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[Captain Maxx Power]

Originally Posted by Big D ^

Agreed. Christopher Eccleston was terrific, but he left after a single season to avoid getting typecast...
It's kinda weird: The Doctor's about nine centuries old, but it seems he spent several hundred years in his first 'incarnation', and only started dying/regenerating regularly once the BBC started making a tv show about him

That's true, but he's certainly spent longer than the 60-odd years depicted on-screen. In his first incarnation he's about 600ish and now he's about 900. But yeah, it appears having BBC cameras following you around, and presumably a writing staff doing your lines, is extremely hazardous for one's health.

[Skyblade]

Originally Posted by I Don't Need A Name ^

Originally Posted by Captain Maxx Power ^

Originally Posted by Big D ^

Well... he's got three regenerations left, so they've still got a bit of flexibility left about who they cast as the next Doctor, when the time finally comes...

If The Master was any indication they're quite willing to be flexible with the whole Regeneration deal. Should they ever get to that point I would imagine they would find a way to get around it.

well yeah, the master on a few occasions stole someother body to rejuvinate his lives. however, i think thats a bit too evil for the doctor

If you remember, the Master's latest regeneration occured without the theft of a body. The regeneration rules have been stretched and warped so many times by the Master thus far, I doubt there will be much problem explaining why the Doctor can continue regenerating. My guess is that the removal of the Time Lords from history is going to have some connection.

[Big D]

Originally Posted by Skyblade ^

If you remember, the Master's latest regeneration occured without the theft of a body. The regeneration rules have been stretched and warped so many times by the Master thus far, I doubt there will be much problem explaining why the Doctor can continue regenerating. My guess is that the removal of the Time Lords from history is going to have some connection.

The story was that the Time Lords revived The Master, so that he could serve as a 'last resort' in the final war with the Daleks. That never came about, though, so his identity was kept suppressed, and he lived on in the distant future as 'Professor Yana'.
The destruction of Gallifrey would seem to be a setback to reviving The Doctor again, but thanks to the nifty miracle of time travel, anything's possible - since the Time Lords were killed, but not erased from history entirely.

[Iceglow]

Originally Posted by Loony BoB ^

Rose was good, Martha was better, Donna is annoying, David Tennant's doctor is pretty damn cool but nothing will ever compare to Christopher Eccleston's version of the ol' Timelord. Fantastic!

I actually agree with you here BoB, I didn't think much of Martha personally, she was ok but as said by the BBC the stress of the huge scale of Dr Who started to show on her, she started well but failed to cope towards the end. Rose Tyler (Billie Piper, never thought I'd say this but she can actually act, watch secret diary of a call girl...she's actually also damn hawt in that too) was good, her storyline was well written and her role didn't try to "out-do" the doctor in any way. Not that I believe she could out-do Eccleston, hell I remember the episode where the first of the Dalek's appears and he's making this huge gun and then goes off in to a rant about the destruction of Gallifrey ect ect. It was actually moving you could believe that Eccleston was the 900+ year old lone survivor of a terrible war faced with the return of his arch enemy. The role of Captain Jack Harkness and also Rose's friend Danny were well executed too.

I guess they've changed the writing team or something because the last great support role actress I saw since Rose Tyler was Kylie Minogue performing on the xmas special about the space titanic. Catherine Tate is annoying because she's a well known and respected actress who likes to be centre of attention and star of the show. She doesn't like to be second fiddle and well compared to the Doctor thats exactly what it's meant to be an assistant, a second fiddle. The writers or her improvising acting is just getting too big and loud for a mere assistant she'd have been better off doing a special probably as the big bad woman rather than the assistants role something where she could challenge Tennants acting skills without being a permanent competition for him.

David Tennant is a great doctor, doesn't have the same aura or imposing image as Eccleston had as the doctor the voice and attitude lacks the gravity that his predecessor could pull off and yet Tennant still manages to win through.

What I am considering having watched the finale of season 2 of the Dr Who spinoff Torchwood tonight on BBC I-player, how will season 3 of Torchwood play out when they've killed in my opinion one of THE best actors in it (twice actually) Owen was easily the funniest of them at times for his cynical sarcastic views and quiet conflicting pessimism and optimism for example he suggests he can make it to the nuclear power station, why? because being dead but living he's king of the weevils

[Skyblade]

Originally Posted by Big D ^

Originally Posted by Skyblade ^

If you remember, the Master's latest regeneration occured without the theft of a body. The regeneration rules have been stretched and warped so many times by the Master thus far, I doubt there will be much problem explaining why the Doctor can continue regenerating. My guess is that the removal of the Time Lords from history is going to have some connection.

The story was that the Time Lords revived The Master, so that he could serve as a 'last resort' in the final war with the Daleks. That never came about, though, so his identity was kept suppressed, and he lived on in the distant future as 'Professor Yana'.
The destruction of Gallifrey would seem to be a setback to reviving The Doctor again, but thanks to the nifty miracle of time travel, anything's possible - since the Time Lords were killed, but not erased from history entirely.

Professor Yana regenerated into Spoiler: Howard Saxon. The Time Lords revived him into the Professor Yana incarnation, but he regenerated after that, so clearly he found a new way around the regeneration limit.

[Big D]

Originally Posted by Skyblade ^

Professor Yana regenerated into Spoiler: Howard Saxon. The Time Lords revived him into the Professor Yana incarnation, but he regenerated after that, so clearly he found a new way around the regeneration limit.

True - but what I mean is, the Time Lords brought him back in the first place, which presumably reset his regeneration limit somehow.

Originally Posted by Iceglow

I actually agree with you here BoB, I didn't think much of Martha personally, she was ok but as said by the BBC the stress of the huge scale of Dr Who started to show on her, she started well but failed to cope towards the end. Rose Tyler (Billie Piper, never thought I'd say this but she can actually act, watch secret diary of a call girl...she's actually also damn hawt in that too) was good, her storyline was well written and her role didn't try to "out-do" the doctor in any way. Not that I believe she could out-do Eccleston, hell I remember the episode where the first of the Dalek's appears and he's making this huge gun and then goes off in to a rant about the destruction of Gallifrey ect ect. It was actually moving you could believe that Eccleston was the 900+ year old lone survivor of a terrible war faced with the return of his arch enemy. The role of Captain Jack Harkness and also Rose's friend Danny were well executed too.

Agreed, for the most part. Eccleston's sense of sadness and anger came through damn well; Tennant's got some of that, but there's usually so much goofiness it's harder to see sometimes.

I found Martha a nice counterpart to Rose. Both neat characters, but strong in different ways: Rose is very emotionally-driven, she 'feels' her way through situations; she's also open-minded enough to cope with the incredibly odd experiences she gets into during her travels. Martha, on the other hand, is technically more intelligent - but, as a scientist (medical training counts as 'science' to me) she's more driven by logic and ration, so with The Doctor she's as much a fish-out-of-water as the scientifically-untrained Rose - because the worlds they travel to are just so far beyond anything that makes sense to her reasoning, rational mind.

[Psychotic]

Today's episode, and spoilered for the benefit of the likes of Big D. I love/hate it when they do things like this.

Spoiler: 
Sigma One: Your song will come to an end soon.
Creepy music.
Doctor: ...what?
Sigma One: OH NOTHING ^_^;;

Gah! What the heck is that supposed to mean!

[Raebus]

Sounds like a death to me!