Doctor Who Returns...

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Originally Posted by Alex

Last night while flipping through channels I ended up watching about 30 minutes of an episode. Some bride needs to get to her wedding. There are some Santa clad robots, a flying phone booth, and an apparently all powerful stick for controlling electronics.

The bride, yes. There are always peripheral characters. The robots have appeared in another episode though that is not relevant to their evilness. The phone booth is his travel/time machine. It's large inside which generally freaks people out and is good for a giggle once you get used to the schtick. The stick is a sonic screwdriver, which yes, at times seems to be somewhat magical in the manner of technology, if sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic. He also has a piece of psychic paper, which tells the reader whatever they need to see to believe the Doctor.

I want.

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Originally Posted by Alex

Would that be representative? Because it was really lame looking (I'll admit that half an episode is never an adequate guide for judging a TV series).

Although I'm not educated enough to know the episode you mentioned - the only good ones (with Tom Baker) are even sometimes not that great due to rampant sillyness in the guise of serious science. The actors were often terrible as well.

If you don't like Red Dwarf or Python, don't even try.

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I just watched Runaway Bride last night; it was one of the few episodes not posted on-line. I'm really enjoying David Tennant as the Doctor. I love his run-on rants. There's also the sense of control of the situation that seemed to be missing for a while. He may not actually be in control, but at least he's not panicking, and if something can be done, he will, and he always turns lucky breaks to his full advantage. You always believe he is in some sort of control of things. I like that.