I've been a huge Doctor Who fan since 2012, and I was wondering, just for fun, if anyone else likes the show.

Yes

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BluzDude
Yes

Since 1963.

I'm a doctor, and I'm a Who fan. Does that count?

I know about the show but I've never watched it. I believe Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones is going to be on it?

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Green Lady
Since 1963.

Alright!! That's awesome!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-10-03 09:38 by stones2000.

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franzk
I'm a doctor, and I'm a Who fan. Does that count?

Close enough

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DGA35
I know about the show but I've never watched it. I believe Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones is going to be on it?

That's right, later on this season

I watch it sometimes.
I'm expecting them to get the Doctor into a Sherlock episode, and/or vice versa.

Yes.

I can tell you who I'm a fan of:

1) Dr Who - Jon Pertwee
2) Dr Who - Tom Baker
3) Dr Who - Sylvester McCoy
4) Dr Who - Christopher Ecclestone
5) Dr Who - David Tennant
6) Dr Who - Peter Capaldi

Favourite companion: Sarah-Jane Smith
Favourite villain: The Master - Roger Delgado, Peter Pratt, John Simm, and Michelle Gomez versions.

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stones2000
I've been a huge Doctor Who fan since 2012, and I was wondering, just for fun, if anyone else likes the show.

since 1963. God I'm old.

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tomcasagranda
Yes.
I can tell you who I'm a fan of:
1) Dr Who - Jon Pertwee
2) Dr Who - Tom Baker
3) Dr Who - Sylvester McCoy
4) Dr Who - Christopher Ecclestone
5) Dr Who - David Tennant
6) Dr Who - Peter Capaldi

Well if we're naming names, I'll stand up fondly for Matt Smith.

I can name names, and say that I'm not a fan of Matt Smith as the Dr - he appealed too much to the teenage element.

I was an early teenager when Peter Davison was the Dr, and he was horrendous; too wet and drippy, and not in the same league as Tom Baker. Colin Baker was horrendous, pompous, and over-acted. He was the embodiment of the 80s, and how it afflicted even a TV show. There was no nuance to his performance, and when you consider how a brilliant series such as the Tom Baker era City of Death was made in 1979, yet 6/7 years later John Nathan Turner, the producer, inflicted us with The Twin Dilemma, and Timelash.

I always think 80s Dr Who was similar to 80s era Stones, Dylan, and McCartney, i.e floundering, looking for direction, creating the odd gem, but otherwise a morass.

Since the seventies.

Think tennant was the best one and loved Billy piper.

Still got to watch the new episodes, but can't get into this new doctor at the moment.

Our first doctor was Baker and I like Capaldi's take. Gomez as Missy just keeps getting better, she stole the first episode for this season. There have been rumors that the series would like to include, among others, The Stones in an episode. Wouldn't that be kooky?

Yes, although I haven't seen all of them and mainly like the new 21st century version of Dr. Who. I thought Christopher Ecclestone was a brilliant doctor and I also liked David Tennant.
My favourite episode (and I actually think the best SF television ever, combining both the most clever use of time-travel-paradox and low-budget-scary-alien) was of course Blink. I think that episode still stands out as absolute genius.
And my favourite line of that episode is "It's the same rain". (With "Look to your left" as a good second).

For older SF, I prefer Blake's 7. Very outdated by now, terrible special effects, too much overacted, too slow, but the bleakness and cynism was brilliant.

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with sssoul
I watch it sometimes.
I'm expecting them to get the Doctor into a Sherlock episode, and/or vice versa.

I think the main writer, Steven Moffat, said he'd be open to the idea. So maybe...

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tomcasagranda
Yes.

I can tell you who I'm a fan of:

1) Dr Who - Jon Pertwee
2) Dr Who - Tom Baker
3) Dr Who - Sylvester McCoy
4) Dr Who - Christopher Ecclestone
5) Dr Who - David Tennant
6) Dr Who - Peter Capaldi

Favourite companion: Sarah-Jane Smith
Favourite villain: The Master - Roger Delgado, Peter Pratt, John Simm, and Michelle Gomez versions.

Nice! I really like Christopher Eccleston too. Wish he'd stayed longer. And I wonder how long Capaldi is going to stay for

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stones2000
I've been a huge Doctor Who fan since 2012, and I was wondering, just for fun, if anyone else likes the show.

since 1963. God I'm old.

That's so cool! Man I wish I could've been with Doctor who since 1963. How cool it must be for you, having watched every new regeneration

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tomcasagranda
Yes.
I can tell you who I'm a fan of:
1) Dr Who - Jon Pertwee
2) Dr Who - Tom Baker
3) Dr Who - Sylvester McCoy
4) Dr Who - Christopher Ecclestone
5) Dr Who - David Tennant
6) Dr Who - Peter Capaldi

Well if we're naming names, I'll stand up fondly for Matt Smith.

fezzes are cool

and i agree that blink is a masterpiece of an episode -- scary and twisty

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tomcasagranda
I can name names, and say that I'm not a fan of Matt Smith as the Dr - he appealed too much to the teenage element.

I was an early teenager when Peter Davison was the Dr, and he was horrendous; too wet and drippy, and not in the same league as Tom Baker. Colin Baker was horrendous, pompous, and over-acted. He was the embodiment of the 80s, and how it afflicted even a TV show. There was no nuance to his performance, and when you consider how a brilliant series such as the Tom Baker era City of Death was made in 1979, yet 6/7 years later John Nathan Turner, the producer, inflicted us with The Twin Dilemma, and Timelash.

I always think 80s Dr Who was similar to 80s era Stones, Dylan, and McCartney, i.e floundering, looking for direction, creating the odd gem, but otherwise a morass.

I can understand what you're saying about Matt Smith. Towards the end of his time as the Doctor, though, he did show a wiser, darker side.

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tomcasagranda
Yes.
I can tell you who I'm a fan of:
1) Dr Who - Jon Pertwee
2) Dr Who - Tom Baker
3) Dr Who - Sylvester McCoy
4) Dr Who - Christopher Ecclestone
5) Dr Who - David Tennant
6) Dr Who - Peter Capaldi

Well if we're naming names, I'll stand up fondly for Matt Smith.

fezzes are cool

and i agree that blink is a masterpiece of an episode -- scary and twisty

Matt Smith was pretty great! I loved his Pandorica speech. The whole Pandorica story arc blew my mind when I first watched it. So brilliantly written

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matxil
Yes, although I haven't seen all of them and mainly like the new 21st century version of Dr. Who. I thought Christopher Ecclestone was a brilliant doctor and I also liked David Tennant.
My favourite episode (and I actually think the best SF television ever, combining both the most clever use of time-travel-paradox and low-budget-scary-alien) was of course Blink. I think that episode still stands out as absolute genius.
And my favourite line of that episode is "It's the same rain". (With "Look to your left" as a good second).

For older SF, I prefer Blake's 7. Very outdated by now, terrible special effects, too much overacted, too slow, but the bleakness and cynism was brilliant.

Blake's 7? Hmm, never heard of that show. I'll have to check it out

I liked Blake's Seven. Chris Boucher, the writer, was also behind Robots of Death, a great Dr Who series from the 1970s. The first two series of Blake's was excellent; the second too, less so, but then Gareth Thomas, Sally Knyvette, had left the series, as did Travis, who was an amazing villain.

There already is a Stones connection with Dr Who, in that Stargroves, Mick Jagger's mansion, was used as a setting for two Tom Baker serials - Pyramids of Mars, and Image of The Fendahl. Coincidentally, both were very good serials, with Pyramids of Mars being the better of the two.

City of Death I like, as every time I watch it, I find a fresh nuance: I think Douglas Adams has that effect, yet he didn't with The Pirate Planet, as he was the writer on that serial.

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matxil
Yes, although I haven't seen all of them and mainly like the new 21st century version of Dr. Who. I thought Christopher Ecclestone was a brilliant doctor and I also liked David Tennant.
My favourite episode (and I actually think the best SF television ever, combining both the most clever use of time-travel-paradox and low-budget-scary-alien) was of course Blink. I think that episode still stands out as absolute genius.
And my favourite line of that episode is "It's the same rain". (With "Look to your left" as a good second).

For older SF, I prefer Blake's 7. Very outdated by now, terrible special effects, too much overacted, too slow, but the bleakness and cynism was brilliant.

Blake's 7? Hmm, never heard of that show. I'll have to check it out

At that time (end of the 70s) I was in my teens, and I was pleasantly shocked by its cynism, the absolute lack of any good vs bad moral. The main moral of the series seemed to be that ideals are useless when you want to survive. It was very dystopian.
But I am not sure how much of the series is still watchable now, due to the aforementioned low-budget "effects" (for lack of a better word) and the rather theatrical overacting. You can find some episodes on YouTube, I think.

love dr who. hate the clara show.

yes Jon Pertwee was the best Dr imho

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keefriffhards
yes Jon Pertwee was the best Dr imho

I disagree, as Tom Baker's period with Philip Hinchcliffe as producer, and some of Graham Williams, was a great time for the show. In my opinion the best ever Dr Who serials were as follows:

1. The Deadly Assassin
2. Genesis of The Daleks
3. Pyramids of Mars
4. Ark In Space
5. City of Death
6. Robots of Death
7. Masque of Mandragora
8. Brain of Morbius
9. Image of the Fendahl
10. Seeds of Doom

You cannot top Tom Baker.

my scientific theorem -- based upon many years of research and consequent and tangental studies and further symposiums, conferences, and caucuses -- is that everyone imprints on their first doctor experienced -- like the ducklings we are.

i first met the doctor as david tennant (who married the daughter of the fifth doctor (what is life like for her?), and as such that has become my image of the doctor. it was rough for me to meet matt smith as the doctor, but i know people who had matt smith as their first and cannot fathom david tennant as the doctor.

(apparently david tennant's tongue has it's own reddit and tumblr pages, and the activity of that muscle is part of the off-putting vis a vis david tennant. i put forth that the tongue action in the series is a result of the scottish tongue trying to get around an authentic london accent) (i accept it as part of the whole. i imprinted, you see.)

matt smith did in time win me over -- although i can't get my head around frozen fish fingers and custard -- but yes, fezzes are cool.

now, i cannot watch tom baker as the doctor at all....but i know that those tom baker evangelists have their zeal ingrained in them and cannot help themselves (with apologies to all you tom bakerists).

i was over the moon with the special the day of the doctor: the bunny is just a bunny and fezzes are cool! allons-y!