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@badwulf Hi AleX – you have to do it manually!

Just copy and paste the text you want to quote into your reply, then use the “Blockquote” formatting button (between Italic and Strikethrough). The paragraph where your cursor is will then be indented, and shown in bold italic on the forum.

Tennant is an odd one for me, because I really enjoyed his take on the Doctor, and it was well performed and felt very modern. However, his final story, and the way his regeneration was handled left a very bad taste in my mouth. I found the End of Time story to be a horribly wasted opportunity – re:

• The Master being turned into one of the X-men with Dragonball Z powers;
• The really stupid-looking transformation of the entire population of the world into him;
• Th treatment of Donna’s fate – just fainting instead of having her mind burned out – reducing the impact of her fate from Journey’s End;
• The silly silly silly gushing treatment of Obama (Who should deal with *fictional* politicians – I wasn’t keen on seeing Nixon, either, but at least Nixon was safely dead when he was portrayed);
• The tokenistic marriage of Martha to Mickey, which cheapened two characters whom I felt had really well developed character arcs up until that point;
• The physics-defying jump from a spaceship (surely a more certainly fatal fall than from a Pharos Project communications dish)
• The waste of Timothy Dalton
• The anticlimax of the final confrontation

There’s probably more, but I think that gets across my sense of disappointment with the way 10 was sent off. Perhaps if he’d been done away with in the Waters of Mars, that wouldn’t have happened.

Still, the Tennant Doctor did have a great run with many many rock-solid episodes.

 

I actually agree with all your points, in the first view those things didn’t really bother me, I was new to Who, didn’t knew it’s history and what was usual and what wasn’t, but the second time I watched it I was so bored I turned it off half way trough!  I just don’t agree with Martha and Mickey ending up togheter, I can’t say I liked it was like more a wathever moment, I think they were well developed and actually kinda makes sense that they end up togheter after all they went trhough with the Doctor and the time the spent together at UNIT.

Off all the specials Waters of Mars is just epic, it’s actually one of my favorite who stories ever!

 

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@badwulf – How do I quote a post on this forum? Can’t find the quote post button anywhere!

About Davison I can’t say anything yet since i’ve only seen him in The Five Doctor, I’m gonna finish the second doctor stories tonight and start using the sheet to download the best third doctor stories. Hopefully I can finish the best stories of each doctor before the end of the year!

 

Talking AG series, Tennant has some bad episodes but I really loved his take on the Doctor, he’s a really good actor and you can see that he really loved being in Doctor Who, I like Matt Smith for example but I’ve never seen that same glow in his eyes!

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Just added my scores to the sheet, looks like Tennant really is my doctor, followed closely for Troughton and Mcgann (been listening to his audio stories and been loving it), Smith had a lot of more good episodes then I remembered, I think Series 7 wich had some episodes I didin’t like left me a bad impression of his doctor overall!

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@badwulf That sheet is amazing! Gonna help me a lot on selecting what stories I will watch in my BG marathon! I’m thiniing of watching everything 3&up or you think I should stick to 4&up? I’m finishing the second doctor stories this week! From the Third Doctor and on II’m gonna skip some stories or it’ll take me a few years to finish it!

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Well, wasn’t that amazing? Even knowing the Cyberman would be in the finale I didn’t really got the the skeletons were Cybermen until the reveal! Moffat did really troll me, at first I tought Missy was really an android, then after she told she was a timelord I was thinking she was Rani, I connected the dots just as she was saing she was The Master! This episode was Moffat at his best, for me it was as good as Blink!

The acting, Jenna’s, Capaldi’s and specially Michelle Gomez, all top notch! I was so involved that when I saw it was already over! Can’t wait to next week’s finale! Gonna have to watch it all over again during the week to see if I can catch anything that I might have missed!

 

About the call at the start, I really think it was future Clara calling Danny, not only because of the notes, but because after the accident, she knew where to go (and got there almost the same time as the police)! How woud she know where he was? He said he was close but that was all or am I forgeting something!?

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@purofilion – Thanks for the compliment! I’ve seen only his stories that are complete + web of fear, still 4 more stories to go, but I just love how Troughton has such subtlety to his body language when acting, his doctor pretends to be soft but I think he is the most cunning doctor i’ve seen so far, really brilliant acting!

From what i’ve seen from Pertwee on the Three Doctors and The Five Doctors I liked him but didn’t thought he was that brilliant, I’m not judging yet since I  haven’t seen any stories of him on his own!

 

9 was my fist doctor, so I’m suspicious to say something about him, I really love his personality, but Ecclestone has some really poor scripts to work with and that’s a shame because in good episodes like Dalek, the episodes with the gas mask zombies and the three part finale you can really see him shine! But over time Tennant grew more on me than him! I just loved his doctor (don’t really like the romantic side though). For me so far from what i saw I would rank 10, 2, 1 (didn’t like him at fisrt, but he grew on me over time and his farewell speech to Susan is one of the best speeches the doctor ever gave!) and 9 as amazing,  8(I really like Mcgann and his take on the doctor, but the movie is kinda bad overall)  3 and 11 as great (I like him, but sometimes I don’t,  kinda have a love and hate thing going on with eleven, but I blame that on Moffat and specially Series 7 actually,), 12 is great but I think he can become one of the best ever if his stories help him! Mind that from what i’ve seen till now there are no bad doctors (can’t wait to get to 6 though and see if all the fuss about him being the worst doctor ever is really justified, but I really liked Colin Baker on The Five(ish) Doctors) I think all of them have bad, good and great stories but there was no bad actor or take on the role so far!

 

Now entering the  discussion about the finale tomorow and the season, I really liked this season overall, the only bad episode for me was kill the moon, and only because I think the spiders were not really used! They’re so creepy you could make a whole episode just about them! Don’t mind the bad science, this is a tv show not a class and It doesn’t bother me when they bend reality laws.

As for tomorow i’m not even that curious about missy anymore, what really got me anxious was what Clara said in the trailer! Can’t wait to see how this plays out! I also see many that many people don’t like Clara, I think she didn’t worked really well with 11,  but in this series they’ve found her place and she is in great balance with Capaldi’s doctor! And Jenna Coleman is so beautiful I don’t mind she being poor writen (never forget her red dress on Asylum of the Daleks)!

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Hi there, my first post on this forum! I’ve been reading your comments for the past 2 weeks now and I’m just amazed on how everyone here knows so much about Doctor Who! The theories and comments here are so brilliant and you all really delve in all aspects of Who!

 

Well, let me introduce myself i’m a 25 year old Brazilian, started watching Doctor Who about 1 year ago in Netflix, and after two seasons I was HOOKED! I’ve burned trough every single episode (and specials) of the AG series in about 3 months, after that I even rewatched most episodes at least one more time after I introduced it to my girlfriend!

 

I’m just amazed how smart this series and the Doctor are! (and i’m not even a big sci-fi fan), now i’ve been taking on the very hard  but pleasant task of watching all the BG stories I can find. Since here in Brazil is just impossible to get any classic who series on DVD and there’s none on Netflix, i’ve been downloading what I can find. I’ve already finished watching every complete stories (don’t really like the recons) of the first doctor and i’m on the second Doctor stories (finished The Mind Robber today), plus I already watched The Three Doctos and The FIve Doctors specials, and seriously how great is the second doctor?  In my book he’s top notch right there with Tennant’s doctor! Not gonna comment anything about the current series yet, but I can say I love Capaldi’s take on the role, you can really see he’s having the time of his  life on the part! Can’t wait to get to the Fourth Doctor stories though, specially the Douglas Adams phase (he’s one of my favorite autohrs of all time alongside Tolkien), but before that I have to cover at least the best Jon Pertwee stories!

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to you all, i’ve learned a lot about Doctor Who on this forum and I gonna try to add something to your discussions!

 

P.S. Sorry for any spelling or grammar errors, I never had anyone to teach me english so I just learned it by myself!

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