I think Tenant has done a wonderful job! I was raised on Dr Who, my favourite was Tom Baker, who injected some humour into the role, which I think has been taken up by Tenant!

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