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It was 9 years ago today...
saladfingers81
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Rose
What a wonderful journey we have been on ever since!
Can Season 8 just hurry up now please?
What a wonderful journey we have been on ever since!
Can Season 8 just hurry up now please?
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Series 1 still ranks as my joint favourite with Series 4, and it's odd to think that I'd never seen an episode of Doctor Who before nine years ago.
Happy Ninth Birthday Nine, you were fantastic!
It leaked 3 weeks earlier, at about 2am on a Saturday night if I recall correctly, leading to me having to drunkenly work out how these darn torrent things work, to download a 350mb file that took hours to download, followed by people going mad about the wheelie bin on the now defunct OG website; fun times.
Um, it is out on blu-ray. Picture quality ain't much better than the dvd mind, as it wasn't filmed in HD. http://campl.us/fRwxbFF16d2
Then rewinding the video the moment it ended, oh and the swearing at Graham Norton.
What a day
Time really has flown by.
Happy rebirthday Doctor!
Remember being so excited to see my favourite programme return; heady times. And now we've had Chris, David, Matt...and await Peter C with a deal of impatience. Whatever peoples varied opinions on different Doctors, Series, stories, writers....think most would agree it's been quite a trip. Man.
And what still delights me is seeing my neices and millions of other youngsters finding and loving Doctor Who. And, to quote a certain citizen of the Universe...It's far from being all over.
I hate to say it but (as a lifelong Doctor Who fan) I was thinking the same. But as soon as I saw the opening sequence and that brilliant theme - I just knew they were onto a winner:)
On the opening night, we had half a dozen friends round and cracked open some bottles. Great times! The immediate reaction was that Camille Coduri could do no wrong.
Couldn't actually watch when series 1 broadcast as I worked Saturday evenings with no option to record, but as I heard more about what it was about I was so fascinated by the premise and this character of the doctor, and some odd clips of repeats I managed to see. Come Christmas I'd heard enough hype to know that he had regenerated and exactly what that meant, and my family had been watching the series because my parents remembered it from there childhood, so christmas day I watched the Christmas invasion with my family and that was it, I was sold. Remember buying the series 1 dvds and racing through them before series 2 and have been a big fan ever since. Even though I remember all that it now seems weird to remember that it's only been 9 years, as it's now so embedded in the mainstream that it seems crazy that 10 years ago, for most, it was either unheard of, or a tv relic from a bygone age.
If you take the whole of new who and classic who into account it's amazingly impressive to think that in 50 years one show could continuously broadcast a series for 34 of those years with only one big gap inbetween. Any other show going for anywhere near that length would have been constantly start for a few years then get stale and stop for a few years, but not doctor who. A testament to the overall strength of the premise, and the shows ability to constantly feel fresh while keeping the central idea the same.
But can we dump the Slitheen now please?
Crikey, I even got a 'special' huge Slitheen as part of the Eaglemoss collection; which I didn't really want..
I still remember watching 'Rose' very vividly. I wasn't completely sold straight away I must admit. I had spent far too long imagining what Doctor Who would be like if it ever came back that it was never going to match exactly what I was hoping for. Of course as it turned out it was better than what I had hoped and was exactly what was needed. My vision of Doctor Who would've lasted two seasons maximum at that point I expect if that. And even when watching 'Rose' that first time despite my initial misgivings about wheelie bins and 'that girl who sang that really annoying song' it had something special. It was quite unlike anything else on TV as it always was and always has been since. And it was wonderfully, brilliantly 'British' in the best possible way.
Oh and the writing! The wonderful writing! They took it seriously thank goodness
Don't really get all the slitheen hate, as I actually think they were a rather menacing family of villains. The gas issues with the bodies they inhabited which some people seem to cite as a reason to not take them seriously wasn't really made a big deal of or played for over the top comic value in the episodes themselves, it was just another detail of their characters in what I thought were three brilliant episodes that featured the slitheen. I'd happily see them back.
God, it doesn't seem all that long ago that these things were brand new! Nine years since Doctor Who returned. It was off the air for so long, the build up to the revival seemed like an age in waiting from its announcement - and now NINE friggin' years have passed?!?! How's that possible? :eek:
Now I'm off to shake my walking stick at some passing teenagers, because they look like they're having too much fun.
Though they don't cause me undue bother these days when taken in the wider context of the show we have since seen I must admit that despite a few good moments that first Two parter was horribly worrying at the time as it was exactly what I hoped they wouldn't do when the show returned. Of course so much better was to come and not long after but at the time I was horrified and rather than the slightly silly knockabout fun it can be seen as now with hindsight I was worried that this was the direction the show would take. Thankfully it proved to be a blip of terrible taste. And even the Slitheen were partly redeemed before the season had finished with 'Boom Town' which proved whatever his lapses in taste RTD didn't treat the show as something silly.
It is mad isn't it! Its what terrifies me about the show ever going again. Of course if it should then it must. But thinking back the past decade and all the things that have happened and life changes, friends and lovers come and gone, people found and people lost, Doctor Who has been a constant and whatever happens I know that at some point in the year we can all sit down and hear that familiar theme tune and all is right with the world for 45 glorious (and sometimes not so glorious) minutes.