I'm totally biased towards Peter Capaldi Me, too! I need to watch more of the small stuff he's been in--I've really only seen The Thick of It and his smaller roles in The Devil's Whore and Torchwood, but whenever I see him, he's so good. His Torchwood character still kind of haunts me to this day, augh. Do you have a recommendation when it comes to the shows he's been in? I hear that The Hour is supposed to be good.
Oh man, Remembrance of the Daleks is my FAVORITE. It's one of the very few Classic Who episodes I've seen more than once. Ace is amazing; she's my favorite Old Who companion. Seven's always been a close second favorite Doctor after Ten, for me, though he may have to share that spot with Twelve now. It's true, though, that Ace makes up about 75% of Seven's awesomeness.
Aw, Eight. I'm terrible with anything audio--can't do audio books at all; I always get distracted and fail at actually listening--so I never got into Big Finish. Any fan I've spoken to who's into it makes it sound so exciting! I have to admit it's also a bit daunting, though--I wouldn't quite know where to start! I have seen the movie, though, so I have some concept of Eight.
though I got a bit frustrated towards the end there I feel you. I was very, very fannish about RTD, and loved Ten, so I did enjoy even the specials. But Ten's run should have ended after season 4. Which is actually what was meant to happen--the BBC added more special slots after season 4 had already been wrapped, and effectively ruined RTD's original plan to have Ten go out in a fairly small-scale two-parter. So then he came up with End of Time ... which I did enjoy, because I'm a big Doctor/Master shipper, and because I loved seeing Ten confronted with Rassilon, but from a mere storytelling perspective, those specials shouldn't have happened.
I really enjoyed Moffat's episodes during RTD era but I'm somewhat disappointed in him as a showrunner I did enjoy most of Moffat's episodes during RTD's showrunner years, too, especially the ones in the earlier seasons. But the more of him I saw, the more I noticed how self-indulgent and self-referential he gets, how bad he is at explaining plot details, and how terrible he is at portraying female characters. So when he took over as a showrunner, I was worried that he would lose the plot halfway through the season and use the "wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey" approach to anything he didn't have a good explanation for. And that's exactly what happened, so I eventually noped out.
The season 9 writing and directing teams seem to have gotten a number of women on board, so I imagine that that must have helped with cleaning up the character inconsistencies and the sexism. I don't know who helped out with constructing episodic and seasonal plots that don't fall apart half-way through, but whoever it was, I'm very grateful. Packaged like season 9 was, Moffat's ideas are fun again, and make for good TV. I'm glad, too, to have given the show another chance.
But then again, I suppose having been a fan of the show for nearly thirty years I can afford to be mellow about it! Hah hah, yes! It hasn't been 30 years for me yet--I'm a bit past 10 at this point, and I've had a steady supply of new TV canon. But coming back into the show (and the fandom) now, I am also feeling a lot more mellow than I did when I first got into it. The idea of "canon" becomes a bit redundant, anyway, when the current showrunners and actors were authoring fanzines in the '80s--it's really all televised fanfic at this point. Any time I don't like what canon is doing, I can find something better on AO3, and wait for someone else to take over the show. ;)
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Me, too! I need to watch more of the small stuff he's been in--I've really only seen The Thick of It and his smaller roles in The Devil's Whore and Torchwood, but whenever I see him, he's so good. His Torchwood character still kind of haunts me to this day, augh. Do you have a recommendation when it comes to the shows he's been in? I hear that The Hour is supposed to be good.
Oh man, Remembrance of the Daleks is my FAVORITE. It's one of the very few Classic Who episodes I've seen more than once. Ace is amazing; she's my favorite Old Who companion. Seven's always been a close second favorite Doctor after Ten, for me, though he may have to share that spot with Twelve now. It's true, though, that Ace makes up about 75% of Seven's awesomeness.
Aw, Eight. I'm terrible with anything audio--can't do audio books at all; I always get distracted and fail at actually listening--so I never got into Big Finish. Any fan I've spoken to who's into it makes it sound so exciting! I have to admit it's also a bit daunting, though--I wouldn't quite know where to start! I have seen the movie, though, so I have some concept of Eight.
though I got a bit frustrated towards the end there
I feel you. I was very, very fannish about RTD, and loved Ten, so I did enjoy even the specials. But Ten's run should have ended after season 4. Which is actually what was meant to happen--the BBC added more special slots after season 4 had already been wrapped, and effectively ruined RTD's original plan to have Ten go out in a fairly small-scale two-parter. So then he came up with End of Time ... which I did enjoy, because I'm a big Doctor/Master shipper, and because I loved seeing Ten confronted with Rassilon, but from a mere storytelling perspective, those specials shouldn't have happened.
I really enjoyed Moffat's episodes during RTD era but I'm somewhat disappointed in him as a showrunner
I did enjoy most of Moffat's episodes during RTD's showrunner years, too, especially the ones in the earlier seasons. But the more of him I saw, the more I noticed how self-indulgent and self-referential he gets, how bad he is at explaining plot details, and how terrible he is at portraying female characters. So when he took over as a showrunner, I was worried that he would lose the plot halfway through the season and use the "wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey" approach to anything he didn't have a good explanation for. And that's exactly what happened, so I eventually noped out.
The season 9 writing and directing teams seem to have gotten a number of women on board, so I imagine that that must have helped with cleaning up the character inconsistencies and the sexism. I don't know who helped out with constructing episodic and seasonal plots that don't fall apart half-way through, but whoever it was, I'm very grateful. Packaged like season 9 was, Moffat's ideas are fun again, and make for good TV. I'm glad, too, to have given the show another chance.
But then again, I suppose having been a fan of the show for nearly thirty years I can afford to be mellow about it!
Hah hah, yes! It hasn't been 30 years for me yet--I'm a bit past 10 at this point, and I've had a steady supply of new TV canon. But coming back into the show (and the fandom) now, I am also feeling a lot more mellow than I did when I first got into it. The idea of "canon" becomes a bit redundant, anyway, when the current showrunners and actors were authoring fanzines in the '80s--it's really all televised fanfic at this point. Any time I don't like what canon is doing, I can find something better on AO3, and wait for someone else to take over the show. ;)