New Who?

[Leman]

 

[Luddite]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plrRnLvVBQ8

[Leman]

That would work. Let's start with Towie.

[Techno]

 
Cheers - Phil.

[Steeleye]

I'd watch 'Celebrity Cannibal Island'.

Celebrities are trapped on a 'desert island' with no food and only a blunt pen knife each, the last uneaten celebrity is the winner...and the following week gets a sharp pen knife and a whole bunch of new celebrities!

There is no escape from 'Celebrity Cannibal Island'...MAW-HA-HA!

As for the new Dr Who, I don't watch it...in fact I stopped watching it when a space Titanic crashed into Buckingham Palace...just how 'silly' is that? Come on ask yourself seriously, is this classic Dr Who? Since they've been spending money on it the scripts and plotlines appear to have gone out the window.

[Subedai]

I've been a watcher since Hartnell so I've had time to compare them all. Liked most of them although the music for some of the Pertwee shows got right on my t*ts. Wasn't too keen on Davidson or McCoy, but the latter crop have all been good as has the writing for them. Some of the plot lines are a bit suss but after all this is Dr Who.
   I also played 'Spot the Reference to previous Dr's' with Ma Subs (who thinks Tennant rocks by the way) and thought Capaldi's initial slightly manic and disorientated style was well done.
   Overall, I'll watch the rest to see how it pans out.

[Luddite]

The Doctors in order, best to worst.

1.  Tom Baker - the best by far, he is THE Doctor, the rest are A doctor
2.  Matt Smith
3.  Christopher Eccleston
4.  Sylvester McCoy
5.  William Hartnell
6.  Patrick Troughton
7.  Peter Davison
8.  Paul McGann
9.  Colin Baker
10. Jon Pertwee
11. David Tennant

Peter Capaldi - TBC, but looking like 2nd or 3rd in first evidence.

[Ithoriel]

The Doctors in order, best to worst.

Such a personal thing. I'd go

1.  David Tennant
2.  Tom Baker
3.  Matt Smith
4.  William Hartnell - without whom none of the others would have had a role to play
5.  Christopher Eccleston - great actor but too macho for Dr Who IMHO
6.  Paul McGann
7.  Patrick Troughton
8.  Sylvester McCoy
9.  Colin Baker
10. Peter Davison - like him as an actor but not as Dr Who
11.Jon Pertwee - got on my nerves

I'd agree with "Peter Capaldi - TBC, but looking like 2nd or 3rd in first evidence."

John Hurt as the pre-Doctor Doctor was a lovely cameo

[Leman]

Now I really liked Christopher Eccleston in the role - I quite like it when the Doctor kicks ass. I have a feeling Peter Capaldi is going to be excellent; cerebral, sinister and quite hard.

[Ace of Spades]

I think in the Dutch version they give them a pole to see if they can jump the crocodile infested moat and escape

I think should watch more television if all this is on Dutch TV already?
I will also certainly check if there's something like a 'Top 10 Celebrity wish list' for those that have to go first...

Cheers,
Rob

[Fenton]

I think should watch more television if all this is on Dutch TV already?
I will also certainly check if there's something like a 'Top 10 Celebrity wish list' for those that have to go first...

Cheers,
Rob

We still havent forgiven The Netherlands for inventing Big Brother

[Leman]

Was Greg Dyke involved.

[Poggle]

I've watched Doctor Who since late in the Hartnell era. The first episode or two of a new Doctor is always a rocky road until the new bloke gets settled in. This episode itself I found a bit blah. It was nice to see the characters of Jenny and Madam Vastra rounded out a bit more (although a young Victorian woman would not have dreamed of whooping and clapping like an American cheerleader!) I think Michelle Gomez (who is as mad as a very mad person - check out her performance in the TV series Green Wing) will turn out to be the Master in female guise. Maybe Moffatt is trying harder to write better female characters at last?

And there was the usual DW nod to left-wing politics. Did anyone notice the newspaper article the Doctor read concerned the dreadful fate of one Margaret Roberts? Margaret Thatcher's maiden name?  

[Ace of Spades]

We still havent forgiven The Netherlands for inventing Big Brother

Why...?!? It was the best idea we had since we thought of getting spices in the Far East and selling them off in Europe...

[Fenton]

Why...?!? It was the best idea we had since we thought of getting spices in the Far East and selling them off in Europe...

And then exchanging  New Amsterdam for the Island of Run 

[Leman]

And the New Yorkers got saddled with that accent!

[Wulf]

I have a feeling Peter Capaldi is going to be excellent; cerebral, sinister and quite hard.

What was it he said? Something like "I'm Scottish! Good, that means I can complain!"

[toxicpixie]

Michelle Gonez is excellent - first saw her in The Book Club and she's not disappointed since. Love her in Green Wing and more recently in Bad Education I'd love her to be the Master!

Only caught the new episode half way thru - have trouble getting Capaldis character in The Thick of It out of my head, but he's good enough that I think once settled he'll be a cracking Doctor.

[Ithoriel]

I'm waiting for an episode where The Doctor meets Cardinal Richelieu. Solo performance by Capaldi

[Wulf]

Michelle Gonez is excellent - first saw her in The Book Club and she's not disappointed since. Love her in Green Wing and more recently in Bad Education I'd love her to be the Master!

She might be The Rani...