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Official Doctor Who Series 1, 5, 31, or Fnarg Thread of Moffat & Smith

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WanderingWind

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Well, obviously the character of the Doctor changed quite a bit through the years. He's mostly useless so far. :lol

Hearing the TARDIS for the "first" time was a cool little moment, and clearly this whiny male teacher is why the Doctor has an affinity for female companions. Good job, you bitch-made science teacher. You fucked it up for the rest of males throughout history.

"Fear makes companions of all of us." Nice...set up.

I don't know if this was on accident or on purpose, but it was a nice touch for the first Doctor to take place in year 0 of human history.

Still waiting to find out what the deal is about Susan.
 
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JoshuaJSlone

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WanderingWind said:
Hearing the TARDIS for the "first" time was a cool little moment, and clearly this whiny male teacher is why the Doctor has an affinity for female companions. Good job, you bitch-made science teacher. You fucked it up for the rest of males throughout history.
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Going back and forth between 60s and 2000s versions of the show, it's almost like the characters of 60s Doctor and 60s male companion have been fused into 2000s Doctor. They no longer need separate characters for the "knowledgeable and pondering" bits and the "run around and do the dangerous stuff" bits.
 
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WanderingWind

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JoshuaJSlone said:
Going back and forth between 60s and 2000s versions of the show, it's almost like the characters of 60s Doctor and 60s male companion have been fused into 2000s Doctor. They no longer need separate characters for the "knowledgeable and pondering" bits and the "run around and do the dangerous stuff" bits.
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I'm only a bit into the 60s (Hartnell) series, but so far the Doctor is a lot like Dr. Smith from Lost in Space.

Doc -"You don't expect me to actually carry him do you?"
Science Guy- "You want the women to do it for you?
Doc - "Oh, very well."
 
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Cosmonaut X

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RobotNinjaHornets said:
Didn't they do that so that there'd be nothing suspicious about an old man travelling around with an unrelated young girl?
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Exactly - the writer of "An Unearthly Child" is supposed to have been uneasy about having a teenage girl travelling alone with an older man, hence the familial relationship.
 
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Mana Sin

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Do you think that maybe some of the Tardis problems in The Eleventh Hour are not entirely the fault of the rebuild, but a symptom of someone tinkering with it during its in a vulnerable state? Matt's reaction to finding out he jumped forward twelve years instead five minute or six months was rather extreme. For a human, wouldn't he have cared a little less?

He also seemed very forgetful during that episode as a result of having just regenerated, so maybe whatever shocked him about the oddness in his Tardis slipped his mind? Maybe
Darth Doctor
(If he exists at the moment) knew to take advantage of the Doctor's addled state because he
had lived it
.

Also, I've always found it strange how he looked right into his monitor at the end of the episode where there was a crack, and he just turned it off. Did he ignore it? Why?

Clearly, I'm grasping at straws. I wanna know what happens next in the story :(
 
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JonathanEx

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Keyser Soze said:
ARGH! Too many people talking about too many episodes...

Wibbly Wobbly Ti......
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End of Time Parts 1 and 2 are on iPlayer, so I'm watching them now. Want me to start talking about them too?


PROM TONIGHT! Excite. And I'm not even going.
 
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KibblesBits

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Mana Sin said:
Do you think that maybe some of the Tardis problems in The Eleventh Hour are not entirely the fault of the rebuild, but a symptom of someone tinkering with it during its in a vulnerable state? Matt's reaction to finding out he jumped forward twelve years instead five minute or six months was rather extreme. For a human, wouldn't he have cared a little less?

He also seemed very forgetful during that episode as a result of having just regenerated, so maybe whatever shocked him about the oddness in his Tardis slipped his mind? Maybe
Darth Doctor
(If he exists at the moment) knew to take advantage of the Doctor's addled state because he
had lived it
.

Also, I've always found it strange how he looked right into his monitor at the end of the episode where there was a crack, and he just turned it off. Did he ignore it? Why?

Clearly, I'm grasping at straws. I wanna know what happens next in the story :(
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Other Doctors in the past have had issues with arriving exactly on time. It could be more of some previous traits resurfacing in the 11th Doctor or it could be something else. I'm inclined to think it is simply previous traits taking hold.
 
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Mana Sin

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KibblesBits said:
Other Doctors in the past have had issues with arriving exactly on time. It could be more of some previous traits resurfacing in the 11th Doctor or it could be something else. I'm inclined to think it is simply previous traits taking hold.
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Hm, alright. Occam's Razor, and all. Onto my next paranoid jump to conclusions...

On a completely unrelated topic: Is the girl who plays Munchkin-Amelia related in any way to Amy/Karen, or did they just cast a sorta-look-alike?
 
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infiniteloop

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WanderingWind said:
this whiny male teacher is why the Doctor has an affinity for female companions. Good job, you bitch-made science teacher. You fucked it up for the rest of males throughout history.
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Ian's one of my favorites :(

Ian + 1st Doctor = 2000s doctor


edit: i see someone's already made that point :lol


Mana Sin said:
On a completely unrelated topic: Is the girl who plays Munchkin-Amelia related in any way to Amy/Karen, or did they just cast a sorta-look-alike?
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She's her cousin.
 
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RetroMG

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infiniteloop said:
She's her cousin.
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But IIRC, nobody knew that until they were actually shooting the first episode. I don't even think Karen had ever met her. It's in the Confidential for the first ep.
 
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JonathanEx

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Doctor Who Proms 2010 Running Order

Part one
Murray Gold – The Mad Man With A Box (Prologue)
Murray Gold – An Untimely Arrival
John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Murray Gold – I Am The Doctor
William Walton – Overture (Portsmouth Point)
Gustav Holst – The Planet – ‘Mars’
Murray Gold – Battle in the Skies (Daleks vs. Spitfires)

— INTERVAL — (8:20pm)
on BBC Radio 3: Dance of the Daleks (Incidental music mini documentary)

Part two (8:40pm)
Carl Orff – Carmina burana – 'O Fortuna'
- Interlude - The Doctor turns up, video/live action -
Murray Gold - Amy
Murray Gold - Liz, Lizards, Vampires and Vincent
Richard Wagner - Die Walküre – ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’
Murray Gold - This is Gallifrey/Vale Decem
Murray Gold - Pandorica Suite
Murray Gold - Song of Freedom
Ron Grainer arr., Murray Gold - The Doctor Who Theme
 
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G-Fex

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I decided to give the sixth doctor another chance so I'm watching mark of the rani, still at the beginning of it. I sort of like the Doctors real snootyness. :lol Peri is very cute, she reminds me a little of Ashley Greene, but with real nice tits.
 
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wind_steaker

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anyone who liked the new series should probably check out Sherlock tomorrow evening (BBC1 at 9) as it's written by the Moff!

I'm very hopeful, in Moffat I trust.
 
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JonathanEx

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Doctor Who Prom - 2010

BBC iPlayer (audio)

Part one
Murray Gold – The Mad Man With A Box (Prologue)
Murray Gold – An Untimely Arrival
John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Murray Gold – I Am The Doctor
William Walton – Overture (Portsmouth Point)
Gustav Holst – The Planet – ‘Mars’
Murray Gold – Battle in the Skies (Daleks vs. Spitfires)

— INTERVAL —
on BBC Radio 3: Dance of the Daleks (Incidental music mini documentary)

Part two
Carl Orff – Carmina burana – 'O Fortuna'
- Interlude - The Doctor turns up, video/live action -
Murray Gold - Amy
Murray Gold - Liz, Lizards, Vampires and Vincent
Richard Wagner - Die Walküre – ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’
Murray Gold - This is Gallifrey/Vale Decem
Murray Gold - Pandorica Suite
Murray Gold - Song of Freedom
Ron Grainer arr., Murray Gold - The Doctor Who Theme

Videos (not of the whole thing, probably) will be on the BBC website on Monday. It was filmed in full for BBC Three to be shown in a month or so.
 
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Keyser Soze

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Someone make a thread. My lack of thread making privileges annoys me sometimes.

Sherlock, Being Human, Covert Affairs and Haven (cause it stars Elena Fisher) all should have official threads threads dammit!
 
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Alphahawk

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So what does FNARG stand for anyway

Also am I right to suspect that the christmas episode takes place on
The Orient Express
 
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DrForester

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JonathanEx said:
Doctor Who Prom - 2010

BBC iPlayer (audio)

Part one
Murray Gold – The Mad Man With A Box (Prologue)
Murray Gold – An Untimely Arrival
John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Murray Gold – I Am The Doctor
William Walton – Overture (Portsmouth Point)
Gustav Holst – The Planet – ‘Mars’
Murray Gold – Battle in the Skies (Daleks vs. Spitfires)
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Booo. play Jupiter
 
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Alphahawk

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So being American I just watched the Big Bang, kinda felt let down, it was an intresting concept but didn't really seem like finale material. ..
 
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