Dr Who chit-chat

[Matthew_]

Andrew,
I think I see your point now. You are right, the Tennant personality does seem to come through good each time.
I missed the early Dr Who, so I have to concede the point here. Fascinating, do you think we accepted a more complicated and unpredictable persona in earlier times? Now we just want a good guy? The Tennant Dr Who has a degree of unpredictability but this is generally in HOW he solve the problem, this is very much like the Tom Baker portrayal for me. It was inspired and kept you on the edge of seat. And always that calmness.
Anyway, I'm drifting off target. I wonder what your comment is on our cultural acceptance of flawed or not wholly good characters today?

[Andrew MacLean]

Oh, I think that we live in a community that is incapable of appreciating a flawed person; you either have to be all good or you are most assuredly all bad.

We need to demonize people or groups of people so that we an be 'not like them', and therefore 'better' than they are.

David Tennant may just recover some of the menace that qw prsent in the early Doctor Who; I certainly think he is coming close. Working alongside Captain Jack and with the only other surviving Time Lord may just be the way in which the Doctor himself becomes a more rounded character.

There was one episode when Patrick Troughton's Doctor was bent on eating alive Jamie McCrimmon, his Scottish assistant. Now that is menace.

Andrew

[Matthew_]

You are right, so right. But I guess Tennant skirts the boundary of acceptable darkness. It is a shame as a general social comment that we cannot accept that people are not perfect!

Anyway: make note to editor: "Tennant to eat assistant in last episode!"

[Louise Pembroke]

I did appreciate the jelly baby in-joke

[Matthew_]

Yes, it was sooooo good wasn't it!

[Matthew_]

Speaking of the genius of the current series and indeed episode check this out...http://www.haroldsaxon.co.uk/index.shtml

Its the Harold Saxon website hosted through the Dr Who site, very clever!

[scoobysmurf]

Well is he dead is the question??? He would not regenerate and The Dr burned him on the funeral pyre however, what about the ring??? That creepy painted red finger nail hand picked it up - maybe he is in the ring???

Too much totty though for one night what with The Dr, Captain Jack and Saxon well just far too much choice!

sweet dreams

scooby

[John Smith]

Scooby,

If you remember the sole 8th Doctor story to be televised, it was about the Doctor (McCoy) taking the Master's ASHES to Skaro, because the Daleks didn't trust that he was really dead.

As of course he wasn't; hence the sudden materialisation in San Fransisco and the related regeneration into Paul McGann.

So, he's come back to life from ashes before... no doubt he will again one day. Hopefully one day soon.

The Master really does seem to be careless on the number of times he has to regenerate though - he dies almost as often as Captain Jack

[scoobysmurf]

Thanks, John

For the info I must check out our DVD's and see if we have that one covered.

scooby

[Andrew MacLean]

The moment when the varnished nailed hand picked up the ring from the smouldering embers of the funeral pyre looked like a quote from the end of the Flash Gordon film when a similar hand drew the ring of Ming the Merciless from the ashes of the palace.