Text 11192, 60 rader
Skriven 2014-03-21 22:57:01 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11113 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Re: Doctor What? Who? Where?
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 20 Mar 14  09:51:08 <=-

 DD>> will always be your favourite. Tom Baker was my first Doctor. But, my
 DD>> favourite was his immediate predecessor, Jon Pertwee. Tom Baker is my
 DD>> second favourite and Sylvester McCoy comes third on my list. Patrick
 DD>> Troughton, the second version of the Doctor ranking after McCoy.
 NB>> 'Tis said, indeed...  Jon Pertwee was essentially my first Doctor, and
 NB>> also my favorite...  Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy pretty much tie for
 NB>> my second place... I liked the first doctor, too...  I remember sitting
 NB>> on the floor with my young child on my lap, watching the half-hour
 NB>> segments that were shown on WXXI... cliffhangers to the end segment...

 DD> I didn't get to see too many episodes with the first doctor (William
 DD> Hartnell) so I have formed no opinion of his character.

He wasn't as colorful as some of the later ones, but at least he was
quite watchable... got the series off to a good start... :)

 DD>> It certainly is a tenacious series - hanging on longer than any old
 DD>> soap opera in the US. And outliving my favourite British comedy "Last
 DD>> of the Summer Wine" which has gone under due to most of the cast dying
 DD>> of old age or becoming infirm enough that the grind of making a weekly
 DD>> television show was beyond hem. 
 NB>> The premise that the Doctor wouldn't die, just transmogrify into a new
 NB>> body, probably helped there... the main actor could die or go onto a
 NB>> new position, and the Main Character was still there... just

 DD> Allegedly the Doctor can regenerate only 12 times. Yet the series is
 DD> on the 13th version. I wonder how they explained that away? And with

Maybe they changed the premise...?  ;)

 DD> some of the Doctor versions (Cullen Baker especially) I found myself
 DD> rooting for the Daleks and the Cyber-men.
 
I saw a fairly recent one maybe a couple of years ago... and found it
hard to figure out who Was the Doctor... let alone feel I should root
for him...  was over at my neighbor's daughter's house (where said
neighbor was temporarily staying), and as she's quite the fan of Dr.
Who, she was getting the newer British ones on cable before they got
here to the states on public TV... couldn't tell you who the Doctor
was... 

 NB>> different... ;) I've gotten away from it pretty much now, but Richard
 NB>> still watches it... being shown late Saturday night (now) isn't the
 NB>> best time for me... and our TV setup is different now, too...

 DD> Even Dr. Who isn't enough to gull me into turning on my TV. Although
 DD> if they re-ran The Chronicles of Narnia with Tom Baker as the Marsh
 DD> Wiggle I'd be mightily tempted.

I could go along with that..  (G)  He's puckish enough... but maybe not
skinny or tall enough... ;)  Jon Pertwee might make a good Marsh Wiggle,
too... ;)

ttyl           neb

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