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Well, let's look on the up side:
RTD was definitely no longer an asset to the show (especially his last stories), and Moffat is moving in.
Improvement, is what I say.....
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I have reservations about the new guy. Why does each consecutive Doctor need to get younger? I was hoping for an older Doctor. Someone old enough so that we don't get all the stupid sexual tension. Btw, I think it would be cool to see Patrick Stewart take a turn at the roll. And, why does the new Doctor look like Frankenstien's Monster? Sure all of the Doctor's have had a quirkiness to them, but that dude is downright homely.
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if the first 2 specials are indications of things to come I am very very concerned that the show has had it's better days (actually I fetl that way about most of season 4 too)Comment
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You may be correct in it running it's course.. The last Christmas special was pretty weak, made up for to a degree by a good Easter Special. The Xmas special with Donna and 'Timecrash' with Peter Davison were pretty super by comparison.
Tennant with Billie Piper was the best ~ I didn't like Eccleston much.
I just sold my Season 2 boxset, the Sarah Jane episode being the best.
I'll cherish the best from Tennant's tenure, much as I do with Tom Baker and Peter Davison. That's pretty much it for me.
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For me, when the new series first premiered I was very skeptical but I gave it a chance.
I did not like the 1 hour format, I did not like the idea of having a companion as the centre of the show, I did not like the Time Lords dead - and - I did not like the new "cool" leather jacket wearing Doctor.
After a short time, it really grew on me ... But, like all Doctor Who's, once you get used to them they're already leaving.
Tennant was ok too (his first season).
By season 3 I already started to not like the show... the top-off was making the Master a comedian.
IMO, season-4 was even worse then 3
Yes, a lot of this can be blamed on RTD, but I just think the general formula of the new series may be dying.
I think the Doctor needs to go back to his roots and become a science fiction show again.
Not a sci-fi/love-melodrama/action-comedy like it's been in recent years.
If the show dies after going back to its roots, at least it will dye a dignified death instead of a long dying laughing stock like SLIDERS-seasons 3-5 etc.Last edited by Mikey; Jul 1, '09, 2:05 PM.Comment
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>The partial hiatus is really killing the show, imo
I think this is the BIGGEST problem. It's real easy to be eclipsed nowadays.
>the top-off was making the Master a comedian.
I actually LOVED the new Master! It seemed to me like he'd finally gone around the bend due to the many defeats he'd been handed by the Doctor over the years. For a megalomaniac like him this would be an irreconcilable series of events.
Same with the Daleks wanting to absorb the human trait that just lets them always win, even when the odds are against it. I thought that was cool: the bad guys analyzing the whole "good guys always win" thing that most shows have, but from a continuity perspective.
>Not a sci-fi/love-melodrama/action-comedy like it's been in recent years.
The only bit I don't like is their insistence in having a current love interest. That sort of thing often seems tacked on to me; in any show/book/movie. Rose kinda made sense, since the Doctor was very alone, and she ended up softening his bitter, soccer hooligan self. But to do that schtick again with somone else takes away from it, and makes the Doctor seem like a dimensional lothario. I DID like how they played things with Donna; that everyone thought they were an item, even though they weren't.
I actually really liked her by the end of the last season. And I'd like to see more of Doctor/Donna.
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