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[Richard1978]

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The Machanoids remind me of the Dymaxion domes designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller.

There were planned to be a regular feature, but as the props were about the size of a bubble car, a studio full of them was hard to direct.

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another thing i do not like is the coloured daleks.
the old daleks looked far more menacing and sinister.
daleks suit being grey or a slightly rusted colour.

I don't mind. I've actually got a set of those 'New Paradigm Daleks' in the colours you've mentioned. I quite like them...Daleks a Dalek to me. Just some balsa wood, plastic and whatever else on shopping trolley style wheels with a sink plunger....That Terry Nation made a fortune out of them and royalties for himself and his family after his death - hence the real reason the BBC don't really use them too often, because they have to pay extortionate amounts out to The Nation Estate to use their name, likeness etc in the show...I pity the actual guy that built the iconic look - Nation gave him a VERY rough drawing and an idea, the guy from the BBC props dept refined it and made it into what its now become i.e. an iconic template - all he got was a ONE OFF fee of £99 in around 1962/63....and Nation gets all the credit...

I think it'd be funny for NEW WHO to bring back the Mechanoids - they tried billing them as a deadlier new enemy alternative to Daleks...having seen Mechanoids they reminded me of the hexagonal type shapes on the Blockbusters board on the tv show mentioned in another topic...I think refining a Mechanoid would be an extremely difficult one to exact - challenging too.

[darren]

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Usually, there are three 90 minute two parters in each 13 part series, and seven single parters. But yes, I would probably make two parters the norm.

another thing i do not like is the coloured daleks.
the old daleks looked far more menacing and sinister.
daleks suit being grey or a slightly rusted colour.

[tony ingram]

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I don't get it...

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Ooooohhhhh

lol

[sixtyten]

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Ooooohhhhh

[tony ingram]

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I am also a lifelong Who fan. Been watching since 1975, own every episode. I think it's great. I guess Moffat Who really is like Marmite, but there's no need to get so agressive about it. Believe me, I think I'd consider meeting you a 'misfortune' to, based on that attitude.

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er, the Doctor and Jack Harkness are entirely separate characters...Lis was a wonderful companion, but she was wrong on this point. When Doctor Who first began in 1963 it was an ensemble show; the three (!) companions were just as central to the plot as the Doctor, and it remained that way throughout the sixties. All that Moffat has done is take the series back to its roots in that respect. And in my opinion, the writing is far from pretentious rubbish now; it's damn good science fiction, something TV has been short of for far too long.

If I ever had the misfortune of meeting other Who fans I'd scream - I do know what I'm on about concerning the show in general. I know they are separate. Its obvious Davies took the essentials from Who and made a gay version....its pretty clear I meant that...the BBC wouldn't dare allow him to inject such characteristics onto the character...as for the show now well, all I can say is if you like it you like it, I think its become rubbish and thats saying something having been a lifelong Who fan. Moffats writing is drivel. The stories are convoluted, drag on take you down one path then are easily resolved with some lame plot hole ended manner. As for The Silence - did he explain WHY the tardis exploded, the cracks in time? Did he explain WHO said that rubbish about 'silence will fall'...ERMMM no. Also he did that '11th Doc dies only for him to use that big robot body rubbish. Its also predictable. All this 'at the fall of the 11th' (meaning in 2013 Matt LEAVES), 'the question will be asked' (meaning: he'll try and explain away the Doctors actual name....yawn.

[tony ingram]

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Its not Rory that spoils the show its the writing. Its pretentious rubbish really. The writers don't give Rory enough. He was really good in the Gangers two parter. Its actually Amy and River that really ruin it. Amy's a middle aged man's fantasy and River is just drivel...Moffatt trying to egotistically stamp his own rubbish on the show much as Davies simply took the character of the Dr and recreated him as a Tom Cruise-esque smarmy, grinning, omni-sexual prat called Jack Harkness...

er, the Doctor and Jack Harkness are entirely separate characters...

The late Liz Sladen once said the programme IS the Doctor. Assistants add to it. She said the assistants job was to be the viewer, ask questions etc. Ever since the new series we have these so-called self important assistants like Rose...its boring.

Lis was a wonderful companion, but she was wrong on this point. When Doctor Who first began in 1963 it was an ensemble show; the three (!) companions were just as central to the plot as the Doctor, and it remained that way throughout the sixties. All that Moffat has done is take the series back to its roots in that respect. And in my opinion, the writing is far from pretentious rubbish now; it's damn good science fiction, something TV has been short of for far too long.

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I think Rory has spoiled the show.His character is weak and distracting!

Its not Rory that spoils the show its the writing. Its pretentious rubbish really. The writers don't give Rory enough. He was really good in the Gangers two parter. Its actually Amy and River that really ruin it. Amy's a middle aged man's fantasy and River is just drivel...Moffatt trying to egotistically stamp his own rubbish on the show much as Davies simply took the character of the Dr and recreated him as a Tom Cruise-esque smarmy, grinning, omni-sexual prat called Jack Harkness...

The late Liz Sladen once said the programme IS the Doctor. Assistants add to it. She said the assistants job was to be the viewer, ask questions etc. Ever since the new series we have these so-called self important assistants like Rose...its boring.

[tony ingram]

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ok there is an odd 90 min story.
but i wish all stories where ninety mins or more if they where they could do more.

Usually, there are three 90 minute two parters in each 13 part series, and seven single parters. But yes, I would probably make two parters the norm.

[macster123]

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I think Rory has spoiled the show.His character is weak and distracting!

[darren]

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Hopefully when the anniversary comes Matt'll be off and a more older actor will step up, the intro theme will have more of the traditional da-da-da-dum, da-da-da-dum repetitive bass like it used to have and the writing will be better....still, its all a load of tosh that I watch and will watch to divert the mind from lifes problems as usual.

intros like these like these mate.
http://youtu.be/T4q0Hts1HdU
http://youtu.be/zLseY942cwo
http://youtu.be/4gghshhTnZk
http://youtu.be/oqcao3S_1Qw

thing was back in the early days they had very little money and made some great stories.
in a docummentary they said even if they had more money in the early days they feel the old stories would have been worse.

i heard that on my two disc set of genesis of the daleks.

terror of the autons was a real chiller.

i just feel the stories now are two short.
45 mins in not long enough i feel its rushed.
ok there is an odd 90 min story.
but i wish all stories where ninety mins or more if they where they could do more.

[darren]

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just found out.
the Doctor has been played by various other actors which are not considered to be canonical incarnations of the Doctor.
In October 2010 the sunday telegraph revealed that the series co-creator Sydney Newman had urged the BBC to recast the role of the Doctor as a female Time Lady during the ratings crisis of the late 1980s.

jon pertwee the third dr was the voice of spotty in suprted.

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Hopefully when the anniversary comes Matt'll be off and a more older actor will step up, the intro theme will have more of the traditional da-da-da-dum, da-da-da-dum repetitive bass like it used to have and the writing will be better....still, its all a load of tosh that I watch and will watch to divert the mind from lifes problems as usual.