Poll: Do you still like Doctor Who?

[Sticky Squid]

Initially I did not like Smith as The Doctor, but as the show has gone on I feel that he has grown into the role and fits it rather well with the quirkyness.

 

[GrimTuesday]

I didn't mind Matt Smith at first, but I started to watch the second season and I just got so sick of his "oh look how quirky I am" routine that I had to stop watching. I'm not going to watching another episode until we get a new doctor, because the character sucks, the companions suck, and the story lines are trucking retarded (seriously, fuck River Song practically forcing her way into be a central part of the story, wost character ever).

 

[CrazyBlaze]

Yes.


-Killed the entire Racnoss species because the Empress insisted on eating humans, who were like cattle to her.

-Doesn't mind obliging a sick man's request for euthanasia by using a moon-powered laser to disintegrate him instead of finding a cure for his illness.

-Insists that an alien-caused obliteration through asphyxiation of an entire human civilization is perfectly acceptable (this is after the Racnoss encounter), and then changes his mind - saving a single family from destruction (because wibbly-wobbly whatever).

I'm pretty sure he didn't kill the entire species just the Empresses. And he only made her run away. It was actually Harold Saxon who gave the order to blow up her ship when she started attacking London.

I don't remember the sick man euthanasia episode.

I feel like you are mixing up the two part Sontaran episodes and the two part Silurian episodes.

I still see where you are coming from though and I agree. Towards the end Doctor Who had gotten really weak in writing. Moffat is a far better writer than RTD and I really like Matt Smith as the Doctor.

 

[SciMal]

I'm pretty sure he didn't kill the entire species just the Empresses. And he only made her run away. It was actually Harold Saxon who gave the order to blow up her ship when she started attacking London.

Nope, her entire species. The Empress got killed when she teleported back up to her star and she was shot down by the army, and she was awakening all of her children which were hidden in the Earth's core after the rest of her kind went extinct billions of years prior.

I don't remember the sick man euthanasia episode.

Tooth and Claw. He was a Werewolf, which was apparently an inheritable bloodborne disease.

I feel like you are mixing up the two part Sontaran episodes and the two part Silurian episodes.

Nope.

I still see where you are coming from though and I agree. Towards the end Doctor Who had gotten really weak in writing. Moffat is a far better writer than RTD and I really like Matt Smith as the Doctor.

 

[Tallim]

Do I still like Doctor Who? Yes
Do I like Moffat's Doctor Who, not so much.

I didn't mind Matt Smith at first, but I started to watch the second season and I just got so sick of his "oh look how quirky I am" routine that I had to stop watching. I'm not going to watching another episode until we get a new doctor, because the character sucks, the companions suck, and the story lines are trucking retarded (seriously, fuck River Song practically forcing her way into be a central part of the story, wost character ever).

What you actually want is a new writer.

 

[Vamantha]

I've never liked Dr. Who and never will. :/

 

[FEichinger]

Eccleston was the crazy doctor with the whole Time War aftermath stuff.
Tennant was the smart doctor with the pacifism stuff.
Now we got the ... I really don't know. I just really don't like Smith as the Doctor, cause he doesn't feel like he ... fits. Not to the old DW - mainly because of the plots, though - and not to the new DW, because he is too ... well ... Yeh, that's where I'm stuck ... I have no idea what it is, but he just doesn't feel right.

That said, we can always hope for the 12th.

 

[orangeban]

Yup, I still like it. Smith is fun, which I think is important because frankly Tennant got dragged down and ended up all angsty, so lightening things up with Smith was definitely needed.

I really like Rory, I think he's easy to sympathise and identify with and frankly he seems to be the most sensible character.

Amy, I don't like, she's just a pain in the ass.

River Song was fine, nothing particularly wrong, nothing particularly right.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Sign me up for the Anti-Moffat Crusade.

That man should never have been handed the reins of DW as a whole. His strength is in small two to three episode arcs (See the Sherlock series) but when it comes to the idea of a whole series he just loses his ability to write well.

Also his handling of the whole River Song thing and the way he writes the Ponds tend to be bad things IMO.

 

[Artina89]

I have never really been into the new series of Doctor Who, I prefer the classic series with the ones with Jon Pertwee as the Doctor when he had Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart and Jo Grant/Liz Shaw/Sarah Jane Smith as his companions.

 

[Weaver]

The only Dr.Who I watched was from the Tom Baker era, so I'm not sure my opinion really counts

 

[Ninjamedic]

I'm not suggesting that either of the previous two Doctors were the pinnacle of heroism -- and I'll admit that by the fourth between-series special for Tennant to say goodbye, I was wishing he would just get on with it and regenerate already. But during his three series, yeah, I saw a better dedication to protecting/defending friends than I see in Smith. How many times has Rory or Amy turned up, demanding to know where the other is, and he brushes it off insisting they step back so he can work on some other part of the plan?

Would you rather he just goes doe-eyed some more and gets depressed while they wait for the Deus Ex Machina? The thing is he does care about his companions, but he usually has to focus on the task at hand, he's aware of the gravity of the situation he is in.

I see the Doctor, in all of his regenerations, as one long character development. Obviously there are some personality changes with each new iteration - but I see a particular kind of irresponsible egotism from this Doctor, and it feels like a step back in terms of character development.

The problem with this is that he has had an issue with ego many times. The Third Doctor was a haughty and condescending git to UNIT staff, the Sixth was the most egotistical of them all. I'm not very sure where you're getting the arrogance of Eleven from myself, I just saw him as more tired and fed up with the recurring villains like the Daleks or Cybermen.

The antics of a younger man type of thing. Not because the last Doctor was better, but because the last Doctor isn't supposed to be better. I don't think the attitude would even bother me so much if I felt like it was the consummate of all the Doctor's previous experiences.

I disagree with this, I'd say Eleven is far consistent than Ten's later persona. Eleven, having finally been able to move on from the Time War, is now looking to enjoy himself and have fun. He is an old man given youth again and determined to make the most of it.

Ten on the other hand felt like he regressed by one regeneration. All of a sudden the energetic and somewhat carefree Doctor was now a scarred war veteran. The problem with this was that the Scarred Warrior was done with Nine, and far more effectively. When he regenerated into Ten, he had now moved on from the Time War, and was now looking to get on with the adventure, loving every minute of it. He was fascinated with even the monsters he encountered (The Werewolf, his speech to John Lumic) but had a darkside as well (the end of Family of Blood) but that darkside didn't dominate his character.

Come late season Three, and his character is radically rewritten into what is essentially the Ninth Doctor but far less effective. The supposed tired warrior felt more like an Emo and all of a sudden he is filled with a cowardice of his death which directly contradicts The Doctor's character regardless of regeneration.

And the less I talk about "Jesus Doctor" the better.

EDIT because I feel like in my point-making this is going unsaid: I don't think Smith is a bad Doctor. I'm just tired of his Doctor, and the Ponds, and (most of all) BBCA's marketing of Doctor Who. It's been two full series with the same cast, spanning over two years now (I think?), and I'm beginning to see why the show hasn't done this before.

I understand how you feel, but I'm baffled with the people who want Davies back despite his glaring writing flaws and being overall the worst writer of his on run of the show.

 

[Snowbell]

I still like the show, but its somewhat childish writing has disappointed me. I like Rory, he's a nice guy, I don't like Amy as she's a haughty slut (throwing yourself at a man on your wedding eve? Really?), I do like River because of her mystery and intrigue but I don't like the childish, imaginary friend-esque doctor. I'm hoping there'll be a huge plot twist where it really was all in Amy's imagination and that Matt Smith doesn't count as a regeneration so we can have two more doctors to make up for him!

Also, the most recent character Oswin seems a carbon copy of Amy - haughty, pretty, flirty. Give me back my in-your-face, 'I ain't matin' with you, sonny boy!' Donna!

 

[Kiyeri]

I haven't seen the newest episode, but I do enjoy Matt Smith as the Doctor. David Tennant will always be my favorite (everyone remembers their first Doctor), but I have no issues with Smith. I dislike Amy though, I miss companions with spunk. Her go-to routine is either get kidnapped, be helpless until the Doctor comes, or otherwise be useless. I can't think of anything remotely courageous she's done. I miss Martha and Donna, those types of companions who are just plain badass.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

I'm not so fond of almost every episode somehow turning into the "IF WE DONT FIX IT EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET DIES" thing. Aside from that, he's okay. I don't like all episodes as much as some others, but that was the case to with the 10th and 9th ones.

The daleks should just be removed from the show though. Annoying trashcans that keep coming back due to increasingly stupid plot twists.