Next week the awesome team of @felixfrazer.bsky.social @sihart.bsky.social Luke Molloy @onthetimelash.bsky.social & Jackson Rees are assembling to determine the Strictly best 11th Doctor story. What are your thoughts on the era/the Doctor/Matt Smith and we will read them out on the night ❤️ - ThreadSky

docoho44.bsky.social • 13 days ago

Next week the awesome team of @felixfrazer.bsky.social @sihart.bsky.social Luke Molloy
@onthetimelash.bsky.social
& Jackson Rees are assembling to determine the Strictly best 11th Doctor story. What are your thoughts on the era/the Doctor/Matt Smith and we will read them out on the night ❤️

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danielknight73.bsky.social•13 days ago

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times...
Wonderful stories such as the Eleventh Hour, Vincent and The Girl Who Waited rub shoulders with dross like A Good Man Goes to Sleep, Shitemare in Silver and that horrendous widow & the wardrobe nonsense
(1/2)

danielknight73.bsky.social•13 days ago

Matt himself was never less than superb, but occasionally (yes, I'm going to say this!) He was let down by the writing! His Doctor would all too often be reduced to an arm-flapping, goofball. When he's given good material to work with, Matt is absolutely brilliant

stephenhawkwind.bsky.social•13 days ago

He's the 7th Doctor done better, and I say that as an ardent McCoy fan.

He does a fantastic job at playing the silly clown, with plans within plans and secrets wrapped up in lies.

grumpy2eb.bsky.social•13 days ago

My least favourite era of Who. Mostly stank nuggets with the occasional episodes of gold.

winterfelltardis.bsky.social•13 days ago

For me, the best era and Doctor of modern who. Only second to Tom Baker overall. The only modern Who I saw instantly was the Doctor. Admittedly the rest only usually took an episode or 2. Doctors Wife, Impossible Astronaut, Time / Angels, Day of the Doctor & the Snowmen being particular favourites

paulcresser.bsky.social•11 days ago

Although I found the change in tone and style from the RTD era to be a bit of a jolt, I did think this young Doctor showed a lot of promise. Then I lost my good will with “The Big Bang” and it all went downhill, taking Smith’s Doctor with it. By the end he was just a caricature of himself. A shame.

danielrawnsley.bsky.social•13 days ago

Matt is an extraordinary physical actor, and depending on the material, when the writing rose to meet his challenge, he could embody the Doctor more than anybody else. I still like a lot of S5, as well as S7 in fits & starts. S6, however, remains one of my least favourite in modern Doctor Who.

danielrawnsley.bsky.social•13 days ago

As far as companions go, I generally like the Ponds, Clara and River Song as characters. Emphasis on *like*, rather than *love* - as they're all missing a bit of a spark, a certain "je-ne-sais-quoi" I grew up with in previous iterations of the show (maybe that's just my RTD-bias showing...!)

pljquinn.bsky.social•13 days ago

Top 10:

Time of Angels
Amy's Choice
Vincent & the Dr
Pandorica/Big Bang
Christmas Carol
God Complex
Wedding of River Song
Rings
Crimson Horror
Name of the Doctor

kevvyb0712.bsky.social•13 days ago

Hide? The lodger??

pljquinn.bsky.social•13 days ago

Hide is brilliant until the last couple of minutes.

kevvyb0712.bsky.social•13 days ago

True! The time jumpy bit rubbish - the haunted house and the contrast of Dougray Scott and Jessica Raine's character against Coleman and Smith being goofy is good.

pljquinn.bsky.social•13 days ago

It's the monster being lonely and pining for it's lover that annoys me.

pljquinn.bsky.social•13 days ago

At its best, Matt Smith's interpretation of the Doctor is the best of the modern era.

kevvyb0712.bsky.social•13 days ago

He is my favourite Nu Who Doctor

haemovoresrus.bsky.social•11 days ago

Matt Smith starts as a brilliant, awkward Doctor (S5 is superb). However he then descends into a waving guy in a Willy Wonka outfit in S7. He loses, imo, the things that made him great in the beginning. Is that the writing or the actor? Prob a bit of both. S5 has one of my all time favourite 1/2

haemovoresrus.bsky.social•11 days ago

Amy Choice, 6 is the binge season with variable quality, 7a is a lovely mini season and 7b...you know my thoughts on that one, don't get me started 😂 a good era that runs out of steam

michaelmills.bsky.social•13 days ago

Clara Oswald may yet turn Joe straight. Has any other era that power?

kevvyb0712.bsky.social•13 days ago

Jenna/Clara in a red dress - oooh mama!!

beeblepete.bsky.social•13 days ago

Moffat Who is fun but heavily heteronormative and bits of it can alienate even the straightest of us. RTD let big love into the mythos but it lived by a code that afforded the sauciest of knicker-twirlers a nobility. Moffat's lovers are off-the rails mistake makers and it can be tough to forgive.

jameslark.bsky.social•10 days ago

An era I tend to remember for its considerable highs rather than its also-considerable lows.

jameslark.bsky.social•10 days ago

Series 5 was so refreshing when it arrived, Moffat’s complex, structured storytelling much more to my taste than the RTD heart-over-sense approach. Yes, he could have just told a straightforward decent story more often, but it was a thrilling ride at the time.

jameslark.bsky.social•10 days ago

Matt Smith is a force of nature in need of good direction - as a McCoy fan I’ve plenty of time for that - and (I can hear Joe screaming in disgust) I *really like* his dynamic with Gillan and Darvill.

jameslark.bsky.social•10 days ago

After four years of faux-trendy metrosexuality, the Doctor at last dresses like the Doctor and behaves like an alien; we (eventually) get the best TARDIS interior of the 21st century; we get a 50th anniversary special to die for; and, so easily taken for granted, dialogue that really sparkles.

jameslark.bsky.social•10 days ago

You feel the formula flagging and sometimes failing under the weight of its own ambition, and by golly there are misfires - but I love that it is this ambitious and I love the feeling that the show is being pushed as far as it can go.

eyepatchstory.bsky.social•13 days ago

My least favourite Doctor by far, a cringe inducing collection of “tawdry quirks” and faux eccentricity desperately trying to mask a vacuous ersatz version of the character.

fitgeekuk.bsky.social•13 days ago

An era in which we were graced with a fantastic actor with warmth, charm and humour. Enough about Rory though. My single least favourite era of all of Who, with a show runner who regurgitates cliche after cliche, fucks plot arcs up spectacularly and who causes the ratings to nose dive.

fitgeekuk.bsky.social•13 days ago

From the bilge that is Victory of the Daleks through to the dullest regeneration story ever, via the 50s fetishism of Beast Beyond and moronic series finales, I'd rather they'd handed Who over to the team that did Search Out Space than ever let Moffat or Smith near it again.

elliott97.bsky.social•13 days ago

Might be the worst to ever do it - but I don’t think it’s Matt Smith’s fault. His ok acting is hampered by the writing, which seems desperate to yell in your face that this Doctor is funny and quirky but Smith brings little of his own charm to the flaccid and lifeless character in these poor series’

kevvyb0712.bsky.social•13 days ago

After a recent rewatch of the Matt Smith era, I have to say Matt Smith is my favourite Nu Who Doctor - He was best in Series 5 but always engaging throughout despite some shoddy stories. Also working with Karen Gillan and Jenna Coleman - what a jammy git!

aquatics64.bsky.social•13 days ago

Matt Smith is one of those that seems born to be the Doctor - from his very first scenes he gets it!

gavin76.bsky.social•11 days ago

No matter how rubbish the episode Smithy shines! He was the most perfect casting and never let us down! Probably at his best in Angels but *ducks* love s7 as a whole. Prefer Clara to Amy 🤣

doctorwhoprophunt.bsky.social•13 days ago

The Eleventh Doctor is probably still my favourite modern Doctor. Matt Smith brings a brilliant gangly physicality to the role. He does a great job of being both full of youthful energy and feeling like an old soul at the same time.

doctorwhoprophunt.bsky.social•13 days ago

While I love Matt's Doctor, his era is patchy at best. The highs are really high, but there are plenty of lows. By and large, I prefer many of the individual stories rather than the arc stuff.

doctorwhoprophunt.bsky.social•13 days ago

On a personal note, the Matt Smith era marked a massive change in my life. Our first child was born during series 5. He had been unwell in his first few weeks, and by the season finale we were back in Hospital. I watched The Big Bang on a small B&W portable while he slept.

doctorwhoprophunt.bsky.social•13 days ago

Our second kid was born the night Nightmare In Silver was broadcast. My wife's waters actually broke during the episode, but she waited until it finished to tell me. She's hard-core like that 😁.

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