Dr Who is a British sci fi series about a man simply called "The Doctor", who is the last of his race of Time Lords. He travels space and time in a blue 50s-era British police box, usually accompanied by a woman.
The program originally ran from 1963 to 1989, and was revived in 2005. There have been several actors playing the Doctor, something explained by the Time Lords ability to regenerate several times over their lifespan. It allows them to cheat death, but they look different and have slight personality changes as a result.
I was originally introduced to the Doctor by my roommate/best friend, and since then my brother and his best friend have all caught up on the show.
The effects are often cheesy, the acting hit and miss, but the themes are powerful. The show as a whole is at once powerful, intelligent, comedic, insightful, exciting, and heart-wrenching.
Are you currently watching the latest series? Its pretty good so far. I'm highly enjoying it. The latest episode I've seen is Amy's Choice (I'm following on BBC America).
I'm a huge Doctor Who fan. I hated Billie Piper though, and didn't really like Eccleston. Seeing that video linked by CharlieMurphy made me feel angry. Series 2-4 are much better. I'm not gay, but I could forget that for a night with David Tennant.
I've only seen a bit of the new season, I tend to spend more time online than watching television. I was pleasantly surprised by what I did see, tho, especially with the new Doctor. I had become so used to David Tennant that I was worried Matt Smith wouldn't be able to hold his own. Glad to be wrong.
The most recent series has been pretty awesome so far, its great not having the horrible writing of Richard T Davies anymore now that Moffat has taken of the duties of lead writer. I was expecting that it would take me ages for me to accept Matt Smith as the Newest Doctor, but he has been awesome pretty much throughout the current series.
Anyone interested in watching the show can just start from this year's series since it is pretty much a restart, with a new doctor and a new lead writer in charge.
I know it looks cheesy and whatnot to the people who never saw it, but trust me, once you get used to the theme of the show and the characters you'll love it for sure!
About time we got this thread. :o) Tennant made the show amazing... Smith is ok, but not quite as good and unfortuanally a show like this quickly becomes lame. - There's a fine line. If's good, it's flipping amazing; if it's bad it so so horrible!
On June 09 2010 16:47 CharlieMurphy wrote: sounds bad, checking YT for vids
cool theme
haha this show looks so bad
wtvr
Perhaps your stupidest post yet. This show is fantastic. Taking a random part of a special episode out of context to judge one of the most popular and enduring shows in tv history is really kind of absurd.
Instead, watch this episode. It's called Blink, it's written by Steven Moffat who is my personal favourite writer (and is writing every fucking episode this season!!!) and it's awesome.
Dr. Who rocks. North American TV is such rubbish. Although I can't say I'm thrilled this season, this Doctor is really very different from the rest. It's intriguing though.
Instead, watch this episode. It's called Blink, it's written by Steven Moffat who is my personal favourite writer (and is writing every fucking episode this season!!!) and it's awesome.
Moffat is fantastic n'all, but he's merely the producer of this series, and is writing a bunch of the episodes, not all of them.
Having said that the quality of the episodes has improved this season with only two duff episodes so far, IMO (The World War 2 Daleks and the Van Gogh ones, if you need to know).
The current series started really good but the last episodes were almost as bad as it gets.
And for those that think that the show is mediocre... Well, it often is, but it is simultaneously awesome in the same time (and its stupidity is often part of its charm).
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