Doctoring the Polls

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1324735]

Comments

[andrewducker]

No prize at all for the first person to say "I don't watch Dr Who, but am incapable of passing a poll about something I don't care about without leaving a snarky comment."

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

Nobody watches DR Who... ;)

[andrewducker]

Oh - and it's called "Star Wars" - not "A New Hope". I was there in 1977. I saw it :->

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

When it was re-released in the 90s in cinemas here (and possibly elsewhere, I dunno), and my dad took me to see it, it was called 'A New Hope'. So there :P

[andrewducker]

Yup, the new name/trailer crawl was added for the special editions.

However, in those versions Han shot second. So I'm not sure they count :->

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I actually forgot about the re-release.

I think mainly because I am still angry about all the remastering/monkeying around.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Actually it was retitled "Epidode IV: a New Hope" waaay before that. Every time it appeared in the cinemas, on video or on the TV *after* the 1977 run it was called Episode IV: A New Hope.

*breathes though mouth*

[andrewducker]

We're both wrong. The releases in 78 and 79 (before Empire came out) had the original crawl. The 81,82 and 97 releases had the updated one.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

Damn.

I was going to say at least I got to see the first Star Wars films *as a child* but apparently you were 5.

As a child, at least I had the joy of video players.

[andrewducker]

Actually, I remember my parents getting hold of a Video player in i982-ish, and having the Star Wars videos copied from some source. They may have been watched an awful lot :->

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

I've watched (the second half of) Return of the Jedi an awful lot....

Unfortunately, when I taped it, I missed the first section. So the film only starts from when they get caught up in the ewok's net.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

How depressing! The escape from Jabba's area is one of my favorite bits of the series.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Was that in the days when the remote control was attached by a very long cord and they were top loading?

I saw every SW film in the cinema - Star Wars was maybe a couple of weeks after release as I needed to nag my mum and keep my room clean for a week firstbut the rest were all first day of release as I'm truly a sci fi geek hiding as an IT geek!

And I agree that SW was never a A New Hope in the 70s.

[andrewducker]

Remote Control?

Luxury!

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I was born in '82, but I still saw Star Wars (the first one) at the cinema when they were re-released. 'Twas most shiny.

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of potential but only with imagination! Luckily RTD will have nothing to do with him.

I wonder if the new 'season' this year will include references to Doc 11: his face on a picture, on a screen etc. Not necessarily Bad Wolf but shades of Logopolis...?

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Old enough to remember the Caley and Ritz cinemas. I also saw Caligula at the flea pit porno cinema at Surgeons Hall, the Empire I think it was called and the Sex Pistols film at the Playhouse.

Saw Madness and Toyah perform at the proper Odeon too.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Empire is now The Festival Theatre, porno was The Classic, where my dada always made me take an extra newspaper to spread on the seat when I went to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

And my Odeon concert goign days include Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Wings and the infamous Status Quo gig where the whole balcony was bouncing and close to collapse...

[terminalmalaise.livejournal.com]

As far as Matt Smith goes, I'm somwhat in the middle between "We'll just have to wait and see" and "It'll be terrible." I probably do have to see him in the role, or at least acting in general, in order to be a fair judge, but going by what I saw of him in the Dr. Who Confidential interview, I am not impressed. :( And he needs a better haircut!

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

I like his energy.

[terminalmalaise.livejournal.com]

I tend to get exhausted just from watching people with that much frenetic energy. :)

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Granted, it was only the reissues of Star Wars and Empire and Jedi that I saw in theaters, more's the pity, but heigh ho! If those don't count at all, then it was Phantom Menace, may I be forgiven.

[matgb]

My parents were never really big in the cinema, and it was a huge effort to go see any film.

By the time I was old enough to go watch them, I didn't care. I don't recall where I watched Phantom, may've been cinea, but I doubt it. But it was so shite I didn't bother with the rest, despite having all the original and special edition VHSs.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Almost Tennant but he's 5 months older than me.

As for Star Wars, as I posted a few days ago, it was Leicester Square Odeon, 1977, first week it was out. Utterly glorious!

Oddly, Jo and I were just discussing how odd it would be to be young enough to watch Episodes I-VI in numerical order, having not seen them before.

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

Oddly, Jo and I were just discussing how odd it would be to be young enough to watch Episodes I-VI in numerical order, having not seen them before.

It would be cool to watch them all for the first time in the correct numerical order. The only problem is that episodes 1-3 are so shit in comparison to 4-6 that I think many viewers would just switch off before they got to the good stuff...

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

yep - I never watched star wars so tried in order and lasted all of 10 minutes of I before getting bore and switching off!

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

You mean you weren't excited and inspired by the taxation of shipping routes?

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

We considered this for our children but eventually decided that the correct order for them to watch the films in was 4, 5, 6... that's all, folks.

If you watch 1,2,3 first then most of the major dramatic events of 4, 5, 6 are destroyed.

Next question: correct order to read the Narnia books.

General theorem: It is always, always, better to read/watch the books/films in the order of writing/production, not the chronological order.

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

1-3 are shit in comparisaon to 4-6 which were shit already in comparison to any half decent film anyway.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Maybe if you watch 1-3 before the age of 6 they're not so bad?

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

Not so much 'I wouldn't see a Star Wars movie at the cinema. Because I have no soul', but have never seen a Star Wars movie at the cinema as I didn't get the chance/choice for the first three (would have loved to though), and refused for the second three. Which I think is understandable. ;)

[sneakingyoda.livejournal.com]

do the remakes and re-releases of the first three movies in the 90's count?

[sneakingyoda.livejournal.com]

oops didn't mean for this to be a reply to you, sorry! hehe

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

I saw Attack Of The Clones at the cinema but it wasn't my fault, I was taken by friends who were trying to cheer me up. If they hadn't been paying i'd have walked out noisily before half way.

I remember reading the Alan Dean Foster novelisation on holiday in ireland in 77 but didnt see the film til it made it to telly in about 80 or 81. I wasn't and still am not impressed by any of the films. They lack any kind of internal logic, the supposed SFnal features are unfeasible and the inclusion of comedy aliens/droids is just an updating of the comedy negro (eg the maid in Gone With The Wind.)

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

What about the option of just not having seen Star Wars at the cinema, but not actively avoiding it?

[andrewducker]

You can't hide your lack of soul that easily.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

A fair point. I did see Bambi in the early eighties though, isn't that sort of the same story?

[red-phil.livejournal.com]

I have seen all the starwars films and really like some of them.
So in theory I have a soul.
I have however not seen any of the starwars films in the cinema.
This shows your conjecture regarding Ian's soul to be false.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I've not seen any of the Star Wars movies in the cinema. They came out at just the wrong time for me - I was 17/18, not really into that kind of movie at the time: instead, pubs, punk and girls seemed more important!

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

It is fascinating to see that whilst most of the poll is about Dr Who, most of the comments are about Star Wars!

[red-phil.livejournal.com]

Is there any particular logic to the Drs that you missed out from your list?

[andrewducker]

Yes.

Want to work it out yourself? Or shall I spoil the fun for you

[random-redhead.livejournal.com]

spoil it for me please, I am lazy.

[andrewducker]

When the next doctor is older than previous doctors it is impossible for them to be the first doctor that was younger than you. If Jon Pertwee was younger than you then so is Patrick Troughton :->

[red-phil.livejournal.com]

I thought that might be it, but this assumes you watch Dr who in sequence.

[andrewducker]

By "first doctor" I didn't mean first one you happened to see.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Your poll is ambiguous though, does he have to have been younger than you were when first shown on telly, or could he have been younger than you are now when first shown?

I am too lazy to work out whether the difference would lead to a different list.

[taromazzy.livejournal.com]

Wheres the "first Doctor you seriously thought of shagging" Poll? (hint - not Sylvester McCoy)

[andrewducker]

I always had you down as a Patrick Troughton gal.