Doctor Who - Time Crash

[iainjclark]

Given the astonishing constraints of time and budget that a little vignette like this must face, I have to give Steven Moffat kudos for pulling off as much characterisation and even perfunctory plot as he did.

Comments

[fba]

You didn't enjoy, Revelation of the Daleks, Curse of Fenric or Rememberance of the Daleks?

I pity you as you obviously have no joy in your soul :p

[iainjclark]

I enjoyed several stories after Davison, but my point is that his era was the last time I was genuinely a fan of the show as a whole. This is not to say all of his stuff was gold either. :-) Possibly it's more true to say it was the last time I was actually a fan of the Doctor. Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy didn't really do it for me.

[fba]

This is not to say all of his stuff was gold either. :-)

Well - there's a fair bit of dross across the whole run. I think its inevitable when a show runs for 26 years pretty much non-stop... I think the important thing is that when the show is good it is amongst the best TV out there...

[iainjclark]

There's a lot of Doctor Who that is witty, inventive, imaginative and entertaining. On that level I'd hold a lot of it up as excellent TV.

On the other hand there's very little Doctor Who that isn't dated, slow-paced, occasionally awkward, and severely hamstrung by production constraints. On that level I'd feel the need to offer a few pre-emptive excuses to anyone I was holding it up to!

You take the rough with the smooth, but on its best days it was smooth enough not to chafe *too* badly. Not enough to distract from the good bits, anyway. :-)

[fba]

On the other hand there's very little Doctor Who that isn't dated, slow-paced, occasionally awkward, and severely hamstrung by production constraints. On that level I'd feel the need to offer a few pre-emptive excuses to anyone I was holding it up to!

I think that holds for most TV - not just Who. The problem genre TV has is the dependence on effects - which will always date stuff (take TNG for example - it looks terribly dated now - slick admittedly, but it screams late-80s/early-90s in the same way that a lot of Who and Blake's 7 scream 70s).