Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

adam did the aussies produce this?

― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 16 December 2010 08:38 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's shot here because it's cheaper (or at least it was before our dollar went atomic). The bits that I saw featured British parts played by Australian actors with appalling accents. I don't know who bankrolls it.

(i = adam)

youre as bad as me & dan for getting a new account.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-9_%28TV_series%29

The project is being overseen by Baker;[6][7] the television series concept was developed by Australian writers Shane Krause and Shayne Armstrong, in association with (Bob) Baker and Paul Tams.[10] ... In July 2007, the Australian Film Finance Corporation approved funding for the series, and that the programme had been pre-sold to Network Ten.[11] The Pacific Film and Television Commission (PFTC) (subsequently renamed Screen Queensland) also provided additional financing.[10]

Kids' television is pretty much the only good production coming out of Australia atm but I don't think think counts.

xp I had to for reasons that are too annoying to impart here. Who are you?

I'm the guy who usually invited your multiple usernames into chatz

agh crap I can't remember back that far, sorry. Once I know it will be obvious. btw multiple usernames for chatz was because AIM kept blocking the Linux client I was using.

I know that. I am one who likes pfunk

okay my mind has been blown; MEKHI PHIFER IS GOING TO BE ON TORCHWOOD

wau

xp OH AHH. See that was my first thought but I forgot/didn't know you had a DW thing going on. Was thinking aldo but didn't remember there being a chatz assoc.

haha we spoke DW a lot, you really do have a bad memory!

sorry ;_;

I remember the funk discussions obv.

lololol apparently I posted this K-9 monstrosity on Facebook in April 2009

haha talk of bad memories!!

please say that you said you liked it in 2009!

Did I mention that I gave up on DW this year? Because yeah. K-9 would probably be more fulfilling tbh.

I had the exact same "STOP RUINING MY CHILDHOOD" reaction, sorry

I like matt smith but the stories weren't really any good. Same with most of the Tennant era really. God help us if we ever get a colin baker type shit doctor.

I thought both "The Lodger" and the one with the Angels was very good. I think the big problem was that they had issues defining what the interplay between Amy and The Doctor should be; the initial episode strikes a very good balance but as the season goes along she sometimes veers into budget-Donna territory and isn't very convincing as a result.

Most of the stories were saved by Matt Smith's surprisingly great Doctor, though.

Season 5 is amazing, u mad. xp

Like, I love this season to a degree that I have to judge myself for liking it *too* much.

Rory was great pretty much the entire time he was onscreen, too.

All the Moffat-penned ones were good, all the ones written by others were a bit balls.

Lodger was the best of those though.

I liked the characters, they were great, but the stories just weren't there and haven't been for ages.

oh, and "Amy's Choice" was pretty great, too!

yeah actually I did like this season a lot

The only one I really disliked was the Silurian two-parter.

Oh yeah, forgot about Amy's Choice. I didn't think it lived up to its potential, but it was definitely decent.

Back to K-9 for a moment: how can this show be anything other than total garbage?

NO LAUGHING = NO K-9 THEREFORE ITS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ROBOT DOG AND HOW ABOUT YOU CALL IT ANOTHER NAME

In other news, I'm very much in love with Matt Smith

"Victory of the Daleks" was the season clunker IMO

ARGH I HAD GOTTEN THE HATRED OUT OF MY BODY AND HERE YOU ARE PUSHING IT BACK IN KILL THIS BASTARD K-9 AND ALL THAT IT STANDS FOR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx3tXw7TU58

NEVER FORGET

I love how we can get a huge new post count just because of a tin dog regenerating! lol

I want to be Sarah Jane in these credits, wearing legwarmers and drinking wine while I work. xp

Vampires in Venice and The Silurians were mediocre potboliers (also the new Silurian design was so bland!) The Van Gogh one was too slushy and manipulative, hello Richard Curtis.

aw I thought the Van Gogh one was nice. Nothing wrong with a sappy story now and again.

it says a fucking lot that I can look at the K-9 and company credits and go "lol, that is so dated and terrible, yet still endearing *chuckle*" when the them song includes K-9 SINGING of all things

K-9 paid his dues as a minor character & helping in adventures so the least they could do was let him sing his own theme song.

As long as that doesn't happen in the Rory spinoff.

Fairly vocally said I wasn't that impressed with this series, but it was better than maybe any of the DT ones (although there's actually a couple of really good eps in the Donna series, the first one is almost sub-Avengers).

I love A Girl's Best Friend, I really do. I have never managed to watch one of this series, despite the fact I have them lurking somewhere.

xpost I totally want Rory to sing his own themesong. Are you kidding?

Leeson tells a story somewhere (might be on the DVD for that) about recording the theme song, that Ian had him in to say "K-9" twice and that was it.

I have a feeling it would be indie-schmindie as hell. xp

I'm picture more 90's house

ugh picturing

Really, Tennant/Donna and Tennant/Martha were way way better than Tennant/Rose, which is kind of a shame because Rose is great.

Oh I saw the Cybermen episodes over the weekend with Rose in her alterna universe and I got SO sad bc I miss her terribly

I HATED Tennant/Rose. I think RTD starting writing Rose completely differently than in the first season, and she became this lovesick little groupie. xp

Rose was ballsy and great and I would fall in love with David Tennant too, who can blame her

(this is going to turn into a crazy cage match with chairs & ladders, I can feel it)

Naw, I know a lot of people really liked them together but I could just never get into it.

I feel kind of bad for spamming this thread tonight but I have to work late by myself tonight so I really have nothing else to do but talk about Doctor who.