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SparkieGojira	Re: The New WHO	#21	[-]
Mar 23 06 1:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	RTD has been saying it is a continuation all along... so is this going to make a difference to MJ when k-9 makes it one beyond any reasonable doubt? I really hope not. It And plenty of us loved K-9! Namely those of us who where little kids when his era of the show was the current edition! :P Through cosmic waste the tardis flies to taste the secret source of life a presensce science can't deny exists within, outside, behind the latitude of human minds I am the Doctor!
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MJ Simpson	Re: Dr Who US premier 3-17. Press reactions?	#22	[-]
Mar 23 06 8:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"RTD has been saying it is a continuation all along... so is this going to make a difference to MJ when k-9 makes it one beyond any reasonable doubt? I really hope not." I don't read any press coverage of the series so I don't know/care what RTD says. But yes, if they explicitly state that this Doctor is the nth regeneration of the one in the old series it will seriously dent my enjoyment of a fine show because its explicit lack of connection to the old show is one of its strongest assets. "And plenty of us loved K-9! Namely those of us who where little kids when his era of the show was the current edition!" I was nine when K9 joined the series. I thought he was silly then and still do. Series 1 was an amazing balancing act. Making changes in series 2 could unbalance things easily. A comparison would be the remake of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Series 1 generally worked; for series 2 they changed the emphasis and it generally didn't work, hence no series 3. http://www.MJSimpson.co.uk - cult movies and the people who make them
SparkieGojira	Re: Dr Who US premier 3-17. Press reactions?	#23	[-]
Mar 24 06 12:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I guess I ws 7 when I first encountered K-9, and shortly after my Ultraman dolls where paling around with a little crude robot dog fashioned from legos! Through cosmic waste the tardis flies to taste the secret source of life a presensce science can't deny exists within, outside, behind the latitude of human minds I am the Doctor!
grgstv338	remake? sequel? remake? sequel? She loves me, she...	#24	[-]
Mar 24 06 3:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I can't decide - is this show less filling? Or does it taste great? Less filling! Tastes great!
riotengine	Re: remake? sequel? remake? sequel? She loves me, she...	#25	[-]
Mar 25 06 6:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Watched episode three last night and it's getting progressively better. Looking forward to the Dalek episode. GREG ESPINOZA I made it possible for you to come here! I welcomed you to this Earth you made it a charnel house!
SparkieGojira	Re: remake? sequel? remake? sequel? She loves me, she...	#26	[-]
Mar 25 06 6:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Next weeks is a hoot, if very controversial amongst many old school fans. Maybe the first one I unreservedly loved! http://retroreels.14.forumer.com/index.php?sid=1ce56d62c3513466b2ebfd12370e0a4f
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HalLane	Re: remake? sequel? remake? sequel? She loves me, she...	#27	[-]
Mar 25 06 10:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Next week's is actually the first one I saw, my 'git go' as it were, and so I too just made the assumption that this was a brand new take on the character, not a continuation of the old one. And I liked the way these stories stood on their own, without assuming prior familiarity with particulars, like the STAR TREK franchise does (did?). Just try watching a Next Generation movie without having seen the series. Go ahead, I dare ya. And as much as I enjoy that independence, I enjoy the small nostalgic references at least as much. Kind of like when they remake Superman every few years (Donner, Byrne, Crisis, Dini, Smallville, etc.) where they cherry pick the good stuff to use instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. So, if it's done *right*, I can have my cake and eat it too.
kolchak72	Re: remake? sequel? remake? sequel? She loves me, she...	#28	[-]
Mar 25 06 10:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Next weeks is a hoot, if very controversial amongst many old school fans. Maybe the first one I unreservedly loved! Yeah,it's definitely a gas.=)
drmedula	Re: remake? sequel? remake? sequel? She loves me, she...	#29	[-]
Mar 26 06 5:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In reference to the photos shown in Episode 1 of Eccelston as the Doctor in different time periods: I've heard at least one fan comment on how they look "unconvincing"...suggesting they may be "fakes". (Nice touch, that). As for continuity... well, only when useful, I say. (Comics artist and filmmaker Frank Miller has stated that both creators and audience should feel free to pick their own favourite parts of these on going characters, and ignore whatever doesn't work for them- as sane an approach as I've ever heard; If only because it allows me to ignore big chunks of HIS work!)
SparkieGojira	Re: remake? sequel? remake? sequel? She loves me, she...	#30	[-]
Mar 26 06 5:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wise words from Frank Miller, and I've heard David Gerrold say just about the same thing. I've long applied it myself (it is about the only way to approach Dr Who! Between TV, books and audios and comics there so darn much of it!). RTD himself possibly uses the same approach; even though he has said "this is the same Doctor as was in San Fransico New Years Eve 1999", I think season 1 had many not so subtle jabs of what exactly he personally feels about that whole "Half human on my mother's side" thing! http://retroreels.14.forumer.com/index.php?sid=1ce56d62c3513466b2ebfd12370e0a4f
Tom Thacker	Re: remake? sequel? remake? sequel? She loves me, she...	#31	[-]
Mar 27 06 8:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Half-human? Do not blaspheme! Do not blaspheme! I literally did a spit take on that one.
SparkieGojira	Re: remake? sequel? remake? sequel? She loves me, she...	#32	[-]
Mar 27 06 9:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Spit takes are always fun! According to Dr Who novelist Kate Orman, the BBC had a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding that bussiness for all the spin off books and audios since 1996... but between that scene you sighted and how many times the Doctor refers to himself, or others refer to him as "an alien" in the new series... I feel comfortable thinking the Doc is indeed 100% Timelord. Maybe season 2 will prove me wrong! I won't mind, if it is done as brilliantly as certain other "things we only saw in the TV movie" that crept into the new show (I am trying to be as spoiler free as possible!). I guess there is nothing wrong with the idea of the Doctor being half human (But I sure hope he is not!) just that TV movie introduced the idea in the most ham fisted and lame way. www.itcamefromplanetx.com
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