Has Dr Who lost it or is it just me?

[TastyCarcass]

The new series is awful.

The Christmas episode was too plot heavy and dialogue based for a good family christmas episode (David Tennant having a sword fight with a purple alien miles above london or Tardis vs giant cyberman is far better for that)

Every new episode is far too dark, and not in a good way. They're just bland and unimaginative. That episode where every single alien ever teams up to trap the doctor in an unescapable prison ruined it for me. He basically just went back in time and rescued himself. Where the hell is the tension when he can do something like that?

Doctor Who died when Tennant left. He said so himself.

 

[JasonKaotic]

I haven't really liked it as much since Matt Smith started. In fact it didn't really seem as good since Billie Piper left. But I still like it. Just nowhere near as much.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Wow, I can't believe people preferred it back when Russel T. 'I don't understand subtlety' Davies was in charge. Remember that time when he decided that the Daleks were going to blow up the universe? And every other universe as well? Because then they apparently win, somehow? Or the time the Master transformed every person on Earth to be like him, because apparently nothing is healthier than populating a planet with scheming, malevolent timelords who are just as hungry for power as you are. Fortunately they inexplicably do as the original Master tells them. Or the time the Daleks decided to make pig men, combine a Dalek with a human despite it going against everything they believe and then brainwash some humans despite the fact that the only thing that made them dangerous was the weapons the Daleks gave them. Or how about the way every two-parter consisted of them dragging out a single plot point for one whole episode while 'building tension' in the most unimaginative way possible, before starting the next episode with a quick deux ex machina. And let's not forgot the humour:

Yeah, Tennant was nice and all but he really started to suffer under Davies because he had to constantly switch from the wacky persona to the angry and angsty one with absolutely nothing in between the two. How else could they hammer home an incredibly simplistic moral message, such as 'The First World War was a bad thing'.

 

[Hungry Donner]

Eh, the Gaiman episode felt like something I'd find on Fanfiction.net rather than out of the pen of the likes of someone like him. Oh well.

I haven't seen it myself, but I remember Gaiman's Babylon 5 episode feeling very Gaiman but not very B5.

I don't have cable so I haven't been able to keep up with Doctor Who as it airs and I've only just started to watch season 5 - and I have to say I'm enjoying it. Davies made a lot of decisions I didn't like with the series (although thankfully he kept the worst for Torchwood) and it feels like the show is being put back together. Also while I enjoyed David Tennant's performance he was a bit wacky for me - too much like his idol/father-in-law Peter Davison. Funny enough in both cases I wasn't a fan of their take on the Doctor but there were some really great episodes during their tenures.

I still miss Eccleston, it took me a while to warm to the new Doctor Who but I was very disappointed to see Eccleston leave. So far Matt Smith seems to look great but I don't feel like he's nailed down a personality yet - he hasn't been bland, but he hasn't been distinctive either.

 

[TastyCarcass]

Wow, I can't believe people preferred it back when Russel T. 'I don't understand subtlety' Davies was in charge. Remember that time when he decided that the Daleks were going to blow up the universe? And every other universe as well? Because then they apparently win, somehow? Or the time the Master transformed every person on Earth to be like him, because apparently nothing is healthier than populating a planet with scheming, malevolent timelords who are just as hungry for power as you are. Fortunately they inexplicably do as the original Master tells them. Or the time the Daleks decided to make pig men, combine a Dalek with a human despite it going against everything they believe and then brainwash some humans despite the fact that the only thing that made them dangerous was the weapons the Daleks gave them. Or how about the way every two-parter consisted of them dragging out a single plot point for one whole episode while 'building tension' in the most unimaginative way possible, before starting the next episode with a quick deux ex machina. And let's not forgot the humour:

Yeah, Tennant was nice and all but he really started to suffer under Davies because he had to constantly switch from the wacky persona to the angry and angsty one with absolutely nothing in between the two. How else could they hammer home an incredibly simplistic moral message, such as 'The First World War was a bad thing'.

I'd rather that than Matt "I can go back in time and rescue myself" Smith. Tennant's mood swings made him unpredictable and oddly fearsome.

 

[Kermi]

I really didn't like Matt Smith's first season, but he's growing on me. Apart from the pirates episode, it's actually been a pretty good season if you ask me.