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RTD's given us every combination apart from girl-girl. Although we did get a bit of that in the 'Wood.

"He goes seven incarnations without even sniffing a woman"

If you remember, (which of course you don't, you're too young )in the first series he had a granddaughter. Presumably he did a little more than sniff a woman in his first incarnation....

I didn't see it first time round, but rest assured I am familiar with the William Hartnell incarnation (from the surviving episodes) and all the various theories about Susan.

partridge, maybe, maybe not... he's a Timelord, and, if I recall aright, the children are made on looms or some such terribly daft sci-fi thing.

Looms came up in the books. Some people despise the books and will never accept this explanation as "canon". Whatever that means!

'Canon' generally means what's on TV plus whichever bits from elsewhere the speaker personally believes.

DH has written a Captain Scarlet/Dr Who crossover which has Rhapsody Angel as Sarah-Jane Smith's granddaughter - well, School Reunion kind of scuppered that one, which is awkward for him....

Rustybear lol @ "plus whichever bits from elsewhere the speaker personally believes"

It's true - people who dislike the books exclude them from canon and people who like them include them. I'd like to wipe "Time-Flight" from the face of the earth, but I realise I don't have that option!

And anyway - we'd never have had this wonderful parody...

Can't open that one at school - it's on the pornography list!
Have to wait til I get home.

I wonder why?! I don't remember anything naughty in it. Oh well...

Anyone been doing the Doctor Who advent Calender on the BBC website?

TaDa! My rather suasage fingered attempt at making DS2 a member of the (is it a spoiler to say the villains name? They've on the trailers enough haven't they) He wants me to make more, so we can hang them on any public christmas tree we find

Canon is all about trying to avoid obvious fatal contradictions in the ongoing plot and back-story.

It is a noble intention, but ultimately futile when you have such a long-running series that has been kept alive in various forms of media and by many different people.

I admit it, I do tend to think of the original sets of books as sub-canon, especially now they've been plundered for plots. But Russell T plays fast and loose with his own storylines, and likes winding up the more, erm, uptight fans, so I'm guessing anything goes now.

Doctor Who star David Tennant has laughed off speculation that he is planning to quit the show at the end of the next series in 2008.

FFS! If i read the Catherine tate interview riht, she only said she didnt know if DT would continue.

Which is true - no-one knows if he will continue! Its just the usual media frenzy over nothing.

He can deny it or agree, but we wont know until the last minute.

He's contracted to all the Doctor Who it would be possible for him to be committed to. He's going to leave at some point, why do we have to spend the entire extent of his Tenure (see what I did there?) wondering when he's going to leave?

last nights family of blood #2 had me in tears. he's so lonely! he stopped being human and having love to save us all! martha loves him! it's unrequited! Nurses husband died for his country and the one chance that she thinks she ever has of love with a strange mysterious wonderful man - he turns out to be an alien! (oh story of my life! ;) ) then after it's all done, the little boy who had the watch is an old old man and at a memorial day service.

i know it's manipulative, but i get all bleary eyed. my 12 year old dd notices this and has to roll her eyes with 'it's only TV mum...!!'

sob! but he's loooooooonely!!!!

serenity - that is a scary tree ornament!!

I think FoB is art and I will brook no objections. Last of the Timelords was manipulative cobblers - Human nature/Family of Blood was sheer tour de force.

Totally agree. Actually I thought the last ten minutes of Utopia were better than Sound of Drums & LotTLs put together, too. But maybe I'm in a minority?

oo, no, I was actually up on the crutches whooping for joy in the last ten minutes of Utopia. The score made the hairs on the back on my neck stand on end. So much promised... ah well.

Yes my gob hit the floor watching the end of Utopia. And it kind of stayed on the floor until the credits. And then hit the floor in a different way for SoD/LotTL

I liked most of SoD a lot, but LotTL was pants. Human Nature/Family of Blood was brilliant, as was Blink. I guess RTD just couldn't keep up the quality for long enough...

Oooh yes, Blink. Really quite frightening!

That's cos HN/FoB and Blink weren't written by RTD. I agree that Sound of Drums was pretty good too. It just all went a bit cosmically pants in LotTL.

Who doesn't love a crappy 'regained youth by mass chanting' resolution, eh?

Blink is the very best new episode since The Return in 2005. I want Sally Sparrow back!

My DD loves Human Nature/FoB and can quote massive chunks of the dialogue. Worryingly, she even went through a stage of walking round "being" Lucy/daughterofmine - with a long coat, scarf, balloon and toy gun.

We have got her the "vanilla" DVD of all three of those eps. as a stocking-filler.

People may like to know that Paul Cornell, who wrote HN/FoB, has a seasonal DW short story in the Telegraph on Saturday.

He's also written some pretty good non-DW SF, as well.