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by the way, has anyone in the know got any spoilers on the new series?
I tried to keep up with the spoiler thread on the galifreybase forum but can't be bothered lol

Thanks to you bastards, and my enjoyment of this thread, ive just been conned out of £1.99 for the last volume of the most recent series, the one with the stone dalek on the cover. Got it in a charity shop on my way to work, for no reason other than id been reading this thread before i left.
SBT

lol I'm glad I set it up then.

Balls.

I do think under hathaways semi-wholesome, rom-com/disney tinted exterior there is a character actress waiting to get out.

Hardy will do a great job either way, and this is Nolan we're talking about, whoever the characters were he bought into the fold, he's going to make the 3rd installment bloody brilliant!

Nowadays I'm a bit wary about watching old-Who as it can't ever be as good as I remember.

Well i watch old who to remind me of the lineage and how good the black and white doctors were on very little budget and before sci fi or sfx were popularised. I actually prefer watching old who to new who!

Edge of Destruction is an important little story if you're wathcing in order - it's the one that bonds the four Tardis crew and sees them become friends rather than reluctant travelling companions; before this Hartnell's trying to ditch Ian and Barbara simply because he doesn't want them around, after this it's from a genuine desire to help.

It's a snappy, creepy, atmospheric little story that's a good character piece and reminds us early on that the Tardis is almost more a living thing than a mere machine - just a shame that the whole explanation with the loose spring is so laughable.

I agree; remembering Edge of Destruction was the first filler episode - and a kids/drama serial, it emphasized the doctors senility, as well as showing Susan lunging at people with sharp scissors, and intrigueing concepts such as the Tardis being alive, signalling to the 'crew', and what happens when it arrives at a time and space it can't deal with i.e. non existance and antimatter and all that.

Play.com is the place to go for the DVDs, most of them end up at £5.99 after they've been out for a while.

My Dr Who watchathon stalled a bit last year, but now the boy is a bit older I'm going to start it up again I think! I got to The Deadly Assassin. Season 6 and 7 have been the highpoints for me so far.

Starting up my Dark Shadows marathon again too, only 700 episodes left to watch...

My quest to watch every episode of doctor who from hartnells 1st onwards stalled last year as well...I only got to Reign of Fire as well!  I got to some missing episodes, waited for some guy to send me recons and they never came, so too much time elapsed and I lost momentum...but I started in the last 2 weeks again. I love Terry Nations stuff.

Niolan will make it work whatever - but I had hoped Tom Hardy would be a rival vigilante hero to Bale's Batman...for Catwoman I would have liked Mila Kunis or someone grittier than Hathaway, but she will be fine.

whoops, just realised theres another thread alreayd here.

Anne Hathaway is Catwoman! a tamer catwoman?
Tom Hardy is Bane! which means he's going to pump up again I guess.
Bale returning of course.

so I wanna watch a film in an hour -
should I watch Bronson? Or Hitman?

Also, it'd be fun to see an old companion come back, but looking as they were when they originally appeared (as if new doctor has picked them up a couple of years after they last appeared).

On a similar note - and it's something I've said repeatedly here - I'd love to see a bit more imagination exercised with regard to the companions in the new series. Old Who had Jacobite highlanders, victorians, alien schoolboys, Time Ladies, robot dogs, 60s hipsters, spaceship pilots, shapechanging androids - some more sucsessful than others, it must be said, but they always tried to bring a bit of variety to the mix.

I think Moffatt and any new writers are playing it safe with WHO, because the show really was completely out of favour and off the map with the viewing public for so long...Russel T. Davies really did a great job of kickstarting it, and Steven Moffatt seems to be playing it safe with companions and similar sort of doctor in order to keep the young new fans on board for now...in a few series, who knows, he may take the gamble and get a more proper middleaged doctor back in the role...one who wears a huge scarf maybe.

Mmmm, Peri...

I agree!
She's still sexy as well! check out the new Doctor Who Mag!

I have recently been doing the same thing!

Me and a few friends have started from the beginning, watching all the stories that a) are complete, and b) don't have a reputation for being the biggest pile of bull ever produced.

Many may point out that this rule is cutting out some good stuff, but it's a long walk to their house from work, and after a tiring day at work, I don't have the energy to listen to the sound recordings of the episodes or anything like that. The second rule was going to be applied quite laxly, but then we watched Edge of Destruction, and decided to be a bit more careful in that respect.

We have just watched Tomb of the Cybermen, our first Troughton story. Meaning, due to rule 1, our next story will be the last Troughton story. Such a shame so little of his stuff survives, there are glimpses of a really interesting character there, the same as Hartnel, yet at the same time so different.

I'm also trying to persuade my friends that we should watch the 60s Dalek movies at some point:)

Doing this has made me realise how old the franchise is. Nearly fifty years! While I already knew the dates involved, actually watching it has made clear the full implications of this. The world has changed so very much since the show started, and the show has changed with it. I'm not just talking about things the show has done to "be cool" (celebrity casting and the like), I also mean the way the writers in different eras of the show have been brought up within different cultural and political backgrounds, leading to this gradual meandering drift in what the show (and, I would guess, television in general) is all about.

This has only begun to be noticeable at the moment, as this Who Marathon is still in its early days, I need to do more watching before I can really make a judgement on whether any of what I have just said is true, it is at this point an idea that has occurred from what we have watched so far.

- I too am confused as to when I should watch the Daleks Movies; I guess they were done in 60s, so i should try and fit them in roundabout the time when teh 1st changes to the 2nd or something
- Edge of Destruction seemed to me to be a very very very early on effort at doing a 'filler' episode. The 10th doctor episodes where he's in a ship and theres a monster taking control of the crew springs to mind as a modern version of a tense and drama-filled filler epsiode - as well as the one where tennant was on a red london bus for a while in the desert lol
- You say you only watch complete epsiodes only?! I admire you for that, but my obsessive-compulsiveness means that would make me bang my head against the wall several million times lol For the missing episodes I check what IS available to try and see what IS left of the missing episode at wikipedia...then i buy the relevent BBC-audio CD OR Fan-Made Reconstruction, or VHS tape with the remaining bits and episodes on them.
- I could never buy up all doctor who dvds. I began doing it with a few Hartnell releases. But the financial devotion illuded me and I would just gaze at the DVDs longingly in HMV lol But then I had a brainwave and signed up for lovefilm, and they deliver any available WHO dvd release that I want at a particular time.

Hmmm, animation, ey? Sounds like something I might need to look into.

I too love the animated fill-ins for the missing episodes you mentioned - i can't understand why they wouldn't fill-in the gaps with such animations when the 'soundtrack' to every missing episode is always intact. I remember being fed up when Richard E Grant's animated 9th doctor was dismissed from cannon when Eccleston's 9th came on the scene in 2004.

...Well i'm sure that's quite enough of my Expendables. I saw the Expendables the other day and it was good fun. 

It was good fun, but I laughed AT it more. I just wish Stalone would come out and say he intended the film to be tongue in cheek. That's what I expected to hear him say when I listened to the commentary. Instead he droned on about his philosphy for the movie lol