Dr Who

[Green1]

Well, you DO know the Valeyard is coming. After this next guy takes over... and regenerates.

I love that DW is all about continuity.

The truth about the Valeyard - Doctor Who - The Trial of a Timelord - BBC

(One of the few series from Rainbow puke coat Doctor and Shrill voice companion that is actually pretty cool)

Yeah, Adric was the Wesley Crusher of Doctor Who.

Both Ramonas were good. But the second was cuter.

[Buster's Uncle]

[nods]

  Much beer was consumed, and there was strip poker.

Did one thing lead to another and end up in some kinky SMAC/X talk? 

This was in 1982/83...



I neither consumed nor played.  I am a prude.  But that's a true story - I wish Barbara had lost instead of Bruce...

[Unorthodox]

Which doctor in the revival?  Soccer thug, anorexic guy, or the young chin?  It makes a difference, maybe.

I'm not sure it flies here - personal opinion.  We're pretty wall to wall lefties.

Didn't realize there'd been more than one. 

Google says it was the 10th doctor. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Anorexic guy.  Rather a soap-operaish actor, but with charm.

[Green1]

Messed up thing is we have to wait till November. I think the 50th Anniversary episode is going to be really good.

[Zoid]

Interesting. 

"lezzie"?  Dude.

Zoid loves gay rainbow doctor, so that ought to be good for a post.

Well, I don't LOVE him... I just don't hate him like everyone else seems to do...

[Buster's Uncle]

I'd swear you said he was your second favorite.  Are you going to force to  browse at the Pond again?

[Zoid]

He might have been, I say a lot of stuff sometimes...

[Buster's Uncle]

Different regeneration?

[Zoid]

If you ask me now I would say Ecclestone...

[Buster's Uncle]

Is your second favorite? 

I better go to bed; my brain is melting.

[Zoid]

[Mylochka]

I've been a Dr. Who since the Tom Baker days. 

One thing I really appreciate about the series is the way that the makers of "Nu Who" did not throw out the baby with the bath water when re-starting the series. There did not seem to be any of the poisonous "All that was previously done in this series was dog crap. Screw the fans! Let our cgi genius scorch away all memory of the past!" that seems to pervade most recent "ret-cons."  "Nu Who" preserves and honors the best of the past, in my opinion, while still forging forward with their own vision of the series... which is really what we want from a new version of an old favorite, isn't it?

[Valka]

I just noticed this thread...

BUncle, back in the '80s somebody told me I resemble Lalla Ward; in fact, he called me "Romana" that year (we were in college). This was the guy who got me into Doctor Who. We met in front of the snake cage in one of the main hallways (2 boa constrictors named Albert and Walter served as both pets of the biology department and a conversation piece for passersby), started to talk, and discovered that I was into Star Trek and he was into Doctor Who. The Tom Baker stories were running on PBS at the time, so I agreed to give the series a try.

Trust me, "Pirate Planet" is not a good first-time exposure to the Fourth Doctor! I nearly turned it off, but a promise is a promise... and "Stones of Blood" turned out to be terrific (and is still one of my favorite Who stories of all time!). So I got hooked.

I lost interest around the time celery crochet man and boy wonder took over.

You mean cricket, and not crochet I trust...? As for the "boy wonder" - which one? The Fifth Doctor had two male companions (Adric and Turlough). Both were very smart, socially inept, and very annoying. Both found some sort of redemption in the end (Adric by trying to save Earth from the Cybermen and Turlough by helping to save his kinfolk and straightening out his troubles with his home planet).

My knowledge of Dr.Who is next to none as well. I know barely anything about it. All I know is there was something about a time traveling phone booth, but that's it, and I have a feeling that is horribly inaccurate even.

No, you're completely accurate. The TARDIS is shaped like a phone booth, and it travels in time. However, you can't actually use it to make a phone call.

Do I detect disdain for Christopher Eccleston? One of the SEXIEST Doctors? (none of them are sexier than Tom Baker, of course!)

Sheesh, you should read some of the fanfic - yikes!

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm pretty sure he shouldn't.   Eccleston does rock the universe pretty hard, mind, but I saw him humping in one of the Elizabeth movies and wish I hadn't.  He was also butt-nekkid that time he played John Lennon...

"Stones of Blood" -that is hilarious, because it makes Mylochka vomit blood.

He was definitely taking about Adric, and I didn't make up that party.