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[dvandorn]

I understand from what I've read that this last season-ender of Dr. Who set records over there in the UK, attracting enormous audiences.

To all of our British subjects, here -- was it as much of a big media thing there as the press has been saying? Was everyone talking about it the next day?

The season ending episode just aired tonight on the Sci Fi Channel here in the U.S., and I will say this -- I've never seen them have to swing out those supporting-cast names during the title sequence quite as fast before, to fit nearly all of the Doctor's companions from the Eccleston revival to the present. Really good to see Billie Piper back again, too -- if only for a few episodes.

Gotta say, as someone who used to watch Dr. Who back in the seventies and eighties, the writing and production values on this new series are truly outstanding. No wonder the good Doctor has made such a comeback in Britain.

-the other Doctor... er, Doug

[djellison]

I hate it. Helen likes it. No one else at work watches it. I find it too serious to be funny, but not serious enough to take itself seriously - it just grates horribly in my mind. I saw the last 30 minutes of the end of this recent series and thought "That...was crap". It was just childish, self interested. The script was dreadfully weak, the direction inappropriately indulgent, and the whole thing was felt like a spoof of itself. What's most tragic is that David Tennant is one of the greatest acting talents of his generation, and he's pouring it all away on what, to be honest, th kindest thing I can say is 'well, kids seem to like it'. Tennant, wasted. Tate, dreadful - like watching a character they rejected from her comedy show.

Phil Plait was getting so excited about he when he was in the UK, thought it was the best thing on TV bar none - and I know that you Stu, are mad for the good Dr.

But really - I don't get it. It's like Cloverfield - which I left thinking 'that was the worst 90 minutes of cinema in modern history' and yet most people loved. I just don't see the attraction.