The Doctor Who Thread

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**Frazzled**

English Assassin wrote:
sirlynchmob wrote:
BaronIveagh wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Meh, give me a companion who wacks people.
Companion Bob: Oh no we're surrounded by X!
Doctor: I'll just get out my sonic scredriv
(wack wack wack) Companion Bob: ok we're good. Lets go.
Doctor: er...wow.

Her name was Ace, she was the last companion of the original series, and she beat a Dalek with a ball bat and had a penchant for explosives.
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I preferred leela, she was hot, And had a habit of killing things.

Leela was indeed a wonderful companion. There's a rather charming moment in "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" in which the Doctor finds himself obliged to deflect the police from investigating the deaths she caused rather than the murders carried out by the story's villain.

Yes I remember Leela. We need some hostile companions back.
I still like a slightly controlled Dalek who occasionally gets off the lease when stressed.

**English Assassin**

Corpsesarefun wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Meh, give me a companion who wacks people.
Companion Bob: Oh no we're surrounded by X!
Doctor: I'll just get out my sonic scredriv
(wack wack wack) Companion Bob: ok we're good. Lets go.
Doctor: er...wow.

Or a companion that challenges his cutesy stick his nose in ethics.

I like a Dalek companion myself. Doctor can control to an extent but sometimes its just got to let a little EXTERMINATE! hang out.

Isn't that what River did?

"oh you're zapping something with your sonic screwdriver? allow me to shoot everyone"

That's a bit more Captain Jack' style (or the Brigadier's, who memorably unleashes genocide on one story's antagonists after the Doctor has made peace with them) than River's. I had high hopes for River as a Romana-esque companion; the last season dashed them most cruelly.

**Dbrown98**

Deathshead420 wrote:
I was actually hoping that he got a dalek sidekick. Not just the hot girl in it. Imagine the doctor showing up everywhere with a dalek in tow, would be interesting to say the least. Plus they could keep the smoking hot companion thing but add a twist. How can he fall in love with a Dalek?

While I'm on the subject of hot companions, that girl almost got me in hot water with the misses, shes so good to look at i forgot me Julie was in the room for a minute and was like daaamn. She got all pissy that the doctors sidekicks keep getting hotter and hotter. Don't get me wrong, and I'm sure some people will disagree the ginger was hot but shes got nothing on the new one IMO.

but a Dalek would make things too easy

Plus the Doc is a pacifist

I don't think he should have had Leela on board.

**English Assassin**

Dbrown98 wrote:
Plus the Doc is a pacifist

I don't think he should have had Leela on board.

I'd disagree entirely with that; having Leela as a companion allowed the writers the opportunity to restate the Doctor's pacifist ethics every time he upbraided her for killing people or refused to take the easy, violent recourse that her propensity for knifing and poisoning antagonists provided.

**hotsauceman1**

We need a Companion that is slightly insane and kinda hates the Doctor, But still loves him.

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Also I still Think Donna's Grandad was the best companion.

**Frazzled**

Have the companion only in his head like Caprica Six in Battlestar Gallactica.

**notprop**

Why not just Caprica Six?

**Frazzled**

notprop wrote:
Why not just Caprica Six?

Because she'd turn the doctor to jelly welly when he started talking about timey wimey.

**notprop**

But she'd still be in it wouldn't she?

Who cares what the nerd with the flashing screw driver gets up to, so long as he can deliver her to a selection of futures and pasts where clothes are optional, possibly even frowned upon.

Jobs a good un.

**Deathshead420**

Plus the Doc is a pacifist

Have you seen the show, he is the freeking grim reaper. Where ever he goes death and destruction is soon to follow.

**sirlynchmob**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
We need a Companion that is slightly insane and kinda hates the Doctor, But still loves him.

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Also I still Think Donna's Grandad was the best companion.

NOOOO, not another turlow.

speaking of kills though. did they ever let Jamie McCrimmon (2nd doctor) kill anyone? I'd go look, but all those episodes are on vhs tapes and I no longer have a player for them.

**Rysaer**

notprop wrote:
But she'd still be in it wouldn't she?

Who cares what the nerd with the flashing screw driver gets up to, so long as he can deliver her to a selection of futures and pasts where clothes are optional, possibly even frowned upon.

Jobs a good un.

Best timelines ever.

**Darkvoidof40k**

How old is the Doctor now then? I remember in the silly space man episodes he was actually over 1000 years old at one point. But that might have been one of the trillion timelines that they simply erased due to the fact that they cocked everything up on such a universal scale that the only way to solve a problem every other episode is to destroy a timeline or blow up the universe and what have ye.

**hotsauceman1**

He is roughly that, He kinda exists outside of timelines.

**Revenent Reiko**

I thought about 900 for some reason....

**BaronIveagh**

Revenent Reiko wrote:
I thought about 900 for some reason....

Yeah, in the Impossible Astronaut etc he gets aged 200 years while avoiding dealing with the possibility of his dying.

**Revenent Reiko**

BaronIveagh wrote:
Revenent Reiko wrote:
I thought about 900 for some reason....

Yeah, in the Impossible Astronaut etc he gets aged 200 years while avoiding dealing with the possibility of his dying.

Looked it up...

Tardis Wiki wrote:ELEVENTH DOCTOR
Not long after Amy Pond first encountered the Doctor, he told her that he was 907 (DW: Flesh and Stone), which he then restated when meeting the Dream Lord. (DW: Amy's Choice) When his future self invited him to Utah, the younger Doctor gave his age as 909. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut) The Doctor later commented that he was around George's age of eight "about a thousand years ago". (DW: Night Terrors) When he met Amy, Rory, River and Canton at Lake Silencio, his older self told Amy that he was 1103. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut) Indeed, the Doctor at this point in his life had just finished his farewell tour which lasted nearly two hundred years. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

Knew i got 900 from somewhere....

The problem now is that he didnt die, therefore he could again be any age....darn.

**Lord of battles**

I say they either need to make Jack Harkness the new companion, or make more torchwood episodes!

**Darkvoidof40k**

Revenent Reiko wrote:
BaronIveagh wrote:
Revenent Reiko wrote:
I thought about 900 for some reason....

Yeah, in the Impossible Astronaut etc he gets aged 200 years while avoiding dealing with the possibility of his dying.

Looked it up...

Tardis Wiki wrote:ELEVENTH DOCTOR
Not long after Amy Pond first encountered the Doctor, he told her that he was 907 (DW: Flesh and Stone), which he then restated when meeting the Dream Lord. (DW: Amy's Choice) When his future self invited him to Utah, the younger Doctor gave his age as 909. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut) The Doctor later commented that he was around George's age of eight "about a thousand years ago". (DW: Night Terrors) When he met Amy, Rory, River and Canton at Lake Silencio, his older self told Amy that he was 1103. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut) Indeed, the Doctor at this point in his life had just finished his farewell tour which lasted nearly two hundred years. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

Knew i got 900 from somewhere....

The problem now is that he didnt die, therefore he could again be any age....darn.

Thing is he hasn't really aged at all. That's sort of the time lord's schtick I suppose, but the fact he wasn't even slightly different is annoying.

**Lord-Loss**

If Time Lords don't age why were the old Doctors so well... old?

**Corpsesarefun**

Lord-Loss wrote:
If Time Lords don't age why were the old Doctors so well... old?

Time lords DO age, they just age very slowly and tend to regenerate if they die.

**Rysaer**

They regenerated as older people perhaps?

By rights although it could just be for humour it does mention that when he regenerates he could come back as almost anything, old, young, skinny, fat, you name it, there stands the chance that he could even come back with extra limbs or even heads have been joked about.

**notprop**

Lord of battles wrote:
I say they either need to make Jack Harkness the new companion, or make more torchwood episodes!

If anyone from procurement at the BBC is reading this please disregard this post, he knows not of what he asks.

Captain Jazzhands isn't what Dr Who needs, that as I have established is Caprica Six.

Torchwood is something that no one needs. And don't get me starts on that Welsh bint....damn she's annoying......in any other series her husband would have been killed but he keeps popping up and surviving.....see what you've done now? I've started now ranting about that hopefully dead series!

**AduroT**

Eh, Torchwood wasnt Bad per say, but it was poorly handled.

We want to make a Doctor Who but make it more grown up and adult.
How are we going to do that?
Simple, make half the characters gay and have sexual overtones in every episode.
Can't we just make it darker and more serious and less silly?
Nope. Gay Sex.

**Revenent Reiko**

AduroT wrote:
Eh, Torchwood wasnt Bad per say, but it was poorly handled.

We want to make a Doctor Who but make it more grown up and adult.
How are we going to do that?
Simple, make half the characters gay and have sexual overtones in every episode.
Can't we just make it darker and more serious and less silly?
Nope. Gay Sex.

Actually what they did was market it for an American audience, and thats what killed it IMO....i honestly didnt care either way that there happened to be gay intercouse in the newest series (my Dad wasnt exactly happy with it which was quite funny to watch), its not like it was a secret that Jack was gay even in DW, so...yeah, i didnt care either way. What i did find fault with was the terrible story, the awful structure of the episodes, the addition of a typical gung-ho black FBI agent to 'make it more American' (not that i have anything wrong with their being a black team member, im just pointing it out), and the worlds worst series ending that i have ever seen...

**Ovion**

To be fair, Captain Jack was from a point in the future where attitude towards sexual partners was 'It doesn't necessarily need to have a pulse, or be moving' due to so many human varients, aliens, etc, and sees 'beauty' differently because of it.

I mean, Cpn John thought a poodle was sexy.

Same sort of thing as if someone from 1000 years ago saw the sexual preferences and attitudes of people today - it'd be almost the same difference looking outside in.

**notprop**

Nah it's not the gay thing, it's just I always think Captain Jazzhands will spring into a west end show tune at any moment. It sort of ruins any suspense or action that has built up.

[Welsh bint] - Wats that Jack?

[Captain Jazzhands] - hmmmm could be from Solaria or errrr maybe? Yes it is, it's from.......OOOOk-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain........[turn, tap, heel kick, smile.....Jazzhands]

You mark my words it will happen if there is another series.

**Deathshead420**

Good ol Captain Batty Jack. I really didn't mind him too much in DW, but Torchwood for get it. That show can remain dead. The American TW had one good thing going for it ...only one, John De Lancie aka mutherfethin Q.

**CDK**

Cool I didn't know there was a Doctor Who thread here! Fantastic. Been a fan for almost 30 years. Love all the new ones. In fact it's kinda hard to watch the old stuff now. I got some Tom Baker with Sarah Jane a few months ago and couldn't finish it! I used to love it! As of now my favorite companion has got to be Donna Noble. I liked her because she was so different from everyone! No even a close love interest for the Doctor and that was good. I'd love her to show up to be with Matt Smith.

**yani**

Opinions about A Town Called Mercy?

I really liked it myself, had the right mix of a decent story of redemption with enough timey wimey fun to make it Dr Who.