50 days of why Doctor Who is awesome

Fed up with being labelled as 'geeks' because of our love for Doctor Who. I have no offence to the term of geek but hate 'labels' just because of the hobbies you have. Anyways for all those people who say Doctor Who is a kids show or dont get it, here's why it is awesome and why we love it:

Day One- The TARDIS.

It's not a huge spaceship with a hundred crewmembers with decks and turbo-lifts, it's literally a police box from the outside and a huge living and working space for our Doctor on the inside. It not only can travel through space and time but it also can change the design to suit each Doctor.  the fact that the chameleon circuit is broken meaning that the TARDIS had to remain the 60's police box makes it a great and recognisable image and icon of Britishness. Would you really want to travel any other way?

shortest review ever of The Almost People...

Am too busy to write a long review unfortunatly due to life's annoyances, so I will just say that the episode was GREAT and OMG my brain hurts so much, what a cliffhanger!!

Sadness

There is one reason that there is not a long blog today. me and Claire watched Jacqueline Hill's mythmaker's tribute last night and I am still emotionally unstable. I don't mind admitting that we both cried at seeing her husband Alvin Rakoff, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Maureen O'Brien and others saying how much they loved and miss her. it was a beautiful tribute and the archive footage of Jacqueline at a convention was a lovely sight for us, these days actors are everywhere on TV, the opportunites for Matt Smith interviews are endless (great obviously but endless) and so it was nice to see what she was actually like.
A great watch.

The William Russell Mythmaker's interview was inspiring hearing about his career, his co-stars, his enthusiasm and his anecdotes about Hollywood actors and his general presence.  he was so youthful and loved his life lesson of not wanting to be doing what everyone else was doing, the 9-5 thing, the routine. he lives by change. I so agree with him, I get bored after five minutes. Anyway he did not seem like a seventy year old which he must have been at the making of this, in fact he was still so so handsome (not that as you get older you're not handsome anymore) and ok, am a bit in love with him, honestly don't care how old he is, he's the same guy.

Great purchases.

Favourite Companions

This was very very hard to choose but here it goes:

1. Ian/Barbara (from this blog you can prob tell that we love them but also it was hard to pick one over the other as they're soo good.)
2. Rose (some fans hate her but I think she is a great companion)
3. Donna (apparantly Russell T Davies described her as the Barbara of the 21st century)
4. Harry (should have been in it more because he was awesome)
5. Sarah-Jane (Great chemistry with all the Doctor's she worked with)
6. Ace- (when I was growing up I wanted to be cool like her)
7. Rory (when he's not dying, he's funny and brave)
8. Ben/Polly (couldnt seperate the two, considering most of their eps are gone they made a big impact)
9. Vicki (never really gets mentioned but she was adorable and fun)
10. Jamie (just love his relationship with two sooo funny)

Nearly made it: Jo, Jack, Susan and River Song.

Favourite Doctors

Ok, so i'm not one of those fans who hates one of the Doctor's, I actually like them all and think they all have their merits. I don't think it's cool to hate David Tennant or cool to like Tom Baker and I like them all. Obviously I have faves, my four favourites are:

1.

Good Old first Doctor who doesn't get enough credit for being the creator of the character. He isn't just grouchy, he's also sweet, stubborn, hilarious and an anti-hero.

2.

Ten made me fall in love with Doctor Who again (and not because he's good looking) but because he was exciting, funny, verbal and enthusiastic.

3.

I just love Two, he's so sweet and funny, he has an excellent rapport with companions particularly Jamie and he's great.

4.

I've really started to appreaciate Nine recently and come to love him, he reminds me a bit of the first Doctor and I love his mysterious quality and rather moody nature and wish he'd been in one more series.

Then I like equally: Tom Baker, Matt Smith, Sylvester McCoy, Peter Davison.
then equally: Jon Pertewee, Colin Baker, Paul McGann (although I've seen little of the last two)

Anyway, the Doctor is the Doctor no matter what his personality or face and I love all of his regenerations and him travelling forever in his TARDIS.





Rant time and documentaries

Why is it that TV doesn't broadcast enough classic who? Ok u can find a lot of it online but for me nothing beats good old fashioned sitting in front of the TV with a cup of tea and some biscuits but classic who just isn't shown. I mean you'd think it'd be shown here in the UK being such an iconic programme but all we get is a few repeats of series 1-4.

Imagine my delight that the channel WATCH advertised that it was Doctor who day on saturday, wow was my reply, a whole day to Doctor Who, finally.  well not only is it not on the WHOLE day but its a pretty poor line up.  we have 'The Next Doctor' followed by the two Peter Cushing movies and then the Paul Mcgann film (none of which are IMO that good) and then they are just repeating 'The next Doctor' for good measure or incase your a fan of David Morrisey or cybermen or something. 

Can't understand why they can't play a few oldies for us Who fans who are trying to watch as many as possible and don't want to be at the computer screen all day or skint from having to bu EVERY single DVD of a programme spanning almost half century.

On a positive note though our Myth maker DVD's arrived today, we got Jacqueline Hill with Raymond Cusick ones and William Russell and Verity Lambert. looking forward to watching about their opinions of their time on the show. it's great on DVD commentary but even nicer to see them in person.

On a side note about DVD commentary. on the commentary for I think it might be 'Keys of Marinus' if you can listen to it please do. Clayton Hickman the moderator informs William Russell that Edwina Currie described him as her teenage 'sex symbol' hahaha there is a brief pause before you hear Russ just sort of mutter out a few words of embarrassment and Carol Ann Ford declare amusingly that Russell doesn't look anything like John Major.

You're not the only one Edwina!

Especially if you saw him in 'The Adventures of Sir Lancelot'

That's why you should always watch anything behind the scenes, that's where the secrets come out...Be seeing you...

Doctor Who goodies...

came in the post today!

William Russell signed photograph from 'An Unearthly Child'. My dad just raised an eyebrow and obviously doesnt get why me and Katie love William Russell so much. Oh well, also purchased...

Harry Sullivan's War written by the wonderful Ian Marter who played Harry. Love Harry Sullivan and heard this is a good read so looking forward to devouring it soon.

William has pride of place on our wall next to David Tennant and Richard Armitage and various photos of me and the sister and friends who are not famous or really worth being in their presense haha. I think the frames a bit cheap so am going to buy a new one for Russ as he deserves it.

Ta ta for now, be seeing you...