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[Animal]

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no more raging!

[Geneaux486]

[twistedpuppet]

[dinorobo]

[Flyleaf(IntoTheMist)Wolfi]

Yeah, you guys are all pissing because you don't get a MH entry every 2 weeks. Deal. It could be worse. You could be a Sherlockian. We have to wait over a year to get our 3 episode fix(the third episode ending on a MASSIVE cliffhanger), and then back into silence. For over a year. (But omg Sherlock its so worth it to wait <3)

[Jordan]

Twisted puppet wrote

[Serum]

I just don't understand Doctor Who... it's like a live-action British "Dragon Ball Z."

[Geneaux486]

[Jordan]

Not quite getting the Dragon Ball Z and Doctor Who comparsion, except that you seem to either 'get' both shows or you don't (but liking both isn't mutually exclusive). Dragon Ball Z, for the most part, is an action series, and while there are some intresting plot elements thrown into the mix or likable characters, not even my friend the diehard, that it's mostly there to serve the action.

Doctor Who, on the otherhand, has a much tighter narrative and the action serves the plot. Doctor Who is very story-driven and to be honest, I found it a lot more satisfying.

I don't quite 'get' DBZ. While I do get the appeal of the characters and there are some intresting story ideas, the series is waaaaaaay too bogged down in the action for me. Ten minutes in story time means ten twenty-minute episodes of people hitting each other? A friend of mine told me tha "You just have to go with it". I'm not immune to a cool action scene, but it was kind of overkill for me. It reminded me of another anime series I tried to watch, (one of the movies of it, anyway) Bleach, which had some intresting ideas, but the action scenes just went on FOREVER and I just wanted the plot to advance. Not saying that all anime (I'm aware that there are plenty of series out there that AREN'T like that). But Troy Wagner is a huge fan of DBZ (so the season one commentary tells me ), so it can't be all bad, can it?



Doctor Who does tend to split people right down the middle though. It has a very eccentric vibe to it which you either love or hate. I love the twenty-first century series, although I do wish that they resolved some of their finales a bit better (this has been less of a problem since Stephen Moffatt came onboard, though)

Heh, but I completly get not getting something. I can't connect to Dark Harvest for instance, it just doesn't click for me or the first two Nolan Batman films (I loved Dark Knight Rises, though). There's nothing wrong with them per se, I just can't connect to them on an emotional level, but I can admire them on a technical level.

[Cougar Draven]

[Jordan]

[Cougar Draven]

[pravado]

[Magyk]

I find that I'd like to get into Doctor Who, and that if I did it's probably something I'd like - but the sheer scale of the series scares away a lot of people because they don't know where to jump in.

[Geneaux486]