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Post by lostspook on Oct 31, 2009 15:53:54 GMT
I thought (after I verged to the negative last night - I am so sorry; rl is being all over the place) I'd look and see who didn't have a thread of their gloriousness and... we have an Ian and a Susan thread but not one for Barbara? This must be put right at once! (There's a lot of companions without a thread. I could be busy). Anyway, what is there left to say about the awesomeness of Barbara, she who civilised the Doctor and taught him the value of human beings. His first sorry was to her. She became the desire of every evil being in the cosmos long before Peri got there - as well as Ian, of course. History teacher, rebel in a cardigan and a goddess to boot. And she thinks travelling in the TARDIS may probably be the most exciting part of her life. What else is she planning? The Sensorites proves the wonderfulness of Barbara. The plot ambles on, until they bring her down in which she solves everything in five minutes and the Doctor learns always to choose Barbara when picking teams after that (if Ian doesn't nip in first). Ian/Barbara are so canon. (Just ask David Whitaker. Well, if you could.) Where would this show be without them?
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Post by clocketpatch on Oct 31, 2009 17:39:45 GMT
Barbara is indeed made of awesome and win and wonderful, and her and Ian's are SO canon, seriously, of all the TARDIS hook-up, they're the only that never gets mentioned with a tongue-in-cheek eye roll.
Except maybe Ben and Polly, they're pretty awesome too, but alas, burnation.
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I do terrible things to Ian and Barbara in fic. *appologises to them*
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Post by jjpor on Nov 1, 2009 21:48:31 GMT
Yeah, but the fic you're talking about is wonderful all the same; made me get something in my eye. Yes; something. In my eye.
Yes, Ian/Barbara's the real deal. Doesn't matter if it's "your ship" or not, denying it's like denying the TARDIS is blue or that Daleks are murderous nutcases, or something (now Abby's going to tell me I'm talking rubbish! Not an unusual activity for me! ;D).
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Post by lostspook on Nov 2, 2009 18:17:35 GMT
* wonders nervously about ready angsty fic* Well, the TARDIS was briefly pink once, but that's a nice way of putting it. My middle sister was never keen on DW till 2005, but she was kind and always watched it with me. However, the First Doctor and Barbara she really, really liked! She had taste, you see.
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Post by jjpor on Nov 3, 2009 21:51:23 GMT
Well, I'm sure, strictly speaking, the TARDIS isn't any colour at all, and it's all mathematics etc. Except when someone decides to paint it pink...
But yes, I can see the original Team TARDIS having that effect on someone.
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Post by clocketpatch on Nov 4, 2009 2:34:26 GMT
Wasn't the TARDIS originally bright green inside, and only looked white because of, you know, everything being in black and white?
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Post by johne on Nov 4, 2009 8:11:39 GMT
Wasn't the TARDIS originally bright green inside, and only looked white because of, you know, everything being in black and white? That's what Carole Ann Ford says in one of the DVD extras (though I think the green was pale, rather than bright: see the console in Inferno).
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Post by jjpor on Nov 4, 2009 22:47:32 GMT
Yes, I think I've heard that. And with the sort of processes they used in 60s-era b&w TV, not only would pale colours look white, but sometimes they'd have to have things painted odd colours so that they'd show up properly onscreen, or _look_ like they were the right colour.
Pale green, though; sounds lovely.
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Post by magnusgreel on Nov 7, 2009 2:08:42 GMT
The 1960s Tardis console was very pale green, because this color was considered to show up as more white than white itself, on B&W videotape. I have no idea whether this idea panned out or not... I do know that in some of the earliest Pertwee stories, we do see a pale green console, a holdover from the Hartnell days, after the point when this color scheme would have been of any use to anyone....
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Post by lostspook on Nov 8, 2009 19:58:07 GMT
Okay, now, I started a thread about the awesomeness that is Barbara Wright, History teacher and Aztec goddess... and you lot start using it to talk about the colour of the TARDIS walls? Now, if it were a Dodo thread, I suppose I could understand it, but really.
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Post by jjpor on Nov 9, 2009 22:46:11 GMT
Er, yes. We did, didn't we?
Barbara, of course, is in the small yet exclusive club of companions who have taken out a Dalek (more than one Dalek, perhaps, come to think of it!) in single combat. With a lorry. It doesn't get much more awesome than that, does it?
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Post by Stacey on Nov 10, 2009 22:25:48 GMT
I like Dodo!....So, anyway, Barbara.
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Post by primsong on Nov 11, 2009 6:48:44 GMT
Barbara is awesome, no matter what the colour of the walls are.
"Ian, how do you like my new green dress?"
"I don't know, you look a bit like a floating head. How about I help you change?"
heh.
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Post by evelyn on Nov 11, 2009 8:04:17 GMT
*jawdrop* ...Mom! That's unexpectedly suggestive! 0_0
*eyes avatar* Not that I disapprove.
And yes, Barbara is completely awesome and there was never anyone else quite like her. Barbara is a very real character, if you know what I mean. She's mature and competent, but not without her weaknesses. She's not textbook pretty, but she has a way of carrying herself that makes you notice how beautiful she is.
Plus a wicked sense of humour. ;D
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Post by lostspook on Nov 14, 2009 15:40:31 GMT
"Ian, how do you like my new green dress?" "I don't know, you look a bit like a floating head. How about I help you change?" heh. Primsong! *is totally shocked*
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Post by lostspook on Nov 14, 2009 16:09:39 GMT
*jawdrop* Barbara is a very real character, if you know what I mean. She's mature and competent, but not without her weaknesses. She's not textbook pretty, but she has a way of carrying herself that makes you notice how beautiful she is. Plus a wicked sense of humour. ;D Yes, I agree completely. She's always been one of my favourite companions, even from the books, but the first time I had enough Who vids to start my watching-in-order kick, I found the sheer addictiveness of the first episodes amazing. And Ian and Barbara being very real in the middle of it all, especially Barbara, carry you through. And, well <i>everybody</i> seems to notice how beautiful she is. :lol: I'm feeling gushy now, so I'm tyring to think of something negative and I can't. Forget Rose and even Sarah Jane, Barbara is probably the human who's been the most influential to the Doctor. Jacqueline Hill, you were, quite, quite marvellous. Seriously so.
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Post by Abbyromana on Apr 10, 2010 12:33:39 GMT
I have to say the dynamic between Barbara and the Doctor is one of my favorite. Hartnell and the actress who portrayed her knew how to work off each other well. Besides Barbara not being intimidated by him and afraid to stand up to him when the need arose, she and he were quite good at working and talking together. I always imagined the Doctor was very impressed with her. Sometimes I think a younger Barbara (pre-date Unearthly Child) might have been a fun temporary companion for a later Doctor.
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