OT: Dr. Who

[John Esak]

Thanks Bill.
This tells me to actually tune in though the SciFi channel lots more!.
 
I'm glad I saw that Van Gogh one, first before this last episode... I
wouldn't have understood the reference at all, except the way you understand
most Dr Who references ... that he has been everywhere and knows everyone.
And, in my opinion, this last episode actually gives a scientific reason for
that. It was pretty good.  I hate to hear that it wraps up a season.  are
there 13 in each season?  I guess so.
 
Just another stupid question. Has there been the equivalent of the little
robot dog?  Was it R5 or Astro or something like that? No, wait, that was
George Jetson's dog!, Ruh Roh...  :-)  Dr Who was as good at character
generation as Star Trek was. I still think the Holographic doctor in Voyager
is the best idea of that whole series.  except, of course, Data is an Asimov
positronic robot from way back when and you can't do much better than that
for 40 or 50 years hanging around, until you get miraculously brought to
life in an entirely different medium. Asimov must be slowly spinning around
in his grave with a contented smile on his face.   He once wrote a story
about a positronic car named Sally that could drive you around and such.
Just recently I sat in a Lexus that parallel parked itself.  Sally isn't far
off. :-)
 
John
 
 


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From: Bill Randall [mailto:wrandall at fptech.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6:04 AM
To: john at valar.com
Subject: Re: OT: Dr. Who


John,

This is the first season with the new doctor and writer/director.  #13 was
the season final and was on this past Saturday at 9 PM SyFi channel.  The
Van Gogh (#10) one was excellent.  We have watched that one 3 times and love
it.  The original air date and time is Saturdays at 9 PM.   Then they have
been showing them in groups of 4 or 5 on 'On Demand' where most things are
free and limited commercials.

Through the years, there have only been bits and pieces or what happened to
the Doctor's world.  Rather the originals 40 some odd years ago had more, I
do not know.  All I remember is that there was a war (surprise) and all the
time travelers were killed except for the Doctor.

Love the show.

Bill

On 7/26/2010 2:07 AM, John Esak wrote: 

Okay, I admit it this is *the* most off topic question I have ever put here,

and I apologize.  I would tie it to filePro somehow but other than this

sentence I have no idea how to do that, so sorry. :-( :-)



I just found a whole bunch of Dr. Who's (the new one) on Pay Per View as

FREE. So I watched episode #6 through #10.  Then just today #11 through #13

came available and I watched those. They were all really, really good. Well,

I like them anyway, don't know if that means they are actually good or not.

You know it's "art" and I don't know much about it, I just know what I like.

:-)  



Anyway, any of you aficionados know whether these were a second year set or

third or fourth or could they be first? I have no idea.  A couple of them

were about Van Gogh, one was about being in a dream reality or the real

reality and popping back and forth. In this last one #13 River just blew up

the Tardis and fixed all the cracks in Time.  Does that place them for

anyone.



I also want to know if I find the first season will it explain how the

Doctor destroyed his home world?  Also, is Van Gogh more of a thread than

these 2 episodes I saw? This is good fun stuff, I wonder why it's FREE?  



By the way. Who is River?



I don't expect this to remain a thread for even one more posting. Anyone can

send direct to john at valar, but put Dr. Who in the subject if you know any of

this stuff.



John



By the way the episodes are quite long, maybe longer than an hour even.



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