Doctor Who
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Hoping the Christmas Day slot really brings people back to the series.
Doctor Who only became a huge mainstream hit when David arrived, the perfect Doctor for the time, but that was an exception not a rule. Matt carried some of that over, Peter struggled to keep it going, and Jodie was a big hit for her first year, then went back to normal ratings along with the rest of the TV landscape, which mostly struggles to get huge audiences it enjoyed only a few years ago. People watch television differently now. If they watch television at all. Even I'm A Celebrity, EastEnders, and Strictly are doing far less. There's sometimes an outlier, but again, that's rare. Gavin And Stacy or Line Of Duty happen once in a while. The bright news for Doctor Who is that the ratings are good along with the catch up, the show is successful and it's BBC's top seller. It's usually the most watched drama of the day, sometimes the week. But you have to be realistic. It's been on for a long time, it isn't the shiny new thing. The Disney Deal putting it on at midnight before it shows on a Saturday is a mixed blessing, shall we say.
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The Disney deal is looking dead in the water currently dd
I don't think anyone minds apart from The BBC. I loved watching at midnight, but it didn't go well with a lot of very loud, angry fans. I just don't care for the discourse around the Disney deal. It obliterated everything around it.
Yeah it was dumb and for all the extra money the show didn't look particularly better.
It just feels like the budget is informing the content rather than the other way around.
The War Games in Colour was really good and worked much better than The Daleks in Colour did. The colourisation was amazing, it really looked like this was filmed in colour in 1969.
The final part of The War Games is one of the best Classic Who episodes, so tense and exciting with the reveal of the Doctor's origins and the arrival of the Time Lords. I loved the regeneration of Troughton into Pertwee, the Easter egg of the new series Doctors, the 1970 vs 1980 in-joke, and the colourised clips of the Yeti, the Daleks and the iconic shot of the Cybermen marching down the steps at St Paul's Cathedral.
Unlike The Daleks in Colour, I will be watching this again. Already pre-ordered it on Blu-ray!
The final part of The War Games is one of the best Classic Who episodes, so tense and exciting with the reveal of the Doctor's origins and the arrival of the Time Lords. I loved the regeneration of Troughton into Pertwee, the Easter egg of the new series Doctors, the 1970 vs 1980 in-joke, and the colourised clips of the Yeti, the Daleks and the iconic shot of the Cybermen marching down the steps at St Paul's Cathedral.
Unlike The Daleks in Colour, I will be watching this again. Already pre-ordered it on Blu-ray!
The war games was mostly enjoyable. Some of the acting was incredibly hammy (the villains mainly) but was a really interesting concept of a story. If it was made today there'd be no issue about needing to get time lord help, there'd be some timey wimey way of wrapping it all up, which is one of the reasons it's lost it's spark these days.
Not Philip Madoc, surely?! The War Lord is one of the most intimidating villains we ever got on Who.
No, but the Bond-esque baddie was hamming it up.
He/They
You need to watch the full 10 episode epic if you haven't.
The cliffhanger to parts 1 and 9 are immense
I did wonder if it absolutely dragged over 10 parts. Another bugbear of the current series is the resolution is too instant. There's the odd two parter but it could do with some space to build a story.
He/They
Surprisingly It does not drag
Yes, but that's proper Time Lord arrogance, isn't it. That melodramatic vibe. Then you get The War Lord conveying genuine menace.
I agree. Ten episodes zip by.
They/Them
That was a real slog to get through. It felt very style over substance. Lots of money spent but such a paper thin story.
What is it with new Who and people being randomly offered jobs
