Dr. Who
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@remus said:
No need to be jealous of my artistic talent lewis
That's a pretty extreme "sketchy" Style, Remus.
I wonder if the Google Warehouse has a Tom Baker component now....
EDIT: Yes, of course it does.
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I have to admit, I really haven't been interested in the last few incarnations of Dr. Who, but David Tennant, Billy Piper and Catherine Tate have been excellent, the plots are fantastic and the production values have skyrocketed. Last night's "Sliding Doors" type plot was exceptionally good.
And those Adipose a few weeks ago were so cute.
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Here you go, I found this a year or two back on the warehouse. Still looking for an chance to sneak it into a model.
Enjoy
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I won't really give the new Dr. Who a seal of approval until they bring back Davros.
If you don't know who Davros is then you never really knew Dr. Who!
It would be interesting to see what a new version of him would be like.
He was the only character in the old series that was scary.
To make Dr. Who even better all the Escala girls should be his new assistants!
Visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7F4_BBx8Lo&feature=related
Regards
Mr S -
Davros is back tomorrow . . .
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I really should make more use of Google...
I found this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6tqtlqFNf8&feature=related
Not sure if it is real or not.
If real,they seem to have stayed faithful to the original. Great.Regards
Mr S -
Guys -- I noticed that all of you interested in 'Dr. Who', with the exception of Lewis, are in the UK. What is it about 'Dr. Who' that makes it popular in the UK? Is it just because it is made there? Isn't there anything better to watch? It is on TV here in Canada (and has been for years) but I dare to say it is a very low rated show. I'm sure there are some loyal followers here but it would seem they are few and far between. I've watched it a few times over the years but can't see the appeal.
Regards, Ross
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My guess is that it is a very british sort of program, it embodies a lot that is britain. It also has a lot of history here.
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For me, its probably nostalgia.
When I was young there wasn't really anything better to watch.
In the very late 60's and early 70's there were only two programs I and my friends made a point of watching. Dr Who and Batman.In the UK, each generation seems to be able to relate to their childhood by which actor portrayed the Doctor at that time. "My" Doctor was mainly Jon Pertwee. The best one, of course.
Regards
Mr S -
Ross,
I never understood the fuss about Dr. Who either. I guess when it began in the 60's, in B&W it must really have captured the imagination of British children (like Mr S above!) , but by the time I was old enough to watch it (the 80s) it was just low budget, cheesy sci-fi. Now it's a high budget (by UK standards!) cheesy sci-fi with "stars" queuing up to cameo in it- it really feels like a case of the emperor's clothing to me.... sorry Dr Who fans!
...that said, daleks definitely ARE cool.
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@lewiswadsworth said:
And where else would you find a hero whose response to the possible destruction of all life would typically be something like, "Would you like a jelly baby?"
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@jackson said:
Ross,
I never understood the fuss about Dr. Who either. I guess when it began in the 60's, in B&W it must really have captured the imagination of British children (like Mr S above!) , but by the time I was old enough to watch it (the 80s) it was just low budget, cheesy sci-fi. Now it's a high budget (by UK standards!) cheesy sci-fi with "stars" queuing up to cameo in it- it really feels like a case of the emperor's clothing to me.... sorry Dr Who fans!
...that said, daleks definitely ARE cool.
I actually regularly watched the Doctor on (American) PBS, as a child in north Florida in the seventies and eighties. Cheesy side effects aside, it was often (not always) the best-written piece of science fiction available at the time. And where else would you find a hero whose response to the possible destruction of all life would typically be something like, "Would you like a jelly baby?"
I haven't quite enjoyed the new ones as much...somehow, the one where a stereotypically-arrogant-and-crass American superbillionaire nearly destroys the world (or maybe just Salt Lake City) by resurrecting a crash-landed Dalek for his "collection" of alien artifacts ended the charm for me...and I'm usually not terribly sensitive to cultural bashing (and that really wasn't that rough a bashing either).
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