Aspies For Freedom

Just wondering....

I'm lovin' the new episodes, although I do miss the Tom Baker era.

Oh yes

I can't wait for the second part of the current Dr Who 'Human Nature'.

Too impatient...hate two-parters.

I loved Harry Lloyd in the first one - I couldn't believe this was the same guy as whatshisname in Robin Hood!

You mean it is still on? My husband will be crushed to hear that and not have access to it. It used to be on public television here, but I think they have since dropped it. Recently found some old tapes of it at the library for him. His whole family was addicted to it.  Mom of Hrick

Thanks, it only took 2 1/2 years

It was so perfectly balanced today too = 2000 posts and 1000 PMs

Does anyone know when the third season (of the new show) is going to be shown in the US?

And money/experience I should think (it's not like the BBC has ever done anything on this scale since standards and expectations for effects and stories reached current levels

Hooray, the third season starts showing in the US tomorrow night!    I'm so excited!

Hmm, that's too bad.  I really like Tennent.  My mother, though, doesn't, so I guess there's a pretty wide range of reactions to him amongst the fan base.
As for companions-  I like Martha, but Rose was better.  I do like how they've played up the effect her loss had on the Doctor, though.

Is that the one with the wedding and the spidery alien?  That one was fantastic, I loved it!  The elaborate makeup and the over-the-top acting of the person playing the spider-alien was brilliant!  

Am I going mad? I thought Kim Possible was a cartoon character.

Who’s your favourite Dr?

Here’s what I think…

I thought the very first incarnation of the Dr was very good; William Hartnell portrayed a thoughtful if somewhat grouchy Dr. The second Dr was also excellent; Patrick Troughton turned the Dr into was a feisty intergalactic explorer. With Jon Pertwee the third Dr became heroic, compassionate defender of humankind. The fourth Dr…Tom Baker well what can I say; proof if proof were needed that genius and madness are related. He was and is raving lunatic and brought to the Dr many if not all his behavioural quirks and gimmicks. I felt Peter Davison (the 5th Dr) was quite good-- compassionate, intelligent but a bit of a wimp. I tried to like the sixth Dr (Colin Baker)--I really tired; but I just couldn’t connect with him. I think he was trying to be crotchety a bit like the first Dr, but for me only succeeded in being incredibly annoying most of the time. Lucky number 7--I found Sylvester McCoy was an excellent Dr (incorporating many of the best traits of the former Dr’s); although I do feel he was let by a few bad stories and rather dated special FX (by this time nobody wanted to see a man in a rubber suit pretending to by a monster). No. 8 (Paul McGann) had some good ideas but lacked soul.  Enter the 9th Dr (Christopher Eccleston) and the soul was back in earnest; true the original but updated in the best possible way (although I did think he was a little underdressed to be the Dr in that jumper and leather jacket). And finally (no. 10) the current Dr David Tennant--in my opinion quite excellent if a little student-ish and melodramatic

Best

Tom Baker
David Tennant
Jon Pertwee
Christopher Eccleston
Sylvester McCoy
Patrick Troughton
William Hartnell
Paul McGann
Peter Davison
Colin Baker

Worst

True he didn’t really get much of a look in; although in 1997, BBC Books published monthly adventures of the 8th Dr (not quite the same thing I know).