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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, December 27, 2014 - 4:15 pm 
Great information. Thanks so much. My DD's and I attend Fan Expo every year in Toronto and Doctor Who is a huge part of it.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, December 27, 2014 - 5:05 pm
Blink was one of the scariest episodes ever! It still gets me on repeat watchings. (And yes the Weeping Angels were new with the new doctors.)
Sanfran, the first episode I saw was the last episode of Planet of the Spiders in 1974, where Jon Pertwee regenerated into Tom Baker. My parents let me watch it for the first time, and I was so scared I spent most of it hiding behind my hands or even the settee. I was only six though, so that might be why I didn't pay any attention to the production stuff... or maybe that was pretty standard BBC viewing those days. I probably watched every episode from 1974 through to the mid-80s when I had better things to do than watch tv, but I can't remember most of them now.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Saturday, December 27, 2014 - 5:36 pm
Fun youtube clip that gives you a peek at early Doctor Whos:
Doctor Who hellos and goodbyes 1963-2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpe8P0hH-3w
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Saturday, December 27, 2014 - 8:54 pm
There was a ComicCon in Boston this past summer. I wish I had known about it. I'd love to attend one some day. They had a Torchwood panel with John Barrowman (Capt. Jack) and Eve Myles (Gwen) that was a hoot. You can find it on YouTube.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Saturday, December 27, 2014 - 9:29 pm
The Christmas special was pretty good, and I do like Nick Frost as well. The last episode of the season, I found the Mistress deliciously insane! But I will say the couple of episodes prior to that lost me a bit. I'm not sure whether it was Clara and the Doctor's interaction, the stories or something else.
Enjoy the catch up Jimmer. And it you get the chance Torchwood is really good.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, December 27, 2014 - 11:23 pm
Some good memories of companions in that video. My brother had a little K-9! A couple of the early regenerations went through a ceramic stage which was a curious way to do it, maybe it made the transmogrification easier.
But there are no regenerations so poignant as David to Matt Smith, sigh.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, December 28, 2014 - 12:47 am
I still get teary eyed with David Tennant's "I don't want to go," regeneration and I can't say how many times I'veseen that. It's just heartbreaking.
Enjoy it Jimmer! If you feel lost at any point, don't worry, eventually it all makes sense and you get the backstory. It's a show that has totally hooked my whole family, including Dakota, who has only liked Firefly for sci-fi shows, and my barely 7 year old niece. We have Doctor Who debates, what are favorite episodes are, who are fav doctor/companions are, best bad guys, etc. Lots and lots of fun.
And yep, Torchwood is great. James Marsters (Spike from Buffy) is on a couple episodes and he's a lot of fun.
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Sunday, December 28, 2014 - 7:15 am
Wargod and Kitt, I am in tears anytime the Tennant to Smith (10 to 11? which is right if Capaldi is 12) is shown. Just watched it on Neflix the other day and I was a teary-eyed mess.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, December 28, 2014 - 12:00 pm
Do Tennant and Smith sort of look alike? I am not sure which Dr was on when I first watched a marathon and got interested.
Also, today seems to be with the new doctor, why is he so upset about Clara having a boyfriend, jealously just doesn't seem like it goes with The Doctor.
Also, I saw you guys talking about how you were surprised that Clara came back, did she (the actress who plays her) not get along with the doctor that she filmed with?
Thanks, all this information is fascinating.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Sunday, December 28, 2014 - 12:24 pm
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3226590720/tt2779318?ref_=tt_ov_i#
Here's Matt Smith on the left, David Tennant on the right. David's Doctor moved between fun and sensitive, Mark's between fun and eccentric. Mark Smith is actually a more typical "Doctor" but I think a lot of people fell a little in love with David Tennant.
This new Doctor was a bit strange for a while, not sure which episode you're talking about but he seemed almost apologetic for regenerating at first, it was a bit strange. I guess he's just finding his feet.
I don't remember reading about the Clara actress having any trouble with anyone, but I thought I read that it was confirmed she was leaving this Christmas, but instead it was all just rumour. I think she's better with Capaldi than with Matt Smith, or maybe it's just they've tweaked her character a bit. In the beginning she just seemed so entirely together and self-sufficient and not particularly interested in the Doctor. Now she seems a bit more into it all!
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Sunday, December 28, 2014 - 1:10 pm
I know I fell in love with David's Doctor.
I read too that Clara was leaving after the season, maybe they changed their minds and took the story in the direction to get rid of Danny to have her stay on. I thought in the Xmas special when they had her old, which I loved that the Doctor could not see, that that was her swan song, then she reverted and they are back together. Sometimes the pace between the two of them gets a little frenetic and I wish they'd dial it down a notch, but otherwise I like their chemistry and humour. There still was a couple of eps that I just couldn't mesh with.
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Konamouse
Member
07-15-2001
| Sunday, December 28, 2014 - 7:46 pm
Someone somewhere suggested that the Santa was another incarnation of The Doctor and the sled was a version of the Tardis. LOL!
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Monday, December 29, 2014 - 2:06 pm
So I am watching the Christmas special with my daughter and she looks up who is playing Santa, she sees the role is listed as Nick Frost and laughs and says "I get it". I had to hunt down my laptop and bring up imdb to prove it wasn't some inside joke.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, December 29, 2014 - 2:40 pm
No more Doctor today, I am missing him, LOL. They are showing top gear instead.
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Tuesday, December 30, 2014 - 6:10 pm
Rissa, that tickled my funny bone. I sort of thought it was an inside joke also.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, December 31, 2014 - 2:51 pm
The doctor is back, LOL, and this is a hysterical take on Poseidon Adventure, they even have a Shelly Winters, LOL. It's the first episode of season 4, Voyage of the Damned.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Monday, January 05, 2015 - 9:15 pm
For anyone watching on Netflix, the streaming episodes now have expiry dates on them  . Sometimes things with expiry dates get renewed immediately, sometimes they're not available for a while.
So you might want to get your watching done by Feb 1st!
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Tuesday, January 06, 2015 - 7:55 am
I am watching. I'm up to the Amy/Rory episodes. I watch several episodes a day so I will be caught up by the end of the month.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Tuesday, January 06, 2015 - 10:09 am
I've finished Season 1 of Torchwood, but am having to watch the Doctor Who episodes with Jack between S1 and S2 for continuity. Even so, should get through the rest of Torchwood by the end of the month. I forgot Jack started off so cruel, he's much nicer in later seasons.
It's funny, there's nothing to watch for almost all December, then January comes and I'm struggling to find time amongst the new shows.
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Friday, January 09, 2015 - 11:25 am
Head's up to the Rory fans out there. Arthur Darvill (Rory) will be playing the priest in Season 2 of Broadchurch. Wow, 10 is teaming up with Rory again. Now if Karen Gillian (Amy Pond) could make a cameo, that would be really neat. Now I am REALLY looking forward to March!!! I just double checked with IMDB and he was also the minister in Season 1. I was just checking the sidebar on IMDB and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper, Torchwood) is playing a character named Claire. Whoa! It's a Whovian/Torchwoodian extravaganza!
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 1:54 pm
Season 9 starts September 19th.
http://tvline.com/2015/08/12/doctor-who-trailer-season-9-video-maisie-williams/
Trailer at the link!
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Nyeratheart
Member
09-03-2010
| Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 5:21 pm
 can't wait! It seems like it's been forever!
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 6:34 pm
There have been two very good trailers posted and now I REALLY need September 19 to be here. They are starting a Doctor's Special or something like that this Saturday night on BBC America. If you are watching the newest trailer (BBC America has both of them) check out Clara's hug and check out 12's face after she hugs him. That and the hug he gives her in the first trailer. Those two scenes will make it worth watching the series for me. Oh yeah and the aliens too.
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Reenie
Member
06-24-2006
| Friday, August 14, 2015 - 8:05 am
Can't wait!!!
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Friday, August 21, 2015 - 10:26 am
I am disappointed, I simply do not care for the new Dr. Who and have never liked Clara. I didn't even finishing watching all of the last season. I used to really enjoy Dr. Who, my fav being David Tennet.
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