TimeLord Reviews: Matt Smith
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Thank you so much for this. I'm surprised with how hard I search for old episodes, I didn't find this sooner.TimeLord said:
True. Hopefully series 6 will have "The Silence" as the villain and have a proper ending to it all.bahumat42 said:well the reason those were better plots was because they had defining villains i mean john simm as the master was a brilliant villain to contrast with tennant as the doctor, they need a really good villain to make this doctor worthwhile to me. But thats just my opinion.TimeLord said:It did make the ending a bit of an anti-climax in what caused everything didn't it? Except for "The Silence" which has still yet to fall. As you say the Harold Saxon and (for me) Bad Wolf were subtle plots and not in-your-face obvious.Swarley said:Well that was my entire point, so it's probably best we stop bickering over small statements and get back to out mutual love of Doctor Who.TimeLord said:I agree that popularity doesn't equal best. By mistake.
But I think we are just saying the same things about opinion to each other now.
Shall we just call it quits?
My main issue with Smith's series is that rather than the older way of small hints going toward a great finale (The Master's posters, or even the newspaper headline about Harold Saxon late in Tennant's first season for example) they went with a format similar to his last season where they knew something was going on, which I personally thought wasn't as fun as analyzing little tid bits from episodes.
Maybe it the silence will be The Master!TimeLord said:True. Hopefully series 6 will have "The Silence" as the villain and have a proper ending to it all.bahumat42 said:well the reason those were better plots was because they had defining villains i mean john simm as the master was a brilliant villain to contrast with tennant as the doctor, they need a really good villain to make this doctor worthwhile to me. But thats just my opinion.TimeLord said:It did make the ending a bit of an anti-climax in what caused everything didn't it? Except for "The Silence" which has still yet to fall. As you say the Harold Saxon and (for me) Bad Wolf were subtle plots and not in-your-face obvious.Swarley said:Well that was my entire point, so it's probably best we stop bickering over small statements and get back to out mutual love of Doctor Who.TimeLord said:I agree that popularity doesn't equal best. By mistake.
But I think we are just saying the same things about opinion to each other now.
Shall we just call it quits?
My main issue with Smith's series is that rather than the older way of small hints going toward a great finale (The Master's posters, or even the newspaper headline about Harold Saxon late in Tennant's first season for example) they went with a format similar to his last season where they knew something was going on, which I personally thought wasn't as fun as analyzing little tid bits from episodes.
We can only hope.
*chants*Swarley said:
John Simm
John Simm
John Simm
*/chant*
That would make a lot of sense really. We can assume that it was "The Silence" that took control of the TARDIS, causing it to explode. The only people who can pilot the TARDIS (that we know of) are River and probably any Time Lord. So it makes sense that the enemy could be Time Lord.
Or Omega, which would be awesome!
I like to point out that it is too soon to judge how good a Doctor Matt Smith is. Tennet didn't really hit his mark till two seasons in. Christopher Ecclesto did start out real well, but kind of flamed out to be a rather average Doctor. It is best to wait awhile before judging if A he is a good Doctor. Since there is a good mixture of Tom Baker as well as David Tennet in Matt Smith's performance. Something that may hurt or help is that the next coming season or series is going to be broken in half much like a lot of summer hits. Burn Notice, Psych are examples of this where you get this. So there isn't as long of a break(like there tends to be) of Doctor Who.
I love having a link to watch all the episodes now. Time Lord, you rock. Now to get back to finding my Paradox Twin...
Better to the general population, yes. It appeals to an audience that is bigger than the audience of other genres. I do not care for Twilight, but I understand that others do. Which is why I'm embarking on a quest to read a Twilight book, so I can see what is good about it one audience, and what is bad to another.Swarley said:
Something Old, Something New. Something "Borrowed", Something Blue!
It's a fez, I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
These two quotes are basically the reason why I love Doctor Who Series 5
Also Matt Smith is most definitely a worthy successor to Tennant.
It's a fez, I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
These two quotes are basically the reason why I love Doctor Who Series 5
Also Matt Smith is most definitely a worthy successor to Tennant.
I have to say, I love Doctor Who, but I do not love Eleven. I don't even like him overly much. I think it's got something to do with his tendency to just yell at Amy and Rory, but he's just so obnoxiously smug, in a way that Tennant's doctor never was. Matt smith is a good actor, and I feel like it's probably the writing that's letting him down. I also dislike Amy as a companion, she just doesn't seem to have any actual personality, instead she's just sort of a placeholder and plot device. I'm also not a big fan of the way Moffat has been writing women in general. I watched a couple of episodes of the Sarah Jane Adventures recently, and got nostalgic for RTD's writing. I miss him.
I'm willing to acknowledge that this has probably got a lot to do with doctor withdrawal, I only started watching New Who in Tennant's first season, and I noticed that a lot of people that started with Eccleston really hated Tennant. I may be feeling the same thing towards Smith, regardless I lost interest in the series after Cold Blood and only came back for The Pandorica Opens because I knew River was going to be in it, and so far for me she's the only redeeming feature. I'll keep watching because I want to know what her story is.
One thing that really annoyed me in the new series was how they managed to make the weeping angels not scary. I find the original WAs terrifying, I've only seen Blink once because of it. Yet in Flesh and Stone, they did the one thing guaranteed to make them less terrifying, they had them move while on screen. It wasn't creepy, it was just kind of nothing. I am a giant wuss, and if you've managed to make me not fear something, then you've really done a number on it.
Those are just my opinions though, doesn't mean it's not objectively a good series, I just find the writing to be not that great, and as such I like hardly any of the characters.
I'm willing to acknowledge that this has probably got a lot to do with doctor withdrawal, I only started watching New Who in Tennant's first season, and I noticed that a lot of people that started with Eccleston really hated Tennant. I may be feeling the same thing towards Smith, regardless I lost interest in the series after Cold Blood and only came back for The Pandorica Opens because I knew River was going to be in it, and so far for me she's the only redeeming feature. I'll keep watching because I want to know what her story is.
One thing that really annoyed me in the new series was how they managed to make the weeping angels not scary. I find the original WAs terrifying, I've only seen Blink once because of it. Yet in Flesh and Stone, they did the one thing guaranteed to make them less terrifying, they had them move while on screen. It wasn't creepy, it was just kind of nothing. I am a giant wuss, and if you've managed to make me not fear something, then you've really done a number on it.
Those are just my opinions though, doesn't mean it's not objectively a good series, I just find the writing to be not that great, and as such I like hardly any of the characters.
Or even try... http://www.crossingthewhoniverse.com/TimeLord said:
I'll be honest.
After reading this review I don't feel I know any thing about Matt Smith's doctor. The whole character section pre-Pandorica opens is like reading one large logic puzzle.
It's overly confusing and badly formatted which doesn't help at all, you may wish to give the enter key some love.
Especially before you get to the part about "11 being like [insert doctor numbers here], it just seemed to be all mashed together.
Spacing would be lovely.
Post-Pandorica opens, well it's pretty much just a brief summary of the episode which just ends with a quick "conclusion".
After I read it I thought, "Is that it?" seems like you wanted to put more effort into getting pictures in there rather than content.
Also, no annotations. Scrolling up and down every time just to read a point and then going back again gets on the nerves.
Fezes are also like the cake round about now, just sayin'.
The review isn't bad, just felt incomplete.
Ps: I'm glad Matt Smith isn't contracted for season 3 and nobody has plans for him to be yet.
After reading this review I don't feel I know any thing about Matt Smith's doctor. The whole character section pre-Pandorica opens is like reading one large logic puzzle.
It's overly confusing and badly formatted which doesn't help at all, you may wish to give the enter key some love.
Especially before you get to the part about "11 being like [insert doctor numbers here], it just seemed to be all mashed together.
Spacing would be lovely.
Post-Pandorica opens, well it's pretty much just a brief summary of the episode which just ends with a quick "conclusion".
After I read it I thought, "Is that it?" seems like you wanted to put more effort into getting pictures in there rather than content.
Also, no annotations. Scrolling up and down every time just to read a point and then going back again gets on the nerves.
Fezes are also like the cake round about now, just sayin'.
The review isn't bad, just felt incomplete.
Ps: I'm glad Matt Smith isn't contracted for season 3 and nobody has plans for him to be yet.
