Ten things that make me squee about Doctor Who (from lizbee & kerravonsen)

[capri0mni]

1. The campy melodrama, like used to be seen in the old Perils of Pauline (or so I've heard)


2. The Theme Music!! Eeeee!


3. The alien, hyperspace, spaceship in Stones of Blood (it was made with a policeman's cap, wasn't it? looked like it)


4. Blind Sarah Jane Smith in Brain of Morbius
   
5. Big Finish Audios


6. The "I can feel it" speech, from Rose


7. The whole regeneration concept


8. The TARDIS


9. Barbara, and all her successors


10. The Fans!

Comments

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

2. EEEEEEEEEEE!!

4. I love most of Brain. My brother and I used to chase each other around, when we were kids, pretending to be the brain monster, heh.

6. And the seventh Doctors last speech too, for me (and probably some other speeches I can't remember as well as all the snappy wit).

8. EEEEEEEEEEE!!

10. Who is my One True Fandom as much because of the fans as the series, yes. :-)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

2. Anytime I hear that music, my pulse quickens and my throat tightens -- and besides that, the history of how it was first thought up, composed and created tugs ag my heartstrings, too.

4) Well, yes. All of Brain is marvelous. But I picked that one moment because it showed Sarah Jane's character, bravery and strength. On Star Trek, TOS, a big deal was made about Urhura -- a black woman on the bridge of a military ship in the early 1960s. But she never left the bridge -- and the only other major role for women on that show was as Kirk's sexual objects. Even with the screamiest of ankle-twisters, the Doctor said to the young women: "Well? aren't you coming? There's a world to explore!"

6) I'd lost track of Who on PBS by the time of Survival (Or my PBS lost it...), and I wanted to include only the things I'd experienced myself.

8) The TARDIS is the perfect metaphor for the vast imaginations inside our tiny skulls. We may think we're the pilots, but as any writer or artist knows, our minds bring us to unexpected, dangerous, places.

10) RADW has the bad reputation for having been a nest of silly flamewars. But the good threads were fabulous -- what other show would give its fans a broad enough platform to discuss history, literature, philosophy, and the silliest monsters we can think up (and still be "on topic?"). So the show tends to attract those kinds of people who can weave back and forth between ideas like that... I love them.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

2. Yes, it's an automatic reaction for me too. Delia Derbyshire = win.

4. I've never been a Trekker. Apart from Who, my heart has always been with the anti-Feds in Blake's 7, Farscape, and Firefly.

10. Pro-fun fandom!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

4) I was 2 when Star Trek's first season aired, and my parents were loyal viewers. As this was the era of one television set for the whole family, I was doomed to watch it with them.

I wasn't so scared of the monsters, per se; it was the laser guns that terrified me. And I knew when the monsters showed up, the laser guns wouldn't be far behind... my name for the show, back then, was "scare trek" (and one reason why I fell in love with the Doctor, in the first ep I ever stumbled on, was his attitude toward the military)

10) You remembered!