New Doctor Who

At last someone takes my remarks as they are intended

As for whether I'll give the new series another go, right now I'd say it's 99.9% unlikely with the new regime as I think Steven Moffat is just as hamfisted a writer as RTD and based on the interviews I've seen also comes across as being just as arrogant so I question whether he'll keep his ego in check for the good of the show.

I feel Matt Smith looks about 10 years too young to take seriously as the kind of commanding presence and voice of experience that the Doctor often has to be and IMO he was only hired because the powers that be figure he'll stand up to the frenetic pace of the action scenes better than an older man and because he'll appeal to the same kind of shallow female viewers that Tennant brought in.

Post Moffat/Smith I'm more open to things but only if there's a distinct change in the format. If all the one off, throwaway stories were dropped in favor of 2-4 parters then I'd be willing to give it another go without question as it'd hopefully mean more time for proper character development, quality dialogue and stories that didn't feel like they were being played out in fast forward but I guess that depends on how general TV audience trends change by the time those two depart.

BBC - Doctor Who: Dreamland Animation Blog

First clip of Dreamland

Looks ok, but the animation is meh

I think of the new writers that Moffat has been the best. Unlike RTD, Moffat can write a story that has a beginning, middle, and an end that makes sense. He's had some creative ideas as well. I'm interested to see where he takes the show myself.

If it's any good, I'll let you know.

I think they originally wanted to cast someone a bit older, but something about Smith got their attention. I think he is too young, just like Peter Davison was, but he could still work. Time will tell.

I thought Moffat's first story was OK, but the rest were dire, no redeeming qualities whatsoever with the possible exception of a relative lack of a certain someone in "Blink".

What really made me dislike him though was his attitude towards the work that Douglas Adams did for the show on the making of documentary on the region 2 DVD of "City of Death".

Along with a few of the other Nu-Who writers he basically dismissed everything Adams ever did for Doctor Who as a writer or script editor and just came across as being hugely jealous that in the same time period as he was working on Who he also created a hugely successful sci-fi series of his own.

I'm far from the world's biggest Douglas Adams fan but even so I thought it was particularly disrespectful considering the man is no longer with us and I doubt anything Moffat does now he's in charge of the show will be as popular as "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" became.

It's the begining of the end

Looks like the Doctor is up against his greatest enemy...






Time

All these clips have been great. Hopefully the episode itself will deliver.

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Apparently Matt Smith's favorite Doctor is Patrick Troughton and his agent played Zoe alongside Pat's 2nd Doctor so he's at least got some good influences to draw from.

My scepticism is immense but after reading that maybe there's a chance he'll be able to repair at least a bit of the damage his predecessor has done to my opinion of the modern show.

Wendy Padbury's his agent? That's pretty cool.

Yep, she also represents Nicholas Courtney ( The Brigadier ), Colin Baker ( 6th Doctor ) and Mark Strickson ( Turlough ).

I'm guessing the Doctor breaks the laws of time