Kevin's Watch

No no, he really is exactly the same as he's always been. Davison aged; Tennant hasn't and won't.

I still say Richard E Grant should have been the Doctor.

Yeah, but I mean is that he looks very young. Richard E Grant did play the doctor in a radio series. Was very good, I hear.

CovenantJr wrote:Accidentally caught an episode yesterday.

The writing, acting, plot...everything was dreadful. David Tennant is horrific, lacking presence, charisma, or anything other than a vague impression of being a tourist with a growing sense of being lost. Ugh. Kill this monster before it infects us all.

Uh-oh. That does not sound good.

I haven't found out (or haven't bothered to look) when the Tennant episodes will start showing here.

OK, with services on Friday nights, I'm missing the 9:00 PM SciFi broadcast of Dr. Who and am too exhausted to watch at midnight after getting Beorn through his night time routine after services.

Is anyone willing to PM me and explain bit torrent or whatever I need to learn to use to find the shows?

Richard E. Grant has been seen on TV as the Doctor in a spinoff The curse of fatal death. FWIW, this spinoff featured, which was a one time broadcast, Julia Sawlha, Joanna Lumley, Johnathon Pryce and James Broadbent. Additionally, Richard E. Grant voiced the 8 1/2 Doctor in a BBC animated version called Scream of the Shalka, which was available on the internet for many years.

taraswizard wrote:Richard E. Grant has been seen on TV as the Doctor in a spinoff The curse of fatal death. FWIW, this spinoff featured, which was a one time broadcast, Julia Sawlha, Joanna Lumley, Johnathon Pryce and James Broadbent. Additionally, Richard E. Grant voiced the 8 1/2 Doctor in a BBC animated version called Scream of the Shalka, which was available on the internet for many years.

I heard Scream of the Shalka was very good, though the Shalka sounded pants.

WOT: LoreMaster (or any others who might know), why is "pants" an insult?

To my untrained ear, hearing something being referred to like "Oh, that's pants, dude" gives me visions of something really cool, not something uncool.

Good question, Sindatur. Hard to explain. Pants is just . . . . pants.

Been reading the Rise of the Cybermen details. It sounds stunning. I can't wait.

i just poked in here cause my english teacher mentioned Dr. Who tonight in class and went on and on about it...says we should watch it!! my kid brothers use to watch it but i didn't pay much attention.

and what do i find but the name of one of my all time favorite actors mentioned as having been involved in some way with Dr. Who? is that right?

did Richard E Grant do Dr. Who?

sorry double posted. i'm too tired to be here.

He played him in a comedy and on a radio play.

If you want to watch some classics, you cant go wrong with:

Pyramids of Mars
Inferno
Talons of Weng Chiang
Genesis of the Daleks
Earthshock
Curse of Fenric
The Silurians
Terror of the Zygons

taraswizard wrote:Richard E. Grant has been seen on TV as the Doctor in a spinoff The curse of fatal death. FWIW, this spinoff featured, which was a one time broadcast, Julia Sawlha, Joanna Lumley, Johnathon Pryce and James Broadbent. Additionally, Richard E. Grant voiced the 8 1/2 Doctor in a BBC animated version called Scream of the Shalka, which was available on the internet for many years.

I was just on the BBC Dr. Who site, and saw a link for the Shalka episode. They say it was Douglas Adams last work?

Douglas Adams was not good for Dr Who in the Baker era. He let Baker run wild, and some of the stories . . .. uhhh.

Douglas Adams had an association with Dr. Who during the period from 1978 -1981. Officially, I believe his title was "script editor"; however, he contributed in other ways including story writing, for example, Pirate planet. Adams involvement included the Key to Time storyline. Additionally, Adams wriote the Story known as Shada, a story written for Tom Baker's Dr. but only partially made.

And you may criticize Curse of Fatal Death as a bunch of sillyness not worth a moments notice. However, Steve Moffat, the brillant writer of the ninth Dr. stories Empty Child and Doctor Dances, wrote this comedy sequence.

sindatur wrote:To my untrained ear, hearing something being referred to like "Oh, that's pants, dude" gives me visions of something really cool, not something uncool.

But you see no-one would ever say "That's pants, dude" "Pants" is a Brit-ism and as such will never be used with the word dude.

CovenantJr wrote:

sindatur wrote:To my untrained ear, hearing something being referred to like "Oh, that's pants, dude" gives me visions of something really cool, not something uncool.

But you see no-one would ever say "That's pants, dude" "Pants" is a Brit-ism and as such will never be used with the word dude.

LOL, I know that, but, you have your own version of "Dude"

Has the epsiode with the return of Sarah Jane Smith and K9 been aired yet? If so, how was it?

Menolly wrote:Has the epsiode with the return of Sarah Jane Smith and K9 been aired yet? If so, how was it?

I think it has.

Edit: been reading reviews of the fans on the big Dr Who forum, and it's overwhelmingly loved. As a massive Elizabeth Sladen fan I am rather excited when this gets aired in Australia.

My comments are most likely reflected by the fact I'm a U.S. and not a Brit Dr. Who fan.

Regarding the recently aired episode School Reunion, with Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and a improved K9 (We are in the car! We are in the car! ) well I liked it, and having Tony Head in it did not hurt. (Of course, many members of the local Dr. Who group, thought having Tony Head in the episode bordered on suckage, so for me that's another reason to like Tony Head being in the episode).

I've liked all the episodes of the 9th Dr. series and when I first saw Unquiet Dead, I thought that was about the best they could do. However around April 10th or so, I finally watched Empty Child/Dr. Dances, the brillant two parter written by Steve Moffat, and I knew then that was the best of the 13 9th Dr. series. FWIW, I even liked Aliens of London and The long game. Considering the 10th Dr. series, so far I've seen New Earth, Tooth and Claw, and School Reunion really liked them all. IMO, the Zoe Wanamaker deal in NE was unnecessary and IMO did not make any sense. I've not really watched all of TaC, and I thought SR was funny and clever.

Back to considering SR, Laurence Miles a well known Dr. Who fan after SR was shown in the UK, wrote a less than commendatory essay about it.

Sorry this message it so long