NJR Doctor Who

[American Oyaji]

Not Japan Related, but...

The BBC series of Dr. Who is now on the SciFi channel on Fridays.

Pretty good stuff!

And the lady playing Rose is quite delicious.

[American Oyaji]

NJR,
I was watching Dr. WHo and the girl mentioned taking her A levels.

What are A levels?

[Ketou]

Damn, here I was trying to figure out why I couldn't remember there being a companion named Rose. Never realized there was a new series running....
I always liked Leela..

[American Oyaji]

Who's Leela?

BTW, they've already started filming season 2.

[Ketou]

Not sure if this is right about A levels but here is a link

EDIT: Oh and Leela was the companion of the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker)

[American Oyaji]

I just watched the first 2 episodes of the new series.

Brilliant stuff. Found out that Billie Piper is the fetching minx playing Rose.

She has a VERY interesting face. Nice features and bone structure. Great lips. ALSO, she is NOT skinny. At least not on the show. She has a figure. She's not a STICK waif like American shows tend to. A pretty, average figure girl in a starring role.

And the guy playing the doctor is....brilliant. Sometimes goofy, kind and other times quite mean and nasty when necessary. Good actor.
Found out they both won top prizes in England in October.

Did I say I'm an instant fan?

Might not catch on with some yanks though because they might not be able to get around the British accents.

[72hw]

Not Japan Related, but...

Haven't seen any of the new Who, but am a fan from way back in the day and remember when Peter Davison took over the TARDIS...

As for linking the show to Japan - after years of watching monsters like the Zygons and Ice Warriors wreak havoc I was blown away by how advanced the effects in Kaiju films were if that counts! LOL







EDIT:

Always liked Tegan over Leela myself...

[Ketou]

Always liked Tegan over Leela myself...

Ahh the Aussie girl. Yea they started to broaden their appeal because of large popularity overseas.
Then comes the American.....well not really though.
Peri

[devicenull]

Man oh man... They are shafting you guys. I am happy to say that while in Japan, I managed to watch all episodes as they came out, not through downloading, but through a proxy service. The BBC airs all it's content online through realplayer, high quality too. But it is only open to UK IPs. Solution? Get a shell account inside of the UK for 1 pound a month, say hello to all the goodies you could ever want. I can't wait till season 2 comes out.... especially after stargate went on hiatus and Prison Break is still on hiatus. I have nothing to watch

[Ketou]

The BBC airs all it's content online through realplayer, high quality too. But it is only open to UK IPs. Solution? Get a shell account inside of the UK for 1 pound a month, say hello to all the goodies you could ever want.

That sounds interesting. Could you explain what a shell account is?

[devicenull]

A shell account is an account on a *nix computer. If you can open up a socks proxy to it, then you can use it to forward all kinds of goodies.

[cliffy]

AO, don't get used to the Doctor, he only played one series! Also, DO NOT miss the last episode in the series it is a corker and sets up the second series.


From a Dr. Who fan from way back (Black and white days!)

[American Oyaji]

I was looking at Dr. Who on IMDB and I was wondering why there were TWO people who played the Doctor already in this new incarnation of the series.

I didn't realize that Dr. Who was the longest running scifi series in history. I'd heard about it, yeah, but I'd never seen it.

SciFi channel showed episodes 1 & 2 last night. Bloody brilliant.

Anyone know why the BBC switched doctors so quickly?

I'm a big fan of the BBC. They make great stuff.

[Ketou]

From a Dr. Who fan from way back (Black and white days!)

With ya there on that one.
Signed: Mutual Old Fart

[Charles]

I downloaded HiDef files of the new series via that method we can't talk about on FG. I was pretty impressed with the new series, although I admit I doublechecked the files were displaying in the correct aspect ratio when I saw how fat Billie Piper looked onscreen. But the HD files look positively beautiful, especially compared to the SD quality I'm getting on SciFi channel.

I was terribly amused by the 2005 series opener which any Whovian will instantly recognize as a remake of an old classic tale from 1971, "Terror of the Autons." Except the 2005 version manages to strip it down to the essentials and deliver it with some punch in a single episode, as opposed to the plodding, rambling 4 episodes of the 1971 version.

Anyway, I sent a disc of the whole 2005 season to my sister, who never heard of Doctor Who before, she loved them. She gave the disc to her boss who also wanted to see more. So she rang me up and asked if there were any more episodes, I told her, well yeah, like 25 years of them, want some? ha.. But I can't believe they haven't managed to get the 2006 season on the air in England yet, what the hell is taking so long? I want more!

I should disclose that Doctor Who is the only fan scene I've ever been a part of, I actually attended a "Tardicon" back around 1974 whereupon I discovered fan scenes are full of tards and I've never taken part in anything like that since.

[American Oyaji]

I never heard of Billie Piper until yesterday.

She's VERY pretty, but she wasn't fat. She was normal weight.

[Mulboyne]

The new Doctor Who was a major hit in Britain. The series was originally taken off the air by a controller who thought that the programme represented all the worst in 1980's BBC family viewing. It was brought back when they lined up a serious writing team who wanted to keep the original flavour but with more contemporary themes.

Billie Piper was a controversial choice. She is best known in Britain as a so-so pop singer with a few hits under her belt who married Chris Evans, then the most influential DJ on British radio and creator of some successful TV shows. They are now separated but still on good terms. She had a few smaller acting roles which showed that she could do a good job but her performances in Dr Who have been a revelation.

Christopher Ecclestone has a very strong pedigree. In film, he is probably best known to international audiences for "Shallow Grave" but his TV roles have been consistently high quality. It was a surprise when he was offered the Dr Who job but probably a bigger surprise that he took it. No-one is really certain why he only lasted one series. It is likely that he only agreed to one series but the BBC was confident he would re-sign if it was a success. Instead, he may have been overwhelmed by the plaudits, worried that he would risk getting stereotyped and so declined to do a second series. The Christmas special which introduced David Tennant as the new Doctor was a big ratings hit.

Subsequently, other series with a fantasy or sci-fi angle got the greenlight and have been well-received. "Life on Mars" is currently being looked at by US production companies for a possible reworking. "Hyperdrive" , which I haven't seen, was given fairly postive reviews and will be back for a second season.

[dimwit]

I saw the series back last summer on my visit to Canada which I imagine will mean at least a couple of years before we can expect to see it here. Sigh



Mommeeee. Are you my Mommy?


A-levels are unfamilar to most of us in North America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_levels

[Neo-Rio]

It was a surprise when he was offered the Dr Who job but probably a bigger surprise that he took it. No-one is really certain why he only lasted one series. It is likely that he only agreed to one series but the BBC was confident he would re-sign if it was a success. Instead, he may have been overwhelmed by the plaudits, worried that he would risk getting stereotyped and so declined to do a second series.

Yeah, he wanted to avoid getting typecast. I mean, look what happened to Pertwee, and the guy with the huge scarf.

[kamome]

Brilliant stuff...fetching minx...yanks...

AO, are you from Ohio or London? Why the faux British "accent"? (Don't get me wrong - I like the British accent too, but if you're a born-and-bred American from the Midwest, it doesn't really fit.)

[American Oyaji]

AO, are you from Ohio or London? Why the faux British "accent"? (Don't get me wrong - I like the British accent too, but if you're a born-and-bred American from the Midwest, it doesn't really fit.)

I'm from Pittsburgh originally.

The Brit speak rubbed off on me while I worked at NOVA. Brits and Aussies all around.

[cliffy]

Yeah, he wanted to avoid getting typecast. I mean, look what happened to Pertwee, and the guy with the huge scarf.

Jon Pertwee is Wortzle Gummidge to me before I think of Dr Who,(btw who can tell me who played Cat Weasle???)
Tom Baker was the Dr with the scarf, He has a thriving career as a voiceover man and appeared recently in 'Monach of the glen'. He also is also the Narrator on Little Britan (A scetch comedy show), Not typecast exept to geeks!

[Mulboyne]

Jon Pertwee is Wortzle Gummidge to me before I think of Dr Who,(btw who can tell me who played Cat Weasle???

Geoffrey Bayldon played Catweazle. Just to make everything nice and tidy, he also was Dr Who in audio plays and made an appearance in Worzel Gummidge.

[Charles]

Tom Baker was the Dr with the scarf, He has a thriving career as a voiceover man...

Apparently now he is the voice of the British Telephone SMS-to-Voice system.

People use this system for all sorts of pranks, like for example, to make him sing Video Killed the Radio Star.

[Ketou]

People use this system for all sorts of pranks, like for example, to make him sing Video Killed the Radio Star.

LOL. Where the bloody hell did you drag that horror up from?

[Charles]

LOL. Where the bloody hell did you drag that horror up from?

It's on the same site as the SMS-to-voice stuff. The artwork is priceless.

[Mulboyne]

Found out that Billie Piper is the fetching minx playing Rose. She has a VERY interesting face. Nice features and bone structure. Great lips. ALSO, she is NOT skinny. At least not on the show. She has a figure. She's not a STICK waif like American shows tend to. A pretty, average figure girl in a starring role.

Independent: 'Dr Who' star Billie Piper reveals her battle with anorexia

Actress Billie Piper has told how her years as a teenage pop star and her desire to emulate photos of "skinny models" drove her to eat tissues and go for up to five days without solid food. Piper, 24, who stars in BBC1's Doctor Who, said she became anorexic and would purge her body with laxatives. She also punched herself in the stomach to make her hunger pangs go away. In her autobiography, Growing Pains, to be published later this month, she says it was her relationship with DJ Chris Evans that gave her a new zest for life and which made her starvation diet go "out the window"...more...

[American Oyaji]

I never knew about her when she was a pop star.

She's most def NOT skinny now. She's got curves in all the proper places.

The hips she is sportin now are NOT anorexic.

[Taro Toporific]

I never knew about her when she was a pop star.

She's most def NOT skinny now.

I also was blindsided to learn she was a pop star. She was much better as an actor.

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[American Oyaji]

She left the show at the end of last season.

Oh man.
That's a blow! The second season just BEGAN on Friday here.