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Subj: Re: Sounds good - It's a shame that I have largely parted company with the series these days. Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 at 10:23:46 am EST (Viewed 2 times) | Reply Subj: Sounds good - It's a shame that I have largely parted company with the series these days. Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 at 02:58:46 pm EST (Viewed 2 times) | ||||||
Quote: I used to enjoy the original series as a kid - being a Pertwee/Baker child - but I never really got on with the remake of the series. Sorry to hear that. Quote: I did watch the first few episodes to assure myself that the reimaging wasn't a train wreck, but after that largely lost interest. I did see School Reunion eventually (Elizabeth Sladen, of course), and caught the occasional episode in Ian's Attic, but the new series never hooked me the way the original did. I'm not even sure why, because it has all the elements I should love. Perhaps it's the loss of the multipart stories - so much more immediate than mere story arcs...I think the levels of dialogue in the new series are superior to the majority of the non-Douglas Adams bits of the older episodes. My favourite quote comes from an outtake set betwen Matt Smith's first and second episodes as he tries to explain the appearance of the TARDIS: The Doctor: "It's disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time the TARDIS lands in a new location, with the first nanosecond of arriving it analyses its surroundings, calculates a 12-dimensional datamap of everything within a thousand mile radius, and determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment. And then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963." Quote: That's not to say that there weren't some surprises. I still think that the original Weeping Angels episode is one of the best I have seen, and any TV series that can get me to admit that Cathrine Tate isn't an unfunny dead weight has to be scoring some points.I was also a doubter, but I was convinced by "The Fires of Pompeii", where she pulled off a stunning performance at the end. Quote: So, I'm glad to hear that the 50th Anniversary episode hasn't dropped the torch, despite the endless hype.I've found it very rewatchable. You might enjoy the comedy episode "The Five(ish) Doctors Rebooted", free on iPlayer and YouTube, which stars Davison, Baker 2, and McCoy trying to sneak into the 50th anniversary episode, and includes three other Doctors, a dozen or more companions, Moffat, Davies, Peter Jackson, and Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf! | |||||||
