Meh, the only years that matter are 1974 to 1981.

I guess if you are a Time Lord you can do that.

Thank you!

Neat.

I dig the Who theme/"Sweet Dreams" mashup.

The person who made the vid, Babelcolour, has a lot of great vids. Check them out on youtube.

And I just noticed something: it seems like 90% of the titles are "BLANK of the BLANK". What's up with that?

FunkOut: One they got really drunk and almost had "Pint Glass of the Dead Rat".

I had that...better than the Cat's Piss.

If I ever had my own brewery, I think I'd name brews after various types of animal piss.

FunkOut: fusillade762: And I just noticed something: it seems like 90% of the titles are "BLANK of the BLANK". What's up with that?

They had a dartboard with words and they'd throw the darts at it and whatever it hit, that would be the title. One they got really drunk and almost had "Pint Glass of the Dead Rat".

Heh. Now I'm just picturing a dart board with "Revenge", "Return", "Victory", "Planet", "Attack", etc on one side and "Cybermen", "Daleks", "Evil", etc on the other.

Tyrosine: Meh, the only years that matter are 1974 to 1981.

THIS

although Matt Smith is pretty good too.

Tax Boy: Tyrosine: Meh, the only years that matter are 1974 to 1981.

THIS

although Matt Smith is pretty good too.

I wouldn't quite go that far, but after watching a good number of Tom Baker episodes, I see where David Tennant drew a lot of his Doctor's basic habits. It was somewhat entertaining to see how the correlated.

jetblack21: The person who made the vid, Babelcolour, has a lot of great vids. Check them out on youtube.

His tribute to the Master is pretty badass. Orchestral Black Sabbath is a nice touch.

Tyrosine: Meh, the only years that matter are 1974 to 1981.

I feel sorry for you.

/everything but McCoy and emo-Tennant

skepticultist: jetblack21: The person who made the vid, Babelcolour, has a lot of great vids. Check them out on youtube.

His tribute to the Master is pretty badass. Orchestral Black Sabbath Metallica is a nice touch.

FIFM

/also feel very, very stupid right now

Is it ten minutes if people yelling "Doctor!" over and over?

100 Watt Walrus: Tyrosine: Meh, the only years that matter are 1974 to 1981.

I feel sorry for you.

/everything but McCoy and emo-Tennant

Colin Baker...between his egotistical, almost unlikeable Doctor, and McCoy's bumbling Doctor (both saddled with Mel, the worst companion ever), the two of them drove the show to cancellation.

/yes, they had some shiatty scripts and casting, too

Patrick Troughton rocks.... too bad so many of his episodes were destroyed.

Damn! My ears!

...and the plot doesn't suffer much for it.

Don't blink...


or you'll miss the video.

CavalierEternal: Who was that giving The Doctor's pandorica speech at the end?

Sylvester "Seven" McCoy. He did that at a convention.

Sorry. I didn't refresh.

That was pretty cool, thanks subby!

It was apropos for McCoy to deliver an Eleven speech. As much as Eleven is likened to Two, he has a great deal of Seven in him. The fez & mop, his tendency to keep secrets from his companions and manipulate them, and even his delivery of his forceful pronouncements (minus the annoying R-rolling schtick, of course).

The important thing to take away from this is that all of John Pertwee's series took place in an abandoned quarry.

browneye: Quite cool. Although I wish it didn't include dialog from the movie of the Doctor saying he's part human. It was one of the main problems I had with the movie - not to mention that it's (fortunately) not considered canon.

It was a joke, right? Just a horrible, horrible joke. "Oh, on your mother's side. Ha ha..."

browneye: Quite cool. Although I wish it didn't include dialog from the movie of the Doctor saying he's part human. It was one of the main problems I had with the movie - not to mention that it's (fortunately) not considered canon.

Okay, see, I have a problem with everyone having a problem with that. Why shouldn't he be half human? it sure as hell would explain an awful lot of things, like his seeming inability to control his regenerations when other Time Lords could choose bodies at will (Romana I to Romana II), plus he has a bizarre fixation with Earth; of all the planets he could go to, somehow he always winds up mostly smack dab in the UK somewhere, and usually near a quarry. He abandoned his own granddaughter to life in post-apocalypse London 2150 to spend the rest of her current thousand year life and the next twelve regenerations (???) because she fell in love with a human, and also because the Doctor was tired of constantly putting her at risk. So why the hell didn't he just take her back to Gallifrey to dump her? Instead, he leaves her in the care of technological primitives; who would do that, unless they had a stake in the place? Being half human gives the Doctor a reason to adopt the earth as his second home, and a reason for everyone else to not question it, at least when there were still other Gallifreyans left alive.

Which brings up another question: WHERE. IS. SUSAN. FOREMAN? How could the Doctor possibly have not run into her again after all of these decades (and to him, centuries?) You'd think that a seemingly immortal woman in the 22nd century on up would kinda stick out after a while, especially one with two hearts.

thespindrifter: You'd think that a seemingly immortal woman in the 22nd century on up would kinda stick out after a while, especially one with two hearts.

Also, as a theoretically biologically mostly Gallifreyan humanoid, she would have enough pure DNA to crank out at least a couple of half-breed Time Lords of her own! IF she married for love, she would have had children, so what now? Rogue Timelord DNA working its way into the human gene pool would definitely produce some interesting results, and that wouldn't stay under wraps forever.

whizbangthedirtfarmer: 100 Watt Walrus: Tyrosine: Meh, the only years that matter are 1974 to 1981.

I feel sorry for you.

/everything but McCoy and emo-Tennant

Colin Baker...between his egotistical, almost unlikeable Doctor, and McCoy's bumbling Doctor (both saddled with Mel, the worst companion ever), the two of them drove the show to cancellation.

/yes, they had some shiatty scripts and casting, too

Doctor Who was never cancelled, and it was only put on hiatus because some asshat at the BBC hated the show. The scripts were pretty bad during those years but the show was really great again right when it went on hiatus.

Did I miss somehow the Colin Baker clip(s)?

I liked it. Also, I miss Sarah Jane. I picked up Elisabeth Sladen's autobiography last weekend at the comic book store; haven't started it yet.

thespindrifter: Which brings up another question: WHERE. IS. SUSAN. FOREMAN?

Dead in the Time War, along with all the other Time Lords. At least, so much is implied by the fact that the Doctor has said several times he was the only survivor. He was wrong, of course, since the Master returned. But it's safe to say 99.999% of them are dead, and that likely includes Susan. And even if she did somehow survive, the Doctor doesn't know it.

On the half-human note, despite his fascination with Earth, I doubt that very much. It's clear from cannon that the Doctor went rogue when he left Gallifrey. Had is Time Lord father or mother visited Earth and mated, the Doctor having "gone rogue" wouldn't have been nearly the big deal that it clearly was to the Time Lords - in fact, it might have been expected.

It's not a bad idea, but would require some significant retcon on the part of the writers.

Following to my own post, with evidence pointing to Susan being dead:

In "The Empty Child," the WWII-era physician who was treating the "gas mask people" said to the Doctor that, "Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm neither. But I'm still a doctor." The Doctor replied, "Yeah. I know the feeling."

/super-geek

thespindrifter: browneye: Quite cool. Although I wish it didn't include dialog from the movie of the Doctor saying he's part human. It was one of the main problems I had with the movie - not to mention that it's (fortunately) not considered canon.

Okay, see, I have a problem with everyone having a problem with that. Why shouldn't he be half human? it sure as hell would explain an awful lot of things, like his seeming inability to control his regenerations when other Time Lords could choose bodies at will (Romana I to Romana II), plus he has a bizarre fixation with Earth; of all the planets he could go to, somehow he always winds up mostly smack dab in the UK somewhere, and usually near a quarry. He abandoned his own granddaughter to life in post-apocalypse London 2150 to spend the rest of her current thousand year life and the next twelve regenerations (???) because she fell in love with a human, and also because the Doctor was tired of constantly putting her at risk. So why the hell didn't he just take her back to Gallifrey to dump her? Instead, he leaves her in the care of technological primitives; who would do that, unless they had a stake in the place? Being half human gives the Doctor a reason to adopt the earth as his second home, and a reason for everyone else to not question it, at least when there were still other Gallifreyans left alive.

Which brings up another question: WHERE. IS. SUSAN. FOREMAN? How could the Doctor possibly have not run into her again after all of these decades (and to him, centuries?) You'd think that a seemingly immortal woman in the 22nd century on up would kinda stick out after a while, especially one with two hearts.

THIS

/ I need a shower with how geeky this feels
// pass me the soap.

Craptastic: I liked it. Also, I miss Sarah Jane. I picked up Elisabeth Sladen's autobiography last weekend at the comic book store; haven't started it yet.

Watch Babelcolour's tribute to Elisabeth Sladen (new window), but be prepared for dust.

thespindrifter: thespindrifter: You'd think that a seemingly immortal woman in the 22nd century on up would kinda stick out after a while, especially one with two hearts.

Also, as a theoretically biologically mostly Gallifreyan humanoid, she would have enough pure DNA to crank out at least a couple of half-breed Time Lords of her own! IF she married for love, she would have had children, so what now? Rogue Timelord DNA working its way into the human gene pool would definitely produce some interesting results, and that wouldn't stay under wraps forever.

If you read the books (technically not canon I know), Susan does have one partial Time Lord son, but he dies. So there is that question answered.

As to Susan, they never really establish whether or not she's a Time Lady. She might not be able to regenerate at all. There are even some odd theories out there that she's not the Doctor's granddaughter, but the Other's granddaughter as well. Things get really weird once you start getting into the books. As in weirder than fanfiction weird.

I'm in the middle of Season 2 of the new series. They seem to like zombies and self-sacrifice. There have been several episodes that feature someone sacrificing themselves to save others. And it seems that every other episode has monsters or victims who are some sort of mindless horde for one reason or another... living mannequins, humans mind controlled by aliens, clockwork Frenchmen, diseased test subjects, etc. Plus the creepy gas-masked "Are you my mommy?" freaks from that one episode.... *shudder*

Inaditch, the distressing thing is that that episode is now only the 2nd most terrifying episode for me.

farkin' angels...

HollyQueen1: Inaditch, the distressing thing is that that episode is now only the 2nd most terrifying episode for me.

farkin' angels...

Oooh, guess I have something to look forward to.

I'm 34 and a pretty big nerd, and I've never seen Dr. Who until a few days ago. Decided it was finally time after falling in love with the BBC version of Sherlock, then finding out it's done by the same guy.

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If the guy on the left is Spock, he's not a doctor; it's Mr Spock.

Dr Spock is a real-life pediatrician.