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Doctor Who
Dec. 27th, 2013 12:15 amCyn and I have been watching the DVD's of all the "new" Doctor Who. We started with season 1, Christopher Eccleston, and have just finished Season 5, Matt Smith's first season. We had been watching about one per year, but this year we managed to fit in two seasons. We got the sixth season DVD set, but I wanted to take a little break. That Doctor Who is just about the only time I sit in front of the TV. People say I should watch such-and-such a movie, but I don't have time. I'm not a Time Lord! Watching movies really isn't that high a priority.
So anyway, I brought the old VCR up from the basement, and dug through the boxes of videotapes. The first one started with an episode of The Young Ones, and then two Tom Baker shows. I wasn't sure what to expect from the old shows. I remember some episodes being pretty good, and some being pretty bad. Low production values all around, and generally not a lot of action or suspense. And of course this was a 35 year old TV show. I was pleasantly surprised. I mean, most of what I remembered was true, but these episodes weren't bad. It's a more powerful show now, but the modern Doctor is very true in ideals to the original. Humorous, nonviolent, superior, intelligent, solution-oriented.
I've got about a dozen tapes marked Doctor Who. A few are labeled with episode titles, so I found "The Five Doctors". I'm excited to see that. It also has four more Fifth Doctor episodes. I also found one with "The Talons of Weng Chiang". That was a good one, at the time. I wonder if it still is.
So anyway, I brought the old VCR up from the basement, and dug through the boxes of videotapes. The first one started with an episode of The Young Ones, and then two Tom Baker shows. I wasn't sure what to expect from the old shows. I remember some episodes being pretty good, and some being pretty bad. Low production values all around, and generally not a lot of action or suspense. And of course this was a 35 year old TV show. I was pleasantly surprised. I mean, most of what I remembered was true, but these episodes weren't bad. It's a more powerful show now, but the modern Doctor is very true in ideals to the original. Humorous, nonviolent, superior, intelligent, solution-oriented.
I've got about a dozen tapes marked Doctor Who. A few are labeled with episode titles, so I found "The Five Doctors". I'm excited to see that. It also has four more Fifth Doctor episodes. I also found one with "The Talons of Weng Chiang". That was a good one, at the time. I wonder if it still is.
