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Doctor Who fans may be wondering what to do between now and the next new episode, the Christmas special that is a few months away.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a> $\"\"$ I\u2019m planning to re-watch or at least listen to all Doctor Who episodes, beginning from the very beginning<\/a>. I\u2019ve seen many of them before, but have not watched or listened to most of the lost episodes. And so a substantial number of the episodes from the time of the first two Doctors will in fact be at least somewhat new to me.<\/p>\n

I encourage other fans to do the same, and hold a classic Doctor Who blog-a-thon!<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ Today on the way to work I listened to the first installment, the pilot episode, the first part of \u201c An Unearthly Child<\/a>.\u201d In it we learn a great many things that have remained true throughout the series. The Doctor is from another civilization, he is in exile (he doesn\u2019t say whether this is self-imposed, accidental, or for some other reason). We learn that the Doctor is impatient with those who don\u2019t comprehend things that are simple for him and his people (this will soften over time with increased interaction with humans). We learn that the Doctor lies. We are told that TARDIS is a word that Susan made up \u2013 later in the show, it will be used by other Time Lords, but only gentle harmonization would be necessary at this point, since Susan may well have thought that she was the first to pronounce the initials \u201cTime An Relative Dimensions In Space\u201d in this way \u2013 or it may just be that \u201cTARDIS\u201d became how the TARDIS translated for us viewers the term that Gallifreyans used in their own language. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ From day one, this figure and his mysterious ship were a mystery. And since they were living in (the TARDIS in) a junkyard with the name \u201cForeman\u201d on the sign, we learn from the beginning that Susan\u2019s surname \u201cForeman\u201d is an alias \u2013 as indeed her first name might well be, too.<\/p>\n

Anyone else plan to re-watch Doctor Who from the beginning? It seems a preferable way of using the time between now and the next new episode than exploring novels or fanfic<\/a> (not that those are not also worthy undertakings). If you plan to listen to classic episodes, be aware that the audio version of many of the classic episodes lacks narration, and so may not be well suited to listening on the go, in the way that the lost episodes are with the added narration. And so watching those episodes that still can be, and listening to the missing ones, may be the best way to go about it.<\/p>\n

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