How Good was Dr. Who?

[GEEMAC]

As far as 'family entertainment' goes is this the best thing on the box at the moment?

[Suzyboo]

If true, that is a sad Indictment of TV today

[GEEMAC]

Why do you say that Suzyboo? Did you watch it? with your family?

[taichiperson]

Missed tonights and am trying to get it on BBC iplayer - not up yet, grrrr

[Suzyboo]

I watched it alone - is that what made it worse?!

[ChuckFickens]

it normallly takes about 1-2 hours to pop up on Iplayer

But it ends with the......

No I wouldn't really spoil it... was a good one though :)

[Suzyboo]

I actually think it was the best of the series so far .. but for me that isn't saying much alas

[GEEMAC]

Is there a better example of 'Family Entertainment' on TV. at the moment?

[Suzyboo]

Probably not but being the best does not actually mean that it is good, hence my original comment

[GEEMAC]

So to clarify, It is the best 'Family Entertainment' British TV. has to offer but it's not very good? Do you have any suggestions as to what may have been better 'Family Entertainment' in the history of televisual entertainment?

[Suzyboo]

Are you now claiming it to be the best ever rather than 'at the moment' as you actually asked?

[THECORBYLOON]

I fell asleep near the end of to-night's show but after I wakened, I got the impression I'd still have been none the wiser had I stayed awake.

[GEEMAC]

I certainly think it is the best in 'Family Entertainment' at the moment which we seem to be agreed on. I was adding as a supplementary question, can anybody think of anything that has been better.

I don't mean has there ever been a better TV. programme but a programme that has better entertained equally 2 or 3 generations of a mixed gender audience?

[bednobs]

i still dont understand what actually happened. how did he miraculously get out f the handcufs? Why did that woman have 3 children at the end when there were only 2 types in the computer? why i that woman so happy to be inside a computer forever? Where did they get those 4 other people at the end from when all their lights had gone out - why couldn't they just reactualise all of them like the others? Why was it so like the time travellers wife mixed with "lost in a good book"?

[sddsddean]

Oh good. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought 'this is a rip off of "The Time Travellers Wife"'

[gelda]

Okay for children I suppose but I can't stand it. As for David Tennant he's weird with those staring eyes he gives me the creeps!

[CSIambleside]

I can explain one of your points, bednobs. The third child was the little girl Cal.

[Eve]

The other little girl was the little girl connected to the library and the two imaginary kids were the others.

I assumed the computer had managed to save the ones who got killed as they did the first one who appeared in the veil later on.

Either that or she was imagining them as she wanted them to be there.

I suppose most of them were saved before they died, the ones in the library anyway.

The lady was saved by the doctor but unclear whether all her lights actually went out or not.

Maybe she knew she was meant to die at that time but he had her saved so she remained in a dream world and he knew she was happy in an imagined happiness.

[MrBounty]

I watched the repeat on BBC3 last night and at one point, i asked myself if David Tennant was in The Matrix, seeing as that episode had ripped it off so much!!

As for "family entertainment", maybe it is for families, but i really have to disagree with the entertainment bit.

I am one of the few who thought the American TV movie a few years back was ok - a lot "darker" in tone and slightly more "adult" - but since RTD took over, in my opinion, the show has devolved into kiddies tv.

I am into Sci-Fi tv and movies, so I should like this show, but the majority of Dr Who just makes me want to cringe, it's that bad.

[andrea81]

I've never been into it, but my little boy (4) wanted to watch it and I ended up enjoying it myself! Kind of wish I had watched it from the start!

Thing is my Hubby worked as a project manager in Cardiff a year ago and had free access to where they film it and the exhibition and I am sad to say that I never went once!