Dr. Who actor change?

[Mr. Analog]

 Whew, ok I guess there was a change in actors for season 2 of Dr. Who. There has been a lot of conusion about this so far. Too bad really, I liked Eccelston

[Tonnica]

 Eccelston actually decided to quit after filming a single series after he completed filming the very first episode.

In other Doctor news, a third series has been comissioned as well as a Christmas Special.

[Mr. Analog]

 Another Dalek Christmas I reckon!

[Ustauk]

 BBC  story about the next Doctor, along with a picture of him.  Everybody catch the season finale last night?

[Darren Dirt]

 

Russell T Davies is one of the best writers television has ever had, and I'm chuffed to bits to get the opportunity to work with him again.

Well, I'm sure this medicated lotion will clear that right up in a few days...


Surprisingly*, IMDB has been updated this eon, with info on the new actor: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/


* I say surprisingly because a lot of times I've submitted "quotes" or "movieconnections" info that took them many weeks to include... if at all.


Oh, and PS check out the wit spewed forth by "one of the great cultured gentlemen of the world"

[Mr. Analog]

 

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[Shayne]

 Whats Dr. Who about?

[Ustauk]

 

Whats Dr. Who about?

You don't know about Dr. Who?  I'll forgive you, this time  Here's the wikipedia article on the show.  In a brief summary, Doctor Who follows the enigmatic title character on a variety of adventures throughout time and space.  It has developed a large cult following in the UK and other countries, likely on par with Star Trek, and a smaller following in North America.  

The show has been running since the nineteen sixties, until the late nineteen eighties.  There was a brief attempt to revive the series in the middl of the nineteen nineites, with a TV movie, but that failed.  Another revival attempt this year has been highly successful.  They'll be rerunning the series on Sundays on CBC if you want to catch up.  Although there is some continuity with the old series, one does not need to be an expert to jump in.  I myself  have only seen a handful of Doctor Who serials.  I didn't have cable growing up, so the only time I could watch them was when I went to visit my grandma in Saskatchewan twice or three times a year.  Anyways, I've really enjoyed this last season of Doctor Who.

The title of this thread deals with an actor transition, since the actor who played the Doctor for the latest revival did not want to continue in the role.  On a regular series, when the title character actor wants to move on this could cause a great deal of trouble.  However, Doctor Who has been around so long it has a built in method for actor transition.  The Doctor is not human, but an alien from a species known as the Time Lords.  Upon physical death, a Time Lord can recreate the body into an entirely new body, retaining the memories of his previous life, but generally having a bit of a personality shift on each rebirth.  The new Doctor in the article title is the tenth incarnation of the Doctor we've seen on television.

[Mr. Analog]

Whats Dr. Who about?

He's a time travelling alien who likes humans and ends up going on adventures to all sorts of strange places and times.

His time-ship is shaped like an old British Police Box (aka, lockable telephone booth) called the TARDIS (stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space) and basically he goes around being clever and thwarting bad guys and evil aliens to keep the universe in balance.

Dr. Who began as a radio drama in the early 1960s and began as a TV series in 1963. There have been a few feature films (starring Peter Cushing) and many different actors who have plaed "the Doctor".

The series was aimed originally at a youth audience but has had so many well written sci-fi adventures and such a long run that many adults still enjoy the series. Older Dr. Whos are generally have the following attributes: interesting plot, cliffhanger episodes, bad-to-moderate special effects and a lot of character. The Doctor's companians are usually always comprised of one babe, sometimes a "tough" guy and sometimes a skeptical person. Though these attributes sometimes combine in different ways or in different numbers the humans that join in the fun are always there.

Dr. Who is, at heart a worlds-saving smartass, and who doesn't like that eh?

[Ustauk]

 Oh, and the TARDIS is like a bag of holding, in that it is much bigger on the inside then the outside.  I don't think there's any firm estimate of the internal volume; its as big as the plot needs it to be

[Mr. Analog]

 Incedentally, I consider myself to be a bit of a "Whoovian" and have seen probably 95% of the series 3 or 4 times in repitition.

My favourite Doctor was the 4th incarnation played by Tom Baker, who oddly enough is also the narrator for a hilarious skit comedy from England called "Little Britiain" which can be found on Showcase on Thursday nights (I think) which I have only just recently discovered. He was also the Elf King in the Dungeons & Dragons movie (which apparently only Bob and I enjoyed) and he played a character in the made for TV version of the Silver Chair (which is the second book to the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe).

Oh and to get an idea about the special effects think about Star Trek: ToS style running until the mid-70s and then switching to Battlestar Galactica-ish production values, so it's way better than Blake's 7 but way worse that ST:TNG. In my way of thinking though sometimes it's more suspensful not to show the scary monster until the very end.

[Ustauk]

Oh and to get an idea about the special effects think about Star Trek: ToS style running until the mid-70s and then switching to Battlestar Galactica-ish production values, so it's way better than Blake's 7 but way worse that ST:TNG. In my way of thinking though sometimes it's more suspensful not to show the scary monster until the very end.

The effects on the new series are generally quite good (WWII episode set in the Blitz comes to mind), and are sometimes intentionally cheesy looking, I think in homage to the previous series (Slitheen, i'm looking at you ).

[Darren Dirt]

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If you mean IMDB, yeah it asks you a bit of info but hey who said it had to be... um... "accurate"?

Isn't it worth it to have the power to slap around the trolls with your wisdom and piss on the flames with your logic?

[Darren Dirt]

 

Incedentally, I consider myself to be a bit of a "Whoovian" and have seen probably 95% of the series 3 or 4 times in repitition.

My favourite Doctor was the 4th incarnation played by Tom Baker, who oddly enough is also the narrator for a hilarious skit comedy from England called "Little Britiain" which can be found on Showcase on Thursday nights (I think) which I have only just recently discovered. He was also the Elf King in the Dungeons & Dragons movie (which apparently only Bob and I enjoyed) and he played a character in the made for TV version of the Silver Chair (which is the second book to the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe).

Tom Baker eh - I remember he had some pretty stylish scarves back in the day




PS: What would you call a Dr. Who fan who resides in Dr. Seuss' "Whoville", vaccuums with a Hoover, and drives a Hummer?