Doctor Who General

i'm part of the way through series 10 in my started-as-a-rewatch-but-is-now-in-brand-new-territory. twelve might be my favorite doctor? he's so cool. this very well might be recency bias, but he may be the doctor with the most consistently Good Episodes...? but we'll see. heaven sent is an all time great episode though.

yeah the face the raven/heaven sent/hell bent trilogy is just sublime!

Has anyone listened to any Big Finish audios? If so, what are some of your favorites? I really liked The Chimes of Midnight and The Fearmonger. I haven't listened to the broader scope of them since they can run you so high, but I like what I've listened to so far

@ umbrella --- i've listened to a few! the marian conspiracy and doctor who and the pirates. my gf really likes the six & evelyn stuff. i gotta agree. they're pretty fun together. (also doctor who and the pirates is pretty much tailor made for me.)

I want my Doctor Who to have 14 episode seasons and the budget of a bad CW superhero show again, and I'm not afraid to say it.

And you should say it, because it's true. Longer seasons make for better storytelling both episodically and seasonally and allows for the hype to be more spread out for each episode. The move towards smaller, higher-budgeted seasons has harmed a lot of different series, not just Doctor Who.

re: The Plot MacGuffin - so true! practical effects my beloved. grungy and imperfect effects my beloved. we need to go back to the welsh quarries and the visible green screen and the charity shop costumes.

re: Arashi - indeed. longer seasons would enable plot development to be more believable and the pacing to not be so breakneck. doctor who IS at its best with longer seasons.

I'm currently at series 5, and 11th just took the first two episodes to instantly become my favorite itineration of The Doctor. I love his whimshical silliness mixed with the anger and experience of a thousand years old being. It just encapsulates perfectly how it should be for me. (Even though I have only seen three doctors as of now).

I'm really excited to see 11th and 12th runs, since I love the first one and the second one seems to be the second most beloved after 10th in the fandom.

just making sure I don't fit in... I'm the world's biggest 13th doctor and chibnall warrior. he had things to say and themes to communicate god damn it

Let's all love The Doctor! :D /ref

re: The Doctor - oh i KNOW you'll love 12 and his dynamics with the characters. his episodes are peak fiction. also you should totally watch some classic who at some point

@the plot macguffin & arashi & mike nelson: heavily heavily agreed. the eight episode seasons really did 15 a disservice. like. 73 yards was good but it takes away from what little time he has to establish himself. lucky day was bad but is made more intolerable for the same reason. hopefully they go back to longer seasons someday..

okay sorry for the double post but also the point on the budget is so goddamn true. i do not need to see the unit treehouse swivel around to do epic laser fights! stop it! it’s just excessive.

re: re: The Doctor - oh i KNOW you'll love 12 and his dynamics with the characters. his episodes are peak fiction. also you should totally watch some classic who at some point

I was thinking of starting classic who after finishing modern who, I'm actually pretty excited to start it eventually, since some of the premises of the early episodes seem to be extremely interesting (though sadly many of them are lost nowadays) and a lot of people in the fanbase say that the 4th doctor era is one of the best eras, which hypes me up a lot!

Person who runs (or at least ran) the Faction Paradox twitter account is a Homestuck, which is weirdly fitting

is it uncommon for me to say that my favorite doctor of all time is the 9th doctor? i just think hes neat. im also quite a big lover of the 1996 tv movie

Frost C - wait really? that's so cool lmao, how do you know?

lapis - idk if its UNCOMMON but i also have nine as my fav doctor (hes the one i started on)

re JakeMorph -

I genuinely thought Chibnall's "Timeless Child" arc was brilliant. Whenever I mention that, other Who fans start gathering fuel to burn me at the stake. It also riffs on stuff from the 7th Doctor's era, and he was my childhood Doctor. Back then, they were dropping hints that he was secretly one of the three founders of the Time Lords, but the show got cancelled before they could take the idea anywhere.

I'm quite not up to date with New Who yet, and I've been exploring Classic Who by getting hold of DVDs of random storylines. Matt Smith is my favourite New Doctor. Sylvester McCoy is my favourite Classic Doctor - not a popular choice, but I related to how alien he was.

I might be one of the Timeless Child arc's biggest fans on this Earth, and I think it goes so hand in hand with my understanding of Homestuck... like, what if the Time Lords weren't just born special, with some biological divine right to act as the big bosses of all reality? What if for the Time Lords to gain that power, they had to take something of equal value from someone else? What if being a little girl brimming with cosmic power wasn't, in fact, empowering, but made you a desirable object to be taken advantage of by others seeking to make themselves more powerful?

There are such insidious undertones to the Master's mission to take control of the Doctor's body that people are all too willing to overlook because they take it completely seriously when the Master says being the Timeless Child somehow makes her "special"!