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Re: Who is number 13?
[Re: Excoriator]
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16th Jul 2017 11:50pm
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The series is well past its sell-by date by now. Does anyone really care who the new Doctor Who is? For that matter, does anyone over the age of twelve watch it?
How can you express an opinion on it when you don't watch it (I don't watch it either)? It reminds me of someone that was criticising the current services in Birkenhead Library and Birkenhead Central Station when they hadn't used either nor stepped in the buildings for at least 40 years!
The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the s--- hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill - Charles Caleb Colton
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Re: Who is number 13?
[Re: Norton]
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17th Jul 2017 7:46am
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How can you express an opinion without knowing whether I have watched it? It so happens I watched an episode a week or two back after a gap lasting from the first episodes which I watched with my children. I thought it had got worse rather than better. The dialogue was stilted. The doctor's 'eccentricities' unconvincing, the story was feeble in the extreme. They have clearly run out of any new and original plots to present. As to the present 'Doctor' I thought he was more concerned with projecting his own personality than adding conviction to the story line. A child might be convinced by it, but it now carries so much baggage from its History - e.g. what is a time lord, why the Tardis is bigger inside than outside, what a police box is or a sonic screwdriver - that this might prove too incomprehensible to be acceptable even to a new viewer. The sad truth is that you can really only get so many episodes from an idea. Once you exceed a certain point it turns inevitably into something resembling a soap. It is clear that the good doctor has now reached this sad stage. You will note that I have not referred even once to either Birkenhead Library or Birkenhead Central station in my critique.
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Re: Who is number 13?
[Re: Norton]
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17th Jul 2017 9:45am
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The viewing figures (over 5m UK) and sales to other networks (at least 50) would disagree with you. Its possibly a profit making program because of the demand and would subsidise other programs (and fat salaries).
Like you, I was brought up on the early Dr Who series and its difficult not to think that it was better then, it was certainly far more creative/inventive for its era but in this age of cgi its impossible to go beyond what is already out there. On the other hand I used to like 80% of music in the charts and its more like 10% now. I can't stand listening to radio 1 etc etc, things move on, tastes change, imaginations change.
The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the s--- hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill - Charles Caleb Colton
We don't do charity in Germany, We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn
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