newtoWHO: Becoming a Companion:
I remember always wanting to get into the show but never had the time for it. One day I saw a preview for Season 5 on SPACE and I was like “ok that’s it I’m starting now.” so I streamed them all online in May 2011 before travelling overseas for the summer. However I had to download season 5 and what episodes had aired for season 6 at the time.
THEN I SAT THERE WITH THE REST OF THE SUMMER WITH THE CLIFFHANGER OF A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR WITH NO ONE TO TALK TO ABOUT IT.
After that I got EVERYONE I knew into the show including my sisters, aged 23 and 10.
Sure I got into the show alone/by myself but now we’re one big happy Whovian family. And that family’s only grown since I joined tumblr and the Doctor Who tumblr always brightens my dash and my day :)
To do list: Watch all of ClassicWho.
Honestly, I don’t remember a time I wasn’t aware of Daleks, the TARDIS, or the Doctor. My mom grew up watching Doctor Who in the late 60’s and 70’s with my grandfather. She told stories all my life about the show and her enormous fear of Daleks, when she was young. Apparently, she used to have nightmares about Daleks chasing her through long hallways. Also, she and her friends use to pretend to be Daleks and chase each other around at school.
Anyway, way back in 2005, when I was 13 and unaware of media on goings and didn’t watch much TV, my family and I were casually flicking through the channels on the TV, on a lazy Saturday afternoon. We landed on the episode, “Father’s Day,” and my mom freaked out when she realized it was Doctor Who. She had no idea the show had returned to TV.
During that episode, I fell in love and I’ve never looked back. It’s also the show that got me into watching more TV in general.
I love every Doctor, but 9 will always have a special place in my heart.
(Source: katexpectra)
Okay guys, watching doctor who all night!!! its decided! started for Vincent and the doctor because that’s one of my favorites, gonna work my way through to the latest episode and then watch the ones before. Guinna be a long week.
(Source: perissa)
it’s a beautiful thing, this show. *sigh*
#newtoWHO
(Source: re-inventing-me)
(Source: parselpants)
So…
This #newtoWHO thing is now officially a thing.
There’s an actual commercial now!
And they got Canton Everett Delaware III Mark Sheppard to do the voiceover!
And it’s almost Fall which means the new season is coming soon.
We need to start getting ready for Series 7. We need viewing parties for our friends who haven’t seen the ninth doctor. Or Classic Who. Or even all of Eleven(!)
If you get the viewing parties together, we’ll provide some stuff for them.
More to come.
But right now, we want to hear your newtoWHO story.
(Source: youtube.com)
Doctor Who, like the crack in Amelia Pond’s wall, has been with me for a very long time, almost since I was born. I grew up with the Doctor in various forms fighting against the vast range of of alien baddies on these things called “VHS” tapes.
And from here I learned about the murderous Daleks and Davros in Death to the Daleks and Resurrection of the Daleks, the chilling Zygons,and then there was this man draining the life out of Victorian women in The Talons of Weng-Chiang. And then there was the brilliance of the Master and the ruthless Cybermen and FIVE Doctors (arguably four) in The Five Doctors, bringing a dose of the decadence and corruption of the Time Lords. Along with that I witnessed a wonderful range of brilliant and loyal friends, from Sarah-Jane Smith to Tegan Jovanka and Turlough, and even Dr. Grace Holloway (yes guys, The Movie and Paul McGann are canon! Somewhat).
In 2003, I heard that Doctor Who was coming back. It didn’t occur to me that it was gone. And then I saw a picture of Christopher Eccleston with long hair and a beard, so I decided I didn’t like him. How wrong I was.
From then on, Doctor Who has become so much more important to me, with Chris, David Tennant (the Doctor I love) and now Matt Smith (the ultimate best friend) continuing the role to new depths of story-telling and making me cry more than is deemed socially acceptable. Because while the song may have ended [in 1989], Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat have shown that the story never ends.
Share your #newtoWHO story by tagging your post newtoWHO. We’ll be posting some of our favorites.
(Source: gandalf-the-time-wizard)
Back when I was #NewToWho, we communicated with a thing called “Mail”, or as the British called it, “the Post”
For a couple of International Reply Coupons, The BBC would send you this Doctor Who Information Pack. It included a typed (!) out episode guide, a nice little history of the show, a list of companies that made licensed products and some stores that sold them, and anything else they had copies of at the time.
They had separate packs during the Baker and Davison eras. As you can see, they used to have an actual Doctor letterhead which they used, switching to the standard letterhead in later years.
Share your #newtoWHO story by tagging your post newtoWHO. We’ll be posting some of our favorites.
My own “New To Who” story, apart from embarrassingly self explanatory, is probably just as embarrassingly universal.
That night in my room, this video steaming website immersed me into the extraordinary world of The Doctor, and I fell in love… I fell in love with his madness, and the fate-defying River Song! And lives of impossible adventures, and silly words, and bravery, and friendships, that ended, but still made him who he is, and will continue to be, and I’ve never left since.
Instead, I’ve brought him along with me. And now my normal life is a little bit less, well, normal. Now I wonder a lot more, and I’ll run instead of walk, and I reach so much higher… because he taught me that some things, although completely impossible, are really only, almost, completely impossible.
Share your #newtoWHO story by tagging your post newtoWHO. We’ll be posting some of our favorites.
(Source: riveralwaysknew)
Here’s my submission for the NewtoWho thing that the Doctor Who tumblr has been doing. Enjoy!
Share your #newtoWHO story by tagging your post newtoWHO. We’ll be posting some of our favorites.
• What was the first episode of Doctor Who you ever saw?It’s been a long time, I was a small kid. Actually it took some archaeological scavenging through my memories to pinpoint WHEN and WHERE I first saw/watched Tom Baker’s Doctor. Naturally I haven’t the slightest idea of what episode, all I know is it was the Fourth Doctor and it was on Christmas of ‘77.
The photos above are of the 1/6th scale TARDIS I built for my Blythe doll Strawberry Fields, dressed as the Tenth Doctor.
I’ve been watching Doctor Who since the first weeks of the new series.
I was only twelve at the time, and completely oblivious, so my eighteen year old brother sat me down to watch “Rose” and “The End of the World.” Needless to say, it was the best thing EVER.
I have this really vivid memory of jumping up and down on my parents’ bed and gushing to them. ”And in the trailer! In the next one! There’s Charles Dickens! And Ghosts!”
I have loved it always, but for many years I wasn’t very good at being up to date. The first episode with Tenn that I saw was “The Idiot’s Lantern,” and I remember asking my sister, “Is his hair always like that?” Every change over the years brought panic and dread, and excitement and wonder.
It wasn’t until just as Tenn was ending that my love for the show kicked up from casual fan to obsessive fanatic. Ask my friends. Or look around my room at my multiple posters, hand-crocheted 9-11 dolls, home-made TARDIS Pillow, home-made TARDIS backpack, dvds, shirts…
I could rant for hours about the wonders of Doctor Who. Suffice it to say, I live and breathe Doctor Who.
I remember the first episode of Doctor Who I saw was ‘Blink.’ I turned in to the episode about ten minutes in, so I had no idea what I had just stumbled upon. Needless to say, I was hooked before the next commercial break. After the episode finished, I saw some name in the credits, and googled ‘David Tennant;’ my brain melted as my new favorite show filtered in.
