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Title: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on April 14, 2009, 09:05:08 AM
Has anybody checked out this guy's YouTube videos? He does some fantastic Doctor Who music videos and mashups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPhhaXiUTE&feature=sdig&et=1239487446.81
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW0H_rprV-g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeBv7Ma4M4o&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxedF-oAOF0&feature=rec-HM-r2#
He's got tons of these, including video tributes to all the doctors. Very nicely done.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Newt on April 25, 2009, 10:39:43 AM
 :thumbup: Thanks Andy! Much appreciated. I'll be passing this on to my Whovian physics-student offspring.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on April 29, 2009, 03:10:14 PM


This is my favourite DW music vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rhMBEOIxro&feature=related


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on April 30, 2009, 07:25:39 PM
Here's another Master vid which I enjoy...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4gJuwGdBIg


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on April 30, 2009, 08:47:26 PM
I rather like both these Tennant tributes - one funny and one serious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K-_Kpnc7R0&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dErmG0vGpXE&feature=channel


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on April 30, 2009, 09:03:20 PM
Here's another Master vid which I enjoy...
Watching these compilations of the various Masters reminds me how hard it is to pick a favourite. Delgado is dark and menacing, Ainley is mustache-twirlingly villainous, Roberts is campy as hell, and Simm is a smartass. I like Jacobi's pompous and proud version, although we only saw a little of him. And even the heavily deteriorated version was interesting. Made me think about what kind of dangerous stuff the Master was up to when we weren't watching, that he could use his lives up so much more quickly than the doctor. Really, a great character.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Trevor on May 18, 2009, 09:09:40 AM
Ahh, Dr Who, good memories of a teenaged me falling in love with Louise Jameson, a.k.a Leela...

(http://5g8.net/uploader/12426555792454_louisejameson03.jpg)

Then she went and made possibly the scariest TV series I've ever seen, The Omega Factor. Scary it might have been, but I was still in love with her.

Still am.  :teddyr:



Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on May 18, 2009, 10:05:22 AM
I'm just a bit younger than you, Trevor, so I had the hots for Tegan.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8H7tRK4d-0Y/SU1FLv-mrdI/AAAAAAAAB7o/YybZt74UP0o/s1600/Tegan%2BJovanka%2B(Janet%2BFielding).jpg)

Mind you, Peri proved to be almost an equal match.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Peri_Brown.jpg)


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 02, 2009, 07:30:06 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAi4izfvXo4&feature=topvideos


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Frogger on July 16, 2009, 07:54:20 AM
Here's another Master vid which I enjoy...


[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4gJuwGdBIg[/url]


Amazing vid.

I really miss the classic dr who... I have so many of them on VHS.

The new dr who is rubbish, its main issue being the lack of time for plot development. Old series had 4-7 eps a story, allowing for a decent plot to emerge (One which makes some logical sense and is enjoyable). The new series has very little time to do anything other than a few exciting scenes and minor back story.

It kinda bugged me the time war. It seems so out of character. Seriously did the daleks made no sense, did they have every single one in existence busy fighting on the front line???? No bases? No other fleets???

What was wrong with the Dr being an out cast?

Sigh once again they have managed to destroy a classic for profit. 


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 16, 2009, 08:24:03 AM
 :lookingup:

Well, there's a new guy in charge of DW now, so hopefully the stories will be better.

There are still good moments...just a lot of fluffy nonsense for young children too.

Snapping his fingers to open and shut the TARDIS was pretty cool !!


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Frogger on July 16, 2009, 08:39:02 AM
:lookingup:

Well, there's a new guy in charge of DW now, so hopefully the stories will be better.

There are still good moments...just a lot of fluffy nonsense for young children too.

Snapping his fingers to open and shut the TARDIS was pretty cool !!

Hopefully.

It has its moments. Still end up watching each ep and hating it. lol

The master ep was cool up until that retarded power of pray and the death of the master. It was one of the hopefull moments in the series.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 16, 2009, 08:40:34 AM
 :lookingup:

I watched Blink a few nights ago and it was perfect.

It wasn't praying, it was psychic energy conducted through the satellites and into the Doctors body.


It just looked like praying. haha.

Burning the body on the pyre was cool...anyway the Master is coming back soon...



Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Frogger on July 16, 2009, 08:55:35 AM
:lookingup:

I watched Blink a few nights ago and it was perfect.

It wasn't praying, it was psychic energy conducted through the satellites and into the Doctors body.


It just looked like praying. haha.

Burning the body on the pyre was cool...anyway the Master is coming back soon...



Blink was the best.

LOL still sucked as an ending.

Saying that the final part with the body and the ring was good. Yeah should be good (if it has a good writer and enough eps to build a good story).


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 16, 2009, 09:02:13 AM
 :lookingup:

Hey the guy that wrote Blink is taking charge so I'm sure it'll be cool !
I aready love who they've cast as the new companion.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on July 16, 2009, 12:25:44 PM
I'm trying to find out more about the new Doctor, Matt Smith. I can't say I've ever heard of the guy before, and I've certainly never seen any of his work. I'm not quite sure about him, seeing as he's really young, he doesn't have that much of a resume, and he gives off this weird emo vibe in any picture I've seen of him. Doesn't quite fill me with confidence, although he sounds like he can act, judging by what I've read.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Frogger on July 16, 2009, 01:53:10 PM
:lookingup:

Hey the guy that wrote Blink is taking charge so I'm sure it'll be cool !
I aready love who they've cast as the new companion.

Good to hear.

Blink was one of the few good eps so far.

Some where just weird... and other stupid....

Still good news!!!  :bouncegiggle:

I heard the rumor that they will make a "The Thing 2". I hope its wrong, I have not bothered to check it out yet. So will go with it being wrong. (I really hope it is)


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 16, 2009, 02:00:25 PM
(http://eventsdearboyevents.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/gillan.jpg)

She just looks smarter than the others...


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Frogger on July 16, 2009, 03:23:16 PM
([url]http://eventsdearboyevents.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/gillan.jpg[/url])

She just looks smarter than the others...


As long as she does not ask stupid questions and screams all the time, I will be happy.

Still Ace was the best.

(http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:aBErM3KSFFMk4M:http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/2835/672968-ace_super.jpg)


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 16, 2009, 03:50:37 PM
 :lookingup:

I have a soft spot for Ace !


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on July 16, 2009, 06:07:31 PM
:lookingup:

I have a soft spot for Ace !

I always had something hard for Peri. :teddyr:


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 16, 2009, 06:14:58 PM
:lookingup:

I have a soft spot for Ace !

I always had something hard for Peri. :teddyr:

I think...I think...oh..man...I'm gonna hurl...!!


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 20, 2009, 05:47:41 AM
His costume apparently...geography teacher anyone ?


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/3738688070_7392a0c931_o.jpg)

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KTJWhtuRLac/SmRammPK3nI/AAAAAAAAH_c/vdGDu467KGA/s5filming.jpg)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/07_july/20/who.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/07_july/20/who.shtml)

New Doctor Who info !


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Frogger on July 20, 2009, 08:00:37 PM
His costume apparently...geography teacher anyone ?


([url]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/3738688070_7392a0c931_o.jpg[/url])

([url]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KTJWhtuRLac/SmRammPK3nI/AAAAAAAAH_c/vdGDu467KGA/s5filming.jpg[/url])


[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/07_july/20/who.shtml[/url] ([url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/07_july/20/who.shtml[/url])

New Doctor Who info !


Hmmm Wonder if they will keep to the "a time lord can only regen 14 times". Hes getting close.



Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on July 21, 2009, 08:19:42 AM
I thought it was only 13 times. Anyway, there are ways around that. The Master used up all of his regenerations back in the Tom Baker years, and his body's been completely destroyed a couple of times since.

Actually, the new guy looks all right once he's in costume. Wonder how long he'll stick around. I suppose Tennant stayed as long as most of the earlier Doctors, with the exception of Tom Baker, but it still seems like he left too soon. Eccleston had me worried, leaving after one season. It reminded me of the original show's decline in the late 80s, with the more rapid turnover of Doctors. Would be nice to have another Tom Baker, who could stick around for a while. Then again, I suppose the beauty of Doctor Who is that we can get a new lead actor every few years, playing the same character, and all of the previous versions remain part of the story.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Newt on July 22, 2009, 01:09:21 PM
A Time Lord can regenerate twleve times: a total of thirteen incarnations.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 24, 2009, 06:51:46 AM
(http://www.zoopy.com/data/media/13991/original.jpg)


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Jim H on July 28, 2009, 01:30:56 PM
I've been kind of wondering something.  I've never seen an episode of Dr. Who, and attempting to get into a series with a 40+ year long of a history and so many lost episodes is kind of intimidating.  Does anyone have any suggestions?


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on July 28, 2009, 02:08:18 PM
Watch an episode called Blink from the 3rd series (NuWho).

Everyone loves it and The Doctor isn't even in it.

I'd start with the 2005 series. Most of the stories are pretty self contained so there's no need to worry.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on July 28, 2009, 03:00:17 PM
The 2005 series is a good place to start, because it was written with the knowledge that many viewers would not be familiar with the old series. My wife started watching there, thought Eccleston was great and became a fan of the new series. Not a bad place to begin, with the Time Lords basically extinct, and reduced to little more than a legend. There are lots of references to the old show, and it could easily lead into exploring the doctor's past adventures.

Of course, if you want a good grounding in Doctor Who (and prior knowledge does enhance the viewing of the new series), it's tough to say where to begin. I don't think too many people who aren't 50+ and British got to start Doctor Who at the beginning and watch it all the way through. The first Doctor I saw was the third one, Jon Pertwee, and the one I saw most as a kid was Tom Baker, the fourth. And as far as watching regularly and understanding everything, that wasn't until Peter Davison in the early 80s. I didn't see anything of the first two Doctors (except for Troughton and an imitation Hartnell in The Five Doctors) until I was in High School in the late 80s, and one of the channels showed Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and maybe even some of Baker, with the episodes edited together into Sunday afternoon movies.

The show has a good sense of continuity, and stays pretty faithful to its own internal rules, so no matter where you start, you'll know what's going on pretty quickly, especially with a steady turnover of companions who all need to figure it out too. Most of the missing episodes are from the early black and white years with the first two Doctors. The colour episodes start with Jon Pertwee's first, Spearhead from Space, and that wouldn't be a bad place to start. Or start with Tom Baker, the longest-serving and most identifiable Doctor. The Baker years really mark the original show at it's peak.

The problem is that a lot of fairly important stuff gets established by the first two Doctors - the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Time Lords, even UNIT, all have their origins before the 1970s. Besides that, Hartnell and Troughton (especially Troughton) are a lot of fun, and the early episodes have a unique cheesiness and playfulness, with a higher ratio of science fantasy to science fiction.

Don't know if that helps, but really, there are pros and cons to starting Doctor Who just about anywhere. Except the Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy years when the show was still not bad, but rapidly sliding downhill. Don't start there.

From my own point of view, I'd say start with Pertwee, except that he spends most of his episodes banished to Earth and working with a secret military organization. Kind of an oddity when viewed against the whole history of the show. But Pertwee is good, there's plenty of action and laughs, good monsters and Roger Delgado as the Master. And the UNIT soldiers add quite a bit.

But, in terms of readily available episodes that give a good feel for the series as a whole, I'd probably start with Tom Baker. Actually, it might make more sense to start with the final Pertwee serial, Planet of Spiders, since the Doctor's regeneration plays a part in Baker's first episodes. That and Planet of Spiders is really good.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on August 30, 2009, 04:08:59 PM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alun_vega/3865648374/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alun_vega/3865648374/)


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on September 10, 2009, 06:26:59 AM

This is what nightmares are made of !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbkLYugsIs4&feature=rec-HM-r2


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on September 10, 2009, 09:57:32 AM
The Tom Baker elf is hilarious.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on October 08, 2009, 09:56:04 AM
The new logo.


(http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2009/10/new_logo640x395.jpg)


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on October 08, 2009, 10:19:31 AM
I like it. Never cared much for the other new series logo. This one is much clearer and very clever with the TARDIS logo. It looks up to date, but also hearkens back to some of the original series logos.


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: Doggett on October 23, 2009, 02:22:33 PM
New TARDIS interior....


(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s110/Scootyboy/21st%20October%202009%20Matt%20Smith%20Llanwonno%20Church/DSCF0614.jpg)


Title: Re: Doctor Who
Post by: AndyC on October 28, 2009, 08:30:06 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KONf7k62k98&feature=related