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Season two starts on September 29 on Sci-Fi with The Christmas Invasion. It starts October 9 on CBC with New Earth. So watch it on Fridays on Sci-Fi then watch it again on Mondays on CBC (for those of us lucky enough to get CBC).

a question, is it true that the 4th Doctor (tom baker) is the favoured doctor in america? i know that if who is mentoned in simpsons or other tv shows tom is the one that is there. guess he is iconistic with the scarf and everything.

Most people here first saw Doctor Who when Tom Baker was the Doctor. He also played the Doctor for the longest time and had a distinct costume. He personally isn't my favorite Doctor, but he is the one that comes to mind for a lot of people here.

season 2 starts here this saturday. eccleston was a great doctor but i have to say that tennant looks like hes gonna be even better. on the regeneration front, there has been nothing written yet as far as i know cos they wanted the new viewers to discover the doctor from a fresh start. the last eight doctor book by the BBc, the gallifrey chronicles may have forshadowed a regeneration but i havent got round to reading that yet. has the first season had a DVD release over in the US yet?

The DVD gets released in the US on July 4. However, you can buy the same DVD set from Canada right now. Those of us close to the Canadian border that get CBC were lucky enough last year to see the episodes about 10 days after the UK viewers. This year it looks like the CBC is waiting until the fall to show the second season. I've also heard rumors that if the showings on SciFi do well enough in the ratings that SciFi will show the second season right after the first season ends since the show that Doctor Who replaced (Battlestar Galactica) doesn't return until September.

Padre Jones wrote:

One of the things that kept happening during the second half of the second season was that they started the episode at a certain point in time and then flashed back to how they got there. I think that will be how the third season plays out. How did they get to where they are now? What happened between Apollo and Starbuck? We also didn't see certain characters during the flash forward. So it will be interesting to see those stories.

I already watch that show—it's called Lost.

-Vic.
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I forgot about Lost. (I watch Veronica Mars instead) And maybe Doctor Who will do something similar with a new spin off show called "The Lost Eighth Doctor Adventures with Paul McGann". One can only hope!!

Padre Jones wrote:

Why do you feel cheated by the season finale of Battlestar Galactica? I thought they did an interesting job setting up next season. You don't know where the storyline will go.

I felt like, as a viewer, I had a lot invested into the characters, and skipping ahead a year was a big cheat in their development (or, for some of them, in their lack thereof).

I'll probably get over it.

-Vic.
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One of the things that kept happening during the second half of the second season was that they started the episode at a certain point in time and then flashed back to how they got there. I think that will be how the third season plays out. How did they get to where they are now? What happened between Apollo and Starbuck? We also didn't see certain characters during the flash forward. So it will be interesting to see those stories.

Vic

I have to admit the he is also my favorite Doctor now. You and Erik gave me grief over who my previous favorite Doctor was, although in my defense, if they had continued to make him more mysterious and manipulative, he could have been a really good Doctor.

Why do you feel cheated by the season finale of Battlestar Galactica? I thought they did an interesting job setting up next season. You don't know where the storyline will go.

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