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Eddie Izzard As ... Doctor Who?
cmdr_forge writes "The BBC is reporting that Former Doctor Who Tom Baker says that Eddie Izzard is to be the next doctor for the TV show that starts 2005. How awesome is that!"
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"How awesome is that!"
Doctor who? Doctor WHO?! No, serious, I'm really asking, who's Eddie Izzard?
"Derp de derp."
--What *I* think would be interesting, is if they brought Tom Baker back... ...as THE MASTER!!
--People's JAWS would drop. Imagine the controversy, oh the hurly-burly!!
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??
"Carlin is in a league of comedians who's jokes are so insightful and hysterical that even after 20 years will crack people up."
Dirty words, how insightful. And don't try to pretend that anyone under 40 recognizes Carlin as anything but the Seven Words You Can't Say On TV Guy, which is only marginally better than being the Watermellon Smashing Guy.
I'd rather see the Cross-Dressing Guy any day. He can do a set on classical literature, geography, world politics, religion, and jam, then turn around and do it again in French--without, I might add, sinking to the level of cheap scatalogical humor.
Am I the only one around here who has never seen Doctor Who on TV but have read all the books? My favorite was Terrance Dicks books, usally large size fonts, clear and funny narration and the best stories. !!!
Hope to see it this time. BTW. Any idea if BBC will put it on the International channel instead of all the local ones?
.ACMD setaloiv siht gnidaeR
yeah it's kinda fun to watch the 2yo & 5yo run around the house shouting *EXTERMINATE* and asking questions about the Tardis travelling through worm holes.
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blast the ABC for voicing over the end credits though - bloody ads
peterrenshaw ~ Another Scrappy Startup
Time Lords have 12 regenerations for a total of 13 lives (including the first life). Most Time Lords' lives can last thousands of years before needing a regeneration, but The Doctor leads dangerous lives... I'm also wondering whether these lives are consecutive, or a regeneration could be a shift sideways through 13 concurrent, individual, lives. It would allow for the numerous 'solo' adventures and eliminate certain continuity issues.
Which would be all very well if it weren't for the 'how far back can you go, how many lives have you lived' scene in Brain Of Morbius, which suggests that the Tom Baker version was already number 12 (assuming, reasonably enough, that you can ignore Peter Cushing and Trevor Martin) by showing 8 pre-Hartnell Doctors (actually the faces of various members of the production team, for which they then had to compensate Equity). Except that the 'only 13 lives' bit was introduced rather later.
Doctor Who continuity was never much more sturdy than the sets - or, to put it more positively, Doctor Who never let silly continuity niggles get in the way of telling a good story.
Anyhow, if it came to the crunch, it's not as if the BBC would stop the show becasue they'd run out of permissible regenerations, is it?
tV