Dr Who

[Buster's Uncle]

To start off:

About Doctor Who - if the Beebe would hire a good writer, good video editor and good sound mixer, there's a mint to be made going through all the intact stories of the old show and editing them down to the length the story wanted to be, sans the pointless/boring running around that didn't advance the plot and served only to pad that sucker out to 4-6 episodes when 2 would have done. 

It's something I've noticed time and again, even when watching the good ones with the 4th Doctor and Romanna - over half is always boring filler.  (Mylochka and I watched Castrovalva last night, which was deadly bad for the first half it took to even get to the eponymous locality, then suddenly became not-terrible once TristanDoctor hit town.) I'm not advocating something like Star Trek Remastered with fixing the special effects to so-so results.  You'd still be stuck with the old scripts, old performances, much of the old sets, and all the costumes.  But good stories and bad alike could all benefit from tighter pacing and getting to the good parts a lot faster.

The BBC could make a mint selling DVDs of the old show to the same fans all over again, and have something much more likely to appeal to new fans and curious fans of the current version.  This is something even you or I could do crudely on the computer with something like Windows Movie Maker, provided only the will, the patience, and some good story-telling skills - and I wish some fans would, in hopes of the right people at the beebe seeing it on YouTube and getting inspired.

I'd really like to see a Good Parts version of Castrovalva, you see...

Valka, I'm enthusiastically Romanna II too.

Mary Tamm had a Mrs. Peale thing going that had promise if they'd gone for it, but it never got played up with the Doctor taking the Steed role.  She wore the living heck out of the fabulous costumes, and had that model's perfect beauty.  Good job, and nothing not to like. 

But Lala Ward - still very good-looking, and made a flawed real girl attractiveness really work for her.  Wore the costumes -maybe not as well, but still-  very well, and they came up with cuter outfits for her, too.  Perky and funny and oh, so very likeable.  Much more chemistry with Baker.  Looked like she was having a good time, and seemed more committed to the role.  I want to marry a young Lala Ward for a week with an option for more if it works out.


I love the revival so far.


Zoid, I expect you to speak up...

[Green1]

4th Doctor this, 4th Doctor that.

(BTW, you know the 4th Doctor and Ramona 2 got married in real life? That is until Atheist legend Richard Dawkins got her because she was set up by Douglas Adams of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame.. Imagine the conversations there...lol.)

Let's talk about the REAL Doctor.... The 7th. manipulative, scheming and a kick butt companion.

Oh yeah.. that companion blows stuff up and hits Daleks with baseball bats... and survives!

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmmm.  He was the Doctor when you were about 20, I think, not the traditional 12.  Was he your first, perchance?

Everybody knows about the marriage...

[Green1]

The first one was the 4th.

I lost interest around the time celery crochet man and boy wonder took over.

Then when rainbow vomit coat came to be, I totally lost it until the episodes or so.

Then awesome Doctor came with lezzie psycho chick with explosives. If it just had better effects. But, most of the stories were really deep. But, the Sylvester McCoy stories did not seem to prod like Tom Bakker stories.

[Buster's Uncle]

Interesting. 

"lezzie"?  Dude.

Zoid loves gay rainbow doctor, so that ought to be good for a post.

[Green1]

Interesting. 

"lezzie"?  Dude.

Yes.... Ace was going to have a lezzie tendencies from Survival on...

I mean... just look at her...


Oh, and it's documented...

    [They] should have just had cheetah eyes and a very faint pigmentation round of cheetah spots, and big canine teeth. And in fact, I think the actors that were cast, from what I was told, were doing all this wonderful expressive facial work, and then these 'Puss In Boots' things were dropped on them – and so then you can't see what they're doing under there. Particularly Karra and Ace, there were whole amazing scenes between them and for me, that was supposed to be my lesbian subtext – and you can't see it!
    —Rona Munro, 2007 interview

Although it was later written in that Gritz took her virginity when she was 16.

There is also the later fiction where she slept with anything and anybody in addition to continuing to blow stuff up in comics and novels. But... the canon of those is questionable.

But, whats not to like about a lezzie chick carrying rocket launchers and grenades. Although Doctor Who just really takes advantage of her and plays some pretty mean head games.

[Buster's Uncle]

I was questioning the propriety/sensitivity of the terminology is all...

[Unorthodox]

Yeah...that wouldn't fly some places. 

Anyway, I watched some of the 4th doctor, but haven't really watched much of anything else.  Tried an episode of the rehash, but didn't grab me.  Don't know what age I was when I caught it either, as the local PBS stations are a little weird.  Might have been the only thing on during one of my strange schedule stretches. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Which doctor in the revival?  Soccer thug, anorexic guy, or the young chin?  It makes a difference, maybe.

I'm not sure it flies here - personal opinion.  We're pretty wall to wall lefties.

[JarlWolf]

To be honest I've never watched Doctor Who, any of them. I heard of it way back when but I just never got into it/bothered to try it.

[Buster's Uncle]

Its - it was always a children's show, really.  The revival isn't, but it still helps if you found the Doctor young.

[JarlWolf]

My knowledge of Dr.Who is next to none as well. I know barely anything about it. All I know is there was something about a time traveling phone booth, but that's it, and I have a feeling that is horribly inaccurate even.

[Green1]

I want to see John Hurt (Alien chestburster surprise doctor) in the 50th. He is going to be an evil cross between soccer leather jacket hooligan doctor and one shot Edwardian dress movie doctor.

With the exception of some times with 11 or 7, we really have not had a dark doctor in a while.

My knowledge of Dr.Who is next to none as well. I know barely anything about it. All I know is there was something about a time traveling phone booth, but that's it, and I have a feeling that is horribly inaccurate even.

Some of the new ones are actually pretty good. The new series does not prod the way the old ones do.

This last series with anorexic young Bill Nye doctor were well written for the most part. I also enjoyed the season finale. The whole lead up over a season and a half to Clara's mystery was a good show.

My only deal is, this is the Doctors upcoming 12 regeneration. Somewhere between his 12th and 13th he becomes the Valeyard which will be awesome.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm not certain it would be awesome at all.




Which Romanna, BTW? All must choose.



When Adric was killed off?  A friend of mine threw an "Adric go to Hell" party for viewing the PBS showing of that episode.  Much beer was consumed, and there was strip poker.

[JarlWolf]

  Much beer was consumed, and there was strip poker.

Did one thing lead to another and end up in some kinky SMAC/X talk?