Regenerated Doctor Who Geeks Thread

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Sorry for the delay - internet went down just as I clicked create conversation....

Did you see the BBC news story about the woman who really composed the Doctor Who music?

(Weng Chiang, I think)

Dt and PS are doing an openair talk at the RSC in August called 'Shakespeare and Me'

Tickets here

Not that anyone's going to interested........

Very big Dr Who fan - but actually atm I am enjoying the naughty Dr who stuff.....lots

Are there any links to any more?

Gizmo what is the Medusa Cascade doing in Bradford on Tone????

Yes, it's Talons of Weng-Chiang. No full episodes on the Choob (as far as I can see), but there are some clips !

Serenity - you're getting two consecutive stories from 1977 mixed up there. Both have Victorian setting. The one with the little Chinese man (the "Peking Homunculus") is the aforementioned Talons of Weng-Chiang, the lighthouse one is Horror of Fang Rock.

• Did you watch it in the old days?

Started with Jon Pertwee, that frilly shirt and then Tom Baker

• Did you think it was a bit crap? (be honest)

No, was terrified of it.

• Did people who watched Doctor Who at your school have the piss taken out of them? Was it seen as a bit sad and geeky?

Not at all, it proved you were hard

• If so, what has changed?

Well it's been sexed-up alot, hasn't it? Don't recall Mother gawking at Baker, or sobbing over the plight of Leela.

• Is the new emphasis on "relationship/character" drama important to you, or do you like an old-fashioned monster episode as much as the next person?

Monsters and relationships better.

• Are you less likely to watch an episode set on an alien planet and/or in the far future?

I watch it all, it's the story telling I like regardless where or when it's set.

• Would it be a turn-off for you to watch a Planet Zog episode in which the blue-skinned Zurgs battle the green-skinned Thaargs for control of an alien device? Or is this just a myth?

Maybe?

• I watched Dr Who in 'the old days' but gave up with CB and Sylvester. The BBC had clearly gone mad and nobody cared about the programme at all.

• It was NOT crap until the aforementioned Colin and Sylvester.

• Don't recall anyone taking the piss or thinking it was geeky.

• I do like old fashioned monsters BUT the character stuff when done well makes it more satisfying as adult drama. That means not spending more than a very small amount of time on it and NONE AT ALL on Martha's very boring family. Or Martha.

• I would like more aliens and alien planets, balance is a bit out atm.

• Wasn't the episode when the Doctor gave a big speech at the end about how guns are always A Bad Thing a Planet Zarg two groups of aliens battle it out for control of some mysterious device type of episode?

The Delia Derbyshire story is very sad indeed. AND the poor woman never gets a proper credit. It's all Ron Grainer this and Ron Grainer that. WHO was the person spooling all that tape all the way down the corridors of Broadcasting House? Hmm?

edam, yes indeed. Delia's arrangement is what made that theme. She is a Radiophonic Goddess!

It looks like it was just my school where people took the p out of Who-fans. Not primary school - everyone watched it there - but my grammar school days, by the time Colin and then Sylvester had taken over and most people had stopped watching. It was seen as deeply uncool. If you wanted to pull girls, you certainly didn't mention Doctor Who.

I envy young chaps who are fans today, where parties are full of lissom Whovianettes who look like Eliza Dushku in leather trousers.

Well UD, I was friends with a total Who Geekoid at school, he had is own fully operable Dalek and interestingly was also a Young Conservative. I don't think he did much pulling tho.

Oh God - is it you?

i just found this whilst surfing youtube

It's a bit weird, but amusing in an entirely puerile way

UD - thank you My excuse is that I was only 6 in '77!

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And also here Gizmo!

(tickets have arrived here too - have emailed - thank you again).

I treated myself to Genesis of the Daleks on DVD today. [indulgent] I say treating myself, but Dh is currently drooling over Sarah-Jane in something other than scratchy wobbly VHS recording...

And so he should! Good man!!

not these days uqd get a grip man.

So, I was just reading the clone doctor's livejournal blog, and suddenly thought - which version of the doctor does River Song know? If he really is growing a tardis, could it be the clone?

Doctor 10.2 is theoretically trapped in the alternate universe, though, whereas River Song is/was in our universe (where Doctor 10.1 is). I suppose hypothetically Doctor 10.2 might keep getting sucked through when walls between realities break down and keep meeting River Song every time, but Occam's Razor suggests it's more likely she knows Doctor 10.1.

Also, am I imagining that she made some comment to him about regeneration when she was stopping him plugging himself into the machine (I might very well be imagining it, of course)? If she did then that also argues in favour of Doctor 10.1 as Doctor 10.2 can't regenerate so is unlikely to have wittered on about it to her.

Ah yes - all good points. Thanks PortAndLemon.