Thread: Any Dr Who fans around??

Originally Posted by Nickelking

What's the one that's more kid oriented that came out recently? I read an article on it and can't remember it.

I believe that would be the Sara-Jane Adventures.

I haven't thought about Dr Who for years. I used to watch it as a kid and picked it up again in the mid 80's. Unfortunately they don't show it on regular TV now.

Bob

Originally Posted by Presently42

My ex History teacher introduced me to the world of Doctor Who at the beginning of the first new season (Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston).

The first season was prety damn good, though I have yet to see the first episode and the first of the two-parters in which Captain Jack makes his debut.

The second was a brilliant season. And that's that.

The third had some rather good episodes, but I was never as crazy for Martha Jones (Freema Agyema) as the crew (as interviewed in Doctor Who Confidential) seemed to be. A good companion, but too — I hesitatie to pick the right word — child-like.

The fourth is probably my favourite so far. Donna Gold (Catherine Tate) is brilliant!

But why was Billie Piper talking like that in Episode Twelve? She also looked very different; most notably in that episodes Confidential.

As to teh earlier Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Smith Adventures, I fully plan on watching all of them. But not to-day.

Cool teacher! It's Donna Noble not Gold. And rumour is Billie Piper has had dental work done..........................

Originally Posted by Silver

Cool teacher! It's Donna Noble not Gold. And rumour is Billie Piper has had dental work done..........................

Donna Noble. I knew that. I was just... testing you! (And really, after the Library episode when she says her name ten times, how could I — not test you? )

Yes, Osky, the name with which I dubbed her, was and remains one of the best teachers I ever had. Top notch.

Dental work, you say? Hmmm. That would explain. But I wonder why she couldn't have waited for the side-effects to subside before filming. Or, gee, have it done after! O well. Can't have every thing. At least we have her on the screen, yes?

........Who?

Originally Posted by Galopede

Not so much lucky as getting on a bit!

My son nearly killed Tom Baker when he was a lad. Tom was doing a Doctor Who book signing at a department store in Cardiff, in the full gear with that scarf. My son who was about nine at the time wanted his autograph. Tom sets off down some stairs with my son giving chase.

My son stopped him in his tracks when he stood on the end of his scarf on the steps and Tom went flying!

My son got his autograph...

Gareth

Well that was lucky, for your son anyway! There are stories in the Beeb (BBC) archives that despite Tom taking several trips or getting stuck on scenery due to the scarf who wouldn't part with it.

T-Minus 58 hours to the series finale and counting.......................

OH my... that was a good one. And very promising with the return of the cybermen in the Xmas special... I don't want to gloat around, but yesterday evening in a brainstorming session with my wife about this series final we guessed the tricks.






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My wife guessed the trick with the hand... she thought that the hand have to play a vital role in saving the whole thing, and I foresaw that the hand was going to grow in a Dr "clone"... but we didn't guess the human part though, neither the Donna part...

That really was awesome!!!



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It was blindingly obvious that he would regenerate into himself. We really liked how they took that with the hand, Donna & the clone. But as always he travels on alone

The best way to describe that is a mini movie.

I have found throughout these four series of Doctor Who that Russel T. Davies writes forty-five minute films. Sometimes, the effect is one of too much going on; every thing feels rushed. I cite the love between Kylie Minogue's character and the dwarf during last year's Christmas Special; I simply didn't feel that there was any love between those two characters. After all, they had only just met.

But then he writes some thing like that series finalé. So much to cover, yet so well acted and directed and indeed written that the emotions of the characters can really seep through the small screen in to one's mind, where they belong — that is, every thing is utterly believable.






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Because of this utter believability, each character's fate is natural. Jack goes off back to Torchwood, Mickey starts afresh (well done! I never really saw Rose and Mickey as a couple; they were too different. They both deserve better matches. Still, poor Mickey! Lost his grand-mother too! Like the Doctor, I fear he will never quite fit in; he has seen too much, yet has never quite been an integrated part. Dear Mickey the Idiot), Martha has her un-named fiancé (good for her. She obviously loved the Doctor and to find a man that can sufficiently fill the gap that he must leave is a good catch indeed. Yet I never found that she made for a fully believable doctor; she's too happy-go-lucky, too young at heart. Like a child, but not at all in a bad way. I liked her much more in this series than in series three. She has grown some.), Sara-Jane has her son (I need to watch her adventures, if for completion alone), Jacqui will go on being a loving wife and mother (and now to a son? Than was unexpected and rather unnecessary) and of course Rose FINALLY gets the Doctor, if a slightly different one. Huzzah! But Donna. The heart-breaking story of Donna Noble. Doomed to never know what an amazing time she had with the Doctor, doomed never to reach her full potential; to linger on in darkness and in doubt until, living behind a self-imposed cage of mediocrity, all chance of valour has gone beyond recall or desire. And her mother and grandad, forced in to exile; the mother must be happy, but poor grandad, whom wanted so much for his grand-daughter to live out the life he would have if he could have, never able to talk about it. As an amateur astronomer myself, I can sympathise most with him; the chance that one of my relations could live out Donna's life, but then never know what happened — that would be such a heavy burden.

So there. Here's to the Doctor Who of series one through four. With the producer and lead writer replaced, the show will not be the same. Let's see what Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger and Phil Colinson's replacement can conjure in the four specials and then series five.

I'm not sure if it was a product of when I started watching, but Tom Baker is (and always be) my personal preference, followed by Peter Davidson. I also had the hots for some reason for Ramana (or however her name was spelled). Something about K9 squawking "Coming, Misterss!" was a little hot in an odd, Freudian way.....

I remember well playing with the antenna (yea, those things did actually work) to pick up the PBS channel that carried the good Doc.

Man, what I would do for a sonic screwdriver to help with pins!


v/r

Allen