The Fornicator
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Clearly we have a problem with women (doctor) drivers already.
The door just needs to be shut like, nobody falls out at any other time.
Christmas present. My daughter joked she wanted a mug with capaldi and a sonic screwdriver with daleks in the background and her popping out of the TARDIS. She was almost moved to tears to see it realised.
Shit story, one that really fucked up with people all sort of living forever? Ruined that girl living on as a water lady. What happened there??Can’t believe people liked that episode. Nothing happened.
Lethbridge-Stewart. The Brigadier (pertwee era first, later met several of them) as he was ranked in the 70s headed up UNIT (nato for anti alien stuff and combating general wierdness). A well liked and long serving Who character. This captain will have been an ancestor
Although he isn't a Brigadier until the Invasion. (Also Troughton).pedant alert. He first appears in the Patrick Troughton era story "The Web of Fear" - battling robot yeti on the london underground.
I can see that. As a nerd who'd rewatched the Tenth Planet in preparation, I loved the episode particularly because it was a two hander with the First Doctor.For me as a casual Who watcher that can't remember anything from the original series, this Christmas special had way too much assumed knowledge. It was full of nods and winks to things that left me feeling like I wasn't in the right clique. That doesn't matter so much if it is peripheral, but on this occasion the nods and winks were central -- they basically were the storyline. I was left with a rather tedious story I had no investment in and the strong inference it all rather wasn't for me.
I'm genuinely glad they and you enjoyed it!I can see that. As a nerd who'd rewatched the Tenth Planet in preparation, I loved the episode particularly because it was actwo gander with the First Doctor.
However my two daughters hate all Old Who. They think it's boring and not really anything to do with New Who. And my Elder Daughter loved the Christmas episode so much she said it has got her back into Who (she drifted away during the Matt Smith era). And my Younger Daughter wanted to rewatch New Who with me from the start on Netflix as a direct result.
So I don't think you have to be a Classic Who nerd to have enjoyed the episode.
That's absolutely fine, Moss.I'm genuinely glad they and you enjoyed it!
But it wasn't for me, Jen.
I liked the fact that it was the first regeneration and the first "extra" generation (sort of) (as well as first gender reassignment [that we know of]) coming together. There had been nods towards the First Doctor during the season (photo of Susan on his desk and so on), so it had a nice roundness to it.I liked that on some ways it really concentrated on this idea of rebirth, regeneration as a new beginning. Of course they always are but this one was played more for that. The wheel turns and the old pattern is new once more. Pleasing cycles.
My daughter loves the references to past episodes and likes to find out about the history. That's part of it for her, so she is happy to watch old who. Even I struggle to watch some of it, only nostalgia keeps me afloat. Mind you, same can probably be said for new who. I'm surprised shes taken to it so feverishly. I bet one day we both find out that we are both only watching it for each other.I can see that. As a nerd who'd rewatched the Tenth Planet in preparation, I loved the episode particularly because it was a two hander with the First Doctor.
However my two daughters hate all Old Who. They think it's boring and not really anything to do with New Who. And my Elder Daughter loved the Christmas episode so much she said it has got her back into Who (she drifted away during the Matt Smith era). And my Younger Daughter wanted to rewatch New Who with me from the start on Netflix as a direct result.
So I don't think you have to be a Classic Who nerd to have enjoyed the episode.
Iirc the speech was him talking about setting her free from the burden he'd become for a shot at happiness.I liked the fact that it was the first regeneration and the first "extra" generation (sort of) (as well as first gender reassignment [that we know of]) coming together. There had been nods towards the First Doctor during the season (photo of Susan on his desk and so on), so it had a nice roundness to it.
I've seen criticism that the First Doctor wasn't as casually sexist in the series as in this episode, but his attitudes were certainly patriarchal. He forcibly abandons Susan with a man she has only just met and without consulting her, giving her a speech about growing up and becoming a wife etc. That's a biggie in my view!
But it wasn't his call!Iirc the speech was him talking about setting her free from the burden he'd become for a shot at happiness.
Of course it was. The equivalent of saving her arse wiping hand by fucking off to Switzerland while she's out for milk.But it wasn't his call!
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