Really? Despite what you said up-thread, you actually don't think the low point was among Matt Smith's stories? :P
cheers,
Gabe
I think you are misinterpretting what I was trying to say. I never said I disliked Matt Smith or his Doctor. (In fact I explicitly said otherwise.) However, I do have issues with the writing of the show during his run. Precisely because there were some really awesome ideas during that era. However, on the whole I feel that the writing didn't live up to the promise (so to speak).
I find it hard to explain how I feel l about the last few series. I don't hate them...but, I don't love them either...I guess, I always feel anti-climatic when I watch them. They always seem to promise so much...and I never feel that they quite lived up to it. Take the 50th Anniversary for example. I was really looking forward to that one. And it was a good story....just not for the 50th. Honestly, except for those two scenes at the end (with the 13 Doctors and then with the museum curator), it didn't feel like any sort of celebration. Yeah sure, it had two Doctors...but to me...it felt like they ran out of time and squished two episodes together into one. It was cool seeing the Zygons again, and it was awesome to have the War Doctor...however, it just felt like the stories would have been better served if they had been done as two separate episodes.
I guess that's my main complaint: Moffet just tries to be two epic...puts too much into a story. And you can tell when he has a knock-out story because it is generally very low key. "Vincent and the Doctor" for example.
I am critical of his run, maybe too much I admit. But it's not out of a spirit of meanness or hatred of Moffet. But because he brings so much promise to it, that it's a bit frustrating to see it fall short. (At least IMHO.)
And on the other hand, I don't hold the Davies era up on a pedestal. Eccleston's series was okay, they were still getting on their feet. The second series was a bit wobbly, but getting there. The third series...as much as I liked Martha (She was far superior to Rose in every way), there were a lot of misses in there. The fourth series...I have to admit, I feel this was the high point of the show. When you only have two weakish stories ("The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky"), that's pretty good. Then the year of special's..."The Next Doctor" is pretty good. "Planet of the Dead"...well, a good not-quite-companion, though the rest of the story was meh. "The Waters of Mars" was fantastic. "The End of Time"...two words: Timothy Dalton.
Out of all of the Smith stories, I think I like the ones with Clara best. I don't know...they just feel more...right.
(EDIT: If all of that is still incomprehinable....it's 12:40 in the morning and I've been up since 6 AM yesterday....)
HULU has some of the Classic series as well. Have to watch commercials though...
What I want to know is why can't either one show more of McCoy's stories? He's my favorite...
(And I was telling someone about "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy". They
haaate clowns.)
