jfett said:
Bingowings said:
Not going to spoil the plot but the first episode of the new look series was fun but spoiled by some 1990's style CGI and the worst rendition of the theme tune since the Sylvester McCoy era (only the hideous Delaware version trumps it and they ditched that after one episode).
Haha, the "McCoy" era was the end of the "classic series" unless you count the movie. The new theme isn't great, but it's better than McCoy's theme! The new theme sucks, the new logo sucks, the new tardis sucks, the new companion sucks and the new doctor sucks. I disagree about the CGI though - it should be MORE cheesy after all that's what Dr Who is all about! They should make an episode "the four doctors" out of the four doctors since the end of the classic era.
Nonsense! Doctor Who up to a point only looked cheesy when it hadn't the money or technology to articulate the imagination of the writers.
When Michael Grade set his sights on killing the show off JNT (rather foolishly) played up the cheese and turned the show into panto when he should have scaled down the stories to match what could be made on the budget he had.
If you listen to the Big Finish audios you get a feel for what the eighties era could have been like with writers taking the concept more seriously.
Peter, Colin and Sylvester were never properly served in the TV show but given good scripts and all the amazing visuals that come with audio they really shine.
Some of the best Doctor Who stories ever have appeared on audio, Spare Parts is the best Cyberman story by a long mark.
It's meant to be bizarre and strange but not cheesy.
Some of the earliest stories where up there with most of what cinema was offering at the time.
Giant rat aside The Talons Of Weng Chiang is a classy production, up there with BBC dramatisations of Dickens.
It's only towards the end we got that disconnect from what Doctor Who was trying to do and what the BBC was trying to do in drama generally.
The latest episode has great acting, great direction is well written and shot but the CGI looks like something from a decade ago and it really threw me out of the story, something a special effect should never do.
This idea that the show is meant to be cheese which wobbles around a small section of fandom is the sort of thing that will kill the show again.