Soon we, in the U.S. will know the timelag for new episodes that Andrew experiences with...well everything.
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Forget Borg, Cylons, G'ould..Look out US, the DALEKS are comming!!! Pack a sandwich for hiding round the back of the sofa!
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So, for someone who hasn't seen any of the previous seasons (partly because the local PBS is crap), will I be completely lost, or will I be able to pick up on things rather quickly?
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You'll be able to pick it up fairly quickly. The series is basically designed like that; it would be a bit unfair to expect everyone to have seen all 26 series before viewing the new stuff.
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Also, any stuff that comes across as confusing (such as the Doctor being the last of the Time Lords) is meant to be. About the only thing that you need to know is that the Doctor doesn't like the Daleks.
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The new show was deliberately designed to introduce new viewers. Also note that it's quite clearly aimed at family viewing, but in a Pixar-does-it-better-than-Disney sort of way. Something for everyone. Aside from the Daleks, the first season offers remarkably few links to previous series, and even then you don't need to know anything about them except what's shown.
They tried introducing everything to new audiences before, but did almost everything wrong with the 1996 TV movie, which succeeded in confusing new people (too many elements) and alienating old fans (in terms of changed dogma). Oh, and it had Eric Roberts.
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Am I the only one that thinks Eric Roberts looks like he could Malcom Reynolds' father?
..just an observation.
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The BBC site has a pretty good recap of everything that's ever happened on Dr. Who. I think someone here actually directed me there a couple of years ago. I think I got about half way through it and I feel like I know alot about the franchise. It covers all the incarnations and ties the episodes and series together very nicely.
From the TV movie, was the whole Eye of Harmony thing and brand new concept, or had it been mentioned on the show in the past? It seemed quite a grand set to have had anything like it on the show's budget in the past.
I know the thing with the Master being a shadowy little snake thing at the beginning confused alot of people. We never really got an explanation for why he wasn't a humanoid, did we?
I do really like the fact that they got the last Doctor from the British show to reprise his role for the first few minutes. That was a nice touch.
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Nice touch, yes, and confusing to lots of people. A link to the past was great for the fans, but ultimately distracting to newbies. They get it right in "Rose", the new series premiere, where we start with the new guy straight off and only get small hints that he's recently regenerated.
The Eye of Harmony is one of many discontinuities with the original series. Originally, the EoH was a captured black hole, whose power allows time travel and to which each TARDIS has a power link. In the TV movie the thing in the cloister room was refered to as THE Eye... It's since been retconned as a physical connection to it, and not just some etherial extension cord back to Gallifrey.
The BIGGEST problem with the TV movie was that the Doctor was suddenly half human; this was a leftover from the original series premise where the Doctor would be on a mision to find his mom and dad (!). This has only recently been hinted at in the new series as a "thing" the eighth doctor sort of inherited as part of that incarnation only...
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