Happy Spring! (Also, Doctor Who)

[featherynscale]

I know it's spring because:
- I have a persistent chest cough.
- The dog broke off his line and toured the neighborhood yesterday for the first time since last fall.
- It snowed yesterday, even though it was about 40 degrees out.
- I went clothes shopping the other day and discovered that there will be no full-length pants available for female-bodied people this year, either.
- The seasonal shipment of Peeps in spring colors arrived in the mail from Mom. (Along with two cards - one was from Grandma and Grandpa and contained a sermon. The other was from Mom and Dad and contained an infidelity joke.)
- I think 50 degrees is warm.
- I see people dressed in shorts and t-shirts and people dressed in long coats with scarf and earmuff, on the same day, in the same block.

In other news, since I was ill this weekend, I finished up the second season of Doctor Who. I can probably manage to watch season 3 by the time season 4 is finished... (But I may never catch up to Torchwood.)
Things I have learned from watching Doctor Who:
- Any plan is a good plan if it is communicated enthusiastically enough.
- Evil robots are part of the collective unconscious. Similarly, zombies exist in every civilization worthy of the name.
- If something is part of the problem, it's likely to be part of the solution.
- Nothing, no matter how horrible it seems, is irreversible.
- The quality that makes the human race worthy of protection is primarily a drive to mess with things we don't understand. This is also the quality that makes the human race most in need of protection.
- As a writer, you only get to use any given deus ex machina explanation once. After that, you have to think of a new one.
- The more likely you are to say something is impossible, the more likely it is to exist somewhere.
- If you are a female traveler, you should make an attempt to dress to blend in with the locals anywhere you go. If you are a male traveler, the same outfit works for you everywhere.

Comments

[auraseer.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. I was being facetious, because I can't think of any time the Doctor has actually gone back to change something he has already experienced. He very rarely even does the Bill & Ted trick of sending supplies or hints to himself; Blink is the only instance I can recall offhand, and even that wasn't really his idea.

Come to think of it, for most of the history of Doctor Who, the TARDIS journeys have just been space travel under another name. Though they said they wound up in medieval France or whatever, the plot would have been unchanged if they'd travelled to Medieval France Planet in the present day. IIRC it was not until the new series that they really started to portray time-travel issues, such as the different subjective timespans that Rose and her mother experience while she's gone.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I just watched City of Death (4-parter, with Doctor Tom Baker) this weekend, and the whole plot is contingent on the implications of time travel.

So, how many Doctors have you seen? I started with the 2005 series, and I've gotten half-way through Season 2, with David Tennant. I liked Eccleston better, but I have not seen any of the older seasons apart from the aforementioned City of Death, so my experience is limited to Baker, Eccleston, and Tennant. Who's your favorite Doctor?

[auraseer.livejournal.com]

Oh right, that's the episode with the whole Mona Lisa deal? I'd forgotten about that one.

The PBS station where I grew up used to play a lot of British sci-fi, like Doctor Who and Blake's 7, and generally they kept them in order (though years late). I think I've seen about half of the ones from the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, and all the episodes from Doctors #4 and 5, Tom Baker and Peter Davidson. However the station stopped playing the series after Colin Baker took over, so I only ever saw one episode of his.

On occasion they played specials and mini-marathons, so I've seen a few assorted episodes from the first two Doctors, including the original pilot.

Picking a favorite would be really hard, since they're so very different in personality. At the moment I'm liking Eccleston a lot. When I saw them on TV I liked Tom Baker the best, but probably because I was a kid and he was the silliest; I expect I'd be more critical if I saw them again.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Oh, for some reason (lack of icon) I thought this was all featherynscale's comment.

Please consider the questions to be open to everyone, kthxbai.