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What series should I watch?

4th Doctor
- 7 (17.1%)
11th Doctor
- 7 (17.1%)
Other
- 5 (12.2%)
Don't know/Don't care
- 8 (19.5%)
Random non-relevant option for trolls to choose
- 14 (34.1%)

Total Members Voted: 30

Voting closed: September 30, 2011, 01:27:45 pm


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Author Topic: I need some advice, Whovians!  (Read 2464 times)

klingon13524

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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2011, 01:23:02 pm »

Actually I'd suggest starting with this,
Is every episode like that?
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2011, 01:23:39 pm »

Maybe I just haven't seen enough of him for him to grow on me, but I don't care for Matt Smith. Seems too.....prissy, for lack of a better word.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2011, 01:28:00 pm »

Actually I'd suggest starting with this,
Is every episode like that?
No, they usually have more casualties.

Also: Yo dawg, I heard you like the Doctor...
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2011, 01:28:21 pm »

You seem to be divided, so I added a poll!
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2011, 01:30:42 pm »

 At this point you could just watch the stuff put out while Matt Smith is the doctor. It's pretty separated from previous characters and only minor callbacks are made. And it has one of the best Doctor companions of all time.

 Nononono not Amy, Rory! He punches Hitler and stuffs him in a closet! He is the Centurion.

 I would want to suggest starting with the Eccleston episodes but they are pretty much an inversion of the Matt Smith ones. A good doctor but terrible, Horrible scrips and companions.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2011, 01:31:40 pm »

Yes, Rory is awesome. He dies all the time and is afraid of nothing. Mind you, he's the medic of the group.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2011, 01:41:26 pm »

Tom Baker pwnz all the other Doctors. And then offers them a jellybaby.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2011, 01:43:10 pm »

I dunno, he never had a chance to compare himself to any others.

Or, well, he did, but never got to do anything. Stupid real life screwing with our TV shows.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #23 on: September 23, 2011, 01:52:37 pm »

The Five Doctors. 'nuff said. Got watch it.
It's funny, because I have actually watched that on an old VHS my friend had.  I remember it being fairly good if you ignore some terrible acting and the complete lack of one of the 5 doctors.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #24 on: September 23, 2011, 01:54:54 pm »

Two of them actually if you count Hartnell.


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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2011, 07:45:24 pm »

Start with Eccleston.  (Two doctors before present, the start of the "new series")

Doctor Who has always suffered from widely variable script quality.  But for every "I will channel my time lord DNA through this lightning strike!", there is a Blink, or an Impossible Planet, or an Ood episode.  Doctor Who is at its best when scary-ish.

Also, pretty much all the new companions are best companion.  And so smart and /catty/, not like the useless weak women of the old series.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #26 on: September 23, 2011, 08:12:25 pm »

Ok, I'll look at it from the top.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #27 on: September 23, 2011, 08:18:24 pm »

/catty/
With the large exception of Riversong.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #28 on: September 23, 2011, 08:20:30 pm »

Going to recommend starting with both the new series, starting with Eccleston, and 4th Doctor/Tom Baker~

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The funny thing is that Tennant was the worst of the last three doctors. Eccleston is pretty up there but was brought down by perpetually bad scripts in that season, which Tennant also suffered from. Matt Smith is hitting a happy medium between a good actor and good scripts.
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Re: I need some advice, Whovians!
« Reply #29 on: September 23, 2011, 08:48:05 pm »

With the large exception of Riversong.
She's not really an assistant though, so much as a side character who appears now and then to indicate that an episode is BIG.

Although whatever reservations you may have about her, I wouldn't have said her faults included lack of cattiness.  Eh.
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