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Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but for me it was the only New-Who I've actually disliked completely. I even enjoyed Love & Monsters the first time.

I think Fear Her was just a perfect storm of a terrible story, terrible monster, rubbish characters and unbelievable cheesy-ness (the whole Olympic thing).
There was no excitement, no fear and just... no entertainment.

They're called MoCap suits (MoCap meaning Motion Capture).
All the different shapes and lines are designed so a computer can follow their movements and lay CGI models over them.

It'll look fine, I thought Thor's costumes (that is, every costume in the film Thor) looked goofy until I actually saw them in the film.

Except Cap isn't a jerk, Hulk doesn't eat and r*** people and basically everything else too.

The movies so far have taken the best bits from each universe, but are much more heavily influenced by the 616 iterations than their Ultimate counterparts. The only real similarity is that the Avengers are being founded as a Shield project by Samuel L. Jackson rather than just because they all feel like joining up.

By the time Tom Baker came around they'd cut most serials down to about 4 episodes (so, roughly a modern day two parter). In fact, I'd say by then they'd actually moved out of what would traditionally be called a serial anyway.
And of course they're not crummy, it's a show that's lasted for generations, you don't do that if you were crap.

One thing you have to remember about old Who (Doctor's 1 and 2 and to a lesser extend early 3), is that it was preformed live, like a play. Each episode might have had like, two or three cuts in it at most. All the rest was multiple cameras and actors rushing between sets while the focus is elsewhere.
That naturally has an effect on pacing. They also had to produce something along the lines of 44 episodes a year too. Each episode was made in a week, recorded live then broadcast a couple of days later.

So, dragging and padding isn't so much to do with the serial format and more to do with the limitations and conventions of the time.

Not yet.

Seen The Gunfighters though.

What could possibly go wrong?

Jack's naked again?

Nothing is as bad as Fear Her. Nothing.

No, don't go for that reply button.

Nothing.

I've forgotten what it was called, but basically I think he said it was like a Cuckoo (a type of bird) that lays it's eggs in another bird's nest and gets that other bird to bring it's baby up.
So basically, the child is a creature from another species who gives it's children to other species to raise.
Quite what this means for him when he grows up I don't know.

Really though, it seems to be a staple of his writing. How many times was the 10th Doctor portrayed as the moral high ground when he had or later would kill.
Or imprison someone for eternity.
Or kill their babies.

They specifically said they were lying in the scene where they said it was biometric.

Actually, the Doctor is Merlin... or might be Merlin in the future... or Merlin might be an alternate reality Doctor.

One of the three.

Get the whole series first, it takes place before the film and introduces all the characters. It is one of the greatest animé of all time.
This.

Also, why does it need an over arching plot?

The first one is kind of fun, but the second is terrible. Either way, both are non-canon and were never intended to be part of the actual Doctor Who story.
I've recently watched Invasion of Time, and they specifically do refer to themselves as Time Lords who dropped out of the academy. Likewise, the Doctor refers to Drax as a Time Lord even though he never graduated from the Academy either.
Actually, that's not quite true. The First Doctor regenerates with a glow in what is a pretty impressive effect for 1966. Link.

Actually, Hartnell didn't fare anywhere near as bad as Troughton. He has entire Season's missing. It's a huge shame.

Having a new personality is kind of like dying. The Doctor is not the exact same person from regeneration to regeneration. You only need to look at the difference between them to see that.
You basically lose all sense of self, being replaced by someone who shares all your memories but thinks differently.

Arg, no. Don't start with the film. Aside from being not particularly good, (it stupidly Info Dumps the entire show's lore on you in the first 10 minutes) if you end up liking McGann you'll be out of luck since you'll never see him again.

Nope, I thought it was great. And also, I've never seen each Doctor as the exact same man either and thought that 10th's description of regeneration was entirely consistent.

Nope, there was no romance before the 1996 movie.
There were a few hints with Tom Baker and Romana (a Time Lady) though... but that was about it. The Doctor, up until 1996 was always considered pretty much asexual and uninterested in romance.

Of course, you have to remember that a Series of Doctor Who is about half half of a US Season, so it's not like you'll be needing to catch up on like, 120 episodes or something.

Also, what Tom Baker ones have you watched? I can give you pointers to really good ones if you like.

Oh yeah, if you're prepared to view them in context then go right ahead.

And of course, the stories themselves generally stand the test of time, even if the sets and effects don't always