Doctor Who Club of Australia

Greg

Each year in the new series, we see elements from the classic series turning up. Some are obvious and iconic, others are like odd footnotes.

Which opponent from the classic series have you most enjoyed when they returned in the new series?

(PS - please don't mention any enemy that is known or rumoured to return in series 4. Some people are avoiding spoilers!)

Sulp Niar · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

Man, I'm surprised that everyone's gone for the Master so far (3 out of 3).

Ah well. Me too!

Daleks? A tad overdone. Cybermen? Brilliant... except for something called 'Doomsday'. The Master? Three episodes of splendour. The New Series so far has tended to have the big returning enemies have excellent, ground-breaking, defining-the-nature-of-the-threat stories ('Dalek', 'Rise of the Cybermen' two-parter) and then get reintroduced later and lose a bit of their appeal.

I blame 'Doomsday', personally.

'Course, it'd be unfair of me to say the New Series is alone in this. 'The Moonbase' using Cybermen? It's almost irrelevant. Daleks in 'The Chase'? Christ!

Anyway; the New Series has introduced the Master in excellent fashion, three episodes that did an excellent job of characterising him and his origins. But Russell also redefined him, too; he made him more than just "the Doctor's charming enemy", as so many stories did. It was, in a lot of ways, a rerun of the redesigned Master in the TV Movie, only a superior and more amusingly insane one (as opposed to unintentionally amusingly insane one).

And though I love Derek Jacobi's turn as the Master, John Simm deserves every inch of praise thrown at him.

As Russell would say: "Hooray!"

SharazJek · Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 889 Location: Hobart, Tasmania

Definately Cybermen for me!

Sulp Niar · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:28 am Post subject:

Love your new avatar.

(It seems to me that he's looking at the camera as if to say, "What a bunch of loonies those people behind me are." The idea of that is really making me laugh. Best avatar ever)

SharazJek · Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 889 Location: Hobart, Tasmania

I like yours too. No I don't want to be your wife!!!

Sulp Niar · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:25 am Post subject:

You think Papa Lazarou weds fishmen? You are a freak of nature, sir. GARRGGGHGHGHG.

Hmm, I think I've had this same avatar for the last two years...

Davros · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 132 Location: Skaro

Exterminate, it's gotta be the Daleks!! ....although they have been overused by R.T.D in the last 3 seasons (getting his money worth), second to them it's the Master but I preferred the previous one (can't think of his name) who play along side of Jon, Tom & (maybe Peter as well) Slyvester. He was in the last show, Survival.

SharazJek · Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 889 Location: Hobart, Tasmania

That would be the late Anthony Ainley

Davros · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 132 Location: Skaro

Skippy · Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 11

Now don't get me wrong, I loved John Simms performance and I hope he reprises the role (although RTD has stated he won't be bringing the Master back and he only wrote that scene with the hand incase a futre executive producer does) but I still belive the best Mastrr has to be the original, Roger Delgado.

My vote went to the Daleks. But I agree that they are being over used. Every season. Even at the height of Dalek Mania they still got a break.

However I think that the Master's return was the best "classic villian return" story.