Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
Pity me, for my obsolete laptop won't run operating systems that torrent software will work on.
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
?
Perhaps we only followed their adventures at the end of their long long lifespans?
signed, She Who Knows Little About Who
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.
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.
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.
News story: [link] (Spoilers for new Who Finale)
The television phenomenon of 2005 is heading for the big screen for the first time in 40 years. The BBC confirmed that it is considering a film adaptation after the triumphant climax of the Doctor Who series last night.
Knowing Russell T Davies praise of Buffy had me musing on last night's Dr. Who episode.
The big battle bears a resemblance to Buffy Season
four,
ep "
Primeval.
" hee.
The big question, I guess, is if the Christmas special will have
Jack, The Doctor and Rose sharing an attack by the First TARDIS in their dreams?
And being Dr. Who, There will undoubtably be some
Cheese, man.
Perhaps we only followed their adventures at the end of their long long lifespans?
Nope. with the exception of the first Doctor back in the early 60's, we've seen their complete life spans. They have all died "untimely" deaths. One could infer from the resulting regenerations, that it varies slightly, but the overall trend for Doctors is toward younger.
Nevertheless, the Doctor is generally youthful in spirit, unless something goes "wrong."
with the exception of the first Doctor back in the early 60's, we've seen their complete life spans. They have all died "untimely" deaths.
Doesn't that mean we
haven't
seen their complete life spans? You mean untimely as in "not of natural causes, including age", right? The idea that just because a body looks near the end to us, that it might be Gallifreyan spring chicken is still a possibility, no?
Over the course of the show, the Doctor's stated age has been steadily going up by centuries and centuries. One can infer that there are large gaps in the Doctor's life that we have never seen.
