I thought Tom Baker was the Doctor for me, but after Planet of the Spiders and The Green Death I'm not so sure... I mean, who else uses Venusian Aikido??
Christopher Eccleston is great, but a large part of that results from the fact that the writers are allowed to do such interesting things with the new series, that weren't exactly allowed in the old one. If Tom Baker, for instance, was playing the Doctor now... O_o ...That'd be pretty amazing.
Jon Pertwee has very interesting relationships with his companions... I might even say that there are shadows of the tension between the Doctor and Rose with Pertwee's Doctor and Jo, and especially between he and Sarah Jane (another reason I am VERY MUCH hoping that she will appear in the new series!). Plus, he always kicks everyone's ass with fake judo (which he conveniently named "Venusian Aikido" in The Green Death. Awesome!
BTW, did my dad ever send you those remaining episodes, and the Star Wars DVDs
No, he hasn't. I sent him an email a while ago, I don't know if he received it or not. Also: why on earth would I ever feel free to yell at your dad? I don't yell at anyone, let alone the parents of friends who would be doing me a favour.
From what I've read, Sarah Jane is going to sppear on season 2.
If you sent my dad an email, he most likely got it. He's just really, really slow about replying to them. And by "yell at him" I meant ask him again. Because he often forgets these things too. For instance, I am still waiting for him to send me our family's genealogy files so I can add them to Brandon's. I first asked him to do this whe we got married. A year ago.
Over at the BBC site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/index_third.shtml) each Doctor has a picture and then next to the picture is a bizarre sream of consciousness description; Jon Pertwee's is definitely the best:
Dandy. Yellow car. Purple velvet. UNIT Family. Worzel Gummidge. Venusian karate. Klokeda partha menin klatch. Whomobile. Action by HAVOC. All wearing eyepatches.
I very much look forward to the day when I see the episode that will explain that last sentence. Because it sounds like the best thing ever.
Ahh, the UNIT family -- one of my favorite things about the Pertwee era.
May be wrong, but the eyepatch thing probably refers to Inferno (as opposed to The Inferno, which was a Troughton ep), in which a certain character was obliged to wear an eyepatch. Pertwee's book I Am The Doctor mentions that one day the whole cast showed up with eyepatches for a joke.
Klatch... um... means coffee in German and is a furrin country on the Disc.... now I really want to know what that's all about.
Pertwee's book I Am The Doctor mentions that one day the whole cast showed up with eyepatches for a joke.
That sounds about right... and AWESOME. Thanks for the excellent information! As to the German (fake German...?) apparently we shall have to suffer ignorance for some amount of time yet...
It's a fun book. My favorite bit was when he talked about working with Troughton, who had a completely different approach to learning lines (i.e. "Isn't that what I said? Oh well, it's close enough").
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Date: 2005-11-13 01:16 am (UTC)BTW, did my dad ever send you those remaining episodes, and the Star Wars DVDs? if not, feel free to email him and yell at him.
And he is dapper to boot!
Date: 2005-11-13 01:38 am (UTC)Jon Pertwee has very interesting relationships with his companions... I might even say that there are shadows of the tension between the Doctor and Rose with Pertwee's Doctor and Jo, and especially between he and Sarah Jane (another reason I am VERY MUCH hoping that she will appear in the new series!). Plus, he always kicks everyone's ass with fake judo (which he conveniently named "Venusian Aikido" in The Green Death. Awesome!
BTW, did my dad ever send you those remaining episodes, and the Star Wars DVDs
No, he hasn't. I sent him an email a while ago, I don't know if he received it or not. Also: why on earth would I ever feel free to yell at your dad? I don't yell at anyone, let alone the parents of friends who would be doing me a favour.
Re: And he is dapper to boot!
Date: 2005-11-13 02:01 am (UTC)If you sent my dad an email, he most likely got it. He's just really, really slow about replying to them. And by "yell at him" I meant ask him again. Because he often forgets these things too. For instance, I am still waiting for him to send me our family's genealogy files so I can add them to Brandon's. I first asked him to do this whe we got married. A year ago.
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Date: 2005-11-20 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-20 02:30 am (UTC)Over at the BBC site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/index_third.shtml) each Doctor has a picture and then next to the picture is a bizarre sream of consciousness description; Jon Pertwee's is definitely the best:
Dandy. Yellow car. Purple velvet. UNIT Family. Worzel Gummidge. Venusian karate. Klokeda partha menin klatch. Whomobile. Action by HAVOC. All wearing eyepatches.
I very much look forward to the day when I see the episode that will explain that last sentence. Because it sounds like the best thing ever.
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Date: 2005-11-20 02:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-26 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-24 06:04 am (UTC)May be wrong, but the eyepatch thing probably refers to Inferno (as opposed to The Inferno, which was a Troughton ep), in which a certain character was obliged to wear an eyepatch. Pertwee's book I Am The Doctor mentions that one day the whole cast showed up with eyepatches for a joke.
Klatch... um... means coffee in German and is a furrin country on the Disc.... now I really want to know what that's all about.
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Date: 2005-11-26 09:58 pm (UTC)That sounds about right... and AWESOME. Thanks for the excellent information! As to the German (fake German...?) apparently we shall have to suffer ignorance for some amount of time yet...
Must... find... I Am The Doctor...
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Date: 2005-12-08 05:09 pm (UTC)