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I have a friend that messed up her recording  of Time of the Doctor.  If she lived nearby I’d watch it with her.  She can’t find it anywhere at the moment, anyone know where she can get the full episode?  I’m thinking she’ll have to wait for a rerun…

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Hah @MartyB – I watched another Second Doctor set, Seeds of Death, and he definitely wasn’t hapless in that one. 🙂  Ok, enough off topic for this thread.

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@MartyB – I’ve seen a few of Hartnell’s sets and it’s true, he’s pretty hapless as well, but his mistrust and anger kind of overwhelm that.  I need to see more of his later ones where he’s friendlier.  I just watched “An Adventure In Space and Time” and it made me more interested in seeing the character develop, not that I wasn’t interested already.

BTW if anyone is looking for episodes of anything don’t forget to check dailymotion.com, they often have stuff that youtube doesn’t.  I found lots of full episodes of early Who there.

@wolfweed – I have pet rabbits, so I nearly died when Ten had his heart-to-heart with a lop.  Good catch on the stuffed bun!

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@fatmaninabox – thank you for the welcome and the info.

@MartyB – My dad watched a little Tom Baker when I was a kid but I barely have memories of that.  I started with Eccleston, though not at the time it was aired.  It’s only been just over a year since I began my journey and it’s hard for me to believe I’ve ever been without Who.  I’ve watched some First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Doctor episodes, and while I still have massive holes in my knowledge I’m fully committed to getting to everything eventually.

I love Nine and endlessly wish we’d had more of him (so sad about the 50th!) but as you can tell, Ten is my Doctor (making the 50th so much fun anyway).  It’s true that I’ve had a hard time letting him go.  I warmed completely to Smith’s portrayal, loved his physicality and energy and look, but never liked the personality the writing gave him.  Dipping into prior incarnations taught me that the Doctor has been so many men, some of which I love, some of which challenge me more to see the Doctor inside.  In fact, Two taught me to appreciate certain sides of Eleven.  It’s interesting, I really enjoyed the Second Doctor ones I’ve seen, even though he’s pretty hapless.  In him I find it endearing.

I do not begrudge those who love Eleven – most of my friends that watch are among them.  It can be a bit of a bummer when you realize that the current Doctor isn’t your own, and you’ll have to be ok with that for a while.  I’m beyond excited for Twelve, since the signals they’re throwing out in the 50th seem to say we’ll see something very different, more mature, and I’m so up for that.

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Hi, new here. 🙂 Been a crazy fan for a while now but haven’t quite delved into forums.  Please be kind, and if I break any local customs, let me know.

I finally bit the bullet and found you when I actually had a discovery on my own and felt like it was cool enough to share. Then I get here and was all ready to post but it looks like someone beat me to it. It’s mentioned in the Fan Creativity thread so I thought it would be ok to bring it to light here.

I happened to rewatch Rise of the Cybermen, when they’re trapped in Pete’s universe, and to my astonishment…

MICKEY: But I’ve seen it in comics. People go hopping from one alternative world to another. It’s easy.
DOCTOR: Not in the real world. It used to be easy. When the Time Lords kept their eye on everything, you could hop between realities, home in time for tea. Then they died, and took it all with them. The walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind.

I think it does follow that if the Time Lords are restored, we could have another pop between worlds, involving Rose and Duplicate Ten. It’s the kind of thing fans will clamor for, right?

Being a huge Tennant fan I’d love to see him again and again, but I’m still unhappy with what they did story-wise, with a half-Donna version of Ten getting the blame for violent actions and being stuck with Rose, which made very little sense whatsoever. In fact I found Rose’s entire characterization and the interactions she had with Ten in those episodes to be unsatisfying, so I kind of cringe at the idea of having to revisit it.  But, but but!  Wouldn’t it still be great to see what’s going on with them? 🙂

Regarding the discussion above on whether people like River, I have to include myself in the camp of not being a big fan of all that.  The fun of her being so badass kind of pulled it through for me, even as I was annoyed that the world revolved around her and not the Doctor, that she was running the show much of the time and the Doctor was dragged along, not really making it a love story so much as a requirement and he just goes through the motions.  The last straw for me was when they finally had the TARDIS to themselves and she says “there’s only room for one of us” and just leaves.  So much for the love story of the ages.  I really wanted to love her and the Ponds too, but it just wasn’t for me, I guess.  I try not to be a Moffat hater, as he’s got the right touch plenty of times and there are lots of stories I’ve enjoyed, but yeah, more of a Davies fan here.

Been watching random classic Who between whiles and am wondering if anyone is watching Whoflix?  I tried one and while I wouldn’t have made all the same choices I still found it pretty great to get to the meat of the story.  Those First Doctor eps are quite the slog sometimes but they have such fabulous ideas in them.

Hope this isn’t too much for a first post!

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