Poll: Do you still like Doctor Who?

[TheLiham]

I still like Doctor Who... but I can't wait for them to get rid of Matt Smith! Stephen Moffat is a shit writer too. Asylum of The Daleks was the biggest disappointment since the 1996 movie.
The Daleks asked the Doctor to save them. The Daleks wouldn't ask for anything let alone ask the Doctor to kill some insane and broken Daleks that they're too scared to confront. I don't like the eleventh Doctor either. He doesn't take anything seriously and there's no depth left to his character anymore. Thank fuck he's apparently leaving next year.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Ugh, the fanboy/girlism in here is sickening.
As for me, I like Matt Smith and I think he does a great job as the Doctor. I love that look he get's on his face when he's about to get his game on and solve everything. Although I have to admit I'm not really liking the direction they've gone with the last 2 seasons/series. I'm not going to be like the rest of you and slam Steven Moffat or anything, after all I don't know what sort of pressure he's under. The point is there is too much I don't know for me to go place all the blame on one guy, esp. since I'm sure he's doing the best he can.
The long and short of it: do I like the latest run of Doctor Who? Not as much as previous runs. Am I going to stick with it anyway? Yes.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

I like it still and don't mind moffet or smith so much just because that stupid whore rose tyler she just pissed me off and then as soon as she gets chucked into another dimension just so there was no way to bring that irritating blonde fuck back and even when he had other people like that Donna who I kind of liked or Martha Jones who was interesting to me whenever she showed up but that blonde ***** kept showing the fuck up and once we finally moved on from her he's all emo and I lost one I can't risk another companion so I was a little happy to see smith actually being happy and having fun with his companions without going.

ROSE WHY!?

I'd kill her if I could and her stupid fucking parents and her shit skid friends the lot deserve to suffer forever.

 

[Basement Cat]

I said "Yes" because Tom Baker will always be Dr. Who for me. I watched reruns of him when I was growing up and my family got into the series so much we bought a series of paper back books that gave brief summaries of each episode in Tom Baker's run.

Aside from the first one or two episodes from the run of the guy who replaced Baker I haven't watched any other Dr. Who ever.

No, wait. I vaguely recall seeing one episode, YESS!!! I remember now, even as I'm writing it. I remember seeing the last one or two episodes of the good Doctor that preceded Baker's run. In my mind's eye I recall Baker's first appearance. I think the new Doctor had gone in and out out of a closet or a door "trying on" different new bodies (with different actors coming out for cameos) before Baker emerged, tossing that ridiculously long scarf (which we all love, admit it) over his shoulder. Or did he grab it a few seconds later? Whichever.

WOW, I hadn't thought of that in years. Good memories, even if I was just knee high to a cricket at the time.

I don't have cable, or a decent TV, since I'm don't watch much TV. If I did I'd almost certainly be watching the new season because Dr. Who has changed a lot, clearly.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I'd appreciate a spoiler tag just based on the thirdd paragraph:

I have found Amy and Rory to be very inoying and if they die again and it sticks then I will happly watch that episode over and over again.

Anyway, I just started watching Dr. Who last week (Tennant onward, Just saw the first episode of Christopher) so I'm gonna say I DO like it. I just started season 5 (S5E9, just because I have it own pause behind me) and it's fun so far. Smith sure isn't as good as Tennant but he's still pretty fun.

 

[saintdane05]

I say it's better than it ever has been. So, go sue me.

 

[Infernai]

My issue is that Moffat can't bloody realise when it's time to bring in some new companions. No offense to Rory and Amy's actors, but..how many times have they "Left and come back" now? I think we need to bring in a new companion and give Rory and Amy's characters a final farewell.
Also, yes, i do realise RTD sort of did this as well but...hey at-least he gave us some new companions and didn't wishy washy them being unable to leave. If a companion left, they left, but they still sometimes showed up.

That is one of my biggest complaints really and everyone else already touched on the other issues. But, it just seems...i dunno, like somethings missing now from the series. I don't know what it is but i just feel like something important isn't there anymore and it is effecting my enjoyment a bit.
But hey, it's still arguably the best thing on TV and i don't think Matt Smith is a bad doctor, but fact remains we need some new characters and writers to try to bring it back up to it's former glory.

 

[-|-]

No. All the assistants have been annoying and river song made me realize it's a kids show and I'm an adult so I no longer watch it.

 

[ThePS1Fan]

I love Doctor Who. I think Smith is good as the Doctor. And I thought Asylum of the Daleks was a great episode.

 

[babinro]

No. I've only ever watched half of one episode.
It didn't catch my interest or provide enough intrigue to bother checking back.

As such it joins the MANY shows that I haven't found the time to give fair chance.

 

[Dangit2019]

Do I still like Doctor Who?

Is the pope Catholic?

Does a wild bear shit in the woods?

Did London host the 2012 Summer Olympics?

Is this post getting clear enough to everyone?

Lears, you're really just not making sense. What do any of those things have to do with Doctor Who?

 

[moopig66]

I just discovered Dr Who myself about two weeks ago... marathoned it all fast enough to watch the season opener... i was hoping that the Ponds would go away this season, three seasons is a lot of pond...

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Do I still like Doctor Who?

Is the pope Catholic?

Does a wild bear shit in the woods?

Did London host the 2012 Summer Olympics?

Is this post getting clear enough to everyone?

Lears, you're really just not making sense. What do any of those things have to do with Doctor Who?

Absolutley nothing! It was supposed to mean that I still like Doctor Who, since the Pope is in fact Catholic, etc.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I do... but I haven't watched the show in a while, so I guess I have nothing else to say...

 

[Dangit2019]

Do I still like Doctor Who?

Is the pope Catholic?

Does a wild bear shit in the woods?

Did London host the 2012 Summer Olympics?

Is this post getting clear enough to everyone?

Lears, you're really just not making sense. What do any of those things have to do with Doctor Who?

Absolutley nothing! It was supposed to mean that I still like Doctor Who, since the Pope is in fact Catholic, etc.

I was just playing along with the joke...

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Do I still like Doctor Who?

Is the pope Catholic?

Does a wild bear shit in the woods?

Did London host the 2012 Summer Olympics?

Is this post getting clear enough to everyone?

Lears, you're really just not making sense. What do any of those things have to do with Doctor Who?

Absolutley nothing! It was supposed to mean that I still like Doctor Who, since the Pope is in fact Catholic, etc.

I was just playing along with the joke...

But I didn't notice, but then... maybe... but of course!

JOKECEPTION!

 

[Lilani]

It's funny--all the Whovians on the Internet I know hate River Song, but all the Whovians I know in real-life love her.

Personally, I like the Ponds and River. I will concede that Smith's "angry Doctor" is a bit underwhelming, but I still like him as well. I don't really compare him to Tennant, just because the idea of comparing them is a bit too strange. There's not too much that's inherently "good" or "bad" about them, just different.

In the latest episode...well, I'll do spoilers in case some people haven't seen it.

Spoiler

I feel like hinting at a divorce with the Ponds was a bit too much, especially since they went and resolved it in the same episode anyway. They could have found a less melodramatic way to say that Amy can't have children, but you can tell they just ramped it up for the series opening. And you can tell they're running out of things to do with them. I did love the rest of the storyline, and I can't wait to see Oswin again, and to see what they do with the concept of the Daleks having no recollection of the Doctor.

Oh, and I hate what they did with the opening title sequence. It's like they took the old one and put it through Instagram. And while I like the new fonts for the actor's names, the new font for "Doctor Who" is ugly as all get out.

But, yeah. It didn't rock my socks in some respects, but I love what they've set up and I'm excited for the next episode. Next episode's got Nefertiti, Rory's dad (finally, something new to do with the Ponds), and dinosaurs in space and I think it's going to be awesome. I dunno, maybe I'm just easy to please.

 

[Lilani]

That said, we can always hope for the 12th.

No, you can't. You see that's where Moffet most damaged the series. They created and end point, there can be no other doctors without creating another temporal anomoly like the one that almost destroyed everything last season. The solution out of the silly corner they put themselves in requires that EVERYONE for all time think that the doctor died that day. A new face for the doctor would destroy that plug they put in the time continuum. This guy can keep running around because people could think he was the version of the doctor that existed before he was killed, but if the doctor had a new face? Nope.

Now because that destroys a key concept of the doctor I'm sure post Moffet they will just pretend that season never happened, but, by the book, this has to be the last guy.

See, I'm not worried about that since technically it's not resolved yet. The whole "Fields of Trenzelor" event hasn't happened yet, which means there's still a loose-end in that storyline to be tied up. I feel like that's when they'll have the Doctor will make his "grand reappearance" into the universe, given it doesn't happen before.

And I see what you're saying about the "plug" thing, but it's not really a plug in the universe, it's just an illusion. The Doctor literally dying wasn't the event that happened at that fixed point. That's just what they have down in the historybooks. The event has happened as it needed to happen, and nothing will change that. He didn't trick time, he just tricked what people saw and wrote down as history.

Er, think about it like this. Back in the Tennant era, 10 explained to Donna that Pompeii was a fixed point. They knew it as a volcano going off, but the people of that time thought it was the gods raining down hell on them. It's like that--what happened at the fixed point happened, but the way people see it can differ.

 

[AntiChri5]

I haven't seen the newest episode, but I do enjoy Matt Smith as the Doctor. David Tennant will always be my favorite (everyone remembers their first Doctor), but I have no issues with Smith. I dislike Amy though, I miss companions with spunk. Her go-to routine is either get kidnapped, be helpless until the Doctor comes, or otherwise be useless. I can't think of anything remotely courageous she's done. I miss Martha and Donna, those types of companions who are just plain badass.

Odd, i have found her far more courageous then Rose or Martha. When pirates lock Amy up she grabs a sword, breaks out and duels them.

 

[IMAGinES]

You know, I think that Doctor Who - the new one, anyway - isn't for us any more.

Us being the kids who grew up on science fiction and want that unique blend of bouncing adventure and real drama that the first couple of seasons gave us. The Comic Con goers, the Battlestar Galactica and Firefly fans.

Instead, from Matt Smith on it's being made four our kids, the ones who maybe found the bigger stuff a bit too scary, on whom the more grown-up themes were lost.

My step-daughter, a long-time Doctor Who fan, reckons that this is actually the case, that the BBC was actually losing younger viewers and wanted the show targeted back at them - hence, fish custard, Daleks who've been largely non-scary (maybe Asylum changes that, I haven't seen it yet) and at least two instances of Doom being avoided simply by Thinking Happy Thoughts (Professor Bracewell in Victory of the Daleks and Craig in Closing Time).

But you know what? I still like it, simply because there's nothing else that's just as much rollicking fun to watch.