Doctor who

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Anyone eles exited for serise 10?

I think people find the older ones more scary because they was children when they watched them.

I agree. I find some of the current ones scary but in an "I know this isn't real" way.

Yes true, I was terrified as a dc and used to hide behind the sofas.

Mind you The talons of win chan & seeds of doom were scary.

Wish BBC would rerun a series.

They might seem silly but the original original Cybermen creep me the fuck out more than any other incarnation. It's the way they talk. The mouth opens in a big O and without moving, the generated voice that's just wrong emanates from the speech circuits… The bandaged mummified look, too… like someone's gone through so many replacement and medical procedures that they are No Longer Human AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

They're eerie, in a way no monsters in recent Who have been.

The newer ones look like Jeeps.

Looking forward to tomorrow. I luffs PC.

Definitely agree, the Cybermen are my favourite Dr Who villains but the original ones are FAR more scary than the new ones, the sing-song voices and the bandage-like masks are just creepy.

I agree that some of the monsters were more scary when we watched as kids but I agree that there is something very unnerving about the original Cybermen. The new ones look quite chunky and approachable I think. And even now the Dalek voice still raises my heartbeat a bit. It's the way that the way they chant "Exterminate" starts to sound more and more frantic and hysterical the more they say it. I have to say though that I don't like their hovering ability. Especially the way they go upstairs. It looks really daft and takes away some of their scariness imo.

I grew up without Doctor Who :(

My favourite line in 'the green death' is when Jo Grant says into her walkie talkie (and handy she happened to have a screwdriver on her to fix it!)'' Im up on the slag heap with the Proffessor''! Cracks me up every time!

Happened to channel flick last night to the Persuaders as its my second favourite theme tune everrrrrr, don't usually watch the whole programme, but Ive noticed some stories were written by Terry nation, and last night PATRICK TROUGHTON was in it! Fan girl just went all 'teenage'! and he looked just like he was as Salamander in 'the enmeny of the world1'

Poster who loves Jamie, Frazer Hines was on vintage tv today choosing his fave songs. he was lovely. music taste not bad either!

Is that Peri in the Hammonds bedroom fitted wardrobe advert?

agree about the floating Daleks. not scary any more.

qui where do u watch old episodes on? I'd like to watch some of the ones I watched growing up just to see what they're like all these years later.

Saturday again already! I'm super exited.
Apparently tonight has had to be edited because it made a few references to terrorism. Hopefully it won't have ruined anything

Crab weve collected all the dvds we can lay our hands on. still getting through them! theyre quite reasonably priced at HMV.

Only ones missing are the 1st and 2nd Doc ones that are globally missing.

we have a DW weekend most weekends, a WHOFEST as we call them. (due to disabilities and unable to go out at these times).

watched the DAemons and the sea Devils today, our 'go to' faves.

they were showing some old who on the horror channel a while back but that seems to have stopped. That's what got me into classic WHo. .

Im a bit meh TBH about tonights as its a continuation of last weeks and we didn't really like it. lets see.

Dh and I are hating the current series: it just seems to be a mash-up of lots of recent story lines (with a bit of Torchwood thrown in)

Barely managed to watch to the end of the current episode, we were getting so annoyed with it.

And next week's looks like it will be yet more derivative twaddle

Ds is refusing to watch this series at all and instead is re-watching all the series from the reboot. Matt Smith is his favourite but he liked David Tennant and Christopher Ecclestone too. Donna (Catherine Tate) was/is all of ours favourite companion.

Qui thanks for info. I don't have a disc drive on anything though :(

I really enjoyed tonight's epi .

I've been really enjoying this series but what the hell was that pile of shite I just watched?

Mind you, all the 'save the world' story arcs have been dull from Tennant onwards. As soon as it gets too serious it loses its appeal and becomes dead boring.

Really didn't enjoy last night. It just seemed like a 'meh' filler episode.

I enjoyed it.

am I right in thinking that the character of Erica was played without any mention of her achondroplasia?

Yeah, I don't think it was made pertinent to the plot in any way? Which made a nice change from the usual. Important to have characters who are disabled or in another underrepresented group, where that isn't a plot point or a major part of their character. Hopefully this will stop being something worth commenting on in the near future.

that was a yawnfest last night. only good bit were the scenes with the Doctor and Erica. they were good together. Id like her to be a companion. Bills getting on my nerves now. I don't know why.

Im its going downhill again. started offwell enough.

Same IMO with the Tennant and Smith stories, let down by poor writing, unnecessary plotlines and too much wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.

St the end of the day it was conceived as a family programme with the onus on children- not quite cbeebies age, but cbbc onwards- more Sarah Jane Adventures with an extra kick for the adults.

Its too -rallying for ratings now, and that's disappointing IMO.

Im TOO into the classic Who now and seeing the difference in the storytelling and acting and characters I suppose.

I got into Who in the 1st place with Ecclestone, but after him, it all went tits up-or down- with only a few exceptions.

But I adore Peter Capaldi and I absolutely loved Matt Smith. Just not the stories. .

am I right in thinking that the character of Erica was played without any mention of her achondroplasia?

I was very surprised they managed to resist the temptation there. Bearing in mind that Bill is gay don't you know and also black and we aren't often allowed to put these things to one side no matter how irrelevant they might be

I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to finding out what happens next.

Why is bills race and sexuality such a big issue.? Nobody batted an eye lid that other companions were openly heterosexual from the beginning on there tenures.
Marthers's etnicisity was drawn upon on several occasions . But was never mentioned. Rose was referred to as a"yellow girl" on more than one occasion.
The fact that Amy was ginger and Scottish was a poked at a few times.
Bill has a crush on one girl and goes on one date and it's "getting shoved down our throat" her race is brought up twice and the BBC are accused of being overly PC.
Is it because she's gay and black? Are people just not ready for that yet?

Dr who has had a deaf actor in the past and trans actress. They also didn't have big flashing arrows around them. So I'm not really surprised that the character of Erica didn't either.

I was surprised. It's not that there weren't "big flashing arrows" it's that it wasn't mentioned nor alluded to at all. Which I thought was rather marvellous.