The New Doctor Who Series. . .
POSTED BY: Static
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 5, 2005 02:11
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I've been a fan for as long as I can remember. . .staying up until midnight so I could watch it on PBS.
My friend Ben had pretty much every episode taped. The Fifth Doctor, Peter Davidson, was my favorite until The Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy. I was also VERY much in love with Ace, Sophie Alred, The Doctor's last companion.
Ben was such a fan, he had a full-size representation of the Master Control Console of the TARDIS that he'd built himself from scratch.
Having said all that. . .I LOVED the first episode of the new series. I downloaded it last night and watched it today. I love The Doctor's new persona, and I'm sorry. . .HOW TASTY IS ROSE????
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Right there with you, Static. I still haven't recovered from the thrill of having the good Doctor back on our screens. I've watched 'Rose' four times already. Eccleston is a brilliant actor. His Doctor is just... wacky. In a really good way. This may sound heretical to some other Who fans, but I think I like the Ninth Doctor even better than the fourth.
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Static, where exactly can we find the download version?
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-- Fox Mulder, The X-Files
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I'm sorry, this just isn't right - the world is not supposed to be lusting after little Billie Piper....OK, I can forgive you guys in the US, but any Brits should be ashamed of themselves.
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That`s not fair, just because she made a BIG mistake marrying that ginger haired wally of a radio DJ - don`t put her out of the way just yet, she`s a very good companion for the Doctor - just think of who you could have had, can anyone remember the other companions icluding Bonnie Langford as Mel & Nicola Bryant as Peri (actually Peri wasn`t all that bad), you get my drift?
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And after much better than expected viewing figures (about 10 million, compared to the 3 or 4 anticipated), the BBC commissioned a second series.
Three hours later, Christopher Eccleston announced that he was relinquishing the role of Doctor Who as he did not want to get typecast.
And no, this is NOT an April Fool.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4395849.stm
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Yep, Another Doc bites the dust.
And if I remember rightly he's only supposed to regenerate 12 time so we're running out of options here.
Oh, and Tegan and Nyssa were my favs if anyone remembers them.
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Originally posted by Zol:
That`s not fair, just because she made a BIG mistake marrying that ginger haired wally of a radio DJ - don`t put her out of the way just yet, she`s a very good companion for the Doctor
I'm not criticising her as an actress, or choice of companion - she was just fine (although I did find the fake East-End accent a teensy bit annoying. It's just that she's little Billy Piper - when you remember her as a 13 year old pop moppet it's hard to get used to her as a sex symbol!
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Originally posted by oldenglanddry:
Yep, Another Doc bites the dust.
And if I remember rightly he's only supposed to regenerate 12 time so we're running out of options here.
Oh, and Tegan and Nyssa were my favs if anyone remembers them.
Nope, my good friend, we're not running out of options at all!
The twelve regenerations thing was just a cool sounding concept they used in a couple of episodes, and aluded to in a bunch of others. But whose to say some plot-line can't revolve around the Doctor on a hunt to extend his life line?
Maybe with the coming war (eep, and that is a cool story arc idea by RTD) he realises that he's going to go through regenerations like me and a packet of jaffa cakes. So worried that his beloved earth, and indeed the rest of universe will be jeapordised in his absence - and being so hungry for life - that he embarks on a quest to extend that life with all the old enemies trying to foil him. But in doing so he sacrifices a lot and makes hard decisions, even foolish ones, and in the climax is brought to wonder whether it is right to do what he is doing.
And then he leaps into a black hole, or drinks an ancient potion from a wooden chalice, or speaks to the oldest man alive in the universe...
...or something cool, and he gets a set of extra regenerations.
It's a TV show. They can come up with any reason for him needing more, and use it to their advantage. It's not a legally binding contract.
Oh, and I still have tons of respect for Eccleston despite him deciding not to go for the second series. It's thanks to his and RTD's weight that the press have treated this comeback with some respect and publicity, and I look forward to his remaining twelve episodes. On some other forums (Outpost Galifrey) there have been disgusting attacks upon him, really hysterical screams of traitor and the like, and foolish maudlin cries of how he's destroyed Dr Who and that it will never survive now. Really creepy stuff that gives fandom a bad name.
He's an actor with the option for taking a second series. He didn't take it, and everyone in the crew was aware that he might not. It was his job, not his calling to play the Doctor. He wants to go and appear in other stuff. Fair enough.
Now let's see how the rather good David Tennant will do.
(Sorry for the pre-emptive rant, I just couldn't believe what was going on out there. Indeed Browncoats are cool, it seems, far cooler than some Who fans at any rate!)
Pete
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I still think Stevan Fry should be the Doctor, or Bill Baily, Or ME!!! I'd be great.
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