Doctor Who 2005 (Page 1 of 3)

Yes... really great! But why isn't the episode on the stuff-to-watch-list?

It should be labeled as 2x14 (continuity wise) even though it's an xmas special.

Looking forward to the Torchwood finale now.. *eee*

Actually, it should be labelled 3x00, as it's part of the 3rd season.

@Netto
I have to agree with ya, I too liked Eccleston a bit more... But Tennant is doing a good job nonetheless.

Technically, it's episode 29x00. Russell T. Davis has stated on many occasions, the new show is an extension of the original series. I have been told that even the internal production numbers per episode are following in the lineage of the productions numbers if the old series. Of course I have no way of proving that, so I'll take the word of the person who told me until I know for certain.

Anyway, all that is semantics. The show is still killer and at the end of the day, that is really all that matters.

It is nice to see there are some Who fans here. Anyway, I just stopped by to bring attention to the newest Doctor Who spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures. As can be guessed, the show will star Elizabeth Sladen reprising here longtime role as Sarah Jane Smith. The show will be geared more towards a younger audience than Doctor Who, but is being written and produced by all the same people who are doing Doctor Who and Torchwood. A one hour pilot episode will air on New Year's Day, with half hour episodes to follow later once the series proper commences.

Anyway, I have seen the trailer for the show, and it looks good, so here's keeping fingers crossed that even though it's geared for a younger audience, it winds up being entertaining enough for an older audience. Of course the exact same thing happened with Doctor Who, which was originally developed as a childrens' program, but in short order caught on to a much older audience.

And for those of you who miss Billie Piper as much as I do, she can be found staring as Sally Lockhart in The Ruby in the Smoke, which is a classy BBC adaptation of the first Sally Lockheart novel by Phillip Pullman. The other Sally Lockhart quadrilogy are slated to follow - I assume they all will start Billie Piper in the titler role.

Also, did anyone catch the Doctor Who Concert for Children in Need? It was held at the Millennium Center in Cardiff and was a pretty good show.

Here you go: The Sarah Jane Adventures Trailer
There's also an official BBC homepage at http://www.bbc.co.uk/sja/, but ATM it's unaccessible for non-UK residents :-(

I already requested the show to be added on TV.com so it could be added here, but nothing happened yet.

I think the problem with Torchwood (besides some questionable production values), is that it is a much slower pace show. I think that after all the excitement of the last two series of Doctor Who, there was a certain expectation from fans that Torchwood would embody this same level of frenetic energy that exudes from Doctor Who.

I had not realized that (what was missing from Torchwood) until I saw The Runaway Bride and within the first 10 minutes of the episode, the audience had been dragged into a high speed chase with a TARDIS.

The other thing that I noticed missing from Torchwood (until recently) are any episodes with any real emotional impact.  As a lifelong Who fan, I have to admit I was surprised as all get out to see so much emo added to the new show, the Doctor has always had an air of aloofness about himself, and to see a Doctor so . . . vulnerable, was shocking at first, but soon enough it grew on you and you knew that in a lot of ways, this was a superior written Doctor than those of the past. But I noted a few months back, that any real emotional impact in the episodes of Torchwood were all but completely missing. The last couple of episodes have gotten better about that. Hopefully their will be improvements as the program progresses.

Something else that is missing from Torchwood is that this is not the same Capt. Jack Harkness that we fell in love with on Doctor Who. Yeah, he's played by the same actor, but the Capt. Jack everyone fell in love with was a much more care free character than this new guy. I guess dying and coming back to life can change a person, but it certainly would be nice to see the more  effervescent version of Jack make a return - I'd even settle with a hybrid character, not as dull as the new one, but not as fun loving as the old, if that would make things better.

Finally, Torchwood does not exhibit the scope that Doctor Who tends to. I knew going into the show that it would focus on Earth and doing business of keeping order in our back yard as it were, but you get the feeling watching the show, that the breadth of the scope of the overall story being told is so very narrow. Every time you see a Torchwood episode of Doctor Who, it is on a scale and a scope that hinted at something major was in the works and there would be far reaching consequences (both good and bad) for the things that people in Torchwood did throughout the course of the show. Not a single bit of that (outside of knowing that Jack has David Tennent's hand in a jar, seems to be the least bit evident. There is also the recent stuff about something dark coming from the other side of death's door, but even that seems a bit out of nowhere and more tacked on to the story than an integral part.

I don't really think that Torchwood is a bad show per se, I just think that it is not what people had expected. That and the maybe in deliberately attempting to make the show not Doctor, the produces have lost sight of exactly what made the promise of Torchwood seem so appetizing in the first place. There is still a lot of potential there and with good fortune, Torchwood's producers will be able to see what is missing from the program and make Series 2 much better.

yes, the aliens in london was a cheesy, i thought that also when i watched it, but it gets better.
and don't skip first season, because it gets better already in the first season , there's good episodes to come.

I can't remember if I'm honest. Rose is still a companion for Tennant in the next series.

There is also a story arc for that whole series, so I'd stick with it.

But if you decide not to, definitely watch episodes 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, then you're on to season 2, from here on the episodes are great, though I was never massive keen on his next companion (season 3), it doesn't detract from the episodes though.

most reference problems is because it's a really old show i would suggest reading in wikipedia about old Doctors like i did.. or you can watch every available episodes of the previous Doctors.

It took me awhile to get into the show but it really does pay off the longer you watch the show. The first season imo was the worst, and not because of who was the Doctor. The first half of season one was almost to much cheese for me but I stuck with it and it gets better with time. Having re-watched the show and still re-watching (Up to Waters of Mars) I noticed that the show compared to now is really kind of different. The show to me is less cheesey and the companions are less annoying (well season 3 and 5-6). I liked Rose but her family drew me insane while I was re-watching. Also the writing as improved but that might be more Moffat then RTD doing more scripits.

There truly are some of the best episodes of television with Doctor Who, episode that are just completely brilliant, but there are those that are kind of bad...so it's worth watching all of it just because the episodes that are amazing make up for the ones that kind of blow.