I am very amused to be watching an old ep of Poirot from 1997 and to see a young Christopher Eccleston. He's all cute and babyfaced.
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi or fantasy) 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.
Vortex - Sep 01, 2007 3:28:27 pm PDT #5979 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
sumi - Sep 01, 2007 3:30:57 pm PDT #5980 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I thought that BBCA's marathon of Doctor Who season 1 was yesterday but actually it is today.
sumi - Sep 02, 2007 12:37:24 pm PDT #5981 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Afterelton is going to be running vlog's after each Torchwood episode.
quester - Sep 02, 2007 3:52:05 pm PDT #5982 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I thought that BBCA's marathon of Doctor Who season 1
It was both days. I liked Eccleston as the Doctor. How is the new guy? Is BBCA a season behind SciFi? and Torchwood, is that on both or only BBCA?
sumi - Sep 02, 2007 3:55:33 pm PDT #5983 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
BBCA is a season behind Scifi. And Torchwood will only be on BBCA. (So far as I've heard.)
Ten is good. A bit manic at times.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 02, 2007 4:08:32 pm PDT #5984 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
I fell asleep last night during "The Parting of the Ways" and my tape therefore recorded over Megasnake in its entirety before I could get around to watching.
The Doctor, saving us from fake-looking monsters since 1963.
Fay - Sep 02, 2007 11:08:40 pm PDT #5985 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
How is the new guy?
Aw, he's lovely. He's a very different Doctor from Nine - but then, that's always the case. I did love the fact that Eccleston brought a blue collar edge, with his Northern accent - and I do repine, a little, over the fact that Tennant isn't playing it in his own native accent (which is cute as a fucking cute thing) - but Ten is lovely. Plus, the actor's a TOTAL Who geek, unlike Eccleston or, well, most of the other actors who've played the part. Tennant grew up with the show, owns lots of paraphenalia, and is just a big Who geek, just like RDT - I was reading a thing the other day by the Eighth Doctor, one of the McGann brothers, and he mentioned that he'd acted in something with Tennant once and his initial impression was that Tennant was a bit snotty, 'cause he just stood there and didn't say anything after they'd been introduced. And it wasn't until later that the guy realised it was a case of Tennant being paralysed with Geekly Fannish Awe at being face to face with an incarnation of the Doctor.
(And on the DVD extras, the stuff where he's geeking out over having a wee action figure, and boggling over the fact that he had an action figure of the Fourth Doctor when he was wee, and now he IS the Doctor, and - oh, it's just lovely. Lovely! Bless him! One of us!)
His version of the character, though, is a bit ruder and more brittle and manic - I mean, his physicality is quite different from Eccleston's, and that has an impact. But he's a wee scone, and he's got The Best Job He Could Ever Have Hoped For. Which is just fab.
WindSparrow - Sep 03, 2007 3:05:56 am PDT #5986 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
His version of the character, though, is a bit ruder and more brittle and manic - I mean, his physicality is quite different from Eccleston's, and that has an impact.
With Eccleston, the Ninth Doctor's personality was very much a departure from so much of what went before - with the massive trauma of the Time War, that made sense for the character. With Tennant, the Tenth Doctor has gotten a bit of distance from that great grief, so his character is as much informed by more traditional characteristics of the Doctor as he is by the Time War. Ten has his own unique quirks, as it should be, and yet you never know when a glimmer of - well, I saw bits of 4, 5, and 9 in there, and those are the ones I'd seen before - some previous incarnation will show through.
Jon B. - Sep 03, 2007 3:48:03 am PDT #5987 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
In which series did the Time War take place?
Tom Scola - Sep 03, 2007 3:51:16 am PDT #5988 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The time war was never shown. It was something that RTD made up.