Saturday, June 03, 2006

Who

This week's Doctor Who was the first actually GOOD episode of the current series in my opinion. A few others like the Werewolf, the Clockwork robots and a few choice extracts of the Cybermen ones were good. But this one was actually enjoyable and exciting.
There are several problems with the new series. Speaking as someone who has seen lots of the old Doctor Whos, mainly Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. They are longer, better, more interesting, and don't spend a mere minute trying to build up suspense before something is already happening.
A big proble is the time constraint. Old Doctor Whos were several hours long, and between 4-6 parts, normally six. This gave much more time for twists and turns, character and plot development, and some explanation of what is actually going on. These episodes are 45 minutes, 1:30 if we're lucky and get a two-parter.
Secondly, the writers. This latest episode I thought was good, but other than that they just aren't up to scratch. One example would be Mark Gatiss. He is brilliant writing the League of Gentlemen, but I'm afraid you just don't cut it as a Doctor Who writer. They lack all the great writers of Doctor Who.
But I'm hopeful for the conclusion of this two part episode. The last series had a few redeeming episodes, such as the Slitheen and the Dalek episode. NOT the ones with many Daleks, that was annoying and made me want to just out a window because most of the first episode was centred around Big Bloody Brother.
So I feel it should no longer be called Doctor Who. Since there is also much too much sentimentality and focus on family, maybe "The New Adventures of Doctor Who and his companions" would be more appropriate?

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I noticed.

10:32 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey....

I noticed right away!! I just decided to come back and post about when I looked to see if you changed your mind and wrote something more.

~Calli~

10:37 pm  
Blogger Mkzrj said...

I don't know what you two are talking about... *shifty eyes*

9:03 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WHOAH! The new doctor who is AMAAAAAAZING, so watch your mouth!

10:45 am  
Blogger Mkzrj said...

Yeah, David Tennant is good, but the episodes aren't brilliant.

10:48 am  

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