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Post by Zone Fighter on Jul 20, 2007 12:50:05 GMT -8
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Aug 28, 2007 18:14:27 GMT -8
i am watching the Three Doctors and really enjoying it. it would be nice if one of the original Doctors would show up on the new series.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Sept 3, 2007 19:08:30 GMT -8
After the fourth season of the new series aires in 2008 the series will go on hiatus during 2009. There will be thee Doctor Who specials but the weekly series will not be back until 2010. David Tennant, the current Doctor, will be in the three specials but has not been confirmed for 2010. See news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6976178.stm
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Apr 14, 2009 16:05:19 GMT -8
i've been watching a lot of the first three Doctors- the episodes from Netflix, anyway, and i gotta say i find the original one a bit dry. i just watched "The Aztecs" and it seemed to take forever to get through. i liked it enough, but i don't think i'll have to watch every episode of his, unless the DVDs have the text commentary. i like those!
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Post by Shonokin on Apr 17, 2009 7:41:46 GMT -8
The Daleks quickly became famous for a reason. The Hartnell episodes without them are all pretty slow going. The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a highlight of Hartnell's tenure. Troughton is my favorite Doctor, old or new. It's interesting to see how the writing in last season and in the new specials seem to be very reminiscent of the Troughton era. Very centered on the isolated group of humans under siege by a mysterious force scenario.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Apr 18, 2009 6:58:17 GMT -8
I lost interest in the new series, stopped watching it. I wish the BBC would release Blakes 7 on DVD in the US, was released in the UK long ago.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Nov 3, 2009 9:13:38 GMT -8
just watched "Robot" the first Baker episode, and I love the text commentary that is on many of these new discs. the doc on it as well talks to many of cast and crew, and it's pretty cool to here Tom Baker talk about what was going on before he got the job.
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Post by Shonokin on Nov 3, 2009 14:27:03 GMT -8
ROBOT is burned into my mind as the first Doctor Who I saw. It was very different from the scifi I was used to and seemed awfully strange, but I liked it right away.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Nov 3, 2009 18:16:53 GMT -8
My first was The Ark in Space. I had actually read an article about Doctor Who and thought it sounded dumb so I didn't tune in for Robot. Then one night I was bored and found it by accident, I discovered I liked it.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Sept 2, 2010 8:04:11 GMT -8
Thanks to You Tube, I've seen clips from "The End of Time", the 10th Doctor going around making farewell visits to his companions while trying not to regenerate and then the regeneration scene which was absurdly dramatic. What's with the fire coming out of the Doctor's body setting the TARDIS ablaze? And that "I don't want to go..." line was just dumb, he wasn't going anywhere, his body was just replacing every cell so he wouldn't die.
Oh and they fell back on the old, marry the girls off bit, not once but twice. The only companion he actually talked to was Rose and that was in a time before they originally met so she didn't know him. That alien bar scene with Captain Jack was clearly stolen from Star Wars.
I also saw a clip with the new Doctor actor, he said the TARDIS is a different shade of blue on the outside and they show more rooms. Makes sense, the classic series showed many rooms. In Tom Baker's time it was easy to get lost in the TARDIS. I didn't think I'd miss John Nathan Turner but it sounds like we need him back to reimpose the "no hankie pankie in the TARDIS" rule.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Feb 23, 2011 10:34:45 GMT -8
I read recently that what was shown of the Doctor visiting (more like spying on really) his companions was just the last few, that in fact he went to visit all of them, I guess including his granddaughter, Susan. And BTW according to the writer a mysterious woman who appears in The End of Time was in fact the Doctor's mother.
Anyhow, I'm going to give the new Doctor a try. He's actually the youngest actor to play the part. Supposedly he plays him as an old man (over 900 years old) in a young body. I have his first episodes on DVD from Netflix.
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Post by Shonokin on Feb 23, 2011 12:38:14 GMT -8
I like Matt Smith quite a lot. He reminds me a lot of Patrick Troughton, who is my favorite Doctor.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Feb 23, 2011 13:01:33 GMT -8
I just watched the first two episodes with Matt Smith. Not only can the Doctor regenerate but so can the TARDIS, although it can't apparently fix the Chameleon Circuit or maybe it just likes the police call box exterior.
Little bit of trivia, Caitlin Blackwood who played young Amelia Pond is actually Karen Gillan's cousin.
I wonder if Steven Moffat has read the Discworld books, about a flat planet carried on the backs of giant elephants which in turn are standing on a massive turtle which is carrying them all through space.
I kind of like this Doctor.
The Doctor dodged the question about him being a parent.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Mar 10, 2011 16:52:29 GMT -8
What's with the water named women, Amy Pond and River Song? And just who is River Song? Amy thinks shes the Doctor's future wife. Maybe. A few of other theories I just read are: the Rani (I thought of that myself), the Master regenerated (which is just silly why would regenerated body swap genders?) and even more stranger, his mother. If she's not the Rani I hope they bring the Rani back. No reason that Gallifreyan chemist banished for an experiment eating the president's cat would take part in the Time War. She wanted less to do with Time Lords than the Doctor did.
At some point in his history the Doctor must have had a Time Lady he was more than friends with to have had the child that grew up to produce the grand daughter Susan. BTW Susan not being on Gallifrey should have survived the Time War. Ditto Romana who wasn't even in the same universe.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Apr 15, 2011 21:00:49 GMT -8
I've seen a few of actors and actresses from original series on bonus material of various DVDs and interestingly only two of them still look like their characters, older of course but they're still recognizable, Carole Ann Ford who played the Doctor's granddaughter Susan in 1963 and Elizabeth Sladen who played Sarah Jane Smith in 1974 (and still does in her own series now).
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Post by Zone Fighter on Sept 11, 2011 15:49:06 GMT -8
Stupid Amazon. For some reason they don't have the latest episode. They usually get it right away on Saturday, day its aired in UK.
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Post by Zone Fighter on May 19, 2013 17:51:54 GMT -8
In the finale for season 7 of the new series the Doctor's companin Clara was inserted into scenes with the 7 Doctors from the original series. I didn't see number 8 but somebody at Amazon claims he was there but if you blink you miss him. I saw number 9, first of the new series Doctors, near the end. Didn't see number 10, so maybe I should run last few minutes again.
Nice twist at the end, a person the Doctor says of "I said he was me, I didn't say he was the Doctor". Which is nice and confusing. I think he's the one who destroyed Gallifrey at the end of the Time War. I also think he's the Valeyard from Trial of a Time Lord. He did what the Doctor could not have, destroyed his own people, The ending credits says "INTRODUCING JOHN HURT AS THE DOCTOR" and "TO BE CONTINUED NOVEMBER 23RD". There's going to be a Doctor Who movie, 3D in theaters, 2D when shown on TV.
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