Unpopular opinions thread

[iank]

Mar 31, 2023 22:14:58 GMT @kengrubshaw said:

Season 25/26 is the true golden age.

That and 16/17, yes. 

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I don't think this is unpopular (it probably is knowing this fandom), but I think the 80s were a better decade for Daleks than the 70s. I like some of the 70s stories, but I personally consider the three 80s stories to be of an exceptionally high standard especially Remembrance.


I don't think it's an unpopular opinion to say that the 80s were also a better decade for Cybermen, though.

[burrunjor]

Apr 2, 2023 14:15:11 GMT @kengrubshaw said:

I don't think this is unpopular (it probably is knowing this fandom), but I think the 80s were a better decade for Daleks than the 70s. I like some of the 70s stories, but I personally consider the three 80s stories to be of an exceptionally high standard especially Remembrance.


I don't think it's an unpopular opinion to say that the 80s were also a better decade for Cybermen, though.

It's hard to say. 

Genesis and Remembrance are the two best Dalek stories by far, so there is that. 

The 80s meanwhile didn't have a single bad Dalek story. All 3 were classics, whilst the 70s had two substandard, (Planet and Destiny, which are both still enjoyable.) One really enjoyable with Death to the Daleks, and two classics with Genesis and Day. 

That said however you could also argue the 70s was better as they did seem more formidable in the 70s. They were the most recurring enemy after the Master, they were also deemed a big enough threat that even the Time Lords were scared of them, we saw them easily conquer other species like the Spirodon's and the Exxillons, they had a vast empire with the idea being the Doctor could never best them completely, only limit their power. 

In the 80s however not only were they portrayed as desperate, having almost been wiped out by one shot villains like the Movellans, but from a real world perspective, they were kind of pushed to the side in favor of the Doctors other enemies, like the Cybermen and the Master who both appeared more and who were given the honour of killing a Doctor/companion that the Daleks lacked. Also on top of that, they were also somewhat pushed to the side for Davros in some of those stories too, with only Remembrance giving them a chance in the limelight. 

I'd say you could make arguments for both sides to be honest, but from me I'd say the hit rate for 80s Dalek stories was greater (even taking into account that there were fewer.) But from an in universe perspective I think the 70s was a bit better. 

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Jul 21, 2021 14:08:14 GMT Brian MK.II said:

I prefer Romana I to II

Season 6 is a great season and doesn't deserve it's reputation as where Troughton's era declined in quality.

Season 15 is the weakest Tom season

The War Machines is overrated bollocks

 Vicki, Barbara and Ian are Hartnell's best TARDIS crew

(NuWho) Series 5 still holds up mostly despite a few clunkers.

As much as I like Paul Mcgann as an actor and his Doctor despite the shit he had to work with, Richard E Grant would've been the ideal Doctor for the 90s for me.

"The War Machines is overrated bollocks"

lol I quite like it because of the Sixties stuff though I can't help but smirk at some of the hypno acting. It never turns out very well, does it?

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I kind of prefer Season 12 over Season 13.

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I like series 1-4 of NuWho

[iank]

Season 22 is better than the entire Davison era.

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Sarah-Jane wasn't a great companion.

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Despite being somewhat inconsistent and prone to the occasional duff period (Trial), I still believe the JNT era was great Doctor Who.

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David Ross was a WAY better Kryten than Robert Llewellyn.





Even I couldn't type that with a straight face 

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A few to unload:

- Pertwee is my favourite Doctor, but most of his stories are lame.
- The only remotely good performance of the (male) Master was by Delgado; everyone else was crap.
- Rassilon is a bad character who's never been portrayed well.
- I would've preferred more Love-and-Monsters-style episodes in NuWho than bombastic runarounds, a.k.a. small character pieces that focus in on the "little people", as such.
- Leela was never a great companion and Jameson's performance isn't anything special.
- The Daleks should've been scrapped years ago.
- I couldn't care less about Big Finish. Colin Baker's better in the audios? Life's too short honestly. He had two seasons of TV and it was crap, that's all that matters to me.
- Tom Baker should've regenerated at the end of season 15; everything with Romana should've been scrapped.
- Talons of Weng-Chiang is a near-perfect story but is undermined by a shitty main villain at the end, along with a bizarre backstory for the homunculus creature (something to do with Iceland?)
- I would honestly be fine if DW in its current state got cancelled and never returned. I prefer it more as a vintage little TV show from yesteryear than as a multimedia franchise.
- Wilf Mott is good but he's not the incredibly rich character that fans make him out to be (you'd get banned from r/DoctorWho for this one).
- Doctor Who is neither prestige nor elite. It isn't particularly deep or philosophical and it doesn't need to be. It's a fun sci-fi show that occasionally touches on some interesting ideas, but I would never go so far as to say that any of it is "deep" or thought-provoking, or even at all well-written in the grand scheme of things. I'm tired of (mainly NuWho) fans pretending it's this philosophical heavyweight of a show that'll change your perspective on the universe, when really the so-called "philosophy" amounts to a few platitudinous notions that occasionally get thrown out into the aether (Moffat is most guilty of this). Honestly? I watch Doctor Who to switch off my thoughts and worries about the world, and that's really what the show should always offer: just fun, engaging science-fiction for all the family.

[iank]

The Pertwee era is 50% gold, 50% crap.
Delgado is wildly overrated because he was the Master when the pioneers of fandom were 7, and most fans since are sheep.
Sarah is wildly overrated because she was the companion when the pioneers of fandom were 9, and most fans since are sheep.
The Moffat era was vastly superior to the RTD era.
RTD can't write the Doctor for shit, and seems to be terrified to for fear the mainstream audience wouldn't relate to him.

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Cough should have been the companion for Season 16 Cough.  Sorry, got a sore throat. 

[iank]

Vicki is 200,000 times better than Susan.

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Apr 2, 2023 21:40:35 GMT iank said:

Season 22 is better than the entire Davison era.

 Is that because Nicola's breasts fill up half the screen?