On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:41:32 -0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
(The Doctor) wrote:

Since when do Doctor Who fans conform in one way or the other?

Missing context. What are one way and the other?
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In article <uql0ps$nup$19@gallifrey.nk.ca>, doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca wrote:

Since when do Doctor Who fans conform in one way or the other?

What in the Wide Wide World Of Sports are you babbling about?

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On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:41:32 -0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
(The Doctor) wrote:

Since when do Doctor Who fans conform in one way or the other?

Actually, we do conform in one way. We all like Doctor Who.
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:27:07 -0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
(The Doctor) wrote:

In article <kocqtipe3kr8dda96407pnanmv09f93112@4ax.com>,
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:41:32 -0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
(The Doctor) wrote:

Since when do Doctor Who fans conform in one way or the other?

Actually, we do conform in one way. We all like Doctor Who.

I cannot stand the Timeless Child!

Details. Everybody has a favorite (and a least favorite), but in
general, we all like The Doctor, if we didn't we wouldn't be DW fans.
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:15:53 -0800
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:

On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:27:07 -0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
(The Doctor) wrote:

In article <kocqtipe3kr8dda96407pnanmv09f93112@4ax.com>,
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:41:32 -0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
(The Doctor) wrote:

Since when do Doctor Who fans conform in one way or the other?

Actually, we do conform in one way. We all like Doctor Who.

I cannot stand the Timeless Child!

Details. Everybody has a favorite (and a least favorite), but in
general, we all like The Doctor, if we didn't we wouldn't be DW fans.

And you all love xposting, it seems.


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Mickmane wrote:

On 27.02.24, Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

I exlude the Timeless Child!

I exclude the Seventh Doctor... well, on TV anyway. McCoy didn't
do too bad in some of the Big Finish audios... and at least we
didn't have to see him!

I exclude the 11th Doctor. Starting with stuffing food into his
mouth and then spitting it out again, and then continuing to pull
a stupid face. That was not the Doctor!

Ha Ha... Matt Smith was good at the stupid face thing alright. He
just has that sort of face! :-)

Totally ruined what had been my most favorite show to unwatchable.
Took me years, and a friend suggesting I watch first episode with
the 12th Doctor, until I eventually trudged through it.

Everything that had made the series my absolute favorite was just
wrong, missing.

We all exclude someone though... nobody can love every one of the
Doctor's incarnations. We all have our favourites and not so
favourites...

With the 11th Doctor it was the likes of Amy and Rory that spoilt
that era for me... plus the multi-coloured humpback Daleks! I did
like Matt's Doctor though.


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Mickmane wrote:

On 28.02.24, Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

With the 11th Doctor it was the likes of Amy and Rory that spoilt
that era for me... plus the multi-coloured humpback Daleks! I did
like Matt's Doctor though.

I didn't mind Amy. What did they do that bugged you?

Amy started out fine in "The Eleventh Hour", but she turned out to
be a selfish spoilt brat who treated Rory like shit as her arc
developed. For me, Amy & Rory out-stayed their welcome and should
have moved on a lot sooner. (Rory especially, his dying and coming
back to life all the time was silly.)

I love Karen Gillan though, she's hot!

Daleks always had some with different colours. I don't remember
humpbacks. :)

Look again! :-)

A re-design made solely to sell toys.

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The Last Doctor wrote:

Mickmane <ATH@kruemel.org> wrote:

Daleks always had some with different colours. I don't remember humpbacks. :)

The episode was “Victory of the Daleks” and the new Daleks were
larger and had a deeper rear half, and all in casings in bright
primary colours. (I thought of them as Power Ranger Daleks at the
time. They looked plasticky and designed specifically to become a
line of toys.)

The idea of the deep rear “hunchback” was that this would be
storage for swappable arms / weapons but the “new paradigm Daleks”
got such an adverse reaction that they never returned except as
background props.

They were a terrible idea. What was Moffat thinking?!!!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

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The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0oimgc8f7raoc002@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0oim72hev7a6v002@news.eternal-september.org>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Last Doctor wrote:

The episode was “Victory of the Daleks” and the new Daleks
were larger and had a deeper rear half, and all in casings
in bright primary colours. (I thought of them as Power
Ranger Daleks at the time. They looked plasticky and
designed specifically to become a line of toys.)

The idea of the deep rear “hunchback” was that this would be
storage for swappable arms / weapons but the “new paradigm
Daleks” got such an adverse reaction that they never returned
except as background props.

They were a terrible idea. What was Moffat thinking?!!!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Well I wonder how the nation Estate feels.

They must have okayed them...

Any documentation to see on that?

I'm sure there is somewhere, in offices. It's not going to be posted
on Usenet though is it?

But as the BBC only own 50% of the rights to the Daleks nothing is
going to happen unless the Hancock's agency agree to their use.
Ergo, they must have agreed to the plastic technicolour humpback
Daleks. As agents, their job is to get the most money they can
for Terry Nation's estate. So obviously, new Dalek design plus new
Dalek toys = ���.

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Mickmane wrote:

On 28.02.24, Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Mickmane wrote:

Daleks always had some with different colours. I don't
remember humpbacks. :)

Look again! :-)

A re-design made solely to sell toys.

Will watch out for it.

Toy Daleks should look like the ones in the series! :)

The ones that were based on the plastic looking colour-coded
humpback Daleks seen in "Victory of the Daleks" did...

They were coloured plastic humpback toy Daleks!

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