May 05, 2005

Doctor Who Top Trumps (via viewropa)
posted by jb 18 years ago
  • This is great, thanks! There's a ton of great stuff on their website for this show: the radiophonatron, clips from old episodes, trailers, interviews, changing content, and episode based websites. (Yes, I'm completely obsessed with the new Who, thanks for asking.)
  • Er... I just kept picking the highest number on any given card and won every time... like the pics, though.
  • Well, I think that the new series of Doctor Who is turning out very good indeed, I particularly enjoyed the last episode, Dalek. Pleasantly surprised they used a proper ring-mod for the vocal effects! However, I hated this game.
  • These are great - you can login.
  • Amusing...I liked the short descriptions they gave for each card. I unexpectedly swept the game even though there are quite a few old shows I missed. And, livii, I can't say I'm feeling the new episodes. They seem sappy. Too much 'I don't want to lose you' and 'tell me my daughters gonna be safe! - 'I can't do that.' Bum BUM BUM. I mean, they hardly know each other for christ's sake. I had to turn off the dalek one when the dalek was sweet talkin Rose...just lame. And the doctor is too goofy-smiley. I thought Christopher Eccleston was excellent in Shallow Grave, which is an awesome movie if you haven't seen it. And they still haven't even left the earth after 6 episodes. Meh.
  • While I am getting sick of the all earth, all the time episodes, I am liking the series quite a bit (even if no american channel will pick it up and I have to download it!). While the mother was a bit irritating in the World War3 episodes, I do like the thread of keeping in contact with the people left behind on earth. I also am intrieged by the "bad wolf" stuff as well as the unfolding story of the Time War and the Doctors role in it. Before I watched the Dalek episode I heard a lot of people talking about how it was all touchy feely like the Star Trek: TNG episode Hugh, where they found the lone borg. Thankfully, I didn't find the Dalek episode anywhere NEAR that sappy. If they get away from earth, I will like it more, but overall, thumbs up from me.
  • I was fond of Eccleston in Cracker.
  • Oh, that's where I'd seen him before "28 Days Later".
  • I like the earth episodes. Earth in the far future (coming up next week) is more interesting than random alien planets, especially because so few depictions of alien cultures on tv are ever as rich as that of Earth. Actually, I just watched the "Genesis of the Daleks", with Tom Baker as the Doctor. I like Baker's Doctor a lot, but he just isn't as powerful a character as Eccleston's and the show was much lower in its quality of writing and acting (I don't care about production values). Still higher than many American productions then and now, but the new Doctor Who is blowing the old one out of the water. Interestingly, in the Genesis of the Daleks, the Doctor is faced with the possibility of killing off the Daleks for once and for all, and hesitates, because it would be genocide (also because it would really screw up the TV show, but that's another matter). Whereas now the Doctor has to live with what he has done, how much like a Dalek he has become.
  • I'm sure that we will soon see a change in the present Doctor's attitude to those issues. For one thing, the backstory rather clearly establishes that the Tardis won't work without the existance of Gallifrey and the Time Lords, because of the nature of the Eye of Harmony. So I expect that there will be some time-recursion or whatnot where the Time-Lords and the Daleks are brought back into existance. It wouldn't be the first time the Doctor has altered the time streams to bring about a more convivial situation, although always at the thrust of somebody else's needs. I'm not worried about the Doctor staying around Earth. He's obsessed with Earth. The early Doctor stories where almost always about historical earth, and the John Pertwee Doctor, who in some ways I enjoyed more than Tom Baker's, spent a lot of time actually stranded on Earth when the Tardis was (IIRC) disabled by the Time-Lords. God it was a good show, with the twists and turns of the story. The effects and writing could often be total crap, but in those days I think people used to ignore that sort of thing. The concepts, though, have often been really good.
  • Doctor Who book covers (self link - also, I hope I haven't posted this twice - I just hit post and it disappeared, somewhere)
  • Oh, vile geekery that hath ensnared us!
  • sorry...