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the Doctor WhoCo

Day 1: Intro

Administrative Stuff

• 98-296: The Doctor WhoCo
• 3 Units Pass/Fail
• Meets once a week
• Course Instructors:
• Ashley Watt - awatt@andrew.cmu.edu
• Jeanne Luning Prak - jluningp@andrew.cmu.edu
• Course Website:
• http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jluningp/doctorwhoco

Course Outline

• This course is
• Chill
• Fun (hopefully)
• 100% about watching and learning about Doctor Who
• (We’re not saying show up and you’ll pass)

(But, it’s a StuCo – show up and you’ll pass)

Course Outline

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jluningp/doctorwhoco/schedule.html ^^^Schedule is here^^^

• Each week, we’ll:
• Watch an episode of Doctor Who
• Talk about the history/fun facts/trivia/etc of that episode
• Discuss
• There is a midterm and a final
• They’ll be fun
• They’re also a secret
• Attendance is mandatory
• This is a general StuCo rule – we can’t pass you if you miss

more than 2 classes.

Today!

• Trivia Quiz!
• Just to see how much everyone knows
• If there aren’t questions you can’t answer, you pls help me fill in the

Doctor Who Magazine crossword because I can never get all the answers

• Introduction to Doctor Who
• ???
• Profit

Trivia Quiz

• Doctor Who is like the TARDIS – it’s bigger on the inside
• It might even be infinite
• There’s so much of it
• SO MUCH
• So much…

How much do you know?

(“nothing” is an acceptable answer)

What do you like about doctor who?

We want to talk about it!

Controversial opinions

• The Doctor and Donna should date.
• The Ninth Doctor was boring so you should start watching with

the Tenth.

• Classic Doctor who is boring and stupid.
• Steven Moffat is sexist, and so is Doctor Who.
• Doctor Who stopped being worth watching after Eleven.
• The Doctor shouldn’t be old.
• The Doctor shouldn’t be a woman.

The 1-Slide Intro to Doctor Who

THE SHOW THE DOCTOR is an alien who travels through TIME and SPACE in the TARDIS, a time machine that looks like a blue phone box and is BIGGER ON THE INSIDE. He picks up human COMPANIONS along the way to travel with him. He often saves the earth and

• ther planets from MONSTERS and evil ALIENS. The Doctor can REGENERATE into

different bodies to avoid death, and so far has had 12 (numbered) REGENERATIONS. THE HISTORY DOCTOR WHO began in 1963 in BLACK & WHITE on BBC1, switched to COLOR in 1970, was CANCELLED in 1989, was brought back for a MOVIE in 1996, and then was finally REBOOTED in 2005. The new show maintains (mostly) unbroken CONTINUITY with the classic show.

The Show in Pictures

The Doctor (Tenth Doctor, David Tennant)

Some of the Doctor’s enemies (Cybermen, Daleks, Zygons, Weeping Angels, Sontarans)

Companions (Amy and Rory) The TARDIS (outside) The TARDIS (Tenth Doctor’s TARDIS, inside)

Regenerations of the Doctor (1st – 12th)

This week’s Episode: Smith & Jones

This will probably run over time so feel free to leave whenever you have to.