Happy 50th Doctor Who

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Posted by Unknown on Saturday November 23, 2013 @07:47AM from the is-that-like-a-vorlon-or-something dept.

beaverdownunder writes "To commemorate 50 years of the Tardis, today the BBC is airing a 75 minute special finally revealing the secrets of the Time War. What did you think of the special? And what's your fondest memory of Who? And what about that Capaldi guy?" Okian Warrior pointed out today's Google doodle too.

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2nd Dr by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-23 07:55 · Score: 3, Informative

Troughton FTW.
Pity so much of his stuff has been lost as he was such a great character; the development past grumpy educational granddad to the different forms we know today.
1. Re:2nd Dr by hairyfeet · 2013-11-23 18:26 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Actually that rumor was proved to be false and they only recovered IIRC 9 episodes which leaves around 100 still lost.
  While it would have been nice if the rumor had been true it looks like a good chunk of the episodes missing were never sold overseas (for example the creator of the Daleks was trying to get a Dalek show made in the USA so they never sold any of the Dalek episodes) which makes their recovery very VERY unlikely as its overseas where all missing episodes so far have been found.
  As for fav Doctor? Frankly all of them but Colin Baker had their moments (his hammy acting style combined with that outfit just made him a turn off for me) but for me it would be a toss up between Troughton's chessmaster and Tom Baker's eccentric for the classic series and while I would have liked to have seen Eccleston stay on a little longer Tennant was damned good in the role, even episodes like "blink" where he is barely in it his performance sticks with you.
  
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Re:What do you mean, "did you think"? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-23 08:05 · Score: 5, Funny

I see you're not a Timelord.
Traditions... by Dartz-IRL · 2013-11-23 08:06 · Score: 5, Funny

The couch has been moved a metre forward from the wall, and I have adopted the traditional viewing position.
And here come the Daleks.
EXTERMINATE!

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conspiracy! by Dthief · 2013-11-23 08:11 · Score: 3, Funny

It all makes sense now....Dr. Who was on the grassy knoll the whole time

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Re:Thought this site was supposed to be news... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-23 08:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Gossip about Dexter?
The serial killer or the one with a laboratory?
Took me 21:45 to beat the Google game by HatofPig · 2013-11-23 08:35 · Score: 5, Funny

That was pretty fun! I wasted 10 regenerations trying to get past the Crying Angel in the graveyard.

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trolls by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-23 09:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

To all the crybabies:
Complaining about Doctor Who for not being scientifically accurate is as stupid as complaining about The Lord of The Rings for not being historically accurate. Now, go f**k yourself.
Favorite moments by murdocj · 2013-11-23 09:02 · Score: 4, Informative

My favorite doctor is Tom Baker... all the energy, the scarf, the huge grin, the way he could challenge just about any evil, despite the odds.
I loved how the Doctor got pulled into locating the keys to time:
White Guardian asks the Doctor to locate the keys.
Doctor: What happens if I say no?
White Guardian: Nothing
Doctor: Nothing?
White Guardian: Nothing
Doctor: Nothing???
White Guardian: Nothing... ever
I must admit, though, one of the best moments is when BBC revived Dr. Who and had an episode (maybe the first episode) where the Doctor takes Rose billions of years into the future, with the sun about to engulf the earth. To the Doctor, it's just all part of the normal cycle of things... just on a larger scale. But Rose is overcome watching the extinction of her planet. It makes you realize that the Doctor is NOT just a guy with a time machine... he's an alien, with a completely alien view of the universe.
1. Re:Favorite moments by AmiMoJo · 2013-11-24 00:00 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Interestingly Baker's Doctor could have averted the while Time War and having to murder his entire race. He travelled back to when the Daleks were first created and has the opportunity to put a stop to them then and there, but decided not to on the grounds that he would be wiping out an entire race.
  
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Best Doctor Who coverage = The Register by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2013-11-23 09:19 · Score: 5, Informative

The best 50th anniversary coverage I've seen by far is over the The Register. (Yes, the same publication you read to find out what will be on SlashDot tomorrow.)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/23/doctor_who_is_50/
Re:Too retro by Spad · 2013-11-23 09:28 · Score: 4, Insightful

Yes, the "original" Hunger Games which is nothing at all like Battle Royale...
Re:Watched by Spad · 2013-11-23 09:29 · Score: 4, Informative

The "Night of the Doctor" prelude already established the McGann Doctor (including radio plays) as canon.
Re:Too retro by wonkey_monkey · 2013-11-23 12:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

Dr. Who, Star [Wars|Gate|Dreck]. Too retro. I'm old enough to remember when they all started. They had their day. They need to disappear into history.

You know, you can just stop watching something if you don't like it.

Are we going to have to put up with that whole series as movies?
Unless you're going to be dragged into the cinema against your will and clamped into the chair with your eyelids propped up a la Clockwork Orange, no, you're not going to have to put up with it.

They had their day. They need to disappear into history.
Your opinion doesn't trump everyone else's. Sorry.

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Re:Tom Baker by daveime · 2013-11-24 01:18 · Score: 3, Informative

Eccleston *was* asked, the prick just decided to do a Tom Baker 25 years on ... maybe we'll see him in the 75th ...
Re:Watched by Kjella · 2013-11-24 01:56 · Score: 3, Interesting

The only thing I hate about this episode is that Doctor Who is turning into a miracle worker that can fix anything, anywhere, any time. Where's all that anguish between doing something bad and letting something horrible happen going to go? No more the burden of having killed billions of children to save the universe on your conscience. Time paradoxes, crossing your own time stream, going to your own grave, time locked has ceased to mean anything. Now it was just "the time streams are out of sync, we just won't remember". At the end of every episode, he could essentially go back to the beginning and make it null and void, no more you made a decision and you're stuck with it. Hell, they more than hinted in this episode that they're going to rewrite Trenselor, no more of this future:

Dr. Simeon: It was a minor skirmish by the Doctor's blood-soaked standards. Not exactly the Time War, but enough to finish him. In the end it was too much for the old man.
Jenny: Blood soaked?
Vastra: The Doctor has been many things, but never blood-soaked.
Dr. Simeon: Tell that to the leader of the Sycorax. Or Solomon the Trader. Or the Cybermen, or the Daleks. The Doctor lives his life in darker hues, day upon day. And he will have other names before the end. Storm. The Beast. The Valeyard.
The doctor needs a setback, some kind of limitations, something he can't fix. But I think you have pretty much thrown that out the window by fixing the Time War.

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