Colder than

[altivo]

...a well-digger's ankle? Well, actually, that's what my father used to say, but he was usually pretty decorous. My maternal grandmother would have said "It's colder than a witch's teat out there." And so it is

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[shep_shepherd]

Although I'm not a big Doctor Who fan, I preferred Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor over David Tennant.

[altivo]

I haven't seen Tennant yet, but my tastes are "old-school." Most Americans seem to have preferred Tom Baker, but Jon Pertwee was my favorite. After Tom Baker, it all seemed to be going downhill.

My fave as well:

[hartree]

Yay! Another Jon Pertwee fan. Pertwee did a great job of conveying the air of someone who had truly lived for a massively long time.

Re: My fave as well:

[altivo]

Yes, and he was always dignified and polite, too. I particularly liked his old car, Bessie, and his frequent involvement with the Brigadier and UNIT.

[altivo]

I'm not a whole lot of a media fan, so I had never seen Eccleston at all until now. We did like the old Who series, and have seen almost all the existing episodes more than once. Consequently, anything new is viewed in contrast to the originals. Eccleston's Dr is much too "punk" for my tastes.

[altivo]

Yes, I'm mostly too gentle for today's television and films. That's why I generally avoid them in favor of old classics, or else just don't watch anything.

[avon_deer]

Ah..you're seeing the resurrection of "Dr Who" are you?

With regards the writing quality of the episodes (the quality of stories being the ace in the hole for the historically under budgeted British sci-fi shows) you may find an interesting mathematical formula.

It has occurred to me that the quality of the story is inversely proportional to the level of input Russell T Davis has.

He bragged the he persuaded the BBC to resurrect the series by promising “the return of an old favourite with a distinctively modern twist.”

Oh yes, it has a modern twist alright. It's certainly not the format of shows that I remember from my childhood.

[altivo]

We've only seen the first three stories so far. The third, "The Unquiet Dead," in which the Dr and Rose visit Cardiff in 1869 where they meet Charles Dickens and foil an attempted invasion by some sort of aliens who were reanimating the corpses in a funeral parlor was certainly similar to the plot lines and writing of some of the old originals. The first two suffered from rather too much "modern twist" in my opinion, and the second was largely stolen from Douglas Adams' "Restaurant at the End of the Universe."

You may well be right. Davies wrote the first two, while Mark Gatiss (with whom I'm otherwise unfamiliar) write the third.

[avon_deer]

The first two suffered from rather too much "modern twist"

Exactly the problem in my opinion. Keep watching, and you'll get what I mean.

[altivo]

Heh. I think I've already got it. From the fractured bits we saw of the fourth and fifth episodes on that damaged disk, I suspect that Davies' writing is just not going to be my cup of hemlock.

Give me back Douglas Adams, or even Terry Nation. ;p

[megadog]

I've been known to use "Colder than a Polar-Bear's Pucker" .

Let's face it, here in .UK we've been having uncharacteristically-cold weather so I have an excuse for using those sorts of expressions.