Doctor Who has lost it's quintessential "Britishness" and now it's just an Americanised schmaltz fest.

Once it was a rip roaring adventure yarn for boys but now it's a Titanicesque cryathon for girls.

Bollocks.

dr. who???

^^^^^

most things r now americanized!!!

They even tried with good ol cath n kim .................................... but noooooooooooooooooo it was 2 hard

anyway look what they did ~ they took our ugg booties n vegimite!!!!!!!!!!!

bastids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BobPaisleyPark said:

Once it was a rip roaring adventure yarn for boys but now it's a Titanicesque cryathon for girls.

more girlie? So it sounds like Dr Who has gotten even more British!

[Edited 10/9/12 8:50am]

NDRU said:

BobPaisleyPark said:

Once it was a rip roaring adventure yarn for boys but now it's a Titanicesque cryathon for girls.

So it sounds like Dr Who has gotten even more British!

Kate Winslet.....Yup sounds very British to me.

I'm currently watching The Claws of Axon with Jon Pertwee what a snorefest

I'm all for the condensing a whole story into a 45 min episode rather than draw it out over 4 nights like the olden days.

I like that the budget now allows for a proper orchestral score and different locations instead of the same old dreary grey farmyards and caves and old one finger melodies on a synthesiser that amble around over the action to punctuate the scary bits.

I like that a companion like Amy can have her own life and talk and have opinions unlike Jo who was there to wear CFMs and miniskirts. I like that the Doctor is nice and doesn't just shout at everyone any more.

If that makes it "for girls" then that must be why I watch it now and LIKE it.

Oh, fuck clubs. I need to build myself a phonebooth that functions as a flying time machine or whatever that shit is.

maybe they feel they have to for some reason, but I think it's the britishness that was always the draw from the beginning

last time i watched this was the tom baker/john pertwee era, it was crap, cheezy, scary & amazing all at the same time!!. i liked the theme music more than anything else.

& regarding daleks.. a true story. when i was a kid, someone on the estate had one of these in his shed & by all accounts a genuine dalek, u could climb inside. i remember we took the head off it one day & had trouble putting it back on as very heavy. it was on wheels & the boys would tie a rope around it & take turns pulling each other down the road it was a boy thing, i remember worrying about spiders lurking inside, plus it was covered in pigeon shit

whistle said:

ZombieKitten said:

I'm currently watching The Claws of Axon with Jon Pertwee what a snorefest

Pertwee's stories could suffer by being overly long at times but Jo was a great companion. I read Lis Sladen's autobiography recently and she wasn't too fond of Mr Pertwee as I always sort of suspected. In interviews she always gushed about Tom but became rather more reserved when talking about her time with Jon.

The Green Death is still my favourite story from Jon's tenure. Jo leaving him is far more emotional than the awful Journey's End were the Doctor leaves Rose with a half human, sex doll version of himself...weird.

BobPaisleyPark said: