The Newly Regenerated Doctor Who Thread

[coolsome]

I just watched The House That Dripped Blood with John Pertwee and now I wana watch a good Third Doc ep! Recommend one pls but not Three Doctors, The Sontaran one and Planet of Spiders cos I seen them.

[Rather Dashing]

Watch the one where he travels through time and solves a problem.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Watch the one where he travels through time and solves a problem.

That does narrow it down somewhat due to the budget cuts leaving him stuck on one planet in one time period for most his run.

[Alcoremortis]

You should watch the one where he reverses the polarity of the neutron flow to solve something.

[WarpSpeed]

Watch the one with the Brigadier and the car in it.

Actually, I don't recall any of those episodes particularly standing out. You might as well watch them in sequence.

[FitzoliverJ]

I like the one where there's a threat, and then it turns out the Master is behind it.

[Darth Marsden]

How do none of you recommend fucking Inferno? Jeez!

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

How do none of you recommend fucking Inferno? Jeez!

Finally an answer! Il watch that one then.

[Darth Marsden]

Do. It's got an evil Brigadier. With an eyepatch and everything. It's awesome.

[Jennifer]

There's a really short prequel to A Town Called Mercy called The Making of The Gunslinger up on iTunes. The US link is here. I'm not sure if it's available in other regions.

It's exactly as it says on the tin. It shows when Kahler-Jex is in his lab on Kahler first turning on the cyborg of Kahler-Tek. There's not much more to it, but it does reveal him as "subject 6".

[FitzoliverJ]

OK. Mad rumours start here.

It struck me as odd that the most recent issue of "Doctor Who Magazine" briefly mentioned that "Red Dwarf" is returning in October. What's that to DWM, eh?

Well, the latest issue - out this week - apparently has an interview with the Dwarfers themselves!

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/09...azine-452.html

Could the Daleks *finally* be coming to the series?*






* They were supposed to feature in Series VII but the only appearance they made was in a gag on "Red Dwarf Night". It has been suggested that the rights had been tied-down but they couldn't work out a way to use the monsters suitably, so they just did a joke about washing machines.

[Ribs]

The Fifth Doctor and Tegan have entered the Twittersphere - @PeterDavison5 and @jfmouthonlegs

Sadly, Janet Fielding also announced she too is battling cancer.

[Friar]

Oh no, that's so sad. It was the first but of news I read when I got back into the country. My thoughts are with her.

[coolsome]

Who is older now Jack or The Doctor? Since being a time traveler means the one born first isnt necessarily the older one.

[Darth Marsden]

Captain Jack's either a thousand years old, or two thousand, depending on whether you include being dead or not. Either way, it's not as close than you think, what with the Doctor only claiming to be around 900 or so... again.

Here's my logic:

Let's assume that the Cap's around 35 when we first meet him in The Empty Child. He hangs around with the Doctor and Rose for a couple months until the events of The Parting of the Ways, at which point he becomes immortal and ends up on Earth in 1869*. He hangs around on Earth, eventually hooking up with Torchwood, until he hears the TARDIS in End of Days, which takes place in early 2008 and leads directly into Utopia.

So by this point, he's 174, give or take a few months which we'll call half a year for reasons of simplicity. So 174½.

During the events of The Sound of Drums, Cap and the Doctor are captured by the Master, and a whole year passes with Jack being tortured and killed by the time Last of the Time Lords even begins. While time is undone at the end of that story, it doesn't affect the people at the 'center of the storm' - and that includes Captain Jack. He's now 175½.

The events of the second series of Torchwood occur. Nothing fancy, another couple of months pass - again, we'll call it half a year for simplicity, making him 176. But then... oh, then Exit Wounds happens, and it's here we bump up the year count.

See, Gray and Captain John Heart take Jack back to 27AD. As in, a couple of years after Jesus died, AD. They promptly bury him alive and leave him to constantly die and come back to life over and over again until 1901, when he's discovered by Torchwood. Now, even if you claim that he spent half of that 1,874 dead rather than alive... holy fuck!

We'll include the whole number, 'cause he ain't gettin' any younger while being dead. That makes him 2,050. (If you, say, half those 1,900 years or so, then he ends up being around 1,113 by this point).

Then, after the events of Children of Earth, Jack leaves Earth for an unspecified amount of time. We'll guess at a couple of years, seeing as Gwen has her baby and it's still... well, a BABY by the time Jack gets back. By the time Jack gets back in time for Miracle Day, we'll add 2 years to his frankly insane total to make him, by this point, 2,052 or 1,115.

As for the Doctor's age... let's not go there.

* He says the date in Utopia, if you're wondering.

[Friar]

And then he dies sometime after the year 3billion on new earth.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Friar

And then he dies sometime after the year 3billion on new earth.

I bet the head woke up gasping some time after the doctor left.

[Alcoremortis]

Of course, the Doctor lies about his age all the time... so we have no idea of knowing how old he is, though he did mention something about being 1200 in one of the recent episodes.

Still, I think Jack probably wins the age contest.

Originally Posted by coolsome

I bet the head woke up gasping some time after the doctor left.

I actually wrote a horrible fanfiction where Jack just pretended to die so he wouldn't have to explain to the Doctor how he ended up as an enormous head in a jar.

[Darth Marsden]

Ah, but it's not out-and-out confirmed that that's Captain Jack. Only implied (albeit heavily). That's why I didn't include it in my count. I'm actually rather disappointed that nobody insulted me for spending so long on that!

Also, I posit that the Doctor stopped counting his age in Gallifrey years after the Time War (when he'd have been well over 1,000) and started counting in Earth years, which explains his decrease in age. Just a theory, but I like it.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

That's why I didn't include it in my count. I'm actually rather disappointed that nobody insulted me for spending so long on that!

I was impressed!