Geeky Doctor Who Conversation Take II

Me by email to coworker: So turns out that Tom Baker was the 4th Doctor Who and Davison from All Creatures Great and Small was the 5th. Which Doctor appears in the book you are reading? Guessing 10? [Courtesy of online flist, I didn't google it.]

Coworker: Well it was published in 2012 but the companions are Zoe and Jamie, so Doctor Who 2.

Me: Wow. They are actually writing books for Doctors from that long ago?

Coworker: It's lost on me ...I just see David Tennant or Tom Baker in the role. Apparently the Doctor can only regenerate 11-12 times.

Me: Sort of interesting that - a good way around actor unavailability. If an actor wants out, the show doesn't end we can just have the Doctor regenerate...so it can go on forever.

Coworker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_who_have_played_the_Doctor - there's over a 100 people who have played Doctor Who.

Me: 100? So apparently Doctor Who is like daytime serials...it doesn't care. Someone leaves, we just replace them. Someone dies, we just replace them. The actor's availability has little affect on the fictional character's survival. Neat that.

Coworker:Johanna Lumely one of my favorite Brit-com actresses played it.

ME: There was actually a female Doctor Who?

Co-worker: See the link I provided.

Me: Oh, not official, she played an Alternative 13 in a parody of Doctor Who in the Red Nose charity function. Doesn't count.

Co-worker: That's why there's only 100.

Me (he actually counted them???): So I guess you just subtracted the unofficial ones?

[On a personal note - 70 year old mother called:

Mother: I can compete with you on stars.
Me: What?
Mother: And I'd win.
Me: What?
Mother: I tripped over the garden hose and my face got butchered by the house. Scraped my nose.
My cheek. 12 stitches inside and outside of my eyebrow.
Me: Wait, what happened again?
Mother: on the way back from picking up the morning paper, my foot got caught in the garden hose and I hit the wall of our house hard. Had to wake up your father to get him to take me to the emergency room.
Me: Any broken bones? Sprains?
Mother: No. Just 12 stitches. My eye is swollen and black and I look a mess. Plus I'm caught up on all my tv shows - should have done something yesterday and done the tv stuff later, I guess.
Me: Well, thank god nothing is broken or sprained.
Mother: My knee is badly bruised though. The left knee, they don't think the bone is bruised.
Me: Good. So just the stitches then. Does it hurt?
Mother: Not really. No headache or anything. He did numb it, but that would have worn off by now.
I'll have a worse scar than you do - I can compete with you on "scars" and I'd win.
Me: Oh, "scars", thought you said "stars" - had no idea what you were talking about.
Well yes on the scar, not on the rest - I had a sprained ankle, banged up knee, broken finger, and a headache with the six stitches...it's going to hurt like hell though tomorrow.
Mother: Not so far.
Me: Let's hope.

Sigh. I'm sort of glad I live over 100,000 miles away...on the other hand, sort of wish I was there so I could help.]

Merlin and Vamp Diaries...this week's episode.

1. Vamp Diaries

( spoilers of course )

2. Merlin

I'm enjoying Merlin this year. Although Morgana is starting to feel a bit like Wile E. Coyote...they keep throwing her off the cliff, she keeps getting up again.

( spoilers )

3. Finished watching most of Glee...eh, the musical numbers are still better than the writing. I get that it is a satire, but it's a bit...over the top, and losing it's characters in the process, again. Although it does appear to be addressing bulmia, finally - although in a weird way.