So...I just started watching Doctor Who

watched a few of these over christmas last year.. never heard about it, very cool

little silly of course, but meh

Thats British humor, for ya.

Loved all the Eccleston and Tennant seasons – but could not get into the Smith guy at all. He ruined the dynamic or something. ymmv

Tom Baker FTW

You know I am.

Eccleston was a great way to kick off the new series but you are soon going to meet my vote for the best Doctor of all time and not just because he is tremendous eye candy.

He isn't Tennant but I'm with him now. He's grown into the character but he needs better assistants. Sorry, to the Amy Pond lovers but she was just 'meh' for me and, without making this a thread that Tofu can't read without huge spoilers, I hated River Song.

The Doctor by which all others are judged.

I started the same place you did a few weeks back. I'm on Season 3 now, and things have changed up a bit.

Word! I can't tear myself away from it. As soon as I get in front of my TV, it's on!
I can't wait to see how this progresses. I'm on Episode 9, Season 1. I've met Harriet and
I dig her. She's fucking awesome!

Come out to LA and join myself and Tofu for the - quickly developing - 50th anniversary episode viewing party. I won't be mad if you don't bring cupcakes.

i lick doctor poo...

Pic would be better if she was flashing her ID.

huge Who fan...even got a Tardis tat as well as a cyberman

Peter Cushing FTW, Just joking! Although Tom was the Doctor I grew up with, Mat Smith is doing a tremendous job (It's just a pity that he's been lumbered with some of the weaker stories of the new series).

Agreed and he had huge shoes to fill. When he started he felt really young but now he's aged up. You can see the years of time travel in his stance. However, yes, it is a shame that he has the writer that wrote some of the best episodes of the new series (Blink ..as we all know) but yet is getting really weak stuff in comparison to Tennant.

Love the good Doctor! Big fan. I feel you about Amy Pond, a meh character but holy moly, what eye candy! She's beautiful! Smith's new companion is also a major babe.

I want this -

I agree with you on Amy, though I liked her better than Rose, who I always thought needed to wash all that makeup off her face and fix her roots.

Love River, though. And I do wish they'd give Matt better scripts.

~Emily

So… all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will – where do you want to start?

That describes about 8/10'ths of all female celebs. And a few males as well. ha

Interesting. I liked Rose which was hard for me because I had to erase the pop career of the actress from my brain. I've believed the relationship between her and her Doctors more than the others recently. The make up and roots thing made her look exactly like the kids that live in her area of London looked like at the time.

But then I am the one that liked Donna (more challenging because I hate the actress generally) and thinks that they totally wasted Martha.

Well Tofu, see ya in a few months lol

I too got hooked on the 2005 + Doctor Who just last year, I avoided the show for YEARS but ended up getting hooked by mistake.

I found a "Movie" On Demand called "Torchwood Miracle Day" It appeared to be a miniseries within 5 minutes of the first part I felt like I was missing A WHOLE LOT so I paused it hit google and found out soooo much more lol...

Torchwood was a spin off type show of Doctor Who, shares storylines and characters, and written / directed by the Doctor Who team as well, There was also another show created called "The Sarah Jane Adventures" Sarah was the companion of one of the doctors (Prior to the 2005 reboot if I remember correctly) You COULD skip the Sara show if you can't find it, I got my hands on those seasons thanks to my brother who has EVERYTHING Doctor related, but imho that show was made for kids and or young girls to get new Doctor Who fans.

If you want the FULL experience queue up Torchwood (and maybe Sara Jane) and watch everything in the following order:


Doctor Who Series 1
Doctor Who "Children in Need" special
Doctor Who "The Christmas Invasion" Christmas special
Doctor Who Series 2
Doctor Who "The Runaway Bride" Christmas special
Torchwood Series 1
Doctor Who Series 3
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 1 (OPTIONAL)
Doctor Who "Time Crash" Children in Need special
Doctor Who "Voyage of the Damned" Christmas special
Torchwood Series 2
Doctor Who Series 4
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 2 (OPTIONAL)
Doctor Who "The Next Doctor" Christmas special
Doctor Who "Planet of the Dead" Easter special
Torchwood Series 3 "Children of Earth" 5 July 6, 2009 July 10, 2009
Doctor Who "Dreamland" (animated) (OPTIONAL)
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3 (OPTIONAL)
Doctor Who "The Waters of Mars" November special
Doctor Who "The End of Time" Christmas/New Year's specials
Doctor Who Series 5
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 4 (OPTIONAL)
Doctor Who "A Christmas Carol" Christmas special
Doctor Who Series 6 (WATCH THE FIRST 7 EPISODES ONLY)
Torchwood Series 4 "Torchwood: Miracle Day"
Doctor Who Series 6 (WATCH THE LAST 6 EPISODES)
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 5 (OPTIONAL)
Doctor Who "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" Christmas special
Doctor Who Series 7 (WATCH FIRST 5 EPISODES ONLY)
Doctor Who "The Snowmen" Christmas Special
Doctor Who Series 7 (WATCH EPISODES 6 To CURRENT)

As for me, I've watched everything above as well as some stuff not listed, LOVED Eccleston's Doctor, he had JUST the right mix of dick and good guy for me then once they switch to Tennant I hated him at first cause he was not Eccleston but by the end of the 3rd episode I LOVED Tennant, Smith.... All these episodes in and I just can't bring myself to like him.

He's a good doctor don't get me wrong but he just doesn't hold a candle to the doctors that have come before him. my only hope is that they change Doctors soon, Tennant had a run of 49 episodes and Smith is sitting at 45 so with any luck we'll have a new doctor come the end of season 7 or the start of season 8.

Enjoy, deff a great franchise and all the shows are great (minus Sarah Jane, I just couldn't get into that one lmao)

-Loki-

Sara Jane was for the really young kids in that show but she is the ultimate in companions from all the Dr. Who seasons.

It is pretty much an open secret in my family that I was likely named partially after Sarah Jane Smith. My mom was/is a big Dr. Who fan and I was born in 1976. She dodges the question when I ask which makes it all the more clear to me. Her middle name is Sarah and my aunt is Jane but I am positive she put them together because of Sarah Jane Smith.

It is a good thing I get turned on by geeks because being a Sarah Ja(y)ne has attracted more than a few less than stellar pickup lines from them.

Actually, it's not a reboot, its a continuation of the original series.

Also don't bother with the last series of Torchwood (rearrange the letters ;) ), the one set in the US, it's really, REALLY bad, obviously trying to break into the American market and managed to drop everything good about Torchwood in the process!

I am not a Torchwood fan and I agree about the American one but Children of Earth was great. There was one part of that where I knew which friends were watching it because FB was full of 'wow, did they just go there' comments.

Inspector Spacetime is so much better!

They ruined the US version.

I'll reword "Reboot" to "Restart" since 2005 was the first new season in 9 years, so it was sort of a reboot meaning they started the show back up, not the typical "lets redo everything" reboot.

and YES YES YES YES I totally agree the last season of Torchwood sucked balls, I could totally see the diff between the rest of the seasons and the last I wish to hell that season could have been done by the BBC and not been all "hollywooded up" lol

As for the rearrange the letters, WOW I never caught that before lol

-Loki-

My brother in law built a tardis. He's a huge Dr. Who fan.

The best Doctor Who was John Pertwee, I got into Doctor Who in those years.

The re-invention of Doctor Who in the 21st century was something that just had to happen, a good thing too - now the Doctor comes to us at a time where a number of things depicted in the original series as Sci Fi oddity are now actual reality!

Love the Tom Baker Dr. Who episodes. However, I never really watched any of the other doctors.

OMG, that is so cool, lol!

Loved Amy & Rory...

Check out the new girl's lesbian fling with gorgeous Debbie Dingle in Brit soap Emmerdale when she was just 19... OMG!

100%
Tom Baker

I need to give that series a try!

I watched the 1st episode and all I saw was some plastic peoplel mucking about, is this what you mean by "awesome?"

If you pay attention, she has had a lesbian interest already in Who as well.

I liked Rory and how dedicated he was to Amy but he got the shaft a lot.

If that is your brother in law, he looks a lot like Ian Dury there.

Is that an open invitation? What if I bring Tardis Cake?

Got the shaft is a lovely way to say "died every few episodes"...

See. Thats just what I'm seeing now. It is going to be difficult to get used to any other doctors. It helps that I already enjoy Eccleston as an actor, aside from playing the Doctor.

I had no idea about Torchwood. SJ never mentioned it. Hmph!

Please tell me that you didn't stop there...

oooh (resisting asking the obvious Tardis question).

Seriously, I do want to have something because what is the point of watching such a special on your own?

I can not wait for Tofu to meet Jack. I know he will be his favorite character.

Jack on Dr. Who is SO much better than Jack on Torchwood.

Rory didn't just die..he waited for so long for her as the guard and just got a 'thanks' sort of treatment.

Dude, it only took you years to listen to me that you would like Who. Why waste my breath on Torchwood? It is on Netflix instant though. Once you meet Jack..you will know when you do ..then start looking at Torchwood. Then you will understand why I went 'oooh' when we saw the autopsy chick during the episode where we meet Harriet.

I was wondering how long into the thread it would take to mention Captain Jack *swoon* I'm surprised it was this long.

As for the cake? It's smaller on the outside, yes And I agree - you can't have something that epic and watch it by yourself. Sorta how I watched the end of BSG.

~Emily

I loved Martha! She was incredibly smart and made for a great (and useful) companion. Although my favorite episode is Blink?which really doesn't have much of the doctor or martha. I'm just a huge fan of Steven Moffat's writing.

*wipes up the discharge from the swooning*

I think I've just met him. Episode 10 with the gas mask kids and their "are you my mummy" shit. I like Jack...bit of an arse, but I like that.

My question is; is the man who plays Jack an American actor or a British guy who does a good American impression?

awesome show

I used to watch it back when I was like 5 until I was about 12. I had no idea this was what I was watching until I was about 28.