this looks like a good time to start season 1 on my netflix! OH! and a jiffy pop will go nicely!
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this looks like a good time to start season 1 on my netflix! OH! and a jiffy pop will go nicely!
I bet I'm the only one here who saw the very first Doctor Who episode with William Hartnell as The Doctor, travelling with his grand-daughter Susan (now there's a story-line that has been quietly forgotten!) way back in 196-whatever it was. I was an impressionable young thing at the time :D but thought it was not a bad start and despite the wobbly sets and the frequent use of municipal rubbish dumps to represent alien worlds, it could go far.... No, I haven't seen all the rest of the episodes but at some time or another I've seen all the Doctors - can't decide which I liked best, though I think Sylvester McCoy was my least favourite.
As for a female Doctor - well, he has a daughter now, somewhere out there. Dead? Of course she isn't, only until the next series, anyway.
And - I've got a ticket to see David Tennant as Hamlet at Stratford, this year's Gold Dust ticket - looking forward to that!
Strangely, that rings a bell, the Doctor with a granddaughter. I remember seeing something a long time ago, when I was very young, with those two ingredients, along with an alien planet and a note written in chalk on the door which the Doctor missed. That's all I remember of it, I didn't see it all. I know one thing, I certainly didn't exist when it first aired so it must've been repeated for some reason. I've always wondered if that really had been Doctor Who, I guess it was :).
I saw it ♥Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
Ya lucky! I wish I could see David Tennant act for real, not just on the telly!
(Jenny? But she doesn't have a tardis......yet :D )
DONNA WAS THE BEST COMPANION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY DID TO HER! :rage: :mad: :flare: THEY MUST PAY!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebiird
Rose. Without a doubt (from the new eps).
Not to be rude, but .... WHY?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bakiryu
she just....made me cry. Any television character that's real enough to make me cry is something. And she was just so awesome and you know, normal. Martha was way too clingy and (not to offend anyone) kinda dumb. Donna is just kinda boring, she doesn't particularly shine on the screen or anything, she's just,,,boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by BulletproofDork
So jealous!Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
Favourite companion...Donna of course! She was just brilliant!
Didn't particularly like what they did with her character at the end of series 4.
I've missed quite a few with Rose in them. No scratch that, I've missed practically all of them!
What! How can you call Martha dumb? She was way smarter that Rose. Rose was just there for looks. And I wouldn't call Martha clingy. She fell for the Doctor but she left, she didn't have the idea that they'd travel together forever, I'd say that makes her a lot more mature than Rose too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bakiryu
And how was Donna boring, she was by far the funniest companion, it was nice to have a companion who didn't fall head over heels for the doctor, because that would start to get boring.
In light of these two Rose was by far the weakest character.
Yak! Donna :sick: (Catherine Tate) was the reason I stopped watching Dr. Who. Even the draw of David Tennant wasn't enough to keep me watching once she was in the series.Quote:
Originally Posted by vheissu
Catherine Tate :sick: :sick: :sick:
Donna was a great companion and this series was by far the best. You can't seriously tell us you missed it deliberately.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
I don't know anything about Catherine Tate herself, but the way she played Donna was so much fun! Brilliant, even.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
What is so bad about Catherine Tate anyway?
yeah yeah, I'm with my sister. What's so bad about Tate anyway? I keep vacillating between her and Rose as my favorite companion.
Incidentally, who liked Midnight? I thought it was really cool; I love episodes where the doctor isn't quite infallible. Watched 42 recently (Youtube is invaluable :D :lol:) and was on my toes during the whole time!!
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Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
You should have kept going, Fifth, she definitely improved as the series went on, became a more rounded character, more understanding and compassionate (which it has always seemed to me is the point of travelling with the Doctor) and grew away from Catherime Tate's other tv persona(s) which I agree are irritating in the extreme! I don't know that she was the best of the companions but she got away from the growing tendency for the companions to fall in love with the Doctor (and for him to fall for them) which makes sense as the companionship cannot last for ever.