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What did they do to the theme tune? It sounds even worse than the military drums. Did they just glue some more Derbyshire clips into the Sarah Jane Adventures theme tune?
I don’t know, part of me actually thinks they’ve done the right thing!
That’s such a bloody u-turn isn’t it… I will burn.
Currently watching the re-run on BBC Three. A few points:
1) The new theme music is shit.
2) The new TARDIS sound effect is shit.
3) Scottish Ginger Children are not Good Television.
4) I want to punch Matt Smith in his stupid fucking face. Repeatedly.
Ok Tony, cool your jets lad!
The new theme is much better than the previous theme by Murray ‘More-Drums’ Gold. Although I’d have preferred a bit more Derbyshire.
The new TARDIS sound effect is fine.
True they are not, but young Scottish hotties with ginger hair are. Get over it.
I don’t. David Tennant on the other hand…
I think I’ll hold my judgement until later in the season… I still see a bit of David Tennant in Matt Smith’s mannerisms and dialogue.
Looking at the previews – Daleks and Cybermen. I wish they’d stop using the Daleks so much; they’re getting a bit tedious. How many times did Tom Baker see them? Something like twice? And here we get to see them every year – sometimes even more than once.
The Cybermen clip looks interesting – a somewhat disabled Cyberman going after Amy in what looks like a graveyard [I base my graveyard theory on the fact that it is dark].
And about the new TARDIS sound effect – it sounds the same as it always has, except now it has an added flair of some extra sound effects overlaying the original. If I recall correctly, it sounds similar to the sound effect in Scream of the Shalka.
You’re totally right. They need new aliens, both aggressors and allies. They’ve done Daleks and Cybermen to death.
It’s about time too that we saw more stories like Blink and The Horror of Fang Rock, stories set in the Who universe but that could quite as easily sit in The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits.
Multi-parters would be welcome too, rather than just stretching one cliched motif after another across the series. Silence will fall, seems to be this Doctor’s, he will knock four times.
Although I’ll give Moffat the benefit of the doubt, he probably at least has a satisfying conclusion already written.
I’d love to see The Doctor tackle the sort of things that he used to, just with new and inventive aliens. Fingers crossed!
Yeah, definately could do with a few new aliens. And maybe leave earth alone for a while, it gets a bit annoying when every episode he’s saving the UK! Im guessing everywhere else in the universe is doing fine then?
Personally I am glad it’s so fucking shite. That might mean it gets taken off air again.
From day one of the new Dr Who all they managed to do is recreate all the cheesy pathetic crap that got it axed in the first place.
I have not seen the new Dr Who back to back, I think I would top myself before managing to get through them all, but have watched a sporadic selection throughout the last 3 Dr’s.
Latest opinion on the new Dr… One of the biggest wankers so far. Overacting, completely unfunny moronic humour throughout, its like Dr. Who on crack and ‘E’. I didn’t get as far as the end of the last episode, once I saw spitfires in space I proceeded to piss myself at how unbelievably fucking pathetic this show is and switched off.
The whole thing could have been done from day one in an up to date much better way and have reinvented itself. Unfortunately the BBC are a bunch of politically correct pricks with no entertainment sense whatsoever.
Pity
what a fucking joke it is now
1. shit acting
2.shit effects
3. shit doctor
4.shit tardis set
new daleks look like bright coloured skittles
jironimo?
not even a 3 year old would say that
moffat is an arrogant idiot
i will never watch again…….same as lot of others
Smith is basically playing a floppy-haired David Tennant, who comes across as the lead singer of a mediocre Indie band fused with a middle class gap year student from the Home Counties. Don’t get me wrong I’ve got nothing against the boy personally, I just think he’s a terrible choice for Dr Who. I really don’t kmow what the fuck Stephen Moffatt was thinking. Paterson Joseph, David Mitchell or Paddy Considine would all have been much better choices. Tom Baker’s too old and too fat to return unfortunately, but Peter Davison on the other hand…now there’s an idea…
Doctor Who under the Davies has some parallels with the old serious. As a child I can remember watching the Davison Doctor out of the corner of my eye through fear. With Eccleston and Tennant I watched them out of the corner of my eye as they confused me. I didn’t like it, and yet I watched every Saturday and own everyone on DVD. Was it a guilty pleasure? I’m not sure. As this sites editor would no doubt agree, watching Davies Who was a frustrating and sometimes anger inducing experience. I think I watched it because it was a British sci-fi and I wanted it be better. Like watching the Olympics, when you know the best you could hope for is bronze! We are always going to live in the shadow of America in sci-fi, when we should be doing better!
The new series is… Ok. I had high hopes of Steve Moffatt and no hope in Matt Smith. Moffatt’s produced some interesting episodes, with pithy scripts, but nothing that new. Mark Gatis, who will be forever a comedy hero thanks to the LOG, produced a Davies-Lite, historical Who, which seemed to tick the boxes with such haste that I couldn’t follow what wad going on. It was made worse by awful sound mixing and terrible “spitfire -in-space” concept. I did like the Weeping Angels return, but again not as much as I thought I should.
Matt Smith is much better than I thought he would be, but still he channels Tennent a little to much for my liking. I know he was a popular Who and I quite liked him when he first took the role, but he soon developed only three acting performances; “shouty”, “giddy” and “I’m so sorry”. Matt will develop into a good Who. And I like Amy too. But is she just a little too familiar with what the Doctor is like? Why had she not made him Custard and Fishfingers (which does work, we have it every saturday now).
I do fear for the direction we could be going in. There is a sense of foreboding and not just about these cracks that keep appearing. It’s the cracks in the writing and casting I’m worried about. We have some new Who writers, which is good. I read the synopsis to Simon Nye’s episode and it sounds interesting. With have some crossovers from the Davies era and they seem to be the wrong ones (what about Paul Cornell).
Casting wise Bill Nighy might seem a coup, but he’s done some suspect films and don’t get me started on James Cordon… Why? Peter Kay was bad enough. If you have to have comedy cameos why not get comedians? Is it any wonder that the series was cancelled when the last episode of the classic series featured cameos from Hale and Pace.
So for me the new series could go either way. One things for sure, I will still watch it. Has it jumped the shark? I think it did that a long time ago- maybe the Sylvester McCoy era. I will watch out the corner of my eye, until it becomes the show that I’m not embarrassed by.
Graham Norton is the Doctor’s arch nemesis! Firstly, he talked over the transmission of “Rose” and now he attacks again at the end of the “Time of Angels”. Just as the Doctor was about to launch into his grand escape plan, Graham attacked by unleashing his animated self to distract thousands of viewers! Simon Pegg was the first to announce his frustration on Twitter, but now Norton’s accomplices the BBC, have faced the full force of the Doctor’s acolytes. They recieved e-mails! It’s like the one were the Doctor defeated the Master by getting everyone to believe in fairies. I’m just glad to have survived the experience!
Good blog. I despise new Who, despite giving it numerous chances. I am currently watching The 11th Hour and quite frankly, I am unsure as to whether or not I should finish doing so, or go with my desire to let it rot and go about more entertaining things.
I’ll take a Pertwee-era 6 parter with a bit too much padding over this sugar rushing, poorly written nonsense any day. I doubt this sentiment is unique here though, huh?
I’m glad to have found this website: the ubiquitous popularity of Doctor Who is ridiculous. The show is badly produced and poorly written – everyone involved is an arrogant, over-privileged, under-educated idiot.
Here’s my review of the most recent episode that I think expresses my views succinctly, and possibly explains why its so crap: http://www.brettgerry.co.uk/2010/05/doctor-who-flesh-and-stone-2010-dir-adam-smith/
I loved Dr Who you have ruined it with childish shit.Have you no respect for fans you fucking bastards.
EVERY COMMENT ON THIS PAGE AGAINST DOCTOR WHO I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE EFFECTS ARE FUCKING BOLLOX THE NEW DOCTOR IS A BAG OF FUCKING SHITE AND AMY POND OR WHATEVER IS JUST A LITTLE FUCKING GINGER PATHETIC WANK EXCUSE OF AN ACTRESS
THANK GOD THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE HATEING THE NEW DOCTOR THAN LIKEING HIM. I KNOW ITS HARD TO GET OVER THE LOSS OF SUCH AN AMAZING LEGENDERY DOCTOR. DAVID TENNANT. BUT I WILL NEVER WATCH THIS AGAIN I WANT TO STAMP ON MATT SMITHS LONG UGLY FUCKING FACE AND REPEATEDLY PUNCH EVERY ONE INVOLVED IN THE FACE. SHIT SHITE SHITE
David Tennant was an annoying turd. Tom Baker was better. Christ, even Sylvester McCoy was better than the gurning Tennant arsecandle.