Rani edition
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Could they really not come up with a better name than, "The Corporation"?
They didn't even discuss the bonus situation.
Why even try to make a fleshed out world? They may have well just called them "da bad guys"
Why didn't the Doctor just fly into the board meeting where the corporation™ were discussing gassing the hellions and give them a botched feasibility report?
Why did he wait for their entire planet to be razed to the ground and they cry about them being mad about it?
Better to keep it vague instead of something used to make the world smaller when it inevitably is Villengard's honey branch.
the doctor and the master can be any gender, it's not restricted to your artificial concepts!
except the rani's always a broad
funny how that works
After not being in the show for like 40 years it's better to not shake things up that much.
RTD knows that introducing the Raj would just open him up to endless pajeet shitposting
Don't you sonic me bloody fuck, okay, I know, I am, I am knowing how to bloody destroy universe alright.
There can't be an episode next week if the doctor just flew the TARDIS into an explosion
DO NOT REGENERATE
DOCTOR ARE YOU MAD
It only ever goes one way. Things that were white become not-white. Things that were male become female. Things that were straight become gay.
Almost as if it's not really about "giving everyone a chance", but about attacking a particular demographic out of spite.
So are the Ranis gonna murder those two gay guys?
So I don't get it, was the Rani just supposed to be the master but hot?
Too insignificant.
pretty much just the master but he a woman, which is slightly redundant now that the master has been a woman.
The master went from female to male though.
What was the explanation for the bi-regeneration again? Obviously it was for ratings but I mean in the lore. I'm struggling to realize why the Rani bi-regenerated other than the fact they paid Anita Dobson to be in the finale.
The Rani was meant to be an amoral scientist. But in practice, Classic Who never really recovered from losing Delgado so getting an evil time lady who can also pair with the Master was the goal.
Rani back
Master Back
Omega back
Rassilon waiting to come back/already been back
Susan back
What even notable time lords are even left to return?
The Monk for a joke and Romana?
Yeah, but brown man trumps white woman.
It's time for Drax to return
Borusa?
Maxil.
Anyone else think the female hellion was cute?
Reminded me of Gwen from Torchwood.
Can we stop referencing characters nobody fucking knows like Suhtehk and Rani. Half the audience doesn’t know who they are we weren’t all born before the revival
Zoom zoom.
we weren’t all born before the revival
You must be 18+ to post here.
It's been 20 years
Rose was 20 years ago, bro.
Shut the fuck up.
Just take the L, bro.
John Simm is hotter than every Rani,
t. fag
Dhawan > Simm
Rani was 1985 what pensioner is still watching doctor who that watched it then
The Rani has been kept alive by everyone online claiming that every character is her in disguise.
Only the female characters.
I guess the new episode went well....
Damn it's not even a shitpost
He's literally one of the biggest shills and he can't even defend it anymore
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Delgado > Gomez > Ainley > MacQueen > Jacobi > Simm > Roberts > Dhawan > Skeleton retards
Simm > Delgado
Guess it's time for people to look at the Tardis wiki themselves now.
Gomez that high
Back to Red-dit
Here are your villains for the finale before Omega shows up lol, say something nice about them
If the witch juice made him into a warrior, Why'd he become John Hurt? Why not someone who actually is combat-ready? Or does it have to be some nerd every time?
Do I need to have watched the last two eps to know what's going on in this one
because I don't really want to
Not for this episode but the villain in Lucky Day is in the finale so you should probably watch that, last weeks was an absolute snoozefest though.
Uh Russel T Davies is a hack. Juno Dawson and Benjamin Cook are weird industry bullies with no values. And to quote the Who Cares podcast who have been keeping me sane in the last few weeks, it all feels like a joke. This TV feels like an in joke made at our expense. Sack Phil Collinson, sack Jane Tranta, sack Graham Norton, sack Bonnie Langford, etc etc. Ncuti Gatwa is a gem and we and him are onto bigger, better things. Thank fuck. Doctor Who is evil establishment camp.
Based
What a load of fucking shit.
Been watching repeats of classic Who recently, Delgado is seriously the goat
Tried watching that shit and I just couldn't. Seems too much of a nerd show.
Literally who
It's more based than any of the bullshit they've been sharting out since 2005.
Why do people treat The Rani with such reverence? It's not like she was some big important villain and she only appeared in two classic stories. It's especially weird given the anticlimactic way they revealed Susan (who is arguably a much more important character).
This series is concentrated carrot juice.
It's very slow but it has many cool scenes.
Who won the 803rd Interstellar Song Contest and why was it Dugadoo?
Classic who never had any stories as based as The Long Game.
That's because they're all MORE based than that.
Vengeance on Varos
Why weren't there any established aliens (i.e. Ood or Sycorax) in the crowd?
he's seething about it because the doctor is apparently "neolib" and "both sides" instead of an insufferable leftist lmao
All the old costumes probably got auctioned off those anniversary auctions or were on tour
Time Lord villain.
One of the many Whotubers who worshipped Chibnall then pretended they hated him and started worshipping RTD once he left
Pretty sure he's the guy who also started making up shit about bowlestrek like the dog fucking meme
Missy was cringy shite. Even Dhawan was better
Only notable female Time Lord bad guy until Missy happened.
That's the sole reason for her relevance.
If there was a more notable one that came up like how the Monk got replaced with the Master, no one would talk about the Rani today.
Same way people still talk about Susan and Romana, since there's never been any relevant replacements.
Bi-regeneration was a mistake. At least with regeneration you still keep the character in some form, but they change, and it allows the series to last as long as it did. But with bi-regeneration you get no change plus 1 extra. Death becomes a positive rather than something bad. You don't even get the weird regeneration side effects, the recent bi-regeneration even came with extra clothes for Rani and didn't do the cool clothes spitting thing.
There's literally no reason for Rani to do it since wasn't affected by the toymaker
River
Pond
Flood
Related?
If they manage to bring the show back after this disastrous run, they better make the Doctor a kung fu fighting old man again.
It was completely unrelated to the Toymaker.
Based. Even Trilby has started laying into RTD2 as much as he can without being a heckin reactionary.
For me, it's the Basil Rathbone Master that appeared for a few pages the VNAs
The only ones that need to go back to are you two.
Oh I get it why Conrad's still relevant. He's supposed to be the next vessel for Omega before that doesn't happen and the CGI monster does instead
I think what's supposed to happen is the older body retires and then later dies while the younger one replaces them, also I think Anita was wearing that black shirt under the red suit so I think they did.
VNA? What does that mean?
The new companion has been quite good
Yeah remember when she...umm....errr....
Was the singing alien meant to be the same species as Malpha from Dalek's Master Plan?
Probably because that's the only thing anyone remembers about her - she's the woman Time Lord villain. Shame Missy made that irrelevant.
Virgin New Adventures
Stories by virgins, for virgins
It only happened because of his presence iirc, or was that being able to whack a second TARDIS out of the first one
The Macra
The Master
The Toymaker
Sutekh
The Midnight Entity
The Rani
another episode of "RTD brings back a villain but changes them so much he may as well have made a new character"
Be average normie
sitting down to watch the telly and Eurovision with the senpai n lads
beers
Doctor Who on first
haven't watched it since David T
"corr cant belive dat show is going lets watch"
Utterly perplexed at this shitty DEI slop
It needs to fucking die.
How bout having him convincingly fight instead of the fake shit?
>haven't watched it since David T
RTDtranny
Make episode about the dangers of misinformation
Present historical misinformation as fact in the next episode
what did they mean by this?
didn't watch, did they actually put that in the episode lmao
Yes - a woman tells the Doctor while giving him cornrows and he uses them to escape a maze.
White person says something = misinformation
Bame says something = truth
Stop being an incel chud, anon.
It seems to me like she swings wildly from very natural in one scene to horribly wooden in the next. That "I used to watch eurovision with my parents" bit at the start was a borderline experimental performance.
It was actually just lemonade and dry ice.
Why is /who/ so dead?
We're bongs and it's past midnight.
But Eurovision was on
Sure, but other stuff exists. Doctor Who ain't anything special.
what the fuck was the song about big feet
mentally ill tranny writes an episode where the doctor literally tortures a guy because he.... something...
Rani is Beep the Meep's boss
He never did that to Davros after all he done.
Why does she schizophrenically switch between hating the Doctor to loving him when it's plot convenient?
Feels like RTD drafted "Companion who doesn't want to be a companion" and then forgot he can't write anything other than Rose Tyler.
doctor is gay black man
companion is Indian woman
rani is Indian woman
the master is Indian man
SAAR
Now I want to see a clip.
That episode was the most neo-liberal slop I've ever seen.
NOT afghanistani gets his homeland invaded and his opium poppies stolen
rightfully angry about it
doctor fucking tortures him for hating the military-industrial complex that did it
companion comes and looks shocked at this but then immediately hugs the doctor for protecging her freedoms
the right way to protest is by singing a song on eurovision about how your people were burned alive by the billions
The 2nd TARDIS was due to the Toymaker, the bigeneration was just explained as "oh I heard of this but I thought it was a legend, it's so rare"
who is that in the middle?
The poonani, innit.
RTD2 just proves that Series 1 (the only true kino season of NuWho) and NuWho in general was just a massive fluke based on the right circumstances.
Series 1
a planned out story arc RTD was probably thinking about and refining for years
guest writers that were Doctor Who fans and knew how the show worked
a legitimate character actor in the lead role
2000's BBC restraining most of RTD's fagginess
RTD2
rushed scripts because RTD had to save the show from cancellation
diversity hire guest writers
lead actor only cast because RTD wants to fuck him
unlimited Disney money and no constraints on RTD's fagginess
It's honestly fascinating from a writing and tv production point of view.
If it were a man, they'd have to call him "The Rainmaker"
companion comes and looks shocked at this but then immediately hugs the doctor for protecging her freedoms
This genuinely took me aback, he was literally torturing a guy to death. And they're seemingly just going to move past it.
QRD on the episode?
Not to death, it was enhanced interrogation. He was only going to do it 3 trillion times. A small price to pay for defending democracy.
That was pretty weird yeah. I was expecting her to slap him or give him a speech
I'm feeling very tired and worn down seeing all of my favourite established franchises and characters being taken over by diversity castings.
They never make an original IP. Just steal an existing one and burn it to the ground. Then they double down because admitting failure would be racist...
This would be a more appealing Doctor companion duo
Susan is back
Mrs. Flood is Rani and bigenerates
tardis lands in gay space alien song contest
sponsored by evil corp
guy had infiltrated it and blasted the entire audience (100,000) into space
turns out they were all alright though because just this once rose everybody lives
guys backstory revealed
evil corp had massacred their planet, genocided them all, and burned the planet to the ground all for planet's resources
evil corp was sponsoring gay space alien song contest
so he was going to send a signal to everyone watching, killing them instantly
doctor found out and stopped him
one of the other people from the burned planet sang a gay song and everyone clapped
lol planets still dead though
anita dobson biregenerated into the rani
they're still doing the "bigeneration" shit? why is the old rani such a weird pushover to the new one?
Who's who?
Bet you £100 Susan regens into a brown woman
She wants to lick her feet.
The old one retires like 14 does.
My biggest irritant with this current generation is the insistence of using "Mavity". Pisses me off everytime I hear it.
Doctor can now male permanent alterations to history without repercussions...
I'm all in on brown man.
"I have said if he wasn't my Grandson perhaps I'd be dating him."
never ever see a bigeneration in 60 years of broadcast
suddenly everyone can do it
What's the in universe reason for this? I thought the Doctor only did it because of the Toymakers magic or some shite.
Yeah and her first words will be some shit like "I upgraded! :D".
Remember though, this isn't racist.
I just can't take Ncuti seriously when he gives his "you don't wanna mess with me" speeches.
Him getting shot made or so that every previous incarnation bi-generated too. It never made any sense
RTD must pay
I think you mean she will bigenerate into a brown woman
Oh shit my bad
If she gets hotter then she's right.
Same, it'd be funny if he did one of those and then the villain just pulls out a gun and shoots him.
Isaac Newton is an Indian man
beloved Tennant Doctor is now gay
"bigenerates" (tell me that's not a bisexual metaphor) into a short gay black man
hotter
than a octogenerian
anon that's not a hard bar to pass
though they might still fail it
The Doctor should be at least 6'0" tall. Man or woman.
>"bigenerates" (tell me that's not a bisexual metaphor)
Well bicycles will let anyone ride them.
GOOD MORNING SAAR I AM THE TAJ LORD PLEASE BE UNDERSTANDING I LOVE BOOTIFUL MEN NOW
Yeah he doesn't sell it. Part of the problem is the way he characterises his Doctor has no mystique, if you've been on a night out in the gayer parts of any major English town you've met a half dozen of them. So when he gets all mad you don't get the sense of some ancient alien looking out from behind deceptively human eyes coiling and tightening with wrath, it just feels like a bit of a hissy fit.
A gay man slapped me once and then cried because I simply replied "what you doing you silly poof".
Classic example of over representation in this show
Show's lore has been completely fucked since Jodie.
oh yeah the doctor genderbends now
oh yeah the doctor isn't from gallifrey anymore
oh yeah the timelords don't naturally have the ability to regenerate anymore
oh yeah gallifrey is destroyed for no reason again
oh yeah the doctor race swaps now
oh yeah the doctor splits in two when he regenerates now
oh yeah the doctor regenerates into whoever the most popular actor who still acts now
oh yeah the show is fantasy now
oh yeah the show has musicals now
"What do you mean you don't like it? It's ALWAYS been this way."
I feel like if the bigeneration was a thing only the rani did then I would've liked this a lot more, I'll just have to see if they did her justice unlike the whole Sutekh situation
This'll exclude Troughton, McCoy and Hartnell
bless his heart
Alright lads we all know the show is fucked but how do we fix this?
anything not thoroughbred British, that being Welsh, Irish, Scottish or English, should be at 0.00000000%
Get Capaldi back.
Doctor wakes up in the TARDIS where Clara has fashioned a bandage for his head out of her shirt.
"What happened?"
"Doctor, thank goodness you're alright, you've been out for so long!"
another cracking episode, this series is so much better than gatwa's first...
I'm from a city in Yorkshire and the white population here is 94%
Bill > Clara
Straight white with large breasts > gay black with small breasts
Unironically get Hugh Laurie as the Doctor. He's 2 years younger than Peter Capaldi.
clara
large breasts
Jenna didn't have large breasts, at least Pearl had a nice cake.
I don't want to fuck Bill tho
Don't give a fuck what people say. Would suck em all night.
I'd watch Dr House in space.
He still scrubs up well too. Here is a pic of him in 2025 for a role.
All scenes with Clara contractually require her to t-pose in a padded bra.
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As would I but they're not large breasts.
Did she used to be fat as fuck? Why are they so saggy?
She was a little chubby in her early 20s. Check how she looked in Emmerdale.
a city
94% white
I was on the ground during that shot, trying to vacuum them into my mouth.
I really liked the episode, fuck you guys.
First time all the queerness has actually been tonally correct. Because it's fucking EUROVISION.
And getting Carol back in the role after 60 years is incredible.
Yeah the Rani reveal fucking sucks but it wasn't even part of the main episode.
It hasn't been sixty years since Carol last played Susan.
First time all the queerness has actually been tonally correct. Because it's fucking EUROVISION.
this.
It's not about gays. It's about the fact that there's ONE straight white character and he's a one dimensional evil dude who gets beat down by the Doctor.
She played a native American lesbian?
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How do you know he was straight?
He kissed the other horn woman romantically.
saggy
small, mishapen areola
brown nipples (meaning she isn't white)
Gross
How do you know he was straight?
He was the villain
getting Carol back in the role after 60 years is incredible.
Incredible waste of her character, a fucking force ghost telling him generic motivational phrases?
Only proper send off for Susan is the Doctor visiting her with whoever that guy the Doctor left her on Earth with? in their retirement home, Doctor asks why she doesn't just regenerate and she says "because I've lived enough already." Heart monitor flatlines, curtain drops, fin.
mishapen areola
women aren't made in a factory you massive virgin
They brought the Rani back? I hope she's fun. Honestly she should've been the one trying to bring the time lords back with mass genocide fuckery rather than the Master, I hope they don't just make her another generic baddy instead of the most timelordy time lord that ever lorded over time
This
Kek
I mean I'm assuming the flashes were just a teaser and she'll actually be back as a full character for at least an episode? If not then I'll agree it was fucking awful yes
I don't think she's up to acting in a full episode, is she?
Did I miss something? When did the Rani appear in the episode?
I have no idea. And I'm avoiding leaks as much as is feasible while hanging out in places like this. But I'd be extremely surprised if we never see her again.
Who is the Rani and why are oldfags soijaking over them?
After the credits.
Where the fuck are the leaks? I don't have to go to gayliffrey base, do I?
And just to add I just remembered she literally had the line 'find me'. So something's going to happen with her.
Excuse me?
AFTER THE FUCKING CREDITS?
For twenty goddamn years they've trained everyone to stop watching nuWho at the credits, because they would relentlessly spoil things about the next episode, and now they're suddenly putting crucial plot information there?
RTD was like
disney owns marvel
marvel does that mid-credits bullshit
i wanna do that too!
You know who she is and have probably seen at least Time and the Rani. Stop baiting.
She will probably have a cameo in the finale.
The fuck? You don't watch the next times? They're the best bit.
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That misleading line at the end
how fucking long have they been doing this
all season?
all 15th?
have you really been turning it off the INSTANT the credits start? usually it's like, 2 seconds before the bonus scene
Even though the writing in most new Who is shit I would really genuinely like old woman Susan who is still a relative youth by time lord standards and maybe around the age Hartnell is supposed to be at the start of the show joining up as a companion and calling some younger looking man grandfather. The dynamic could be not dissimilar to when Romana was with him, although the Doctor softened Romana and Susan should be presumably a lot more human in her mannerisms now but by the Doctor's current perspective she'd still be more gallifreyan since he's massively outpaced her in time. Maybe some bullshit about her just living on Earth with no TARDIS let her slip past unnoticed in the time war. If you're really feeling fancy you could try to tie that in with the gallifreyan hippies that Leela went off to live with somehow and "Off the grid" gallifreyans slipped past but I don't recommend it. That's just piling on unneeded amounts of bullshit
DON'T TEMPT THEM ANON think about how fucking much they loved their stupid hints at a big bad at the end of each season, they're still doing it to this day. It's only a matter of time until they do something as stupid as mavity and then a season starts with the Doctor shocked to discover some small time fracture like mavity is actually DESTROYING ALL MULTIVERSES FOREVER ONLY BACKWARDS IN TIME TOO FUCK YOU DAVROS OUR BIG THREAT IS EVEN BIGGER YOU WILL HAVE NEVER EXISTED MAVITY mavity mavity
I haven't watched a single pre 2005 episode. I'm asking for a tldr.
This is the first time.
well, not really because they did it in the series 8 finale Death in Heaven, where Nick Frost as Santa knocks on the TARDIS door which lead into the Christmas special. But it was kino then. And there were only like two seconds of credits before it cuts to that.
yes bitch
spoilers got BAD back in the day
The Doctor should be a shifty manlet at all times
Protip: most people watching NuWho have not watched any OldWho. Your personal experiences and internal contexts are not universal.
not sticking around to hear the middle eight
Fake fans
Maybe some bullshit about her just living on Earth with no TARDIS let her slip past unnoticed in the time war.
Wait, what's the canon for off world Timelords? I thought it was just Gallifrey that got destroyed?
i have no idea what a "middle eight" is.
This is the first time
anon what made you keep the credits on this one time and then come to the conclusion that it was the only one?
What is omega? explain
All of the best ones have been 6'0" or above
Reminder that even if this gets cancelled, none of the contributions Chibnall and Davies has made to the lore will ever get retconned.
Even if a new show comes back in the 2030s, Davies and his bum buddies have too many connections at the BBC, if they even dare retcon then Davies will put a word in to make sure it's cancelled.
Santa isn't kino.
I don't think they've ever explicitly stated it even though we know there are a fucking ton of them around. And what about cases like Salyavin who managed to slip through the grasp of the time lords and fucked off to live on Earth? Only the Doctor and Romana know about him, and he even has an even older clunkier TARDIS. Presumably he'd slip by and the Doctor even knows about him, but maybe the Doctor can't interact with them again because it'd fuck them up or something
I've honestly just accepted that Doctor Who is dead.
The writing in classic who isn't any better.
But it was kino then
You being 12 when it aired =/= kino
You're wrong.
I was 20 in 2014.
You want misleading? People were going nuts over this one
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I really hope bigeneration isn't going to be the standard procedure going forward
headcanon guess: the time war got so bad at the end that EVERYONE reported (or were conscripted) to gallifrey
It is, Davies has confirmed it. It's also retroactive, so every regeneration is now a bigeneration, and all Doctors continue living.
Can we finally get the 2 best Doctors 11 and 12 back then?
nevermind the fact that it spoils the cybermen, when the actual episode sets it up as a surprise reveal
No. Davies hates Matt because he's right-wing.
I'm watching Shada right now on youtube. This is fucking awesome. Some of it is animated but a lot is live action. I've never seen any of this before except for like 60 seconds of reused footage from The Five Doctors.
The Doctor
• 30-35 years old
• white British
• conventionally attractive
• bisexual with leaning to straight
• 6'0"+
Story
• Tardis crashes to Earth mid regeneration
• Doctor has severe memory loss and doesn't even know who they are
• the climb out of the wreckage and stumble into a local town where he promptly collapses
• he wakes in a hospital
• his body is healed and a soft golden glow temporarily surfaces his skin
• still confused he steals clothes and leaves the hospital
They may not be actively retconned but they will be ignored. And then at some point in the future someone will inadvertently contradict them, but nobody will remember what happened well enough to care much about it beyond a few articles on Kotaku or something saying "Well, ACTUALLY, this new development goes against a little-known, little-watched Doctor Who episode from 2020"
A post-credit scene appeared at the end of the series 9 episode Face the Raven. It featured Rigsy finishing painting a mural on the TARDIS's exterior of Clara Oswald in honour of her after she died sacrificing herself to the Quantum Shade on Trap Street to save him.
wait what the fuck
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THAT'S where the tardis painting at the end of Hell Bent came from?
kino
and his arch nemesis is a gay man with a rubbish beard
What about the time when they spoiled the best Master's reveal?
God, I fucking hate the ironmen cybermen. The whole point of Cybermen is that no matter how fast you run they can always run further, not that they have fucking jet boots.
How old is this rebuilt version and how come I never watched it before?
• he goes back to the crash site only to discover there is no evidence of the crash
• a man walking his dog comes along
• the Doctor asks where the blue box has gone
• no blue box here he says. Are doing okay he says.
• "yeah of course" the doctor collapses again
• he wakes up on the sofa of the man's living room
• you were out for a while the man says
This is just the 3rd Doctor but younger and with memory loss
Ah, classic.
dude, that's in no way "the whole point" of cybermen. also, they're chasing an airplane. you kinda need to fly to do that.
When does he get the Tardis back and remember who he is? I'm invested.
That's just McGann's Doctor
Back when the show was good and people liked talking about it.
Is this 3, 8, or 11?
alright apparently Lux had one too (and it's stupid) youtube.com
You gotta be fucking kidding they actually did it?
Yes and she said "I always knew you were gay!"
Lol
Over the course of the 13 episode season the Doctor regains fragments of his memory. Its doesn't make sense at first and the memories come back jumbled. He has to piece them together while stuck on Earth. In the 13th episode there's a moment where it all clicks. A moment of brilliance. The big bad watches in awe as the weakened Doctor regains his greatest strength. His mind. A whirring noise echos. The Tardis emerges.
An epic score plays in the background as the bright light on the Tardis blinds the big bad. He stumbles to the ground. A shot of the Doctor stood in front of the light. Appearing almost as a silhouette.
The Doctor has his rise to power and gives his speech. I know who I am. I. Am. The. Doctor.
It's plot important. They come back to save the Doctor after he's suppose to permanently die in the finale. Because it's RTD's way of saying that "Doctor Who was saved by the fans"
Because the man's subtlety is a fucking brick wall
I want to round up all of the Anon Babble anons who said back in 2021 that RTD would save the show and not be woke and laugh in their faces
The cybermen are supposed to be about intelligence and persistence. They'd be waiting at every airport in the world until the plane ran out of fuel, not flying like retards.
reminder that it makes 65497659756545647567564% more sense that the master, not the doctor, is the timeless child, and it also makes more sense that that would be his motivation for nuking the planet
but we can't even have good implementation of bad ideas, so oh well
Can you become showrunner please?
No it fucking doesn't. The Master has constantly tried to cheat death and has gone through countless bodies, how the fuck could he be the Timeless Child?
People need to stop saying this cope shit and just admit it's a bad idea full stop regardless of whether it's the Doctor or the Master.
She's not is she?
Yep! The full Indian takeover is coming :D
I hate it
Assuming the Timeless Child isn't canon:
What is regeneration?
1. Genetic ability of certain Gallifreyans, who came to rule the planet as the Timelords.
2. Technological advance of certain Gallifreyans, who came to rule the planet as the Timelords.
3. Genetic ability of all Gallifreyans, including non-timelords.
My heart says 1, but the fact they can grant cycles implies it's 2.
Yes, this was already leaked
speaking of, what the fuck happened to the master's cybertimelords
those guys should be massive threats and they just... disappeared
I'd say 2. Perhaps it's technology that can only work on Time Lords due to their genetic build up
She could be a bigeneration with the chameleon arch on her which is why she wouldn't know.
Also River becomes a timelord due to Amy and Rory fucking in the Tardis?
It's time to admit that Hell Bent was a decent finale.
Remember that old BBC Newsround report where the reporter called RTD the "creator" of Doctor Who and he just smirked and didn't bother correcting them.
Says all you need to know really.
That was explain as the time vortex affected her genes. That's why part of me thinks that somehow, timelords found a way to use the time vortex to extend their lives.
It is much better than The Parting of the Ways, Doomsday and Journey's End.
This but unironically.
the only people who seethed over this were brainrotted by RTD into believing that series mystery arc + returning classic series thing = big giant end-of-the-universe zomg so epic!!!11
instead it was
I WANT MY WAIFU BACK
alright fuckity bye time lord cunts
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Maybe being exposed to the Time Vortex is how they gain the power, and those that run away are sent into exile, which is why Hartnell had to go.
Fucked up the link.
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Bigeneration is shit. I hate it.
I havent met a single person who liked it without being an intentional troll
Russel T. Davies' greenis is an orangeis! I hate it, I hate it!!
He has a blueis.
what the everloving fuck are you trying to communicate here
I know Susan was leaked for the finale but I don't remember anything about her being connected to Belinda. I know that's been one of theories about her at least.
But then they've cast an Indian actor to play Belinda's dad so is that a red herring? I know the next episode is some alternate reality stuff so maybe the dad isn't real idk.
After what they did with the Rani I could see it. I'm actually okay with the idea of regenerating Susan because her story in the Big Finish audios and general expanded universe has become a bit depressing losing her husband and her son. But then it feels like the writers of the show don't know what to do with her so they've generally avoided bringing her back.
viewers knew that gallifrey was coming back in the series 9 finale
viewers thought that the hybrid was omega or some shit
viewers thought that the doctor would fight omega with esoteric time lord weaponry from the novels
viewers were annoyed and then enraged when the actual episode has the doctor return to gallifrey, grab clara, tell the time lords to eat shit, then fucks off
BADABOOMBA
are these viewers talking to you right now, anon
I'd love a season without a companion. I really liked when Tennant has his companion-less specials.
literally all of his specials had companions
I think it was more teased to be a creature that was half Dalek half Time Lord.
Assuming thes subtitle leaks are legit do you think they're going to use Omega to explain the Timeless Child stuff? And are they going to reveal there's a bunch of other Time Lords scattered around in hiding like the Rani was and the Doctor has to go looking for them. Cue the return of the Monk in S16.
“They’re still here, you know. Scattered all around. I can smell them—hiding in the shadows like the cowards that they are. At first, I thought it was because of me… but now I think it’s something else. Oh, you know, don’t you? You finally know the truth”
“You had the chance to be so much more than that. Something eternal. But you chose weakness. Now look at you, all these years later, still chasing ghosts, still clinging to a world that never wanted to be saved. You’re just a child!”
The Waters of Mars didn't.
That's why Heaven Sent is the best episode of all time.
the captain was the companion
Ncuti's Regeneration has already been filmed, the actor for the 16th Doctor is a white male in his 30's who has only done theater and small TV roles. It is almost confirmed to be the same actor who played the kid with the spoon in the first Matrix movie, Rowan Witt.
No she wasn't, the Doctor was her companion.
funny how Fruity Ncuti will join C. Baker, McGann, and Eccleston in Doctors with briefest runs
At least he has the most different looks for licensing.
Doctor who loves to dress up
has only had... three historicals
This is the coolest and best one.
Whose idea was it to only have eight episodes per series? If we're really nearing the end of Fruity Gatwa, then it felt like a fucking waste. Having two "Doctor-lite" episodes has also made 15 feel like he's barely the star of his own show.
RTD's choice. Gotta waste 5 episodes from the streaming deal to make a spinoff show
I like it but it's a little too similar to Eccleston and BF McGann to be a main look. I think picrel is a great one because we haven't had a Doctor who wears a hat in a while let alone a bowler.
Apparently the constantly changing costumes wasn't actually Ncuti's input it was RTD and the costume department. Ncuti handpicked the tweed coat with the orange jumper which we see in the first promo image but he didn't get to keep it.
what spinoff show
why is he so insistent on that gay UNIT show
a gay UNIT one
The one with Unit and the sea devils
Did they really have to give him that hat?
He thinks he can franchise Doctor Who. He's a fucking egotistical faggot that thinks the show shpuld only revolve around him. He doesn't watch the work of Moffat or Chibnall. He changes lore to make himself look like he's a genius
he also thinks because he franchised doctor who back in the 2000s that he can do it again
but back then he just let chinballs take control of torchwood and gareth roberts take control of SJA
oh christ this is the first i'm hearing of this
It's cause they've barely shown anything off about it aside from the first look of the cast.
bbc.com
It's just television in general now. Everything is more expensive and takes longer to make. I don't really know the specifics of it but you look at stuff like Stranger Things and Wednesday and the time between seasons. Doctor who has less minutes but it's a different premise every week.
I think if they can't up the episode count they could make it more serialized. I was liking the more focused plot of S15 with getting Belinda home as opposed to S14 which was pretty aimless beyond Ruby being a bit mysterious to the Doctor. Maybe streamline that more into something similar but less convoluted than Series 13/Flux.
13 episodes per series + Christmas special
This was fine. Not too long, not too short.
12 episodes per series + Christmas special
Barely made a difference.
10 episodes per series + "New Year's" special because Chibnall is a dork
This was shitty. They tried to compensate by making the episodes longer but it didn't matter because the endings were still rushed anyway.
8 episodes per series + Christmas special
This sucks ass. It's a rushed, incoherent mess. You don't get to "know" the characters, or the setting, or anything.
You don't get to "know" the characters
I'd say that's more of a fault of the current era and the story choices they keep making.
You could easily get to know and understand what Dan's whole thing was during Flux.
they have surnames in the credits
dan "the man" was barely a character, the floox was the shittiest thing nuwho had done at that point
doctor who's only knowable and relatable character was the chav slag who ate chips, every companion after that has either been the strongest x in the y or some combination of minorities who've never watched the show and never will
Chris Chibnall
No more Christmas specials because MY Doctor Who is a super serious drama like it's a Netflix original or some shit.
why was he such a joyless nerd
doctor who's only knowable and relatable character was the chav slag who ate chips
And now as generations get older, most people shit on Rose as a character far more.
Amy > Rose
whatever happened to Jay Exci
no new videos in two years
i always thought that was some bbc soviet-esque policy to secularize tv shows
but i was heavy into Anon Babble at that time to be fair
The Master could've lost the ability to regenerate by Delgado. Then he gets disfigured and wants a new body.
has anyone died these past few episodes?
Just the hope of fans
Charley > Rose
audibly groaned when rylan said "not again" because it meant the super cereal death of 100,000 was just going to be handwaved
From a five minute twitter search.
Mental health hiatus. Didn't like the new season so didn't even bother watching the Eurovision episode.
I think the last on screen death was the Alan Budd? This season's been so forgettable I can't even remember if anyone else has died since.
no as far as i know eastenders and mrs browns boys and shit still had christmas specials, as well as other programming the bbc airs on the 25th
i THINK one of the robots might have shot someone, this episode? i'm not rewatching it.
even the villains just get redeemed or go to prison. demon-guy fails to kill 3 trillion people, Doctor goes into torture-mode. story-god-guy tries to kill a few gods, all is forgiven.
mrs browns boys and shit still had christmas specials
Not since he was placed on the cross has Jesus suffered such an insult.
He also had that gay "not too many monsters" policy during S11, he really wanted Dr Who to be a "prestige" show people could take seriously.
that trailer where LOOK AT OUR GUEST STARS was meant to be a hook
He backtracked for S12 with Daleks and Cybermen and whatnot but it was still lame and boring
Only thing I remember of Chibnall was his dalek episodes weren't too shit.
Yes they were.
Cybermen need to return just so we can get a better design again
Tenth planet > Age of steel > all shit
brings Jack Harkness back
but a watered down version of him who doesn't aggressively flirt (politically correct!) and doesn't die multiple times
what was the point
god damn that era of the show was like a wet noodle
World Enough and Time is kino.
You now remember how the Cyber-Drones in Chibnall's era were just floating heads
need validation? ur insecure m8
yeah, you tell him, Yaz!
So much potential for a female doctor using femme fatale utterly wasted by the androgenous primary school teacher.
you now remember the adventure games were touted as CANON, but Amy doesn't know what Cybermen are in 'The Pandorica Opens'.
also, you now remember the adventure games.
you now remember the adventure games
Damn right I remember the only appearance of Rutans in Nu-Who, despite having Sontarans every other season
I remember playing those on my nan's pc. Probably the only half decent Doctor Who video game outside of the Lego Dimensions one.
I heard there are a bunch of Chibnall era VR games though are they any good? I feel like Doctor Who works best as a game when it's puzzle solving and stealth survival.
Classic who only had 1 story with them too.
Was the hardlight a refefence from Red Dwarf?
either that or Green Lantern.
Ncuti handpicked the tweed coat with the orange jumper which we see in the first promo image but he didn't get to keep it.
You just reminded me of something. When the Magic the Gathering crossover happened, the normal products were really well designed. The people making the cards clearly knew the show and worked that knowledge into great matchups with the card game mechanics.
However, those normal products only covered Doctors 1-13. The 60th anniversary specials were covered instead by a special release of 5 cards you had to special order within a limited time frame. While they were revealed two days after the specials had ended, they were obviously designed during a time when the Magic people had little information on what the specials would entail. As a result, we have:
- No card whatsoever for Wild Blue Yonder
- Rose Noble apparently being a companion of the Doctor, when they barely interact. Also has an extremely generic ability.
- The Meep killing one of your own cards to power up the rest of your cards (including itself), which doesn't match at all with TV Meep controlling people. You can steal control of things in Magic.
- The 15th Doctor's gimmick being... objects and robots? also the most stock imagey image ever
Toymaker encourages you to make a deck themed around minigames, so good job there, but they had the old Toymaker lore to fall back on.
14th's was another obvious route to take (copy one of your other Doctor cards) but presents a funny idea that 14 could have been running around during the specials as ANY of the previous doctors.
When the Magic the Gathering crossover happened
u fuckin wot
Why couldn't Susan come back a few doctors ago, when the writing was better?
Magic's been doing crossovers with outside IPs for a few years now. Don't worry, they're not canon to either side's lore.
For Doctor Who, the main product for the crossovers was 4 premade decks.
- Doctors 1-8, with "historic" focus: characters, stories, and objects.
- Doctors 9, 10, 11, and War, with a "time travel" focus: using turns as a resource
- Doctors 12, 13, and Fugitive, with a "paradox" focus: playing cards from weird game zones
- Bad guys, with a "villainous choice" focus: forcing opponents to pick from two different negative options
Cause Russel claims he and Carole never met until the 60th anniversary 1 premiere party. And considering how much back and forth and head butting Moffat apparently had with some of the Beebs during his era, I highly doubt Moffat had enough good will with the Beebs as Russel had going into the 60th to convince them to let him bring on Carole back for a major role. Considering he wasn't allowed to do McGann as the War Doctor for the 50th originally.
You just activated my trap card.
she's been in a bunch of specials, including The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.
RTD fought for the rights to use K-9 in one scene of The Sarah Jane Adventures. K-9!
K-9!
That was likely meant to be an exclamation mark of despair but instead I just read it as Tennant says it when he he's K-9 again. Checkmate, atheists
btw here's the other doctor cards
What did the midge mean by this?
Historical 1: The Doctor meets the Beatles, but they're only on screen for a few minutes and don't even sing.
Historical 2: The Doctor meets nobody.
Interlude: The Doctor meets Edmund Hilary for 30 seconds in an episode mostly set in the present day/future.
Historical 3: The Doctor meets nobody.
and don't even sing.
to be fair, they'd have to spend BIG BUCKS to able to sing Beatles songs.
How long until copyright expires on those overrated memes anyway?
Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
just checked 'The Chase' on iPlayer, it cuts out the Beatles scene entirely ;_;
The 15th Doctor's gimmick being... objects and robots
I'm utterly cluess about MTG so just want to ask, what in that card references either an 'objec't or a 'robot'?
The closest we got in nuwho was Capaldi lobbying to bring Susan back in Series 10. I think the original idea was to have her in Twice Upon a Time as the glass person instead of Bill. Granted it wouldn't really have been the real Susan then but it still would've been Carole Ann Ford. Unless they planned to cast the Adventure in Space and Time actress like they cast David Bradley as Hartnell.