Argh Doctor Who!

Yeah, on an episode-by-episode basis I feel Moffat's better. But Davies ran a tighter ship season-wise.

Let's see if Moffat has gotten comfortable with this new season. If he has, things might definitely be looking up.

-Fred

I just started catching up on everything since the reboot. I plowed through the first season (the 9th doctor was awesome!), and i'm just starting season 2. Time to find out why everyone seems to rave about David Tennant.

Loved David Tenant. He's my 2nd favorite Doctor. Doc #9 was too broody for my tastes. Doc #10 is much more cheerful and fun I felt.

Well so far i like him, but i don't think i've seen enough to fully judge. I love Matt Smith (probably cause he's the first doctor i got to know), but there was something about how Eccelston played it that was amazing.

when is this socalled reboot from? i onley find dr who from 2005...

the reboot started in 2005. The series has been going off and on in various formats (primarily TV) since the early 60s.

Yes Dread, Doctor Who is coming up on it's 50 year anniversary it's been around so long.

Here's the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_serials


For their 25th anniversary, they made an episode in which they had all 5 Doctors appear in one episode (1 was dead and they replaced the actor, and one did not participate so they used previously unseen footage of him).

Hopefully we'll see a similar thing for the 50th.

AtomicVegetable,
If you ever get bored you should watch the new GI Joe movie. It has Christopher Eccleston staring as the villain in the movie. It's a funny change from playing the doctor.

wow so thers like a billion episodes then ?

It's the longest running science fiction programme ever by a long way in terms of timeline but in terms of episodes I think Star Trek is its nearest challenger, though still some way off.

A 50th would be good thing - I wonder who would write it??

Truthfully, when it comes to Doctors #9, #10 and #11, my favourite is Eccleston. By his own choosing his left the show but had he opted to remain for another year or two, i'm of the opinion that the competition between him and Tenant would have been a lot closer. The morose, cynical qualities he brought to the role (to me) suited the war-torn character he was playing more than the vivacious and goofy Tenant (as good as he was in the role).

Joel, he actually didn't leave of his own choosing in the end - there was a lot of hype from the BBC trying to protect the end of the series and journalists kept asking him how long he was going to be the doctor for. He kept on avoiding a proper answer to the question but at one point just after the end of the first series, everyone was saying how good he was and wanted him to do more. The BBC suggested that he left of his own choosing and normally he'd kept quiet on these things but he stepped forward on this one and said it was the BBC who had made the decision to get rid of him, and he was annoyed that they were then suggesting it was his choice.

Must say I'm really enjoying this series more than the last one. Quite creepy.

Yeah, it seems like they've tightened the bolts and screws on this season compared to the last one.

It feels more... streamlined, sort of.

-Fred

It's different from the Tennant years, which I've enjoyed tremendously, but it's the closest I've had to early-seasons X-Files, and this makes me ridiculously happy. I haven't had this much fun with television in years.

Now if we could merge those two with Neuromancer and make a game out of it I think I could just go to bed and die right there, life having fulfilled itself to its fullest extent!

I've just seen the last episode with Amy and Rory. I won't give away the plot other than to say OH. MY. GOD.

Weeping angels, 1938 New York and incredible stuff