who is awesome

Whippy

doctor who is awesome

and I just spent an insane amount buying the second series dvd box set



even though the stories this year were a sight sillier than last's(sniffing and licking the wall to figure out a werewolf's weakness and then killing it with a giant prism gun, or a woman's patriotism overriding the cybermen brainwashing), it is still a totally awesome show and even though everyone says it's terrible I really want want torchwood in some legal, region-1 format

I really, really, really, really, really like david tennant as the new doctor

seriously

like even better than the last one

he is just so darned pretty

and looks like scarlet

Newtron

whats dr.who got that bill & ted don't got?

arithena

I am awesome, thank you very much!

mrpaku

not being a sci-fi dude would i enjoy this having only ever watched it once and just thought it was ok

Whippy

competence

Phonehand

who do i look like

dush

who'll love aladdin sane?

we'll love aladdin sane

Whippy

mrpaku wrote:

not being a sci-fi dude would i enjoy this having only ever watched it once and just thought it was ok

yes

yes you would

because it is like one of those rare shows that can be a different genre every episode(angel is another good example)

because of the time and space traveling aspect

you can have an episode dealing with, like, political corruption in modern-times(if you can suspend disbelief to accept it's caused by aliens), and in the next it can be set in world war two dealing with orphans and some shit, I don't know

Newtron

Phonehand wrote:

who do i look like

a chair.


also, I have yet to see more than one episode of new dr.who.

I hear good things though

Whippy

Phonehand wrote:

who do i look like

a sexy beast

just lurkin

That shit has always been wacky.


I'm buying season two Sunday.

Jolly-olly

I'd be cool to if i could send the devil into a black hole and save everyone at the same time...

mrpaku

whippy i will give the series an honest go because your hair is sexy and i respect that about a man

SpongeCake

Torchwood is still shit though.

Phonehand

A chair, fancy that.

trentsteel

Hey, does anyone remember the Hollywood-produced Dr. Who movie? It was in theaters and he had a motorcycle? That's the only Dr. Who I've ever seen.

rockmonkey

I WANT to like this. I've TRIED to like it, I've lied to myself but in the end I just can't enjoy this show. The budget is so low that I can't stand it when they introduce some alien or monster. The stories seem flat to me but maybe I'm just not giving it a fair shot.


I loved Firefly, Stargate (both series), sliders (until the original cast started dying), BSG, shit I've even enjoyed the current season of smallville mainly on the basis of green arrow (I'd go gay for that rich boy), but I CAN'T seem to understand whats so grand about Dr. Who and why there are constantly people worshiping it.

Solid_Snake-a

SpongeCake wrote:

Torchwood is still shit though.

but not as bad as Robin Hood

Whippy

trentsteel wrote:

Hey, does anyone remember the Hollywood-produced Dr. Who movie? It was in theaters and he had a motorcycle? That's the only Dr. Who I've ever seen.

i swear to god if you turn this thread into that again i will ban you for like a week i am not even kidding

Jordyn

I think we watched some of this once.

It was all right.

But we don't get Sci-Fi at the moment, and I'm bad at keeping track of when shows are on.

Whippy

I think the first thing I will be saving up for after I move is gonna be to get some tivo up in this bitch

trentsteel

I understand there is a lot of interdimensional-stuff in this show. I like that sort of stuff and it doesn't get done enough. Is that stuff in it or is it just time-travel?

MAINER 3.0

I've never seen this show, and whippy hates me a whole lot

fuck

SpongeCake

trentsteel wrote:

I understand there is a lot of interdimensional-stuff in this show. I like that sort of stuff and it doesn't get done enough. Is that stuff in it or is it just time-travel?

It's mostly just "silly plotline" followed by "deus ex machina in the form of some time-travel mumbo jumbo".

trentsteel

SpongeCake wrote:

trentsteel wrote:

I understand there is a lot of interdimensional-stuff in this show. I like that sort of stuff and it doesn't get done enough. Is that stuff in it or is it just time-travel?

It's mostly just "silly plotline" followed by "deus ex machina in the form of some time-travel mumbo jumbo".

eww really?

randombattle

SpongeCake wrote:

trentsteel wrote:

I understand there is a lot of interdimensional-stuff in this show. I like that sort of stuff and it doesn't get done enough. Is that stuff in it or is it just time-travel?

It's mostly just "silly plotline" followed by "deus ex machina in the form of some time-travel mumbo jumbo".

I think the doctor himself is the very definition of deus ex machina


Oh darn the episode is almost over! Go magical doctor powers (plan, technology, witty retort)!

just lurkin

Man up and watch an hour. Not like you're doing anything more important with your time.

mrpaku

i just think a show wouldn't be around almost forty years if it sucked so maybe i should look into it

and the british tend to be decent writers most of the time

Captain Cthulhu

Dr. Who is good, but I prefer Quantum Leap.

SpongeCake

mrpaku wrote:

i just think a show wouldn't be around almost forty years if it sucked so maybe i should look into it

and the british tend to be decent writers most of the time

I'm sure Whippy's going to ban the shit out of me for this, but Russel T Davies is an awful writer.

Jordyn

WhipstitchZombie wrote:

I think the first thing I will be saving up for after I move is gonna be to get some tivo up in this bitch

if we ever get the big TV we want, you can come over and watch things on it.

Whippy

I have a pretty fancy tv

MAINER 3.0

whippy why can't we be friends

trentsteel

SpongeCake wrote:

mrpaku wrote:

i just think a show wouldn't be around almost forty years if it sucked so maybe i should look into it

and the british tend to be decent writers most of the time

I'm sure Whippy's going to ban the shit out of me for this, but Russel T Davies is an awful writer.

Oh that Queer as Folk show? I've never seen it but apparently it's a really decent show if you can get past the rampant gayness of it.

Whippy

the writing in this can be pretty terrible but overall it is decent sf

and some of it is really, really good

usual episodes range from a 2.9 to 4.2 out of 5 but there are a couple that is really five-star, a-class product

trentsteel

This is totally not selling me on it. It's like saying "you should go to this restaurant. Sometimes they serve you terrible food but sometimes you will get something delicious."

It sounds like gambling.

Maybe you should just tell me which episodes in particular I should download and watch and then I will check those out. Or will I know what is going on if I jump in this late?

SpongeCake

trentsteel wrote:

SpongeCake wrote:

mrpaku wrote:

i just think a show wouldn't be around almost forty years if it sucked so maybe i should look into it

and the british tend to be decent writers most of the time

I'm sure Whippy's going to ban the shit out of me for this, but Russel T Davies is an awful writer.

Oh that Queer as Folk show? I've never seen it but apparently it's a really decent show if you can get past the rampant gayness of it.

Haaaha, oh man, I had no idea he wrote that too. The stupidest thing about Dr. Who and Torchwood is that 80% of his characters are totally gay.
Thinking about it now I don't think there was a single member of the main cast of Torchwood who didn't have at least a little implied homosexuality, most of them with full on homo action.
It all makes sense now.

Whippy

you have to take the good with the bad

honestly you should just start with the first episode of the relaunched and revamped series and keep going from there

seriously it is only like two twelve or thirteen episode seasons

not a lot of time wasted

trentsteel

WhipstitchZombie wrote:

you have to take the good with the bad

honestly you should just start with the first episode of the relaunched and revamped series and keep going from there

seriously it is only like two twelve or thirteen episode seasons

not a lot of time wasted

No no. See, i didn't have any interest in BSG until someone told me to watch "33" and I said 'okay'. Since then I have become hooked and I backed up to the beginning and started from there and now I'm up to Season 3.

You should give me one good, stand alone example of an episode to whet my appetite.

SpongeCake

The Impossible Planet and the Satan Pit (in that order) were quite good if you can ignore the horribly abused laws of physics.

Whippy

give me a minute to look through the episode list and jog my memory