Christopher "Jimmy Nail" Eccleston

[captcalhoun]

given Tom Baker's prior career as a building site worker, i think that claim's rather spurious. there again, you seem to be off your meds, so no doubt anything i say will be twisted to fit your insaneo world view.

 

[Ghost Bones]

given Tom Baker's prior career as a building site worker, i think that claim's rather spurious. there again, you seem to be off your meds, so no doubt anything i say will be twisted to fit your insaneo world view.

Jesus cunting wept. He may have worked on a building site, but he didn't play the Doctor like that did he. He wasn't actually Doctor Who you know. Doctor Who isn't a documentary. And you're accusing me of being off my meds?

 

[Robert D. Robot]

Wow GB, you really are becoming tedious. In the extreme.

Yeah... I am reminded of what the plummeting bowl of petunias had thought in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Oh no, not again."

 

[Robert D. Robot]

Coming back with Eccleston cast as the Doctor was a bold choice really. It would've been easy to cast some more typically quirky chap to fill the role. I liked Doctor Wholigan and his estate girl.

A fellow Who fan and I were just talking last weekend about how much we enjoyed Eccleston's Doctor and how he played the character. I think that it is an unfair exaggeration to paint him as a character who was as extreme as to be caught punching someone over a pint. Wish he would have hung around longer. I enjoyed the divergence from the more typically quirky incarnations, although I have pretty much appreciated all of the Doctors (still not so warm on Colin Baker, however....).

 

[Professor Zoom]

the Doctor's meant to be alien, and there's not much alien about the bloke who threatens to punch your teeth out because you spilt his pint and has you looking around nervously every time you have to walk past Ladbrokes.

And what's so alien about being an upper middle-class Englishman in fancy dress?

Well, you don't see them very often. But the tradition behind the Doctor being a sort of Edwardian adventurer follows a classic kind of Wellsian science fiction. At no point in the show's history before Jim Nail taking the role was the Doctor like anyone you'd meet on the street (and much less someone who'd punch your glasses off). If I want to see a binman shagging a chav a fraction of his age, I'll hide around an alley near my house at 11pm on any given weekday.

Sounds like you're afraid of Christopher Eccelston. Did he beat you up or something?

 

[Ghost Bones]

And what's so alien about being an upper middle-class Englishman in fancy dress?

Well, you don't see them very often. But the tradition behind the Doctor being a sort of Edwardian adventurer follows a classic kind of Wellsian science fiction. At no point in the show's history before Jim Nail taking the role was the Doctor like anyone you'd meet on the street (and much less someone who'd punch your glasses off). If I want to see a binman shagging a chav a fraction of his age, I'll hide around an alley near my house at 11pm on any given weekday.

Sounds like you're afraid of Christopher Eccelston. Did he beat you up or something?

Well anyone who's ventured above the Watford Gap knows his sort (or rather, the Ninth Doctor's). A miner from down the pit who'll deliver a glassing if you don't answer correctly when asked which football team you support.

 

[Robert D. Robot]

^ I don't see this "quality" in the character. Is it the black jacket that is scary?

 

[Ghost Bones]

It's the leather jacket, it's the "I'll fookin' nut yer" mannerisms and attitude, it's the whole Salford binman package.

 

[Professor Zoom]

It's the leather jacket, it's the "I'll fookin' nut yer" mannerisms and attitude, it's the whole Salford binman package.

Let me guess: you didn't say the name of the right foot ball team.

 

[Ghost Bones]

It's the leather jacket, it's the "I'll fookin' nut yer" mannerisms and attitude, it's the whole Salford binman package.

Let me guess: you didn't say the name of the right foot ball team.

Well how was I to know there were two teams in Manchester.

 

[Professor Zoom]

It's the leather jacket, it's the "I'll fookin' nut yer" mannerisms and attitude, it's the whole Salford binman package.

Let me guess: you didn't say the name of the right foot ball team.

Well how was I to know there were two teams in Manchester.

Or that you wouldn't be able to separate bullies in your real life from a fictional character?

 

[Ghost Bones]

I wasn't to know that because it isn't fucking true. It's a bit sad how people who reply to threads I've posted or even just those I've commented on try and make it about me. In another way, it's very flattering. But just send flowers next time.

 

[Timby]

Okay, this thread is done.

Ghost Bones, don't start threads like this, and don't post a whole ton of bullshit like you have earlier -- what in the world. I don't know what the hell you were intending with your original post, and the posts thereafter, but don't do this anymore, especially the derails about sports teams and the like.

Thanks, in advance.