'You Could've Lent Her Hers!'

I really enjoy the way the first Doctor acts like a lovely old grandfather. It always charmed me when I first watched him, and as I got older, I started noticing things about him that I hadn't before, particularly the fact that he's constantly stumbling over his words and things. Some of it is acting, but I really do believe that a lot of it isn't. One episode that I remember very well for it is The Keys of Marinus. He said so many lovely little things in that one! When they first start walking around the planet, someone asks if the sea could be frozen, and he says something like, 'No, not in these temperatures... Besisdes, it's far to warm.' I think 'far too warm' was mean to be Ian's line.:) Later, he's talking about proving Ian's innocence when he's framed for murder, and he says, 'I can't improve at this moment - I can't prove at this moment that Chesterton is innocent.' I really love that too. But the one that always makes me really laugh is when he's talking to Ian and Barbara, after Susan's gone back to the TARDIS to get more shoes after she lost hers, and Ian's barefoot because he gave her his boot because there was glass on the ground, and the Doctor says, 'If you'd been wearing your boots, you could've lent her hers!' What just makes the scene is that Ian and Barbara take his scolding very solemnly, but then suddenly realize what he's said, and smile at each other!
The thing is, my dad did the same thing recently! My brother had a cold, and said he'd got it from my dad, and I can't remember why, but there was something funny about it. I hadn't heard my brother say it, and my dad was laughing, so I asked him what was funny. Still laughing, he said something like, 'Him accusing me of giving him his cold!'

'If I'm right, and inevitably I am...'

One thing that makes me very sure about who my dad is, is how he always thinks he's right, and clever than everyone else. I've only ever known the Doctor to do it, and my dad's done it for as long as I can remember! A while back, after making a suggestion to my brother (which my brother didn't like), he said something like, 'Every time I say that, it shows how clever I am, and if you listen to me, you might learn to be just as clever.' And he meant it perfectly seriously! It really reminds me of The Ark in Space, when the Doctor says, 'You're improving, Harry! Your mind is beginning to work... Entirely due to my influence, of course. You mustn't take any credit.' And then another time when we disagreed on something, he said, 'I think it does, and that's the end of the matter.' and I couldn't count the times he's said things like, 'When have I ever guessed wrong about anything?' like he did in The Masque of Mandragora, which tends to leave me with Sarah's line, 'Lots of times.' It can be extremely hard to live with sometimes, but you get used to it after a while, and it gets to be funny a lot of the time.:)

By the way, I'm very sorry for not posting in so long. The time just went by so quickly, and I've been very busy and preoccupied with the show I'm doing with my drama group next week. I've got a lead role now, because I was the understudy for one, and it's taking a lot of work.:) I hope you understand.:)

A bit of a failed Doctor Who treasure hunt:P

Earlier this week, my family and I went to a town where a lot of Invasion of the Dinosaurs was filmed, and I really wanted to look around and see them all, and take pictures.:) I got photos from the show and place-names from the locations site I found printed out (although I only did 6 out of 8 places, because my mom thought we wouldn't have time for them all), and when we finally got to drive around the locations, it didn't work out. The first one we went to was an old building that's been boarded up for years.

We looked all around it, and then realized it couldn't possibly have been the building in the show, no matter how much it had changed through the years.

The next location, we skipped, because it was only used to film a jeep driving by, and the actors weren't in the shot.:P

 

 We spent ages trying to find the third one, and we finally found it pretty much where the locations site had said, in a carpark. But on the website someone had said that it was knocked down, whereas it seems more to have just been built around, so that you can't get into it easily.:P What was confusing is that it actually seemed to be two different locations that just look sort of similar. I have no idea where the other one was, but these are the pictures of it:

That building way in the background is meant to be the same one that's far in the back of the second black and white one, but it actually isn't because it's got chimneys and taller windows with rounded tops here, but not in the other one. It's quite similar, but it's definitely different when you look closely, especially when you've driven around the other building.

This was the fourth location. We went all along the road it was supposed to be, and it really was so different it couldn't have been the right road. (At first I wondered if the old houses had been knocked down and had new ones built where they were, but most of the houses on the street, are much old than the '70s.

 This was meant to be at a certain park, but we couldn't find a tree that looks anything like the big one on the left (or any stumps), or anything similar to the wall or hedge or bank in the background. It really doesn't look like the same park at all.:P

Finally, this was the last one we looked at (sorry for all the pictures:P). It's meant to be the road going past the park, and I think it is. I'm not very sure though. It looks about right.:) On the locations site someone said that they didn't use a real bus stop, and that it was a signpost. I never noticed until I went down the street, but that big pole they're leaning on can't be a little signpost!;) I think it was a lamppost. I did find the lower half of a pole that looked like it buried in the first few feet of the park's bushes. It may not be the right place, because the pavement would have to have been changed a lot for that to make sense.:P In the first picture, though, the Doctor and Sarah are walking along a road with a suddenly curve behind them (at the bottom right corner of the photo), and I think that's the entrance to the park.:)
So, although we found a lot of places that Doctor Who wasn't filmed, we didn't get to take any photos, because the two places that were the right locations weren't accessible.:P We had a fun trip anyway, I guess, and the Doctor made it more exciting!:) (Especially with moments like when he pressed the horn trying to stretch!;))

Don't Show Your New Outfit to the Doctor

Recently, I found a lovely blue-and-white plaid, sleeveless ( I don't know if that can mean 'strapless', but it's got no sleeves from the shoulder down, but still a lot of material over the shoulders;)) romper on Ebay, with short legs that have an inseam of about 5 inches. It was at a nice price, so I bought it, and when it came, I found that it fit me perfectly, just a well as (or even better than) if it had bee made for me! I was very excited, and ran into the room where the Doctor was working on a computer, saying, 'Hey, Doctor, look!' He gave a very faint 'Hmm?' but hardly moved.
'Look what I bought!' I said, holding up my arms to let him see the romper properly. Finally, he turned around.
'It's too small,' he said plainly, and turned around again.
'No, it's not too small! It fits perfectly!' I said, a little annoyed. The Doctor turned back around.
'Oh,' he said flatly. 'Well then you're too bare for me.' ('Too bare for me' is a joke with us, because when my brother was very young, he saw my dad with no shirt on and said that, so the Doctor meant, 'It's skimpy.') I just said 'Humph!', half amused and half annoyed, and walked out of the room. The romper buttons all the way up the front, and has no holes or anything in it; it's not a halter, and a 5-inch inseam is perfectly reasonable. I don't know why he thought it was skimpy. The Doctor is just so rude sometimes! It really reminded me of the second scene in Pyramids of Mars, though, when Sarah comes in wearing that pretty dress, saying, 'Hey, Doctor! Doctor, look! Look what I found!' and the Doctor, with very little emotion, says, 'Hello, Vicki.' then Sarah asks, 'What?' and the Doctor realizes it's her, and says, 'Oh. Where did you get that dress?' very strangely. The tone he had was very similar to the one my Doctor (whichever time he's come from) did. I guess I should get used to him saying things like that. He obviously doesn't know how rude he's being. And, in Pyramids of Mars, he was thinking about how he was tired of working for UNIT, and I think he's having a similar problem now, with whatever work he's currently doing. It's meant to be computer programming, but I think it must be something to do with UNIT or something like that. He often says things that sound a lot like 'And it's about time I found something better to do than run around after the Brigadier!'

I wish I knew what things mean to HIM...

A few days ago, I was talking to the Doctor while he looked over his to-do list (mostly mumbling, 'I didn't do that... Didn't do that either... or that...'), and then he suddenly said, "Why have I written down 'Clear throat'?" I went into a fairly uncontrollable fit of giggles as he murmured to himself how strange it was, then he loudly cleared his throat and said, "Well, that's done. I can mark it off now." It definitely didn't help my giggles, and, falling back onto his bed laughing my head off, I saw him actually marking it done! As I was calming down, he said, "It was in inverted commas... I still don't know what I meant..." It was all very strange. Then yesterday I asked him how staring at a screen all day at work doesn't give him eyestrain. He mumbled "Staring at a screen all day... Staring at a screen all day..." to himself a couple of times and then started singing about it! I can't remember what he sang, but it was very odd and fairly tuneless. To be fair to him, he wasn't singing very loudly, either. He went on for quite a while, and I gave up on getting an answer and got more interested in wondering what he was doing. Finally he stopped, and, after a long pause, absent-mindedly said, "Do I? Oh, yes, I do. Something must be done about that..." Sometimes I wish I could understand what he's thinking. He does so many things that, to me, seems extremely strange, but they make sense to him. I'm sure it would be very interesting to know how, because it might have to do with all kinds of things in his life!

"Did I just put my hand in your face?"

The Doctor has a very strange way of always getting his arm (or something else odd) in my face. A couple weeks back, we went out to get a TV remote, and the plan was to go to Homebase (it's in the same shopping area) if we couldn't get the right one at the first shop (I can't remember what is was). We found it at the first shop, though, and on the way back to the car, he suddenly stopped and put his hand out right in my face pointing across the parking lot. It might have bashed me if I hadn't moved when I saw it coming.
"Do we still need to go to Homebase?" he asked - half to himself, I think. He realized we didn't, and then turned to see me quietly leaning away from his hand. (I'm fairly used to him absent-mindedly doing it, and I know it's useless to say, "Hey! Get your big hand out my face, Doctor!" so I just smile quietly to myself at his strangeness.) "Oh!" he said (but not with alarm or anything - just as if he was realizing something he'd forgot). "Did I just put my hand in your face?"
"Yes!" I said, half laughing and half annoyed. "And you almost hit me!"
"Oh. Sorry." He smiled fairly casually.
And the night before, I was talking to him, and he just stuck out his hand and rubbed (or maybe ruffling-ly patted) my head, from the front, so that his arm was in my face. I think my eyes kind of went big and gave a little jump of surprise and confusion. He said it was and 'affectionate pat' or something like that, but I'm not a dog, am I?:) Then I remembered that scene in The Hand of Fear, when the Doctor and Sarah are talking to the manager of the power station, and she's sitting on the table next to him, and as he starts talking, he grabs the top of her head and turns it toward the people their talking to! She looks a little like I must have look when my head was suddenly patted. So, I put the pat down to the fact that he's the Doctor, and he's a bit (a very big bit) unusual.
Then, last night, he had turned our old table upside down to take it apart (we've got a new one), and he asked for my help unscrewing the legs. I unscrewed the last one and then sat back while he did something with the detached legs. I didn't really know what he was doing, though, so I lent forward to look. Then, he picked up one of the legs and moved it over me, right over my head! I hadn't really been looking at the time, so I wasn't sure how close it got, but I had a strong suspicion that it had missed my head by about an inch! I looked up and the Doctor was staring at me.
"I missed your head by a hair's breadth!" he said. This time he did look almost alarmed.
"I know."
"Sorry." Well, he was back to casual. And although I can't find the exact episode right now, I know that there's been at least one time where the Doctor had almost bashed Sarah on the head. One of them may have been when he picks up the stick in Pyramids of Mars, when they're trying to find the deflection barrier. Being around the doctor can be dangerous, but it's also fun!:)

"He Talks to Himself Sometimes..."

I had a most interesting conversation with the Doctor the day before yesterday. It started because he had been talking to himself in the kitchen, while I stood next to him, and he was saying a bunch of strange things, including asking himself if he understood. I said I didn't get what he meant, and he said, "I'm just talking to myself, that's all." leaving me thinking, That's what I didn't get. He went on mumbling for a while about how there's nothing wrong with talking to yourself, and then thoughtfully said, "Although, it is unusual to ask yourself if you understand, I suppose." He seemed to change his mind, though, since, when I laughed, he said, "If you're going to talk to yourself, it makes perfect sense to ask yourself if you understand." I didn't really know what to say, so he went off to my brother to ask him if it makes sense. All my brother said was something like "I guess so..." so the Doctor came back to me, saying, "It would be horrible to talk to yourself and then find you didn't understand." He still didn't get it when I laughed. It's very strange the way he talks to himself about things that don't make sense. I guess it falls under the old 'Ark in Space' quote: "He talks to himself sometimes because he's the only one who understands what he's saying." I certainly don't understand!

And He Casually Crawls Out the Door...

We got a small table tennis table this Christmas, so adding that to the fact that our garage flooded with all the rain, 'The Room ' (our dining room that we don't use for eating and stuff) is slightly full at the moment. For some reason, there's an old footstool in there, too, which is usually under the table, but this morning I was sitting on it, so it was between the table and a chest of drawers, in the way of anyone trying to get out of the room from the other side of the table.:) The Doctor was on that side of the table, and wanted to get past. It was awkward for me to find my way out of that strange spot, and he had already tried to climb over me earlier, almost falling while holding two bowls of porridge, and then making the joke 'Never try to do a high-step over someone's knees [I had lifted them to try and make it easier for him, but it made it worse:P] while holding two bowls of porridge. You have two choices: drop the porridge, or fall on the porridge.' Then he said 'I probably would've done both at the same time.' Anyway, in avoidance of doing it again, he got down on his hands and knees, and crawled under the table! It was quite funny, but understandable, I guess. The really odd thing was, he didn't get up after he came out from under it! He crawled off to the door, and I began to wonder if he'd hurt his back or something, so as he was leaving the room, I asked why he was crawling, and he said, 'Because it's a nice way to travel.' or something as strange. Then, after a pause (although he carried on crawling), he said 'I'll be getting up soon... when I realize how un-progressive it is.' I finally realized he hadn't noticed he was doing anything strange! I guess it's part of the way he treats odd things so lightly. It reminded me of 'Terror of the Zygons', when Benton finds the Doctor and Sarah unconscious, and the Doctor wakes up and whispers 'It worked!' and Benton whispers back, 'What worked?' so the Doctor says something about a trick he learned from a Tibetan monk, and Benton answers with something else, still whispering. Then the Doctor says 'Why are you whispering?' as if benton was the one to start it!

'That Sounds Like Sarah.'

Recently, my mom and I were talking together, when we heard a loud bump and the Doctor saying 'Ow!' in the next room. My mom called 'Are you alright?' and his reply came, 'Yes; I just bashed my head on the ceiling.' as though he had stubbed his toe or something! It was so calm, for a moment I didn't even realize he was saying something odd!:) He can be so casual about important or unusual things! It's like what he said to me when I hurt myself on the tumble dryer, or in 'The Sontaran Experiment', when Harry says they should look for Sarah, and they hear her scream, and the Doctor calmly says, 'That sounds like Sarah.' I like that line even more after finding out it was scripted as 'Oh, dear!' and Tom Baker changed it.;) I wonder why he doesn't take these moments like other people would? Maybe to him it's not important, because he's busy thinking about some alien invasion or something, and bumping his head on the ceiling and stuff doesn't matter when lives are at stake. It's not important, I guess. It all adds to the fun!:)

More of Life With the Doctor

Last night, the Doctor said something really... "interesting". He was looking over my brother's schoolwork, and he said the the commas were to ambitious, and were apostrophes. He explained that the comma should be on the line, and my brother asked what an apostrophe was. He said, "An apostrophe... is an ambitious comma." Well, I guess it does makes sense, but I really think it's a pretty strange explanation!
Then a couple days ago, I walked into the tumble-dryer door, and started to hop around, holding my knee, and the Doctor said, "Careful!" I've only just realized, but it was the same tone he uses on Sarah in "Pyramids of Mars", when they're looking for the deflection barrier, and he stops to pick up the stick, and Sarah goes on ahead. Anyway, he looked at me kind of questioningly as to how I'd hurt myself, and I pointed at the tumble-dryer door while I mumbled "Ow! Ow! Ow!" Then he realized what I'd done, and said, "Do you mind not doing that, please?" as if I'd done it on purpose, and it was completely unimportant!
I've had a lot of interesting and annoying (or sometimes fun) little incidents with the Doctor lately, including seeing something that made me think very much of the Kraal virus in "The Android Invasion", and I'm sorry I haven't posted. I've been very busy, but I should be able to post more often now.:)

The Kraal virus.;)

Well, actually, it's the lemon curd that jumped onto the floor when I opened the fridge last night, but it really does look similar, and the Doctor was so desperate to clean it up, I think for a moment maybe he thought it was the virus.;) At Christmas we had a soda that looked just like Solon's drugged wine in "The Brain of Morbius", too! I spent the whole evening with my brother saying he was waiting for me to pass out from it, lol! I'm very sorry I didn't think of taking a picture of it, but I will next time!

P.S. I found out something really cool! A whole bunch of "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" was filmed in Kingston-upon-Thames, which is where I used to live! I used to walk down some of the streets they used every day when I was younger, and one or two were only a block or so from my old house! When I found out, I kept squealing "I can't believe it! I've walked down the same streets as Jon Pertwee and Elisabeth Sladen!! And I never knew!" I want to go back there now and look at the roads, and find the exact spots that were used.;)