The Picture Thread Vol. 14: ♫ Very Superstitious ♫

[SocializingMogo Corps Honor Guard Find all posts View Profile Close SocializingMogo]

You fail the dork test, but yes. It's a sonic screwdriver. Although the Doctor doesn't like to think of it as a weapon it has been used to defeat enough aliens to justify the tag.

Remember when the Sonic Screwdriver was just a screwdriver and not a magic "fixes everything" device?

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

Remember when the Sonic Screwdriver was just a screwdriver and not a magic "fixes everything" device?

I know. Now it's like a tricorder super computer.
I think for me the "jump the shark" moment with the screwdriver was when 10 popped a distant champagne cork with it one handed and behind his back ("Voyage of the Damned").

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Why wouldn't the Sonic's be able to increase pressure in the bottle to pop the cork?

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Alright, you stop whatever you're doing right now and start with Season One, Episode One of the current series that launched in 2005. That episode introduced Christopher Eccleston as the first Doctor post-Time War. Do not come back until you've seen at least ten episodes.

but..... I want to finish watching Castle

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Don't let the Who fans sway you Booster. Doctor Who sucks watch something Murican!!

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YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!! THE DOCTOR IS AMAZING!!!

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I've never really had any opportunity to watch Doctor Who, other than that movie they had on TV a while back. I've read about it, and some of it sounds really interesting, but other parts sound like they are mixing horror with SF, which is something I'm not a big fan of, though I can take in small doses, especially if it is mixed in to a show that does not focus on that regularly.

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Yeah, Doctor Who is one genre series I've just never taken the plunge into, besides Battlestar Galactica.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Another reason I've never taken the plunge into Doctor Who is that I know myself, and I KNOW that it would bug the HECK out of me (assuming I ended up liking the show) that I could not POSSIBLY watch every episode, since so many have been "lost". When I get into a show, or a book series, I really want to be able to watch/read everything. To have large swathes unavailable for viewing would annoy me no end.

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Another reason I've never taken the plunge into Doctor Who is that I know myself, and I KNOW that it would bug the HECK out of me (assuming I ended up liking the show) that I could not POSSIBLY watch every episode, since so many have been "lost". When I get into a show, or a book series, I really want to be able to watch/read everything. To have large swathes unavailable for viewing would annoy me no end.

So true, I tell people that when I start watching I want to watch from the very beginning of the series, the first episode ever. Typically, this is met with either an eye roll, trying to plead with me how awesome Eccleston is, or someone telling me how many of the episodes are missing and I'll never be able to watch them all.

Which leads to this...

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it's funny cause it's true

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

Another reason I've never taken the plunge into Doctor Who is that I know myself, and I KNOW that it would bug the HECK out of me (assuming I ended up liking the show) that I could not POSSIBLY watch every episode, since so many have been "lost". When I get into a show, or a book series, I really want to be able to watch/read everything. To have large swathes unavailable for viewing would annoy me no end.

It is very annoying but I started watching before I realized that. One partial help is that the audio is available to all of the missing episodes so you can at least hear them.

So true, I tell people that when I start watching I want to watch from the very beginning of the series, the first episode ever. Typically, this is met with either an eye roll, trying to plead with me how awesome Eccleston is, or someone telling me how many of the episodes are missing and I'll never be able to watch them all.

I don't think starting at the beginning is bad. I came into DW a bit disjointedly. I saw the movie first and wasn't too impressed and didn't know there was a way to watch the old ones (on PBS at the time). I restarted with the reboot in '05. After a couple seasons I was hooked enough to want to see some old ones. I picked some random ones and then bought the first set (the first three stories). But I still haven't seen even all the available episodes. There are 240 and most of them are multi-episode stories.

Anyway, the pilot and first few episodes are an interesting story. If you ever try it, don't give up before the first Dalek series. The pilot was great but the first story it went with was pretty weak. It got good with the Daleks.

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*cough* dr. Who thread *cough*