This video makes me want Doctor Who puppets SO BAD!
RIVER!
Who the hell is this woman that can make a Dalek beg for it's life?
Why don't we know anything about her?
Damn you Muppet! If you don't answer these
questions in series 6 like you promised I shall
be very cross with you! Very cross indeed!
So who is your favorite character?
Tomorrow: Favorite Guest Star
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flamingpie 89p · 735 weeks ago
When I really think about it though, the answer becomes pretty clear.
Jackie Tyler started out existence as a stereotype, your typical lonely cougar of a TV mum. She most definitely didn't stay that way, though.
Nasty as the ending may be, I will always enjoy Love and Monsters, partly because I enjoy Elton, but mostly because it's Jackie's moment to shine. She's loud and brash and very forward, but underneath all that, she's incredibly lonely. She never complains about it, not in any serious way. She may not be happy but she wants happiness for her daughter more than herself. Note that she doesn't do any insisting on Rose staying with her until it threatens to be permanent in Doomsday. One particular moment in Love and Monsters really shows this.
Jackie: Let me tell you something. About those who get left behind. Because it’s hard. And that’s what you become, hard. But if there’s one thing I’ve learnt, it’s that I will never let her down. And I’ll protect them both until the end of my life. So whatever you want, I’m warning you: back off.
Jackie may not like the Doctor much (though I read their relationship as more of a grudging affection), but she's still willing to do what it takes to protect the both of them. She'll do whatever it takes to keep her daughter safe and happy, even if that involves a man who she might not particularly like.
Jackie goes from silly comic relief in propositioning the Doctor in her dressing gown to showing up with a huge ass gun to fight off daleks and help save the world. She is the ultimate TV mum and I love the hell out of her.
NB2000 115p · 735 weeks ago
The TARDIS
Okay now is usually where I'd include a picture but we all know what she looks like and...well I'm slightly unprepared today and don't have any ready to post so yeah.
It's strange to think of what's essentially a set and a prop (well a series of them but you know what I mean) as a character in their own right but there's still such character in the way they're presented. She's one of the most iconic pieces of imagery from the series and one of the most important character IMHO. The Doctor would be seriously lost without her (and he was in The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit).
Yeah like I said, rather unprepared today so this isn't the best explanation of my choice.
echinodermata 118p · 735 weeks ago
And I think there's so much potential fannish headcanon for his character. Why'd he act that way in this scene? Because he was thinking of that one moment many seasons ago. And I think I could believe all different kinds of theories about him. Virgin? I think I could believe it. He was in a past life a major player and knows how to please a sentient being, thank-you-very-much? Could believe it. Honestly, I think every theory I've ever read about his past has been in some way believable. BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH POTENTIAL TO HIS CHARACTER.
I may overall love other characters on Doctor Who more, but for favorite, I honestly do have to say the Doctor because he will always be interesting. He's a character that I believe will always stand the test of time. (And now I want Spock to be a companion. And, like, I think ZQ!Spock would totally have to repress the desire to punch/choke Ten if he had to spend extended time with him.)
In conclusion, awesome gif is awesome, and this is the source:
Also, honorable mention to River, who I probably love the most, even though the Doctor slightly edges her out as favorite. (And for anyone wondering how I'm distinguishing between love and favorite, I don't really know myself. I just know that whenever River is on my screen I'm all gleeful, but that I find the Doctor more intereresting)
Openattheclose 99p · 735 weeks ago
It's this girl, right here:
TARDIS LOVE!
She takes the Doctor to where he needs to be. Don't listen to all of the Doctor's talk about the TARDIS messing up. She's sentient. If they go to the wrong place and time, it because either he still doesn't know how to drive her correctly, or she decides that he needs to be there. Some of the scariest moments in all of Doctor Who are when the Doctor either can't get to the TARDIS or something happens to her.
Honorable mentions:
1) Donna Noble
2) Rory Williams
3) Wilfred Mott
4) Jackie Tyler
5) Sally Sparrow
6) Martha Jones
7) Sarah Jane Smith
8) River Song
9) The Controller from Bad Wolf
10) Captain Jack Harkness (Doctor Who version)
This was supposed to be just a list of five, and I had trouble keeping it at ten! I'm sorry, Lynda with a Y, Amelia Pond, Vincent Van Gogh, Tim Latimer from Human Nature/Family of Blood, the Brig, Jenny, Adelaide Brooke, Romana, Former Prime Minister Harriet Jones, K9, and Elton. Yes, I like Elton, despite his stupid love life. This was really hard! There are just too many awesome characters, okay? I'm posting this before I can think of any more!
Hypatia_ 99p · 735 weeks ago
Jack appears as your typical DW one-off character, and within the space of two episodes goes from extremely sleazy con man to a guy willing to allow himself to be blown to smithereens to let everybody live. As long as he's got a drink, he'll face death with aplomb. Then, he faces extermination by Daleks with "I kinda figured that." Bad. Ass.
I love, basically, that he exists at all, that he's there, in a "family" show, being cheerfully, openly omnisexual and hitting on anything that moves, and how it's not treated as any big thing. I love his flirtation with the Doctor, particularly Nine.
Jack: Aw, look at that, so cute, how come I never get any of that?
Nine: Buy me a drink first.
Jack: Such hard work.
Nine: But worth it!
I prefer how he is on Doctor Who, but I still love his Torchwood persona. I *loved* him and Ianto. "You people and your quaint little categories." You tell 'em, Jack.
He's possibly the only person in the universe who can rival the Doctor for how much shit he's gone through. He's been killed countless times (including that time where he was blown apart and then regrew his body), lived through the entire 19th and 20th centuries *twice*, spent a year having god knows what done to him by the Master, then a couple thousand years buried alive. At the end of it all, his sense of humor is intact. Even after the events of "Children of Earth" and his self-imposed exile, when the Doctor turns up to give him the name of the guy sitting next to him at the bar, he can still manage to hit on the guy. He's resilient. He'll pull through.
psycicflower 114p · 735 weeks ago
I think I’m going to have to go with the TARDIS. Let’s face it, she is the one true HBIC to rule them all when it comes to Doctor Who. She’s been there throughout the years, and although the Doctor changes, she always remains the same (interior touch ups not withstanding). Your ears can’t help but prick up at the distinctive vworp vworp noise.
The TARDIS has filled any number of roles over the decades, from the one who plays the key element in saving the day to the damsel in distress. You grin when the Doctor cares for or praises her and your heart breaks when you see her in serious trouble, like with the Master.
Everything the Doctor does is because of the TARDIS, not only as his means of travel, but because she takes him where he is needed. Who knows what the universe would be like if it wasn’t for the TARDIS guiding the Doctor and his companions.
The Doctor clearly loves her and we can’t help but love her too.
agrinningfool 84p · 735 weeks ago
Vincent Van Gogh.
I'm an artist. I have the four year degree to prove it. While I may not work as hard as Vincent did (Me who does a painting.. maybe once a year.) I do know how it feels to think that your stuff is no good. I used to draw daily, hourly, and then I discovered the internet and Role Playing and anime.. and my art changed. Fanart is a wonderful genre of art but it is also a curse - it is so hard to break out of and so hard to separate yourself from the stereotypes. I have loads of anime fanart in sketchbooks, very few pieces I would actually consider 'fine art' (and yes, fanart can be fine art but that's rare). I have oodles of people tell me I'm good, that I'm a great artist (even the man who broke my heart always loved my art..) but there is always that lingering self doubt. That is why I work at a hardware store and I'm not painting for a living or, my dream, working as a concept artist for a video game company. I do not have the courage to send any of my stuff out! I do not have the drive to send any of it because I'm so scared I'll be rejected or laughed at.
And Vincent.. he still tried. Damn did he try.. but he also suffered with depression, serious depression. A disease that I have always felt I've had but it's only now.. Now when I have suffered two terrible breakups in a year with the man I feel I'll marry, the loss of my father to Cancer and my Mom's own battle with breast cancer less than a year later, years of working in food service, and a degree with honor but no jobs or interns like anyone else I graduated with.. that I feel I may... correction.. probably have. It's scary.. so so scary.
There have been times I have considered taking my life. During my Dad's illness, during the first breakup, during the second breakup.. I have very few friends like Vincent.. and very little family that I actually see a speak to. Depression is a terrible, terrible weight on your shoulders - That feeling of complete worthlessness to society, to anyone. And this is coming from someone who has earned the nicknames "Disney! Ashlea", "chipmunk" and "Sunshine" at her workplace for her cheerful, wonderful demeanor.. prior to the breakup. I'm not happy any more. I can fake it for so long, but I'm not happy anymore.
I felt Vincent's pain and sadness. I felt his rejection. Oddly enough, I watched this episode during the first breakup with Dusty and.. I bawled when Amy was crying and Vincent noticed she was missing something. So often it feels like no one notices the cracks under the facade. I feel like I can't tell anyone either.. that they are all sick of me now. But I am missing something. I'm missing so much right now and I was missing something then. And it's only when you miss it.. that it truly comes to light how much they, it, means to you.
And when the Doctor and Amy took him to see his artwork.. loved buy the world.. That is truly a dream of every artist.. and quite right the greatest gift Amy and the Doctor could have given him. He may have taken his life regardless but they made his world a better place. He knew that his art would become, in time, loved and it's not just about the world knowing his name. It's sharing how you see the world, how you feel the world, how you experience it.. I like to say I create art to make people happy. I have no hidden agendas. I create it to make people happy.
I only wish I had a Doctor to make my world a better place.
*wipes eyes* and this is why I love you guys.. I feel I can share this stuff with you. Ya'll don't judge! ;.;
redheadedgirl 120p · 735 weeks ago
And none of this would work at ALL if Alex Kingston wasn't kicking ass and taking names.and generally being spot on.
Medli 141p · 735 weeks ago
Kaybee42 91p · 735 weeks ago
2) Donna
3) The Master
4)The TARDIS
5) The Doctor.
6) Captain Jack
7) Romana.
8) Rory.
9) Amy.
10) Lynda with a Y.
PeterRabid 81p · 735 weeks ago
Aside from the policeman in the first shot, she's the first "character" we're introduced to in "An Unearthly Child." The camera zooms in through the doors of the junkyard, leading us to an old 60s police box, the importance of which we can't even begin to imagine.
The TARDIS may be a rickety, obsolete model by Gallifreyan standards, but to us, she's the key to the stars, places and times we could never visit without her.
She's a trickster, moving around her corridors on a whim. I think she delights in not showing up where the Doctor told her to, only allowing him to operate her with precision when it's vitally important. She's stubborn. In the Big Finish play "The Holy Terror," she went on strike. That's right, on strike. She got fed up and locked the controls, and when she was later adorned with flowers and treated like a shrine, she hummed quite smugly.
"Where to now, Ace?"
"Home."
"Home?"
"The TARDIS."
"Ah, yes. The TARDIS."
~Seven and Ace, "Survival"
mkjcaylor 87p · 735 weeks ago
1) The Doctor (Ten, Eleven, Nine, possibly Five and then Four but I haven't seen enough)
2) Rose
3) Donna
4) The Master
6) Wilf
7) Captain Jack
8) Jackie
9) Rory
10) Martha
11) Adelaide Brooke
12) Sally Sparrow
13) Cassandra
14) River Song
BLAM. I don't think I've left anyone out. No, I'm not much of a fan of Martha, and no, I'm not much of a fan of River either. Silence in the Library River is better than series 5 River, though.
fauxkaren 115p · 735 weeks ago
But when it comes down to it, I tend to enjoy characters who change and evolve and have a discernible character arc. So when it comes down to it my two favorite characters are Ten and Rose Tyler. They have lots of ups and downs on the tenure on the show. And better yet, their interactions change each other. That's how real life works. Our relationships with other people change us. Rose and Ten are more than just a list of character traits and some lines of witty dialogue. They have stories and emotions and personalities and psychological journeys.
Rose goes from an ordinary 19 year old girl who really doesn't seem to have much of a future in store for her to a completely self-confident woman who is fully capable of saving the day on her own. But this isn't a sudden change. It's a gradual evolution throughout her stay on the show, and I love watching it. I already posted in the Favorite Companion post even more reasons why Rose Is Awesome, but in summary of that comment, I'll just say that I adore the way that Rose takes control of her own life. She doesn't let other people make choices for her, and always fights for what she wants.
For Ten, I love the way we get to see how Rose has changed the Doctor. The smiling and squee-ful man that we get to know in series 2 is not the sullen man that Nine was throughout series 1. Rose has changed the Doctor. (RTD has stated that Nine's regeneration into Ten was in fact influenced by Rose) He's so happy. And then losing the Rose brings the Doctor to a dark place. I just love that journey. As I said in my comment about Ten in the Favorite Doctor post, I love Ten's story of loneliness and loss and regaining that only to lose it again. It's a painful story, but I love that we get to see it play out on screen.
fantasylover12001 · 735 weeks ago
1) Rory
2) Donna
3) River
4) Jack
5) Amy
6) Martha
7) Rose
8) Jackie/Wilf (they're tied evenly to be honest)
9) Mickey
10) The Master
ShayzGirl 67p · 733 weeks ago
But then I read through several of the comments and I decided that I have to agree with several of the above posters.
The TARDIS. I watch Supernatural and consider the Impala as just another character of that show. It's the boys and the car. So why wouldn't I count the TARDIS as one of the characters of this show? She's always there (well, almost always), she does things on her own (such as jump to the end of the universe to try to escape Jack, putting River in a time loop to save her). She is the most important character of the entire show.
"The dafted old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back. Oh that box. Amy, you'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you. Big and little at the same time. Brand new and ancient. And the bluest blue ever." - The Eleventh Doctor
River Song's adventures with the Doctor are recorded in a blue book that looks like the TARDIS.
So, yes, the TARDIS is my favourite character because she is the best character.
The other day at a friend's house, we were playing a game of "Guess the movie". I turned it into "Guess the TV Show". And this is what I drew:
The only thing that anyone can look at and know which TV show I mean. Well, unless you're my friends. In which case, only one of them guessed correctly. But still. I thought "TV instead of a movie. Oh I know, Doctor Who." and I drew the TARDIS. Sorry that it's badly drawn, BTW.