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Also, DO NOT try watching from the first episode onwards. Classic Doctor Who is NOT an example of British Brevity, it ran for about forty weeks a year. And you will be shocked by the production values, and the plot is much slower (it's in a serial format, four-to-six parters is common).

I would add to that Season Three is a good starting point if you're already familiar with the series. "Smith and Jones" sets up the Doctor pretty nicely as it's the introductory episode for a new companion. And Season Three is when the show started to get really good.

edited 27th Nov '11 3:01:06 PM by Medicus

It's not over. Not yet.

Hey, don't diss Classic Who.

Also a lot of the early episodes are missing, so you can't watch it straight through. I think all the episodes have audio versions, and some of them have enough still images that they've been put on video. I tried watching Marco Polo but couldn't get through it.

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Starting from Eleventh Hour is a good thing that I recommend. And thus it happened.

edited 27th Nov '11 7:41:12 AM by Bocaj

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I'm not, not at all. I'm watching some of the older episodes and really enjoying it.

But it is a very different show from Nu Who.

It's not over. Not yet.

Different how? Besides more dated special effects, the Time Lords being alive, and never having things get romantic between the Doctor and his Companions?

Pacing. New Who can sometimes go too fast, old Who often goes too slowly.

You may have to shop around to find your favoite Old Who Doctor. I immediately netlfix'ed me some Tom Baker, and was underwhelmed. (In retrospect, those were Bidmead stories, and he had an intolerable affinity for over-analyzation and techno wank.) The companions make a big difference, too.

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I think this has strayed a little too off-topic. Recommendations might make sense on the main thread, but not on one specifically about the movie.

I was talking with a friend and I think it'd be cool to have a female Doctor.

The baby bat/ Screamed out in fright,/ 'Turn on the dark,/ I'm afraid of the light.'

I don't think a female Doctor would be a bad idea inherently (I don't think it makes much sense, but it has been confirmed they can switch genders, so whatever), but I'm kind of worried about how they'd write it. But if they had very good writers it could work.

edited 28th Nov '11 1:10:43 PM by ArlaGrey

I'm not talking about changing genders. The movie would be a different continuity right? Why shouldn't the doctor be female in that case?

The baby bat/ Screamed out in fright,/ 'Turn on the dark,/ I'm afraid of the light.'

Oh right. I still think they'd have to be careful how they wrote it though.

edited 28th Nov '11 2:13:18 PM by ArlaGrey

PFB: Have you been to the "What should the 12th doctor look like?" thread in Live Action TV? You're opening a big can of worms.

I don't think she has to have read another thread to come and state her opinion in this one. That's just silly.

Its not even as if she's saying anything really controversial like "I want the Doctor to have a uncensored sex scene in the first thirty minutes" or "I want the Doctor to be secretly three people."

edited 28th Nov '11 2:43:00 PM by Bocaj

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Well it evidently is a controversial idea, you can see that from the 12th Doctor thread. And would the Doctor "secretly being three people" really be a controvesial idea? I confess I'm not entirely sure what you mean by it, but if you meant in an id, ego, superego sense it wouldn't be too different from something already planned in the original tv series.

edited 28th Nov '11 2:54:57 PM by C0mraid

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No, I don't mean anything symbolic. I mean that the Doctor is and has always been identical triplets.

And sheesh, just because a few people have a stick up their pooper about the Doctor being female, that means someone shouldn't just come in here and express their honest opinion that the Doctor might be just as okay with a uterus as he is with a penis? Shucks.

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Um... I'd just like to clarify that I'm not against a female Doctor, just that I think it would be very difficult to write one that would satisfy the audience and what they've come to expect.

I don't know if people were referring to me or people in other threads, but I thought I should clarify that.

It's not that, it's that inevitably if someone posts that the Doctor should be female, someone will come in and say they would prefer if he stayed male, and despite those person's points being perfectly cogent and reasonable, it always ends with accusations of sexism.

It's not over. Not yet.

If we avoid the argument just because you're afraid of it, then the terrorists have already won.

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I had no idea this was so controversial. I am not a frequenter of Dr. Who threads or the Dr. Who fandom.

I still think it would be cool, and it would distinguish the movies from the TV series or the radio stuff.

The baby bat/ Screamed out in fright,/ 'Turn on the dark,/ I'm afraid of the light.'

The Doctor Is to be played by Will Smith.

In, west gallifrey I was born and raised at the academy is where I spent most of my days. Chillin' out relaxin' maxin' all serene just mackin' on some celery ridin' the time steam. When a couple of dalaks who were up to no good started making trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little time war and the council got scared. And before I even knew it all my people were dead.

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I'm sorry if it did sound like I was saying people shouldn't be saying they want a female Doctor for the film, honestly I was mostly nitpicking. That said I've seen the same conversation on any board I've ever been in that talked about Who, and that thread is the most in favour of a female Doctor by some margin.

As for the triplets, do they regenerate at the same time? If not it could explain the Three Doctors, the other two look up to Hartnell, he's the guy who hasn't got himself killed yet. And the fact that apparently someone can't touch themselves from another time stream but they obviously do. And the Two Doctors, that triplet picked up Jamie after he the Time Lords sent him back to his own time and regenerated one Doctor forcibly.

As for New Who, I guess the 2 of them must have died in the time war. Maybe the hand regeneration thing recreated one of the triplets.

The film should have all three turn up.

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I don't see how it could go wrong, myself.

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I wouldn't mind seeing Judi Dench or Helen Mirren as the Doctor.

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