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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6775579" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>One of the things I will say is that I wouldn't have a Dr. Who that didn't range from the sublime to the ridiculous. It has the freedom to experiment in primetime in the way very few other shows do - can you think of any other prime time shows that have had five episodes in a row as different from political machinations and terrorism of The Zygon Inversion the found footage horror of Sleep No More, the genuine tragedy of Face the Raven, the single handed show that was Heaven Sent, and the heist/payoff/tragedy/farewell of Hell Bent? That's just the last five eposodes. </p><p></p><p>I can recall precisely two runs of TV shows where the episodes were as individually distinct and the quality was as high. Forest of the Dead/Midnight/Turn Left/The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, and Cold Blood/Vincent and the Doctor/The Lodger/The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang. Yes, there are better seasons of TV than any of those three - but when I look at Hannibal I get Hannibal, and it simply doesn't have the range of Dr. Who.</p><p></p><p>And in Capaldi and Coleman they've two of the best actors on TV and one of the strongest double acts, period. Almost certainly the best actor to play The Doctor ever, and I can't think of a better actor as Companion either (although the writing for her hasn't always been so strong).</p><p></p><p>That said, any show that's as experimental as Dr Who is going to have some duds in there. (Sleep No More, Under the Lake, and especially Before the Flood all spring to mind). And if you don't want to bounce from technothriller through tragedy into single handed acting then current Dr. Who isn't the show for you. I see why people don't like it; if your tastes aren't fairly cosmopolitan then it's going to be outside comfort zones. And the scripts range from superb to ridiculous rather than being consistently high quality because it is experimenting (I'd say the most consistent season was Eccleston's)</p><p></p><p>And on Hell Bent, who else noticed The Doctor's double take when Clara asked him to tell her about Clara? Or the wink before using the memory wipe? Or Capaldi's eyeline near the end when he first said what he didn't know (looking away) then that he'd recognise her (looking straight into her eyes)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 6775579, member: 87792"] One of the things I will say is that I wouldn't have a Dr. Who that didn't range from the sublime to the ridiculous. It has the freedom to experiment in primetime in the way very few other shows do - can you think of any other prime time shows that have had five episodes in a row as different from political machinations and terrorism of The Zygon Inversion the found footage horror of Sleep No More, the genuine tragedy of Face the Raven, the single handed show that was Heaven Sent, and the heist/payoff/tragedy/farewell of Hell Bent? That's just the last five eposodes. I can recall precisely two runs of TV shows where the episodes were as individually distinct and the quality was as high. Forest of the Dead/Midnight/Turn Left/The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, and Cold Blood/Vincent and the Doctor/The Lodger/The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang. Yes, there are better seasons of TV than any of those three - but when I look at Hannibal I get Hannibal, and it simply doesn't have the range of Dr. Who. And in Capaldi and Coleman they've two of the best actors on TV and one of the strongest double acts, period. Almost certainly the best actor to play The Doctor ever, and I can't think of a better actor as Companion either (although the writing for her hasn't always been so strong). That said, any show that's as experimental as Dr Who is going to have some duds in there. (Sleep No More, Under the Lake, and especially Before the Flood all spring to mind). And if you don't want to bounce from technothriller through tragedy into single handed acting then current Dr. Who isn't the show for you. I see why people don't like it; if your tastes aren't fairly cosmopolitan then it's going to be outside comfort zones. And the scripts range from superb to ridiculous rather than being consistently high quality because it is experimenting (I'd say the most consistent season was Eccleston's) And on Hell Bent, who else noticed The Doctor's double take when Clara asked him to tell her about Clara? Or the wink before using the memory wipe? Or Capaldi's eyeline near the end when he first said what he didn't know (looking away) then that he'd recognise her (looking straight into her eyes)? [/QUOTE]
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