yeah well like I said I liked to watch Tom Baker 25 years ago. Im guessing you are saying he didnt age well.
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Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
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Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
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mucifer - Jun 18, 2005 7:30:19 pm PDT #1582 of 10001
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Vonnie K - Jun 18, 2005 7:33:24 pm PDT #1583 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Doctor Who finale, with HARD CORE spoilers:
I knew Christopher Eccleston was leaving but still... wahhhh! The whole "Rose looking into the heart of Tardis and imbued with power of all time and space OMG!" could be viewed as an asspull, but hey, I went with it. It had a lovely fairy-tale feel to it, Rose saving the world then the Doctor saving Rose, with life-force tranferring kiss and all. I really liked the whole feel and the mood of this series--a perfect mixture of camp and whimsy, which often felt more like magic realism than sci-fi. It charmed me thoroughly. (I gotta say, poor Jack, left all alone in that space station, with everything and everyone around him annihilated like that. Anyone know whether the the actor who played Jack is coming back for series 2?)
quester - Jun 18, 2005 7:33:45 pm PDT #1584 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
yeah well like I said I liked to watch Tom Baker 25 years ago. Im guessing you are saying he didnt age well.
not so much, no. though he still has some of his peculiar charm still.
DCJensen - Jun 18, 2005 8:10:46 pm PDT #1585 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Watching.
Fiona - Jun 18, 2005 11:04:32 pm PDT #1586 of 10001
90 new posts in this thread I assume are about Doctor Who and you are mostly talking about sharks. What a strange start to a morning.
I haven't had this much fun watching science fiction since Buffy, and that's saying something. But then, young blonde women with CGI shooting out of their eyes do tend to have that association.
More spoilers: Lovely dialogue. "I think you need a Doctor". Hah! And the Captain's kisses: I think our subtext just became text.
When the actor who plays Jack said in the Confidential that the thing about Jack when you first meet him is that he has no soul, and being with the Doctor goes on to give him a soul, I almost cracked a rib.
Vonnie, I agree: Jack's look of sadness when he realises he's been left behind was heartbreaking. I don't know if he'll be back, but I more or less assume so because they left it so open. The next time they need a soldier, maybe.
Do you think it was just Jack who was revived, or did all the humans come back to life (the way that we must assume all - or most of - the Daleks got it, though we only saw the ones on Floor 500 and the Emperor's ship actually turn to dust)?
I loved the way the build-up on so many things paid off in the finale. They really have been paying attention.
The new Doctor? 100 times hotter.
Sorry, but David Tennant is MINE. I have already lost count of the number of times I've watched the Regeneration scene. Sigh.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2005 1:36:34 am PDT #1587 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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I've only seen still pictures of Tenant so far, but it is wrong for the Doctor to look that young and hot. WRONG, I tells ya!
Also, while it makes a certain sense that a new regeneration would be as a young adult to maximize lifespan, it does bring up the question of why the Doctor chose to transform into elderly men at least half the time. Wouldn't the Troughton, Pertwee, and McCoy Doctors have represented the loss of hundreds of years of potential lifespan? Or does appearance have no bearing on the relative ages of Time Lords ?
Theodosia - Jun 19, 2005 1:53:10 am PDT #1588 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Perhaps we only followed their adventures at the end of their long long lifespans?
signed, She Who Knows Little About Who
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2005 5:41:29 am PDT #1589 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, that was beautiful! I know I can grow to love Tennant, but I just didn't have Eccleston long enough. He pinged me in the pingable places. ADORE. ADORE.
Nah, I got nothing coherent to say.
ADORE.
Fiona - Jun 19, 2005 6:09:00 am PDT #1590 of 10001
Re Matt's whitefont:
I see your point about young and hot, but then the Doctors have been getting younger all the time. (Mind you, they'd have had trouble finding anything older than William Hartnell). And I guess it's a reflection of the age, away from the paternalistic Sixties to the hip Noughties, or something.
This Regeneration sort of suggested that the Doctor might actually turn into anything, but we got another White Anglo-Saxon Male. Which, as he's David Tennant, is fine by me - except that he still seemed to be playing Casanova.
I'm right there with you, ita.
Tom Scola - Jun 19, 2005 7:13:32 am PDT #1591 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I am just so glad that they didn't resurrect Davros yet again.
Between this and Batman I am in a state of geekphoria right now.