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[thehoopiestfrood]

It started last night and it was awesome.

I loved the straw and David Tennant's trainer trick and of course Martha. So far so good!

Oh and the tie trick was genius!!

I'm trying not to spoil it too much.

[Spinless]

I enjoyed the Eccleston series immensely, I thought it was great.
I found the last series very hit or miss. Each episode had something dragging it down, some of them were just AWFUL.
That said, when that last season was good, it was very good. I laughed so hard at the dialogue exchanged between the Daleks and the Cybermen in the last few episodes.

Now, I missed the premier of this season. I realised afterwards that I didn't care. The weak moments of that last season left me feeling completely indifferent.

Tell me darling. Tell me honest. Is this new season going to be better?

[Fiddler]

I was a huge fan of the season that Eccleston was on it.  I thought he played the Dr in a really awesome way and I just loved his delivery of the lines.  But Tennant does a good job too in a slightly less powerful way.  Does anyone know if Sci-Fi is picking this up again, or am I going to have to watch it on the internet?

[thehoopiestfrood]

Tell me darling. Tell me honest. Is this new season going to be better?

I think the opener was fantastic, but I have to be honest and say I prefer Tennant to Ecclestone, though I loved Ecclestone. So I can't tell you if you'll like this series better than the last one or not.

Which episodes did you think were awful in the last series? I know the Peter Kay one was in fact written around a monster designed by the winner of a children's competition and the rules stipulated that it had to use no computer sfx. So in a way, you can't completely blame them for that episode if that's one you hate. I loved the Mr Blue Skies dance in that episode though.

Maybe I'm just a nerd, I think I liked them all.

[Lunchbox]

Storyline what? I am too busy perving.

[Spinless]

Yeah, that episode was awful. But you can't excuse them for it. They used the fact that the monster was designed by a child to fuck around and experiment.
Where did the rules say that the monster had to be played by a piece of shit comedian who is fat and not funny?
Where did the rules say 'Tell the story from the point of view of an annoying witness of the doctor'?
Where did the rules say 'Fill the episode with characters and dialogue that make you want to vomit and give the whole thing a really shitty ending with a reference to a piece of paving stone that gives blowjobs'?

It wasn't just that episode, the whole series had little moments. Didn't much care for the one with the little girl and her living drawings either.

[Ozymandias]

I liked Love and Monsters.

I thought it was cute and clever. Plus- ELO and Moaning Myrtle.

I liked the new opener. Martha's fun. I love Tennant. I love the show. End.

[Spinless]

Yeah, didn't like tonights episode none too much either. It good moments, a few lines made me chuckle.
The rest was horrible. I mean, the 'witches' were cheesy as hell and they saved the world by quoting Harry Potter.

[Ozymandias]

Seriously, Spinless?

I mean...I swear, I'd think you'd never watched Doctor Who before. Have you even seen anything before Eccleston?

I watched the Key to Time this last week. The whole series of it.

Now THAT was cheesy.

At any rate: Third episode! WOO! Face of Boe! Ominous secrets! WOO!

[thehoopiestfrood]

Yay! Ardal O'Hanlan as a cat! Scary kitten "babies"!!

That was actually the secret I predicted when the Face of Boe appeared last series and then never told it, so I'm quite chuffed.

Exciting stuff!

[WelshPete]

Been watching Doctor Who on and off! Definetly puts a new spin on the old Doctor Who....still not 100% on it though! Seems really corny at times, though it has its moments when its particuarly good!

Generally watch it as its filmed in Cardiff where  im from and i remember when i was home last bumping into them filming a few times! Seeing the Tarfis across the road when you come out the pub can be pretty scary lol

I heard the Doctor gets married in this series so it could have something to do with what the Face of Boe told him!

[MadOvid]

Yeah, that episode was awful. But you can't excuse them for it. They used the fact that the monster was designed by a child to fuck around and experiment.
Where did the rules say that the monster had to be played by a piece of shit comedian who is fat and not funny?
Where did the rules say 'Tell the story from the point of view of an annoying witness of the doctor'?
Where did the rules say 'Fill the episode with characters and dialogue that make you want to vomit and give the whole thing a really shitty ending with a reference to a piece of paving stone that gives blowjobs'?

It wasn't just that episode, the whole series had little moments. Didn't much care for the one with the little girl and her living drawings either.

I quite liked that episode actually. Not my favorite one by a long shot. But I thought it was very thought provoking at times. I like the fact that they tried something different and  not just the basic "alien race invades and the Doctor figure out that he can use his sonic screwdriver to reverse the anti-matter neurons of the alien technobabler-o-thon."
I wish they gave Chris a few more years as the Doctor, but I'm willing to give Tennant a chance.

[Spinless]

My favourite Doctor is Tom Baker obviously.
I grew up on Doctor Who videotapes, and saw a lot of Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy.
I loved all those old Doctor Who videos. My dad has the Peter Cushing movies on DVD too. And the Paul McGann Doctor Movie bit.

They were all great. I don't mind the how cheesy they are, however cheesy they got I could still laugh. When I really got going, I didn't even notice the bad special effects, so some of the 'cheese' I didn't even notice.

But for some reason, it doesn't work in the series that have Tennant. It feels wrong. I can't figure it out though. Why did the return of K9 work so well? That was undeniably cheesy.
So why didn't I like it when we had three stereotypical witches that used magic words (which was given a really shitty scientific explanation) to open a portal which was closed by quoting from fucking Harry Potter? I can't wait until Doctor Who defeats the Daleks by playing the Artic Monkeys at an absurd volume.
That episode would have been better without trying to explain the witches with science. "The Satan Pit" was a great episode, it had Satan trying to except from a prison caught in the gravity of a black hole. They didn't try to explain why they had Satan in a sci-fi program trapped in a prison caught in the gravity of a black hole though.
That was good Tennant.
The 'Absorbaloff' episode was just an embarassment. The ONLY redeeming part of that episode was seeing Tennant and Piper running around with buckets of water to destroy an alien. As far as I can tell, the alien was allergic to water thrown at it from the right coloured bucket. That's the perfect explanation for a doctor who episode. That part was cheesy and I enjoyed it. It really didn't need that ending either. Perhaps had they left her dead, it would have been better. The third person narration was a good idea wasted on a really badly executed story with characters that I just wanted to die in the most horrible way possible. I guess they did, but that didn't make me feel any better, especially since the two most annoying characters outside of Peter Kay  survived. Sort of.

The last episode was great, with the pig faced people and the bad accents and the crappy looking Dalek person. I actually loved that one.

Outside of the classic series, my favourite Doctor Who 'episode' is a web cartoon starring Richard E. Grant as the voice of the doctor.
You should check that out if you haven't already.

TO SUMMARISE: Peter Kay+Doctor+Annoying Characters+Trying too hard=Crap

[MadOvid]

I think there's definitely room for improvement for the new Doctor Who. But come on, they've got Shakespeare in the next episode. Shakespeare!

[Spinless]

Shakespeare agaOH!

You're not in the UK are you?
Heads up then, because the next few episodes get real good.

[thehoopiestfrood]

The next episode is called "42". This, of course, pleases me immensely.