Told my wife I had to follow instructions...but she wasn't impressed.
She's reddish blonde from Norwegian/Scottish ancestry.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundlan...c0:b1 9741681

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:59:56 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

Told my wife I had to follow instructions...but she wasn't impressed.
She's reddish blonde from Norwegian/Scottish ancestry.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundlan...c0:b1 9741681


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhLIjlTNSk

Catherine Tate - very funny lady, a red head and the best Dr. Who
companion EVAH!!! :)

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:26:44 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:13:02 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:59:56 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

Told my wife I had to follow instructions...but she wasn't impressed.
She's reddish blonde from Norwegian/Scottish ancestry.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundlan...c0:b1 9741681


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhLIjlTNSk

Catherine Tate - very funny lady, a red head and the best Dr. Who
companion EVAH!!! :)

While I *DO* love red heads..... I gotta give the companion nod to
Elizabeth Sladen...

While Sarah Jane was the definitive prototypical Companion, clearly
Donna Noble was THE singular and most striking of the Companions -
even more so than Rose Tyler. Where Sarah Jane and Rose were merely
sidekicks, Donna wasn't awed by the whole Timelord thing, was fully
capable of telling The Doctor where to stick it and was his equal in
terms of love of life and her ability to look beyond him as Timelord
and view him as a person.

Tate did a great job with Donna - humor, drama, some serious acting
chops - she was the best of the bunch.

And don't even get me started on Martha - Martha sucked pond water.
Hated her as Companion.

and to Tom Baker as The Doctor.

Again, it's a question of eras. I have nothing but appreciation for
Tom Baker as The Doctor and he certainly had a certain verve which
echoed through Ecclestone's and Tennant's performances, but where
Ecclestone was a direct (and very enjoyable) reflection of Baker,
Tennant became The Doctor in ways that Baker never did. Of all The
Doctors, Tennant is my favorite with Baker a close second.

Have you been lucky enough to catch any of the early 60's episodes
with William Hartnell in the lead? Nearly 50 years and still the
TARDIS travels!

Oh yes - been a Dr. Who fan from the git go. I used to listen to the
BBC radio shows on shortwave when I was a kid.

"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:26:44 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:13:02 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:59:56 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

Told my wife I had to follow instructions...but she wasn't impressed.
She's reddish blonde from Norwegian/Scottish ancestry.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundlan...c0:b1 9741681


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhLIjlTNSk

Catherine Tate - very funny lady, a red head and the best Dr. Who
companion EVAH!!! :)

While I *DO* love red heads..... I gotta give the companion nod to
Elizabeth Sladen...

While Sarah Jane was the definitive prototypical Companion, clearly
Donna Noble was THE singular and most striking of the Companions -
even more so than Rose Tyler. Where Sarah Jane and Rose were merely
sidekicks, Donna wasn't awed by the whole Timelord thing, was fully
capable of telling The Doctor where to stick it and was his equal in
terms of love of life and her ability to look beyond him as Timelord
and view him as a person.

Tate did a great job with Donna - humor, drama, some serious acting
chops - she was the best of the bunch.

And don't even get me started on Martha - Martha sucked pond water.
Hated her as Companion.

and to Tom Baker as The Doctor.

Again, it's a question of eras. I have nothing but appreciation for
Tom Baker as The Doctor and he certainly had a certain verve which
echoed through Ecclestone's and Tennant's performances, but where
Ecclestone was a direct (and very enjoyable) reflection of Baker,
Tennant became The Doctor in ways that Baker never did. Of all The
Doctors, Tennant is my favorite with Baker a close second.

Have you been lucky enough to catch any of the early 60's episodes
with William Hartnell in the lead? Nearly 50 years and still the
TARDIS travels!

Oh yes - been a Dr. Who fan from the git go. I used to listen to the
BBC radio shows on shortwave when I was a kid.

I think Baker is my favorite, as he was "The Doctor" when I got to watching
the series. Sort of a fond memory. Tennent is great, and much better than
some of the clinkers that have been in between. And you hope that Martha
gets lost in space somewhere.

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:49:54 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:26:44 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:13:02 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:59:56 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

Told my wife I had to follow instructions...but she wasn't impressed.
She's reddish blonde from Norwegian/Scottish ancestry.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundlan...c0:b1 9741681


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhLIjlTNSk

Catherine Tate - very funny lady, a red head and the best Dr. Who
companion EVAH!!! :)

While I *DO* love red heads..... I gotta give the companion nod to
Elizabeth Sladen...

While Sarah Jane was the definitive prototypical Companion, clearly
Donna Noble was THE singular and most striking of the Companions -
even more so than Rose Tyler. Where Sarah Jane and Rose were merely
sidekicks, Donna wasn't awed by the whole Timelord thing, was fully
capable of telling The Doctor where to stick it and was his equal in
terms of love of life and her ability to look beyond him as Timelord
and view him as a person.

Tate did a great job with Donna - humor, drama, some serious acting
chops - she was the best of the bunch.

And don't even get me started on Martha - Martha sucked pond water.
Hated her as Companion.

and to Tom Baker as The Doctor.

Again, it's a question of eras. I have nothing but appreciation for
Tom Baker as The Doctor and he certainly had a certain verve which
echoed through Ecclestone's and Tennant's performances, but where
Ecclestone was a direct (and very enjoyable) reflection of Baker,
Tennant became The Doctor in ways that Baker never did. Of all The
Doctors, Tennant is my favorite with Baker a close second.

Have you been lucky enough to catch any of the early 60's episodes
with William Hartnell in the lead? Nearly 50 years and still the
TARDIS travels!

Oh yes - been a Dr. Who fan from the git go. I used to listen to the
BBC radio shows on shortwave when I was a kid.

I think Baker is my favorite, as he was "The Doctor" when I got to watching
the series. Sort of a fond memory. Tennent is great, and much better than
some of the clinkers that have been in between. And you hope that Martha
gets lost in space somewhere.

I have this argument all the time with friends who are Dr. Who fans.

I still say it's an era thing - each Doctor has to be evaluated in
order and in reference to his work as the ony remaining Time Lord.
Certainly Baker was the base on which the current two (now three
because Tennant is leaving) took a lot from, but Ecclestone took it
way beyond the originals and added new dimensions - Tennant took it
further and, in my opinion, there won't be another Doctor like him -
he was The Doctor. I'm certainly more than willing to give the new
Doctor his due when Moffat takes over, but I can't see anybody taking
The Doctor to the heights Tennant did.

The Companions are another matter, but certainly if Tom Baker can be
called the base on which all subsequent Doctors were compared to, then
Sarah Jane would take the same position for subsequent Companions.
Billie Piper was a great companion and transitioned between Ecclestone
and Tennant in a brilliant fashion.

The problem is that there isn't any real definition of Companion and
there have been a few that are controversial - for example, Astrid
Perth (Kylie Ann Minogue) had all the attributes of a Companion, but
only appeared in one episode with Tennant (the 2007 Christmas special
- "Voyage of The Damned") and died.

So with that in mind you've to move towards the modern Companions -
Rose, Martha and Donna - and compare them to Sarah Jane - it's not
really fair, but because of a lack of definition, that's the way it
has to be.

And to me, Rose and Martha were more romantic in nature. Rose was a
great Companion because she had independance, could operate on her own
and complimented The Doctor's various peculiarities and eventually the
two became romanticaly involved. Martha, while initially an
interesting Companion, was turned into an unrequited love interest and
eventually became boring, dull and listless. A lot of potential story
lines when south with Martha.

Donna on the other hand was completely different. She was not
differential to The Doctor, she was her own person, was in it for the
adventure and excitement and, in some ways, was the equal of The
Doctor and certainly his moral compass in ways that no previous
Companion ever had. Her time ended on a very sad note which was also
unusual, but considering that Tennant had already announced that he
was out of the Doctor business, it made sense - Donna could never have
been the bridge between Doctors that Rose was.

Um....

Sorry - got a little carried away. :)