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Old 26-03-2014, 21:01
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I do apologize. I got all wistful for a moment then.
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Old 26-03-2014, 21:30
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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.
This post is much like the doctor's life really. Everything changes but he and his travels are the constant.

As for it ever going again, I think the beauty of a format which at it's core is so simple and adaptable is that if it did go off air, it's already been proven that maybe 10 - 15 years later it could come out of the bbc's metaphorical closet to be reborn once again.

P.s nothing wrong with getting a little soppy. I think if a lot of us hold the show in the sort of esteem that we feel the way you have described about it, even if we don't always say it.
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Old 27-03-2014, 03:54
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Rose

What a wonderful journey we have been on ever since!

Can Season 8 just hurry up now please?
This.
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Old 27-03-2014, 19:18
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The original teasers....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQINlUB3Kww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPmeUGuix00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vkqta0mZxM

Doctor Who- Series One Relaunch News Clip 2004
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Old 27-03-2014, 19:39
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Nice, thank you.

9 years, and RTD & crew didn't even know if would be a success or it would crash and burn.
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Old 27-03-2014, 20:24
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I didn't see the first episode of the return, being away in Egypt (even the Egyptians get it now on some satellite channel or another, saw it in a later visit). I'd had it recorded to watch but came back home on the day of the second episode and watched that one first. Always thought that I was glad to have seen it in that order because I did find the first episode a bit cringey. Never mind, it went on to bigger and better things with hopefully more to come.
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Old 29-03-2014, 19:33
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I had only seen bits of the classic series, but from the moment I heard they were bringing the show back I was super excited and only 12 at the time! I thought the theme was the greatest thing in the universe (and still do) and since then I was a huge fan!
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Old 29-03-2014, 20:08
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Didn't see the teasers originally and had never seen the show before, but I imagine if I had, having heard the basic 'alien who travels through time' premise already, that one with eccleston saying 'ghost's from the past, aliens from the future' would have sold me even more (even though the premise already had)
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Old 29-03-2014, 20:57
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Old 29-03-2014, 21:14
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The 'do you wanna come with me?' trailer is the most legendary TV trailer of all time!
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Old 29-03-2014, 21:59
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The 'do you wanna come with me?' trailer is the most legendary TV trailer of all time!
I agree. sum's up the show and the personality of the 9th doctor perfectly. No other show could have a trailer which offer's such a diverse journey because no other show can do what doctor who does.
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Old 30-03-2014, 12:10
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I remember desperately trying not to get excited over it, thinking that it was bound to be crap compared to "real" Doctor Who, that it would be soulless tosh like the TVM, that Billie Piper wasn't worthy of being a companion etc. etc. Not because I wanted the show to fail, or I was opposed to new Who or anything like that, far from it - I was just trying not to get my hopes up and my heart broken. Let's be honest, did ANY of us truthfully think that Who would ever be as huge as it is now? That we would see Dalekmania-levels of fervour for our silly little show again?

So, no, I tried not to get excited, and in my head I'd already composed all the excuses for the show etc. ["It needs to find it's feet", "it can't be too much like the original, new times and all that" etc. etc.]

But still I genuinely had that Kid-on-Christmas-Eve feeling on the Friday night.

And when Saturday teatime came around, and there was that theme tune, and there were Autons, on actual telly - BRAND NEW DOCTOR WHO ON A SATURDAY NIGHT!!! Brilliant feeling and all my steely resolve to not get my hopes up melted away.

To be honest, I actually thought that Rose was a bit crap (The End Of The World even moreso - it wasn't until Dickens' "God bless us, every one at the end of The Unquiet Dead that the show really felt "back" for me - that seemed like such a Classic Who way to end an adventure), but I didn't really care. Because for all the burping bins, weird plastic Mickeys and rubbish jokes.... Doctor Who was on telly. Actual telly.

Can't believe it's been nine years, I really can't.

Here's to the next nine!!!!!
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