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Noooooooo, I like the current Who.   

Quote from: JustKari on August 04, 2013, 07:36:22 PM
Noooooooo, I like the current Who. 

Couldn't stand Christopher Eccleston, but the reimagining of this classic series WAS well worth slogging through that first season. Then came David Tennant's astonishing four-year run, and Matt Smith's four seasons seemed almost low-energy in comparison (while scripts cranked up action in the meantime).

Capaldi has had a run as a sarcastic "spin doctor" on another Brit series, so my guess is the Dr. Who writers will be playing to his comedic abilities. As long as they can avoid the days when the Doctor ran around with celery pinned to his jacket (which helped send the show into a long hiatus) we'll probably be just fine.

Set credit cards to...advance order.

Quote from: quiller on August 05, 2013, 07:38:49 AM
Couldn't stand Christopher Eccleston, but the reimagining of this classic series WAS well worth slogging through that first season. Then came David Tennant's astonishing four-year run, and Matt Smith's four seasons seemed almost low-energy in comparison (while scripts cranked up action in the meantime).

Capaldi has had a run as a sarcastic "spin doctor" on another Brit series, so my guess is the Dr. Who writers will be playing to his comedic abilities. As long as they can avoid the days when the Doctor ran around with celery pinned to his jacket (which helped send the show into a long hiatus) we'll probably be just fine.

Set credit cards to...advance order.

Matt Smith is my first Dr. I was completely drawn in by the commercials for "the return of Dr. Who" four seasons ago.  I certainly did not think I was going to become a fan.  Since then, I have watched many of the David Tennant ones, and enjoyed those too.  For the older ones, I will have to rent them on Netflix.  That is why I am drawn to Smith as Who, because he drew me in as a fan.

Quote from: JustKari on August 05, 2013, 09:39:38 AM
Matt Smith is my first Dr. I was completely drawn in by the commercials for "the return of Dr. Who" four seasons ago.  I certainly did not think I was going to become a fan.  Since then, I have watched many of the David Tennant ones, and enjoyed those too.  For the older ones, I will have to rent them on Netflix.  That is why I am drawn to Smith as Who, because he drew me in as a fan.

I see the phrase "my first Doctor" a lot among Whovians. I started with Tom Baker, the actor most U.S. viewers associate with "early Doctors" because of PBS airings. He got pretty silly later in the run, but "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" was a nicely-turned Victorian-era tale I think you might like. The first actual visit to Gallifrey also happened on Baker's watch. "The Deadly Assassin" introduces those magnificent high-collared costumes for the Time Lords.

But for the best introduction to this series, try "The Five Doctors," bringing together four of the five original actors and a fifth to play his part in new scenes (who so eerily resembled the original that it scared his coworkers). Then watch the made-for-TV movie set in San Francisco, with Paul McGann excellent as the Doctor and Eric Roberts playing vastly above his usual, as archenemy The Master.

Or, just watch McGann and Roberts, and then start with the Series One re-launch with Eccleston, and take it straight through thereafter.

What a premise! Anywhere in time, anywhere in all of space. It's the plot device that can't be beaten.

Interesting choice. Most Americans will have no idea who he is. So will a lot of the British. He's one of those actors who you don't know straight off but you have seen him in everything.

He is a great actor but I am having a hard time seeing him in the role. Then again at first I thought Matt Smith was a terrible choice and he is now my second favorite doctor behind the obvious and just ahead of John Pertwee....

Quote from: The Boo Man... on August 13, 2013, 09:31:34 PM
Interesting choice. Most Americans will have no idea who he is. So will a lot of the British. He's one of those actors who you don't know straight off but you have seen him in everything.

He is a great actor but I am having a hard time seeing him in the role. Then again at first I thought Matt Smith was a terrible choice and he is now my second favorite doctor behind the obvious and just ahead of John Pertwee....

I hadn't seen Pertwee before except in one brief flashback clip driving a car somewhere. By then I was a solid Tom Baker fan, but after the new series (plural) began and I could see the real popularity over there for this show, I began watching more of the other Doctors' work.

Pertwee succeeded a Doctor who I still think is too close in appearance to Moe from the Three Stooges, only wearing a raccoon coat. (A necessary transition from the grumpy first guy who LOOKED 900 years old.)

Pertwee and Baker both gave a more sympathetic and more energetic Doctor than the first two. After that the series calmed down again until Eccleston launched "Series 1"---many Doctors later.

The decision to run this show out of Wales has completely shaken up traditional BBC thinking. Eccleston clearly impressed them in the premiere, but having a buxom bimbo barely able to keep her top up surely also helped. God, I miss Sarah Jane.

Quote from: quiller on August 13, 2013, 10:07:34 PM
I hadn't seen Pertwee before except in one brief flashback clip driving a car somewhere. By then I was a solid Tom Baker fan, but after the new series (plural) began and I could see the real popularity over there for this show, I began watching more of the other Doctors' work.

Pertwee was the first doctor that was considered "cool" He was the first to actually get into fistfights and the first to drive a car. He made the show more action oriented.

QuotePertwee succeeded a Doctor who I still think is too close in appearance to Moe from the Three Stooges, only wearing a raccoon coat. (A necessary transition from the grumpy first guy who LOOKED 900 years old.)

I think that was Patrick Troughton.

QuotePertwee and Baker both gave a more sympathetic and more energetic Doctor than the first two. After that the series calmed down again until Eccleston launched "Series 1"---many Doctors later.

Yeah the show finally figured out hat it wanted to be. A lot of hit had to do with the personalities of the actors who played the role. I don't think though that Baker was acting. He is just like that in real life.

QuoteThe decision to run this show out of Wales has completely shaken up traditional BBC thinking.

Well they have closed down Television Centre in London. I think there was a deliberate phasing out over the past decade as more and more production was being done in Cardiff and Manchester. BBC Wales purchased a massive lot in Cardiff and turned it into a massive studio mainly for Dr.Who, Torchwood and Casualty which is sort like a British version of ER.

QuoteEccleston clearly impressed them in the premiere, but having a buxom bimbo barely able to keep her top up surely also helped. God, I miss Sarah Jane.

They cast Billy Piper as Eccleston's assistant. An excellent move as she is both sexy and a good actress. The Cardiff Studio also produced "The Sarah Jane Adventures" until she passed away. She and Baker were great together.

Try on Craig Furguson's cold-open for DOCTOR WHO......

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson's Doctor Who Cold Open Dance Number - Official airing

This is the official Capaldi debut, and one that is starting to win me over before I ever see him act in that iconic role. To his everlasting credit he says he's still working on the final characterization, despite having played the role since age 9.

This, folks, is a national and now global labor of love. Meet the new guy. He'll be hearing you tell him, "It's bigger on the inside!"

*SPOILERS* Peter Capaldi is introduced to the world as the next Doctor! - Doctor Who - BBC One

Thought you might enjoy this

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Quote from: JustKari on August 19, 2013, 11:35:55 AM
Thought you might enjoy this

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I would want Strax as the waiter.

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Slightly off-subject, but I just bought and tremendously enjoyed the 4-season set of Peter Capaldi's most recent series, The Thick of It. It's a lightning-fast, brutally-dark-humored, incredibly adult-language gem for fans of the original House of Cards. Think of this as Yes, Minister for the brass-knuckles set: Capaldi is 100% marvelous as the "PM's enforcer," and from Season 2 onward becomes one of the most awesome over-the-top TV characters I've ever seen.

As The Doctor, Capaldi obviously will have to abandon Malcolm Tucker's foul language, but in watching this, I was struck first by Capaldi's obvious acting talent, and by more than occasional physical mannerisms TOTALLY like the U.S. late-night-TV host Craig Furguson (a Doctor Who fan of some note, himself). It was really spooky...and fun.

Yes, this appeals to a niche audience. But it's amazing, high-voltage, hilarious stuff.

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