Re: Doctor Who, Revived, Season Two

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:57:16 -0400, Alan Dicey wrote
(in article <44509555$0$2556$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

kim wrote:

Just because a man is old enought to be a girl's father (or grandfather)
doesn't imply they have any kind of "unnatural" feelings for each other.
Besides which Ecclestone is quite clearly playing the part of a man who is
(to use a quaint old English expression) "as queer as a four-pound note"
which makes any kind of sexual dynamic a physical impossibility.


I think that Christopher Ecclestone is doing a very convincing job of
playing an alien in human shape. An alien who is ancient in human
terms, over 900 years old in terms of conscious experience, making the
"age difference" irrelevant - the species difference is rather more
important.

Beyond the fact that they are of different species, it is clear to me
that the Doctor does have feelings for Rose.

The expression is "queer as a nine-bob note" and dates from the time
that we had not only one-pound notes, but also ten-shilling notes. But
the sentiment is completely misplaced in regard to the Doctor, Rose, and
Captain Jack. <<

I couldn't agree with Alan more (there's a good pun in there for a thread
about "V," perhaps), and Kim less. I do _not_ get a queer vibe from
Eccleston's portrayal at all (and nor do most of my female friends). What
I'm actually getting from him is very much like the description Douglas Adams
gives of how "in moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives
out a tiny subliminal signal [that] communicates an exact and almost pathetic
sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth," and that Ford
Prefect was, at that moment, under great stress and six hundred light years
from the vicinity of Betelgeuse. But with Eccleston, substitute "time" for
"place." So, yes: very alien. Not queer. IMHO.

Amy

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