Really, she played the a being created in an episode of Doctor Who, which has half of The Doctor's DNA and was scientifically aged rapidly in order to take part in a war.
Basically, she was the Doctor's Clone Daughter.
Ms. Moffett is also the real daughter of the actor who played Doctor Number 7. So she really is the Doctor's Daughter (her mother is best known to we nerds as Trillian from Hitchhiker's Guide, but that's not important right now.)
That is the problem with time travel. You always end up marrying close relatives without realizing it.
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It's obvious he already knows that. Chill out, stop with the all-caps, and calm down when people misspeak about the Pokey-mans.
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I don't follow the show, but I've heard people rave about it. It took me the second read through to realize that this was real life and not the show. And oddly being real life is more relieving here.
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quote:Originally posted by Darth_Mauve: Ms. Moffett is also the real daughter of the actor who played Doctor Number 7. So she really is the Doctor's Daughter (her mother is best known to we nerds as Trillian from Hitchhiker's Guide, but that's not important right now.)
She's not the daughter of Seven, she's the daughter of Five- Peter Davison. He also happens to be the Doctor that David Tennant grew up watching.
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I'm not sure. River (the in-universe character) knows. But Moffat could have given her nonsense syllables in the script. It would be a tough secret to keep!
I, mean if I were Alex Kingston and I knew it for real...I'd have a hard time not telling everyone!
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That's so sweet. I remember when Tennant became the Doctor, reading an interview where he was geeking out about having finally met Peter Davison - saying that he was his childhood hero and inspired him to be an actor as a kid. And now he's one of the family. Best in-law ever.
They'll probably have very pretty, very geeky children.
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Darth, I thought the roll of Trillian in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was played by Zoey Deschanel, who seems a bit young to have an adult daughter.
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Zooey seems like an uncommon spelling. Zoe or Zoey (based on the Greek word for animal life) are more common. Zooey makes her sound like a Zoo. But she can spell her name however she wants. Like her sister, Emily (plays Temperance Brennan on Bones), she has very striking eyes. I remember her best from her role as "DG" in Tinman.Posts: 3742 | Registered: Dec 2001
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I remember her worse as "Summer". Still like her though.
I too immediately thought of Zooey from the reference. It took me about two whole seconds to remember the TV show.
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I probably ignored the TV series, if I even noticed it in the TV Guide. I did not particularly care for the movie, to tell the truth. I only watched me movie after I found out that Zooey Deschanel was in it. The book was only so-so. Humorous science fiction does not sustain my interest for very long. That's probably why I quit reading Piers Anthony's Xanth series. I mean, I like puns, but really! After about the third or fourth novel, I had had all I could take!
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I made it through about a dozen Xanth novels before giving up. It was a combination of the horrible puns and the increasingly disturbing afterwords.
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I'd like to see them do a "Three and a Half Doctors" special, with Eccleston, Tennant, Moffet, and Smith. Though I think even people who've gotten used to Matt Smith will wince, seeing the clown next to his two predecessors.
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Yeah, but from the other direction -- Eccleston and Tennant were playing the Doctor as too human, not eccentric enough. Matt Smith is brilliant, and they'd be too serious in comparison.
Georgia Moffett is the daughter of the actor who played the 5th Doctor, mind you, not the 7th.
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Sorry. I goofed on my counting. The 5th Doctor's daughter.
And yes, it was in the TV Series that she played Trillian.
And it hurts me when people say they watched the recent movie, not the TV Series of Hitchhikers. That's like saying that you didn't find "Spamalot" to be that great a show, so you won't watch any Monty Python, or that Star Wars The Clone Wars was to childish for you, so you'll skip the movies. Or like "Fish sticks taste flat so I never eat seafood."
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I greatly enjoyed when my brother forced me to sit and watch it all in one day all those years ago, I felt sad for my friend after he watched the movie because he didnt know what the ultimate question was.
The movie was only part of the joke, there is so much more to it.
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I did read the book, a long, long time ago. So you are saying that the TV series was more true to the book?
It doesn't often work that way, that you get something better in quality from a TV series. One recent exception, of course, was Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (which is my all-time favorite TV series--and let me recommend getting the DVD version, it has extra material, deleted scenes, commentary by various actors and producer types, even a gag reel.) I much prefer that TV version of an alternate reality to the Terminator 3 Movie--which wasn't bad, but I didn't like the ending. Also notably better was the TV series version of Stephen King's The Shining, which was vastly better than the travesty Stanley Kubrick made of the movie when he essentially threw away King's book and told his own story. Stephen King was screenwriter and producer for the TV series, so he made sure it stayed faithful to the book. It even had the moving topiaries. And the weapon carried around by the derranged father was not an ax, but an oversized croquet mallet. So the black dude, the cook, who also had "the shining" (telepathic ability) was not killed as soon as he got to the Overlook. (Even my 89-year-old mother liked the TV version, when I got her a copy of the DVD.) Kubrick was widely criticized for the way he messed up the book. But he's dead now, so there's no point in kicking him any more for it.
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quote:I did read the book, a long, long time ago. So you are saying that the TV series was more true to the book?
It was. IIRC, Adams was directly involved in it.
Bear in mind, however, that none of the versions that Adams was responsible for (Radio, then book, then TV, etc.) is consistent with any other version. Adams apparently got a kick out of that.
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Since this isn't a Douglas Adams thread (Doctor Who, in fact), I'll feel no shame when I say that I felt that Red Dwarf was superior -- both the television series and the first two novels. Not the most popular opinion, but I'm not the only one.
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers was both a comedic and sci-fi masterpiece.
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#1 The books. #2 The radio drama--get it if you can find it. #3 The TV Series #8 The Movie. What fills in 4-7? Everything from comic books to commercials are better than that movie.
Red Dwarf is quite amusing. One of my favorites. I haven't seen the newest incarnation. (Note, the stars of Red Dwarf were in two hit Discovery Channel shows--Junk Yard Wars and Robot Wars (English Version) about 10 years ago. I want them back.
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Eh, the tv series (Hitchhiker's Guide) is so outdated. And it ended too abruptly, right as it was getting interesting. Heck, it was outdated when I first watched it in the late nineties.
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Well yeah. And some will go on as if it's outstanding. It kept my attention when I saw it, barely. <shrug>
I feel an affinity for the old Voltron series as well . . . but it's almost completely unwatchable by today's standards.
Red Dwarf holds up well, though, and it's not that much newer. Then again, it did seem to have a better budget . . . and better <hrmph> writing.
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quote:Originally posted by Ron Lambert: I probably ignored the TV series, if I even noticed it in the TV Guide.
The times I remember it airing in the U.S. it was always on PBS, and the times I've seen it I wasn't actively looking for it... which can be said of pretty much anything on PBS.
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quote: Didn't Adams write for Doctor Who back in the Tom Baker days?
Yes - that episode where the Doctor and Romana go to Paris and save the Mona Lisa, for one. I always felt like Ford Prefect was probably a distant cousin of the Doctor. There was something about the way Ford loved to travel, never blinked and named his pet robots Colin that was a bit Doctory.
Plus, in the books, Ford actually was ginger (whereas the Doctor can only dream of being so lucky).
As for the radio show of Hitchhiker - It's excellent for long car journeys and I love the banjoey theme tune so much. I think it's a part of something by the Eagles.
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