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There will be no spoilers but just so you don't have read anything about the new series before seeing it, everything is under a cut.
Man, is it contemporary! New Who is definitely a product of 2005. Think about any major TV show being made this year in the UK and that is the feel of this show. Fast-paced, frenetic... My head is still spinning. Damn but it moves!
Doctor Who has always been a product more or less of its time, and so is the first episode. I think that a hell of a lot of fans are in for some serious culture shock. Previously we had a gradually building change, with the occasional jump here and there. Compared to the last series of the show, and the TV movie, it's like comparing the first story, Unearthly Child to the Third Doctor story Spearhead from Space. Radically different shows that have a central core idea.
Alien travels in time in a police box.
I found it a bit jokier than I would have liked, but at the same time that is preferable to some of the humour that at times plagued the original series i.e. Tom Baker in Nightmare of Eden. To quote - "Oh, my arms! Oh, my legs! Oh, my everything! Arrrrhhhhhhh!"
I can see why so many fans dislike it. They want the original series. This isn't it. If the concept of Doctor Who had never existed before and had only been first realised with this show, this is the show we would have gotten. It is a new TV show, in the same way that Star Trek Next Generation shared a history with original Star Trek. They share a history, but they aren't the same show and neither should they have been.
The new series can't be judged on the strength of Rose. It's one story out of a season. There will be other stories and they will be different. Some will be better, some worse. The same season that gave us the wonderful Remembrance of the Daleks also gave us the woeful Silver Nemesis. The only fair way for us as fans to judge the new series is to watch a chunk of the entire series and then give an opinion.
Do I think a non-fan audience will like it? Very probably. Doctor Who is now and cool. It's not likely to be something that people are going to be embarrassed about admitting to watching. And lets face it, they are the ones who really matter, because they will keep it on the air.
My long-suffering and wonderful wife, who is not a DW fan, thought it was fun. So she'd be willing to watch another episode.
Russell T. Davies and the cast and crew have done their jobs well, and I applaud them.
Man, is it contemporary! New Who is definitely a product of 2005. Think about any major TV show being made this year in the UK and that is the feel of this show. Fast-paced, frenetic... My head is still spinning. Damn but it moves!
Doctor Who has always been a product more or less of its time, and so is the first episode. I think that a hell of a lot of fans are in for some serious culture shock. Previously we had a gradually building change, with the occasional jump here and there. Compared to the last series of the show, and the TV movie, it's like comparing the first story, Unearthly Child to the Third Doctor story Spearhead from Space. Radically different shows that have a central core idea.
Alien travels in time in a police box.
I found it a bit jokier than I would have liked, but at the same time that is preferable to some of the humour that at times plagued the original series i.e. Tom Baker in Nightmare of Eden. To quote - "Oh, my arms! Oh, my legs! Oh, my everything! Arrrrhhhhhhh!"
I can see why so many fans dislike it. They want the original series. This isn't it. If the concept of Doctor Who had never existed before and had only been first realised with this show, this is the show we would have gotten. It is a new TV show, in the same way that Star Trek Next Generation shared a history with original Star Trek. They share a history, but they aren't the same show and neither should they have been.
The new series can't be judged on the strength of Rose. It's one story out of a season. There will be other stories and they will be different. Some will be better, some worse. The same season that gave us the wonderful Remembrance of the Daleks also gave us the woeful Silver Nemesis. The only fair way for us as fans to judge the new series is to watch a chunk of the entire series and then give an opinion.
Do I think a non-fan audience will like it? Very probably. Doctor Who is now and cool. It's not likely to be something that people are going to be embarrassed about admitting to watching. And lets face it, they are the ones who really matter, because they will keep it on the air.
My long-suffering and wonderful wife, who is not a DW fan, thought it was fun. So she'd be willing to watch another episode.
Russell T. Davies and the cast and crew have done their jobs well, and I applaud them.
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By the way, OH MY GOD, DANNY, IT'S YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't know you had a livejournal! Only, I'm not going to say what my real name is, because my theory is that the LJ needs to be separable from the work-me, but look at my userpage and you will surely figure it out, and email me at the livejournal addy and I'll email back from my real one if you're still not sure.
And what's all this about moving to Central Australia?
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I'll tell you all about central Australia... right after you come over and sit on old Unca Danny's knee, like a good girl :)
Yes, I'm getting worse with age... but you've had a couple of decades to notice that one, eh?
*hugs*
Danny
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You having a journal is *so* very cool. You're one of the coolest women I know, so I've already enjoyed reading some of your entries. Very happy Dan.
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Compared to the best of Doctor Who, it's good but not great. Compared more fairly to "An Unearthly Child", "The Power of the Daleks", "Spearhead From Space", "Robot", "Castrovalva", "The Twin Dilemma" and "Time and the Rani", it comes off pretty well indeed.
I'm *really* looking forward to the later episodes.
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Looking forward to you, Simon and myself being all geeky about it at Swancon, too *grin*