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My Other Car is a TARDIS - Doctor Who Thread

FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
edited May 2010 in Social Entropy++
This thread is dedicated to the wonderful world of the weary lonely traveler: The Doctor

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For nigh on 4 decades now this show has been running in one form or another and I have JUST really gotten into it.

I watched the old Tom Baker Whos on PBS Saturday night

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But now the absolutely WONDERFUL David Tennant has taken the role of the Doctor, Last of the Time Lords
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The show is just so bleedin' good. I miss having well-written smart science fiction on American TV.

Plus, who wouldn't want a TARDIS?

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I can never seem to catch this show. I've seen all of the Eccleston run, but only a couple episodes of David Tennant. I really ought to just YouTube all of it.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Eccleston was so much better than Tennant

    You all know this to be true

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Centipede Damascus wrote: »
    I can never seem to catch this show. I've seen all of the Eccleston run, but only a couple episodes of David Tennant. I really ought to just YouTube all of it.

    Tennant is so good. Seriously, if you can watch "High School Reunion" right now.

    SARA JANE!

    ANTHONY STEWART HEAD! BEING EVIL!

    It is a really great episode. The second season (Tennant's first) really plays up the Rose-Doctor "relationship"

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Eccleston was so much better than Tennant

    You all know this to be true

    Eccleston was great, but Tennant I like better. Dunno why, just do.

    It is moot though. Baker is God.

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  • QuirkQuirk Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    David Tennant is really awesome. Really awesome and it would be cool to see him in more things if he got the right roles

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  • cherv1cherv1 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    It's more than 3 decades it's been going, I think it started in the early sixties.

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    cherv1 wrote: »
    It's more than 3 decades it's been going, I think it started in the early sixties.

    1963-1989, but did not come back until 2005.

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  • cherv1cherv1 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Ah ok, it depends on if you count the TV movie ;)

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I masturbate to David Tennant .

    This is not a lie.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    flying daleks

    FLYING DALEKS

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I sort of have a thing with Doctor Who, you see...

    PS: RTD really, really, needs to stop fucking writing episodes.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited March 2008
    torchwood - the worst programme to ever feature the world's most annoying person ever?

    all signs point to yes

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited March 2008
    FortyTwo wrote: »
    The show is just so bleedin' good. I miss having well-written smart science fiction on American TV.
    as much as i enjoy doctor who, new BSG completely shits all over new DW in terms of being well-written and smart

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    bongi wrote: »
    as much as i enjoy doctor who, new BSG completely shits all over new DW in terms of being well-written and smart
    A) Fuck you
    B) Fuck you
    C) Ghostlight anyone?

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    well to be fair BSG has a budget of about 2 billion dollars and doctor who has to be made in someones garage

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2008
    JAMES BOND IS A TIME LORD

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  • SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I cannot believe that...that.. woman is going to be the new sidekick.



    Seriously, Fuck Catherine Tate. Fuck her right in her stupid ugly face.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2008
    Callius wrote: »
    bongi wrote: »
    as much as i enjoy doctor who, new BSG completely shits all over new DW in terms of being well-written and smart
    A) Fuck you
    B) Fuck you
    C) Ghostlight anyone?

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Holy crap this mango is delicious!

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited March 2008
    Callius wrote: »
    bongi wrote: »
    as much as i enjoy doctor who, new BSG completely shits all over new DW in terms of being well-written and smart
    A) Fuck you
    B) Fuck you
    C) Ghostlight anyone?
    new doctor who

    like post-2005 doctor who

    i mean i love it to pieces, but BSG is just better, i can't deny it

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I like apples way more than oranges myself

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    bongi wrote: »
    new doctor who

    like post-2005 doctor who

    i mean i love it to pieces, but BSG is just better, i can't deny it
    Look, all I'm saying is Human Nature.

    Okay.

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  • SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Callius wrote: »
    bongi wrote: »
    new doctor who

    like post-2005 doctor who

    i mean i love it to pieces, but BSG is just better, i can't deny it
    Look, all I'm saying is Human Nature.

    Okay.


    I think bongi also dislikes anything that is so..well...British.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited March 2008
    Callius wrote: »
    bongi wrote: »
    new doctor who

    like post-2005 doctor who

    i mean i love it to pieces, but BSG is just better, i can't deny it
    Look, all I'm saying is Human Nature.

    Okay.
    i'm not saying the new stuff hasn't had some absolutely brilliant episodes; human nature/family of blood, girl in the fireplace

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    woah woah woah wait

    BSG is back now?

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    bongi wrote: »
    Callius wrote: »
    bongi wrote: »
    new doctor who

    like post-2005 doctor who

    i mean i love it to pieces, but BSG is just better, i can't deny it
    Look, all I'm saying is Human Nature.

    Okay.
    i'm not saying the new stuff hasn't had some absolutely brilliant episodes; human nature/family of blood, girl in the fireplace

    BSG is fantastic but its on such a different level.

    Dr. Who just has cooler stories. Its reminiscent of the X-Files in a way. You would have episodes that would lend themselves to the giant arch of the entire series, but then there would be stand-alone episodes that were just as good and in some ways much better then the overall arch stories.

    Plus, Who just seems to have a much lighter tone than BSG - for obvious reasons and that is slightly refreshing to me. I am growing tired of things needing to be "gritty" to be considered good.

    When you consider that Who was geared toward children more than BSG it really hits you.

    Also, Calli- RTD can write as many episodes as he wants. He brought the show back and has done a pretty damn good job - BTW, I don't know i you have heard being out on the west coast and all interesting notes:

    I teach in the city now, my kids are fantastic and Baltimore has seen a 50%, yes fifty, reduction in homicide this year so far.

    Did you take all the violence with you?

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited March 2008
    no those are episodes of Doctor Who

    t42: yeah but you also get some pretty fucking terrible television (daleks in manhattan)

    DW is way more of a crap shoot

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    and blink

    it's just russel t davis is a very special kind of writer

    the downer kind

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    hey i wonder if catherine tate will be fawning over the doctor like marfa was

    or maybe she will have a backbone

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    bongi wrote: »
    no those are episodes of Doctor Who

    t42: yeah but you also get some pretty fucking terrible television (daleks in manhattan)

    DW is way more of a crap shoot

    That is what you get with multiple writers and episodic stuff. Each season of BSG is pretty much a movie that is broken up into episodes.

    "Tooth and Claw," "High School Reunion" are my favorite episodes in season 2.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited March 2008
    blink was good but i don't think i'd put it in the super tippity-top tier of the new serieses

    honestly i'd kind of like a doctor who that is less campy, with fewer one-off episodes

    human nature was great because it pretty much ditched all that stupid campy 'action' and just made it into a good old-fashioned character drama with aliens

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  • arithenaarithena Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I absolutely did NOT like martha one bit. She was a terrible fit and I was really glad to see her only last one season.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited March 2008
    i mostly just didn't think martha lived up to any of her potential

    she was just a mopey lovestruck twat

    whereas, ironically, in torchwood she's actually almost competent

    which is funny considering how diabolically fucking awful everything else about torchwood is bar that one episode about welsh cannibals

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    i think with a seires so wide-ranging camp is inevitable

    tink o' te children, etc

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    also torchwood is exactly this

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited March 2008
    not quite, because that's actually entertaining

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  • WallhitterWallhitter Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Blink scared the shit out of me, I confess.

    And yeah, Daleks in Manhattan...

    The accents.

    THE ACCENTS D:

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    i remember when daleks were powerful

    like in 'dalek'

    ah well

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    one job i did at tennessee's bank of america stuck out a lot to me

    this old, large man who constantly used this arc welder met me outside an elevator

    "Sometimes I wish we could just lift all this stuff up with a tardis. It'd come in handy."

    "Yeah" i said

    "Look at you. You don't even know what a tardis is."

    "No, I don't."

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  • arithenaarithena Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I have only seen season 1 torchwood. I did not have very high expectations for it, which is probably why I enjoyed it. I am not a big fan of Captain Jack you see.

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