Boofer's Psychic Review of Season 12

It's shit lads, don't bother.

I agree.

I did enjoy the Doctor/Yaz fisting scene, though. Classic stuff.

I think I had the same reading round the back of Tesco's the other day.

I'm only a novice scatomancer so I weren't confident enough to post.

I can't say I was planning to bother. I didn't with the last one.

The worst bit is when they turned the Meddling Monk into the Meddling Nun. What a bunch of wankers! I'm looking forward to Series 13 and the new look TARDIS complete with a wheelchair ramp at the door.

The first half of Series 11 alone left such a bad taste that it took me several months to be able to enjoy any part of the franchise again, so I won't risk it. I don't want to contribute to the viewing figures either, so I'll stick to bowlestrek's reviews.

iank wrote:I can't say I was planning to bother. I didn't with the last one.

My attitude towards it entirely.

I always said back in 2006/7 when we discussed the possibilities of the Doctor gender-flipping through regeneration on Logopolis Metropolis that if the production team caved in to Murdoch and all of the other tabloid twats who never watch the programme and brought it up EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME the lead part was recast that it would be the transgression that would make me stop watching and I meant it.

Had there been a good narrative reason for it I may have continued watching, but there wasn't, the writers are just plain too fucking thick for that.

I've packed away and archived all of my old Doctor Who collection now - a previous love turned completely sour.

Fuck it, there's far better shit out there, I've been heavily re-discovering my love for 2000ad in recent years, Doctor Who and the BBC can fuck right off as far as I'm concerned.

The whole franchise is completely tainted and spoiled and the whole concept around the Time Lords utterly ruined.

It's just become a piss-weak parody.

I really don't get the psychology that allows the work of future writers to ruin the past. The only connection between Classic Who and NuWho is there precisely because RTD, Moffat and Chibnall say it is. Are you really going to let them persuade you of that? You decide what is Doctor Who, and it's very easy to dismiss what returned after nigh twenty years in a completely different format with different people.

Simply put: it isn't the same work.

Classic Who only holds together itself as a single work because of the overlap. There's no reason for NuWho to effect your views on the Classic series.

I agree entirely. If anything the death of New Who has only increased my enjoyment and appreciation of the real program.

iank wrote:I agree entirely. If anything the death of New Who has only increased my enjoyment and appreciation of the real program.

The thing is though, after watching the Classic Series about 20+ times(or possibly even more) to the point you know the dialogue off by heart, it does get a bit monotonous and boring.

Apart from the Mission to the Unknown re-enactment and recent Macra Terror animation, there's absolutely fuck all to look forward to.

I wish BBV/Reeltime would start up again and give us some 8th Doctor adventures or some more Classic Series spin offs.

Rob Filth wrote:

iank wrote:I agree entirely. If anything the death of New Who has only increased my enjoyment and appreciation of the real program.

The thing is though, after watching the Classic Series about 20+ times(or possibly even more) to the point you know the dialogue off by heart, it does get a bit monotonous and boring.

This is especially true if you saw all of the Twitch sessions last year and earlier this year, which would often rerun the serials twice or thrice. I can go a couple of years without seeing a classic now, though if someone is reacting to it on Youtube I'll give it a go (Seskasays and 7th Hour Films have done classic reactions and seem to be enjoying them)

Zarius wrote:(Seskasays and 7th Hour Films have done classic reactions and seem to be enjoying them)

Sesska's reaction vids are a bit too fangirly and twee for me.

Tanmann wrote:

Zarius wrote:(Seskasays and 7th Hour Films have done classic reactions and seem to be enjoying them)

Sesska's reaction vids are a bit too fangirly and twee for me.

I like her enthusiasm for Barbera, and I'd rather have her than that nutjob Shayla who I keep getting in my recommendations.

Fair enough.

Zarius wrote:

Rob Filth wrote:

iank wrote:I agree entirely. If anything the death of New Who has only increased my enjoyment and appreciation of the real program.

The thing is though, after watching the Classic Series about 20+ times(or possibly even more) to the point you know the dialogue off by heart, it does get a bit monotonous and boring.

This is especially true if you saw all of the Twitch sessions last year and earlier this year, which would often rerun the serials twice or thrice. I can go a couple of years without seeing a classic now, though if someone is reacting to it on Youtube I'll give it a go (Seskasays and 7th Hour Films have done classic reactions and seem to be enjoying them)

I've watched very little classic Who these last 2 years or so.

I can practically re-run some stories in my head.

The only thing I'd be remotely excited for is the return of a missing story in its completion.

Ah well, that goes down to "overwatching", which I try to avoid. But jeez, surely there's more than enough material in 26 years of classic to stretch them out (i.e once a fortnight, or even once a month) so you can watch so many stories per year, and still have it be anything from 4-6 (or even more) years before seeing the same ones again, while still watching the show fairly regularly?! That's what I do...
Avoid compressed marathons like the bloody plague is my advice.

iank wrote:Ah well, that goes down to "overwatching", which I try to avoid. But jeez, surely there's more than enough material in 26 years of classic to stretch them out (i.e once a fortnight, or even once a month) so you can watch so many stories per year, and still have it be anything from 4-6 (or even more) years before seeing the same ones again, while still watching the show fairly regularly?! That's what I do...
Avoid compressed marathons like the bloody plague is my advice.

There are arrangements of neurons in my head that can't be overwritten any more.

Long after the rest of my mind has capitulated to some kind of dementia, I'll be stumbling around a dilapidated old people's home in my pissed and shitted pants quoting bits of season 13 to inanimate objects.