With a new series of Doctor Who less than a week away I
thought I’d best start a run of Who related posts to get us all in the mood.
I must admit I’m quietly looking forward to this new series,
principally because it would seem the powers that be have finally decided that
the good Doctor should be played by someone who is at least of an age where
they look like they’ve had some sort of life experience rather than someone who
looks like they’ve just finished college and are starting their first job.
Listening to some of the dialogue spoken by the War Doctor
in the Day of The Doctor special earlier this year (played perfectly by John
Hurt), it appears that some criticisms he made about his former selves were
pretty much in line with mine.(Maybe the script writers are listening to us older fans!) ‘Was the Doctor going through a midlife crisis?’,
what with each new regeneration getting younger and younger, and why did his latest incarnation use
juvenile lines like the utter cringe worthy,’ timey whimey!’
And what’s with all this nonsense about having most of his
assistants falling madly in love with him. He is an alien isn’t he! He’s got
two hearts and goodness knows what else! What are these women thinking?
I’m not sure they’ll get away with having Clara Oswald
(played by 28 year old Jenna-Louise Coleman) falling madly in love with the
current Doctor, who is now played by 56
year old Peter Capaldi who’s old enough to be her father. She might have had
feelings for Matt Smith’s, nerdy werdy Doctor but after witnessing his
regeneration she might well be having a rethink.
However, now that Jenna has announced she’s leaving the show
at Christmas the writers and producers will no doubt have something else up
their sleeve.
Well, whatever happens in the new series I really do hope it
all works out, especially for the incoming Peter Capaldi. He strikes me as the right man for the job. And it would appear the producers are looking
for a more serious edge to the show. Well,
there were plenty of aspects about the previous series’ that I positively
detested, but as to a more serious show, I have to say that I'm all for that.
Having tried occasional episodes of the new series- hated it!
ReplyDeleteThe flying daleks were about the last straw.
It would take a serious improvement in scripts to make me watch again, though I agree with your comments on the merits of an older doctor.
I know what you mean, Andy. The only episodes that really stand out for me are 'Blink' in which the Doctor hardly appears, and 'The Girl in the Fireplace', in which the Doctor is pretty much powerless. I do watch if the Daleks make an appearance and I agree with you about their ability to fly. I think we're of the generation who knew that when a Dalek needed to fly, he had to use a Hoverbout .
ReplyDeleteI actually like the modern era as well as the old era, though I agree Blink and Girl in the Fireplace are two of the best, rather liked the Ecclestone finale too. Daleks could fly in the McCoy era!
ReplyDeleteI take your point about 'Rememberence...' but I think they kind of hovered , Kev, just to answer the critics who said Daleks couldn't climb stairs. . It wasn't really flying like they do in the rebooted series. And in the episode that you're referring to most of the Dalek props just wobbled due about due to a ball wheel arrangement underneath.
DeleteFair point!
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