House Rules - Geek Chic

[Caigan]

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Millie's eyes are eating her face!

D:

[Gizensha]

Cute. Wonderful colouring job, and a really nice strip.

Oh, and...

Geek chic

Or at least, David Tennant describes that outfit as being Geek chic. (the guy in the picture, not the girl)

[The MAZZTer]

Very nice coloring, very nice chuckle.

[DHLawrence]

Geek chic

Or at least, David Tennant describes that outfit as being Geek chic. (the guy in the picture, not the girl)

He's okay, but I still miss leather jacket and white t-shirt--too bad he only stayed for a year.

[NHJ BV]

Fine coloring. I like the yellow.

[Niko123000]

Yesssss... yessss... glasses are part of the geek chic... they have become... cool... and are still... not cool...

[Gizensha]

Geek chic

Or at least, David Tennant describes that outfit as being Geek chic. (the guy in the picture, not the girl)

He's okay, but I still miss leather jacket and white t-shirt--too bad he only stayed for a year.

...Uhh... White t-shirt? The Ninth Doctor, at various stages, wore a dark purple top, a dark red top (I think), a dark blue top and a horrid shade of green top, but he never wore a white top. (I'm also fairly sure they tended to be long sleeved rather than short sleeved, but that point's basically irrelevent)...

And personally I find the tenth doctor far sexier than the ninth... I'll reserve judgement on weather I prefer David Tennant's Doctor or Chris Eccleston's doctor more when a decent amount of episodes have transmitted involving David's. Regeneration trauama being what it is, it tends to make a regeneration story an exagerated version of the Doctor in question.

...Unless, of course, you mean Captain Jack Harkness by 'white t-shirt', who is played by John Barrowman who is, quite possably, the sexiest man ever. In which case he's in the spin-off series Torchwood which is supposed to be being transmitted in the UK late-06, and is, apparantly, going to be back in season 3 of Doctor Who.

[DHLawrence]

That might've been who I saw--I could've sworn I saw CE with a white shirt though. Either way, the jacket's the same.

I'm also going on acting and how he shaped the character, not just appearance. The Ninth Doctor is the first one I saw, so he's the one I see the character as. Who knows--I might prefer Number 10; didn't see him much, so it'll be a learning experience when the series finally bounces over here.

[Gizensha]

Mmm. No-one who gets to watch it properly ever likes their first new Doctor because he's replacing their Doctor or something. Takes a while to get used to, and stuff.

To me, while the ninth Doctor had an interesting story to tell, and a very interesting character path, #10 seems, from what little we've seen of him, to be more Doctorish, if you will. Might even be a challenge to Tom Baker's status as the definitive Doctor (which I should note that while Tom isn't my favourite Doctor (Sylvester McCoy is), the fourth doctor is what I consider to be the definitive Doctor. the tenth, based on the 15 minutes he was conscious in The Christmas Invasion, might be challenging that position).

And besides, I know David's acting ability. He can sing, too. If you get the chance, watch the musical cop drama serial Blackpool (I believe it's known as Viva Blackpool in the US). What else has he been in that some of you will know him from...?

Ah yes. He's in some of the Harry Potter movies. And to think, a couple of years back no-one had ever heard of the guy. He's then starring in, like, three big BBC dramas in a row with a bunch of other stuff (including HP and the live (yes. A live transmitted television drama) remake of The Quartermass Experiment). The man is a great actor. He's also a huge, huge, huge fan of Doctor Who.

...And he's completely overshadowed in the trailers for season 2 by the werewolf (you can download the trailer from www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho in case anyone wants to)

Mmm... Anyone else like the mild irony that David Tennant is playing the Tenth Doctor?

...Of course, technically the writing shapes the character rather than the actor, the actor just fleshes out the shape that the writing gives...

[DHLawrence]

He's only been in the most recent HP movie, and only on screen for about five minutes. Other than The Christmas Invasion, that's all I know him from. Don't get Blackpool (I'm in Canada, not US) and haven't gotten much else that he's done over here either.

He does seem promising--he's getting a lot of good episodes (particularly the return of Sarah Jane Smith and K9). Who knows what he'll be like. He does look the part.

Other than 9 and 10, I only know 5 (for his first three shows) and 8 (from some audio plays made with him as the Doctor).

[Gizensha]

He's only been in the most recent HP movie, and only on screen for about five minutes. Other than The Christmas Invasion, that's all I know him from. Don't get Blackpool (I'm in Canada, not US) and haven't gotten much else that he's done over here either.

He does seem promising--he's getting a lot of good episodes (particularly the return of Sarah Jane Smith and K9). Who knows what he'll be like. He does look the part.

Other than 9 and 10, I only know 5 (for his first three shows) and 8 (from some audio plays made with him as the Doctor).

Most fifth Doctor stories can, I feel, be summed up as "The Doctor has a bad day" except for his last story, The Caves of Androzani, which can be summed up as "The Doctor has a really bad day."

I presume you listened to the eigth doctor audio dramas on the BBC webcasts, rather than owning them? If so, you may or may not be interested to learn that all of them, and more, were created by the independent audio drama company, Big Finish. www.bigfinish.com for those (They make monthly audio dramas starring the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth doctors, along with a myriad of spinoff series, and some other stuff. Including The Tommorrow People audio dramas and 2000 AD audio dramas.)

The three major stuff he starred in over here... Blackpool (as the cop DI Carlisle), Cassonova (as the titular character, interestingly this three part serial was also by Russel T Davies) and Doctor Who. He also had a major role in the live drama The Quartermass Experiment. And he's enough of a fan of Doctor Who to have insisted that he was credited as The Doctor rather than Doctor Who in the closing credits, and to get into a debate with an interviewer over the name of the character. Though, interestingly, he's not as big a general sci-fi fan as Noel Clarke (actor (and writer, actually. He wrote (and, I think, was in) the movie Kidulthood, apparantly) who plays Mickey Smith) is, at least according to what I've read in Doctor Who Magazine.

If you have a player that can handle PAL dvds, I do recomend you get your hands on some of the classic series dvds. (Blackpool is also on DVD. Very good, and probably the only 6*60min musical cop drama serial you'll ever see, and I recomend that as well)

[DHLawrence]

Yeah, I heard the BBC 7 webcasts. Also listened to their special broadcast of Shada, which was nice. First time I heard the voices of Romana and K9.

The Fifth Doctor episodes were okay, but I'll take the latest series any day. It was nice to see Tom Baker, if only for two seconds. Found The Master to be a bit of a comedy relief villain rather than a serious enemy, though.

Sorry, I've only got a Region 1 player. Maybe some day.

[Gizensha]

Yeah, I heard the BBC 7 webcasts. Also listened to their special broadcast of Shada, which was nice. First time I heard the voices of Romana and K9.

The Fifth Doctor episodes were okay, but I'll take the latest series any day. It was nice to see Tom Baker, if only for two seconds. Found The Master to be a bit of a comedy relief villain rather than a serious enemy, though.

Ah, well, that's Anthony Ainley's Master for you. Roger Delego's was a credable villain. Bit thin on the motive, but he was a credable villain (which is good, considering he was in every story for an entire freaking season)