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#1981
22nd May 2013, 08:19 AM
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Thanks guys for the tips, I'll make a checklist of them ;-) It would not be fair for me to name a favourite Doctor, as I have not seen anything (clips excluded!) of 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8... As to the frustration of not putting the old Docs into the anniversary, I cannot really follow the complaint, how should they have done it other than with the help of CGI? I thought that was an excellent nod to all of them alive or dead. There is just no logic in putting in the aged actors, it would be a time paradox that even Moffat may not be able to cope with  PaulD likes this.
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#1982
22nd May 2013, 08:39 AM
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Favourite Doctors? Well, from Classic Who, each has good and bad points: 1) William Hartnell was the original Doctor, and as such many of the now accepted mythos is atributed to him; He was the Doctor when the Daleks and Cybermen were introduced; but because he was an old man in real life, he regularly forgot his lines, and no one was really sure about the character of the Doctor in the early days - more often than not, it was his companions who solved problems 2) Unfortunately most of the Patrick Troughton adventures are lost to the public because during the 60's and 70's the BBC wiped many TV shows (not just Dr Who, but also things like The Beatles on Top Of The Pops). The Troughton era was known as 'The Monsetr Yeras' and they introduced (amonst others) The Ice Warriors and the Yeti. But because Troughton had a history of playing comedy roles, there is a lot of humour in these stories 3) Jon Pertwee brought action to the series because he was an action-man type of actor. It was also the time that the Master was introduced, but because the Doctor was exiled on earth during the first part of this era, many of his stories became 'samey' 4) Tom Baker is most commonly associated with the role. During his first years, the stories were fast and scary - almost gothic in origin. This incarnation also had the most gorgeous companion ever - Lalla Ward (Romana version 2). But by the later series, it has become an accepted notion that he "believed he was the Doctor", and took little (or no) notice of directors and writers, leading to him sending up the show a bit too much. Also, he was the Doctor who used K-9 as a companion, which (more than anything) destroyed the show for me 5) The Peter Davison stories were quite often more intelligent and thought provoking than they had been in previous years, but he was too young to lay the role convincingly 6) Colin Baker wasn't given a fair chance. Some of his stories were very enjoyable, but right from the start he was give an uphill battle 7) Sylvester McCoy tried to bring back some of the mystery and magic to the series, but again but again the stories suffered 8) The guy from the Americanised TV movie version was just wrong. This was not 'Doctor Who' - this was a cross between 'The X-Files' and 'Star Trek' - i.e science fiction for an American audience during the 1990's!!!!
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#1983
22nd May 2013, 08:58 AM
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Nice wrap-up suziginajackson thanks for that! I think since Tom Baker was the best known actor, he was the one chosen for the repeats on that dodgy cable TV station where I first got to see some episodes (as I found out by now, mostly from his first two years...), it was good fun and I cannot remember if the station was taken down, my time table changed, but I lost touch for many years - until a German TV station started the Eccleston episodes, I was hooked immediately, but appaled by the weak dub, so I started collecting the DVDs (and now BDs) and that was a good decision, looking at the weird release policy over here...
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#1984
22nd May 2013, 09:20 AM
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I totally agree. It looked absurd when the Tenth Doctor met the Fifth Doctor in the Children in Need Time Crash special (which I'm assuming is canon due to what happenes before and after it) - the excuse they gave for the fifth Doctor looking old was just laughable. |
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#1985
22nd May 2013, 10:28 AM
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#1986
22nd May 2013, 10:31 AM
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To be honest Hawky, so did I. I thought it was really sweet and heartwarming having Tenant's Doctor so in awe of one of his previous selves (kinda meta too since I understand Tenant grew up watching Davidson's Doctor). Just the whole "oh something's gone wrong with the time stream - that's why you're fat and balding" (or whatever it was) thing was so stupid and undercut the moment for me. God, I really want to get back into watching Doctor Who but I have so much work to do! |
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#1987
22nd May 2013, 10:42 AM
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Finally ordered The Mutants.
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#1988
22nd May 2013, 11:29 AM
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Haha, I managed to watch Time Crash on YouTube, I liked it, I generally love the charity things, Red Nose day and Comic Relief - I wish we had something comparable over here (we do have the Red Nose Day here, but apart from the same reason and the same name, nothing even close to comparable here...). And I have to be grateful to the inventor of lunch break, because I found this: Excellent! (How do we get these Doctors into the canon?  )
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