Re: Doctor Who

**Demelza Robins** June 9th 2011, 3:25 pm

http://buttermelow.tumblr.com/post/5921056276/thoughts-of-flight-arthur-darvill
Arthur Darvill, you have a beautiful voice!

**Angelina Johnson** June 9th 2011, 3:28 pm

OMG HE IS REALLY GOOD.

Also, the appropriateness of the song and it's hipsterness amuse me.

**Demelza Robins** June 14th 2011, 12:22 pm

**Lily Evans** June 14th 2011, 12:51 pm

Words cannot express how much I love that.
I nearly peed my pants when I saw it...

**Beatrice Orwell** June 15th 2011, 10:33 am

Hahahahaha! I saw that on tumblr! Love it!

Also, I was rewatching The Doctor's Wife today so my mom could see it and had a revelation.

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**Angelina Johnson** June 15th 2011, 11:09 am

My brother and I, we have a theory.
It concerns the Lodger, and a clip from the trailer for S6.

Please note, this hasn't been checked for details or anything yet, and was literally something I came up with by talking to my bro today.

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**Lily Evans** June 26th 2011, 11:47 am

**Angelina Johnson** June 26th 2011, 12:45 pm

-dead-

**Demelza Robins** June 26th 2011, 1:04 pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

**Angelina Johnson** June 26th 2011, 1:12 pm

I love that bit though.

Dalek Sec: You are superior in only one respect.
Cyber Leader: What is that?
Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.

OH SNAP.

**Angelina Johnson** June 27th 2011, 3:06 am

Some RP sites are stupid.
I was looking at one that wanted Fiyero from Wicked, and they had a Doctor Who section.
They wanted (spoilered if you haven't seen 'A Good Man Goes to War'):

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**Demelza Robins** June 27th 2011, 10:14 am

LOL FAIL *facepalm*

Guest July 6th 2011, 8:11 am

Who-related Confession: I don't like Karen Gillan. I don't like her character, and I don't like her as a person. I know I'm kind of backwards and I prefer everything to be good and wholesome and I'm a crazy purist and all, but I was really kind of shocked when I saw her in short skirts in every single episode. Like my first thought was that even Billie Piper was more covered up. And really, she's on a family show. I realize not every person can be a role model, but when your target audience is families, I feel like you should be a bit more of a role model. You know, at least not getting so drunk you end up outside of a stranger's hotel room door completely naked and whimpering at 3 am.

-climbs off soapbox- She's still damn sexy.

**Lily Evans** July 6th 2011, 10:38 am

I love Karen Gillan. I have this thing where I hate that a "family show" automatically means that any sort of sexy outfit is taboo, especially when Karen's 'sexy' is actually quite tame - to me the skirts aren't that short, they're always with tights and boots, and she never shows any skin up top, either. You honestly just never see that much skin on Amy Pond, even if a lot of the outfits from Karen's previous modelling career are risqué as fuck at times. I don't like everything her character has done - I feel like the time she hit on the Doctor was a bit out there for a family oriented show, but *shrug* By my standards it's all v. tame and she works with what the writers give her to go on.
The other thing that gets me is that Matt Smith can go to a beach and be photographed with his completely topless girlfriend, and he's all very suitable for a family show and nobody tries to police his private life and say that because he is the Doctor, he shouldn't be allowed to have a girlfriend that goes topless. And I've heard that when Matt did Christopher and his Kind, Doctor Who put a strict 'no nudity' clause on him because of the nature of Doctor Who (although anything from that has been far more out there than what I've seen from Karen). Karen can do whatever the hell she likes in her private life, and it's nobody's business just because of the job she happens to have. (I get the same kind of reaction when people talk about Emma Watson drinking under-age or supposedly being a slut or whatever - Emma Watson =/= Hermione Granger.)
I read the story about Karen supposedly being drunk outside a hotel at 3am, and I know a lot of people will believe it, but my personal opinion was that a lot of that story didn't add up or make a whole lot of sense, and personally I don't believe it.
I love Karen, and I love Amy Pond and what she does with her, but I do also think that Karen makes a better model and a better tv personality than she does an actor.
All that being said, I completely understand why people take the opposite view of her, this is just my perspective on things and I don't expect to change anyone's mind or that I should be considered more right than anyone else.

*also climbs off soapbox*
And yes, she is damn sexy. Wink

**Angelina Johnson** July 6th 2011, 2:11 pm

I adore Karen so much. But she is not the first scantily clad companion, and it's tastefully done. Even off-screen, Old!Who has had more scantily clad actresses misbehaving and more drama than pretty much all of New!Who. On-screen, you have Leela, companion to the Fourth Doctor in 1977 and 1978. (I put a picture below if you want to see her costume) Off-screen, the actress who played Jo Grant did a naked shoot with a Dalek (I found photos of that too), and you have the messy dissolving of a terrible marriage between Tom Baker (the Fifth Doctor) and Lalla Ward (Romana II), which cause more fuss than anything else I've heard about behind the scenes at any stage of Doctor Who.

And yes, it is a family show - on paper, but gas mask children in WW2, monsters you can't remember, it's hardly kid friendly. I know people who don't let their children watch Doctor Who until they're older, because it's simply too scary. It gave me nightmares (The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances especially), and I'm an adult.

I hate the fact that Karen = Amy. Mya's right, Matt had a clause but it was no full-frontal nudity - there was almost everything but that, including a gay sex scene, and somehow that hasn't reflected at all on him as the Doctor. And even if that story was true (which I highly highly highly doubt) - part of the reason I doubt it is because the article only surfaced 3 months after it supposedly happened - having a few drinks and locking yourself out of a hotel room happens, and it's silly, but hardly insane. She is only human.

Pictures under the cut:

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**Daphne Greengrass** July 25th 2011, 4:35 am