Regenerated Doctor Who Geeks Thread

[RustyDaviesBear]

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

Oh and while we're on the subject of the Doctor Who/Hamlet crossover thing - I'm assuming we've all seen this?

Ha! Particularly like the closing couplet!

Yes it's on Sunday and yes it's been sold out from the word go...

Fab Gizmo - thanks for that.

I had a go at my own little updated version of something for Hamlet - to help me remember not to embarrass myself by squealing like a 13 year old when he enters.

The stage, people, the stage! god, you're making up your own jokes now..

anyway...

To squee or not to squee, that is the question -
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the stares and anger of outrag-ed theatre-goers,
or to take arms against a sea of disapproval,
and by opposing, annoy them? To die - to squee
no more: and, by a squee, to say we end
the ear-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
that flesh is heir to. Tis a consummation
devoutly to be wished. To die - to squee
To squee, perchance to dream...

lol Kay - very good too.

But people will squee when he comes onstage won't they!

I'd squee. No doubt

In my defense, it would be partly because I love Hamlet (got a literature degree an everyfing) but have not been able to go to a theatre in aaaggess - let alone the RSC.

so I'm deeply jealous.

but mainly I'd squee because its HIM.

Kay, please can I be your friend too? I liked your piccy and I've read your blog. you really need to think more of yourself y'know.

I'm not posting my piccy because I look like the love child of a horse and an orang-utan. And I'm getting old.

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don't mind me, I'm just wandering past

I thought there might be something fun going on but it is just you lot ovulating over Hamlet

tsk. It's all my fault, sorry about that. I did mention a deleted scene further down the thread, you know, but no-one cared...

I care

more please

I can transcribe if you'd like...

The Doctor: Tell you what, here you go...

The Doctor (cont): This universe is in need of defending. Chunk of Tardis. Grow you own.

The Doctor #2: But that takes thousands of years

The Doctor: No, because...

Donna: ... if you shatterfry the plasmic shell and modify the dimensional stabiliser to a foldback harmonic of 36.3 you accelerate growth by a power of 59!

The Doctor/The Doctor #2: We never thought of that!

Donna: I'm just brilliant!

The Doctor: The Doctor. In the TARDIS. With Rose Tyler. Just as it should be.

Rose (to The Doctor): But I didn't think, what about you, are you? You gonna be all right?

The Doctor: Oh, I've got madam

Donna: Human with a Time Lord brain, perfect combination! We can travel the universe forever. Best friends! And equals, just what old skinnyboy needs, an equal!

Y'know, I wouldn't have minded deferring Casualty by an extra minute or two to get that scene in: it's got everything going for it.

However, I just can't help observing that even if they had been able to accelerate the growth of the Tardis coral by a factor of 59, it would still have taken 33.8 years (assuming it takes approx 2000 years to grow a Tardis 'organically'). Quicker to order one from Abel & Cole, I think.

RTD said they made the decision based on the balance of the amount of information they'd already asked the audience to absorb.

I understand that, and I'm not sure the 'Oh, I've got madam' line works, when it's quite clear in the next scene he knows what's going to happen to Donna.

But the actual screened scene is so abrupt, I can't help feeling it would have been better to risk a little info-overload. Meh, it'll be on the boxset, so I'm having it (obviously) as part of my canon.

Some interesting casting for the specials, from what I hear, too.

What do you hear?

Dammit Kay where do you GET this info?

In keeping with the ye olde shakespearey feel to the thread of late..

She doth like the running, muchly.

I also heard Jennifer Saunders, but you may take that with a pinch of 'hmm, interesting' salt.

These are variously rumours and bits of stuff and nonsense from DWM and interviews and suchlike.

Running? Um, Sally Gunnell?

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But it doesn't raise it by a factor of 59 but to the power of 59.
So if it took him 2 years to grow it, that would be equal to 2 to the power of 59 years of normal growth = 576,460,752,000,000,000 years.

jenny likes the running!

Ah, good thought - that sounds plausible.

Ah Rusty, I stand corrected.

Now shall I blame my maths or my reading skills I wonder?

Kay, have you seen the rumour about BRIAN BLESSED?