The Grey Room

I leave the site for a couple of days and lo and behold: we're still talkin' sheds??? I want to get into this Dr. Who discussion, some of you are gonna have to educate me about this series. Why do they keep changing Dr's all the time? How long has the series been running? And can someone PLEASE GET THAT DAMN THEME SONG OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

The Tardis is a shed? But it's not green and does not have the aforementioned objects necessary for it to fit the description of shed!

chopper wrote: I wish I'd never mentioned sheds now - let's change the subject. Who thinks Doctor Who now is better than it was in the days of our youth? What do people think of Torchwood?  Is Billie Piper a babe?

I grew up watching the 70s/early 80s Doctor Who with Tom Baker, and I loved the series! As a child the fake props and monsters actually seemed very realistic and scary to my young and fertile imagination! (As adults we turn into terribly boorish sceptics). Although I would have to vote for the old series as being the classic and original, I think they've done a great job with resurrecting the series, and look forward to more episodes!

As for Torchwood, do you mean the new series spinoff with Captain Jack? I haven't seen it, only watched a preview, and it looks like it might be worth checking out, but it seems a lot darker and less humourous than Doctor Who (I might be wrong). One of the first few things I saw in the preview was a guy getting his jugular bitten and fake blood spraying everywhere, and women having lesbian alien sex.  I think that this is just a cheap ploy to get a larger audience. One of the things I love about Doctor Who is that they keep it (moderately) tasteful and don't get too much into sex or gore.

Also, I love the humour in the series. You need humour when dealing with dark subject matter as it provides relief during those moments of high tension. Plus I love British humour.

As for Billie Piper, yes she is quite cute, but I wouldn't say she is drop dead gorgeous.


Edited by tardis - November 01 2006 at 20:46

alias10mr wrote: I leave the site for a couple of days and lo and behold: we're still talkin' sheds??? I want to get into this Dr. Who discussion, some of you are gonna have to educate me about this series. Why do they keep changing Dr's all the time? How long has the series been running? And can someone PLEASE GET THAT DAMN THEME SONG OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum woo-ooo.

Sorry.

Doctor Who has been running since the early 1960s, although there was a big gap before Christopher Ecclestone. They keep changing doctors all the time because the actors get fed up doing it and move on to something else. The afore mentioned Mr Ecclestone only managed 1 series.

Another attempt to get off the subject of sheds fails miserably...

We could talk about shacks
    

Edited by Atavachron - November 02 2006 at 02:22

I'm not sure about the new Dr.Who, i do miss the rubber monsters, the squeaky rocks, and the first series in black and white was really scary - i suppose there is a new legion of fans supporting the show now, including my 8 year old nephew who is an avid fan! The new Doctor reminds me too much of Jim Dale in "Carry on up the Tardis" though, i liked the last one.

Geck0 wrote: well at Uni, we had to use Telnet, but for a while, on my 56k dialup, I used Wintin.  I have PuTTY somewhere for use with something else and didn't realise I could play MUDs on it.

Well, all that sounds complete wibble to me - are you speaking English?

Incidentally, may I be the first one to point out that Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who?

Also - Time And Relative Dimension In Space is actually an anagram of SHED (well, in a curious alien dialect, anyway ), which in itself is an anagram of:

Stuff
Hidden
Externally to one's
Domicile

...sort of.
    

I thought that TARDIS stood for "Tat and Rubbish Distributed In Sheds".

Jim Garten wrote: Geck0 wrote: well at Uni, we had to use Telnet, but for a while, on my 56k dialup, I used Wintin.  I have PuTTY somewhere for use with something else and didn't realise I could play MUDs on it. Well, all that sounds complete wibble to me - are you speaking English? Incidentally, may I be the first one to point out that Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who? Also - Time And Relative Dimension In Space is actually an anagram of SHED (well, in a curious alien dialect, anyway ), which in itself is an anagram of: Stuff Hidden Externally to one's Domicile ...sort of.