With so many avid TV and science fiction fans, I would imagine there are a good number of Doctor Who fans. It has really exploded in the states in the last few years. I mean... Bowties are cool. If you have never seen it, I would check out the premiere of Season 5 (The Eleventh Hour). It acts as a series premiere in a lot of ways even though it's 5 seasons into the revived series. It introduces all new characters and the backstory (kinda) of the Doctor. All you need to know is that he is a renegade member of a race called the Time Lords who violated their laws by interfering in the lives of other cultures in other times. He can't help himself when he seems people in trouble. He is also the 11th version of the doctor. When he dies, he is still the same person (kinda) but he gains a whole new personality and look. Like if Tinman changed into bigtexxx. Ok, bad example. Avid fans would crucify me if I said to skip the David Tennant seasons but the show looks so ****ty and the acting isn't that great. Give it a go. Would be nice to see some avid fans to begin a discussion of the 50th anniversary special. I ignored it for a really long time and then gave it a chance and it has been really great.
If you can bear some cheesy effects, I would definitely start at the beginning of the new series (Christopher Ecclestone). I'm a much bigger fan of the Russell T. Davies storylines than I am of the Steven Moffat ones. I was obsessed with the show, but into the 3rd year of Moffat as the showrunner I started to get disinterested. I completely stopped watching during the second half of this past season. I'll pick it up again before the new season begins, but I think the quality of the story has fallen off.
The last 4 episodes really picked up. I think it stared with "Journey to the Center of the Tardis" The XMAS special was fairly spectacular as well.
I loved Chris Eccleston. Anybody just starting should definitely go back to Chris Eccleston. I'm excited by Peter Capaldi and believe he will take the show to a higher level.
I am very casual Doctor Who fan so haven't really followed the storylines much. I am glad though that they are getting a new doctor who doesn't look like a kid. The Doctors seemed to be getting younger and younger with Matt Smith looking like a little kid. The stories with him were OK but it is nice to get a doctor with some gravitas. Here is a site with the Doctors listed, not including the upcoming 12th Doctor to be played by Peter Capaldi. www.doctorwho.tv/50-years/doctors/
I totally agree...she's hot! Idunno about the new doctor, I think it may turn off some people because he's alittle older. Sidenote, I'm currently watching Torchwood Miracle Day (season 04)...pretty good spinoff series.
I completely agree with this. It's odd that the show fell off with Moffat as the showrunner. The episodes he wrote before he took over were some of the best and he's also involved in Sherlock, which is an outstanding show. But like Brando mentioned, the last few episodes did get better. Also, of the three modern Dr's Tennat is by far my favorite.
After the first several episodes of the Eccleston doctor I just lost interest. Too much "Queer as Folk" in that run. Then I only saw two episodes of the next doctor who seemed dull. I don't care for the re-imagining or the stories of the current doctor but the Smith doctor has attractive companions. I was hoping or still hope Paul McGann would be given another go.
They haven't been able to equal (or get close to equaling) Tom Baker. Eccleston was better than Peter Davidson, but that is damning with faint praise.
I'm hoping Capaldi takes us back to Eccleston's mix of mystery and depth and away from the childish, physical, Peter Pan style of Smith more suited for children.
Agreed. But from what I hear, his sailor mouth tendencies may add a bit of adult humor to The Doctor.
I don't know. I think Smith is considerably darker and more disturbed. I think he plays the part much older than the other doctors.
You're on crack. Tennant was by far and a way the best Doctor of the modern era. Eccleston was good, and Smith was garbage. I almost wish they made a spin off in an alternate universe where Tennant was still the Doctor.
