In which we discuss Doctor Who.
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Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker, Davidson, Baker, McCoy, McGann ...
... Atkinson, Grant, Broadbent, Grant, Lumley.
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the cliche is "the best Doctor Who actor is the one you were first introduced to"
OK so my first memories of Doctor Who involve fleeing the room in terror as Jon Pertwee and Elizabeth Sladen dealt with assorted kinds of cardboard and flex-duct gone rogue, and then all of a sudden there was Tom Baker and That Scarf and of course he could not possibly have been any good because he was not Pertwee. But he grew on me pretty quick and if I were ever forced to choose one Doctor's episodes not to wipe forever from history they would be his.
I see blakey's already got the Pakistani Daleks covered, so here's my second favorite piece of Who non-canon ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59guruVL4oEdit: And this is pretty slick slash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bGYljQ5Uw
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Pretty sure you got trolled hard.
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BRIAN BLESSED, LOUDEST ACTOR EVER, STARRED IN FLASH SO YOU HAVE MADE A GOOD CHOICE!
It's funny. There's a few documentaries out there where he's the host/narrator, and he's pretty much a normal, quiet guy. So he DOES IT ON PURPOSE.
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OF COURSE HE DOES THAT'S WHY PEOPLE HIRE HIM! BODY IS INVALID! <blessed>
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And if memory serves, he's just replicating the performance of Jack Lipson in the 1936 serial.
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I don't think there's a point separating the actor from the character, since all I care about is the end result. Tennant didn't bring the acting chops to the table, and his Doctor suffered for it. Hammy overacting is no substitute for nuance.
Well, if you're going for end result, then I'd have to say that
Smith, Amy, Rory is the best Doctor Who, because all the other companions are shit by comparison.But I still think that if Tennant was given the same companions and the same skits, those episodes would have been better.
Sure Smith was more clever, but Tennant was endearing.
I felt like Tennant actually cared about people. Smith seemed to only care about people when he was bored. He shows no sympathy for Rory having to choose which Amy to take. The only time he seems to care, is when it's politically correct to care.
I'm sorry, Tennant felt more a part of the universe he was in, Smith felt like he was just trying to escape from it.
And going back to Satan and Tennant being scared. That matters to me. Smith was portrayed as intellectualism is the new messiah, and he often rejected the notion of intellect being the wrong choice. Tennant actually showed true fear.
I get that cleverness is more fun, but sometimes its better to show a Doctor who doesn't pretend to know the answer ALL THE TIME....
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Smith had a lot of goofy scripts to deal with. Like goofier than the average Doctor Who script. Like the one where there's robot-people who are controlled by tiny people inside of them. Like the one with the lesbian lizard-woman and the potato-head-man playing as private eyes in Victorian London.
I would have honestly liked to see Matt Smith handle the nu-Season 1-3 scripts, which were generally much better.
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Also, Tennant is a huge over-actor.
No, this guy's a huge over-actor.
Also, I think I found the new "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98MxxpzIoyg
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They're taking the hobbits to Isengard
did someone say isengard?
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I wonder if there are enough people who know it to justify a Blakes 7 thread.
Janet Fielding, who played Tegan, thinks most science fiction is horrible, and Blake's 7 is exemplarily horrible.
ETA: I mentioned that in the other thread.
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companions
Jesus, people actually liked Amy and Rory? I found the duo bland at best and irritating at worst, and the silly scripts didn't help much.
Honestly, I hardly remember much of Eleventh's run, I need to rewatch it someday. But I'm the guy who liked the whole "Ten's God Complex" storyline and considers Eccleston the best Doctor of the New Who (if underdeveloped due to a short run), so maybe I'm not the best person to judge here...
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Jesus, people actually liked Amy and Rory? I found the duo bland at best and irritating at worst, and the silly scripts didn't help much.
Amy and Rory (well, Rory mostly) were good characters who were unfortunately involved in some of the shittiest scripts of NuWho.
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Yeah,
I felt Amy was unfair to Rory, quite a lot.
Rory waited for Amy for how many years. And Amy waits 40 years, and treats him like shit. Of course, Amy had impending death in a few more decades, but still.
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Amy had impending death in a few more decades,
You sure? Rory had to live through the rise and fall of multiple empires, the middle ages (not exactly a peaceful time), a couple worls wars, plus guard the pandorica through multiple museums, even dragging it out of a warehouse fire. I'm sure Rory had his share of decades of impending death.
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But he didn't age.
Immortality makes time seem more meaningless.
There was danger for sure, but nothing like a woman going through menopause.
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Course he didn't age, he was a damn piece of plastic. The poor guy was struggling with having killed Amy and was trying to prove that he was still human.
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I could never really get into Doctor Who. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of overwhelming Political Correctness or anything like that, it's just, well, calling someone a Tard-Ass, that just doesn't sit right with me. I think that's over the line.
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Took you all this time from March 9th to come up with that one, eh?
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Most of that time was spent Discosearching for the correct topic.