Your favorite Doctor (who)

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Sorry, but the exchanges between Davros and the Doctor are very cheesy and quite daft. The dialog Baker and Terry Malloy have to spew out is on the same level as that of the Star Wars prequels.

Still, not everything about Genesis is bad. The set designs are great, as is the oppressive and doomed atmosphere they generated for the story. But the horrid pacing, numerous cliffhangers, useless filler, and godawful dialog just about killed it for me. Not something I'll watch again thank you very much.

Oh well. I'll watch it again for you.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Sorry, but the exchanges between Davros and the Doctor are very cheesy and quite daft. The dialog Baker and Terry Malloy have to spew out is on the same level as that of the Star Wars prequels.

Still, not everything about Genesis is bad. The set designs are great, as is the oppressive and doomed atmosphere they generated for the story. But the horrid pacing, numerous cliffhangers, useless filler, and godawful dialog just about killed it for me. Not something I'll watch again thank you very much.

Unfortunately, I have to agree. Genesis of the Daleks was my first experience with the fourth Doctor. If I hadn't been assured by numerous people that it wasn't representative of the series at that time, it would also have been my last. I was bored silly, when I wasn't rolling my eyes.

 

[Raven Crowking]

As long as you don't claim The Gunfighters as the best story ever, it's all good.

(The novelization of The Gunfighters is all right, but we used to make people talk by strapping them down and forcing them to watch the actual episode. Do you remember A Clockwork Orange? That's the kind of setup we'd use. And, believe me, it'd turn a Rutan into a quivering mass of jelly........)


RC




P.S.: Ari, did you ever see the 1st level adventure I posted with dread ghoul mouse swarms? It was inspired by your user name.

RC

 

[Felon]

I thought Sylverster McCoy was quintessentially Whoish. You had that element of him being sophisiticated and eloquent, but also a bit of a rascal and vagabond as well. Had the authority that comes with age, but still had impish energy. "Silver Nemesis" is a great multi-layered serial. Cybermen, nazis, and black magic. Good stuff.

Grew up watching Baker on PBS, so he's always going to have a special place for me (and countless others of course).

Surprised to see McGann rating so highly, considering his tenative tenure.

Tennant has me waiting eagerly for the next regeneration. Frankly, his spastic, ADDesque mania is probably the easiest way anyone could play the doctor.

 

[horacethegrey]

Unfortunately, I have to agree. Genesis of the Daleks was my first experience with the fourth Doctor. If I hadn't been assured by numerous people that it wasn't representative of the series at that time, it would also have been my last. I was bored silly, when I wasn't rolling my eyes.

I'm still mystified as to why Who fandom ranks this story so highly. The numerous flaws in it do not justify it's status as one of the best Doctor Who stories ever.

As long as you don't claim The Gunfighters as the best story ever, it's all good.

(The novelization of The Gunfighters is all right, but we used to make people talk by strapping them down and forcing them to watch the actual episode. Do you remember A Clockwork Orange? That's the kind of setup we'd use. And, believe me, it'd turn a Rutan into a quivering mass of jelly........)

I'm sorely tempted to watch The Gunfighters, just to see how bad it really is. But even I'm not masochistic enough to withstand 2 hours of pure torture.

Surprised to see McGann rating so highly, considering his tenative tenure.

It isn't so surprising once you've listened to his audio plays. They're proof that Mcgann would have been an amazing Doctor onscreen had he been given more. Still waiting for that Time War movie. Hurry up you BBC wankers!

 

[Mouseferatu]

P.S.: Ari, did you ever see the 1st level adventure I posted with dread ghoul mouse swarms? It was inspired by your user name.

I did. Tres nifty.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I'm still mystified as to why Who fandom ranks this story so highly. The numerous flaws in it do not justify it's status as one of the best Doctor Who stories ever.

I'm mystified too - at the time I thought it was rubbish, and the idea of Davros was not exceeded in plot silliness until the advent of the queen alien in Aliens IMO.

 

[horacethegrey]

I'm mystified too - at the time I thought it was rubbish, and the idea of Davros was not exceeded in plot silliness until the advent of the queen alien in Aliens IMO.

Davros is a truly lame villain. Aside from creating the Daleks, I can't see what's so great about him. It was one of Genesis' rare high points when his own creations offed him, thus providing the ultimate dramatic irony. But then Terry Nation had to bring him back in the equally dreadful Destiny of the Daleks.

I give Nation all the credit in the world for creating the series' most memorable aliens. But lord almighty, the man cannot write an engaging or original plot if his life depended on it (with the exception of his work in the Hartnell era. His stories there were still quite decent).

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Yeah but you guys think The 9th Doctor was good so what do you know?

 

[Raven Crowking]

I'm sorely tempted to watch The Gunfighters, just to see how bad it really is. But even I'm not masochistic enough to withstand 2 hours of pure torture.

I have, as part of the necessary research to write a Doctor Who RPG. Let me tell you, The Gunfighters is not only the worst Doctor Who ever broadcast, it is among the worst television ever broadcast.

And yet, oddly enough, the novelization works. I would like to say that, like all Doctor Who, it had some good moments in it, but I can't really think of any. Just a bad era for the British to be doing Westerns, I guess.