Doctor WhoI

Chatterbox: Pudding's Place

Doctor WhoI

Doctor Who

I love Doctor Who like I love my brother, maybe more (only sometimes XD).
I have spent countless hours trying and failing to explain to my brother how amazing the series is, and why I watch it religiously. The only thing he understands is that when either the Wheeping Angels, or the Silence are involved, run from the room and don't look back.

I on the other hand love it and have watched almost every episode multiple times. Though I get it all from Netflix so I have yet to see most of the specials which I really want to see, especialy the one where the 10th Doctor regenerates and becomes the 11th Doctor.

In my opinion the 9th Doctor was bloody awful. I just can not watch any episodes containing the 9th Doctor because he is not at all what I imagine the Doctor as. Because no matter which appearance the Doctor takes on he always has the same general personality. The 9th Doctor just didn't have that.
The 10th Doctor was in my opinion the best. I love David Tennant and I think he was the perfect Doctor. He was such an amazing actor as well. He could play all of the Doctor's personalities extremely well. He got down the perfect amount of self love, as well as self-loathing though it isn't as pronounced as it is with the 11th. He also plays hero and villan very well in that way the Doctor thinks of himself. For example in The Fire's of Pompeii he showed just the right amount of depressed Doctor when he was forced to let everyone in the city of Pompeii die, because it is a fixed point in time, and he cannot save them all. But with the help of Donna he does show a little more humanity, and a little less Time Lord when he saves the family that 'bought' his TARDIS. David Tennant also plays the Doctor's mix of humanity and Time Lord very well in his first episode as the Doctor when the 10th spared the Sycorax leader's life after he won the duel, but then sent him falling to his death after declaring that he didn't give second chances. I also love the way he played fatherly in the episode The Doctor's Daughter.
The 11th Doctor is second best. I love Matt Smith's quirky Doctor. The 11th has three general personality traits and Matt Smith potrays them perfectly. As said by the Dream Lord in s2e5 'Tall handsom hero, 'leave her alone' very intimidating, very impressive', as well as his quirky personality where he just rambles on and on about things no one can understand because he's so much more intelligant than everyone else I just love how he does that, along with his bowtie. His third pronounced personality trait being very self involved. It's most obvious when in the episode The Impossible Astronaut when he says, "I'm being extremely clever up here and there's no one no one to stand around looking impressed! What is the point in having you all!"

Whoops rambling, sorry. I just love Doctor Who!

My favorite companion- no clue

submitted by ~Sam~
(July 14, 2012 - 2:41 am)

back to the Pudding's Place

I love Doctor Who! I'm always watching it!  Finally, someone who loves that show that's like around my age, haha!

submitted by Vida(:
(July 14, 2012 - 12:34 pm)

Lol yeah. It's so hard to find anyone that likes it, especially in my family, because none of them like it. My dad always calls it Doctor Know- to my annoyance. Ok, so does anyone know where I can find some of the specials for the 10th and 11th Doctors that I haven't seen? I think there was one called The Waters of Mars that I wanted to see. 

submitted by ~Sam~
(July 17, 2012 - 4:18 pm)

That was one kinda creepy.... haha but they all are right ?

Re : No, sorry, dunno where to find it :(

submitted by Vida(:
(July 19, 2012 - 11:50 am)

I always assumed that Nine was suffering from some pretty major PTSD from having had, you know, destroyed his own race and his home planet and a fair-sized chunk of other time traveling races to prevent an even bigger genocide from taking place. Plus regenerating on top of that. ...Under the circumstances I do think we can forgive him for being a bit... upset and angry and angst-filled and inclined to cling to the first cheerful person he meets like a limpet, regardless of how irritating she is. #donotlikeRose

One of the most fascinating aspects of New Who, I think, is watching the Doctor get progressively closer to normal over the course of his last three regenerations—angry!angsty!Nine, then slightly-less-angry-but-still-very-angsty!Ten, and now outwardly-cheerful!repressed!Eleven. I find Eleven most interesting, of the three, because of all of them he's the one most dedicated to hiding his anger/angst/self-loathing/dark side from the companions—perhaps because Amy was just a child when he met her?—and I think that, combined with the building subconscious horror of being the last Time Lord still in existence, is just making him worse as time goes on. Because, you know, he lets all that fester in his subconscious while he concentrates on being Amy's Mad Man With The Big Blue Box, instead of actively trying to deal with it the way Nine/Ten did. Or at least, I think this is what Moffat might be going for, given the increasingly dark tone of the last series and the relatively little on-screen angst as compared to the RTD era.

(Then again, the Ponds didn't seem too upset post-A Good Man Goes to War and Let's Kill Hitler, so perhaps it's just a matter of Moffat not liking angst very much. But the Doctor's still got a very messed-up psyche, regardless. If nothing else, the "aren't we all?" comment in The Doctor's Wife and the minotaur's comments to the Doctor at the end of God Complex prove that rather definitively. To say nothing of the bloody Dream Lord. Brr.)

It'll be interesting to see how series seven goes, given the final good-bye to the Ponds and the new companion. One wonders whether Eleven will feel obligated to coddle her the way he did Amy and Rory, and, if not, whether he'll then be able to deal with the truckful of Issues raised in six. (also his new outfit is love. Waistcoats! :D)

...Er, oh yes, I like Doctor Who too. *cough*

Donna and the Ponds tie for my favorite companions.  

re: watching specials: I use watch series for all my DW fixes. They have New Who and Classic Who both. And watch Waters of Mars with the lights on.

submitted by TNÖ, age 18, Deep Space
(July 17, 2012 - 6:42 pm)

Re: Yeah, I just found Waters of Mars on Netflix and plan to watch it tomorrow, I'll watch it in the morning with all the lights on, as I do during any of the episdoes involving the Weeping Angels.

I do wonder how he will react to the new companion, especially since this is the 11th incarnation's first new companion besides the Ponds. I wonder whether he will be very accepting of this new companion, and I'm also curious to know the new companion's personality. I read on the BBC website that she is going to talk just as fast as the Doctor and I don't know if I like that because he is unique in that way, but it's also funny when someone stuns the Doctor.

I agree in saying that the 11th Doctor is the most interesting. He definately prefers to hide all his darker personality traits. I was watching the episdoe with the Dream Lord the other day and that end part where the Doctor looks at his reflection and it's the Dream Lord freaked me out. I kind of want them to do another episode with the Dream Lord because he is all the evil in the Doctor, and given how much is there, I think it would make things very interesting.

I do believe that given that all the Doctor's anger/angst/self-loathing has been boiling in his subconcious while he focused on being Amy's Mad Man with a Box could suddenly be released with the end of the Ponds. Given that he no longer has to be her Mad Man with a Box, maybe all his dark side feelings will become more pronounced with the arival of the new companion. Perhaps the darkness of all those issues from the 10th along with all the new issues brought on by series 6 he will finally blow and lose that little self-control 11 seems to have that the previous two incarnations lacked. If this does happen it will be interesting to know what made him finally crack.

What I am most interested, however to see in series 7 an episode with River Song. What I believe is that now that she and the Doctor are married the show will need to get rid of her because the Doctor can't exactly be 'tied down'. Don't get me wrong, I love River Song/Melody Pond and she is one of my favorites, but I don't like the fact that her and the Doctor are married. Another reason to ged rid of River is that soon the Pond's will be leaving, and she is their daughter, so it almost feels right that she would exit the show at the same time as her parents. I will be so sad when she eventually goes because I think she is my favorite companion of the Doctor's (Does she count because she didn't exactly ride on the TARDIS with him like the other companions).

I would also like to see Jenny (the Doctor's daughter) come back. Even if it is the 11th incarnation at this point, she did leave Messaline and is traveling through space. Given how long both of them can live, they will most likely have to meet up again at some point. I would also like for Jenny to have met River Song, that would have been awkaward and funny.

My favorite monster in Doctor Who is the Weeping Angels. I love everything about them, which is odd becase (and keep in mind I have yet to see The Waters of Mars) they are the creepiest Doctor Who monster I have seen yet. Can't wait to see The Waters of Mars tomorrow! :D

submitted by ~Sam~
(July 17, 2012 - 11:56 pm)

I love doctor who. The weeping angels are so creepy yet amazing. Did anyone go to the doctor who convention in london last summer?

submitted by blue moon
(July 19, 2012 - 10:28 am)

I didn't know there was one, so no I did not go to the Doctor Who convention.

I saw The Waters of Mars, and it wasn't as creepy as I thought it would be. Believe me I still slept with the lights on though XD 

submitted by ~Sam~
(July 19, 2012 - 3:05 pm)

I've been watching my way through some Third Doctor serials of late. Liz Shaw is my new favourite companion; I am forever bitter about her premature depature. I like companions who are the Doctor's intellectual equals (see also: Romanadvoratrelundar), and I like her relationship with Three. (Both of them are scientists, and neither of them is really comfortable in a military setting. When he walks into the lab in Spearhead and just wants to get on with doing science to things, you can just hear her thinking "Finally, someone I can talk to!" and I think she serves that purpose for him as well as the season goes on. Three likes Lethbridge-Stewart but is often infuriated by him.) 

I'm not sure that I'd say Three is my favourite Doctor, because I always think that the best Doctor is the one I've watched most recently. (Unless it's Ten. Ten has never been my favourite. I don't like Ten.) (My current favourite being One; I finished Planet of Giants a few days ago.)

submitted by ZNZ
(August 7, 2012 - 11:01 am)