{"id":8976,"date":"2008-01-29T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T02:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2008-01-29T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T02:50:30","slug":"doctor-who-the-complete-third-series-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/doctor-who-the-complete-third-series-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who: The Complete Third Series (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"drwho\"<\/a>I have to admit that I\u2019ve never been a fan of \u201cDoctor Who.\u201d If you talk to our resident contributor William Garcia, you\u2019ll find a Doctor Who fan who surpasses every other Doctor Who fan before him. But me as a casual viewer found Doctor Who thanks to the Sci Fi channel here in America who broadcast the entire series every week. I was never a fan before so I went into it with a general ignorance on everything associated with the universe and found it entertaining. I thought Billy Piper was a cute heroine, I liked her charm and courage, and I thought she was a great pairing with Christopher Eccleston, my original lure to the series.<\/p>\n

Then came David Tennant who was an infinitely better Doctor Who. Goofy, weird, and demented, with a hint of Errol Flynn heroics, Tennant really took the series by the throat and was the absolute best of the Who\u2019s. Once Piper left, \u201cDoctor Who\u201d took an admitted plunge in quality, and Garcia\u2019s observations on the series pretty much was what I began to notice. No longer was the show intent on focusing on Doctor Who\u2019s travels into space; now all of his exploits were centered on Earth and storylines just became incredibly repetitive.<\/p>\n

Take for example the two episode arc focusing on New York in the thirties, a flat and boring plot about the Daleks attempts to control the Earth through time travel, and then New York in the future, which ended up being a great episode about endless traffic on an outer space highway where millions of people confined to their cars, awaited passage into the high way. \u201cDoctor Who\u201d though pretty much repeated the same concepts over and over and soon the episodes were often boring, flat, and outright tedious. The series then took the black comedy from the first two series, and really just flat out opted for total comedy, with villains who were more than a bit tiresome, in spite of the great creature effects.<\/p>\n

Series Three isn\u2019t the best that I\u2019ve seen from this continuity, and while I\u2019ve had a blast, I just don\u2019t see myself delving into the entire mythos after this. \u201cThe Complete Third Series,\u201d now with a great boxed set of six discs and tons of extras, features the cute but ultimately empty film \u201cThe Runaway Bride\u201d where Doctor Who attempts to save a shrill woman from monsters in Earth no less, and introduces the stunning Freema Agyeman, once featured in a bit part in the past seasons and now plays Martha Jones, the scientist introduced to Doctor Who on the second episode. Agyeman has a lot to live up to with Piper and the scripts sadly never flex the charisma and personality of the actress whose character Martha is passive, inconspicuous, and lacks any real depth. Martha instead just serves as a spectator to Doctor Who\u2019s escapades rather than playing Watson to his Holmes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Complete Third Series\u201d features a tour of the set with Agyeman, video diaries from David Tennant, and outtakes, which are always a good time. Just the same, it\u2019s a good enough show, but just not one I intend on following any longer. Better luck next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to admit that I\u2019ve never been a fan of \u201cDoctor Who.\u201d If you talk to our resident contributor William Garcia, you\u2019ll find a Doctor Who fan who surpasses every other Doctor Who fan before him. But me as a casual viewer found Doctor Who thanks to the Sci Fi channel here in America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,71,126,298,349,367,874,906],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-bbc-america","tag-dr-who","tag-fantasy","tag-foreign","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}