Who is/are your favorite Doctor(s) and why?

Who is/are your favorite companion(s) and why?

OOps forgot to answer my own question.

Favorite classic Doctor - Tom Baker because he approached the role with a sense of whimsy.
My all time favorite Doctor however is David Tennant. He had a bit of that same Tom Baker whimsical boyishness, but he was also hard from his time fighting the time war and losing his entire race. What I really liked about him was his progression of the character. He went from a man who could give no second chances to a man who never would. I recently watched that first episode with him back to back with his two part goodbye and the difference is striking, but natural in a way.

As for companions I know that Rose is the general favorite of most folks and while I liked her well enough she was far from my favorite.
I really liked Donna because she was not in any way interested in The Doctor romantically. There was too much of that sort of thing with many of the other companions. Not everyone must fall in love with The Doctor.
I LOVED Captain Jack Harkness. He was falling for everyone regardless of sex or race. He was dashing, gorgeous, and full of himself in a good way.
Martha was okayish, but once again we have the damsel thing going on. Two of my favorite episodes were Human Nature and Family of Blood and she was okay in those episodes except for the falling in love with him bit.
Of all the companions Amy and Rory as a couple are IMO the best companions The Doctor has ever had. The changes we see in all of the characters as they interact was stunning. Rory takes the cake for best character development of any character in Doctor Who history IMO. They are the best because they stand on their own. They are not dependent on The Doctor, if anything it is the other way round. Rory is the only companion to chin the Doctor that I can ever remember, although Jackie slapping him was pretty awesome!
I like companions who have their own personalities and who

My kids can't find too much that they like about the classic Doctor Who. The technology is the problem as someone else pointed out, but for me I grew up watching that kind of TV because there wasn't anything else. Those old shows where the space ships were models on strings didn't bother me because that is what was available back then.

I fell in love with Doctor Who because of the stories. I actually described it to friends as something that looked like it was made in someone's garage, but that campiness is also what gave the show its charm. If you compare classic Doctor Who to the old Star Trek series the "special effects" weren't much better. Remember Lost in Space? Those “special effects” were as bad if not worse than Doctor Who but every kid in my school would rush home to watch the program when it was on.

I grew up in the 60s so to me those old shows have a strong nostalgia. I am glad that these classic shows have been updated to interest our children. I never thought my kids would be Whovians, but they are; all three of them LOVE Doctor Who. They also really like the new Sherlock where the older versions held no interest for them.
 

Here is another term I have heard used and then read it in a Sherlock fan fiction.
Plaster
Now from what I understand this is meant to mean a band-aide? Why would anyone call a band-aide "plaster"?
The first time I heard it was watching another British TV show called Primeval. One of the characters had a gash on his leg and one of the other characters said "Come on let's get a Micky Mouse plaster on that." I never really understood what he was saying. By context it meant some sort of first aide or bandage but I couldn't wrap my head around the use of the word plaster. Maybe he was referring to a cast which in the old days were made out of plaster.

Can someone please clear up the whole "jumper" thing for me. Here in the states a jumper is what we call a little girl's dress. It is usually sleeveless and can be worn with a shirt that has decorative collar and sleeves or just as a dress without sleeves in the warm weather.
I have heard jumper refered to in British television in at least three different ways. The first time I heard it was when River Song first regenerates into her final form. She is wearing what I would call a Jumper and she goes and looks at her new body and likes what she sees. She shouts out "I'm going to be wearing a LOT of jumpers!"
It is refered to in Sherlock as either a shirt or a sweater. In Doctor Who Christopher Eccelstein grabs his button up long sleeved shirt and asks "What's wrong with this jumper?"
So really what exactly is a jumper?

 

Hope your burn is all better, Susi. I keep a tube of silver sulfadiazine just for burns. Stuff works wonders!

My little guy is finally all better. He lost 8 pounds in 5 days. He is gaining it back but only about 1/2 pound a day, but he was well enough to pass his test tonight and earn his orange belt! Yeah for him!

Let's see this is the rant thread, but I can't think of a good rant. Oh wait yes I can. I AM SICK TO DEATH OF ALL THIS WHITE CRAP FALLING FROM THE SKY!!!! I am so ready for spring, - a proper spring - with warm weather and flowers and grass and stuff.

I am trying to find what episode the Doctor hears the prophecy of the Ood about 4 knocks and then he dies. I watched the planet of the Ood with Donna, and the closest I could come was when Ood sigma said that his song would end and he asks "What?" sounding a little freaked out and Sigma replies "All songs end." But where does he hear the actual prophecy?

Do the grade levels follow the same sort of system that I mentioned in my last post? That would be the pre-college grades. Also what are the good drama colleges there?

I would like some information about how school works in the UK. Here in America we have Elementary School Grades K-2, Primary School Grades 3-5, Middle School Grades 6-8, High School Grades 9-12, then it's off to College.

If someone wants to go into a career in acting then at the college level they can take acting classes but they would need to pick a university that is heavy in the arts. There are some dedicated acting colleges but they are dreadfully difficult to get into. There are also a few Preforming Arts high schools, but you have to meet certain criteria to get into them as well. My daughter wanted to go to the school of preforming arts for high school and if that had happened she would have had to leave home and go live with her aunt because you have to be a city resident to get in. We live in the suburbs. As it is she changed her mind and is now pursuing a career in psychology. 

So what kind of educational arc would someone in the UK follow if they ultimately wanted to get into the preforming arts?

Davina wrote:

Scary when they get like that. Glad he's over the worst. The fever seems to have broken eh.

My little rant wasn't anything nearly as serious or worrying. Just had a lovely, very different haircut but I think I would have got more notice at home if I had just had all my hair shaved off!

I know what you mean. One year I had 14 inches cut off and donated it to Locks of Love. My husband didn't notice!!! No I really am not kidding. I even said to him "Notice anything different?" He still didn't know what I was referring to. He would make a terrible witness to a crime! LOL

We ended up in the ER last night with Adam but he is home now and doing much better. Thanks for the good thoughts. I also didn't go into work last night. Of course I thought we would be at the hospital longer than we actually were. I arranged for someone to cover my shift, but I got him home by 10:00 and that is the time I normally leave for work. I went to bed instead!
 

SusiGo wrote:

Sorry to hear that, Alice. Ghastly sickness, especially with children. My daughter used to wait too long when she was little and didn't make it to the bathroom in time. Not very funny.
I hope your son'll be better soon. And the photo series is very sweet.  So he wants to be half pirate, half cop? Does he know Sherlock? 

I never realized that comparison! Funny.
That is actually his scouting uniform.

I'm sure he'll be fine because he is strong, but he freaked me out completely last night right before I left for work but after I posted my rant. I went to check on him and he was on the floor in my room. I'm not cool with that so I went to pick him up to take him to my bed and he had a sort of fit.
He went all rigid and started this high pitched screeching. I got him to calm down enough to let me lift him up, but then he got the worst bloody nose ever and he stared acting weird. He was reaching for things that weren't there and then the worst part was when he started talking. He wasn't speaking English! It sounded like a real language, but obviously it wasn't. It was totally freaky. He got upset when I didn't understand what he was saying, repeating the same syllables over and over.

It took almost 10 minutes for him to recognize any of us. This flipped me out a bit, but the ER doc I work with said that it was most likely due to dehydration. He had a slight fever no more than 99 so it wasn't fever induced delirium. I will be leaving for home in a few minutes. I hope he has turned the corner when I see him. Either way his doctor will be getting a call today. I should have just taken him to the hospital for the IV fluids. Now I feel like a bad mom.
 

This thread is for non-British Sherlock lovers to ask, "What was that?"

For instance what the devil is an ASBO? I'm guessing it is the equivelant of a misdeminor here in the states.

Here's another one; in TRF right after John calls Sherlock a machine he says "sod this" I thought he was saying "stop this" but after listening carefully and then turning on the closed captioning it turns out he is saying "sod". So what does it mean? From context it seems like you could replace the word sod with the f-word. Is that basically what it means?

I have lots more but I have to go get ready for work. I'll post more questions later.

Oh wait I do have one more. It is been pointed out to me that in Britian they don't use the term ER or ED for the emergency room, so what do you call the place you go when you need stitches or have a car accident?