Doctor Who 50th

[KayHarker]

I'm still stupidly excited about the 'new' Troughton episodes, but just to add to the fun, Watch are showing some seriously classic episodes today from 2pm. Any else watching? And what are you looking forward to as we approach the anniversary episode and beyond?

Dalek. Good choice.

Dalek is a good choice, nice reminder of the time war.

The only trouble with "Dalek" is in how they undermined it afterwards. The last Dalek and the last Time Lord, alone and out of place. The Dalek, waiting forever for a response from the other Daleks that will never come, can't come to terms with his loss of purpose and would rather die than live on as the last Dalek; can the Doctor do otherwise and redefine himself in a universe without Time Lords?

...except that, oh look, it turns out that there are actually millions of Daleks who survived the Time War and are just hanging around watching paint dry. And when they've all been destroyed, there are some more Daleks who were hanging around in the Void, and then eventually there's the Dalek Paradigm and the Asylum of the Daleks. So if the Dalek in "Dalek" had hung on for another five minutes it would have been positively inundated with friends and relations.

The Daleks have spent their entire history on the show being 'wiped out' and surviving in some form or another. Dalek works because it's the first (and arguably scariest) outing for the Daleks in NuWho and gives us Ecclescakes superbly tortured performance. It would be so nice to see him again, however briefly, after Hurt regenerates. Probably not going to happen, but it's on my wish list.

So after getting my ticket to see Dr Who at the cinema on Sunday, DH announced that his work jolly trip that he's flying off on this week actually runs until Sunday evening and not Saturday evening as he thought + . I will of course now be divorcing DH...

On the plus side I managed to find The Night of the Doctor and the science of the doctor and watch them several times with great excitement! Is there anything else that I have missed that I need to go and find? UKTV has been showing lots of old episodes for the last few months so have been working my way through those

Saw the trailer at the cinema yesterday. Looks good!

The scariest moment in Dalek comes as they go up the stairs and it follows...

Review of An Adventure in Space and Time (flagged as "spoiler-free", because they presumably don't want to give away the secret of whether Verity Lambert managed to get her fledgling science fiction show off the ground...)

Am avoiding spoilers and reviews for AAIST, as apparently there are some lovely things in it that are best off unspoiled.

Well, this one does claim to be spoiler-free, and DoG are normally good about that in their reviews.

Oh didn't realize it was DoG, might risk it.

glad they showed Blink last night, love that episode.

yy to the camp twat introducing the programmes, I mean, why? OYBBKaleds well done! and all the others too. like itsbiggerontheinside too.

got pics of all the docs in this months DWM and DC (and I) going all googy at Capaldi!

1st time DCs got mad over a doc BEFORE hes stepped foot in the Tardis.

I screamed my head off in delight when Capaldi was announced, so very excited. I'll tell you what though, there's so much anticipation I really hope he doesn't turn out to be a bit pants.

He's never been pants in anything else, so the odds are looking good...

oh hell def be good, he IS the doctor! just get him a decent companion now and were set.

hope he gets 2 companions, a male and female.

He will be awesome!

BBC3 tonight 8pm Doctor Who the ultimate guide!

No, you're quite right, he'll be top drawer.

Karen Gillan has no hair!

PaulMcGannsMistress - I am so getting the Mr McGann thing....

Where is her hair!!

She was in another film!

For all you fellow McGann fans, there is this rather interesting petition here

could be like another touchwood thing?

Adventure, I can't find the movie on my TV guide, which channel and what time??

Hello
Just de-lurking on this thread to say that although I have only really recently got back into Doctor Who after being very keen as a child, I have caught up enough with the last five years or so to be TERRIBLY excited about Saturday.

And I have enjoyed reading your thread immensely, thank you.