Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes 326
techmuse writes "In a veritable Who's Who of Doctor Who, 10th Doctor David Tennant is marrying Georgia Moffett, the daughter of 5th Doctor Peter Davison, who played the Doctor's daughter in an episode of Doctor Who. Except that the Doctor's daughter was a clone of the Doctor, which meant that she really was Who. So a newer Doctor is marrying an older Doctor's daughter, who is a clone of the newer doctor, but only has half the DNA of the older Doctor."
Doctor, doctor (Score:5, Funny)
Doctor, doctor, give me the news. I got a bad case of lovin'... who?
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Re:Doctor, doctor (Score:4, Informative)
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Dr. Imhaus: Doctor.
Austin Millbarge: Doctor.
Dr. Imhaus: Doctor.
Emmett Fitz-Hume: Doctor.
[Imhaus exits]
Dr. Marston: Doctor.
Austin Millbarge: Doctor.
Dr. Marston: Doctor.
Emmett Fitz-Hume: Doctor.
[Marston exits]
Karen Boyer: Doctor.
Austin Millbarge: Doctor.
Karen Boyer: Doctor.
Emmett Fitz-Hume: [amorously] Doctor!
[Boyer exits]
Jerry Hadley: Doctor.
Austin Millbarge: Doctor.
Jerry Hadley: Doctor.
Emmett Fitz-Hume: Doctor.
[Hadley exits]
Austin Millbarge: We're not doctors!
-later-
Bob Hope: Ah! Mind if I play through. (Hi
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So if the doctor's (clone) daughter marries the doctor (doctor), will the doctor and doctor daughter's (doctor) son do as the doctor does?
That's what I've been trying to tell you! (Score:2)
HHGTTG Connection as well... (Score:5, Informative)
She's also the daughter of Trillian
Re:HHGTTG Connection as well... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:HHGTTG Connection as well... (Score:5, Interesting)
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I agree with basically everything but I still liked Jo Grant better, though Romana II would be in my top 5.
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Already exploded. (Score:3)
The Universe already exploded, but the Doctor flew the Pandorica into the exploding Tardis so that the universe would be healed.
It worked since we are still here.
Re:Already exploded. (Score:5, Funny)
The universe didn't explode, it's been "replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable."
Welcome to Level 2.
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Welcome to Level 2.
Rather, welcome to a new season!
Abbott wants to know (Score:3)
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The Grinch.
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Re:Abbott wants to know (Score:4, Insightful)
The Grinch isn't a Who; he's more of a what.
...an oddly pernacious door, better left open than shut.
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I don't know....
Third base!!
Have to say it. (Score:2)
THIRD BASE!
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Abbott and Costello meet The Doctor.
Re:Have to say it. (Score:4, Funny)
A: Every dollar of it. After all, the man earns it.
Well Said! (Score:2)
What more can be said, we shall see.
Well... (Score:4, Funny)
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Lemme guess you need the chart to watch the movie?
That's all I ever heard about Primer was some people couldn't follow the movie without a chart. So when I found it on Netflix I tried to watch it, was completely bored by the first 20 minutes or so, but kept waiting for it to get complicated.
By the time they were in the aircraft hangar I kept thinking it could have been a Twilight Zone episode and what a decent job they did for what was obviously no budget and 1 special effect in the beginning.
I actually rea
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And here's the chart for all those interested. :)
http://www.freeweb.hu/neuwanstein/primer_timeline.html [freeweb.hu]
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And here's the timeline for "All You Zombies"
http://home.windstream.net/dwrighsr/Heinlein/AllYouZombies.html [windstream.net]
some dalek's were invited to the wedding (Score:5, Funny)
but the reception was at the top of a grand staircase
after 3 hours of trying to figure out how to use the stairs, the dalek's leveled the entire building in frustration and anger
the new bad blood will serve forthcoming dr. who episodes very well, so, all in all, a good wedding for fans
Re:some dalek's were invited to the wedding (Score:4, Insightful)
No, they used the ELEVATOR!
Daleks are not challenged by stairs.
Not necessarily important (Score:5, Interesting)
He got engaged to his co-star on Girl in a Fireplace, too. Come to think of it, another of his co-stars went off to make a TV mini-series about a BDSM call-girl. What the hell is he doing to these girls' minds?
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Freeing them! :-D
Who gives a flying foo? (Score:2)
I believe... (Score:3, Insightful)
I Knew this would Eventually Happen (Score:5, Insightful)
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Negative, we NEED to go back in time to fix this ASAP! That, and the realization I had when doing a Harry Potter marathon with my daughter over the break that David Tennant was also in Goblet of Fire! My head is also assploding over here!!1!
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You'd change your mind if you knew what that eighty year old woman down the street from you looked like sixty years ago.
Obligatory quotes (Score:4, Funny)
"Temporal mechanics always gave me a headache back at the Academy." - Kathryn Janeway
This reminds me of the early 1980s. (Score:2)
The Doctor has tried marrying his companion before. I get the feeling that this can only end as well as the marriage between Tom Baker and Lalla Ward.
This particular story is almost as bad as that time when the Doctor and his granddaughter were clearly checking each other out (Peter Davison, Carole Ann Ford, "The Five Doctors").
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wasn't it Lalla Ward who once said the scariest monster on Doctor Who was Tom Baker?
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According to her page on the TARDIS Wiki [wikia.com], Tom Baker is her "favorite monster" on Doctor Who.
Honeymoon (Score:2)
Re:Honeymoon (Score:5, Funny)
Of my own flesh and bone
With the Y chromosome changed to X.
And when she is grown,
My very own clone,
We'll be of the opposite sex.
Chorus:
Clone, clone of my own,
With the Y chromosome changed to X.
And when we're alone,
Since her mind is my own,
She'll be thinking of nothing but sex.
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"Working as intended"
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Since her mind is my own,
She'll be thinking of nothing but sex.
Except that, with the Y changed to X, the sexual-behavior structures of her brain will develop as female. So she'll be thinking of sex about as much as any other woman.
She'll be too closely related to have a significant probability of being sexually attracted to the singer (even in the absence of being raised together). Sexual attractiveness peaks at about the relatedness of second cousins. (Reasonable, since mathematical genetics suggests th
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And you may be a redneck if you look forward to the upcoming family reunion because it's a great place to meet girls.
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You must really be popular at parties when you over-analyze every joke told...
One form of "nerd humor" is to respond to a joke as if it's straight and analyze it deeper until something else funny shows up. (It's similar to "deadpan humor".)
And you may be a redneck if you look forward to the upcoming family reunion because it's a great place to meet girls.
Ha ha. But...
You should be aware that "Redneck" is a racist (implies mixed American Indian and colonist ancestry) and culturalist epithet (coastal urban
In my country... (Score:3)
Atcually, that's something socially awkward nerds sometimes mistake for humor. Really, it's not.
Humor is subjective, so positing what purports on its face to be a factual, objective statement that someone else is wrong about what is and is not humorous is kind of pointless.
On Vulcan, humor is largely considered irrelevant to our intellectual pursuits. However, there are segments of our population which do enjoy Vulcan humor, and as such there are a certain number of comedy clubs to be found. One of the more popular forms of Vulcan comedy is to posit an elaborate hypothesis containing a small logical flaw; but to proceed ahead with the hypothesis while attempting to provide arguments and calculations supporting the hypothesis which, to a careless mind, would appear sound. Th
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Except that, with the Y changed to X, the sexual-behavior structures of her brain will develop as female. So she'll be thinking of sex about as much as any other woman.
True story! At various points in history, women were considered the prurient gender, the gender that always wanted sex, the gender that wanted sex more than men, etc. Current culture praises men for being very sexually active and criticizes women for the same (which has been the most dominant cultural value). I wonder if maaaaaaaaaaybe that's the cause, more than the physiological differences? Just throwing that idea out there.
A sonic screwdriver should sort this out ... (Score:2)
... it sounds like an accident with a contraceptive in a time machine. Move along; nothing to see here.
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...So their child will be Zaphod Beeblebrox?!?
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Yow Taco.... (Score:2)
One could ponder this conundrum further (Score:4, Insightful)
Consanguinity (Score:2)
"So a newer Doctor is marrying an older Doctor's daughter, who is a clone of the newer doctor, but only has half the DNA of the older Doctor."
Dear god, someone please think of the 12 toed children! Actually, we've already seen the doctor's granddaughter, Susan. They forgot to mention the plot point about the Doctor being her father and her grandfather ;-) OMG Susan has 12 toes!
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Little Twelve Toes (Score:2)
Hey little Twelve Toes,
I hope you're thriving...
Some of us ten-toed folks are still surviving.
If you help me with my twelves,
I'll help you with your tens.
And we can all be friends.
Little twelve toes....
Please come back home.
Amazon? (Score:4, Funny)
RHPS (Score:2)
Incest is best! Keep it in the TARDIS.
Scifi Storm (Score:2)
Covered yesterday by Slashdot's sister site: sci-fi storm. They use slashcode also.
Link [scifistorm.org]
Best Summary Ever (Score:2)
Best Summary Ever. But the title was too "farky". Didn't go with the summary.
my mind is blown (Score:2)
I wanted to insert an ascii pic of my mind being blown, but instead you'll just have to settle for me telling you I was going to do that.
Just answer me this: (Score:4, Funny)
Who is marrying who?
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Answer: Who is marrying Who.
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Yes.
Love-y Wimey (Score:5, Funny)
People assume that relationships are a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... love-y wimey... stuff.
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Turns out she just went "ding" for his stuff....
Nasty in the pasty. (Score:3)
Did he participate in events that made him his own grandfather? 'Cause if not, it does nothing to help our coming brain invasion problem.
More than a cliche (Score:2)
Half the DNA? (Score:2)
Doctor Doctor, give me the news (Score:2)
Which our DNA is in you?
On second thought, better not answer that.....
Come on now... (Score:3)
It isn't incest of the relation is a fictional one between your characters.
I learned that in middle school, 9 years ago. (the students playing a father/daughter pair in that year's school play were kissing; that was their response to my needling)
I'm not a Doctor Who fan, so I can't squeeze in (or recognize) your references. :)
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And you thought YOU had it hard growing up...
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And you thought YOU had it hard growing up...
That's what she said.
Re:Idle? (Score:5, Insightful)
Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes
I think the misspelled "head", and I'm sure they misspelled "asplode".
Re:Idle? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why isn't this in Idle?
Okay normally I would agree 100%... but I've never seen a story on Slashdot that better qualifies as 'News for Nerds', and I was here for the Lone Gunmen fiasco.
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This is nothing more than celebrity gossip. If such things are ok for shows that we like, then geeks are no better than the unwashed masses we so love to denigrate. Course, I believe that's always been the case.
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What would I have gotten had I liked Dr. Who? ... And I believe I'll continue to remain ignorant on this topic. But thanks for trying to enlighten me.
The sad thing is that it took you this long to ask the right question to cure you of your ignorance, then you said you didn't want to de-ignorantify yourself. I don't really get this. I mean, you're confused about something, so instead of asking questions about it, you'd rather whinge about it then defend your decision to remain ignorant. Why is this? Are you trying to look smart? Is it because you think the original point should be defended and you don't want to take the time to consider that maybe yo
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i'll take the latter please...
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Because it's in Entertainment instead, since it's... about actors?
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not what, who.
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The Doctor marries the doctor and who has who.
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So, who is marrying who?
Yes.
Re:Wikipedia sucks again (Score:5, Informative)
Is this pic better?
http://www.tvrage.com/person/id-63226/gallery/?view=82232 [tvrage.com]
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still too much clothing. do you have better?
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What is your suggested source of technology news?
Re:And cue the screams of a million fangirls (Score:4, Funny)
A million fangirls who only ever would have been million fangirls-1 that were still dissappointed if Tennant had chosen 1 of them.
Of course the conventional wisdom would seem to say Clone Tennant and the fangirls can all be happy, unfortunately they DID clone Tennant, and now he's run off with the clone.
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... unfortunately they DID clone Tennant, and now he's run off with the clone.
O give me a clone of my own flesh and bone,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when it is grown, then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
Chorus:
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X
And when I'm alone with my own little clone
We'll both think of nothing but sex.
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That's the first thing that I thought of also, but they are not related. It's Steven Moffat [wikipedia.org], not Stephen Moffet.
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Re:Can we have a... (Score:5, Informative)
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Or the time the Crock Hunter was enthusing about how beautiful a female orangutan was and said female started doing what was clearly courtship behavior toward him. The expression on his face as he gradually realized what was going on - but still has to talk for the camera - was priceless.
(IMHO it's likely that the female, a great ape who was an orphan raised from an infant by humans, probably understood quite a bit of English and had socialized with humans so much she might have found them more attractive
Half the original DNA? No. (Score:3)
And as a clone, the female would have two copies of the original X chromosome (making XX), i.e. half of the original DNA (XY).
No, that's just wrong.
A clone of male that was engineered to replace the Y sex chromosome with an duplicate of the X would have much more than half the DNA of the original male. The sex chromosome pair is one of 23 chromosome pairs, and the Y chromosome itself has less DNA than the X chromosome. So, the XY -> XX switch would preserve more than half of the DNA of the sex chromosome pair, which is itself only a small fraction of the DNA of the entire set of chromosomes.