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Did anyone see the Doctor Who Live Livestream today from Seoul? I can't wait for the new series to start.

I don't really like Moffat's Who (although I'm cautiously optimistic about the new series) but Doctor Who in general is my main special interest. Although I'm more into Big Finish' Doctor Who audio plays, especially the Gallifrey spin-off, than the TV series.

(I'd suggest any fans of Doctor Who who don't know about Big Finish to check them out - they do amazing audio stories for the Classic Doctors, featuring the original actors, as well as several spin-offs. They don't have the licence to do New Who yet, but I think they can be enjoyed by fans of any era, since their style is sometimes more like New Who.)

First time I ever watched Doctor Who was when I was 7 years old on a VHS and that was The Keeper Of Traken. Yes I like the programme. I am looking forward to the new series in 2 weeks. Got a feeling that we will be going back the the old ways with Peter Capaldi.

Doctor Who is the best show ever!! !!
I've been watching it since the 70s.

I'm such a fan-boy that when I watched the premiere of the TV Movie back in 1996 I started to cry a little when I heard the Theme Music during the opening titles.

The show's biggest strength is that it can go anywhere and do anything.

I've been on wrong planet for a few months and just found out there are Doctor (Not Dr.!) Who fans here. this is awesome.

I'm also a Whovian, and I can't wait for the new season to start. I've been watching since PBS showed some of the classic series when I was growing up, and now with BBC America, I get to watch the recent seasons.

Doctor Who is definitely one of my main special interests (obsessional point). One thing I fail to understand about the common fandom is why do people tend to not like Steven Moffat stories? I have always enjoyed complicated "timey-wimey" stories, and loved Series 6 ("A Good Man Goes To War" is my favorite Doctor Who episode). Do most people tend to just enjoy stories where you hardly have to think very deeply about them? (eg/ End Of The World as compared to The Impossible Astronaut/Day Of The Moon and the River Song story arc). Not intended to be offensive, just my opinion.

Well, looking forward to series nine, hopefully we shall be able to see Davros again, hoping for an explaination for the continuity errors with "Rememberance of the Daleks" and the later series, with Skaro being destroyed and Davros' head being the only thing remaining of him. But if you remember in "Doctor Who" (The 1996 movie), Skaro is featured, in "The Stolen Earth/Journeys End", Davros has all of his upper body and highly observant people will notice he has a hint of having upper legs, and in "Asylum of the Daleks" Skaro is yet again featured.

Altough I have seen all of the modern series, I have only seen "Terror of the Zygons" and "The Ice Warriors" from the classic series. Hopefully I will be able to have access to the rest of the (remaining) classic series.

So... How do you guys feel about the new female Doctor? I'm quite excited, but to be honest... when I first heard the news I wasn't convinced. But after thinking about it, I might as well give her a chance and enjoy the show.

I'm looking forward to it. I've been watching Jodie Whittaker in a mini series that's just finished called Trust Me and she was very good in that. I'm hoping that she'll have a really interesting take on the character. I've not really been a fan of the direction the show has gone in over the past few years (although I do really like Peter Capaldi) and I think casting a female Doctor and bringing in a new show runner will be just what Doctor Who needs right now.

My issue with it is that I really want Capaldi to stay and get some better written plots. I love Capaldi as the Doctor, for some reason I really related to him and he instantly became my favourite Doctor (then Tom Baker, then all the others fall close behind). I especially related to the way he reacted to hugs! My sister looked right at me and said, "that is you when I try to hug you!", and it is, arms out and everything XD

I did love a few of the episodes ("Hell Bent", "World Enough and Time", and "The Doctor Falls" off the top of my head) but a lot of the episodes seemed to have very shallow plots. I do think that this last season with Bill was a bit better than the other two though.

Though I was completely against the idea of the Doctor being female (I'm afraid it'll cause to much of a shift in the show for the sake of having a female Doctor rather than the Doctor just happening to be female) I'm definitely going to give her a chance. As long as the Doctor still acts like the Doctor, I'll be happy. I kind of hope she still has some of Capaldi's somewhat grumpy 2,000 and something year old alien attitude

...I am a fan - or was I can't really be called an active fan, anymore
..since my circumstances don't, in general, allow me to see the show
At all.
I revently saw some rerences to developments in the modern series, and I HADN"T HEARF OF THEM AT ALL!
I've only ever seen of the modern series:
The first two-three?? episodes of S1, when I was in an apartment where there was a cabled TV in the common room, when it was then on in America in what was then called The Sci-Fi Channel.
Oddly enough, seeing a movie showing of the first ep. of a later Doctor shown as a movie at a Wondercon in San Francisco.
Some teeny bits now when I have a TV/access, wbich is only hospitals/rehab places now. Maybe I tend to think " I've been left behind " , I won't be able to follow it regularly, so don't get too caught in .
Oddly enough, as cult-popular as the show is with some Americans, the fact that it moved from Sci-Fi to BBC America pretty quickly shows the limitation/glass ceiling, I guess, on the show's US popularity/mass audience. SyFy is, my observation here for all of this, on the " standard " cable package* of 30-40?? channels that more or less anybody who gets cable gets - BBC America tends to be on more expensive " more channels " packages. (I guess the.modern series gets post-BBCA second runs on some PBS stations, which are broadcast. Not - in my observation - here, however. I was a more active fan during the " in-between " years. I've someimes - even this year, I believe - splurged on the U.K. Panini Doc tor Who Magazine...a rather expensive and rare import in the U.S.A.!

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Does anyone know a site I can watch the Classic Doctor's for free?

...One?? reason I went on and on here is that I'm on a comics fan site where I' m in the closet about being homeless, and the Big Finisg Whos have been disussed a lot there. Some people actually have collections .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!