The Twelve Doctors of Christmas
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DarkGob,
Posted on: 2010-12-30 16:05 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Thanks for posting this! What a fascinating read... I started watching Dr. Who in the 80s, thanks to my local PBS station re-running all of the Pertwee/Baker/Davison/Baker/McCoy episodes, and have since seen nearly every episode still available at this point.
*runs off to post this link on his FB page for the largely un-enlightened masses*
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You're quite welcome. Here's a link to the series' table of contents that I just turned up.
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Originally Posted by Mindscythe
Thanks for posting this!
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Is it just me, or is there not a whole lot of actual discussion of the Fifth Doctor in this one? Just one long extended allegory that seems to ramble on endlessly?|
Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Shifting into Fifth Gear by Pia Guerra
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-np
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Wait until you read the apologia for the Sixth Doctor.|
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Is it just me, or is there not a whole lot of actual discussion of the Fifth Doctor in this one? Just one long extended allegory that seems to ramble on endlessly?
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Nonetheless, that highlights what I like about this blog series, and by extension Doctor Who itself: The franchise is utterly unafraid to reinvent itself regularly with incarnations of the protagonist that invariably are met with skepticism yet always win over at least a portion of the audience. Every Doctor is some fan's "My Doctor".
Still waiting on today's installment for Ten, but we're up to the Ninth Doctor: The Walking Wounded.
There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. --The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Because I'm Clever is up.|
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Still waiting on today's installment for Ten, but we're up to the Ninth Doctor: The Walking Wounded.
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EDIT: And here are the links to Seven (The Tea is Getting Cold) and Eight (His Humanity Proven).
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While we wait for the double-post on the 11th Doctor, the supplemental material How To Get Into Doctor Who In One or Two Easy Steps and From Bow Ties to Sneakers: Fashion Tips from the Doctor are pretty good.
UPDATE: And now the two-fer for the 11th Doctor has been posted: Mark Waid: Fezzes Arent Cool and Tara O'Shea/Lynne M. Thomas: Chicks Dig the Eleventh Doctor.
And finally, the series concludes with The Twelfth Doctors, both the non-canonical ones from the past and left-field candidates for the future. (Sorry to see Richard E. Grant received credit only for a cameo in The Curse of the Fatal Death and not the web-animation serial The Scream of the Shalka.)
I'm still holding out for Hugh Laurie as Twelve (since House will probably be done by then), myself. Extremely unlikely but I like to dream.
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We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
Yup. Hugh Laurie for Twelve, and then one of the Harry Potter kids for Thirteen. I'm calling it right now!
There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. --The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Well a friend sent me this Doctor Who cartoon.
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In the wake of Matt Smith's Doctor Who Christmas Special, Tor Books is hosting the Twelve Doctors of Christmas, a retrospective series of essays profiling each of the time lord's incarnations.
At this point, Doctors One through Five have been featured:
The First Doctor of Christmas by George Mann
The Mystery of the Cosmic Hobo (or, Bow Ties Are Cool!) by Nick Abadzis
The Third Doctor by Paul Cornell
Born to be an Alien by Nicholas Whyte
Shifting into Fifth Gear by Pia Guerra
For some, this will be a pleasant nostalgia trip, and for others, an insight into what the fuss was at the time.