On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:16:47 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

Family got me a set of Dr. WHO DVDs in the hopes I'd watch TV. It
works. Kinda addicting although silly. Each episode is just long
enough to not lose my interest, and no damn commercials.

Which series - the first of the "new" Davies written/directed with
Ecclestone or the second set with Tennant which was a combination of
Davies and Moffet writing and directing?

Series One with Chris Ecclestone (Dr. Who) and Bille Piper (Rose
Tyler) is a good place to start - most of those are great episodes.

It really gets rolling in Series Two with David Tennant (Dr. Who) and
Piper. Series Three really gets starts off with a really good couple
of episodes, a few so-so episodes and ends with a bang - Martha Jones
(Freema Agyeman) as his Companion starts off slow, but she gets the
idea about four episodes in and becomes one of the better companions.

The best though is Series Four with Catherine Tate as Companion Donna
Noble - there isn't a lousy episode in the bunch.

I really like what they did with the Cybermen and Daleks - they made
them understandable for non-Who viewers and filled in a lot of the
back story of Dr. Who. The one thing I didn't like was including The
Master - that requires a lot of backstory detail and according to the
new Who fan reviews, they didn't quite understand the role that The
Master played in Dr. Who's universe as last of the Time Lords.