Doctor Who: Series 7

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You can always watch the animated episode 'Scream of the Shalka' which is somewhere on the BBC website. It was made before the brought the series back, so it features an alternative ninth Doctor. But he kind of has the Master as a companion.

Or find and watch some old episodes. David Tennant is still my favourite, but my second favourite is Tom Baker - quite an achievement given the lack of good special effects back then! And there were some episodes when there was just a male companion - I think he just had Adric with him in 'The Keeper of Traken', which is on YouTube.

That reminds me that Cap'n Jack was probably one of my favorite companions and it's a shame we won't be seeing him anymore.

I wanted to see him hit on Rory while completely ignoring Amy.

*agrees with this*

And thanks, Doctor!
I'll look into those. I'm really not very familiar with the old episodes unfortunately.

I miss the more historical episodes. Nowadays, it seems there HAS to be an alien or there HAS to be something out of period. Sigh. Just griping 'bout the latest episode.

Doctor looks so wrong when he's holding a gun.

I found the ending kind of perplexing. So the moral of the story is that the Doctor should have insisted on handing the guy over at the start and made sure no one interfered?

All that happened is that the guy died anyway, but this way it also killed another person and took out the electrical grid.

I absolutelty hate the new season. Season 6 and and 7 remind me of how sliders and stargate have both gone downhill because of too complex interconnecting plot line soap opera stuff. It makes me sad.

Yeah the episode itself wasn't that good, but in the various references to things there was actually a lot of depth to it. The plot was just kind of there but the themes about mercy and the Doctor's internal struggles with his past saved the episode for me. RTD had better standalone episodes for the most part, but Moffat does a better job of tying his standalones together with something more than just the name-drop of a random word.

And the fact that he specifically mentions the Daleks and The Master in his speech made me happy. I really hope we get the return of The Master and like everyone else I hope it's Benedict Cumberbatch (but i still wanna see John Simm make a cameo to regenerate into him).

I wonder if they're trying too hard to convince viewers that the Dr. needs a different companion. All these references on missing Amy and spending too much time alone, yeesh. Just get down to it and move along with the story lines. How many Amy/Rory episodes are left anyway?

Totally agree with you. Just two more episodes I think.

As for Benedict Cumberbatch, sadly he's busy between being Sherlock Holmes and playing the voice of Smaug for the Hobbit movie coming in December.

Personally I think he'd make a terrific Doctor!

Doctor/Dragon/Sherlock Holmes
Three of my favorite things!

Hopefully Benedict Cumberbatch will get some sort of role. Obviously he works with Steven Moffat on Sherlock, and Doctor Who has a history of actors getting parts this way.

Personally, I think he would make a fantastic villain. Maybe not The Master, but someone. The Meddling Monk?

I must admit I really hate Smith's (or Moffat's should I say) Doctor. Way too childish. Then again who am I to complain. It is a kids show after all (the demographic audience is children anyway.) All I'm saying is it made me go off Doctor Who. Maybe next time they can get an actor who has the perfect balance of silly and seriousness, just like Tennant.

I'm not sure if I'm too interested in the idea of Cumberbatch being the next Doctor. He's denied the roll anyway, I think. . .

While I definitely think Smith's Doctor is portrayed as way too childish sometimes (to the point of making his character unbelievable), Doctor Who is not a kids' show. It's a family show. You can enjoy it whether you are 8, 18, or 80. I once heard it described as something like a "three generation" show, meaning children, their parents, and their grandparents can all enjoy it together. There are so few programmes like that now, and it's a shame that "family show" has become largely synonymous with "kids' show".

Yeah I see what you mean. Let's face it though over the years it has became more oriented to the younger audience and less appealing to the more mature audience. I do agree with you though that it is a family show. Just not as much as it used to be.

I agree. I think the problem is that some writers don't quite get it. They think their episodes have to be aimed at kids. Love & Monsters, Fear Her and Night Terrors are good examples. There is a great interview from Steven Moffat where he addresses how children's and adults' shows are handled today, specifically Doctor Who and Sherlock. He really seems to get it, and I think it's a shame that other people don't.

I've seen The Sara Jane Adventures spin-off, so I think I know what a kid's version of Doctor Who would look like and it's substantially different.

Matt Smith is my favorite of the new doctors, followed by Eccleston. I didn't really like David Tennant all that much, something about him just rubs me the wrong way. I hated the Rose/Ten stuff really bad because they were trying to un-asexual the Doctor which really irritates me as he's one of the few asexual characters on tv. But even besides that, I hated how emo he'd get... that whole episode about him being so emo about regenerating, it just really bugged me! I felt that he regularly insulted the intelligence of his companions by leaving them out of the conversation or not answering questions they have every right to an answer to (9th didn't do this at all as far as I remember, 11th does it a bit, but in 11th's case it feels more like he's just spacey rather than willfully ignoring people). He had too many predictable mannerisms/tones of voice and facial expressions and it got boring to me (Allonsy! OH YES. etc). Sure 11th says Geronimo, but I feel like they don't rely on this set of mannerisms as much as they did with Ten.

Also, Ten didn't like cats which always makes me not like someone, lol. Whereas both Nine and Eleven talk to cats (I love how Eleven talks to animals and babies). I can't remember Ten doing this.

Eleven is also more sensitive to the suffering of those below human intelligence, and gets really angry when they are taken advantage of or abused (The dinosaurs, the star whale). Compare that to Ten, who when Donna expresses her horror at the Ood's slavery, is just kinda like "yeah, its bad, but well, that's how it is"... puke! (Btw I love love love Donna). Given that Eleven talks to animals and all that, it seems highly inconsistent for him to eat meat... if this were real, I seriously doubt he would.