So who is rumored apart from daniels to be the new doctor?
Everybody.
I think Obama gets a mention someone on those speculation sites.
[QUOTE=Eeshton;40895496]For people uneducated in old DW, yeah it does make sense. Chris looks in his 40s, David in his 30s, and Matt in his 20s (although he looks closer to 30 by the end of all this). Teenage Doctor Who GO[/QUOTE]
Maybe Susan was actually in her last incarnation so that's why The Doctor left Gallifrey: to show her the sights of the universe before she died forever.
I made a list of good and bad for Love And Monsters but didn't post it in the end. ELO and Jackie were the two good points.
I like Doctor Lite. Just not that one.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;40898202]I made a list of good and bad for Love And Monsters but didn't post it in the end. ELO and Jackie were the two good points.
I like Doctor Lite. Just not that one.[/QUOTE]
I thought the only 2 good things about Love and Monsters was that it was only 45 minutes long and it ends.
I am confused about the ability of Time Lords to reproduce, was Susan really the Doctor's granddaughter? I've heard about the creation of Time Lords on looms but believe this has never been alluded to in the show itself and we were shown the Doctor's cradle so he was presumably a baby once
I think it's pretty safe to assume that Sydney Newman and Verity Lambert had no idea about all the convoluted bullshit that would become the Doctor Who canon when they were creating Susan. They probably figured that Time Lords reproduced just like people.
And when I say time lords, I mean 'the alien race that The Doctor and Susan belong to' because they didn't come up with Time Lords either
In fact, the Doctor and Susan being alien thing was probably originally just an explanation for where they got a time machine from
Isn't Susan just an ordinary Gallifreyan?
And also, was it ever explained why the Doctor was exhiled? He mentions it briefly in An Unearthly Child (" Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles?") But was it ever explained why? Just because he stole a TARDIS? :v:
because the Time Lords just watch and don't interfere and he didn't really agree with that
can someone tell me the difference between a timelord and a gallifreyan
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;40900421]can someone tell me the difference between a timelord and a gallifreyan[/QUOTE]
as far as i can tell, timelords are just gallifreyans who have access to time travel.
[QUOTE=Derp Y. Mail;40899986]Isn't Susan just an ordinary Gallifreyan?
And also, was it ever explained why the Doctor was exhiled? He mentions it briefly in An Unearthly Child (" Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles?") But was it ever explained why? Just because he stole a TARDIS? :v:[/QUOTE]
It's going to be revealed in the 50th.
Gaiman originally wrote the reason into The Doctors Wife but Moffat told him to remove it as the real reason is too shocking and emotional to be revealed in a normal episode.
According to 'inside sources' who know the 50th plot: it's related to Susan, The Time War, and the Hurt Doctor.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;40900509]Both Bob and a cow are Earthlings, but only one of them is a human.[/QUOTE]
so you're saying susan is a cow
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;40900756]so you're saying susan is a cow[/QUOTE]
No but Susan never went to the Time Lord academy, hence the non Time Lord name. We can assume because of this she can't regenerate either.
Time Lord is a title, the way I see it
Also, regeneration is a natural ability of Gallifreyans brought about by exposure to the Untempered Schism over millions of years until it was incorporated into their DNA, like Lamarckism
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I hope it's something like Lamarckism, it'd be cool to see how our concepts of biology don't necessarily have to conform to other species' concepts of biology.
[QUOTE=ojcoolj;40900881]Also, regeneration is a natural ability of Gallifreyans brought about by exposure to the Untempered Schism over millions of years until it was incorporated into their DNA, like Lamarckism
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-Snip, totally ignore me. You're absolutely right-
[QUOTE=Dan2593;40901029]Nope.
Regeneration has never been explained in the series beyond "Time Lords have this little trick, it's sort of a way of cheating death, except, it means I'm gonna change."
The Timelords offered The Master a new regeneration cycle in the classic series and gave him one during the Time War.
It seems to be a "little trick" exclusive to Timelords, specially if they have the power to allocate and remove regenerations.
Not all Gallifreyans.
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That said, there has also been little in the TV series to highlight the differences between Timelords and Gallifreyans.
"Timelord DNA" is a phrase that was thrown around when River was born and she could regenerate. So maybe the idea of Time Lord being a rank has been retconned in the new series.[/QUOTE]
Isn't Rassilon responsible for "inventing" the ability to regenerate?
[QUOTE=alien_guy;40901116]Isn't Rassilon responsible for "inventing" the ability to regenerate?[/QUOTE]
That was the explanation in off-screen canon.
But the explanation given by ojcoolj is the one given by the Doctor and Vastra in Series 6
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How close we were.. (fan made from about 2 years ago. Good call on the dates)
John Simm and Benedict Cucumbersnatch in the background :v:
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;40902084]John Simm and Benedict Cucumbersnatch in the background :v:[/QUOTE]
benedict cabbagepatch?
Lots of debate on Gallifrey Base that Who needs to drastically change it's format to continue to be a success. One person suggested moving toward becoming a more serious drama like Game of Thrones. Somebody else suggested Doctor Who becomes a more grown-up show while a spin off is supplied for the children.
Love to know what people here think.
Personally I don't feel anything needs to be changed that badly. Doctor Who is a family drama. It's supposed to be appealing to children while appeasing the child inside the adult. Matt's Doctor is unfairly attacked for being "too silly" and fans are demanding the next Doctor is completely serious. Terrible idea. The Doctor is supposed to be silly. There has never been a non-silly Doctor. I feel the Specials did more harm then good. In the specials a lot of the wacky humour and silly-Doctor behaviour was sucked out and the 5 episodes were spread across over a year. As a result people have this false memory that the Tennant-era was emotional, grown up, and high budget. In reality The Doctor was a goof running around shouting and gurning at poor CGI all the time. Just like now. There is no reason to change this. Feel free to tone it down or up, but never get rid of it entirely. That would be detrimental.
Torchwood attempted to take the Who-Universe and make it something adults can exclusively enjoy. In my opinion it wasn't handled well. Children of Earth told a story that was too dark for children and could never belong to Doctor Who, that's what Torchwood should've been the whole time. The rest of Torchwood was the Doctor Who format with sex and drugs crowbarred in. It wasn't so much the [I]'adult-Doctor Who'[/I] as it was the [I]'X-rated Doctor Who made for Teenagers'[/I].
The way TV is moving is less episodic and more serialised. This is why shows like Game of Thrones, Broadchurch, and Walking Dead are so popular. Every episode feels like something has really changed. They tried making Doctor Who less episodic in Series 6 but it didn't feel like they totally committed to it and frankly in my opinion didn't work. Doctor Who works best as a [I]Monster/period/planet of the week[/I] type show. Like Star Trek or Stargate. When you try to serialise these shows too much they lose the charm. You stop getting an adventure every week and start getting Stargate Universe.
Doctor Who was once the daddy of serials. 8-part adventures in the classic series. So why not return to that? I don't mean 25 minute long episodes but every story could be 2/3/4 parts long. You could tell a story of the scale of Children of Earth without making it 'adult only'. It would make it more of a conversation topic. Must watch TV. Imagine that. A series with 12/13 episodes but only 4/5 stories. A series would feel more like a collection of self contained Mini-series. Each one you have to tune in to see how it ends or builds up. A loose arc over all of them that comes together at the very end. This way the show still has it's episodic feel but also feels more like modern sci-fi/fantasy. As opposed to Sci-fi/fantasy of 2005. Plus single episodes seem to have lost the charm. You know going in that it's going to either have a rushed build up or rushed ending. I would rather every story become a 2-parter than have a single adventure ever again.
Just a thought.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;40902698]The way TV is moving is less episodic and more serialised. This is why shows like Game of Thrones, Broadchurch, and Walking Dead are so popular. Every episode feels like something has really changed. They tried making Doctor Who less episodic in Series 6 but it didn't feel like they totally committed to it and frankly in my opinion didn't work. Doctor Who works best as a [I]Monster/period/planet of the week[/I] type show. Like Star Trek or Stargate. When you try to serialise these shows too much they lose the charm. You stop getting an adventure every week and start getting Stargate Universe.[/quote]
star trek handled the transition to serial drama with deep space 9 pretty well I thought
Shamefully it's the only Trek I haven't seen an episode of.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;40902942]Shamefully it's the only Trek I haven't seen an episode of.[/QUOTE]
do it it's pretty good
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much stronger character development and we get to see the darker underbelly of the Federation rather than the bland utopia depicted in the other treks
DS9 was awesome.
Bringing this up again
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[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;40903458]Bringing this up again
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I don't really see any reason to change the format at the moment. The show is still a huge success, even with the slight ratings dip for the last series. I would however like to go back to regular Spring 13-episode series, I'm starting to get sick of all these split series - it always feels like the series ends just when it gets properly going. Also I think the finales only really work as 2-parters, trying to do them in 45 minutes just makes the threat seem too easily solved.
I'd love doctor who to be more adult, but it would ruin the magic for all the younger fans out there.
Just give me back UK Torchwood with some better writing like Children of Earth.
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