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The Doctor's US debut

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Mister Six, whom all the girls

13:01 / 24.03.06

Oh, me too. I mean let's not get too carried away on you and me selling Doctor Who, but it's a pretty exciting time for the franchise.

Lots of merchandise coming out, DVDs like crazy, action figures... there's a time to be had. While it is VERY different, I don't think that the new series is hurting the old.

13:50 / 24.03.06

There will also be kids comic/magazine and a new partwork series to go along with the long running Doctor Who Magazine (which started off life as a comic) all tied into the new series...

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:08 / 25.03.06

Apparently one of my good friends was/is a Doctor Who fanatic. He had no inkling that they had started it up again, and about dropped his coffee in excitement when I told him about SciFi running the series.

Last night I watched "The Unquiet Dead," and the scene with Dickens and the Doctor made me laugh my ass off.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

21:28 / 25.03.06

...?

Which scene?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:47 / 25.03.06

Probably the one in the cab?

00:26 / 26.03.06

Another fine episode. My favorite so far. Next week looks like the 9-11 as conspiracy inspired one I've heard about. Based on the first three episodes this will have to be added to my DVD collection on July 4th.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:15 / 26.03.06

Just wait till you get to "The Empty Child", is all I'm saying.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

01:38 / 26.03.06

Can I ask that those who have seen season one all the way through either keep out of the threads or at least keep their contribution to 'what it was like when I first saw it'?

Just a suggestion. I'm not saying that to be precious, just to be fair to first viewers.

The 'Unquiet Dead' was a salute to the 'gothic Hinchcliffe' era with elements of dark sets, period settings and horrific situations. I'm still tickled that the inclusion of Dickens was played down in the sci-fi trailers.

My fave of the season.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

08:42 / 26.03.06

I think you can read each episode as being related to a different era of Who, not only does the first episode have a Jon Pertwee monster in it but it very conscious evokes that style of show, the Wheelie Bin that swallows Mickey, the shop dummies going on a rampage, etc, in a way that the next episode goes for (I think) the Troughton era space shows.

Remind me of this when you've seen the entire series and let's see if we can do this for each episode.

09:06 / 26.03.06

I'm still tickled that the inclusion of Dickens was played down in the sci-fi trailers. Do you think this might be because they expected a large chunk of the audience to not know who Dickens was?

11:50 / 26.03.06

I thought it was interesting that had Dickens lived loner than a year after the visit he would have written tales much like Lovecraft of creatures from other dimensions trying to take over this one. Brilliant.

I find it strange that people wouldn't know who Dickens was but we are talking about my fellow Americans so... anything's possible in that regard.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:12 / 29.03.06

Yes, it was the scene in the cab that made me laugh so hard had I been drinking milk it would have come out of my nose.

I have no doubt it's going to get better, the problem is once a week on the telly isn't enough. I want more!!!!

01:02 / 13.07.06

well, the Eccleston series just started quietly in Brazil [at the people+arts cable channel, which airs a lot of BBC productions]. I was anxiously waiting after having failed to grab torrents, having read about it here and in Warren Ellis' Bad Signal.

as far as I know the only WHO that aired here was a tv movie in the 80s; can't remember much about it. cinematography/pruduction values are a bit meh, too much studio lights reflecting everywhere; but maybe that's an BBC thing and a fetich in itself. I love it for it's inherent "British spirit", one can see why it's sort of a national treasure.

some creepy eps [UNQUIET DEAD, DALEK] for a saturday afternoon show, eh? it's cool to have kids terrorized sometimes. I missed some eps, will try to catch a rerun. I love Billy Piper, there's something quite "chav" about Rose.
maybe I'm behing in the mythology, but I'm still to see the time travel concept being relevant to the plot.

anyway, very cool show. crazy stuff.

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