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BUT THAT'S WHY IT'S SO BELOVED

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AT LEAST ONE INSTANCE OF UNCOMFORTABLE NERD SEX IN A PHONE BOOTH

Part of the charm of Doctor Who is, like MST3K movies, it's terrible. (see also "Dark Shadows")

Dr. Who = TOM fucking BAKER + a bunch of irrelevant filler I can't really remember.

Is it canon? I find when these things are canon, they hurt the dorks the most.

The movie is canon. The dorks try furiously to think their way out of his being half human:

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Howling:Is_the_Doctor_half-human% 3F

According to at least one of the psinoffs, and supported by Rule One of the new series, he was lying. Gutting the Gordionian Twenty-Dimensional Hyper-Knot.

*Cutting

I have learned since the show came back that British people hate absolutely every episode of Doctor Who ever made, but they would burn down London if it ever stopped.

I am constantly amazed how picky Britnerds are over this show. They act like every new head writer is a Nazi, every new Doctor sucks, and Torchwood rewrote time to make England the 51st state of America.

So basically, it's how the Star Wars fandom regards every movie in the franchise except Empire.

Still this is far more tolerable than recent...several seasons of New-Who, which seem to have been written by talent recruited from Fanfiction.net

About that British love/hate thing. Even David Mitchell has opinions about what's wrong wtih current "Doctor Who", even as he laments the attention given to a children's show. Also, he appeared (sort of) in one episode.

The biggest problems with new "Doctor Who" of late are 1) trying to unravel all the mysteries of the Doctor, and 2) trying to make each new assistant more remarkable than any that have ever been.

I still say the Doctor's real name is "Pete". I learned this watching "The Armageddon Factor" on a low-power grainy UHF PBS station decades ago, and it made sense: he's so embarrassed to have a completely average name, he uses a title instead. (Of course, the Doctor's name as revealed on the episode was actually "Theta Sigma", but my way is better.)

Best assistant of late was Rory, but because they weren't even trying with him; he was just a good guy who stepped up when he needed to.

It's so embarassing that every new female Companion has to be incredibly special to near Mary Sue proportions, just stop it already.

Also, the sense of "humor" has taken a turn for the unbearably nerdy, the sort of stuff regulars on the TvTropes forums would think was so waaaaaaaaaacky it was hilarious. The time I started really giving up on New Who was about the time they wrote the Doctor using the eye-roll inducing phrase "Timey Wimey Ball" aloud, it was moments like that that started giving me the so-called "douche chills".

"Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" was perfect in "Blink": it was an instance of the Doctor's brain going all stupid, as it does from time to time; but it also explained how temporal paradoxes resolve without actually explaining a damn thing. (Really, the explanation, such as it was, was everything preceding the word "big".)

But I still wince every time the Doctor says "happy tears ... humany-wumany" in "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe". I don't know how that episode is received by most folks, by the way, but I consider it damn near perfect except for that one line. Madge Arwell has the basic stuff of a good assistant -- adaptable, resourceful, brave -- but without being a Mary Sue. Additionally, the episode sets its own character rules and then plays by them: Madge takes "strays" home, Reggie follows Madge home, Madge can drive and subsequently crash any vehicle. And, you find a way to be with those you love for the holidays, even if it means returning from the dead.