Time Crash

[owl]

Skinny idiot! Decorative vegetable! The back of our head! Brainy specs! Two minutes to Belgium!

Has anyone else noticed that the transition bits between series and specials, and now this, seem to involve David Tennant repeatedly going "What?!" He has about four different inflections, too.

Comments

[yubsie]

Yes. Yes it does. Because he has the most AWESOME "What?!" ever. :p

[moeyknight.livejournal.com]

I agree completely! :D

[owl]

This is true.

[yubsie]

Just makes you want to go confuse him!

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

My theory is that he isn't speaking English. He's speaking an alien language that, like Mandarin and Cantonese, has various tonal inflections. So one of them means "your wife is a big hippo!" and another means "more boiling oil!", etc, etc.

[owl]

Well, going by empirical evidence, the four tones of "What" must mean something like "Ginger woman in TARDIS!" "Oooh look, it's Five", "WTF Titanic BBQ" and "We are so very dooooomed."

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, "Ginger woman in TARDIS!" could actually be "Boobies!" or "Oh noes, domesticity!"

[owl]

She does have rather impressive ones.

[tree_and_leaf]

David Tennant does an absolutely brilliant 'confused', though.

Also, you can tell he's Scottish when he says 'what' in that surprised tone of voice - it's the aspiration and the pure(ish) vowel.

[owl]

I really wish that he'd kept his Scottish accent for the Doctor, sigh.

[tree_and_leaf]

The decision baffles me - it's not as if we haven't had a Scottish sounding Doctor before, or as if his Estuary was particularly good, never mind the fact that he sounds a lot nicer in his own tongue! (Come to that, I prefered his RP in 'Human Nature')

[owl]

"Touring the regions", they said. Huh. Agree about the RP, too.

[tree_and_leaf]

There's quite enough bloody Estuary on the telly as it is, though at least we no longer have a Prime Minister who thinks it makes him sound like a Man of the People, when in fact it makes him sound fake.

I mean, it would at least have had novelty value if they'd gone for Cornish! Doctor. Or Welsh, since it's made by BBC Wales (though it would probably have descended rapidly into 'I'm reversing the polarity of the neutron flow, look you!')

[owl]

I loathe all varieties of English that pronounce th as f, because it makes my name very ugly. If it becomes standard I'm moving to Dublin.

'I'm reversing the polarity of the neutron flow, look you!'

*giggle*

[tree_and_leaf]

I think Scotland would do, but I know exactly what you menan.

[owl]

Yes, or Scotland. I find the southern t' (it is distinct in some way from an ordinary t, but I can't describe how) rather attractive though.