Dr Who.

[Ali]

Grants was nasty with limited numbers of characters [hence more character humour] and hilarious, like the earlier seasons. Naylor's was "hAHaHAH PENIS!!!!!! GIMP!!!! LOTS OF THEM, KOCHANSKI PENIS SEX OMG!"

and that is a COMPLETELY accurate recreation.

Oh how I wish you were wrong.

[Pumaman]

The new Doctor looks like he belongs in a boy band, not saving the universe from Daleks. The Christmas special will probably see him putting on a gig in the tardis with Rose screaming excitedly and throwing underwear his way.

[Las Naranjas]

I'll also mention that I don't like the fact that the BBC now covers it's sets with crappy neon CGI rather than the fog from dry ice.

[Privateer Puddin']

The new Doctor looks like he belongs in a boy band, not saving the universe from Daleks. The Christmas special will probably see him putting on a gig in the tardis with Rose screaming excitedly and throwing underwear his way.

Not the youngest doctor though...

[Mr Flibble]

I still don't get how the words Bad Wolf would act as a message.
I mean she could've used any words. Or none at all. Its not like the words Bad Wolf told her how to get the TARDIS working. All they seemed to do was remind her that she had a time machine and roughly 200,000 years (something like that)  to get it working.

Its a shame that Rob Grant left Red Dwarf, without him it became very formulaic, with a lot of jokes over used and over explained. Doug Naylor's series (6,7 and 8) were driven by creating new scenarios and throw away characters, although Red Dwarf was popular for its character based storylines and the feeling of isolation.
I mean they're harly isolated 3 million years into deep space if they come into contact with people who originally came from Earth every episode.

[Reko]

I really don't like the newest series. It just seems..cheesy. If I wanted to watch the old, real Doctor Who and such. And as for who plays the Doctor.. I don't think they've chosen very well. The doctor needs to have 'gravity' so to speak, but I haven't seen any of it so far.

Well.. I'd just say my preference reflects my preference of adventure games (i.e. old-school style) than CGI-stuffed imagery and overused, modernised plots.

[Cluey]

I thought the new series was thouroughly enjoyable.  I loved the last two episodes although I still didn't quite see the significance of Bad Wolf. 

I think Bad Wolf is words the TARDIS put across time, and when Rose becomes "possessed", its the TARDIS acting through her.  The Doctor said it was alive and it thought for itself.

Daleks are cool.

The whole thing did have a very distinct Britishness about it.  The "plastic wrap" feel only adds to the cheesiness.  I think it's supposed to be deliberate.  The writers wouldnt want an all out Hollywood style action.  They kept the cheesiness, and it has a certain charm I think.

The original series' never used top of the range effects of the time.

[BerserkerTails]

Well, I just watched the final episode (Despite it not airing in Canada for two more weeks), and I positively loved it. I had seen a few random episodes of the series before so I can't comment on how great it was compared to the rest fo the series, but I know what I like.

That being said, I've started watching tons of old episodes since I got hooked on the new series, and I love them as well. I do think the new series captured the style of the old one quite well.

That being said, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the Tenth Doctor in action. Though I'm glad they did it, it's still a pretty dirty trick to have the Doctor regenerate, then have the show disappear for 6 months.

[Mr Flibble]

What grabbed me about the new series was that suddenly the Doctor's actions had consequences.
Before there were seperate serials that made up the series, but each one was seemingly unrelated, apart from the link-to.
The new, more freeform, formula works much better, and allows for hidden story arcs which become apparent only at the end. Who'd a thunk the Doctor would have to go back to Satelite 5?

I think its better that they kept the cheese and the old fashioned tardis whoosh. I mean the tardis woundn't make a different noise just because it suddenly had a larger budget.

[BerserkerTails]

If you noticed near the start of the last episode, when the Tardis was flying towards the Dalek mothership, it still twirled in that "Model on a string" sorta way. I thought that was awesome.

The show has done a good job in staying consistant with the old stuff, while being new enough not to shun new viewers. A show that did a very POOR job of this would be Star Trek Enterprise. I mean, why did that Enterprise look more high tech than the one from the Original Seires?

[Mr Flibble]

I could see my way past the fact that the Enterprise was more high tech-ish than even the Next Generation, but what made the series fail was the 2D characters (Captain Airlock, as he is know known to 'fans'), predictable plots and the typical Star Trek Vulcan/Robot/Borg/ (in this case Vulcan) who comes to terms with their fellow crew/ own 'Humanity' and learns to laugh, and to love.

Oh, and couple that up with the fact that the producers removed ALL social commentary and morals, leaving behind a clear cut all-american crew (the black guy seems to get hurt a lot, and no-one seems to mind. Pesky Americans) facing 'The Bad Guys'.

They don't even try to put in a moral conflict, like the aliens doing what they need to survive, or the right to live. Archer=Good. Andorians/Xindi= Bad. Good shoots bad. T'Pol gets 'nekkid.

Although rumour has it that the last (ever) two episodes are actually extremely good, even reverting to the use of the old "These are the voyages" speach in the intro.

[Hakujin]

I think some good things have been done with the new Dr. Who series (just bringing it back in itself...) but over all, I'd like to take it away from Russel T Davies. He's like a little boy who cheeses it up WAY too much. What made Dr. Who work was it's grit and the episodic nature meant the writers could explore whatever issue they wanted in whatever world they wanted. I think developing the Dr & assistant over time was a good idea, but they did that before as well, without such a by-episode-13-we're-going-to-have-a-revelation agenda. It's too much like space comic adventures now (captain Jack - who I liked - everybody smooching every body - apparently in some orgiastic three way - which I'm cool with, but was better when you left it up to your imagination what their personal lives were like on the TARDIS.) I never used to roll my eyes when watching Dr. Who but I did in about half the episodes in this season.

Overall: it's good to have it back, the season had some strong points, but overall, I'm missing a lot of the Dr. Who style. And please, please, please, kill the cheese.

[Captain Mostly]

I loved the new seriese! I cannot imagine how anyone could have ever made a more faithful, yet up-to-date return of the program. It was utterly brilliant and spot on.

Although to be be honest I didn't like Eccleston at first (for the first couple of episodes) but when I got used to him he just seemed totally natural in the role. Fantastic.

BUT

I predict David Tennant will be... AMAZING as the new Dr. I loved him in Cassanova and it seems to me he'll take to the role like a duck to water. I just hope he'll want to stick with the character for longer... one seriese just doesn't seem like enough...

(As for Paul McGann, he DOES get the chance to be the doctor over and over again in the audio adventures... sure he's not on telle, but check them out for more of that Who fix we've all be craving round here since the end of the latest batch)...