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Tova:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 17 Jul 2017, 16:17 ---Interestingly enough, this has been something that had been speculated on since the end of Tom Baker's run as The Doctor,, but no-one really thought that they'd end up going down that route.
It shall prove interesting
--- End quote ---
Maybe back in Tom Baker's time no-one thought so, but I am sure I am not the only one who has seen it as almost inevitable ever since they foreshadowed the move with Missy.
Kugai:
It was also something they serieously considered towards the end before the plug got pulled
One has to feel sorry for both Collin Baker and Silvester McCoy, the writing got lazy after Davidson left and they got lumbered with shoe shitty Plotlines towards the end
BenRG:
They also decimated the budget. The Baker and Davidson-era costumes and props were getting better and better but those used in the Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy eras were cheap, poorly constructed and generally awful (apart from one noticeable bright spot in the white 'Imperial' Daleks). There is nothing worse than watching a good show get progressively cancelled by a thousand cuts due to hostility from the executives of the channel over a period of seasons but Doctor Who fans went through that in the 1990s.
FWIW, it is my opinion that Sylvester McCoy's Doctor (and, to a lesser extent, Colin Baker's) set the scene for Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi's very alien and very morally ambiguous version of the character. There was some good writing in the McCoy seasons (The Psychic Circus being a personal favourite) but you could see some of the problems that would plague the reboot - Many stories had a great set-up but failed to follow it through as if the scriptwriters didn't really know how to resolve their own plots.
JoeCovenant:
I've been into Dr Who for as long as I remember (I vaguely recall Troughton, but Pertwee was 'my' Doctor.)
And when it was brought back I 'kinda' liked Eccelstone... the "Run for your life" line gave a good idea of how he was going to play it, and ran well.
Then Tennant came in... And he re-wrote history.
He was a beautiful amalgamation of many of the best, past Doctors, and his sidekick wasn't another, squealing, "I've been captured!" plot device.
...and then Davies began to bring in his showbiz mates as cameos.
...and then there was the "Love Story".
And my interest plummeted.
I saw the first episode of Matt Smith, and nothing else.
I saw none of Capaldi.
My fear now is that after all the 'bravery' involved in creating a 'Female' Dr (Gender isn't quite the same thing in the Who-verse IIRC), that the writing will get lazy, or worse, self-referential to the fact that the Dr is a 'woman'... and god helps us, another love story. ("But we'll make this one with a girl just to stir the pot!")
Maybe I'm being a bit too cynical, but it just seems to have become Style over Substance.
SubaruStephen:
*Sighs*
Still not ginger.
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