Doctor Who

any one ?

now i am speaking of the current series, although if anyone has seen the original please feel free to discuss as it is nice to compare to the remake.

personally, i love it ^^ . i do remember the old BBC series that aired here in the US on PBS (Public Broadcast Station) now it took me a bit to get use to the changing of "The Doctor"
from series I to series II, i know that's how its supposed to work in the orig series, and in the comics (yes he had his own comic and appeared regularly with in the pages of Death's Head and .. *gasps* Transformers   )
.. but on television with different actors .. its an adjustment

anyways ..

comments, thoughts .. discuss

I grew up watching the old series, I am one of the biggest Who fans you'll ever meet, seriously, I have a lifesize K-9 and a lifesize TARDIS both I won on ebay years ago.

I love the new series, though, I miss Rose, the girl they're going to start airing the new season with, Martha, she's really kind of whiny and gets on my nerves really bad as the series goes on, I just watched the last one of the series Sci Fi started running last night and though its pretty awesome, Martha just bugs me... alot.

I won't spoil this series for those that ain't been downloading it, but I'll tell ya, its atleast worth a watch, some episodes are kinda iffy, some are awesome, "Only Human" and its follow up "The Family Blood" would have been an awesome season ender, plus, you finally get confermation that the FOX movie version of Who is offically part of the history now.

?? im must of missed something ... Fox movie version - Who ?

1996, FOX made a movie but passed on making an american version of the series. We weren't really sure if though the last Doctor from the series (Slyvester McCoy) did a cameo only to die and regenerate, but we weren't sure if the one he became (Paul McCann i think his name is) was seen as an offical one because it wasn't BBC made and such. But its confermed in a drawing in the episode "The Family Blood" (it'll be airing next month in the states) where The Doctor drew pictures of former incarnations and former companions and villains.

I miss me some Billie Piper something bad

mmmm i must of missed that eps
i just caught last fridays and it was waaay ahead from where i last left off (he was running from Queen elizabeth the 1st) .. and now he;s in manhattan during the depression, and .. *eek* Dalek Humans
o what not ..... and the previews show him dieing oO .. so

fill me in .. Spolier !

haha... they jump from running from the queen (its never explained), to the depression, thats not a skip, thats just where they end up next, I didn't really like the Dalek's in Manhatten storyline, the whole idea of the Daleks becoming bipedal again just seems like a downgrade to me... you're heading up to the best part of the season, you gotta get through the Daleks, then The Lazarus Experiment, then its 42 if i recall, and from there its just straight out awesome, "Only Human" and its follow up "The Family Blood" then "Blink" and onward to the season finale!

End of the season is pretty good... won't say who he's fighting but its one of the BEST who villians ever, it even goes abit into their history...

The Hearse Driver wrote:haha... they jump from running from the queen (its never explained), to the depression, thats not a skip, thats just where they end up next, I didn't really like the Dalek's in Manhatten storyline, the whole idea of the Daleks becoming bipedal again just seems like a downgrade to me... you're heading up to the best part of the season, you gotta get through the Daleks, then The Lazarus Experiment, then its 42 if i recall, and from there its just straight out awesome, "Only Human" and its follow up "The Family Blood" then "Blink" and onward to the season finale!

End of the season is pretty good... won't say who he's fighting but its one of the BEST who villians ever, it even goes abit into their history...

... ya never answered my question ... how does he regenerate and keep the same form if he dies in the Dalek in Manhattan eps ??
and yes .. i agree, daleks becoming "bipedels" isa downgrade ... exterminate .. exterminate ... exterminate .. LOL

umm... he doesn't die, he just gets shocked by lightening...

I think she thought the part where Samson gets killed was The Doctor, in the adds on teli they edited it to kinda look like the doctor got shot by Dalek Thay

Well with Part One of The Family Blood airing tonight, and the second part, airing next week, you're offically in the home streach for series three, and if you think the incredibly awesome ending to this two parter was great, trust me it gets WAY better. I won't spoil it..

i will say this though, once series three runs its course here, I'm gonna bomb this thread with news about series 4, I'm talking HUGE news, massive name guest stars, two of which will be two VERY well known names in hollywood playing two VERY well known and important villians from the old version of the show and one guest team up that you gotta see to believe, and well, come cast changes too...

So get ready to get your TARDIS rocked.

The Hearse Driver wrote:Well with Part One of The Family Blood airing tonight, and the second part, airing next week, you're offically in the home streach for series three, and if you think the incredibly awesome ending to this two parter was great, trust me it gets WAY better. I won't spoil it..

i will say this though, once series three runs its course here, I'm gonna bomb this thread with news about series 4, I'm talking HUGE news, massive name guest stars, two of which will be two VERY well known names in hollywood playing two VERY well known and important villians from the old version of the show and one guest team up that you gotta see to believe, and well, come cast changes too...

So get ready to get your TARDIS rocked.

teeheee ... it freaking ruled !
my chica did some wiki surfing that same night and dug up the skinny ... however feel free to bomp away. use the spoiler/tags if it makes ya feel better

The Hearse Driver wrote:1996, FOX made a movie but passed on making an american version of the series. We weren't really sure if though the last Doctor from the series (Slyvester McCoy) did a cameo only to die and regenerate, but we weren't sure if the one he became (Paul McCann i think his name is) was seen as an offical one because it wasn't BBC made and such. But its confermed in a drawing in the episode "The Family Blood" (it'll be airing next month in the states) where The Doctor drew pictures of former incarnations and former companions and villains.

ok .. ^^ double post to keep my thouths seperate.
the 'drawings' of his past selves is seen only breifly well ..
long enough, but i have no idea if all of them were shown

I'll break down the picture for you with the actual pictures over the drawings. No idea where JD found this but its the best way to show newer fans whats up and why the scene with the book freaked out so many of us older fans...



From the left top across; Sylvester McCoy (7th Doctor), Paul McCann (8th Doctor and one from the US version), William Hartnel (the very first Doctor), bottom row; Collin Baker (6th Doctor) and Peter Davidson (5th Doctor), there were also pictures in the book of Chris Eccleson (9th Doctor) , John Pertwee (3rd Doctor) and Tom Baker (4th and most recognized Doctor).

I can't find pictures on the net, but here is the rest of what you see in the book scene from my freezing the copy i have of the episode on my PC

Former Villians that were shown included the original and new versions of The Cybermen, The Racnoss, Devross (creator of the Daleks), The Daleks, The Rani, and The Master, and I believe afew of the lower lesser known ones too.

Former companions shown included Rose (*sigh i miss her ever so), Leela, Romana, Teagan, that ER doctor woman from the movie who's name I can't recall, the young version of Sarah Jane and the older version he meets later on with Rose, and I believe K-9 is shown when they show the TARDIS as well.

So, you can see abit now why the older fans are freaking out eh? It was kind of a complete homage to the history of the show...

also, how do you do spoiler tags here? I'm not sure what the wiki says and what it doesn't but I figure i'll post away once I figure how that works.

cool .. thanks for the info

and to use spoiler tags ...

[ spolier ] enter text [ /spoler ] (close the gaps)

:Decepticon:

Ok here goes nothing.....

Spoiler:

the previews for next weeks BBC America boradcast shows "Rose" Billie Piper coming back onto the series ^_^ ..

Nope, BBC America has last series, they'll get the one Sci Fi is showing around this time next year..

broadcast order for markets we'de get in north america goes like this

BBC/CBC
Sci Fi
BBC America
PBS

The Hearse Driver wrote:Nope, BBC America has last series, they'll get the one Sci Fi is showing around this time next year..

broadcast order for markets we'de get in north america goes like this

BBC/CBC
Sci Fi
BBC America
PBS

oO then what was the comercial on BBC America regarding then ?

It more then likely was promoting last series, which was the series in which Billie left the show at the end of. If you've not seen it i should warn you though the series is excellent, the end of Doomsday does hit you like a sack of knobs inside a sack of bricks inside a bag of sand.

Ok going over to the BBC America site and looking, yes, its series two, which was the first series with David Tennant as the Doctor that they're getting now. Its gonna start with Christmas Invasion from two years ago which was right after Tennant took over the role from Chris Eccleson. They're doing The Christmas Invasion and New Earth together as a two hour thing. New Earth is where you first see the planet that is returned too in "Gridlocked" in series three, and where you meet Novice Hayes who also plays a big part in that episode.

I also see they're airing Torchwood. umm.... some advice, though Torchwood is a spin off of Doctor Who, please, avoid it like the plague that it is. sure the idea is great, former who sidekick Capt. Jack Harkness working for Torchwood, the group that filters really heavy into series 2 of Doctor Who and has to do with the way Rose leaves, but its shit. Its basically these emotionally detached people having sex with each other and afew aliens. Now I don't have an issue with people that are gay, lesbian or bisexual as you know, when you literally force the idea into a tv show and have literally every cast member have either a one time or ongoing sexual thing with someone of their own gender just because its "shocking" and "adult content", thats just stupid and wrong, yes there is nothing wrong with people who are gay or lesbian or bi, yes there should be better representation or more so current depictions on tv but they just fail by forcing it into every single character. Somewhere early on, they lose the concept of Hunting down and containing aliens and alien devices that come through the riff in Cardif (Rose and this girl thats decentant of Gwen from Torchwood open it in series one of the current version of who), and it became basically nothing more then a show where everyone and everything they meet was either closet homosexual or bi-curious. And through I understand what they were trying to do with the idea, it over shadowed the concept of the show.

Plus BBC America is gonna edit ALOT of that show out. The male and female nudity, the constant swearing, hopefully all those scenes of Jack standing ontop of buildings wile an electric guitar plays in the background...

ok // i saw the eps where the Cybermen came back from the 'Alternate' Earth and the eps were Rose leaves and the Children of Scaro(sp) appear.

ok .. got it..next SAT BBCA airing is actually 'syndication' of Dr. Who series II

Ok then you've seen Doomsday then? with the big sad holy shit make Laz cry cuz its just so damn sad ending and such? cuz damn it hits you the first time.

and yeah it is syndication, see, anything after BBC, CBC and Sci Fi air it is seen as syndication, they all pay into the buget, so they get it first run, then after that it goes around the world, then to BBC America, and from there it ends on PBS, however BBCA and PBS have continuing rights to both the old show and its 40something year run, and the new show if i recall.

that's cool

caint wait to see it reRun on PBS ^^
seeing the "new" Doctor on PBS would just be the shiznit

Dunno if all the PBS stations picked it up, but our one here in NH aired the Eccleson run at pledge time and said they're putting them in rotation with the rest of their who stuff.