(02-11-2021, 11:46 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Doctor Who - I've watched a few odd episodes over the years, including most of one season with Baker, but I never really followed it. Tara got into it recently to check off that box in her nerd-dom but only the recent seasons. Brit Box has the 1st 27 seasons. I just watched the 1st 2 eps from 1964. Fascinating. B&W. Might cherry pick a few more. Open to suggestions.

(02-12-2021, 01:04 AM)thatguy Wrote: Re Dr Who: baker was the best. Davison (all creatures guy) was good. For the reboot, eccleson and rose were very good. Tenet too, tho I didn’t like his post-rose companion. Mike Smith was also very good (fezzes are cool! Bow ties are cool!) tho I started to lose interest around here and stopped watching about the time Capaldi came in.

Go back and watch Troughton and Pertwee episodes if you can find them. The pertwee’s are funny as he didn’t have the tardis and drove around in a yellow antique motorcar.

—tg

(02-12-2021, 09:36 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Good tip, tg, thanks. I might look into it. I've been thinking I'll just watch all the season premieres and finales...maybe. 

(02-12-2021, 11:08 PM)Dr. Ivor Yeti Wrote: Re: Dr. Whom. The reboot is the way to go. Start with the Eccleston version. If it doesn’t pull you in in a few eps, just shine the whole franchise. I thought the writing was quite good and Ecc played a weary, battle-scarred Dr quite well. I stayed with them through Tennant and much of Matt Smith, but bailed before Capaldi came on board.

(02-13-2021, 05:45 AM)Greg Wrote: Didn't see much of Capaldi. On board for the Jodie Whitaker incarnation. It is hit or miss for me.

The one thing I saw on Brit Boxx that I might watch is the Rob Lowe series with him as a local cop.

(02-13-2021, 10:12 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Well alright then. I can see Who is the best Doctor Who? might be worthy of its own indie thread. I watched a few of the Hartnell eps but couldn't quite get through the because they were slow and dated. I was amused that the first companion was his granddaughter Susan but I didn't hang with it long enough to get into that. Hartnell was okay I guess. He seemed bound in his time period which is ironic for a timelord.

And then for S3, it rolled over to some pretty slick animation, clearly not from the 60s. On doing some research this morning, it seems many of the early episodes were lost, so these are reconstructions. The animation was B&W and in that flash-driven style, which came off as appropriately surreal. It somewhat explains the transition to Troughton. 

(02-15-2021, 11:12 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: True but Brit Box only has the classics, not the reboot series. 

BTW, Tara and her apt mate worked their way through the reboot. She proudly told me she had seen all of Doctor Who. I said ‘no way, that show is older than me.’ Her gen was completely unaware of the classic series.