Doctor Who

[logansrogue]

I've stayed up to 3:34 watching Dr. Who. I am officially nuts and geekier than I've been before.

I'm going to TRY to go to bed. I will probably end up writing RPG posts for Amazons and having far too much fun claiming my latest boy toy.

Who happens to be a Timelord.

Comments

[berenicepotter.livejournal.com]

There you go *shakes head*

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

yay! I have given you the gift of a new obsession!

Dr Who is great.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes you have! You and Trudy Cooper!

[fyrdrakken]

It's an awesome new love -- with forty frickin' years of backstory and continuity issues. But you were in X-Men fandom, so that shouldn't scare you any.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Not at all. :D

[fyrdrakken]

Tom Baker (Four) is the Classic Doctor, but Seven (Sylvester McCoy) is brilliant and so is Three (Jon Pertwee). I've only seen about three eps with Five (Peter Davison), but I'll have all of his downloaded by the weekend if my internet at home doesn't crash again. Avoid Six (Colin Baker). One (William Hartnell) and Two (gah -- spazzing on the actor's name here!) are old school black-and-white and frequently their eps are "reconstructions" because the BBC lost the tapes of the original eps because they had no reason to believe anyone would care about them in later decades.

Oh, and the TV movie is the only onscreen outing for Eight (Paul McGann), and a lot of fans will warn you off it as being cracktastic. I loved it, coming at it as someone who started from the New Who rather than the Old School stuff -- the two big dealbreakers for Classic Who fans seem to be A) the Doctor not exactly coming across as asexual (which is something the New Who isn't doing either, though it's practically canonical for oldschool fans) and B) the Doctor saying he's half-human on his mother's side. I think this would explain much, and quite enjoyed the movie.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I'd like any excuse to gaze at McGann with curly hair. Really. Just really.

And I remember Pertwee. He was all kinds of awesome.

[fyrdrakken]

Lots of curly hair. And in his first minutes onscreen, wearing only a sheet. (And a toetag.)

I haven't seen enough Pertwee eps. But I spotted a big BitTorrent file of all his eps Monday night when I was getting my bit Peter Davison download going again, and once the Davison stuff is done I'm going back and looking for the Pertwee.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I remember that! MEEPLE!!

I saw a lot of Brit tv as I was growing up, so I just liked him, liked his face.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

PS - your icon makes my tummy funny. Can I sex it up?

[fyrdrakken]

If you mean this one, I didn't make it. Lovely image, though -- from this brilliant set.