It's a really good show, though it grows very slowly and has a very disappointing final season. It revolves around a mining spaceship where everyone dies after a terrible accident, apart from a guy who got frozen as punishment for illegally smuggling a cat onboard (well, the cat also survives).
We know it as RP (or Received Pronunciation) nowadays, but when the BBC caused all that confusion over Dodo's accent is was known as BBC English, as it was the accent every newsreader was forced to adopt in spite of their origins.
I remember a throwaway line explaining that Dodo learned to play at school and even competed (the same way Rose competed on gymnastics). When I read it, I felt it was an attempt to explain why she's so good playing the piano in The Gunfighters which, added to her knowledge of zoology in this, I tend to use as evidence that she's not as stupid or air-brained as the haters tend to think she is. Oh, and the ending of the novelization is hilarious, with One trying to teach Dodo the "Rain in Spain" exercise from My Fair Lady, only to have his attempts dismissed by her claim that it rained everywhere when she went to Spain. :P
Yes, those seem to be the most popular outfits for them in fanart, on the same vein as Zoe's catsuit or Ben and Polly in their War Machines outfits - but with Dodo and Steven it's a curious choice since those come from a lost story and they have other complete adventures people could have drawn from.
HAH! Dodo would make an interesting Eliza Doolittle, although I think that role was better adopted by the relationship between Leela and Four. Then again, I've only seen three of her serials, but that seems to be the overall impression.
Well, it may be a mostly-missing story but the Celestial Toymaker seems to be quite a popular villain (despite all the flak people give it, I still really want to read Divided Loyalties so I can see Team Fivey go up against him).
We know it as RP (or Received Pronunciation) nowadays, but when the BBC caused all that confusion over Dodo's accent is was known as BBC English, as it was the accent every newsreader was forced to adopt in spite of their origins.
I remember a throwaway line explaining that Dodo learned to play at school and even competed (the same way Rose competed on gymnastics). When I read it, I felt it was an attempt to explain why she's so good playing the piano in The Gunfighters which, added to her knowledge of zoology in this, I tend to use as evidence that she's not as stupid or air-brained as the haters tend to think she is.
Oh, and the ending of the novelization is hilarious, with One trying to teach Dodo the "Rain in Spain" exercise from My Fair Lady, only to have his attempts dismissed by her claim that it rained everywhere when she went to Spain. :P
Yes, those seem to be the most popular outfits for them in fanart, on the same vein as Zoe's catsuit or Ben and Polly in their War Machines outfits - but with Dodo and Steven it's a curious choice since those come from a lost story and they have other complete adventures people could have drawn from.
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HAH! Dodo would make an interesting Eliza Doolittle, although I think that role was better adopted by the relationship between Leela and Four. Then again, I've only seen three of her serials, but that seems to be the overall impression.
Well, it may be a mostly-missing story but the Celestial Toymaker seems to be quite a popular villain (despite all the flak people give it, I still really want to read Divided Loyalties so I can see Team Fivey go up against him).
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