New Doctor Who

I'm sure they will. I can't think of one Dr. Who story that was resolved with a supernatural explanation. The story that came the closest to one was when Jon Pertwee was The Doctor, in a story called The Daemons.

Tomorrow night is "Parting of the Ways". I will be sorry to see Eccleston go as The Doctor. He has been excellent.

 

I would guess it depends on whether the DVD, VHS tape, rebroadcast of the particular shows have closed captioning or not.

I don't really know how UK and/or European viewers felt about him, but I think most of us in the states, when we think about the Doctor, think of Tom Baker first. I do know that Tom was The Doctor the longest of all, 7 years.

As I said before Parting of the Ways, I am sorry to see Eccleston depart as The Doctor. He was so good and he and Billie Piper were simply excellent together.

I loved Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways. I loved the Doctor's speech about rescuing Rose at the end of Bad Wolf. I loved how he threatened the Daleks and they moved away from him in fear. I love how Rose saved the Doctor (because she did it to save him first and foremost). I love how she just obliterated the Daleks. I love what Bad Wolf meant. I love that Jackie and Mickey came through for her, that they finally realized that after living the life she did with him, she couldn't go back to the mundane life she had before the Doctor. The Earth had become way too small for Rose Tyler.

I was very surprised at how young the new Doctor is. He looks younger than Davison did.

 

I've gotten my hands on "Christmas Invasion" and "New Earth". It's always nervous time when the Doctor regenerates. You don't know if you're going to get a Tom Baker or Chris Eccleston, or whether you're going to get Colin Baker.

After a mere 2 episodes, a big thumbs-up to David Tennant as The Doctor. :thumbs:

 

When I first heard about the new Doctor Who series, I was concerned that they were really going to mess it up. After having seen the entire season with Ecclestone and half the season with Tennant, the TPTB have done quite the opposite. There hasn't been one episode that I would consider bad.

As a comparison, I saw "Revelation of the Daleks" a few weeks ago, and it was truly terrible. Colin Baker's Doctor spends the entire first part rambling about in the wilderness; Peri does nothing but whine (as she usually did) and the second part doing virtually nothing to stop the Dalek threat. The mercenary stopped the Daleks, not the Doctor. Horrible story.

Anyway, I just watched "The Girl in the Fireplace" last night. If Rose has been paying attention, then she would have realized that TGITF was a total fulfillment of what The Doctor said in School Reunion about watching those he loves grow old. I don't recall seeing somebody get to him quite like Madame de Pompadour did. I don't know if TPTB intended it or not, but it brought to my mind the reason why the Doctor loved Romana so much, because she was somebody who was capable of "growing old" with him.

 

Sorry, Pete. You said on 7/8 that you just saw Christmas Invasion, so I figured you had seen School Reunion by now. I'm sorry if I spoiled it in any way for you.

After you watch it, you could make a solid argument that Anthony Head, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame, nearly steals the show from Tennant. Tony is that good as the Headmaster.

Do you remember why Sarah Jane left in The Hand of Fear? That comes up, so if you don't remember, you may want to reacquaint yourself with that story.

I agree that Ecclestone was fantastic, and maybe Tennant isn't there, but I like him quite a bit and think he's proving himself a worthy Doctor.

 

Glad to hear. I hate it when somebody spoils things for me.

I was thinking about my post the other day criticizing Colin Baker as the Doctor. I don't think the problems the show went through during that time were entirely his fault, and perhaps none of those troubles were his fault. For example, he didn't write "Revelation of the Daleks", so it's not fair of me to criticize him for it.

Ancient history I know, but I love to talk about all things Doctor Who. :smilewinkgrin:

 

Everything I want to say about the Cybermen story is in the 2nd half, Age of Steel. In fact, I don't remember much about the first half other than it gets us to AoS.

#1, The look on the Doctor's face when he learns some information about "Ricky the Idiot" is awesome.

#2, You may not believe this now, but you will actually feel sorry for a Cyberman in AoS.

#3, Finally, Rose says something very significant to "Ricky the Idiot".

 

Pete,

Have you seen "Fear Her" yet? The Doctor says something that we've never known about him before. You won't find it on Gallifreyone.com (I just looked), so I won't spoil it. It makes me wonder if we're being setup for something for the next season.

 

I didn't much care for Love and Monsters. Fear Her is pretty good though I tire of being beat over the head with the theme of the season. Yes, Russell Davies, I got it. The Doctor is lonely. I got it in "School Reunion" and I got it even more in "The Girl in the Fireplace." So, enough already. Less is more. As in, less beating about the head is more enjoyment. :wavey:

Regardless, the Doctor made a comment about having been a father once and I thought that was something new until I realized that Susan was his granddaughter and I had totally forgotten about her. I'm such a big fan and I can't believe I forgot about her. Sheesh.

I am curious what you saw that I didn't catch. Apparently, I don't catch as much as I think I do. :smilewinkgrin:

But, I thought that, given the loneliness theme of this season, that the Doctor would see about doing something about that next season. I've always found it difficult to believe that at least 2 Daleks could make it out of the Time War alive and no other Time Lord could do the same.

In my order of Doctors, Tennant is 3rd behind Tom Baker and Christopher Eccleston. I know Jon Pertwee was the favorite of many, but I never really warmed up to him and like Tennant better.

Billie is definitely one of the best actresses to be a companion and she ranks up there as #2 to Sarah Jane (Elisabeth Sladen) in my book as well.