It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything but that’s mainly to do with our enchantment by Matt Smith’s portrayl of the Doctor.
Yes, you heard us right.
We love Matt Smith as the Doctor. He’s the best Doctor since Tom Baker. Really, we’re honest.
Of course that’s not to say we don’t think that Doctor Who has a lot of work to do to get to the standard that we’re hoping for, oh no.
Matt Smith may be a phenomenon and we’re going to tell you exactly why, sadly we’re going to tell you exactly why we think the show is still dreadful…
Stay tuned for that, it’s coming soon. We promise.
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As one of the most devout haters of Russell T Davies and his era of a ‘mockney’, wishy washy doctor, man-whoring his way through the universe, can i say that i whole heartedly agree. Personally, Matt Smith has come into a tie with Tom Baker and Patrick Troughton as my favourite doctor…. im just dumbstruck, I’m…. having fun again. What’s going on? Love the Tardis, Doctor, Assistant (especially as she has no family baggage to weigh down the series in transient motherly issues), EVEN the new Daleks (YES I DO!). While, i agree that there is still much to work on, i will say this: LONG MAY NO 11 REIGN!
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6956050.ece
Just finished reading this self-indulgent and solipsistic response to the sycophants at the Times. Seriously hoping RTD will fuck off permanently.
I agree that this season is pretty dreadful. I can’t agree, however, that Matt Smith is the best thing since Tom Baker. In fact, I can’t say much about him at all… because Doc Eleven is still rather all over the map to me. Yes, some things are coming into place, I think, but he’s not being helped at all by the writing, something that crippled him in the first four stories.
And I agree with Barnaby and John, I hope RTD finds news direction in California and has success. I just don’t want him to touch the show again for a good long while.
Matt Smith is the crappiest doctor ever hes made DW boring and crap
@Chris: I don’t believe we can say Matt Smith has “made DW boring and crap”. That distinction goes, so far as this season’s gone, to Steven Moffat. He picked Smith. He came up with the season. He’s the lead writer. He’s the script editor as well, I believe. He’s the showrunner. It’s his baby.
Well, we’ve two episodes left.
Remember how I said I hated the new theme tune? It grows on you, it really does. I don’t mind it so much, although it does still feel as if it’s missing a note at the beginning of the OO-EE-OO (more of a WEE-OO now, really). But I digress.
Most of the episodes have been half-decent ones. The only one I can say I haven’t liked at all was Vincent and the Doctor, an episode dedicated to the manual gratification of a dead artist. Pardon my French.
I loved the Dream Lord. There lied a darker side to the Doctor we haven’t seen in a long, long time. It sort of reminded me of the Valeyard, which was cool. And I couldn’t help but grin when I recognised a few hints towards the ‘classic’ series that New-Who fans just don’t appreciate.
The ‘best of humanity’ stuff was a bit of a throwback to Tennant’s constant ‘Humans!’. And they could have come up with a better excuse for the Doctor to stop the buxom fish from space than, ‘you didn’t remember Isabella’s name’. Remember when we used to save different planets? No, neither can I.
I was also disappointed with the end of Flesh and Stone, where we see the Weeping Angels move. That was a very cool way to break the fourth wall, and you’ve gone and ruined it now. Also, the Angels are supposed to be fast (faster than you can believe). Why are they moving so slowly? Ah well. There’s continuity for you.
Um, Skittles brand Daleks, too-clever-by-fifteen-sixteenths assistants, and giant flying eyeballs. It’s not the Doctor Who I remember from days gone by, but it’s still pretty great.
You know the feeling when you’ve been eating chicken breast for the past few months, and then you go out and eat what seems to be the best roast ever, but only because you’ve forgotten what good roast tastes like? That’s the feeling I’ve got.
But, I’ve learned two new things through this season of Doctor Who. First, we hit bottom already, and we’re slowing learning to walk again. Second… bowties are cool.
So why do I get such a bad feeling about the resolution to the series?
Still here, slagging off a kids’ TV show? Gosh you must be so proud.
I profoundly despised the Tennant Christ. But when i saw the 1st Matt Smith episode i thought he was an amazing Doctor, inspired casting. The trouble is as the series progressed everything around him started to implode into vacuous shite. I found i had to remind myself to watch the episodes. I feel like i’ve been corrupted by the grumpy monster because everyone around me loves it but when i watched the Pandorica episode i cannot help but think how poor the episode was. All these titanic villains grouped together like the entire set of My Little Pony toys all wanting a big group cuddle because their sad.
Someone used the word self-indulgent above. That kind of describes the new doctor who in a nutshell for me (and I’m including david tennant and the one before him when I say “new”). Crappy scripts re-using old enemies over and over again. “Ra Ra Brits are the centre of the universe” schoolboy attitudes. Plus bringing in love interest element? I was particularly pissed about that. The one or two times I’ve been wowed by the new dr who(s) has been when they went outside the box and came up with new villians. Two egs. (1) the original weeping angels episode. (2) the episode set on the planet made of diamond where the dr went on a tour.
Dumbed down Doctor Who.
I was dissapointed to find that the writer of the only decent episode of the new dr who (blink) has done such a bad job of this series. Matt Smith could be a good doctor but the stories are terrible. Amy seems to be doing the same job that mathew corbett did with sooty ie repeat everything and comment on everything as though we can’t see or hear what’s going on. A big put off for me is that the doctor now seems to have to boast all the time on how he has defeated his enemies, in the eleventh hour he forced and alien off the earth only to force it to come back so he could gloat. It is not a patch on the John Pertwee / Tom Baker years, no amount of special effects can cover a bad story