They fired Peter Davison?
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Betsy HP - Jul 09, 2003 10:56:04 am PDT #5593 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
meara - Jul 09, 2003 10:58:48 am PDT #5594 of 9843
WOW. Old British money? Confusing as hell. No wonder I could never get it all straight reading old books! (I always did wonder how much a "groat" was...)
billytea - Jul 09, 2003 11:03:53 am PDT #5595 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
They fired Peter Davison?
No, they actually wanted Davison to stay on another year, but he was concerned about becoming typecast. (Apparently he'd received advice from the second doctor, Patrick Troughton, on the matter; though Patrick seems to me the Doctor most keen to reprise his role.)
So after Davison they had Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, then Paul McGann for the movie (and some audio work), and apparently a ninth doctor. (Strictly, this is a second 9th doctor. There was also a spoof called The Curse of Fatal Death featuring Rowan Atkinson.)
Betsy HP - Jul 09, 2003 11:05:22 am PDT #5596 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
There was also a spoof called The Curse of Fatal Death featuring Rowan Atkinson.)
I bought a tape of that. I adore it. Short tape, though.
billytea - Jul 09, 2003 11:07:02 am PDT #5597 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I bought a tape of that. I adore it. Short tape, though.
Looking at the credits, it appears that Richard E. Grant plays the Doctor in that too. I guess he enjoyed the gig.
CaBil - Jul 09, 2003 11:35:11 am PDT #5598 of 9843
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Interesting that it is written by Paul Cornell
Started out as a fan fiction writer. His first Dr. Who novel, the fourth of the BBC series back in 90 or 91, was actually a reworking of a fanfiction novel he did featuring another Doctor.
Kassto - Jul 09, 2003 6:29:50 pm PDT #5599 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
I wish they'd called the euro the ``crown'' instead, which was one option floating around. Euro sounds like it was dreamed up by some faceless committee in a soulless room in Brussells.
I have new joy in my home -- thanks to the lovely Australian company Harvey Norman, $NZ1699 bought me a flatscreen LG telly, a video player and a DVD/CD player (converted to play all regions DVDs) and a cabinet to stack them all in (and they threw in the new Harry Potter DVD as well). So have plunged in to watching my season 2 Buffy with all the extra goodies the DVDs give. Joss was great doing his commentary on Innocence. But I found Marti Noxon something of a pain, especially her going on about what a ``dear, dear boy'' James Marsters was and how he'd confided to her some bad relationship stuff he'd been going through and she told him that hey, he was a TV star and he was hot, and he shouldn't have any trouble pulling women. Jesus Christ. A) Talk about shallow advice. And B) Talk about invasion of privacy. Put me right off her.
Rio - Jul 09, 2003 7:51:32 pm PDT #5600 of 9843
Are you ready to be strong?
That actually sounds like a good, confidence-building, sweet thing to say to a friend that you can't actually help in any concrete way. I liked that she said it on the DVD because she was talking like an actual person. I liked her chattiness throughout her commentary. Your Marti may vary.
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2003 8:06:12 pm PDT #5601 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Me too. It struck me as candid and down to earth. Made her sound real.
Leigh - Jul 09, 2003 11:04:26 pm PDT #5602 of 9843
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Was the JM thing from the commentary for What's My Line, Kassto?
Made her sound real.
Yeah, had the same effect on me. I know the rabid abuse some fans have slung her way ticked me off to a greater extent after listening to it.