Doctor Who: The Final Pantsdown

[carmen_lj]

While there's many a foul neutral who maintains that both new and classic Who have their merits, far more sensible fen believe only one or the other reigns supreme, in the manner of some multi-limbed pan-galactic overlord.

And now I believe a way has been found to answer the question Once And For All. Through the medium of pants.

Well done, New Who, for reaching that very special merchandising point.

So, who wins?


Yer New Skool Pants


Yer Old Skool Pants



An exciting poll in which to record your decision. NO RADIO BOXES FOR FILTHY NEUTRALS.

[Poll #983135]

Comments

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Old skool pants are pretty much in a different universe of good.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

But so much less choice!

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Those New Skool pants just don't look comfortable. I look at them and see itchy elastic marks. Yech.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

But they don't have Tom Baker's scary face staring out of them!

[fannishnonsense]

I'm slightly disturbed by the fact that my first reaction to seeing these was to wonder if they come in grown up women's sizes...

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Well, this is the same line of merchandising that brought us the "Men's..." um, something or other. Office set maybe? Something irritating and eye-rolling like that.

So obv, the answer to a Perfectly Sensible enquiry like that will most likely be no, boo.

[tellitslant]

Tom Baker should never be anywhere near anyone's crotch, therefore newskool.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor Tom.

[neohippie.livejournal.com]

The old skool undies have a much bigger picture on them.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Is that good or bad?

[ionlylurkhere.livejournal.com]

I am deeply disturbed by the fact that in the bottom new skool one Ten is pointing his sonic screwdriver directly out of the crotch.

Old skool therefore wins because the Daleks have the decency to keep their plungers within the plane of the pants.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Daleks are full of phallic imagery no matter which way they points!

[eve11]

I see no pictures! Woe!

[calapine.livejournal.com]

*pokes*

Scrapbook down meybe, hrrm.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

New would win, however, if they included a pair with Face of Boe the size of the Old Pants' image.

So many possible exciting images and they go for the Blatently Obvious, forshame!

(Your icon be wonderful and true, yes.)

[livii.livejournal.com]

The old skool ones are just classic. The new skool ones scare me a bit. Are they girls' underwear? They seem a strange mix of both. I don't know many men who would wear bright red high-cut undies with David Tennant's face right over their package. Even the gay men, srsly.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I think they are boys' ones. And they, foolishly, seem not to be having adult sizes.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I had to vote old skool but I fear I might be cheap for someone in TARDIS pants. The Ten + pointy implement crotch would probably cause me to run away laughing though so it all balances out in the Great Scheme of Things.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I am wondering what they were thinking when they went for the pointy implement design.

[chronographia.livejournal.com]

Old Skool for the New is made of cheap-ass iron-on stickers that crack and peel rather disturbingly when not laid perfectly flat at all times. Hell, if we're going that route, I could do better myself. There would be glittery fabric paint for starters.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

If they were glittery that would be a bit cheating - no-one's not going to vote for GlitterPants! (TM)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I voted Old Skool because, regardless of whether you like the picture of Tom Baker, Daleks, and Sonic Skrew Driver or not, the picture is large, and nicely fills the field of the pants' front. But New Skool doesn't take full advantage -- it's as if New Skool can't decide whether to be Camp or Sophisticated, and therefore, fails at both.

Old Skool at least had the courage of its convictions...

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Ich nicht eine Amerikaner! Je suis tres Ecosaisse!

[oltha_heri.livejournal.com]

Who voted for new skool?

Old Skool wins so easily.

[fantasticangel.livejournal.com]

Despite the fact I haven't seen any of the old Who since I was about 4 or 5, I voted old school because of the direct printing method. The new ones don't look as comfy.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Well, if you go out and want to make sure you don't hook up with anyone, the Old Skool ones win. They're sort of the sartorial version of not shaving your legs.

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

While I personally wouldn't mind a bit of Tennant...

Okay, not going there.

Old Skool was the obvious choice. Tom just looks so bemused, as if he's surprised to have apparently woken up and found himself on pants. Then there is the beauty of the symmetry....Two nicely rounded Daleks and one big head. It's an image *made* for pants.

[alicamel.livejournal.com]

I am not casting a vote, but I wish to say that we have a little girl at work who loves Doctor Who and wanted a doctor who knickers for christmas. Which they do not make. :(

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I find that both sad and appalling, forshame BBC merchandising people. LETTERS OF AWESOME COMPLAINTS SHOULD BE WRITTEN.

[alawston.livejournal.com]

Damn the merchandisers for never ever releasing pants with:

a) Alpha Centauri
b) Vervoids
c) That bit from Creature From the Pit.

On the evidence though, old school wins for not having crappy text all over them. Opportunities to read people's pants being generally quite limited and kind of missing the point when they do arise, yes.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I voted for new but only because they have undies with daleks on their own pointing threateningly and directly at all who attack you. And a Cyberman reaching out. But all of them would surely ruin any chance you ever had at having sex so I do rather hope they're not available in adult sizes.

[the-mardy-bum.livejournal.com]

After that Parky interview, I too dreamed of having DT's face on my crotch.
Pity these don't come in big grown-up girls' sizes.

Bwa-ha-ha-haaaa

MB

[animagiblender.livejournal.com]

It's been my life-long dream to have Tom Baker on my crotch, so there's really only one correct answer:

Old Skool.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Old Skool, hands down. I don't care so much about the images -- they just look about a hundred times more comfortable, what with the direct printing and the non-accordionated elastics.

(Completely Irrelevant Note to Self: Get DW icon.)