Apparently, one character even asks him at one point why he speaks English and has an English accent.
Amusing that it's been brought up, even if the question's never been answered in a satisfactory fashion. (Well...we know the answer is, "It's a TV show." But you know.) Amusing because I think if DW had been produced in North America, no one would have thought much about it, and the characters would certainly never bring it up.
Heck, American-made movies think nothing of giving all European characters fake English accents, after all. :P
The reason I haven't watched it so far (besides the fact that my mother is always re-watching the DVDs, and I work most of the week, so I don't have a chance) is that every time I've caught part of an episode, I've seen something that could almost give me nightmares. (How pathetic am I?)
-Rose turning around and discovering some dude with red contacts and covered in Magic Marker, i.e. possessed by the devil or something like that. (Low-tech, but effectively freaky!)
-A kid trapping another kid by drawing them(!)
-People turning into undead gas-mask zombies(!!)
...WTF?!
But I caught the end of the gas-mask zombie episode last night, since my mother re-watched it for the 47th time or so. And I was pleased that not only is there a happy ending that time, there is (more importantly) an explanation for the gas-mask zombie thing that actually makes sense and is rather cool.
As long as there are generally real-life/science-y explanations for things, and there's no "evil spirits"/"we have no idea why that freaky thing happened" explanations, I'm cool to watch it. (I mean, you'd rarely see the latter in a sci-fi show anyway, but the gas-mask zombie thing in particular looked suspiciously hard to explain.)
Not all paranomal stuff, no. It's mostly anything ghost or spirit-like that scares me shitless. Anything which suggests a malevolent intelligence that can't be predicted or fought against, and which often (though not always) doesn't follow natural laws.
I can handle serial killers and alien invasions; I can't handle the idea of something I can't attack back or outsmart.
I mean, that's scary.
Almost all of DW gets the scientific rundown though. I promise.
My mother told me shortly before I made this post.
She was telling me that my aunt Heather recently watched an episode and didn't "get it" at all. We were discussing what sort of personality and background you must need to "get" a show like DW, and my mother said, "Heather can't make that initial mental leap. For example, she didn't realize the Doctor is an alien..."
Cue me: O.o
I seriously had no idea. I've never watched an episode all the way through. I just thought he was a human from the far future.
DW is one of the best shows out there right now, specially the least three seasons.
And don't worry about the freaking you out factor, they do that on purpose, back in the 60's it actually became a cult phenomenon, simply based around the "hide behind the couch" reaction it gave to kids, and it's carried that through out the decades, it has some seriously creepy stuff, but it's great, the stories are great, the charectors, everything. You want a really, really, really good episode, and totally freaky watch this one: http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/1201857/Doctor_who_2007_3_10_Blink_XviD_oan_Plus_Covers_mul
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Date: 2007-07-24 03:26 am (UTC)not from Great Britain... just... Brit-ish.
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Date: 2007-07-24 04:18 am (UTC)Amusing that it's been brought up, even if the question's never been answered in a satisfactory fashion. (Well...we know the answer is, "It's a TV show." But you know.) Amusing because I think if DW had been produced in North America, no one would have thought much about it, and the characters would certainly never bring it up.
Heck, American-made movies think nothing of giving all European characters fake English accents, after all. :P
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Date: 2007-07-24 03:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-24 04:27 am (UTC)The conversation with my mother that followed from her telling me went like this:
Me: O.o ...He's an ALIEN?!
Her: You didn't know that?
Me: I knew that he's a Time Lord.
Her: That's an alien.
Me: ...Oh.
Her: He has two hearts.
Me: OH. Well...why does he look like a HUMAN?
Her: Why did the aliens in Star Trek all look human or humanoid?
Me: Because they didn't have CGI.
Her: Exactly. They didn't have CGI in 1963 when this show started, either.
STOP THE PRESSES
Date: 2007-07-24 04:30 am (UTC)...Does this mean that Jack is an alien, too? *still trying to catch up*
Re: STOP THE PRESSES
Date: 2007-07-24 04:33 am (UTC)And that's hilarious. The other reason he looks human: David Tennant is made of sex.
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Date: 2007-07-24 03:57 am (UTC).. and has been so for several decades on TV. :) (the Doctor himself is much older)
mwaaa... obviously I'm a fan of (the new) Doctor Who ^^
i.e. ninth and tenth Doctor.. especially nine with his somehow manic depressive behavior <3
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Date: 2007-07-24 04:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-24 04:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-24 05:14 am (UTC)-Rose turning around and discovering some dude with red contacts and covered in Magic Marker, i.e. possessed by the devil or something like that. (Low-tech, but effectively freaky!)
-A kid trapping another kid by drawing them(!)
-People turning into undead gas-mask zombies(!!)
...WTF?!
But I caught the end of the gas-mask zombie episode last night, since my mother re-watched it for the 47th time or so. And I was pleased that not only is there a happy ending that time, there is (more importantly) an explanation for the gas-mask zombie thing that actually makes sense and is rather cool.
As long as there are generally real-life/science-y explanations for things, and there's no "evil spirits"/"we have no idea why that freaky thing happened" explanations, I'm cool to watch it. (I mean, you'd rarely see the latter in a sci-fi show anyway, but the gas-mask zombie thing in particular looked suspiciously hard to explain.)
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Date: 2007-07-24 05:18 am (UTC)Huh. Well everyone's got their irks. Almost all of DW gets the scientific rundown though. I promise.
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Date: 2007-07-24 05:44 am (UTC)I can handle serial killers and alien invasions; I can't handle the idea of something I can't attack back or outsmart.
I mean, that's scary.
Almost all of DW gets the scientific rundown though. I promise.
Awesome. I'm on board then, when I get a chance.
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Date: 2007-07-24 04:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-24 04:14 am (UTC)She was telling me that my aunt Heather recently watched an episode and didn't "get it" at all. We were discussing what sort of personality and background you must need to "get" a show like DW, and my mother said, "Heather can't make that initial mental leap. For example, she didn't realize the Doctor is an alien..."
Cue me: O.o
I seriously had no idea. I've never watched an episode all the way through. I just thought he was a human from the far future.
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Date: 2007-07-24 07:05 am (UTC)And don't worry about the freaking you out factor, they do that on purpose, back in the 60's it actually became a cult phenomenon, simply based around the "hide behind the couch" reaction it gave to kids, and it's carried that through out the decades, it has some seriously creepy stuff, but it's great, the stories are great, the charectors, everything.
You want a really, really, really good episode, and totally freaky watch this one:
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/1201857/Doctor_who_2007_3_10_Blink_XviD_oan_Plus_Covers_mul