Doctor Who

[monsterzero]

I agree, but whenever I saw that guy who used to play on 'One Foot in the Grave' I would mutter "I can't belieeeeeeeeeve it" ala Father Ted. Maybe I should see it from the beginning.

Anyway, finally saw that Dalek episode and it was one of the best things I ever saw. Utterly fantastic, definitely one of the high points in an already triumphant return for the Doctor.

Okay, just caught the last episode and WOW. Freaking brilliant. I can hardly wait for the Christmas Invasion episode...wow, just WOW.

[keepittight]

I've pretty much missed the entire series because of a) the somewhat inconvenient (for me) timeslot and b) I've never seen Doctor Who before- HOWEVER, I saw the last episode and that was a truly amazing piece of television, just literally perfect; a great balance of epic drama, comedy, character moments, and fantasy. Billie Piper has been a revelation. I'm now catching up on the early episodes (of this series) through my brother's DVDs (surprised they'd already been released!) and the show is just awesome, and surprisingly creepy. The mannequin people in the first episode were really quite disturbing, and the two-part thing with the fat farting people who are really aliens was awesome. It seems I've found my replacement for Buffy (which I have to say, I think the writers have taken quite a lot from. Russell T Davies is a big Buffy fan and the climax of the finale with Super!Billie was oh-so Dark Willow/Buffy in the Season 4 finale).

I'm going to miss Christopher Eccleston .

[monsterzero]

Yeah, but David Tennant rocks. I loved his immediate reaction. "Well, new teeth, that's weird." Fantastic.

[nella]

For any Canadians here, CBC has started repeating "Doctor Who" on Sunday nights (7pm Mountain Standard Time). They showed "Rose" last night.

[pathtaken]

Anyone following it on the Sci Fi channel? They're showing it on friday nites. I guess it"s the season everyone has already discussed.
I was kind of put off with the farting aliens at the start of the season, but have come around since.
I would put Eccleston right up there next to Tom Baker.

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Oh me, me! I freaking love this show, and I hope we get to see Torchwood (the Captain Jack Tries to Find His Past series that's being made for BBC3 right now) too, when it comes out. What might also be good? Getting a US distributor lined up for the 10th Doctor series that's being shown now over in the UK. The little kid with the gasmask was the scariest thing I've seen in a while.

Although, I really didn't like Father's Day, when Rose tries to save her dad. Every series needs a "Cute Actress Shows Her Acting Chops" episode, but the story was weak, predictable and just a little overwrought. This has proved to be an unpopular opinion, but I stand by it.

[thecupcakekid]

I watch this show off and on, and I think I am watching the season finale right now. Can someone explain to me Bad Wolf, Daleks, one Dalek who thinks he is God, and who is this American fellow?

I'm trying to look it up and don't even know where to begin. Oh, and if the Doctor has a time machine why can't he go back and save the rest of his race? And where are they?

This show is silly. I keep watching it because it has such a rabid following tht insist it's the best thing since sliced bread and I think it's cheesy and silly. Maybe I need to watch all of it to get why it is so great. Eccleston is strangely attractive, I'll give it that.

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thecupcakekid said:

I watch this show off and on, and I think I am watching the season finale right now.

Yup, hopefully they pick up the second series, because I am in love with the Tenth Doctor from that minute long coda about teeth and Barcelona.

Can someone explain to me Bad Wolf

Bad Wolf was a message in time that Rose left to herself when she was uber-glowing-Rose (aka the Bad Wolf) to let her regular self know that she could go back and rescue the Doctor. See here for the Official Bad Wolf companion site.

Daleks

The Wiki entry is a good place to start.

one Dalek who thinks he is God

He escaped the Time War, which was the big war between the Daleks and the Timelords that keeps being referenced during this series, and further explored in the next one, and was sent through a time vortex to the past. He amassed an army of Daleks by using the human dead and resurrecting them into their current Dalek form, thus giving life to where there was no life before, ergo his God complex.

and who is this American fellow?

That is Captain Jack Harkness, who was a time agent, but then had his memory erased, and had been freelancing before becoming a companion. He now has a spin-off in the works for BBC3, called Torchwood.

Oh, and if the Doctor has a time machine why can't he go back and save the rest of his race? And where are they?

That was examined in the episode where Rose goes back and saves her dad- time doesn't like being messed around with, and to cross your own path results in a paradox which needs immediate sanitation by people-eating monsters. The Timelords all died in the Time War with the Daleks.

This show is silly.

It's aimed at the 8-14 year old market in the UK, with a fan base built on past Doctor Whoees (get 'em young is the motto in action here), and shown pre-watershed, so it's juvenile in its humour. But if you love it, you love it, and if you hate it, you hate it. I imagine SciFi will be re-running it ad nauseum over the summer (like all of its other shows) so you'll have the chance of watching the complete series.

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Waitaminutewaitaminutewaitaminute!!! So Christopher Eccleston isn't the Doctor anymore? Why was I not informed? If he had stuck around longer than a couple of minutes he would challenge Tom Baker for Bestest Doctor Evah. Eccleston comes along, works his magic, brings a super level of enthusiasm to his character (sadly missed since Tom Baker), makes me like him, then he splits. Sheesh! Typical guy.

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Yeah, but he'll be making his return as "lead character in a 60s British scifi remake" in The Prisoner, so really, it's not like he's gone. Plus, there's been chatter on the internets about him possibly coming back as The Master. I don't know how true that is, or how much is fan wistful speculation, but it'd be damn cool if it were true.