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May 4
And again with the lengthy unscheduled absences. However, I had some things to get in order, and now they mostly are. Except these alphabet blocks. I mean, "G", "X", "Q"... how am I supposed to know which of these weird shapes come before others? I'm not Stephen Hawking, people. Anyway, let's start things off with a link -- a very valuable link. Now that Doctor Who is a big part of this site, some of our readers (such as me) have been feeling a little lost. Some have never seen DW at all; others have only seen the current show. Enter Alan Kistler. Alan is a frequent contributor to the comics blog Monitor Duty, and for a while now he's been writing profiles on major DC characters like the Flash, Green Lantern, and Firestorm. His profiles are extensive and very knowledgeable; for someone who wants to learn a character's history, they're the perfect compromise between brief Wikipedia-type overviews and just reading every issue. (Sort of an inverse FiveMinute.net, if you think about it.) What does this have to do with Doctor Who? It seems Alan is a big fan -- and he recently wrote profiles on each of the Doctor's first eight incarnations! I'm up to number three, and so far they're as interesting and informative as his comics profiles. Each one links to the next, so the place to start is his First Doctor profile. You can find a complete list of the profiles he's written here -- I recommend them all. Also, apparently Morena Baccarin (Firefly's Inara) is in the running for Wonder Woman. How cool would that be?
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Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to say to everyone...
May the Fourth be with you. *hides behind lightsabre*
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Nice guide
And May the Fifth rule the universe! :P
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BAH! Humbug.
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Thanks for this, Zeke. I didn't even know about this site, and it's an excellent intro. Other excellent aids to getting up to speed on the individual Doctors and their episodes can be found at sites below (in ascending order of hardcoreness):
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Companions: Sure. *weirdness happens* Companions: GAK! Doctor: Hmmm...looks like I'm gonna need some more random strangers. Lather, rinse repeat.
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Maybe he was only Peri-phrasing.
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Once when Peri asked how the Doctor had seen some thugs rushing to attack him even though he'd been looking the other way, he answered, "Peri-pheral vision!" The worst, though, was when he'd just humiliated a sluglike villain named Sil who needed regular skin immersion. As Sil yelled at his minions that he needed to be moistened, the Doctor said, "I think he needs more than water, Peri, eh?" ... Sil's response, like that of the audience, was a gurgling scream. [P.S. to C.V.: Dead companions are Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Adric, Kamelion, and K-9 III. And I really do count Peri . You could even mention Jack, Grace and Chang Lee, even though they're brought back from the dead right away, because they still count toward Sa'ar's point... Though your point that they're rare and atypical still carries, even though there's more than two.]
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