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Mojambo

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:05 PM
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The NEW Doctor Who

Who's seen the first episode?

I just got done downloading it and I'm getting ready to watch.

I have never seen nor read anything about the original. I'm going in quite fresh.

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mhr

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:08 PM
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1. Link For Downloading

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Mojambo

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:11 PM
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3. Link

http://www.btefnet.net/

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Kellanved

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:09 PM
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2. By all means: watch the original

Edited on Sun Mar-27-05 04:58 PM by Kellanved

Just ignore all episodes featuring McCoy and the 1996 thing.

Edit:
Or even better ignore anything post-Peter Davison.

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AndyTiedye

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Sun Mar-27-05 06:12 PM
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7. I Kinda Liked Sylvester McCoy

big improvement over Colin Baker, anyway. I'm pretty sure that it
was Colin who sent the ratings into a tailspin

I haven't tried getting the new episode from bittrickle yet,
but I'm tempted. We won't see it on TV for years here, if at all.

Has anyone else been getting the audio episodes from Big Finish?
These feature all of the recent Doctors and many of the companions.
Most are quite good. Even Paul McCann figured it out eventually.
I got a subscription so I've been getting a Dr. Who fix every month.
http://www.bigfinish.com

Still looking forward to the new BBC series though.

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Kellanved

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Sun Mar-27-05 06:49 PM
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10. I sorta agree on Colin Baker

Edited on Sun Mar-27-05 07:13 PM by Kellanved

My dislike for McCoy stems from the fact that I saw his interpretationwhen it was first aired.

IMHO the McCoy self of the doctor was over the top - which is saying quite a lot for a character being intentionally over-the-top.

Tom Baker clearly was the Doctor Who to remember.

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Technowitch

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Sun Mar-27-05 06:52 PM
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11. Re: Tom Baker

Tell me about it!

I even have one of those 18' multicolored knitted wool scarves, adorning the chair in my home office. Got it as a reward for a PBS pledge-drive.

:D

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AndyTiedye

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Sun Mar-27-05 08:48 PM
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13. I really Liked Jon Pertwee a Lot, and Pat Troughton

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Technowitch

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:12 PM
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4. Doctor Who lost me with Colin Baker

I mean, I know there are people who liked him and all, but I found him insufferably abrasive and annoying.

Sylvester McCoy was okay, but I couldn't quite get into him either. It was like the show had lost its heart.

I'm afraid my fave incarnation is and always will be Tom Baker. :D

Jelly Babies anyone?

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mr blur

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:37 PM
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5. It was broadcast here on TV last night

Edited on Sun Mar-27-05 04:40 PM by mr blur

Don't want to spoil anything, so I won't, but I thought it was pretty good, and I speak as someone who watched the first ever episode in 1963, which actually went out the day Kennedy was assassinated (watch out for the rather neat acknowledgement of that).

Oh, and I agree that Tom Baker was great - my second favourite after Patrick Traughton.

(edited for the Baker comment)

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Mojambo

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Sun Mar-27-05 06:29 PM
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8. I really liked it a lot.

The pacing was excellent. Eccleston looks to have exceptional range and should be able to go from light to serious very well. That goofy, almost mentally unbalanced smile that he breaks out occasionally really works.

This show feels sharp, clean and exhilarating. Sometimes material like this can get convoluted, but this show just glides along effortlessly. Very enjoyable hour.

Afterward, I watched the BBC preview special and learned an awful lot about the series. Now I really look forward to enjoying the new series and poking around some of the classic ones.

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Dutch

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:53 PM
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6. Seen it- unfortunately, I thought it was pretty awful

I actually really like Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor, but I found the writing really listless and insincere, with way too much focus on the Doctor's boring yet annoying sidekick. If the number of gratuitous London-landmark shots and said sidekicks affected shine-ya-shoes-guvna accent are anything to go by, I'd say it wont be too long before it turns up on American TV...

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Deja Q

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Sun Mar-27-05 06:40 PM
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9. It's a mix of the best and worst; but if any JNT basher loves this new ep,

Edited on Sun Mar-27-05 06:46 PM by HypnoToad

I will not be happy. There were scenes and plot problems that even JNT would be embarrased about. Never mind the horrendously rabid pacing, which only the MTV-on-adderall generation would like.

McCoy's era lost it for me. Dunno why I kept watching, but season 26 just about had things right again. Thart's when it got cancelled for good.

But there was enough good in the pilot to warrant further viewing. And I can't base the new season on one story; though I thought season 24 would improve too...

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Anarcho-Socialist

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Sun Mar-27-05 07:00 PM
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12. I liked it, although I focused on the positives

because I wanted to like it. Ecclestone is a very interesting Doctor and that's what made me like it, though I don't have much reason to care for his assistant Rose.

In the preview and behind-the-scenes programmes, they showed some very exciting stuff especially regards to episode 2 (set in the far future) and of course the Daleks that appear later in the series. :D

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Wat_Tyler

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Sun Mar-27-05 08:57 PM
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14. It was pretty good.

Eccleston is the ace in the pack - his characterization is dead-on. Effects weren't bad, acting not bad, pacing not bad. Augurs well for the rest of the season.

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Deja Q

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Sun Mar-27-05 09:00 PM
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15. His character is an amalgamation of Docs 2, 4, and 6.

When originality fails, it's best to focus on what worked in the past and re-use it into the ground.

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Wat_Tyler

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Sun Mar-27-05 09:03 PM
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16. I didn't see much of 6.

I saw bits of 5 and 7, although we are talking about 45 minutes to go on, so I can't say anything for sure. Definitely Troughtonesque, though. That's a very good thing.

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