From The View Of The Onlooker- Doctor Who

High five my perverted (aren’t we all) fans, here is the twelth entry of From The View Of The Onlooker. And as always, lets check the comment box of…

TRUTH!

Louisah Megghan- …is that even a comment, or at least a serious one. Well, you know what…I give up. I will devote an entire entry to wind, just to keep you quiet

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW

Abby Lever- Obviously Doctor Who would win, and as you’ve realized from this entry’s title, I basically gonna show you why by shoving a bunch of facts about it down you’re throat…yeah, Im a total who fan, deal with it

And now…DOCTOR WHO!



Yes, just like fish and chips, the queen and the good ol’ union jack (the flag, dammit), Doctor who is a symbol of Britain’s culture, showing that not only can we make the best goddamn sci-fi show in the world (Take that star trek nerds), but we can keep it running for 47 years with great material. Truly, it is an awesome show, and well…it has quite a history.

From the unearthly child to the end of time, it has broadcast too many episodes to count, and with them, 10 amazing doctors/actors. In commemoration of them, I will be doing an entry on each of them in my own fashion just to show you what each one was like, and because this type of entry would normally be short without something extra (I learned that on my scrubs entry), I’ll attach my entry on the first doctor with it.

BTW, if you don’t like it, then well, I guess you can shut the hell up!



Yeah, this was the first incarnation of the Doctor…an old man. Played by William Hartnell (I don’t know him either…just roll with it), he was vastly different from his latter regenerations

Primarily, he didn’t have the action hero persona of his later selves, he was more the brains behind it all, which is all you can expect really expect from an elderly man…HE’S OLD! Plus, instead of the friendly demeanour that was natural for his later incarnations, he rather had to earn it.

What I mean is that in the very first episode broadcast in 1963 (an unearthly child, if you didn’t already realize), he kidnaps 2 teachers, shocked (as in electricity…thank god its not perverted) one of them into unconsciousness, and even SMOKES…a pipe that is. Basically, he started as an ‘keep-to-yourself’ snappy scientist, but after a couple of seasons, he turned into a kind grandfather figure that you’d be comfortable around, and all around this, you have to give him some credit.

I mean, think about it. Crafting the identity of the doctor wouldn’t be easy, especially if this was the job description

‘Okay William, you play an alien who looks like an old man but isn’t really an old man, who travels around with a granddaughter who has absolutely near no ‘street’ experience and two dumbass teachers in a blue tele- I mean police box that can travel through the fabric of time and space, where in just about every episode you meet the scary reject excuses of muppets that either want to kill you or just act like a**holes to you’

I think if I heard that, I’d probably call the police on tha sucka’s. Seriously, it required effort, and to be honest, it would have seemed to have not made it back in the 1960’s, because it would have just been weird. How is it not weird?

And about his companions, well, he initially travelled with Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright (the teachers…I’ve really had to explain a lot, huh), and, Im honest to god here, his true granddaughter, Susan Foreman

Today, that wouldn’t happen so easily (just look at The Doctor’s Daughter…okay, the one with the blonde girl in it), so it’s sorta interesting. In the end however, she got dropped off at 22nd century Earth with some rebel freedom fighter, so unless we get a really nostalgic writer for Doctor who, then we’ll probably never see her again. He also had-

-A 25th century human

-A spaceship pilot

-A Trojan servant who thought the Doctor was Zeus (…uh, FTW)

-A Space Police officer…person

-A cockney…just a cockney

-Another cockney…but he was a sailor

-And a rich slut

And that’s about it a nutshell. But as you may not know, some of the more popular enemies were encountered quite unusually shortly. For example, the Daleks were introduced in the 2nd episode, and the cybermen were in his last, where he regenerates due to succumbing to old age.

Eh, sounds fair…and at least its unique (radiation always seems to be a main cause in Doctor death :[ ).

And even though im returning to the issue of his age (he’s OLD for gods sake), it is fair to mention that he developed ‘Hartnellisms’, though unintentionally. Want to know what one is, well take a look at these two quotes-

Scripted Version
‘Two burnt cinders floating around in Space’

Hartnell’s version
‘Two burnt cinders floating around in Spain’

Yeah, Im nit-pickey about mentioning it, but these Hartnellisms (or Billy-fluffs…I don’t know how that works) occurred quite a bit during his tenure, especially during his last days. You’d normally think that’s down to bad acting, but instead, its said that it was down to his degrading health. Either way, they were the source for much humour on set (…possible evidence that there were no true comedians at that time!), and few people hardly mention them today, but they worked to his advantage (cos’…old people can pronounce words right…I don’t know), are were true to his persona

Though he didn’t have near anything to work with, William Hartnell made a great doctor from what he had, and after watching some of his better episodes; he’s shown he definitely had the aura of a higher being from the start.



Though in order of who (loljokelol) is the best, I have constructed a list to properly judge them



Im going to update the list with every DW related entry, so…yeah. Bet you can’t wait, huh.

As I always say (like a parrot who just wants to p*ss you off), leave a comment about your opinion on…stuff, and feed me with nutritious, healthy comments. Only you can keep me alive-

Besides medicine, hygiene, exercise, and being happy…you still play a big role!