Doctor Who Club of Australia

Greg · Last edited by Greg on Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:43 pm; edited 1 time in total

Now that Doctor Who's been back for a few years, people have commented about plot elements that have been around on more than one occasion.

If you had the capacity to veto one of them, which would it be?

Ickabod · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 504 Location: far far away

mine is definately the conpanion NOT falling in love with the Doctor....leave that to the fans Very Happy

Speckled Jim · Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 124 Location: Auckland, Un Zud

All of the above!
Oh, and kill the celebrity appearances, a la Ms Minogue. This ain't The Muppets.

uhumanite · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 89 Location: Sydney

No more crushes.. Wink

charlie · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject:

My God. So many to choose from. I must say the screwdriver because i can put up with everything else.

montypython · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:25 am Post subject:

I think they're making too much use of David Tennant's snogability (what do you mean it isn't a word?). Just because he's the hottest Doctor yet doesn't mean he has to pash (or be pashed by) every woman in sight - Cassandra (pashed the man who killed her, yeah, that makes perfect sense), Reinette (I still don't get why he pashed back), Jackie, Martha, Joan (though Joan I'll forgive) ... and I believe there are more to come (and hopefully the one on my profile pic will be amongst them!).

Sulp Niar · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject:

Snogging. Not so much companions fancying the Doctor because, if they're female, that's pretty much inevitable (even if they ARE gay, I'd say)... but the actual snogging is often fairly gratuitous. I simply didn't believe the excuses to have him kiss Rose in 'New Earth' and kiss Martha in 'Smith and Jones'; particularly the former, where Russell explained it as, "I'm in a new body, I can touch, taste and feel... of course I'm gonna kiss someone!" That's true, Russell... but then, why have the Doctor run his hand through his hair and say "Still got it"?

The rest I can largely live with, 'cos Doctor Who has always been cheap in its returns (the Daleks temporal shift? They always come back pointlessly anyway, though, don't they?) and the sonic I can live with because of the 45 min structure (I'm actually more concerned about the usage of the TARDIS). It's only when Doctor Who becomes repetitive and gratuitous that I start to get annoyed.

Oh; no more "alonsy". Please. God.

Is this inspired by a similar quiz in DWM?

EDIT: Come to think of it, the Santas sucked too, mainly because there really was no reason for their inclusion in either apart from "Hey, they look like Santa". Luckily they weren't in 'Voyage of the Damned'.

Greg · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:24 pm Post subject:

Tegan · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

It's a close run thing, but short of an "All of the above" choice, which would of itself be a cop-out, I have to vote for the Sonic Screwdriver as an answer of first choice.

I've never liked the sonic, any good Doctor should be able to work out a solution without resorting to a magic wand.

OK, if the sonic just opened basic or primitive locks that I could live with, but the damned thing can even boil eggs!

And don't get me started on Sarah Jane Smith's Sonic Lippy! Or the Master's "mines bigger than yours and can p*** higher" Laser Screwdriver.

Now there's a phallic compensation if ever I saw one. Embarassed

montypython · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

Greg · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

Ickabod · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 504 Location: far far away

Tegan · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:11 am Post subject:

Ickabod · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 504 Location: far far away

Sulp Niar · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject:

montypython · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject:

Greg · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject:

Actually, it's 'alons y' or 'alons-y', meaning 'let's go' or 'let's go there'. It's been used since series 2, seemingly with increasing frequency. I'm surprised no one has started speculating that this is a hint to something in the future, like 'Bad Wolf' or 'Torchwood'...!

Chickmacgyver · Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Hobart, Tasmania

I wonder if anytime in the future there will be a point in the series that the companion:

1. won't be in love with the Doctor
2. won't want to snog the Doctor at any moment
3. won't have family/friend attachments that need to feature in the series
4. won't magically save the Doctor in some way (at least that didn't really happen in the latest Christmas Special)

I am not trying to sound prudish, but the level of snogging/ love thing between the Doctor and his companions is just too much in the series at the moment. It have it say in Human Nature and in The Girl In The Fireplace it seemed to suit that the Doctor had fallen in love, or at least had been interested by it.

What ever happened to the Doctor being a father figure or a traveling colleague to learn from? Okay, this latest incarnation is young, but he does have a lot of wisdom from all his years of travel. The 5th Doctor didn't go snogging his companions even though he was the youngish one in his era! It just seems wrong thinking about it really Very Happy

Regards, Izzy

montypython · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

Chickmacgyver · Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Hobart, Tasmania