Doctor Who.

[Steve H]

It didn't occur to me while watching, but the nasty businessman is clearly a parody of Trump - e.g. "You're fired!", Trump being the former host of American '"The Apprentice".

[Nearly Sane]

Will see how it finished but despite not having anything I thought was awful, it has felt less than a sum of its parts. Good things: Jodie Whittaker, individual stories, Mandip Gill, historicals, and definitely Bradley Walsh. Bad things: lack of threat, a waste of Chris Noth, too much sonic screwdriver, the design of the Tardis.

[Aruntraveller]

Well we do have Daleks for the New Year. Be interesting to see what new perspective they manage to put on them.

[Anchorman]

Nothing really objectionable in the series so far; most of the stories have been pretty good, though possibly a few were over  heads of younger viewers.
I note from the FB groups that folk are moaning about the lack of an arc- but personally, I find that a refreshing change.

[Steve H]

The inclusiveness and anti-violence messages have been a bit clunky at times.

[Aruntraveller]

Nothing really objectionable in the series so far; most of the stories have been pretty good, though possibly a few were over  heads of younger viewers.
I note from the FB groups that folk are moaning about the lack of an arc- but personally, I find that a refreshing change.

With you on the lack of arc. Also with NS, although I've enjoyed it, there seems to me to be a lack of a gelling agent.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Doctor Who is back to what it was. A show for the family with Reithian tradition to educate and convey
Values.

No wonder people of the same stripe as K Hopkins oppose it.

[Steve H]

Doctor Who is back to what it was. A show for the family with Reithian tradition to educate and convey
Values.

No wonder people of the same stripe as K Hopkins oppose it.

If that foul harridan Hopkins opposes it, that's yet another reason to like it.

[SweetPea]

I'm really enjoying Jodie Whittaker's portrayal of the doctor, reckon she's slipped into it really well. Love the Yorkshire accent that comes with it, too.

Yes, Bradley Walsh has always been a favourite of mine - his unassuming personality showing through in this series.

This is the only series where I've watched every episode since the David Tennant outings.

Interesting too, that the doc seems to be gaining more companions with each new incarnation.

[Aruntraveller]

This is the only series where I've watched every episode since the David Tennant outings

Me too. I think this perhaps says more about the show runner than it does about either Matt Smith, who I loved; or Peter Capaldi whose performance I also enjoyed.

[Steve H]

I'm really enjoying Jodie Whittaker's portrayal of the doctor, reckon she's slipped into it really well. Love the Yorkshire accent that comes with it, too.

Yes, Bradley Walsh has always been a favourite of mine - his unassuming personality showing through in this series.

This is the only series where I've watched every episode since the David Tennant outings.

Interesting too, that the doc seems to be gaining more companions with each new incarnation.

The first Doctor had three.

[Aruntraveller]

The first Doctor had three.

That's right. Susan (grand-daughter) Ian and Barbara (teachers, I think).

Did we ever find out if Susan was a Time Lady?

[Steve H]

That's right. Susan (grand-daughter) Ian and Barbara (teachers, I think).

Did we ever find out if Susan was a Time Lady?

I've often thought it would be interesting to have a later regeneration of Susan sppear in the modern DW.

[Anchorman]

I'm really enjoying Jodie Whittaker's portrayal of the doctor, reckon she's slipped into it really well. Love the Yorkshire accent that comes with it, too. Yes, Bradley Walsh has always been a favourite of mine - his unassuming personality showing through in this series. This is the only series where I've watched every episode since the David Tennant outings. Interesting too, that the doc seems to be gaining more companions with each new incarnation.

Geek alert..... There were three companions in part of the Hartnell era, some of Troughton...and four during several Davison era stories.

[Aruntraveller]

Geek alert..... There were three companions in part of the Hartnell era, some of Troughton...and four during several Davison era stories.

Never apologise for being a geek about Dr Who. Or for that matter Star Trek. Star Wars however, a different story.....

[Anchorman]

I've often thought it would be interesting to have a later regeneration of Susan sppear in the modern DW.

       



Some of the eight Doctor (audio adventures, Big Finish) have the Doctor reunited with Susan...and Susan's son.
At one point, Susan is left flying the TARDIS while the Doctot tries to save the young man and his current assistant ,Lucie Millar (played, incidentally, by Sheridan Smith)

[Steve H]

Some of the eight Doctor (audio adventures, Big Finish) have the Doctor reunited with Susan...and Susan's son.
At one point, Susan is left flying the TARDIS while the Doctot tries to save the young man and his current assistant ,Lucie Millar (played, incidentally, by Sheridan Smith)

Inneresting - thanks for the info. I love Dr Who, but am not familiar with the audio adventures. I'm not an out-and-out Whovian.
Re. companions: I would also like to see a companion from a different time than the present, like Jamie (Frazer Hines), a companion of (I think) the second Doctor, who was an early 18th-Century Jacobite soldier. How about two companions from the Civil War, one a royalist and the other a parliamentarian, who have to learn to get on and sink their differences?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Inneresting - thanks for the info. I love Dr Who, but am not familiar with the audio adventures. I'm not an out-and-out Whovian.
Re. companions: I would also like to see a companion from a different time than the present, like Jamie (Frazer Hines), a companion of (I think) the second Doctor, who was an early 18th-Century Jacobite soldier. How about two companions from the Civil War, one a royalist and the other a parliamentarian, who have to learn to get on and sink their differences?

Alan Cummings James 1 would make a good companion as someone who is well meaning but doesnt get the space travel, 21st century ethics and aliens thing at all.

[Steve H]

Oh - and there was also Victoria Waterfield, from the 1860s.

[Anchorman]

Inneresting - thanks for the info. I love Dr Who, but am not familiar with the audio adventures. I'm not an out-and-out Whovian.
Re. companions: I would also like to see a companion from a different time than the present, like Jamie (Frazer Hines), a companion of (I think) the second Doctor, who was an early 18th-Century Jacobite soldier. How about two companions from the Civil War, one a royalist and the other a parliamentarian, who have to learn to get on and sink their differences?

   



The second Doctor had a habit of picking up folk from the past.
Jamie was encountered in "The Highlanders"....one of the stories the BBC wiped from their archives; luckily the audio survived. Jamie was joined by Victoria, plucked from nineteenth century Victorian England in "The evil of the Daleks"...another almost entrirely lost story arcv. Both work well in "Tomb of the Cybemrmen", though.

[Robbie]

I haven't watched Dr Who since David Tennant. Not for any particular reason.
This thread makes me want to see it all.  So many people have commended Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi, whom I've never seen as Doc Who (& Jodi of course(.

I think when I am retired I will watch ALL!  Lying on sofa.  I'll get square eyes but who cares?  It will be worth it.

[Anchorman]

I haven't watched Dr Who since David Tennant. Not for any particular reason.
This thread makes me want to see it all.  So many people have commended Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi, whom I've never seen as Doc Who (& Jodi of course(.

I think when I am retired I will watch ALL!  Lying on sofa.  I'll get square eyes but who cares?  It will be worth it.

All?
OK, you may aswell start with "An Unearthly Child" (November 1963)......

[Steve H]

Quotation from the Tardis instruction manual, which I've just bought:

Each time the TARDIS materialises in a new location, within the first nanosecond of it landing, it analyses its surroundings, calcuates a 12-dimensional data map of everything within a thousand-mile radius,  and determines which outer shell would blend in best with its environment, and then it disguises itself as a police telephone box.

[BeRational]

Quotation from the Tardis instruction manual, which I've just bought:

I think the story is that some of it does not work properly and it is stuck.

[Anchorman]

I think the story is that some of it does not work properly and it is stuck.

The Doctor did try to correct the chamelion circuit occasionally....the most memorable result was the TARDIS  turning into a pipe organ in the scrapyard at Totters Lane during Colin Baker's time.