Also, transporters can materialize you with your guts on the outside.

Wholeheartedly second Monty Python as an influence. As a kid I did not get sat in front of typical children's shows, but got to watch Python. Which probably warped my sensibilities. Along with that came other British shows, which at least at that time had a very striking different nature than US shows: Fawlty…

Yes, you can.

Agreed, Erik.

I LOVE A Love Supreme. Coltrane got me into jazz. If that album is the last thing I hear when I die, I'd go out happy.

Not at ALL "life-changing," though.

Lost is a good call here, too. I don't really like TV. Haven't for years. But discovering Lost was great. I remember when I first saw it (watched the 2nd season finale first) I sat up all night that night reading recaps and then days afterward reading theories and easter eggs etc. I'd never had the desire to dig…

As a vegetarian nothing annoys me more than ex-vegetarians. I'm not sure why.

Why the fuck would liking a particular musical artist constitute a "deal breaker"? That's asinine.

Matt Smith doesn't seem like a "sex symbol." Not to me, anyway. But I agree that it gets creepy if you think about it. (Think of if Tom Baker was clearly lusting after Sarah Jane!) Besides creepy, though, it doesn't always seem to "fit."

I managed to play sports and watch a bit of TV at the same time.

Except when they give an A+.

I don't think so. At the end of Trial of a Time Lord, the last shot is of the Valeyard laughing in, I believe, the costume of Keeper of the Matrix. (NEEERRRRRD!) I've always thought they'd bring him back. I thought he was sort of like a "double" of the Doctor, some kind of "leftover" of the darker bits of the…

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A very difficult choice.

I liked what he said about growing up with Doctor Who. He's a couple years younger than me, but luckily I was very exposed to British television shows via PBS, and grew up watching Tom Baker (the Doctor most heavily played here) and Peter Davison. I was watching them well after their time, but I loved it (luckily, I…

I liked Donna too. And I liked that they chose someone who was not only not just swooning over The Doctor like the ones before (Rose, Martha, Captain Jack) but that wasn't impossibly pretty. Rose was fine, though I got very sick of the mooning bullshit as well as the fact that she'd have some heartbreaking exit and…

I liked The Eleventh Hour. It did perhaps fall into a few things that maybe annoyed me about Davies' era (I won't mention them here as I don't want to spoil anything) but my theory was that the show itself was sort of "transitioning." I LOVE Smith's version of the Doctor, it just seemed damn near perfect from his…

Er, that should be Angel One and not Haven, I think. I'm getting my shitty episodes mixed up.

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