Doctor Who #10
POSTED BY: embers
UPDATED: Saturday, November 11, 2006 16:46
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Originally posted by VerseExplorer:
I'm looking forward to it. Don't tell me too much.
I'm sure you'll love it.
..though I do wish there were more alien-world episodes, like there used to be. Lots of Earth-eps get boring quickly.
"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
"SUMMER!!"
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Well we got the Christmas Special and the 'New Earth' episode so far and I'm with those who've said Tenant has yet to impact me much less leave a fingerprint on my interest. Don't get me wrong, while I am a big fan of Eccleston's Doctor I am by no means hoping to see Tenant fail. The goodwill generated by the first season's excellent quality is a not merely a tip of the cap for the creative team which did so smashingly well bringing back this venerable series. Like many people I want to enjoy the Doctor's adventures and have them continue indefinately into the future.
Nonetheless I was surprised by how much the Christmas Special and the first second season episode DIDN'T grab me...especially as both were written by Russel T. Davies. They were oddly sparse of the sense of menace which seemed to pace almost every moment of season one. However I hope what I've seen thus far is a fluke and season two and Tenant can match or even exceed what we've come to expect from Davies. But I can't help thinking now perhaps maybe it wasn't the creative genius of Davies I've been appreciating all along. Perhaps the loss of the great psychological gravitas Eccleston provided will uncover the inevitable "Willy Wonka Soul" of Doctor Who which even Russel Davies by himself cannot continue to hope to hide.
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New Earth is a bit of a dud by New Who standards but the show picks up quickly from there. Tooth & Claw is a favourite of mine. Damn, I'm now keen to do a big re-watch of both seasons. I'll wait for my new TV I think but there's a lot of good stuff there, though a few episodes are love them/hate them Marmite stuff.
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OK, I am going to frlirt with plot spoilers, tho I will do my damndest not to give any away, but consider yourself warned right here and now........I am about to try and get you hopped up for Tennant's new Doctor, but stop right here if you are afraid you are going to learn too much!
Okeydoke, here we go:
Get ready for murderous Cybermen, Daleks being Daleks, a very pissed off werewolf, mad bastard ninja monks, robots harvesting body parts,nasty bat-things led by a Buffy vet, and the very devil himself. There's more, too, but this is just a hint of what is to come.
Eccleston introduced so much darkness to the character, you don't want to let him go. I felt the same way. When he freaked out on the Dalek, and even took up arms to fight with (unheard of with the Doctor), you knew this was something special. Don't write off Tennant just yet. The Doctor didn't go getting too cheery on you.......this is still kind of a F'ed up soul traveling alone.
WE'RE GONNA CRASH? I DON'T WANNA CRASH!
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I liked New Earth, but I liked everything George Romero ever did, and I could see more than a little Romero in the diseased people.
WE'RE GONNA CRASH? I DON'T WANNA CRASH!
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Jim, can you edit your post and use spoiler tags please. People can still see these when they scan down, particularly as you're giving away some big surprises there.
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Originally posted by Nicodemus:
No need to be embarrassed about asking.
As part of his physiology, the Doctor (and others of his species), can regenerate their entire bodies if it gets too damaged. So in the past, when he's suffered radiation sickness, fallen off a massive radio telescope, simply gotten too old (750 years old I think he was at the first time), he undergoes cellular regeneration.
This allows the studio to change actors without ruining the show. As for why this years is different to last years, Christopher Eccleston (Dr #9) didn't want to be typecast as the Doctor, so he departed, making way for David Tennant (current Dr)
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Wow! What a cool concept and excellent explanation! Thanks!
p.s. - Where does one sign up for one of those cell regeneration gigs ? Sounds fun!
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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And for extra nerdiness trivia; each time he regenerates, he comes back younger. Merlin, I'm thinkin'...
It's a well known fact.
Non-spoiler. Steven Moffat (Empty Child / Dances) writes again in this series. And it's just as good.
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Quote:Yeah, this is one of the things that impresses me about it: you can see how much of the show resulted from just not having money (the TARDIS being stuck as a Police Box? Only bit of set-dressing they could steal. Regenerations? Actor wanted to leave, but the producers still wanted a show. Everyone speaking British? Couldn't afford to travel. Doctor looking human? No makeup. . .). Yet the writers took this half-assed no-budget production and used it to add detail to the story (TARDIS' busted chameleon circuit, being built into a tesseract [bigger inside than outside], regenerations, TARDIS translation systems, morphological fields. . . ). It's awe-inspiring from a writing standpoint (imagine, doing science fiction without an actual FX budget! It sounds ridiculous --but it worked).
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Wow! What a cool concept and excellent explanation!
Quote:Gallifrey. Unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore. The Doctor can never go home.
p.s. - Where does one sign up for one of those cell regeneration gigs ? Sounds fun!
And what I've seen of regenerations (just the one, really), it looks pretty painful. Like, "having your insides rearranged" painful.
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