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Twenty things that are great about the RTD era of Who

12th February, 2010 by

Because, now that it’s finished, it seems to have become somewhat fashionable to bash the preceding five years of the show – spotlighting and picking at its flaws (some of which do exist, no question; don’t think us blind apologists) without really giving fair due to all the things that made it… well, five pretty darned excellent (on the whole) years of television that even the most wide-eyed optimist wouldn’t have expected, a decade earlier, ever to see associated with the name of the series again. So in the interests of balance, selected on a random whim and in no particular order, here are some of those things. Feel free to add your own in the comments, and we’ll tell you whether you’re correct or not.

1. Blink
2. Derek Jacobi and a fob watch
3. Julian Bleach’s Davros
4. Christopher Eccleston
5. Jackson Lake
6. Bernard Cribbins
7. Human Nature
8. “You were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I!”
9. Dalek (the episode)
10. Rose (the episode)
11. All The Strange, Strange Creatures
12. John Simm
13. David Tennant upping his game whenever faced with Simm, Jacobi, Cribbins etc.
14. Song for Ten
15. Gridlock, Abide with Me & Gallifrey
16. A spaceship crashing into Big Ben (more exciting in the trailer, but still – a spaceship, crashing into Big Ben)
17. The Writer’s Tale
18. Just about everything the Model Unit did
19. “I don’t want to go”
20. “Steven, would you like to write a couple of episodes?”

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10 Responses to “ Twenty things that are great about the RTD era of Who ”

  1. Dave
    12th February, 2010 at 12.11 pm

    21. “We do not require your feet”

  2. Michael Warren
    12th February, 2010 at 4.57 pm

    22. Daleks v. Cyberman snark – “This is not war. This is pest control!”

  3. Nick R
    12th February, 2010 at 11.47 pm

    23. This moment.

    24. “Forget the shooty dog thing.”

  4. Somebody
    14th February, 2010 at 4.46 pm

    > All The Strange, Strange Creatures

    Wasn’t this titled Love Don’t Roam?

  5. Seb Patrick
    14th February, 2010 at 9.09 pm

    Nope, I don’t mean the Neil Hannon-sung song – I mean the series three theme, which is titled “All The Strange, Strange Creatures” on the soundtrack album…

  6. Dave
    15th February, 2010 at 9.39 am

    25. Steffi’s death in The Waters Of Mars

  7. Seb Patrick
    15th February, 2010 at 10.28 am

    God, yeah. WAY too traumatic for kids, that bit.

  8. Jake Monkeyson
    15th February, 2010 at 11.28 pm

    26. Midnight.
    27. “We’ve even got a bit of a bit of a love life” – “Oh let’s not go into that!”
    28. This trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQINlUB3Kww
    29. The Dalek silently exterminating Lynda in The Parting Of The Ways

    Do spin-offs count? If so:

    30. John Frobisher
    31. “And if we can’t identify the lowest achieving 10% of this country’s children then what are the school league tables for?”

  9. Dave
    16th February, 2010 at 2.31 pm

    >29. The Dalek silently exterminating Lynda in The Parting Of The Ways

    Yes. That was fantastic.

  10. Andy M
    19th February, 2010 at 9.05 pm

    So mostly the Eccleston series and other stuff that wasn’t written by RTD then?

    ;P

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