{"id":9350,"date":"2006-07-24T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/24\/the-doctor-is-in-2.html"},"modified":"2006-07-24T06:42:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T13:42:10","slug":"the_doctor_is_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/the_doctor_is_i.html","title":{"rendered":"The Doctor is In"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Been making steady progress through my Doctor Who<\/em> series 1 DVD set<\/a> — slowed by basically watching each episode twice (once to rewatch it as-is, once with the commentary track on) and by preferring to watching it with Margie rather than blow through it just on my own. <\/p>\n

The eps hold up extremely well on re-watching, especially knowing what’s coming over the rest of the season.  The commentary tracks are pretty good, too, with a variety of talent across the actors and production and writing staff participating, 2-3 per show.  There’s some great stuff here, even in just the first five episodes (ironically, the first ep is one of the weakest).  I’m struck by how much emotion’s on display here — not melodrama, but honest-to-gosh acting.  The personal costs of
\nbeing a Companion are laid out more clearly in just these five eps than in the forty years of Doctor Who<\/em> preceding — and the hints at the emotional costs of being the Doctor are just as strong. <\/p>\n

I really want to get through the set before passing it around amongst the uninitiated of our friends, but I might not be able to wait … <\/p>\n

And, in an amusing side note, Les offers up a tribute to Doctor Who<\/em> fans<\/a> — which, with appropriate remapping of music and imagery, could work for pretty much any of our geeky obsessions … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Been making steady progress through my Doctor Who series 1 DVD set — slowed by basically watching each episode twice (once to rewatch it as-is, once with the commentary track…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-doctor-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11170,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/all_the_doctors_down_in_w.html","url_meta":{"origin":9350,"position":0},"title":"All the Doctors down in Who’sville","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Mar-07 9:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I was watching my Doctor Who series 2 DVDs this afternoon, with the commentary track on \"New Earth.\" \u00a0Kitten was running around doing Easter decorations. \u00a0It's a relatively innocuous...","rel":"","context":"In "Doctor Who"","block_context":{"text":"Doctor Who","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/media-tv-doctor-who"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/tardis.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9233,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/05\/going_to_see_th.html","url_meta":{"origin":9350,"position":1},"title":"Going to see the Doctor","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Aug-06 10:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 For various reasons, the \"Firefly\" game last night didn't come off, so we ended up with myself, Doyce, and Stan sitting in the basement watching the Doctor Who...","rel":"","context":"In "Doctor Who"","block_context":{"text":"Doctor Who","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/media-tv-doctor-who"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9332,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/commentary_trac.html","url_meta":{"origin":9350,"position":2},"title":"Commentary Tracks","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Jul-06 6:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"The cool thing about DVDs -- well, one of the cool things -- is commentary tracks on the movies or episodes.\u00a0 Some of these are faboo, others not so much.\u00a0...","rel":"","context":"In "Doctor Who"","block_context":{"text":"Doctor Who","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/media-tv-doctor-who"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12082,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/music_hark_9.html","url_meta":{"origin":9350,"position":3},"title":"Music, hark!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 24-Nov-07 9:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've not started diving into my Doctor Who - 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