STTNG vote to beat out Dr Who!
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Isn't there like entire seasons of Dr Who that are lost forever because of a fire before the VHS age?
I too would like to get more exposure to the old Dr Who. I'm basing my judgment of 'Campy' totally on the new ones. Do the older ones balance the silliness a bit more?
I'm about halfway through the first season of Game of Thrones. I like it, but it does suffer from the HBO syndrome of "Naked people hanging around every scene just because", and sometimes it's like "Oh. More people are murdering each other. Huh. How interesting."
Edit: Writing that I just realized that Game of Thrones is basically Sopranos if there was no FBI.
I too would like to get more exposure to the old Dr Who. I'm basing my judgment of 'Campy' totally on the new ones. Do the older ones balance the silliness a bit more?
I'm about halfway through the first season of Game of Thrones. I like it, but it does suffer from the HBO syndrome of "Naked people hanging around every scene just because", and sometimes it's like "Oh. More people are murdering each other. Huh. How interesting."
Edit: Writing that I just realized that Game of Thrones is basically Sopranos if there was no FBI.
GoT's good but the books are better. Some of the best pulpy fun you've ever read.
Never saw much of the new Who, just enough to know it wasn't my cup of tea. Old Who is pretty campy alright, or what I'd call campy. Give some of the Tom Baker years a whirl, they're probably the best in my not too well informed opinion.
Never saw much of the new Who, just enough to know it wasn't my cup of tea. Old Who is pretty campy alright, or what I'd call campy. Give some of the Tom Baker years a whirl, they're probably the best in my not too well informed opinion.
Too bad I missed this. I definitely would have voted for TNG though. I LOVE both of them but when it comes down to it, I go back and rewatch TNG all the time. Doctor Who, I only rewatch every once in a while. They're both great shows but TNG has made a more lasting impression on my life, I grew up with it. It's been my favorite TV show for years and years.
Not a fire, but deliberate junking before the days of widespread reruns and VHS. Not entire seasons, no, but entire serials (the '63-'89 show being comprised mostly of serials made up of several 25-minute parts). More info here.
Well, we're talking about 26 straight seasons of TV. The show kept itself fresh for its first 15 years or so by subtly reinventing itself every few years with a new production team (and has re-started this practice more recently with the change from Russell T Davies to Steven Moffat; part of the reason it died for so long was that it stopped doing this and stagnated). The original run can be safely divided into several distinctly different eras, each varying in tone and approach; some are fairly serious, others not so much. Sometimes it varies within a single season.
When you say "the new ones," (hard to believe they alone are 8 years old now) do you mean the RTD or Moffat era? I'd argue that both do "balance" the seriousness, the latter more so, though some of the camp of RTD's stuff was very camp!
Again, if you made that decision early on in the revival, I'd recommend giving it another try as it's changed hands since then.
Serious question to the OP (and I don't mean this to come across as bluntly as it may seem); what validation do you get by encouraging a win for your favourite show in a vote whose outcome is virtually meaningless? DW and TNG are two of my favourite shows ever and I love both for different reasons. Isn't that enough?
