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Doctor You?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:36 / 26.12.05

(Technically a Film and TV question, but it's designed as a lightweight fluff thread so I didn't really want to dump it there...)

After watching yesterday's Doctor Who, and being utterly gobsmacked by the way they've managed to make our very own Haus into a Time Lord, I got to thinking about how Barbelith would be if we were all Time Lords, and how well 'lithers would translate to the role of the Doctor.

Sadly, I came to the conclusion that I'd be a crap Doctor. If I had the Tardis, with the ability to travel anywhere in time and space, I'd probably just use it to go to the pub. Then I'd leave my sonic screwdriver on the table and have to call a cab to get home cos I'd be in no fit state to drive the damn thing. And when I got there I'd realise I'd left my sonic screwdriver on a table.

How do you reckon you'd fare, were you Who too?

sleazenation

12:54 / 26.12.05

Well I did really well at the, admitedly piss easy, Attack of the Grask interactive red button adventure, So hopefully I'd be a better companion than Adric... or worse, Cameleon...

Persephone

13:19 / 26.12.05

You don't have to be just a companion, though. You can be Time Lord! There's a question: would you rather be a companion than a time lord?

Mourne Kransky

13:33 / 26.12.05

C'mon, guys. Where d'you think the Captain Jack character came from? Quick-witted, sexy butt, heroic streak, great dancer? Captain Xoc may sue RTD for identity theft.

sleazenation

13:41 / 26.12.05

Which has the higher mortality rate?

Mourne Kransky

13:43 / 26.12.05

And by my mastery of the remote control, I am flicking back and forth between Discovery Channel and Discovery Channel +1 and have convinced boozehound Ganesh that I can control time itself!

sleazenation

13:53 / 26.12.05

But did you attack the Grask, Capt Xoc?

Mourne Kransky

14:00 / 26.12.05

Let sleeping Grasks lie, say I. Too busy having some oral with The Face of Bo.

sleazenation

14:05 / 26.12.05

Giving the face some head?

Mourne Kransky

14:10 / 26.12.05

You don't get that with your interactive button. :P

Mistoffelees

14:16 / 26.12.05

So hopefully I'd be a better companion than Adric...

Is a "companion" in Dr Who the same as in Firefly/Serenity?

angel

14:34 / 26.12.05

*shudders*

Benny the Ball

16:03 / 26.12.05

I'd be a great time lord, I have the dapper clothes, and I look fantastic in a scarf.

I do suffer from lethergy from time to time, but seeing as the Doctor himself spent a few hours in bed during the christmas invasion, I'm putting it down to a particularly tricky regeneration (also, I was blonde and slim in my previous incarnations).

Mourne Kransky

16:22 / 26.12.05

Wedding clothes dilemma sorted too: David Tennant stylee down the aisle. Do you have the required big, dopey doe-eyes though: innocently pleading and simultaneously creepy, like Puss in Boots in Shrek II?

Benny the Ball

17:26 / 26.12.05

Hmmm, might be a little squinty when without glasses... but wait a moment! The Doctor wears glasses now! I'm there!

matthew.

23:41 / 26.12.05

I'd probably become a supervillain with the phonebooth. Like Kiefer Sutherland.

Tryphena Absent

00:01 / 27.12.05

I don't think I'd make a timelord at all but I suspect my destiny may be Dr Who's human friend who hangs out in the tardis and looks a bit confused.

Mourne Kransky

09:21 / 27.12.05

You are very Sarah Jane Smith, Nina, right enough.