Well, the alternative was to dig up William Hartnell's corpse.....and Tom Baker now readily admits that he made a serious mistake not being in that episode.
Hartnell's corpse and the wax dummy probably would have done a better acting job than most of those folks.
WAB be trollin', they be hatin'. I'm rewatching some of the old eps lately--especially the early Tom Baker ones--and amazed at how good the stories are. The Doctor is much less of a clown than I remembered from my childhood--at least in the early Baker eps and before. It is also amazing how really, really shitty some of the monsters are. I mean, they get points for trying to do genuinely alien aliens--no prosthetic forehead humanoids here, but damn. It's hard to believe the Sontarans had to fight a major war with a race of glowing green beachballs, wrapped in fake cobwebs. Last night was "The Ribos Operation", the first segment of the Key to Time arc. And while the story was engaging, the big monster in it, the "Shrivensaar", looked like something out of a bad community theater production from Nutsack, Iowa.
Not trolling at all. I grew up watching Doctor Who in the 70's and 80's and absolutely love the show. I just don't look back on it with rose-coloured glasses. Not sure why some folks hate the latest iteration of Who, as it respects the history of the Whoniverse and definitely has some great writing and acting. As I said in another thread, Steven Moffatt is the first writer/producer for the series who actually views time travel and its consequences with some seriousness.
Neither do I. It takes itself far too seriously. It tries to hard to be edgy. It's Doctor Who not Quantum Leap.
See, this is why I try not to watch TV when it's on the air originally... it means I have to actually wait a week for the next episode.
Are we watching the same show? The one with the Doctor in the fez, the giant flying eyeballs and telepathic headbutting? Explain. While your statement is factually correct, I'm not sure what it has to do with anything. Should a series in which time travel is an important element ignore the consequences of time travel?
"I'm the last of the Time Lords! Waanh! waanh!" "I am a Time Lord fear me!" The Doctor is the harbinger of doom! Doom! "I'm the last of the Time Lords! Waanh! waanh!" It doesn't have to wallow in it.
While Moffett has been an improvement, anything would have been an improvement over RTD's cheesefest and campiness.
I'm thinking the one with the pie plates, and the 80's Colecovision graphics on the one 60's CRT screen.
I don't mine the console room, I mind the console itself. I wish it was less kitch-punk Earth gizmos and more "most advanced species in the universe" based. Yes, I know, I know, just the fact that it travels through time and space, and is bigger on the inside than out should be enough, but I guess I'm too demanding. Let the outside be Earthy (Police Box), let the inside be alien and wonderful.
How do you depict that again? With keyboards and computer screens? Apparently the future ended in 1989. With touch screens? Apparently Gallifrey couldn't top Apple. With non-physical holo-buttons? Too expensive. And who wasn't to see Matt Smith just waving his arms around in the air. The set is designed to be interacted with. Big switches to flick, knobs to pull. It's a set. Since it really isn't possible to depict a "future" control room I'd say they went with the next best thing - a retro design the actors could interact with the most.
Hey, the whole control room is some sort of hyper-evolved extension of a hologram anyway. The Peter Davison crossover with David Tennant revealed that the look of the inside is just a sort of solid desktop theme.
WRONG FONT! Not canon! Not canon! I f'ing hate that crap line. Atleast The 11th Hour somewhat contradicts it.
The Tardis shuts down and rebuilds itself. Not like clicking a new desktop theme. Sure you can fanboy it into "changing desktops on the Tardis takes lot of work!" which is why I said "somewhat contradicts it"
Just because the TARDIS changed "desktop themes" when it "regenerated" doesn't mean that a routine "desktop theme" adjustment is in any way difficult.
