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A Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey, [Doctor Who] Thread
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Now I'm regretting starting down this line of increasingly disturbing thoughts.
I'm sorry.
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(Edit: Also, you forgot to add "I'm so sorry" after saying "I'm sorry".)
I'm so sorry.
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Brilliant!
NNID: Hakkekage
Just re-reading this, I suddenly realised that you basically summarised the past three-and-a-half years of RADW in a single post.
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You seemed to have been using the past tense there.
I think the new series is pretty respectable. Old-school Who was the kind of thing that nerds would move on to when they'd memorized every last line of every last Flying Circus episode and needed to get both Dorkier and Britisher.
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Now that you come to mention it, though, I would like to see a species in Who that has hands instead of feet.
Completely off topic, but I hadn't heard of the superhero sitcom mentioned above the DW article, and it looks fantastic.
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Yes! James Lance and Nicholas Burns from Absolute Power. Plus Patrick Baladi. There's no way I'm not watching this.
That is a man made of... wicker. Or possibly straw. I like all those things about RTD.
I dislike these things and more. Mostly that he CAN write good dialogue but usually doesn't. No idea why not.
Seriously, can we talk about RTD without the lazy-arsed dumbness of accusing everyone who doesn't like him of homophobia?
Coz it's lazy. and dumb. and arsey.
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I've still got to watch the rest of S1 and S2, maybe after seeing them I'll actually like Rose.
I'd say he got one thing wrong - the number.
The article also mentions RTD's thoughts on the possibility of there being a female Doctor:
I can never forgive him for claiming that Amy Winehouse could possible be "brilliant" as the Doctor.
Amy Winehouse is going to be dead long before anyone can get punched in the face whilst holding a camera in both hands and being told that they pinched her butt... Oh wait, I mean before anyone would ever see her as the Doctor.
I know, so was my comment
Seconded. My biggest problem with RTD is that he just seems to be rather lazy with the 'why' of why things are happening in his stories. Its probably just because i'm not the little kid i was when i was watching repeats of Dr Who on the ABC (the Australian one) but when a writer can't think of anything better than
They really aren't putting enough effort into their work . He's shown with Midnight that he can write interesting non-technobabble filled stories that resolve themselves in a plausible manner, so what the hell is going on with the rest of the episodes he wrote?
Midnight was great because of how low-key it was. It seems in order to make RTD's actual talent come through, you need to slice off time and budget and stop letting him play with all the toys in the box.
Although I won't lie, I cried like a baby during Doomsday.
NNID: Hakkekage
How about actually taking the time to peruse rec.arts.doctor.who, Outpost Gallifrey, or a random AICN talkback before starting in on this? Because I'm sorry if it makes you sad, but I haven't pulled this out of thin air.
It was unbelievably stupid.
NNID: Hakkekage
His agenda is so hard.
Seriously, though, I've actually been watching Queer as Folk over the last couple weeks (and I'm digging it!) but the hilarious thing is that even this show, which features special bonus rimming in the very first episode, hardly counts as gay agenda-izing. Nobody's running around sobbing about how tough it is to be gay, and no one's even mentioned AIDS.
NNID: Hakkekage
My 4 year old loves Doctor Who.. she happened to start watching the library episode with me,and has since (along with my wife) started watching the rest of the season, and back episodes.
I needed to explain to her why the doctor of season 1 was not the doctor of s2+, and why there were different women with her..
I have an awesome kid.
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It was clustered and terrible. So much unnecessary shit going on.
Although there were some things I liked about it, namely,
But, yeah, apart from those things, it was really disappointing.
I can't say how happy I am that the show is such a huge success in England. I love that kids are growing up getting exposed to a show about science and imagination, and I can't wait to see what these kids grow up to do in twenty years.
They're not exposed to science, though. I mean not real science. There is no logical reasoning or deduction or scientific fact involved. In fact, it's the reverse if anything. Explanations and solutions are just pulled out of thin air, which amounts to religion more than science.
Very imaginative, though.
It's obviously fake science, but at least it made me want to find out about the real science.
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Of course there are homophobes in the world. I bet the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph go on about his 'homosexual agenda'.
I don't care. I don't read those media and places and people because they're stupid. I read D&D because it's not that stupid.
A few posts above yours someone said, cogently, why they don't like RTD, but you ignored it to talk about dumb people, and intentionally or not, imply that we are all equally dumb.
I think it's better, for a lot of obvious reasons, if we address one another's posts here rather than conflating our opinions with those of others'.
Um, please?
Presumably you mean "aside from traveling to the end of the Sun, the heat death of the universe, and a black hole." The rest of it is just normal science fiction tropes. Who isn't doing anything differently from most of what sits on the SF bookshelf, just throwing it all - alternate dimensions, time travel, clones, psychic aliens - together at the same time.