New Series of Dr Who

[belboid]

It's hard to catch the subtlety when someone is shouting and pouting at you all the time.

try actually watching, your caricature of her performance is...well, just wrong. Not even a matter of iterpretation or point orf view. You're just completely wrong.

 

[Doppelgänger]

Are you certain Hartnell was his first incarnation? There may have been previous ones not documented by the show.

There is speculation in the Brain of Morbius that some of the images in the "mental battle" between the Doctor and Morbius may have in fact been earlier incarnations of the Doctor. Although it could be easily explained as being earlier versions of Morbius himself.

 

[Santino]

Pond is a bit of a one-note character.

 

[belboid]

Are you certain Hartnell was his first incarnation? There may have been previous ones not documented by the show.

I think it was mentioned somewhere that that is the case. Which does mean that every carnation since is incredibly careless. Going through ten regenerations in fifty years after version 1 lasts for 850 odd isn't exactly the stuff of geniuseseseses

 

[danny la rouge]

Pond is a bit of a one-note character.

Are people watching the same show? She's the best companion so far.

 

[fogbat]

Are you certain Hartnell was his first incarnation? There may have been previous ones not documented by the show.

I think Matt Smith's Doctor explicitly referred to himself as number 11 in the previous episode.

 

[danny la rouge]

I think Matt Smith's Doctor explicitly referred to himself as number 11 in the previous episode.

Ah, OK.

 

[belboid]

Are people watching the same show? She's the best companion so far.

They're either not, or they're just looking at her legs. Which, tbf, haven't shown a massive amount of emotinal range.

 

[kyser_soze]

TBH even if KG was an out-of-tune-one-note-character, she gets my vote as a good Dr Companion.

 

[DotCommunist]

Hartnell was deffo the first doctor. I don't care what fanfic speculations say the official line on this is that Hartnell was the 1st.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think it was mentioned somewhere that that is the case. Which does mean that every carnation since is incredibly careless. Going through ten regenerations in fifty years after version 1 lasts for 850 odd isn't exactly the stuff of geniuseseseses

in renegade Time Lord terms he's doing a sight better than the master. Or the Rani....they should bring her back for lols

 

[belboid]

the master had got through sevberal before we even saw him tho. How many carnations were there before my old school chum got the job?

 

[DotCommunist]

delgado-someone else-that creature thingy-TV movie Master-old bloke who turns into simms-simms

but by 'creature thingy' he had already used up his alloted 12 iirc

 

[belboid]

so at least he wore his out over centuries, whilst t'Doc manages just a few decades. Bloody careless if you ask me

 

[Santino]

That's lazy writing. It would be the easiest thing in the world to work in a mention that Tennant had spent 50 or 100 years taking it easy on Lethargia-4 between series. And who knows how long McCoy lasted?

 

[DotCommunist]

The adventures we see on tv aren't his only adventures. Novels, radioplays and mentions to times and events we never see read or hear. So there.

 

[danny la rouge]

All this talk has got me wanting to see the first episode. I have discovered it's part of a serial called An Unearthly Child, and comes in a DVD box set with 2 other serials, The Daleks and a two parter, The Edge of Destruction.

So, by today's standards, are these any good? Could I sit with my two children, aged 14 and 10, who have only seen Ecclescake, Ten-Inch and Smith, and enjoy them as programmes rather than curiosities?

 

[danny la rouge]

The adventures we see on tv aren't his only adventures.

Rose and Captain Jack do mention events and places we didn't see.

 

[belboid]

The adventures we see on tv aren't his only adventures. Novels, radioplays and mentions to times and events we never see read or hear. So there.

yes, but he also, from time to time, mentions how old he is. And that fits, pretty much, with the timeline as viewed by someone watching on telly.

 

[cesare]

All this talk has got me wanting to see the first episode. I have discovered it's part of a serial called An Unearthly Child, and comes in a DVD box set with 2 other serials, The Daleks and a two parter, The Edge of Destruction.

So, by today's standards, are these any good? Could I sit with my two children, aged 14 and 10, who have only seen Ecclescake, Ten-Inch and Smith, and enjoy them as programmes rather than curiosities?

Have a wee look on-line and see what you think: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist...5x_the-daleks-part-13_shortfilms?from_flash=1

 

[danny la rouge]

Have a wee look on-line and see what you think: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist...5x_the-daleks-part-13_shortfilms?from_flash=1

Cheers. So curiosity only, then. I'd still like to see the first episode, but I won't show the kids, I think it'd ruin the show for them.

 

[cesare]

Cheers. So curiosity only, then. I'd still like to see the first episode, but I won't show the kids, I think it'd ruin the show for them.

It's probably on that site somewhere?

 

[krtek a houby]

Cheers. So curiosity only, then. I'd still like to see the first episode, but I won't show the kids, I think it'd ruin the show for them.

They showed it back in the early 80s, when Tom Baker had left and we were waiting for Peter Davison to take over. Being such an uber fan at the time, I couldn't wait to see it.

But I could not sit through any of them nowadays. I'm still struggling with the Talons of Weng Chiang at the moment. I mean, it scared me as a kid and there's some wonderful characterisations there but it comes across a bit dodgy towards the Chinese in it...

I think the only way I can relive really old Who is probably by novel form.

 

[nicksonic]

I think the only way I can relive really old Who is probably by novel form.

just watch the commentaries, they're usually quite amusing as well as interesting and informative.

 

[Cid]

That's lazy writing. It would be the easiest thing in the world to work in a mention that Tennant had spent 50 or 100 years taking it easy on Lethargia-4 between series. And who knows how long McCoy lasted?

He does take a holiday at one point doesn't he? Turns up at the start of one of the episodes featuring the Ood. Dunno... Feel too nerdy already.

 

[ruffneck23]

talking of nerdy , i was talking to my cousin last night who is a total starwars fanboy saying ive posted on a forum bout dr who and he laughed in my face

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

All this talk has got me wanting to see the first episode. I have discovered it's part of a serial called An Unearthly Child, and comes in a DVD box set with 2 other serials, The Daleks and a two parter, The Edge of Destruction.

So, by today's standards, are these any good? Could I sit with my two children, aged 14 and 10, who have only seen Ecclescake, Ten-Inch and Smith, and enjoy them as programmes rather than curiosities?

I would sadly have to say no.
I love the old who but have trouble watching Hartnels adventures.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

But I could not sit through any of them nowadays. I'm still struggling with the Talons of Weng Chiang at the moment. I mean, it scared me as a kid and there's some wonderful characterisations there but it comes across a bit dodgy towards the Chinese in it...
.

I don't know why that one gets so much praise, it bored me stupid.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I think the only way I can relive really old Who is probably by novel form.

I can only really bare them with the production notes on. I have yet to do any audio commentaries.

 

[nicksonic]

I can only really bare them with the production notes on. I have yet to do any audio commentaries.

you're missing out!