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Post by Miisa on Nov 13, 2012 17:28:42 GMT
I am currently watching the whole series (2005) again for the second time in a few months (I only got really into this show this summer during a tv rerun, though I had sporadically seen most of series 1-3 before that). Though now I am sort of pacing myself, as I am approaching the end of series 6 and hope to time it so that I am up to date for Christmas.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 13, 2012 19:48:54 GMT
I still think of the new ones as series 27-33.
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Post by Miisa on Nov 13, 2012 20:05:50 GMT
Yeah, I get that. But I just cannot get into the older ones, I feel much the same when trying to watch Star Trek: The Original Series.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 13, 2012 20:22:38 GMT
I've hardly seen any of the original series for a very long time.
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Post by Moose on Nov 13, 2012 20:30:45 GMT
which one is the 2005 one? Which doctor?
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Post by Mari on Nov 13, 2012 21:54:11 GMT
Eccleston. I liked him Yes, I'm looking forward to Christmas as well.
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Post by Sarah W. on Nov 14, 2012 4:27:37 GMT
I need to catch up before then. Last episode I watched was A Town Called Mercy. I've been so busy. And trying to get more sleep.
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Post by Miisa on Nov 14, 2012 11:27:29 GMT
When I put (2005) I merely meant to infer that is the new series and not the original ones, so Doctors 9, 10 & 11.
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Post by Moose on Nov 15, 2012 18:23:22 GMT
Ah I liked Ecclestone .. wish he'd done more than one series (he probably wishes it himself now, given how big the new show has turned out to be)
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Post by tangent on Nov 15, 2012 19:12:07 GMT
Yes, me too until he deserted the programme.
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Post by Miisa on Nov 15, 2012 19:46:23 GMT
I took me a full series before I liked Smith much, so I may have liked Ecclestone more if we had more episodes with him.
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Post by Moose on Nov 15, 2012 19:53:47 GMT
He was a very different kind of Doctor to Smith or Tennant .. more angry I think, not that different to Colin Baker tho with better dress sense.
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Post by Miisa on Nov 15, 2012 19:54:59 GMT
A bit more surly, very few of his smiles seemed genuine rather than sneers at his opponents. But that was ok too.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 16, 2012 6:40:26 GMT
I thought Christopher Ecclestone did a good job and would have settled into it well, but I saw an interview with him and he was saying that the level of work involved in making it was too much for him and running him into the ground.
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Post by tangent on Nov 16, 2012 6:57:51 GMT
Curious, I've not heard any of the other actors and actresses say that.
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Post by Mari on Nov 17, 2012 8:05:34 GMT
I wonder what their schedule is like. They are taking months to shoot 13 episodes or so. Surely if you're in EastEnders or whatever it's much more tough?
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 17, 2012 8:50:07 GMT
I think the most difficult aspect is that with Doctor Who, many characters are in many scenes, in different, widely spread locations (just walking into a building could be moving to a set hundreds of miles away), throughout an episode. They also do more running about and then there are things such as the CGI and green screen work. Soaps are normally filmed pretty much in a single location and are far less demanding, once the plot-o-matic has written today's script.
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Post by tangent on Nov 17, 2012 13:28:16 GMT
We can see the actors at work in the Dr Who Confidential programmes that are shown shortly after each episode. It's quite fun to watch. What strikes me is that they often have to put up with primitive and sometimes very cold conditions.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2013 22:46:26 GMT
Ah I liked Ecclestone .. wish he'd done more than one series (he probably wishes it himself now, given how big the new show has turned out to be) We just watched the first season and I liked Ecclestone as well.
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