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Eccleston is very engaging in the title role, bringing a manic curiosity tempered by occasional bouts of gravity (which befit a personality with a long and dramatic a lifespan as the Doctor's) that hew closely to the (arguably) most popular Doctor, Tom Baker. Piper is equally adept as department store clerk Rose--she's afforded more of a back story than most of the Doctor's sidekicks have received in the past, and she more than handles her own alongside Eccleston. Highlights among the 13 episodes include the season opener, "Rose" (which sees the return of an old foe, the Autons, and their controlling force, the Nestene Consciousness); the revamped Daleks in "Dalek" and the two-parter "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways"; a trip to Victorian England to aid Charles Dickens in "The Unquiet Dead," and of course, the arrival of the tenth Doctor at the conclusion of the action-packed "Parting of the Ways." The episodes strike the right blend of quirk, excitement, and imagination, thanks largely to the engaging performances and the guidance of Davies, whose admiration for the show and its history is evident throughout.
Supplemental features--and there are many--including commentary on all 13 episodes by members of the cast and crew, including Piper and Davies; numerous making-of featurettes, including a profile of Davies; a video diary by Piper; an interview with Eccleston, and best of all, a glimpse at the 60-minute Christmas special, "The Christmas Invasion," which picks up where the series concludes. Who fans won't be disappointed. --Paul Gaita
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2005 |
| MANUFACTURER: | BBC Warner |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie, Science Fiction, TV Shows, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | DE2501D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 5 |
| UPC: | 794051250124 |
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Doctor Who fan Thanks to this particular season, I am now a die-hard fan and collector of the show! All of the episodes are endearing, even if THIS doctor is a little passive at best.
better than Baker
I grew up on Baker as Dr Who and thought it could never be better. I saw pre_baker seasons, too. This "reincarnation" of the series is the bomb. It is the best. This is better than it has ever been. My daughter (11) and I watched this with great delight. A couple of duds, but otherwise great TV.
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One of the Best Seasons of "Doctor Who"
"Doctor Who", the oldest, longest-running, science fiction television series is finally back, and it has hardly looked better than this series (season), which has been billed as the "First Series", when it is actually the 27th season dating from 1963 ("Doctor Who" was officially on "hiatus" from 1989 to 2004, with the sole exception of the joint Anglo-American 1996 television film which had Sylvester McCoy briefly reprising his role as the 7th Doctor with Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor and Eric Roberts as a flamboyant, still utterly repugnant, The Master.). Producer Russell T. Davies and his team of producers and writers at BBC (Wales) have wrought a veritable television masterpiece in this 27th season of "Doctor Who", which many already regard as one of the show's very best. In his most capable hands, Davies has successfully "re-booted" "Doctor Who" with better, more elaborate sets and special effects than before (The TARDIS' interior looks more like a Gothic cathedral's than before, owing its look more to the 1996 film than to its earlier run as a BBC television series.), without forsaking the show's unique identity that has earned ample praise and admiration from Whovians ("Doctor Who" fans) across the globe. Davies also has to be commended for ensuring a high literary quality to this season's scripts, and for being responsible for some of the best written scripts in the show's history. However, substantial praise must be extended too to Christopher Eccleston for his vivid, most imaginative, portrayal of The Doctor that almost has no peer - with the possible exception of Tom Baker's - and Billie Piper as his young companion Rose Tyler. Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor may be the series' most emotionally complex; a moody, introspective "loner" prone to unexpected emotional outbursts, who truly finds some solace in his friendship with young Rose. He's also the very last of his kind, the sole surviving Time Lord of some distant future "Time War" whose very existence casts a reoccuring dark shadow across the individual episodes of this season. A season in which The Doctor meets up with Charles Dickens (Simon Callow), visits London during the Blitz in the early dark days of World War II, and is reacquainted with his deadliest adversaries; the Daleks. Long-time fans of "Doctor Who" - and those barely acquainted with this series - will find this DVD set a highly desirable acquisition.