Who here is watching this?
...Greetings. As if to confuse people, I am Posting upon this older Thread which is also about Doctor Who...
I only wanted to reiterate what I just happened to catch the good Doctor saying at the end of this last night's episode. Another of those multitude of things which I myself would one day like to start a new Thread about:
"Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable From Magic."
...I was gladdened to hear it said upon Television, for This Quote is one of the Mantras in my own life! ...One of the others is this next Quote:
"There is no such thing as an impossible, only a thing the doing of which has not yet been learnt."
(I do not know when I may get opportunity to Post again, though. But I am for watching WebPM elsewhere, though.)
...Just saying... :-)
The last two episodes were filmed in South Africa, where it was pretty warm. Also, the actors are provided with coats and hot water bottles between takes on Welsh night shoots.
Still can't get it alas. BBC Entertainment is two episodes behind but I was curious to see what a new writer and new Who would do with it. I did not like the more recent versions much. I think the acting is overdone and the stories too OTT, all of it too clever for its own good.
I grew up with Hartnell, Troughton and as a teenager, Pertwee. I remember when it first started my mother getting excited about it: 'Daleks!' she said. I remember being put off by the idea that was was a doctor, being a little scared of doctors. Even I thought it intriguing the TARDIS was bigger on the inside than out.
It was great fun every Saturday afternoon! Later on there was a great story with Pertwee on giant maggots, it was starting to get pretty gothic by then.
This is to both LoneWarrior and TFW7... (Although, yes I have missed my own humour as well - I am not as good at spontaneous humour as are Miss Elephant-In-The-Room or Mr Martian Tom...!)
...Now there are Two "Doctor Who" Threads! (Along with one each of Star Trek, Pokemon, My Little Pony, etc...)
https://community.autism.org.uk/f/miscellaneous-and-chat/4623/dr-who/
Maybe this Thread can start a unique Sub-Thread, with the topic being: ...Which 'Doctor Who' did anyone 'grow up' with?
...Mine would be Tom Baker: Scary, with a proper Man's voice (deep), and he had K9 - yay! & When he changed into that tiny Peter Davidson, that was pretty awesome for me to see as a child, too (!). And yes I used to "hide behind the sofa" sometimes, too. I happen to think/know that Dr.Who maintains its appeal due to a) the "suspense" rather than the action/violence, ...and b) in background music, a Vocal Choir is sometimes used, that is, Real Voices making music, rather than just Instruments, discordant or not...
Lastly, I always wanted and still want a K9 of my own... if I had a Laboratory, I would build one. But I would not build a Dalek despite liking them as well, since I would certainly be arrested for stunning or 'EXTERMINATE!'-ing people who bully me...?!
(That was a rather long Post about a Fictional Matter, eh? Not that I am a "Fan" or write my own stories sometimes, no...) (!)
Rather tangential silly thing: I just saw a screenshot of BBC News, printed in Private Eye. The ticker tape at the bottom, clipped by the edge of the screen, reads...
DOCTOR WHO WORKS FOR RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Off on a tangent for those who remember Torchwood:
Eve Myles is just the Welshest Welsh person ever. I have some vocal ticks linked with echolalia, and one of them is whenever I hear or read the word "Wales" having to repeat "Wales" in a really really Eve Myles styely Welsh accent. I'm doing it know.
A step on from that is "Aliens, Welsh aliens" in a really really really really Eve Myles styely Welsh accent.
Watching that "Keeping Faith" drama on a few weeks ago was fun, I can tell you!! (Hint, featured Eve Myles being very Welsh,and lots of other really really Welsh people. Set in Wales.)
Hi DC,, I have so missed your humour,,,you always bring a smile to my face,,,I have watched many different doctors over my vast years, David tennant although quite good basically exposed every unknown and used up way to much of the hidden history of the DR,
I actually liked Catherine Tate, also unusually for me kylie minogue was quite good, shhh did I really say that?
Also billy piper played certain parts very well, I haven’t seen the latest dr, John Pertwee was about when I was young, cardboard scenery but he added a little eccentricity, later played wurzell gummidge he he, he kept losing his head Lol.
Greetings; I saw most of the first episode and part of the end of the second. I agree with what "tfw7" says, so far, also. I myself mostly ever watch Doctor Who for the Daleks, K9, and Freema Agyeman, and for attempts at educating Historical Facts.
...But I post here mainly in order to get this obvious thing over with: Whenever they are to be chased by Aliens, I keep expecting Bradley Walsh to yell: "The CHASE is ON!" (Although Catherine Tate never said: "Am I Bovvered, though? Do I look bovvered?") ;-)
