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  • He always talks as if he has a blocked nose!

  • I give RTD full credit for reviving Doctor Who. I also love the idea of him writing a whole season/series with a continuous theme that SM is thankfully continuing. What I didn't like under RTD was all the melodrama, which is not Doctor Who. I was also bothered by the in your face progressive themes under RTD. It wasn't necessary. Thankfully, SM is getting away from that and is more plot oriented. Nonetheless, I still thank RTD for bringing a great program back.

  • RTD is a god for bringing it back but Steven Moffat PWNS RTD so much!.

  • bloody hell... he should do graphic novels! he's one hell o an illustrator!! love his style, there.

  • I can't stand all these RTD haters out there. If it wasn't for him, you wouldn't have anything to talk about in your sorry little lives. His stories may not be as flawless as some of the classic DW or StMt stories, but he's more of a character writer. I always thought the characters of classic DW were good, but you could never really identify with them. This is what RTD's writing has done for DW and god bless it for that! His best eps: Midnight, Utopia and Parting of the Ways! Oh! And Doomsday!

  • apparently, it is jane tranter who had been working on getting it back on telly for years... before davies came onboard.

  • Russell T Davis is crap his new dr who storys are so bad they make sylvester mccoy look like god, and im a john pertwee, tom baker man, the fact that he uses other peoples ideas ie pitch black ,for that easter crap, makes it worse he cant even steal other peoples ideas with out making a mess of it, in short, it sucks, its gay, and having the daleks, on almost every week spoils it, i wish it never came back, i.gonna go and watch Rambo II its like shakespeare compared to mr Russell T Davis crap.

  • Translation: I'm jealous of RTD

  • You're not a real Dr Who fan.

  • If you think that, why bother coming on this video and spreading your negativity?!

  • I remember my dad showing me doctor who for the first time. It was at night and my mom and sister were away. My dad called me downstairs and said "I loved this show as a kid, you should watch it!" I was eleven years old at the time. My dad made me and him a cup of tea, as we watched the doctor stop plastic men in central london. I've been watching Doctor Who ever since!

  • how right dr who is so popular because RTD is such a poor writer, currups youth, etc.

    how stupid you homophobic fool!!

  • mate you are so right,pity most of the noobs on YT dont think the same way.

  • A bad scriptwriter. I wish this bastard would just disappear rather than continue to corrupt a young generation with his pro-homosexual crap.

  • Your joking right?

  • RTD has a brilliant imagination

  • no he hasnt hes an idiot and anyone who thinks differently is also an idiot.

  • Anyone who thinks RTD is an idiot isnt a real DW fan

  • I'll miss RTD, he was the one who brought the Doctor back and for that I will be forever gratefull, now my sons can watch Doctor Who. Me? I remember way back November 1963, I was 4 years old. I came running into the living room. "Have I missed anything?" My dad said no and that it had started late. That was the first episode with William Hartnell.

  • Eventually, most of the dumbass cunts will realize they only hate Russel because it was the "cool" thing to do (someone as succesful in British television is bound to have a jealously backlash) and they'll even likely, as vegasguy21 is worried about...turn on Moffat as easily as they did RTD.

  • Moff's a bit of a satirist...which can be a problem. The Vashda Nerada could easily have used people's screams as voices..instead the infamous "Other Dave" has "Hey, who turned out the lights?"...does that scream Doctor Who to anyone? Or does it scream RED DWARF?

  • RTD is a shit writer

  • Look forward to your upcoming episodes to see if your comment's right.

  • I may not be a writer but RTD really has written some of the cringiest ideas into the show

  • DW has always had its cringe moments, whether it was because of budget limitations etc. I accept your point, but I think RTD can generally be forgiven. He was as passionate about seeing it revived as the fans were and he went out and actually did it. Whether you like him as a writer or not, he's earned his place in DW history as the man (after the shocking TV movie with Paul McGann) who introduced it to a new generation of fans. He's ensured its future and for that...:)

  • I certainly appreciate the great enthusiasm he has had for reviving the show but not the bulk of his stories filled with soap opera style scenarios, embarrassing lines (eg "i'm a chav") and the crap costume and character of the 9th doc

  • Rose was the character that had most of the soap opera element - but Rose and her family life was I believe the first time the show had really shown the Doctor's companion in that much depth - relationships, job, home life, family troubles etc. Soap opera is the most popular form of television, for good or bad, and I think RTD, being a dramatist, wanted to bring that very bland, kitchen sink environment Rose and Donna inhabited to highlight how magical the worlds the Doc was showing them were

  • errrm.........ace in the mccoy era?? (particularly in season 26)- having said that i felt that season 26 did it with far more subtlety than in the RTD era.

  • DW has always had its share of bad dialogue. It's a challenge for an actor to deliver that kind of expositionary, fantastical dialogue truthfully. The chav line was a contemporary (at the time) reference that I think worked - the show needs that kind of thing, light hearted and tongue in cheek, to balance out all the mythology. DW can't take itself as seriously as it did when it first started - different audience, different time.

  • The crap costume - blame the costume designer, not RTD! And let's face it, it's no worse than Colin Baker's, which was kinda cool at the time but now in retrospect looks awful. The doctor's character is, again, different to previous doctors, but it seems ideal, I think, to today. Having a stiff, pretentious, prancing Doctor is wrong for now - DT has just the right amount of charm, quirkiness, mystery and cheekiness, I think.

  • yeah but the 9th docs costume was so boring and nondesript bereft of charcter.

  • Blue suit and Converse... works for me, though I see what you're getting at... though I believe DT is the YOUNGEST actor cast as the Doctor so far, so the current look fits that

  • Nah. I think he's a year or two older than Peter Davison was when he was cast.

  • Davison may have been the youngest doctor but Tennant is certainly the most 'street cred' doctor.

  • RTD is a wanker! we need Steve Moffat!

  • Well that 'wanker' revived Doctor Who

  • thats the only good thing he did. apart from that... not much, except deliver a load of fanwankish episodes, with no explanation, or substance to the characters.

    I dont HATE the guy, I just dont like his approach sometimes.

  • Moff's delivered fanwank too. The Doctor snogging royalty? Future companions? Introducing Captain Jack? Pot-kettle-black.

  • He has done only slightly Fanwank stuff. you can do Fanwank stuff with flair, like for eg. where has the "horror" (Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker elements gone to?

    And the Snogging thing... yeah, not good!

    An Immortal gay guy (Capt. Jack)... Interesting!

    Maybe I need to send some Scripts in. :)

  • @andiee2990 He did no such thing. He took classic sci-fi and dumbed it down for an audience of Hollyoaks loving morons. Gayvis has killed Doctor Who.

  • I sincerely hope Moffat delivers and doesn't let down all the people out there who think he's going to be a better show runner than RTD was. I saw SM at the recent Comic Con in San Diego and I did get the sense his head was swelling with all the adulation...

  • I hope not, otherwise the show may do another Sylvester McCoy/Colin Baker death!

    Colin Baker was a good Doctor, he just was not given a chance to really bring out his stuff. (I have met Colin baker, here in Melbourne, Australia at a small convention) I spoke a bit to him about the crap that happened to him with that.

    I hope Steve Moffat is good as he seems now or else... the show will do another Sylvester McCoy. Sylvester was not a bad Doctor, the scripts were rubbish!

  • I'm the "Glenn from London" (except I'm from Essex) who managed to get them to play that old clip of Russell! And I shall continue to embarrass my idols in whatever way possible! Bwahahahaha! Ahem...

  • The only thing that "isnt" Doctor Who are the muppets who would rather use blatant homophobia and jealously to mask enjoyment of a family show...what age are you cunts? Get a life.

  • @HeyArnoldsspleen Homophobia...the fear of homosexuals. Am I scared of fat middle aged men who like to stick their willies in other men's bottoms? Damn right I am! Why on earth is that a bad thing?!

  • Some people have forgotten what Doctor Who always was and always will be...a fun thinking man's panto, and they make idiots out of themselves insisting it should be something exclusivley for them. You want boring elitist tripe? Read the Doctor Who novels.

  • Whilst I agree that too many club-goers and "wannabe" science-fiction fans overcrowd the fanbase of Doctor Who (The Rose fans get on my nerves), RTD does produce good episodes that make you think and he does earn merit from the portions of the fanbase that arent, by your standards, "sheep" or "Buffy fans" (what the hell is wrong with Buffy anyway? Nothing)

  • I can't look at, phphp, "captain" jack without thinking of, "Shark Attack 3".

  • Good lord. Planet unctuous. They let him do it because he wasn't going to do, "drwho", he did, "Buffy/Stargate/Vicky Pollard in space". He was never a "fan" of drwho. He thinks Tom Baker, et al. were "self important". The only thing he's produced is sickly sentimentality. He'll probably read this and have a monster spit out the line, "you and your sickly sentimentality" to keep the fans convinced they're not lame. Sociologists call it, recuperation.

  • I absolutely agree! The new series is for 10 year-olds. The Daleks in the new series obviously have emotions - "This is not war, this is pest control!" - The Cybermen aren't even Cybermen - they're some strange parallel version - The Master is some crazy lunitic - and the Sontarans look atrocious - they have huge monkey ears. Davros looks awful - like he's been hit by a truck. It is obvious that Davros is based on the Daleks instead of the other way around.

    RTD has destroyed Doctor Who!

  • It's not for 10 year olds. It's for retarded club goers. It's for college kids who like, "Buffy" because it's the kind of sci-fi they can like without keeping it a secret from any of the popular, pretty kids. It looks like former gay porn actors were recruited to make a glitzy sci-fi show. It has, in fact, everything needed to be "a hit", at least for the relatively smaller studios of an island nation. It's as if drwho were real, and the Master created a tv show to assassinate his character.

  • Disagree. The show has ALWAYS BEEN FOR 10 YEAR OLDS! Do some research: the show was created by the BBC Children's Department specifically to appeal to '10 - 13 year old boys'. RTD hasn't destroyed it at all. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't even be talking about it. DW would just be a dusty relic remembered for its dodgy special effects...

  • Perfectly valid, but the best Dr Who stories are always characterised by something that RTD scripts lack- subtley and intellect. These things are inherent in a good script (be it a story or article or film) and if they are not there then we get a situation like Jurassic Park III- cool effects but nowhere near the original because it hasn't the story's craft behind it.

  • It's not, drwho. It's Jerry Springer in space. It's ditzy, spritz haired, pretty males in space. It's the universe according to Paris Hilton. It's the universe according to Vicky Pollard. It's television as usual, selling to the lowest common denominator with shallow, sickly sentimentality. There's a line in the movie, "This is Spinal Tap" - "...a sea of retarded sexuality". RTD's drwho is an obnoxiously loud drunk blond bomb shell that preteen girls want to emulate.

  • His stories arent shit.

  • I agree with all you guys- He did such a brilliant job of re-introducing it. Last episode was SERIOUSLY epic... I'm still kind of reeling from the emotional overload.

  • RTD is a genius, going to miss him

  • RTD is a great showman. God bless you for bring back Dr Who in a more polished form. You've done a great job, mate.

  • See, Robert Holmes said that there were only 13 regenerations, but he also said that there were 8 regenerations of the Doctor that were unknown to the audience... which means that Davison should've been the last Doctor and we've already broken the rule.

    Otherwise, this was a great inverview!

  • Thank you so much for posting this video from today - I was really disappointed to find Russell had been on and I'd missed it! Fantastic to find it here. Amazing clip from PlaySchool too!

  • Wonderful! I forgot that was going to be on this morning, so I didn't set up a tape to record. Thanks ever so much for uploading it here - it's great to see it. And yes, love that Play School clip!

  • RTD's great

  • Gawd, he looks young in that Play School clip...

  • phillip schofield gets more orange every day

  • Many thanks for uploading this, missed it earlier! :o)

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