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Post by magnusgreel on Oct 22, 2008 7:02:57 GMT
Mickey was very well set up as a big fat useless nobody in "Rose". In fact, after that story, it's a hard job rehabilitating him as a character after that. I don't blame Ten or Nine dismissing him at all, until the point when he proves himself.
I think it's just that moment at the end of "Rose" where he clutches Rose's ankles in abject terror, when all that's facing him is the Doctor's police box.
I'm very glad he acquitted himself later. CP's history of Mickey is great!
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Post by Stripes on Oct 22, 2008 12:52:58 GMT
It's because Mickey's black, I think. Black people can bend the laws of space-time better than white people. That's just a popular cliche about black people. Newton... No. I haven't even seen all of "season three" (quotes because we had a season three already, and William Hartnell starred in it). I'm missing the middle of s3 and all of s4. The woman in Canada who sent me tapes is not doing well lately and I certainly don't press her to send DW these days. You are mocking me. I mean season 4 of NEW WHO.
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Post by lynda on Oct 23, 2008 6:05:50 GMT
If I remember right, the new series is referred to as "series 1", "series 2", etc., and the old series uses "season" to distinguish between seasons. That way, confusion is avoided and William Hartnell is saved from post-mortemly starring on TV.
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Post by magnusgreel on Oct 23, 2008 6:16:09 GMT
I'm not mocking you at all, Newton, I'm just mentioning my annoyance at the new program numbering its seasons that way.
Lynda-- The word "season" is always what's used in the US (and Canada too I would guess) to refer to one year of episodes. The word "series" is what's always used in the UK to refer to one year of a program, and that includes "classic" Dr Who and all other TV made in the UK.
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Post by merrythemad on Oct 23, 2008 14:19:54 GMT
i'm in the US and we refer to revival who as series and classic who as seasons. Might be because I am older than anyone aside from the Doctor though, hee hee hee
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Post by jjpor on Oct 23, 2008 22:08:38 GMT
As a proud Brit, I suppose I should stick to calling it a series, but increasingly I find myself using the word season, and I hear other people doing it too, especially when referring to US TV shows, it has to be said. I also used to make a point of enforcing the continuous series/season numbering system, where NuWho Season 1 was Season 27, Season 2 was Season 28 and so forth, but nowadays, as the new series has become very much a part of everyday life, I find myself calling them Season 2, Season 3 etc. Sometimes, I feel as if I'm betraying the old series, compromising all I stand for etc, but I'm gradually getting used to the idea of being an unscrupulous man of no principles.
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Post by magnusgreel on Oct 23, 2008 22:39:29 GMT
I also used to make a point of enforcing the continuous series/season numbering system, where NuWho Season 1 was Season 27, Season 2 was Season 28 and so forth, but nowadays, as the new series has become very much a part of everyday life, I find myself calling them Season 2, Season 3 etc. Sometimes, I feel as if I'm betraying the old series, compromising all I stand for etc, but I'm gradually getting used to the idea of being an unscrupulous man of no principles. Let us know how that works out for you.... New DW seems to want to break with the past (yet revive it temporarily whenever they choose, too often by lifting a story from the past), so now it seems that starting over again with the numbering might be for the best. Up till now on sites, though, I've been saying "season 29" etc too... I thought I'd noticed "season" creeping into Britspeak. Our bad TV shows are having too much influence on the UK, and good UK series (on PBS only) are having too little on us.
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Post by jjpor on Oct 25, 2008 0:48:14 GMT
Let us know how that works out for you.... At the moment, it's...it's...working out fine. I find that having no moral fibre whatsoever seems to be the way forward... I waver on the issue of whether NuWho is to be considered as a continuation of the classic series (and I wince even to use the term "classic" - surely, the 1963-1989 series is simply "Doctor Who" with no apologies or clarifications needed) or as something else entirely. Certainly, I roll over and wag my tail like the Pavlovian-conditioned little fanboy that I am at every oldschool continuity reference RTD rolls out, but some things remain hard to swallow. Regarding the season/series controversy, I hear "season" used all the time by my peers. A number of my workmates are big fans of "Lost" and/or "Heroes" among other US series. I'll confess to really liking season 1 of Heroes, although season 2 lost me to the extent that I haven't really bothered with the currently-airing season 3 - Lost is something I have never really felt the need to involve myself with. Anyway, when they talk about series such as this, UKians see fit to use the "season" word with abandon. It's surely only a matter of time until it's applied to our homegrown product.
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