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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: PinkStainlessTail on September 26, 2003, 03:58:48 pm
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Not a radio show, not a crap American movie, but a genuine return of the TV series.News here (http://www0.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/drwho/2003/09/26/7012.shtml), straight from Auntie, so it's probably legit.
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But wait, aren't they fresh out of doctors? I mean the man only get so many regenerations! Meh, just bring back Tom Baker to make 97.642% of the people happy.
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But wait, aren't they fresh out of doctors? I mean the man only get so many regenerations! Meh, just bring back Tom Baker to make 97.642% of the people happy.
There's seven regenerations left, six if one counts the movie.
If I remember correctly, Tom Baker is, um, "in need of a quiet life" these days. One with lots of breaks for tea and lithium. Or is he all better now?
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I'm definitely adding the word "geekgasm" to my lexicon.
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But wait, aren't they fresh out of doctors? I mean the man only get so many regenerations! Meh, just bring back Tom Baker to make 97.642% of the people happy.
There's seven regenerations left, six if one counts the movie.
If I remember correctly, Tom Baker is, um, "in need of a quiet life" these days. One with lots of breaks for tea and lithium. Or is he all better now?
See now I thought they only got like 7 total and the movie had # 7 in it.
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See now I thought they only got like 7 total and the movie had # 7 in it.
We're both wrong: 12 total according to this (http://www.textfiles.com/sf/drwho_fa). So six left, five if they count the movie.
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For all this Dr Who talk...
http://www.canadian-studies.net/slink/bb-doctor.mp3
The Belgian Jazz version of the theme by Bill Bailey.
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So, I've been watching the series. Seasons 1 - 3 are available on Netflix Instant, and season 4 is available on DVD. I'm on Episode 12 of season 3. Anyone else watching?
Favorite episode so far: Blink (season 3 episode 10, by Stephen Moffat of course, that man is a frikking genius).
Please tag spoilers appropriately.
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So, I've been watching the series. Seasons 1 - 3 are available on Netflix Instant, and season 4 is available on DVD. I'm on Episode 12 of season 3. Anyone else watching?
Favorite episode so far: Blink (season 3 episode 10, by Stephen Moffat of course, that man is a frikking genius).
Please tag spoilers appropriately.
I've seen every single episode.
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So...what's your favorite?
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So...what's your favorite?
Out of the new ones, The Girl in the Fireplace, with Blink a very close second.
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I am trying to get my friend hooked on Doctor Who, and The Girl in the Fireplace and Blink are the 2 episodes I've chosen as her introduction to the series. I liked TGitF very much, and she's a Euro-His geek so I thought she'd particularly dig it.
Have you seen all the old ones, too, VW? I have a few of the old Douglas Adams eps in my queue but haven't gotten round to them yet.
I tried to watch a First Doctor/first season, and couldn't get through it. I have a hard time with black and white in general, though.
Anybody else? Somebody out there MUST have an opinion about the eleventh doctor, coming in 2010. Personally, I very much prefer the David Tennant's 10th doctor over Christopher Eccleston's 9th, and I'm very sad to see him go. This Matt Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Doctor) guy is much to TV-pretty, IMHO.
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Yup, I've seen all the old ones, too. (Except for the 108 episodes that the BBC trashed in the 60s and 70s, and then couldn't find any remaining copies of when the home video market took off, but for all of those I've seen fan-made reconstructions made by combining the soundtrack that fans had taped off-air in the 60s with still photos taken for the BBC archives.)
The black-and-white era is my favourite of the entire series.
I am trying to get my friend hooked on Doctor Who, and The Girl in the Fireplace and Blink are the 2 episodes I've chosen as her introduction to the series. I liked TGitF very much, and she's a Euro-His geek so I thought she'd particularly dig it.
Have you seen all the old ones, too, VW? I have a few of the old Douglas Adams eps in my queue but haven't gotten round to them yet.
I tried to watch a First Doctor/first season, and couldn't get through it. I have a hard time with black and white in general, though.
Anybody else? Somebody out there MUST have an opinion about the eleventh doctor, coming in 2010. Personally, I very much prefer the David Tennant's 10th doctor over Christopher Eccleston's 9th, and I'm very sad to see him go. This Matt Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Doctor) guy is much to TV-pretty, IMHO.
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we are watching BLINK
RIGHT fuck*ng NOW
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Yup, I've seen all the old ones, too. (Except for the 108 episodes that the BBC trashed in the 60s and 70s, and then couldn't find any remaining copies of when the home video market took off, but for all of those I've seen fan-made reconstructions made by combining the soundtrack that fans had taped off-air in the 60s with still photos taken for the BBC archives.)
The black-and-white era is my favourite of the entire series.
I haven't seen any of the Hartnell doctor, but I have to say Victoria, your Doctor is my favorite of the old doctors. New doctors... tough call. I like 9 and 10 each for their own reasons. If I HAD to choose, I'd go 10, but only because he has a larger corpus, so I've gotten to know him more. If 9 went a few more seasons, that'd be a tough call.
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OMG, "The Last of the Time Lords."
*** SPOILER ALERT ***
Really, Russell T. Davies? Seriously? I've seen the same plot device in the Care Bears II. I'm kind of disappointed, although the final scene between The Doctor and The Master was kind of heart-wrenching.
Eh. On to season 4.
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I can't watch "Midnight". It makes me have Emotions.
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Christopher Ecclestone was definitely better in my opinion, though I did like both.
Christmas Day Doctor Who is the best thing ever.
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Christopher Ecclestone was definitely better in my opinion, though I did like both.
Christmas Day Doctor Who is the best thing ever.
I guess a lot of people really liked Eccleston? I dunno, he looks like the youth pastor at my church, of whose intelligence I have a low opinion. So that kind of ruined it for me.
Tennant is just yummy. Tho I've been watching Baker episodes and I do understand why he's so popular, too. Not as pleasant to look at as Tennant, but he definitely has that je ne sais quois that makes you believe he's seen it all.
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Tho I've been watching Baker episodes and I do understand why he's so popular, too.
I watched these years ago on PBS and it is all the Doctor Who I feel I need. The idea that he is played by different actors is a cool one, but I don't feel like I need to actually see it done.
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Bollocks. Fell asleep watching the Christmas special.
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Bollocks. Fell asleep watching the Christmas special.
the dogs bollocks?
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Sandra Bollocks?
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the dogs bollocks?
Evidently not, to make me fall asleep it must have been particularly somniferous. :(
On the other hand, I had consumed ridiculous amounts of food and wine so the jury's still out.
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I'm torrenting the christmas ep right now. I might kind of miss Tennant but it means that Stephen Moffat is taking over as chief writer and that's awesome since he wrote just about every great episode of the last 5 seasons. I liked Ecclestons manic/melancholy thing better than I like Tennant but he probably bailed at the right time.
I'm also basically the only person in the world who likes the 7th doctor best, even if half the eps were some sort of wonderful fever dream.
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Just watched it.
Huh.
Um, without using spoiler tags. The master plan of the bad guy is kind of silly in a really Russel T Davies kind of way, but the final scene reveal has me pretty psyched even though I'd basically heard something like this was happening.
Timothy Dalton!
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Just watched it.
Huh.
Um, without using spoiler tags. The master plan of the bad guy is kind of silly in a really Russel T Davies kind of way, but the final scene reveal has me pretty psyched even though I'd basically heard something like this was happening.
Timothy Dalton!
Yeah, Davies really knows how to make the people watching forget that most of what they've just seen is actually kind of crap by throwing in a massive geekgasm for the cliffhanger.
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Yeah, Davies really knows how to make the people watching forget that most of what they've just seen is actually kind of crap by throwing in a massive geekgasm for the cliffhanger.
Sounds about right. I woke up for the last 5 minutes and will probably watch the 2nd half on New Years now.
Stephen Moffat is definitely needed for the show now I think.
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Speaking of Moffat, anyone seen Jekyll? I just got my BFF hooked.
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Speaking of Moffat, anyone seen Jekyll? I just got my BFF hooked.
I loved Jekyll.
(http://www.holycow.com/pics/jekyll_killedanyone.gif)
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Jekyll is awesome, I picked up the dvds earlier this year. Some of the middle eps are a bit slow but the good bits are so good. I can't decide whether it should have been longer so that he could flesh out some of the plot lines they kind of glossed over or shorter so they were just left alone altogether.
Is best scene. Is so good. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wahKlUZyk-M&feature=related)
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My vote for the next Doctor Who. (http://zoomar.tumblr.com/post/313226767/regeneration-gone-wrong-if-only-the-bbc-would)
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This is my favorite scene in Jekyll:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDRXXflkLEE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDRXXflkLEE)
Season 4 of DW and Season 1 of Torchwood just hit Netflix Instant, just when I was about to start ordering DVDs. Lucky me!
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Just saw the finale for Doctor Who, ending dragged on a bit long but all the same, Manly Tears.
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Just watched the first ep of the new series. Me likey.
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Yup, that was excellent.
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Good stuff.
I would give Karen Gillan the best half minute of her life.
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Just finished Torchwood: Children of Earth after a short Who Hiatus. I enjoyed it, but of course with much sadness. Also, I can't turn off the Welsh in my head now, which would be less frustrating if I could make it come out my mouth without sounding like an ass.
Also, in the scene where Ianto is telling his sister that he's not into men generally, but Jack specifically, I thought, "Well, of course! Nobody can resist Captain Jack Harkness." And then it hit me -- he's like Nabu! Everyone's gay for Nabu!
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My wedding was on the same day as the wedding in the most recent Doctor Who series finale.
Did I mention I got married? That happened.
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Well, I guess congratulations are in order!
The question is: How long did you wait before you watched the episode in question?
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Married is most definitely a thing. Congrat!! I can only hope that I can find someone to die with
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My wedding is on the anniversary of the first Dr. Who show. I like that better than the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination.
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I totally left a question unanswered! That was a mean thing to do.
We watched the episode the following day. It was that or after the honeymoon, and that would have been awful.
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Zombie thread!
Also, congratulations.
Of course, this thread has one of my favorite posts in it.
Lastly, on the subject of anniversaries, and what they're connected to, I'm sorry to say I don't know of any Dr. Who connections for myself and my sweetie, but smoking was banned in all indoor spaces in England on my anniversary. Also, Sony introduced the Walkman and O Canada became Canada's official anthem, and the first Gay Pride march was held in England.