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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
B&N has a great DVD selection, lots of BBC stuff. They're were I picked up my Doctor Who DVDs, and they were able to order Happiness Patrol for me.
Happiness Patrol! Does it have the special feature documentary on the relationship between Doctor Who and politics? I thought that was fantastic. (I think Happiness Patrol is fantastic too, it's one of my favourite Seventh Doctor adventures. Naff Kandyman and all.)
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Does it have the special feature documentary on the relationship between Doctor Who and politics?
I don't remember, I think there's some sort of documentary but I forgot to look. I love the atmospherics of that episode, and the end where Helen is weeping over her horrible dog.
OMG, HAPPINESS PATROL IS THE BEST. I SHALL COSPLAY IT NEXT YEAR.
I used to get them Barnes & Noble gift cards, but they got Kindles and don't buy paper books these days
If they have Kindles, Amazon giftcards.
I don't remember, I think there's some sort of documentary but I forgot to look. I love the atmospherics of that episode, and the end where Helen is weeping over her horrible dog.
Check it out if you have a spare moment. It's really quite interesting. (It's included with Happiness Patrol because Helen A was famously modelled on Margaret Thatcher.)
My favourite moment in the ep is when the Doctor talks down the sniper. Probably Seven's best dialogue. (My second favourite is when the Kandyman answers the phone with "Kandyman!".)
OMG, HAPPINESS PATROL IS THE BEST. I SHALL COSPLAY IT NEXT YEAR.
It is made for cosplay!
Seven is my favorite doctor after Four. Seven looks amiable and kind, but there's darkness in him. He can get very ominous. Which is what I like about Four--goofy, all teeth and curls, but then his voice drops (yum) and you hope you're not the one who's made him angry.
I have no idea what to get anyone for Christmas and it's making me nuts.
I'll be out of the country most of December so people are getting whatever weird stuff I pick up in my travels, gift cards, or maybe something off their actual Christmas list if they get it to me on time.
Newly-acquired knowledge I did not need but now cannot stop thinking about: Talenti makes peppermint bark gelato.
Which is what I like about Four--goofy, all teeth and curls, but then his voice drops (yum) and you hope you're not the one who's made him angry.
Tom Baker (and others) have said frequently in interviews that he communicated the alienness of his Doctor most notably through his emotional reactions. They often tended to be off-kilter compared to a typical human reaction. (Compelling in the Hinchcliffe-era adventures; hilarious in City of Death.) And I love the way he could turn on a dime, in more or less any direction.
I would rank the Doctors, but honestly I think they're all pretty fantastic.