Dr. Who - Kilted?

**TheFly** · 19th June 05, 06:01 PM

And you folks thought you'd seen the last of me. ;)

I just HAD to share this. I've been downloading the recent Dr. Who season which is so brilliant, I'm considering sending a check to the BBC for television usage tax. And I live in the States!

A faint mumble has it that David Tennant, the Doctor for the next season has expressed his interest in playing the role in a kilt.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20821.html

Oh Lorde, please let this happen!!

**Magnus Sporrano** · 19th June 05, 06:55 PM

Oh wouldn't that just be brilliant? I love it.

I'm still bummed about Christopher Eccleston leaving the series so soon; he made a wonderful Doctor.

**Raphael** · 19th June 05, 07:48 PM

It is sad to see Eccelston to leave the show, but I don't mind if Tennant decided to be a Kilted doctor

**GMan** · 19th June 05, 08:36 PM

A kilted lead, that is pretty awesome! Of course we lead kilted LOL

**Will** · 20th June 05, 02:48 AM

Originally Posted by TheFly

And you folks thought you'd seen the last of me. ;)

I just HAD to share this. I've been downloading the recent Dr. Who season which is so brilliant, I'm considering sending a check to the BBC for television usage tax. And I live in the States!

A faint mumble has it that David Tennant, the Doctor for the next season has expressed his interest in playing the role in a kilt.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20821.html

Oh Lorde, please let this happen!!

I haven't watched Dr. Who in a long time. But this may get me back.

**Magnus Sporrano** · 20th June 05, 03:28 AM

Actually, Will, aside from the final part of the final episode the 2005 season of Doctor Who was pretty incredibly good. The writers have had the Doctor and his companion, Rose, facing a number of moral dilemmas with no easy way out. For example, in the season finale, the Doctor is forced to make a weapon that will kill all humans on earth in order to save the human race from an alien invasion (but at this point in time, humans have spread out so stopping the alien enemy at earth would in effect save the humans on the outlying colonies). The weapon would indescriminantly kill all life.

Or what to do when his companion, who lost her father as a small child in a hit & run accident, wants to go back in time and witness her father's death? And then when she intervenes to save him, what to do?

The show also has a high production value, apparently shot in something close to HDTV format (European specs) and often looks more like a movie than a television show (check out episode 9 first, The Empty Child, to see what I mean).

They brought back the Daleks which was cool for nostalgia purposes but I think some of the newer challenges the Doctor was facing were more compelling. Even with the new effects & capabilities, the Daleks are still pretty cheesy.

**Graham** · 20th June 05, 03:45 AM

Dr.Who in a kilt!! that's just the "boost" the kilted community needs to have kilts become more accepted, great news! I hope it happens.

**jfellrath** · 20th June 05, 05:56 AM

Originally Posted by Magnus Sporrano

They brought back the Daleks which was cool for nostalgia purposes but I think some of the newer challenges the Doctor was facing were more compelling. Even with the new effects & capabilities, the Daleks are still pretty cheesy.

WHAT? The Daleks, cheesy?

Good lord... here they come!

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

**Magnus Sporrano** · 20th June 05, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by jfellrath

WHAT? The Daleks, cheesy?

Good lord... here they come!

I think it was episode 6 or 7 this season where they reintroduced the Daleks through a single Dalek that was stranded on Earth. They introduced a number of new capabilities of daleks, including several uses for the enigmatic toilet plunger arm.

They also had some very matrix-like effects of bullets slowing down as they approached the daleks and being vaporized in a sort of shield surrounding them.

**jfellrath** · 20th June 05, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by Magnus Sporrano

I think it was episode 6 or 7 this season where they reintroduced the Daleks through a single Dalek that was stranded on Earth. They introduced a number of new capabilities of daleks, including several uses for the enigmatic toilet plunger arm.

They also had some very matrix-like effects of bullets slowing down as they approached the daleks and being vaporized in a sort of shield surrounding them.

I used to watch this show relgiously, but it was always on our PBS station and shows on that were very hard to keep track of. I stopped watching during the Peter Davidson era, and I think I caught one or two of the Colin Baker ones, but I can barely remember them. Still, it was always a fun show as long as you could put aside the horrible special effects (at the time).