Doctor Who
POSTED BY: Quicksand
UPDATED: Monday, January 29, 2007 17:20
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When was it on? Was it played in the US?
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Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
So who saw the Christmas episode? I enjoyed it. It was a heck of a lot better than I thought it would be! Lots of silliness, but still really good.
Then again, I'm one of those nutcases who really likes David Tennant.
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Do we mean in Britain, or the 2005 X-mas one which aired on Sci-fi channel again this year at 3pm Eastern?
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As DTH is in Ireland, she means the 2006 Christmas ep. If you're on this side of the pond, you haven't.
Nice to see new DW fen. I naver had a problem with the show's "Britishness" as I kinda grew up watching The Avengers and Monty Python to name a few shows. Actually it's one of the tings I like most about the show, even when it was things I had to ask someone else to explain the cultural reference. The old series wasn't as rift with them as the new one is, but I'm fine with it either way.
The changing of the Doctors was not originally intended. William Hartnell, who was of advanced age when the show started, called it quits after three years as he could no longer keep up with the rigors of filming a weekly series. The "regeneration" was kind of a last hope for the Beeb to keep the series going or else it would have died then.
For the new fen, here's a run down of Doctors:
William Hartnell*#
Pactrick Troughton*
Jon Pertwee*
Tom Baker
Peter Davidson
Colin Baker
Sylvester McCoy
Paul McGann
Christopher Eccleston
David Tennant
* These actors are sadly no longer with us.
# In the 1983 episode the Five Doctors, actor Richard Hurndall played the first Doctor as Mr. Hartnell had passed away in 1975. Sadly, Mr. Hurndall has also since passed away.)
I was goinna say more, but my brain's since fuzzed out. :(
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About the 2006 X-mas... do we know if Sci-fi America's picking this up?
*Hides under the couch just in case anyone spoiler-if-ies it for us American fan peoples.*
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US Sci-Fi channel just announced last week that they will be airing season three this coming summer. Since "Christmas Invasion" was included in the season two package, it is reasonable to assume "Runaway Bride" will be included with season three.
"Jayne is a girl's name" - River
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*rejoycing at the news*
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I went searching for a Dr. Who thread. I was a fan of the old Dr. Who series. Since I don't have cable I didn't watch it when it returned. I've been renting via Netflex and just finished Season 1 with Eccleston who I really like. Sounds as if he won't be around too long. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the series. It sounds as it will be good. I found Eccleston's interview at the end of Season 1 quite interesting regarding the show, sets, etc.
Guess I'll be taking a bit of a break from Firefly but still plan to watch Serenity again while waiting for my next disc.
Siri
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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
These are rather superficial, but nonetheless important reason why I and many other Americans never really got involved in the whole Doctor Who thing. So I was really interested in seeing these new series. Even though many Brits view it as being a continuation of the older series, it was treated as a completely new beginning, I imagine, to bring in many potential Doctor Who fans who simply don’t have the time to sit and watch 26 years of reruns.
Gonna be kinda hard to have a really good marathon of Doctor Who, since a) the serialized nature of the program 'till the 2005 reboot makes for showing specific episodes mighty difficult; and b) the BBC had a bit of spring cleaning of his archive vaults in the 1970s that meant a good chunk of the episodes for the first two Doctors are gone
BEB
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Dr Who went through a really bad patch before it got taken off air and the resurrection has exceeded our family's expectations - by a country mile.
I thought Billie Piper would be a disaster as Rose (perhaps you have to know a bit about her background as a mediocre pop star). I eat humble pie - she turned out to be excellent and a really important part of it all. Perhaps she held it together through the 2 Doctors. She is turning out to be a fine young actress and has appeared in other excellent TV productions since.
Torchwood was a spin-off because Dr Who was to a large extent made in Cardiff and it was a sort of reward for the city and the production team. At least you get to hear a few Welsh accents in Torchwood although the occasionally sloppy production had no qualms about having a Cardiff local with an English accent. Anyway, I thought Torchwood was quite promising to start with then it lost its way with some of the characters suffering wild personality swings from week to week. I mostly lost interest after that.
I thought the Christmas Special Dr Who was just silly and I lost interest. But then I have never really 'got' Catherine Tate ...
Damn it, Firefly is just so good it is hard to settle to some of this other stuff.
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