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.
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can't find anything on the arificiality of the "13", just this from wiki
It was established in The Deadly Assassin (1976) that a Time Lord can regenerate twelve times before permanently dying, for a total of thirteen incarnations. In the 1996 television movie the Eighth Doctor explicitly said that a Time Lord has "thirteen lives"
From what I've gathered, RTD seems to be at least trying somewhat to stick to the (granted, self-contradictory) canon.
But really, I don't even want to think about the end of DW, or the idea of Ten being replaced. It's depressing thinking about burning through the actors/regenerations and the show ending, but it's equally depressing thinking about another decade or longer with a show I'll be obsessed with :/
OTOH? If the writing keeps up, I can't imagine a Who geek like Tennant giving up the job for a loooong time.
*wails*
I'm loving Tennant, but I just finished watching Casanova, and his mullet is now firmly entrenched in my brain. Could they have made the "greatest lover" look any more like a rat?
I think not :P
I was watching some cooking show with DT and his dad and there young David is, correcting one of the old gents on who the first Doctor actually was, hah! You gotta love an actor who's a bigger geek than you are.
Give in to the obsession, JB.
I do hope Tennant sticks around. I'm really loving the show right now, and I'd like it to keep going.
heh.
and now I'm imagining watching DW at age fifty, with Daniel Radcliffe as the Doctor...
but yes, I'm loving the show, and hope the writing keeps up and that RTD doesn't stretch himself thin with his other shows (dare I say: pull a Whedon and abandon his oldest children? I wasn't involved in the Buffy or Angel fandoms, but rather came to them post-Firefly, and it seemed that the latter seasons suffered, and the correlation to his absence seems glaring)
In the 1996 television movie the Eighth Doctor explicitly said that a Time Lord has "thirteen lives"
that's a television movie, does it really count for canonical purposes?
Also, am I the only one who doesn't like this Doctor? He seems too . . .frivolous or something. I mean, there's always been an certain amount of wry humor associated with The Doctor, but always backed by gravitas. I don't feel the gravitas here
hides in corner, waits to be shouted down lovingly.
"I could bring down your government with six words" wasn't gravitas enough for you?
"I could bring down your government with six words" wasn't gravitas enough for you?
apparently not, since I don't even remember him saying it.
that's a television movie, does it really count for canonical purposes?
Yep, it's all canon. But there's also a strong Who precedent for ignoring the inconvenient bits of canon and making up your own if there's a story you want to tell. (How many times has the Earth been destroyed now?)
