tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post1310233260735264757..comments2023-05-14T16:42:20.001+01:00Comments on Blogtor Who: 15 Years On: Remembering the TV MovieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-42170350695766162932013-10-07T10:28:06.251+01:002013-10-07T10:28:06.251+01:00Oy! There was nothing wrong with "Crime Trave...Oy! There was nothing wrong with "Crime Traveller"!! Just because it wasn't Doctor Who ;-)<br /><br />I liked DW:TM though. I even liked the orchestration of the main theme.Carl Waringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06145318491673627840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-44205847002108088542011-05-29T09:42:20.659+01:002011-05-29T09:42:20.659+01:00For what it's worth, and because it is the soc...For what it's worth, and because it is the social movement website of choice, I have started a group on facebook named Bring back the 8th Doctor.<br /><br />If anything it's just there to show that there are still fans of McGanns performance out there. I wasn't so hot on the story, or the half human thing but I really can't fault McGanns portrail of the Doctor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-41472730616375884662011-05-28T10:26:25.623+01:002011-05-28T10:26:25.623+01:00I grew up in the 80s and my two favourite shows we...I grew up in the 80s and my two favourite shows were Doctor Who and Star Trek The Next Generation.<br /><br />I liked both shows and I think the suggestion that the half-human thing was to make the show more Trek-like is BS.<br /><br />The most popular half-human character in Star Trek was Spock and the Doctor is nothing like him except perhaps in intelligence.<br /><br />I don't know the behind the scenes reasons why the half-human thing was introduced but for me it was a revelation; another piece of the puzzle about who the Doctor actually is. The series title is a question and part of the strength of the series is that there is a certain mystique about who the Doctor actually is. Over the classic series they revealed pieces of his history and eventually revealed his homeworld and fellow Time Lords. Successive Time Lord stories led to an erosion of their mystique and as a result a degree of erosion of the Doctor's mystique.<br /><br />To me the revelation in the movie that the Doctor was half-human was something that allowed me to look at his history throughout the series in a whole new light. His fascination with and protectiveness towards humans made more sense in spite of his occasional disgust with them. Also it made me wonder about who his family were. Who was his mother? Was she from the past/present/future? Was she from Earth or a colony world? For me at least it made the Doctor more mysterious instead of less.<br /><br />Aside from their two hearts and ability to regenerate Time Lords have always been depicted as more or less human in the way they think/feel as well as look.<br /><br />The mystery about the Doctor isn't really about who he is now but his past/who he was/what he did before we got to know him. Over the decades we've been given snippets but never the whole picture and that's how it should be. Being half-human is a snippet that raises more questions than it answers.<br /><br />It's not that different than the revelation in the classic series for the first time that the TARDIS had many rooms and was much larger than had previously been depicted. It was a retcon that worked because there was nothing in the previous history that contradicted it except that it had never been shown/mentioned before.<br /><br />I had some issues with the plot of the TV movie but the half-human thing was never one of them. Leela hooking up with Andred at least showed a precedent for interspecies relationships between Time Lords and humans.<br /><br />I've always subscribed to the notion that Susan was the Doctor's granddaughter and never liked attempts to retcon that out. The current series has also depicted the Master as a child. Therefore it's reasonable to assume that the Doctor was once a child and had a mother and father and later became a father himself and eventually a grandfather.Sam Johnstonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-1820507900924601802011-05-28T02:38:01.837+01:002011-05-28T02:38:01.837+01:00Those early pics of Paul McGann with short hair ho...Those early pics of Paul McGann with short hair holding the Key to Time are at Tragical History Tour ...<br />http://drwhotht08.freehostia.com/d8-misc/Garrett Gilchristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01608522522128028778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-66140375879946786852011-05-27T18:39:46.050+01:002011-05-27T18:39:46.050+01:00Yes, but there is a scene in which the Master and ...Yes, but there is a scene in which the Master and Chang Lee are looking into the Eye of Harmony and see an image of the newly regenerated Doctor, and then it shows his retinal structure, which is human. The Master then proclaims "The Doctor is half human". So it apparently wasn't just a case of the Doctor messing with the scientist chap. It was something deliberately planned for the potential new series, and I always felt it was to gear the show more toward the existing Trek fanbase in the US by making the character more Spock-like. This is probably why they also refer to the Chamelion Circuit as a Cloaking Device. Still, I think the film got more right than it did wrong, and I agree it makes a bridge between the old and the new series. Interestingly enough, RTD loves this movie and says that it has some of the best moments of any Doctor Who ever made. I couldn't agree more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-19163425767240739002011-05-27T17:50:06.199+01:002011-05-27T17:50:06.199+01:00Sorry...507, not 512.Sorry...507, not 512.The Grey Elfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14696474020129732936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-80984544003878431622011-05-27T17:46:43.697+01:002011-05-27T17:46:43.697+01:00I always assumed the "half-human" thing,...I always assumed the "half-human" thing, which really was a one-off line in which the Doctor tells a scientist a "secret," was just the Doctor messing with a guy. Sort of like the way Matt's Doctor told Clyde in SJA that he could regenerate 512 times. It always surprised me the outrage that line engendered. McGann's Doctor seemed the type who would throw something like that out there just to get a rise out of someone. In any case, I have a soft spot in my heart for the 96 movie, as I think it represents a clear and important evolutionary step between the classic Who and the new Who series.The Grey Elfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14696474020129732936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-35896134646940238772011-05-27T15:27:17.890+01:002011-05-27T15:27:17.890+01:00I for one was 12/13 when this was aired. I absolu...I for one was 12/13 when this was aired. I absolutely loved it, and kept an open ear for news of a follow up series. Alas it was announced on the radio a few months later that it was not to be. Personally i loved this film at the time and i still love it now. Shame the new show makes very little reference to it in any form.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-60163580334391339562011-05-27T14:56:45.535+01:002011-05-27T14:56:45.535+01:00It's hard to believe that it's been 15 yea...It's hard to believe that it's been 15 years since the TVM aired. I still clearly remember back in 1996 having a houseful of friends over to watch it. I've never understood the hate that some fans have for this movie (besides maybe the half-human thing, which I felt was shoe horned in there at the network's insistence). I felt that it stuck fairly well to the lore of the Whoniverse, and Paul McGann was just brilliant. The fact that this was his only TV outing as the Doctor is just borderline criminal, but at least we got the Big Finish Audios to enjoy. Paul really did get the short end of the stick, and I can only hope they find a way to put him back on the show one day (50th Anniversary perhaps?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-84649242625710360992011-05-27T12:52:52.576+01:002011-05-27T12:52:52.576+01:00Superb article Cameron. There is much to be admir...Superb article Cameron. There is much to be admired about the TV Movie. The plot is, alas, not amongst them.Jonathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-48456775147874450922011-05-27T10:04:29.585+01:002011-05-27T10:04:29.585+01:00A lovely review, couldn't agree with it more i...A lovely review, couldn't agree with it more if I tried. Your experiences were very much echoed around the UK!The Grim Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819808034153258799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-32799600394249511342011-05-27T07:59:11.983+01:002011-05-27T07:59:11.983+01:00This is one of those aspects of the Fandom that ha...This is one of those aspects of the Fandom that has mystified me for years. But that's probably because I'm a American fan...El Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12397104542997800098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272431515083873489.post-77369573392895604682011-05-27T06:59:31.505+01:002011-05-27T06:59:31.505+01:00please tell me where i can see this early key to t...please tell me where i can see this early key to time holding pic!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com