Doctor Who

 Yes!

"Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow".

I like both classic and NuWho. Of the classics I like the 3rd and 4th Doctors (Jon Pertwee and Colin Baker, EDIT, I meant Tom Baker, but I do like Colin Baker more than many) the most, and, showing my age, lost interest in the show in the 80s, but the new series got me back into Doctor Who. I have yet to complete the first and second doctors episodes of the classic series, but have seen all the other episodes (other than the Paul McGann pilot/ TV movie which I couldn't make it through).

You're rather lucky to just be discovering the show now (or at least the modern series).   It's too long a hiatus for me and my daughter while we're waiting for series 10 (my son doesn't really like it) and have watched all the modern eps multiple times already. Most of the shows I watch are too adult for family viewing, so it's great to have something like Doctor Who which I can safely watch with the whole family.

You're a long way off, A_Flower, but if I were to choose one favourite Doctor Who episode it would be one of the most recent ones (featuring Peter Capaldi) called Heaven Sent (a dark episode).

As well as Doctor Who, I liked its spin-off Torchwood a lot, particularly for its season/series/serial Children of Earth (another dark one featuring a pre The Doctor Capaldi, hope that's not a spoiler).

We had a Doctor Who appreciation thread from a few years ago, and I know there have been quite a few fans here.

For any fans of classic Who who still haven't seen The Curse of Fatal Death featuring Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM

Edited by Logan - August 06 2016 at 00:00

Count me as a fan.

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Another Whovian here, both classic and new! The very first and last incarnations of the Doctor are my favourite so far, probably because they're so similar. 

Edited by Kotro - August 06 2016 at 03:26

Favourite Dr Who dialog:

I like Dr Who, but I'm more a fan of the old show preferaby with Tom Baker as the doctor, and crap specal effects. You may have to be British and of a certain age to appreciate the old Dr Who..

Dr Who is a kids' programme that has grown-up with its audience irrespective of how old you were when you started watching it. Originally designed to be educational it sort to give life-lessons through nightmarish stories. It was for many youngsters in the sixties the programme that you watched from behind the sofa, too frightening to watch but too gripping to tear your eyes away from and even today kids rate episodes by how scary they are, with the bad ones being less scary (and often more wordy and thus boring). I remember watching the original Ghostbusters during an afternoon matinee showing at the local cinema where most of the audience were young kids, all their laughter was not from the scripted gags that we adults laughed at, but from the scenes that scared them the most ... Kids love that kind of safe-scary almost cartoon-like stuff that Dr Who used to deliver because it wasn't realistic and doesn't mess with psychological fears or grim no-escape horror. Dr Who always had a clever solution to the cliff-hanger ending of each episode, brain beats brawn and any terror can be overcome. Older viewers who have stuck with it still fondly remember the earlier episodes and the Doctor that first introduced them to the programme but now they're not watching it from behind the sofa so are more critical of how each story is played. My daughter was 17 when 'Blink' was aired and it scared the crap out of her, yet she still watched it twice whereas I found it more as a clever concept, well written and smartly played except for the one (unnecessary) scene where the Angels were shown with 'scary' faces... less scared : more critical.

Really enjoyed the latest/modern Dr. Who episodes, still think the Rose ones were the best.

Doug, Have you seen all the Capaldi episodes thus far? I liked series 9 much more than series 8. Said it before, but to me "Heaven Sent" is a real diamond, and top of my pecking-order in Doctor Who episodes (not that I've seen all of the first two Doctors episodes). It's everything I had hoped for with Capaldi. By the way, I probably started with Doctor Who at about the same time as you.

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Dean, I'm having problems with formatting in your post, and keeping that spoiler hidden, so in regards to your spoiler post without quoting:

I've read an article about that CLICK

Spoilers (also highlight text to read):

 Karen Gillan who would later play the 11th Doctor's companion Amelia Pond was also in Fires of Pompeii (as a soothsayer that would have died due to the eruption). She wasn't based on a real character like Capaldi's, but hey-ho. If both Frobisher and Caecilius frowned the Doctor that face, better said as the Doctor chose that face as a reminder to always save people, such as young Master Davros, no matter the consequences ("I'm the Doctor, and I save people") then what can the message be with the double-use of Gillan if there is one? The Doctor did not save soothsayer Gillan, nor did the Doctor save Amy Pond from the weeping angels back-in-time thing. Yes Amy chose to join Rory. Of course it was a later incarnation that chose that face as reminder to save people, so there's no conflict, I just find it kind of interesting. In a way the Gillan incident gives more credence to the whole change of heart, reminder story, or whatever. Time does not need need to re-assert itself. Anyway, my silly ramblings aside, seems that Amy and the soothsayer are both related by Moffat's logic. I really am confusing myself here. Move along....

Warning too, youtube spoilers, watch at peril:



Spoiler, highlight:

 An aside, but there have been quite a number of re-appearances of characters as different people over the years. One of my favourites was Colin Baker portraying two Gallifreyans, Commander Maxil and the 6th Doctor. It was particularly interesting because Colin Baker as Maxil shot the Colin Baker Doctor's predecessor.


Edited by Logan - November 24 2018 at 11:00