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I just watched the last special. I love the bit after regeneration when Moffat checks his hair and exclaims "Oh no, I'm a girl!"

That made me laugh when I saw it. I'm pretty excited to see how he does as The Doctor.

Sorry for being pedantic... but it's not MOFFAT who checks his hair but Matt Smith... Steven Moffat is the lead writer...

*Ahem* anyway I have watched Dr. Who since Christopher Eccleston (stop moaning all you whovians, I am only a kid and I can't get the old ones! ) and when he left and became David Tennant, I was freaking out! NO ONE COULD REPLACE CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON!! ! The second DT's doctor woke up in 'The Christmas invasion' I was bouncing around really happy! It's funny because I am now shouting NO ONE COULD REPLACE DAVID TENNANT!! ! I'll be back after the first episode apologizing no doubt!

(and if I've made any mistakes, feel free to correct them, I am not a hypocrite )

Man, I must have been more tired than I thought last night not to have noticed the wrong name. It was a familiar name so I just accepted it.

It took me a few episodes before I accepted David Tennant as the doctor because it was so sudden and unexpected since I didn't discover Doctor Who until series 4 was airing so I was watching the first ones on dvd in quick succession. Once I came around though, I became a huge fan. When Matt Smith was first announced as the new doctor I was so upset - he has no eyebrows!! But having had time to adjust to the idea and seeing him in set photos and trailers I think he'll be a good doctor. I'm just trying not to think about the fact that him being the doctor means that DT is not the doctor anymore

Just saw the second part of The End of Time. Wonderful. I even came close to weeping when the Doctor was having his little rant and rave after finding out exactly who knocked four times. And that regeneration...not too sure about Matt Smith, but he could grow on me.

So, Daleks or Cybermen?

You found that cry-worthy? Wow!
I find the troubled rants over-used an overdone. Not Tennant's fault mind you.
The better and more emotional interaction was the gun exchange. Far more emotive.
You are right about Matt Smith though. I have my doubts.

Hey, if I found out I was going to die after a certain event, and it came true, I would be ranting and raving at the absolute unfairness of it all. I could sympathise with the Doctor in that regard.

I wonder what happened to the master at the end? did he die?.

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No question about that. I just think that Tennant's Dr Who tended to rant a lot and this unfortunately for me had the effect of traveling down a familiar path without much emotional impact. As far as acting talent and the ability to breath life and personality into the Dr well I think he was excellent and will be sorely missed. I think he raised the benchmark here far higher than what I expect other doctors could expect to reach.
He was able I think to convey much more subtle and trouble, human emotion when quietly contemplative and the gun exchange with Wilfred was indeed an example of this. Two fine actors projecting much clever conveying of emotion with simple and few words and not done with ranting or raving. Did not cry but enjoyed that bit a lot.
Will miss the old doctor. Will like to see what the new kid on the block is like. I expect a zany, smart, high energy, fun doctor....I think that is a bit of a shame

The part that I like the most about the 11th Doctor is that Moffat will be the lead writer. The man who wrote "Blink" can't possibly disappoint.

Re sad scenes: the only time I've cried with Doctor Who was when he left Rose on the parallel world at the end of Season 2 and the communication dropped before he could finish what he had to say.

the reason i asked is i come across ALOT of aspie/neotypical people who don't know what I'm talking about. i makes me feel better knowing I'm not lone lol

In my opinion I prefer the old series but I do watch the new series as it is Dr. who at the moment I am going through Tom Baker era I'm at his last series so I'll be watching Peter Davison. If you want to through them all go on www.dailymotion.com

I think Matt Smith will be a good doctor when I first saw him in an interview I thought he was to young but Peter Davison was the same age as Matt Smith when he took over as the doctor.

Anyway that website just has the old series.

Thank you for posting the video!! I read somewhere that the first episode, or maybe a couple episodes in the first season, had been lost forever. It's really cool to see the first episode and know it's not dead. :3
Living in the US, I'm one of the newbies to the series and came into not knowing anything about the Doctor's past or the Time Lords or anything. (So to me he has always been the Last of the Time Lords, and the Time War is only an old story.) it's kind of fun because the series is so long, seeing the old episodes feels like uncovering real history, like a lost tomb or something!

The first three stories are available. Unfortunately, the entirety of the fourth Doctor Who story, Marco Polo, is missing. All missing stories and episodes have audio recordings (made by fans), and they often have clips available from various sources. There is a good list of what is currently missing and what is available from missing episodes on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who ... g_episodes

There were also some stories that didn't make the series

Here is a list there is more detail on Wikipedia

[u]First Doctor

The Giants
Where The Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara go to a planet and they are shrunk to miniature size and the doctor reveals that he escaped from his home planet in the year 5733 to seek a perfect society.

The Masters of Luxor
All I know is that in this story The Doctor and companions have to stop a legion of robots

Farewell Great Macedon
The Doctor and his companions are framed in a conspiracy to kill Alexander the Great and they are face with various trials one including walking on hot coal to gain trust on his bodyguard Ptolemy

The Fragile Yellow Arc Of Fragrance

The Red Fort
Written by Terry Nation and was set on the british raj in India but was rejected as they wanted another Dalek story

The Hidden Planet/Beyond The Sun
The Story would have concerned a planet in an orbit opporsite Earth with a parallel but in some ways oppersite society of Earth. Were woman would be the dominent sex. In this story Ian and Barbara were due to leave

The Second Doctor

The Imps
The Imps was to be set in a space station that is overun by imp like aliens and aggresive alien vegitations.

The Prison In Space
The Doctor and Jamie were to be inprisoned and Zoe was to start a sexual revelution and then be brainwashed.

The Impersonators
Which was the original planned final Patrick Troughton story but due to budget they decided to extend The War Games to 10 Episodes

The Third Doctor

Daleks In London
The story was similar to Dalek Invasion Of Earth except set in London in 1972 the script was rejected and it became Day of the Daleks

The Final Game
Jon Pertwee's final story The story was to feature The Master and to reveal that they were two aspects of the same person The Doctor being the interlectual part and The Master being The Violent. The story was scrapped because Roger Delgado the actor who played The Master was killed in a car crash

The Fourth Doctor

Killers Of The Dark
The story was to be set on Galifrey the script had elements of drawn from Asian cultures and a race of cat people. It was originally a six parter which was to end series 15 but Invasion Of Time was written in it's place also set on galifrey

The Doomsday Contract/Shylock
The Doctor is called to intervene with a corperation tries to buy Earth in order to buy a matter-transmutation devise

Shada
Only one half of the story was filmed and was to conclude Series 17.

The Divided
There is no detail of the script

The Fifth Doctor

Project Zeta Sigma
Was originally Peter Davison's first story but was not going to continue from Logopolis

Songs Of The Space Whale
In the story a group of people living in the belly of a space whale. The Doctor finds this out while attempting to protect the creature from being slaughtered by a rusting factory ship. It was also to introduce Vislor Turlough to the show.

May Time/Manwatch
Was to be a third story to feature the mara.

The Sixth Doctor
Planned 1986 Series which featured

Yellow Fever and How To Cure It
Three part story to be set in Singapore and to feature the Autons as the monsters featuring either The Master or The Rani or both appearing

Galifrey
Which was to be based around the destruction of galifrey the script was replaced by Trial of The Time Lord arc

Trial Of The Time Lord: Candidates
Several scripts were comissioned for possible third four segments of Trial of The Time Lord a position was taken by Terror Of The Vervoids but the other scripts were

Attack Of The Mind
Set on the planet Penelope

Pinacotheaca/The Last Adventure

Paradise Five
Paradise Five story was to feature The Doctor and Mel going undercover to expose sinisters goings on, on a holiday planet.

The Seventh Doctor

Shrine
Was to feature aliens looking for their God King in tsarist Russia the idea was rejected in favour for Ghost-Light

Planned Series 27

Earth Aid
Earth Aid was to open with Ace sitting in the captains chair of a space ship the story was to focus on the politics of humanitarian Aid.

Ice Time
Ice Time was to feature The Ice Warrior's in London in the 1960s and would have seen the departure of Ace to the Prydonian academy to become a Time-Lord. The story was to introduce Sam Tollinger who was to become a recurring role. The plot will also feature an Ice Warrior's armour in the London dungeons and two reincarnated Ice Warrior's continuing a lonf rivalry.

Crime Of The Century
Was to introduce a new companion called Kate Tollinger who is Sam Tollinger's daughter she is a cat burgular and safecraker The story was to feature drug smuggling and a house which is a base for the doctor.

Alixion
Was to be Sylvester McCoy's last story The Doctor is lured to an isolated asteroid to play a series of life or death games in which The Doctor is driven insane leading to his regeneration

others were intended as well including

Night Thoughts
A horror story set on an isolated planet

Illegal Aliens
A cyberman story set in the 1940s

A School For Glory
Set during World War 1

Avater
A lovecraftian horror

Hostage
A futuristic thriller

The Tenth Doctor

Stephen Fry Script
A story set during David Tennants first series set in the 1920s but the script was replaced by Fear Her

Century House
Was to feature The Doctor appearing on Most Haunted investigating a house haunted by The Red Widow with Martha Jones watching at home as a framing device.

Thats it for now there is a bit more detail on Wikipedia