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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jul 23, 2021 23:10:39 GMT
So this is one of the oldest gags about this franchise: along with wobbly sets and screaming girls in miniskirts, the fastest way to goad a Whovian is to call the Doctor Dr. Who, or hear someone else do so.
But let's unpack that stereotype for a minute: do you actually care if anyone calls the Doctor Dr. Who? Has it ever bugged you in any way?
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Post by timegirl on Jul 23, 2021 23:27:54 GMT
No. If Peter Capaldi the actor who played my favorite incarnation of the Doctor, goes around proudly and happily referring to himself as Doctor Who why would I let it bother me when other people call the Doctor, Doctor Who?😁
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Post by mbaird07 on Jul 24, 2021 3:02:59 GMT
Calling the Doctor "Doctor Who" doesn't really bother me but calling them "Dr. Who" does. Never abbreviate!
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Post by constonks on Jul 24, 2021 3:03:38 GMT
As has been said many times before (not sure where I heard it first), Doctor Who is the name of the show, the lead character is Doctor Who's Monster.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2021 3:57:18 GMT
As has been said many times before (not sure where I heard it first), Doctor Who is the name of the show, the lead character is Doctor Who's Monster. Beat me to it. Now I have to answer seriously.  I'd say, it depends on the context. I've a preference for the prefix over the suffix myself. To paraphrase the Fourth Doctor, there may be a doctor in the room, but they're the Doctor. The definitive article, you might say. There's a wonderful mystique to that. But... I do like Doctor Who as a bit of stylistic shorthand for stories sourced from other continuities. Carte blanche for Cushing, for instance, or TV Comic's Doctor Who and his grandchildren, John and Gillian. It helps change the mental gear box towards a different set of narrative rules. |
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Jul 24, 2021 7:27:38 GMT
As all true fans know the character has been referred to as both in the credits over the years. True fans don't care which is used to describe them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2021 8:19:06 GMT
Dr Who was Peter Cushing's eccentric English Inventor in the Amicus Dalek films
The Doctor is the assumed alias of Alien character in the TV series
Doctor Who is the name of the series
The War Machines featured an anomaly that Peter Moffatt played upon with Missy claiming his name was Doctor Who, probably to wind up those for whom this is something to get worked up over.
For myself, I use the Dr Who abbreviation all the time and also refer to the character/actors verbally as 'Doctor Who'. I have a few books and Jigsaws from the 60s/70's where it is labelled 'Dr Who', so that's legit enough for me.
So in answer to the question. No. And we forgive those who do. Providing its a one off.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 24, 2021 10:22:21 GMT
No Sorry my personal choice its Doctor or The Doctor for me.
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Post by theillusiveman on Jul 24, 2021 10:32:40 GMT
I Thought 12 called himself Dr Basil Funkenstein
if anything the name wouldnt fit on the titlecard
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 24, 2021 15:28:05 GMT
Haven't you watched the show? It's clearly stated in the titles that he's Doctor Oho.
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Jul 25, 2021 0:00:27 GMT
Nope. It's used frequently in the end credits, Peter Cushing uses it, many of old annuals (and comics, etc.) use it, many of the actors and writers use it outside the show... I'd probably not call them that inside the series itself (even though WOTAN does!), but there's nothing wrong with adding it to the list of the Time Lord's aliases. (It's not like Doctor is their real name either!)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2021 1:01:07 GMT
Nope. It's used frequently in the end credits, Peter Cushing uses it, many of old annuals (and comics, etc.) use it, many of the actors and writers use it outside the show... I'd probably not call them that inside the series itself (even though WOTAN does!), but there's nothing wrong with adding it to the list of the Time Lord's aliases. (It's not like Doctor is their real name either!) Fits nicely among calls for Zeus, Mr Snowman, Merlin and the mighty Qui Quae Quod (and, at the risk of having too much fun, the mysterious Oho, Delphinian vortex-slang for "the question begins with the answer"   ). Their real name, 'tis lost to the deepest recesses of Time and thoroughly unpronouncable to the human tongue. The closest we got for ages was ΘΣ *cough* *clears throat* Sorry. I mean, "Theta-Sigma". A... somewhat infamous grade of mental and physical acuity for a graduating member of the Time Lord Academy (a bit like walking around with everyone calling you "D+", ouch). That, and Dr John Smith. Interesting thing about all of those, they don't mind being known circumspectly by an alias for a time, but really start to squirm when it starts looking like a real name, rather than a title. There's some fundamental part of the Doctor that prefers to be unidentifiable. Even now. Interesting, that. |
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Post by barnabaslives on Jul 25, 2021 2:16:07 GMT
Doesn't matter that much to me, I don't think. If aussiedoctorwhofan's boy wants to call him "Doctuh Who", who am I to correct him? Besides The important thing is that he knows the name of the show :-) If it's a mistake, sometimes it's an easy one to make as well. Before my memories of the show started coming back to me, I wrote four lines of a Dark Shadows-Doctor Who cross-over where naturally The Doctor gets put in Dr. Hoffman's asylum because he insists he's from the planet Gallifrey (right before she mentions that it's a common delusion for patients to think they're doctors) and naturally I didn't know better than swapping in "Doctor Who" for "The Doctor". What can I say? At the time I couldn't even remember who Sarah Jane was and I was easily taken in by things like "Doctor Who and the Pirates" or the Nev Fountain Fifth Doctor story where The Doctor is writing adventures of "Doctor Who" and etc. It's easy enough to get straightened out though. I imagine usually some kind person will lean over and whisper "he calls himself The Doctor" like they were telling your fly was unzipped, and that's that.  |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Aug 8, 2021 13:02:16 GMT
For me its The Doctor I tend to think that the reason WOTAN in The War Machines calls him Doctor Who, is because he's picked up the message through time from the Crack |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2021 13:39:16 GMT
The Doctor is Doctor Who. Doctor Who is The Doctor. Simples.
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Post by mrperson on Aug 10, 2021 17:53:17 GMT
Did anyone in-universe refer to the character as "Doctor Who"? All I recall ever hearing him referred to in-universe as is "the Doctor", or if someone addressed him directly "Doctor".
"Doctor Who" is the name of the show, and the closest I ever recall to an in-episode reference to it was in the form of the occasional joke.
"Who was that man?"
"Oh, that was the Doctor."
"Who?"
...or when he's introducing himself...
I'd find it really odd if I was ever listening to an audio and one of the characters referred to him as "Doctor Who", as if it were his name.
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Post by themeddlingmonk on Aug 10, 2021 17:55:59 GMT
Did anyone in-universe refer to the character as "Doctor Who"? All I recall ever hearing him referred to in-universe as is "the Doctor", or if someone addressed him directly "Doctor". "Doctor Who" is the name of the show, and the closest I ever recall to an in-episode reference to it was in the form of the occasional joke. "Who was that man?" "Oh, that was the Doctor." "Who?" ...or when he's introducing himself... I'd find it really odd if I was ever listening to an audio and one of the characters referred to him as "Doctor Who", as if it were his name. Both WOTAN and Missy call him Doctor Who. I would think twice before calling either of them liars though… |
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Post by Ela on Aug 10, 2021 17:56:59 GMT
Doesn't matter to me one way or the other.
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). Their real name, 'tis lost to the deepest recesses of Time and thoroughly unpronouncable to the human tongue. The closest we got for ages was ΘΣ *cough* *clears throat* Sorry. I mean, "Theta-Sigma". A... somewhat infamous grade of mental and physical acuity for a graduating member of the Time Lord Academy (a bit like walking around with everyone calling you "D+", ouch). That, and Dr John Smith.
