I have always been an avid Dr Who fan since i was a youngster and my favourite Dr to date has to be the incarnation of David Tennant. From my earliest memories the Dr was a strong character with lots of great talent for defusing intergalactic problems. But now they have cast Matt Smith as the Dr and i have so far seen 3 episodes with him as the Dr and i have to say i am massively disappointed to the point i might stop watching once and for all. The new Dr is literally Mr Bean with a dickie bowtie. The new production team have literally gone down hill since David Tennant’s day and i have no idea what they are thinking. They have literally made the Dr whom was once a very clever man into a bumbling idiot and have cast his side kick with more intelligence  than he ever will have from the look of it. Just this week they had an episode where the Daleks (also re-designed) were back and i have to say they looked more like Mini-Coopers than Daleks. The whole series so far has been very disappointing and i have tried to keep an open mind but so far has turned into a show just for little kids i think. Whilst they were on the Dalek spaceship it kept looking more like an office just without windows with a few dummy control panels put in place. The whole story line though is just becoming very odd – it seems to be “Yay to the Brits” kind of attitude and the technology they are using seems to be things you’d find from the 1960’s and I’m wondering if the whole series is trying to capture a bygone era but failing unsuccessfully. The new Tardis layout is not too bad i suppose but again it seems to be bringing in aspects from the 1960’s with likes of an old type writer for the main console. I think the writers who wrote the Dr who storylines for David Tennant seem to have got things right from the word go and with these new writers must having a retrograde LSD trip or something. I can understand they want to write things with new ideas, but why so much change from things that everyone is so used to – surely these new ideas are going to bring the whole Dr Who franchise down.