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Doctor Who Comeback
ElGuapoGolf writes "According to the Daily Telegraph, Doctor Who is set to return to the airwaves. According to the article, it's going to be written by the same guy who created the series 'Queer As Folk'. Not sure if we'll get to see it in the US, but I guess it's a good time to start bugging your cable company to carry BBC America if they don't already."
Now if they can just get Tom Baker.... Still, I am not sure if this is going to be successful. People today don't seem to appreciate the 'intellectual' hero, they want action. Maybe they are going to cast Arnold as the new doc?
I don't think we'll need to worry whether we will get to see it in the US, since the original series has a pretty well established following. Maybe BBC America will actually start showing something other than "Changing Rooms" or "Ground Forces" repeats, if not, there's always PBS, and SCI-FI
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Killer metallic salt and pepper shakers, ugly 1960s red phone booths, and an aging guy with a curly afro. I can't wait for this to appear on the airwaves again.
Has it really been fourteen years since the last Dr. Who episode was made for television? Wow. I've missed the old timelord.
I don't think I will ever be as excited as when Star Trek: The Next Generation came back on TV, but that was also, what, sixteen years ago? Time marches on. We get older, get real lives, more responsibilities. Sigh.
If they're not bringing back one of the previous actors, maybe we'll get lucky and they'll get Rowan Atkinson...
What this show is is a quick, enjoyably-written little Sci Fi serial thing. Everything should be done low-budget. The casting always was -- when someone got too pricey the Dr. got a new incarnation, right?
And costumes -- how could anyone ever get a cheap costume device that's as good as Tom Baker's scarf?
Cheap and fun. Concentrate on adapting decent little Sci Fi short story ideas for scripts. This could be a Simpsons, if you get the right mix.
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
Mmmm, Leela... That really wasn't quite *enough* rabbit fur, was it?
Damn straight...
I really liked the Cybermen from the Troughton years... they acted like cyborgs, no emotion which creeped in to their later appearances, just business.
Actually, you could say the same about the Borg. But then again, the Borg always were cybermen with better costumes.
Well, just think of the potential for updated characters. It's like in ST. Originally, the Klingons were just black guys or, more often, white guys in (poor) blackface. When ST:TNG revamped them, their makeup and costumes (and the continuing backstories) made them much more believable, and far improved their characters.
New villains are great, but don't throw away the story history.
Please. Don't peddle your BS here. The intellectual hero has always been appreciated and cheered. MacGyver was a perfect example of that in the 1980s. Today the hero has even branched out into non-action shows where intelligence is the key factor that catches the bad guy, like CSI.