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Doctor Who Season 7 (or 33)
Boiled Dove:
I think this season has really hi lighted what has been a growing frustration ever since they brought the show back and that is they pack everything into single episodes. I think most of the stories they have done this season would have been much better if they had fleshed them out over a couple of episodes. Even an hour and a half, like Sherlock, would be better.
Granted I started watching with the "Classic Series" where it was very unusual for a story to be completed in less than 4 installments. Now the episodes were shorter then but 4 would still be equivalent to two episodes of the new format. This would allow for much more fulfilling story development, at least in my opinion. Sometimes I think they try to do too much in an episode and it really doesn't work.
BeoPuppy:
On the other hand, the speed of the old serials is, at times, coma-inducing.
TheEvilDog:
Paul McGann will always be my Doctor!
Well, him or Sylvester McCoy...
Boiled Dove:
--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 17 May 2013, 13:57 ---On the other hand, the speed of the old serials is, at times, coma-inducing.
--- End quote ---
True, but blend the story development of the clasic with the pacing of the modern and it would be amazing.
henri bemis:
And I think that speaks to your point about Sherlock, which (at least to me, don't know know how others feel about it) is not coma-inducing at all. And I think you're right that a lot of episodes could do a lot more with some more time (which is something I think the producers and writers at least sort of realize, with all the two-parters and extended specials).
I really don't want to know the doctor's name. I'll watch, but I'm disappointed they're doing this at all, so it better be brilliant. His charm, for me, has always been in mystery and imagination, and secrets, and questions I want, but don't really want, answers to.
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