[Fonk]

I love the new series of Doctor Who unashamedly. Might I give my Who fan-fiction – on this very site – a little plug? No? Oh well.

And I agree with Mr. Tenebrae in general. Torchwood has yet to win me over. The last couple of episodes have seen a definite change for the better in quality terms, but they just keep overdoing it at the end. 🙁

[Prophet Tenebrae]

Overdoing what? The sex? The swearing? The violence? Actually – they've not really done that much more violence since the pilot… but sex and swearing seem to be obligatory. I've nothing against either – even in excess – but here it just feels that they're going "Wow, we can swear and have lots of shagging!" and then doing it only because it's an option to them – not because it in anyway benefits the plot or such.

Still, I hear it's getting renewed.

[Andy_Fraser82]

Strange they touted torchwod as a uk x-files which dosen't quite fit, I've even heard on person describe it as Angel UK. It has promise loved they keep killing Suzie and then theres the fact that Torchwood and the Doctor meet in the third season. There is one thing that gets me about Torchwood, in their universe there is the UN, there is Unit and yet they don't seem to know the Doctor has had past dealing with Unit meaning he's the good guy. Anybody want to try to clear that one up for me.

[Number6]

I've not seen Torchwood, but a couple of possibilities exist in Doctor Who for why they might not know that the Doctor worked for UNIT.  The first (and least likely) is that the Time War scrambled up history enough that his association with the organization was minimal.  Since Nine seemed to think the UNIT people would've known him in World War 3 (the 2-parter with the farting Slitheen), and since Sarah Jane Smith met and knew Ten, the Time War probably didn't rewrite the Doctor's history that much (even though it's still a remote possibility).  Another possibility is that the UNIT people that were in the WW3 episode were the only few who had or knew of contact with the Doctor, and since they all died, the Doctor no longer has any connection to UNIT that Torchwood would know about.  One other explanation (and probably the most likely) involves the disc Nine gave to Mickey that would wipe all info about the Doctor from the Internet (and presumably any connected mainframe), and/or the "Bad Wolf virus" recently referenced in Love and Monsters (with the Absorbaloff)…the Bad Wolf having intervened in the Doctor's history could have been responsible for keeping Torchwood in the dark.
As one might tell, I very much enjoy the new series…Nine was FAN-tastic, Eccleston's portrayal was great and while I have no complaints about how they brought his character arc to a close and regenerated him away, it would have been great if there had been more of him.  I got to see a brief overview of the earlier series some time ago, and while I didn't dislike any of the other Doctors, I think I liked Two the best (in some part due to the interplay/teamwork between him, Zoe, and Jamie), though Five was the first Doctor I saw, so I liked him a lot too and Four was also fun to watch.

[Fonk]

Overdoing what? The sex? The swearing? The violence?

None of those – just the endings, really. They did too much with Eugene in Random Shoes, for instance, and the way Diane 'left' in Out Of Time was nonsense too. I do still think it's finding its feet, and I am sort of glad that it's going to get a chance to continue.

[Andy_Fraser82]

David Tennant is doing a fantastic job as the doctor and even predicted it when he was 14 in a school essay. As for Ecclestone he's ment to be apearing in the new US show Heroes as a Super Villan

[Jack]

Heh!  As a Brit and someone who loved the series as a kid, I'm quite frankly surprised at the amount of non-Brits who are into it (especially Americans).  I thought only Brits and a few Canadians/Aussies might be into Dr Who, but it seems that lots of people in the US like it too, which is news to me.  Admittedly the budget has been brought up to a level where the program can compete with US Sci-fi, but it seems funny to me that the characters have such international appeal.

Out of all the doctors it's obvious that Tom Baker would win a popularity contest hands down.  He was so eccentric and had such a wonderful accent.  He's very much in demand for voiceovers today in the UK.

As for Leela of the Sevateem… wow!

It may not seem like much now, but a woman doing (admittedly extremely bad) karate in animal skins in the 70s was incredibly incredibly sexy.  I say that even as a child of the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Who in the US caught the season finale on Scifi? I thought it was wonderful but very sad.

[Number6]

Saw it, rewatched it, enjoyed it both times.  The only thing that peeved me had nothing whatsoever to do with the episodes…it was Sci-Fi's promos that basically consisted of clips from the climactic moments of each of the two parts while practically yelling out the "big twist" to anyone unfortunate enough to flip past the promo.  I don't know what they were thinking, but those promos were in extremely poor taste.  Hope we get the Christmas episode, new season, and of course Torchwood on SciFi soon.  Bad promos aside, I am quite interested in the new stuff.
I never saw any Tom Baker episodes with Leela, and now I wish I had.  Peri was pretty easy on the eyes, though.

[Matthew Sicherman]

Leela was my favorite companion of all time. She was a real fighter a jungle babe for sure(though at the time I hadn't yet realized on a conscious level just how into strong women I was), and her naievete made for some rather funny lines. Adding K-9 to the same mix as her was brilliant because they were the perfect counterpoints to each other. Leela was driven by animal instinct and barely-contained savagery while K-9 was a technological being of pure logic.

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