Mark Spoils: The Great 30-Day Who MEME!!!! - Day Thirty!!

Friday, March 18, 2011

The Great 30-Day Who MEME!!!! - Day Thirty!!

Why do you love Doctor Who?

Source: renton1313

The thing about Doctor Who, that's different from most sci-fi programs, is that it features normal characters. In Star Wars you have Jedi, something you have to be born with to be amazing. In Star Trek you have Starfleet which is supposed to be like getting into West Point. But in Doctor Who you have a madman and his box and sometimes he'll crash into your life and steal you away to fantastic adventures. And I love that. In many ways I think I need that. Sure, it's fiction, but just like I'll always check for four leaf clovers and avoid fairy rings, I'll always be looking for that blue box. You know, just on the off chance that it exists and there's a strange alien man inside who wouldn't mind showing me the universe. I'll send you all a postcard from Nero's Rome when I find it.

So what about you? Why Who? Why you?

Tomorrow: THERE IS NO MORE FOR TOMORROW!!! NOoOooOOOOO!

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EDIT: Sorry about this being late! I don't know why, but Blogger refused to automatically post this!

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psycicflower 114p · 732 weeks ago

I love everything. The Doctor, the companions, the TARDIS, the aliens, the different planets, the different times, the music, the historical figures, the one off characters, the quarries, Cardiff as London, the modern special effects and the old shaky sets. But most of all I love the hope. The belief in humanity, in the good things that exist, that ordinary people can do extraordinary things and that even a normal life is something unique, amazing and worth living.

Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, and I've never met anyone who wasn't important before.

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mkjcaylor 87p · 732 weeks ago

YAY a design from @theonetruebix! I'm telling him he's famous here! Unless you're him, which I'm pretty sure you're not. But. Yay for Whedonesque connections!

And I totally bought that shirt. Which reminds me, I still haven't gotten it yet and that was ages ago. I wonder how long Mysoti will take. I do wish he would have gotten chosen for Teefury.

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psycicflower 114p · 732 weeks ago

I love the design. Haha, no I am not him. I wish I had any kind of artistic skills. I've been tempted for a while to get that tshirt. I think I'm going to end up holding it to ransom against myself to get things done, it's the only way to weirdly justify it to myself being an unemployed student.

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Openattheclose 99p · 732 weeks ago

THIS.

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echinodermata 118p · 732 weeks ago

Because it's the show I'm most excied to watch. Because it's scifi and does well regarding what I love about scifi. Because it's got a lot of history, and I don't know the vast majority of it, but I can still fall in love with this show without knowing much before RTD gave us new Who.

Because I love the characters. I love the Doctor, and his companions, and many of the villains and monsters, and the relative lack of non-humanoid aliens (I'm looking at you, Stargate franchise). I love the music, and the cinematography, and the dialogue.

Because this show makes me laugh and cry, and rage and cry, and rage and laugh, and all around has made me run a gamut of emotions. I wouldn't get so worked up about the stuff I don't like or wish were done differently if I didn't deeply care about this show.

Why do I love Doctor Who? Because I've watched it and how could I not?

(And I know that gif was only S5, but it's lovely so I wanted to save it for this day. I also unfortunately don't know who made it.)

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NB2000 115p · 732 weeks ago

Oh god talk about saving the toughest for last. In fact, I really don't know how to answer, at least not without devolving into "I LOVE THIS! AND THIS! OH AND THAT! eh that character/episode I'm not so crazy about but OMG EVERYTHING ELSE IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT!", so this is going to be a really terrible answer that's not even close to what I really think or feel.

It's hard now to remember why I refused to watch for so long. Almost all of my friends were watching but I kept refusing until Christmas Day 2008 when I had nothing else to do and decided to watch The Next Doctor. It's not the greatest episode but I was hooked (which was really bad timing considering it was the year of specials).

If you really forced me to choose, I'd have to say that it's the variety that I love. Every episode (well except for some two-parters) is somewhere new with new people. It's constantly exploring and expanding the universe that the show inhabits. The show is constantly changing and if an episode/series/character isn't something you like there's probably going to be something you DO like that comes along eventually.

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Hypatia_ 99p · 732 weeks ago

All of it. A show about a body-changing, oddly British humanoid alien called the Doctor who flies around in a police box, saving the universe and getting into trouble. If someone described that show to me, I would think it sounded like crap. But somehow? It works. I don't know how, but it does. Which is really part of the beauty of it. You either get Doctor Who or you don't.

I love that, aside from the Doctor, most of the supporting characters are ordinary people who manage to become extraordinary. I love that the hero saves the day through quick thinking and cleverness rather than with a gun (although explosives are not ruled out). I love that the space/time ship looks like a smallish wooden box. I love the show's capacity to make me cry, roll my eyes, and laugh so hard my stomach hurts.

I've said before that there's a small part in the back of my mind that's convinced that someday, I will find a portal to Middle-earth. That same part also listens for the sound of TARDIS engines. I love knowing that even though it's just made-up, it feels real enough that my mind insists that it could be real.

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Kaybee42 91p · 732 weeks ago

All of it! I love that there is all the history- there'll always be some Who I've not seen and can discover. And I love that it can go on forever and ever.
I love that it is funny and silly and ridiculous. And I love that sometimes it will make me sob my heart out despite how ridiculous it all is.
I love that it's completely impossible but so honest and real...it's not JUST a strange little show- it teaches children and it teaches *me* a lot. About accepting people and tolerance and how everyone is important.
And I love that it's always changing and always moving on, and somehow you just know it's exactly the same deep down.
Oh, and I also love that basically all my friends and family watch it. A lot of the time I obsess over stuff and have maybe one or two friends who love it too, but with Who I can talk about it all I like and everyone will understand :)

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flamingpie 89p · 732 weeks ago

I don't have time to answer this right now given the essay it would require to adequately explain it, but I need help from you guys!

I'm starting a Doctor Who club at my school, and I need suggestions for a club name. My friend and I are toying with Team TARDIS or the Children of Time, but any ideas you guys have would be awesome!

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echinodermata 118p · 732 weeks ago

Friends of the Ood?

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flamingpie 89p · 732 weeks ago

hahahahah that could possibly work!

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Dragon Elexus 124p · 732 weeks ago

I like Children of Time, myself.
The Gallifreyens? Or maybe Cult of Skaro is you wanted to sound scary.

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mkjcaylor 87p · 732 weeks ago

How about tomorrow's be a post about the Red Nose Day Special and a reaction?

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psycicflower 114p · 732 weeks ago

I second this. Catherine Tate is also taking part in 'Fake That' so we could do a kind of round up of Whoniverse people doing things for Comic Relief.

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Medli 141p · 732 weeks ago

Since joining the fandom last year, I've seen multiple news articles about people deriding Doctor Who for being a children's program. My response is always along the lines of "Yeah, and?" To act like being children's entertainment is a grave insult is to miss the point. Being a children's program is, in and of itself, not a bad thing. I'm a big believer in not growing up, at least in the sense of not losing that part of myself, of holding onto those important aspects of childhood. For me, Doctor Who isn't just about aliens, or monsters, or time travel or any of those things. They're facets of the bigger picture. Doctor Who is about being able to imagine worlds of possibilities, of the dreams of adventure you had when you were a kid, the fantasies of travelling back in time to meet your historical heroes. It's about believing, not just in aliens and other planets and time travel and a blue box that's bigger on the inside, but in the idea that there is something else out there beyond our little world, believing in yourself and that you can do anything, no matter who you are. The show asks us to believe in the "impossible", to never lose our wonder at the world around us, to be the best people we can be. To stand up and do what is right, no matter what. These are things that transcend physical age - all you have to be is willing and open to it. There's nothing childish about that; childlike, certainly, but not childish. There's a big difference.

At its best, Doctor Who is a fairy tale for all ages, particularly in this latest season. It speaks to us all in many ways, but to me the most important way is that encouragement of those parts of us that haven't grown up, and shouldn't. That's why I watch the show, and that's why I love it. It really is, as Craig Ferguson so perfectly put it in his recent tribute to the show, the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

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Dragon Elexus 124p · 732 weeks ago

Why do I love Doctor Who?

I love that it started out as just a campy educational TV, and that it has lasted nearly fifty years and eleven main actors. I love that despite poor special effects, and occasionally strained writing and acting, it still tries to be the best entertainment possible. I love that we can literally go anywhere in time or space we want; the show is limited to only the writers' creativity. I love that it can be anything, from horror, drama, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy...

Mostly, I love that I could say "the time-travelling alien dresses up as Santa and rides a flying shark to get a girl to sing in order to prevent a space-ship from crashing" and have that be a completely serious summary of an episode. Seriously.

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agrinningfool 84p · 732 weeks ago

Why do I love Doctor Who?

It gives me hope. It brings me Joy. It has made me cry and it has made me smile. It is full of human goodness in a world gone mad. In my darkest days, I can watch it and forget for a while, for an hour, that bad things exist, that I have been hurt.
It also is a show about second chances, and getting to change time. A show about potentially saving someone, or even going back and saving someone, about changing things.

It's very much about friendship and love too and how those can conquer anything.

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Openattheclose 99p · 732 weeks ago

Pretty much just this.

Okay, and because the Doctor is really just the biggest nerd to ever nerd, and as a fellow nerd, I admire that!

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flamingpie 89p · 732 weeks ago

Yeah, this pm explains exactly what I love about this show too. XD

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Arcade Claw Machine 32p · 324 weeks ago

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