Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:01 am
#87833
When I was a child I loved Dr Who. John Pertwee and Tom Baker were the doctors of my early childhood. I loved it, even though the effects were crude and the storylines were mediocre. Didn't really watch it after that until it's relaunch a few years ago. Caught the odd episode with Christopher Ecclestone, even less with David Tennant but watched a lot of the Matt Smith ones.
Too many of the episodes seem to be set in either Victorian or modern day London but the scripts were sharp although BBC budgets mean that the effects remain crude. I love the new Doctor, Peter Capaldi. He is a consummate actor, full of pathos and bite. I suppose he took the job to bolster his pension in the knowledge that in a few years when he has done doctoring, he will have a steady income through personal appearances and sci-fi conventions. The scripts suit him and I like the direction that the show has taken with an older doctor. Maybe being older myself has something to do with it. Either way, Saturday's episode was the best so far, Capaldi's acting more than made up for this week's crap alien. What was it again? a Botox Injector?
I watch it with my children like my parents did with me. There are problems of course. My daughter will constantly ask if X Factor is on yet and my son, having severe hearing loss, will crash and bang around so much that I watch it with subtitles on.
I would have loved to have seen it produced with an American sized budget. Maybe one day they'll make another film. Think the last one they did starred Peter Cushing.
Too many of the episodes seem to be set in either Victorian or modern day London but the scripts were sharp although BBC budgets mean that the effects remain crude. I love the new Doctor, Peter Capaldi. He is a consummate actor, full of pathos and bite. I suppose he took the job to bolster his pension in the knowledge that in a few years when he has done doctoring, he will have a steady income through personal appearances and sci-fi conventions. The scripts suit him and I like the direction that the show has taken with an older doctor. Maybe being older myself has something to do with it. Either way, Saturday's episode was the best so far, Capaldi's acting more than made up for this week's crap alien. What was it again? a Botox Injector?
I watch it with my children like my parents did with me. There are problems of course. My daughter will constantly ask if X Factor is on yet and my son, having severe hearing loss, will crash and bang around so much that I watch it with subtitles on.
I would have loved to have seen it produced with an American sized budget. Maybe one day they'll make another film. Think the last one they did starred Peter Cushing.
in the name of The Carver and the holey Gourd. Amen.