Doctor Who thread III: Mad men in a blue box. Everything Whovian. (SPOILERS)

[Stressfactor]

I read an interview or column by Moffit recently in which he said, if he had his way, the Doctor would always have two companions. I agree.

Of course, he didn't specific address the "male" part, but the context of the conversation was about Rory.

I think the modern format of stand-alone episodes helps to kind of support more of a TARDIS crew.

I think it also provides a little more 'mixing and matching' among interpersonal relationships. And things don't have to then be quite so binary with the two choices with Doctor-Companion relationships always seeming to be either "friendship" or "in love with the Doctor".

I'd dearly LOVE to see them do a series with a parent-child companion pair on Team TARDIS -- like a father and son, or mother and daughter (hey, you could get TWO 'something for the dads' for the price of one), or a father and daughter or a mother and son... It could really bring an interesting dynamic.

[Captain Clarkie]

As for the shirt, tie, dressing gown thing - I'm fairly sure that's not a dressing gown.

It's a smoking jacket, which were very popular during the early 70s and earlier.

Ah, so they are, they're just very ugly ones rather than the classic velvet, even so, classy look on an Auton.

[Spike-X]

Looks like a new trailer is out:
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/08...eries-six.html

Bit more of a downer this time, revolving around the prospect of the Doctor's death.

Never noticed the name of the lake before now, though.

Did you catch what was written on the side of the pyramid?

[Paul McEnery]

Never noticed the name of the lake before now, though.

Did you catch what was written on the side of the pyramid?

I are dumb. What woz they?

[dupersuper]

Did you catch what was written on the side of the pyramid?

"No Vacancy"?

[Spike-X]

AREA 52

underneath a US flag.

[king mob]

I believe the pyramid is from the final episode.

[Matt]

I wonder how many travellers The Doctor has inspired or created during his life?
For example, recently we saw those Pirates gain a spaceship and fly off.
Before that, Jenny blasted off to explore the Universe.
Even in the classic series, Ghostlight showed us a rag-tag band who flew off into the unknown in a spaceship.

Any others?

On a sidenote, I'm rewatching Ghostlight right now. Excellent sets and theme work, works to set up tension very nicely at the start. A great 7th Doctor story which allows his 'manipulative bastard' side to come out in a non-violent way. Almost surreal in places, it keeps you wondering.

[dupersuper]

I wonder how many travellers The Doctor has inspired or created during his life?
For example, recently we saw those Pirates gain a spaceship and fly off.
Before that, Jenny blasted off to explore the Universe.
Even in the classic series, Ghostlight showed us a rag-tag band who flew off into the unknown in a spaceship.

Any others?

Captain Jack and Torchwood
Mary Jane and her attic crew
the jewel theif with the flying bus
the waitress floating through space
the Silurion and her lady friend
the Sontaran nurse
there was a comic strip the Dr Who threads linked to a while back featuring the 1st 10 Doctors that had a guy in a teleporting car and a guy and gal in a spaceship, and Leela living on Galifrey

[Holacik]

Captain Jack was already travelling through space and time the Doctor just got him to clean up his act.

[Stressfactor]

Also, Sarah Jane and her crew don't really fit the bill since they stay on Earth and don't really explore the universe.

Neither does the Sontaran nurse since he was already a Sontaran warrior and so he traveled with others of his kind. Also, he implied that the whole "nurse" thing had been *forced* on him by the Doctor rather than something he took on because he was inspired by the Doctor.

Also, the Silurian Lady and Jenny don't really count because, again, they are Earthbound and therefore not explorers.

[batGRRRl4ever]

My only qualm so far with the current story that started with River's death(?) is that everything would be making a lot more sense for the fans who have trouble keeping track with all the time travel aspects of this story if it had a longer season, say 16-18 uninterupted episodes instead of 6 here, one there, wait half a year, etc.

I am really respecting Moffat's use of time travel and how many events are interlapping over each other back and forth and how one thing can't happen w/out the other, even when a result of actions may happen BEFORE all the events that led up to it (the Doctor getting shot & killed). Truly brilliant!

And I still believe that Madame Kovarian IS the "weapon" that Melody/River is turned into, until another regeneration makes Kovarian into the River Song we all know and love. There's a wacky paradox right there, the evil Kovarian/River kidnaps HERSELF as an infant in the form of Melody/River and what we perceive as the present more or less River keeps a wide berth of these events because she doesn't want her younger self in the form of the older bodied Kovarian to know that she will one day switch sides after a regeneration that results in the current River's body!

Moffat does for time travel what no one else has really done before!

[Matt]

For those of you who don't know, I work as a school teacher. We've got a literacy day celebration coming up where all the staff and students will be coming dressed as their favourite literature character.
So to combat the inevitable plague of Harry Potter's and such I've decided to try for the 7th Doctor - mainly because a) he is one of my favourite characters b) a lot of the outfit can be used afterwards as well.

It's actually quite tricky to find all the stuff to even make a passing resemblance. Some stuff, the shoes for example, is just too damn expensive and the question mark vest is just impossible.
Oh the other hand, I seem to have a question mark umbrella lined up which is interesting.

[Matt]

There's a wacky paradox right there, the evil Kovarian/River kidnaps HERSELF as an infant in the form of Melody/River and what we perceive as the present more or less River keeps a wide berth of these events because she doesn't want her younger self in the form of the older bodied Kovarian to know that she will one day switch sides after a regeneration that results in the current River's body!

Moffat does for time travel what no one else has really done before!

Have we seen Kovarian with the infant? Actually touching it?
If so, it raises some problems as people touching their past selves causes wonderful paradoxes and monsters to appear (as per Father's Day).

[Charles RB]

The Target Books novelisations are getting reprinted, with introductions by new Who writers; saw six of them at the local WH Smiths. Including for stories like The Moonbase that don't exist anymore. And they have the old Target covers.

This is awesome.