/who/ - Doctor Who general

What incarnation was his favourite?

I remember years ago the Harry Potter director wanted to do this.

David Yates, known for directing the last four Harry Potter films, was also involved in developing a big-screen "Doctor Who" movie for BBC Worldwide. This project was in the early stages in 2011, with Yates slated to direct. He emphasized that the movie would be a "quite radical transformation" of the existing series, indicating a standalone story, not a direct continuation, according to Variety.

I remember there was lots of backlash for wanting it to be a standalone reset for the series but now I think unironically it would be the right move.

Why 2 threads?

bigeneration

clarafag containment

He didn't watch for Karen

No taste.

Other is full of spam

amy was a right bird

Seeing her on this cover at the store made me start watching the show.

I disagree with the stand alone bit. It's a massive time travel universe. Endless possible spin offs and time settings.

Endless possible spin offs

Pitch 5

Its weird that they haven't yet, is it a rights thing? Obviously Cushing is dead but they could get someone that looks like him or use old footage like they've done with the other doctors. Maybe have him be the 'Lost Doctor' like War Doctor or Fugitive Doctor - like a Doctor from a fractured timeline or something.

I simply would't

They could bring back the lady who played little Susan. Come to think of it, that'd be a convenient back-up in case Carol Ann Ford croaks before RTD can be arsed to bring her back properly.

17th Doctor revealed

Confess /who/

As an actual incarnation of the Doctor? Or I can just say something like he exists as in-universe fictional character created by Ian post-Doctor adventures?

Listen.

No. I am atheist but I do not recognise female clergy.

She's playing an Anglican priest. Do you not support antidisestablishmentarianism?

something for the granddads

The 50y anniversary was so kino. Making it to the cover of EW or getting huge displays at bookstores here in the US.

redditor aversion to billie has made me fully supportive

I confess that I love Jenna very much
total Clara SEX with ME

same

Why is reddit against Billie? I thought they blindly supported whatever shit rtd offered them and called you a chud if you disagreed?

in an ironic sort of way, the best sort of way, rtd2 crashing out is the best thing ever for you chuds

Overrated.

I agree. It was the last time I was really excited for and fully enjoying DW

Greenis!

That's Billie Piper gone trans

After TWBTLATS (10/10 acronym), how long till next episode?

Nothing has been officially announced. Rumor is that it may go into hiatus for the forceable future. Regardless of the validity of that we certainly arent getting anything anytime soon.

*foreseeable

The Church of England is wishy-washy and has become irrelevant. It sped-up its own decline by trying to be broad and inclusive, listening to people who called for 'reform' yet had no actual belief or interest in it. All it did was just alienate plenty of its own core followers and the casual presence it had in culture - sort of like Doctor Who in that regard.

We need a Doctor who is a classical liberal.

she was the only reason i kept watching when i was growing out of the show

Best I can give you is neoliberal.

Tardis engine operated by handicapped orphans.

I wanna have sex with Clara so bad and by that I mean I am extremely sexually attracted to English actress Jenna Coleman. Despite the fact that she is 14 years older than me.

zoomer going zoomies

same, except she's 13 years older than me

me being 25 and getting called a zoomer

Mfw

the oldest zoomers are 29

Millennials instituted Tennant worship.

Pertwee

I imagine different things give you slightly different years, but you are on the older age of zoomers if that is your age. There does seem to be a thing though of people calling what are Gen Alphas Zoomers. You also have it that late-Millennials will have more in common with early-Zoomers then what early-Zoomers will have with late-Zoomers.

I imagine different things give you slightly different years, but you are on the older age of zoomers if that is your age.

forgot image

Clara who?

He's from the parallel universe from Rise of the Cybermen, easy

This idea but Inferno.

Why don't you two hook up w/ each other?

Boomers are eternally people over 40 (even as old as 100). Millenials are people between 20 and 40 and everyone below 20 is a zoomer. When a zoomer has his 20th birthday he stops being a zoomer and starts being a millenial.

People always talk about the Doctor's love life like it’s just Rose vs Clara, and honestly, it's kind of annoying. Everyone acts like Rose is the best ever, like she saved the Doctor and no one else matters. Yeah, she helped him, but still. People treat her like she's perfect or something. That doesn’t seem fair. Clara doesn’t get enough credit. Her thing with the Doctor was just as deep, maybe even more. She didn’t just fall in love with him. She stood up to him, told him when he was wrong, and helped him be better. She didn’t treat him like some space god. Their relationship wasn’t all soft looks and sad goodbyes. It was messy and real. Rose helped him feel again. Clara helped him stay true to who he was. They both mattered. Stop acting like only one did.

Wrong. see

Can't find it but I remember Tardis Wiki had a link to an interview Cushing did where he said he thought his Doctor was a creation of the Celestial Toymaker trapping the real Doctor in a world where he has to keep reliving his adventures

I'm not telling you what they are officially, I'm saying that's the colloquial definition.

That's every Doctor post-2005.

Forgot she was in that

World was literally destroyed in Inferno so the second film doesn't work with that

because he isn't Jenna

Inferno is too blatantly evil, also

Cute

Series 9 is pigshit.

I enjoyed Ncuti more than Tennant 1 & 2, Smith, Capaldi, Jodie.

Bad opinion.

Funniest possible crashout

Riddle time!

What one word best sums up the ninth series of Doctor Who?

Answer below:

Pigshit!

I don't mind what people like but if I or anyone likes "detailed technical breakdowns" that's fine, surely?

Gr33n1s!

dugga doo

I dress up as Clara

Anyone under 30 is a child to me.

t. same age as Jenna

I know more than anyone here about Doctor Who, especially the television stories.

that ucl final was so boring

catbox
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/iq63iw.mp4
why did she do it bros...

at least link your AI slop properly, you need files. in front of the catbox
do you have a child like she does

Abzorbaloff > Daleks.

okay channel pup

I'm not he.

What's your season 3 pitch /who/?

Please read a dictionary

bring clara back and have 45 minutes of

Shocking. Someone here yesterday didn't know what "eternal" meant, either.

Billie Piper Doctor regenerates into David Tennant, that Tennant Doctor goes on an adventure with the Fourteenth Doctor, at the end of the season the two Tennant Doctors both trigenerate and have graphic gay sex.

Wrong.

But would you a Seeker?

It doesn't work.

see

Damn, Queen Melia looks like that?

ncuti was a comfy doctor and i miss him

Chibnall > RTD

Can someone explain why Omega was a mummy? Was he part Osirian? Does RTD just fucking hate Ancient Egyptian culture?

Discuss. Series 2 was really carried hard by Doomsday tugging on normie heartstrings and the two parters. It still astounds me how half of it is worse than even the worst excesses of the Moffat era. I swear this gets memoryholed hard whenever people talk about missing RTD1.

New Earth

Shit. Flirty Rose is coomkino though.

Tooth and Claw

Mediocre.

School Reunion

Mediocre. Waste of Anthony Head.

Girl in the Fireplace

Great. Finally a banger.

Cyberman two parter

Good, solid, maybe we're returning to form.

Idiot's Lantern

Nevermind. Crap. Dull. Kill it with fire. Actually worse than Love and Monsters. Also woke before woke was a thing.

Impossible Planet/Satan Pit

Banger. Certified nuWho classic.

Love and Monsters

And we're back again. We all know what's wrong with this one. At least it's almost entertaining in its terribleness.

Fear Her

When the BBC removed this episode from iPlayer after the Huw Edwards allegations, they were truly doing a public service. I'm not even sure the post-2017 rubbish is this bad.

Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

Boring setup. OH LOOK IT'S A CROSSOVER! CGI slop fest battle. Rose dies, oh no she doesn't. Carried by marigold's music and tumblr girls simping for David Ten-inch.

Sutekh

This is a thread to discuss Doctor Who. What are you talking about? What you describe hasn't shown up in episode of Doctor Who, which ended in 2017.

Where did this idea that Sutekh was the most dangerous and powerful being to have ever existed come from, anyway?

What the hell is a "normie heartstring"? If Doctor Who tries to teach one anything (in the Revived Series), it's that there's no such thing as an ordinary person. God's sake.

New Earth: fun
Tooth and Claw: great
School Reunion: amazing
The Girl in the Fireplace: over-rated (but good)
Cybermen: enjoyable
Idiot's Lantern: awful
Ood 2-parter: amazing
Love & Monsters: amazing (cry all you like)
Fear Her: quite good
Finale 2-parter: fairly good

My opinion > yours.

I guess RTD wanted a 'God of Death' and Sutekh fit the bill.

Most people who watched Doctor Who back when it was relevant liked David Tennant and Billie Piper. The only people complaining about their return are deranged, hateful Moffag Redditors.

Agree in principle, disagree on specifics. First part of the Cybermen two parter kinda blows, though part 2 is mostly good (with the exception of an unspeakably dull villain), School Reunion is a great low stakes episode, and Love and Monsters is genuinely great experimentation with the format only undercut by letting a literal child design the antagonist and a poorly thought out blowjob joke

RTDtranny

same expect she's 10 years and 3.7 months older than me

Martha was better than Rose, Utopia and Sound of Drums had better cliffhangers than Army of Ghosts

Part 1 is the set-up, establishing this parallel world, building up to the reveal of the metal men. Part 2 is mostly running around, a "best of" montage for Cybermen moments - villain is amazing, you lose.

No idea who this is, but I see lots of appeal.

she was a manic pixie dream girl in tights so a generation of freaks waifu'd her

That's my wife.

Then watch Doctor Who you fool.

Yeah but most of that parallel world set-up was dull. Compare to Impossible Planet, which pulls set-up for the planet and demonic threat while building atmosphere and providing great character material.

villain is amazing

Trigger seemed like a lovely man but he could not act for the life of him

greenis

and how will you find this set-up dull... FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

Bossy control freak

Yeah I agree it's dull compared to that one, I'm just pointing out the juxtaposition between parts.

Trigger

Don't care. I am talking about the Cyber Controller. The CYBER... CONTROLLER.

better version of the world

This is the age of steel; and I am its creator.

10/10

Nah Martha sucked. Wasn't the actress fault, the character was just poorly written. Constantly simping for the Doctor while he ignored her.

youtube.com/watch?v=MsB7kYRsvy4

hot...

What do you want him to do? Say no and refuse to have black extras? Sacked as showrunner immediately since this was a requirement for any BBC show at this point.

I swear The Idiot's Lantern only started getting hated because there was a cultural turn towards cutting off abusive parents entirely

Overrated. Also was used in the latest episode so you can't even say the music isn't good.

Say no and refuse to have black extras?

Sure. Remember this only went into overdrive after the 50th so he would already have had more than his day by then.

Nah, I just don't like it cos it's shit.

the caning ban is the reason everyone is such a pussy now

i remember it being hated for the FEED MEEEEEE HUNGRYYYYY tv

I always felt like he should have just said "I don't think historical accuracy is a good excuse for telling a big swathe of extras they're not allowed to work on this episode", would have been honest. Not like the show's ever been too concerned with accuracy.

Going out of his way to point it out in the episode also undercuts that guy they meet being so cartoonishly racist towards Bill, a scene I don't mind because the Doctor punching him after lecturing her on keeping her composure is genuinely very funny.

genuinely very funny

Obviously not.

COME TO GIVE ME A CANING SIR?

That's pretty cool of him to give it that much thought. He seems cooler than that Alec Guinness was

DOCTOR: You're about to meet a man, alien or otherwise, for whom human beings are raw material. Who grinds up children for profit. What we are here for is one thing. Information. We get that with diplomacy and tact. Charm, if necessary.

BILL: Okay. I get it.

(She plonks herself down in an armchair.)

DOCTOR: Always remember, Bill. Passion fights, but reason wins.

(Lord Sutcliffe enters with the Doctor's psychic paper.)

SUTCLIFFE: Doctor Disco, from the Fairford Club! Obviously, one aspires to membership, but to actually be considered for

(Sees Bill.)

SUTCLIFFE: Who, who let this creature in here? On your feet, girl, in the presence of your betters.

(The Doctor taps Sutcliffe on the shoulder then punches him on jaw very, very hard.)

DOCTOR: He's human. Thirty one years of age. Low on iron.

BILL: Yeah, that was pretty convincing racism for an extra-terrestrial.

DOCTOR: Shut the fuck up, nigger.

Based hypocritical Doctor.

Prime Jenna was so hot. Shagging her would redeem all transgressions and heal all psychic wounds. That is the level of hot we are talking about.

Last line is false.

I would have it as a Jackson Lake style situation. Although have it that PCs "Doctor" was a Timelord, rather than a human, who believes himself to be the Doctor. The memories are garbled in his head, which is why his companions are similar in some ways to the "real" ones but not right, and why he literally introduces himself as "Doctor Who" rather than "the Doctor" and "the TARDIS" just as "TARDIS".

Pic unrelated.

How about just hire white people for white roles.

It's just a weak episode.

Tooth and Claw is kino.

Interesting idea but it's a separate reality actually.

The Devil's Chord > Tooth and Claw

No.

I really like the Cybermen in Series 2, they were a little too stompy but I appreciated that they wrote the Cybermen as actually allying with the humans in Canary Wharf to help stop the Daleks. Feels like a nuance that wouldn't ever be in the show again.

You guys are thinking wrong when it comes to ideas of how to save the show. Its easy. You have to create a new jump on point. Create a season where we go back to the basics and explain the general lore again for new viewers like in 2005.

The first season should explain who the doctor is, what the doctor does, how regeneration works, how the tardis works, the state of the timelords, and who the main villains are (Daleks, Cybermen).

DO NOT make call backs to previous Doctor's or companions in any more detail than a throwaway line.

This has to work as a standalone season.

For retaining viewership you're going to need to cast an actor and actress who appeal to the general British public (mass appeal). I would suggest an attractive tall white male in their 30s and an attractive woman in their 20s.

This is the blueprint and if you follow it, you succeed.

DELETE! DELETE!

Correct.

Become showrunner please. Russel has ran out of ideas and is submitting his fan fiction as scripts.

Am I stupid or was there an implied rape in the episode "The Meddling Monk"? The vikings capture her and drag her off, then the next scene is the husband coming back to find the place ransacked, his wife beat up and bruised, conscious, but unresponsive on the floor. I thought she was fucking dead at first the way he was crying over her, but then he's caressing her face next scene and she comes around and tells him it was the vikings. Then the next time we see her, she's with the Doctor, tending to her facial wounds, but not bringing up what had happened other than it was dangerous to look for his friends because there are vikings.

carey mulligan would be a good doctor

can we do shit trips again when the show is cancelled

huge fan of Sandman, didn't care for the adaptation at all but i really liked her in this role. made me want an entire Lady Constantine series with her.

Nope. No more stuntcasting. They've had their time.

So fucking pathetically wrong.

The first season should explain who the doctor is

Lol no. Doctor Who should NEVER explain who the Doctor is. Remind me what this programme is called again?

what the doctor does

That's apparent through his actions - he wanders around, and if he bumps into trouble, tries to help out because he happens to have quite nice morals, most of the time. That's it.

how regeneration works

Is this a back-to-basics introductory series of not? Don't bring that up ever until he actually regenerates - just like Series 1.

how the TARDIS works

wtf?? This is bait.

the state of the timelords

Jesus Christ it's unbelievable how wrong you are.

Here's what a bold new beginning should do:
Show what the Doctor is like, having adventures, probably with at least one other person to share them with.

That's it.

You're an idiot.

attractive tall white male in their 30s

just cast me, a 6'4" polish-nord-ukie American mutt with grey eyes and Matt Smith like hair
Same build as Smith now that I think of it

I will want to wear dark jeans with a two piece vest as my signature look

You are a zoomer though.

Correct.

Just confirmed you're a fucking idiot

I cannot remember enough of the serial clearly to say, but I do remember that guy trying to rape Barbara in The Keys of Marinus.

antidisestablishmentarianism

Amusing opportunity to bring up the longest word in the English language

sounds great. i'll showrun for you. i want to do a story where a dalek and a weeping angel fight over a medieval village

but I appreciated that they wrote the Cybermen as actually allying with the humans in Canary Wharf to help stop the Daleks

what?

You might think that, but she had disappointing tits when they were unleashed. Like Neve Campbell or the woman from Merlin who got eaten by the Lipurodon in Jurassic World, they look like that would be epic world beating tits... Right up to the point they are flopped out and it kills all your hopes and dreams. I beg of you, for your own sanity, do not Google "Room at the top" and "tits" or you will die inside.

Then say how I'm wrong. Oh. You can't. The idea that an "introductory" return to form should go on about the Time Lords, the inner workings of the TARDIS, what regeneration is, is so absurd. Remember the opening monologue of the television film? Even that was too much. What the episode "Rose" did was pretty fantastic, in not mentioning ANY of this, but showing it as the STORY demanded. That's all. Any other approach is likely to fail, as demonstrated recently with Space Babies.

You absolute retarded fucking ape. You fucking numbskull. You stupid motherfucker. Explaining doesn't mean exposition. You fucking idiot. You neanderthal bitch.

I thought so. I've been watching while doing other things so I thought maybe I had missed something, but it didn't feel like I did.

I remember that, but it wasn't a real rape so I didn't pay much attention. This one surprised me when it turned out she was alive, and the whole, "rape & pillage the women & the village" came to mind.

terminal aspergers in this thread

A load of personal attacks, increasing evidence that you are not interested in having a good faith discussion.

A single attempt at a point: "Explaining doesn't mean exposition."

exposition
/ˌɛkspəˈzJʃn/
noun
1.
a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

Your idea is faulty.

Only a retarded motherfucker like yourself would take the sentence at face value. You fucking spastic. You tardy cunt. I could batter you. I SHOULD batter you.

So we conclude you are not interested in having a discussion, or consider your mistake, and simply wish to insult. Thank you.

Yes thank me for my great ideas.

Maybe they just roughed her up a little

All of that was done in the first series of the revival.

You're replying to a retard.

Also NEVER EVER EVER EVER hire a writer from the Fitzroy clique again. That includes Moffat, who is just as complicit for this current mess.

They should do a straight historical episode again once in a while

I'd have agreed if it weren't for the unresponsiveness with the thousand yard stare.

Historical episodes are boring.

I want Gatiss back. Doctor Who isn't Doctor Who without Gatiss showing up. I've had to get my Gatiss fix through Mission Impossible.

What if I allow Moffat to write ONE 2 part episode?

Good luck doing that in 8 episodes a series, and also writing Daleks AND Cybermen that are actually worth it and seems new and original. There is a reason why most people want to see the return of iconic, but newer villains like the Slytheen and Gelth, but can take or leave boomer baddies like Daleks and Cybermen.

What about Lawrence Miles

Miles is a genuine schizophrenic who has pretty much disavowed Who so it makes no difference.

You don't have to actually have the daleks and cybermen in the same series. You could have a situation like in Dalek (2005) where you see a cybermen head.

an episode where everyone is fit and skinny, a fat chick starts getting pissed and asks the doctor for help
However she's a major bitch.com
at the end he injects her with Doczempic
Moral of the story, fat people are evil.

Suck on that, Andor!

I think that was pretty much Demons of the Punjab, right? There was those watchers but the main plot was really the wedding and partition of India.

If you were to breakup showrunner and return to the division of producer and script editor, I think Gatiss could work as a decent producer. He has a good understanding of what Doctor Who should ultimately be, he is just mediocre / lacklustre at actually writing for it.

slitheen

cybus industries

All of that was done in the first series of the revival

Let's see.

explain who the Doctor is

This is a broad statement. "who" someone is may mean more than their name, else we know nothing about the Doctor. The first series establishes his character, his guilt from the Time War, his general reckless nature and sense of curiosity and fun. Going beyond that to explain the backstory in detail, as the original post here suggested, it did not do (not until Series 3 much more), and would be too extreme.

what the Doctor does

The idea that the Doctor "does" something, like a job, a big plan to rid the universe of evil, is completely against his character in many cases. Remember Nightmare of Eden (if you dare): "Work for? I don't work for anyone, I'm just having fun." Series 1 explained this, but did not suggest there was any ulterior motive; the idea that the Doctor is an individual who deliberately sets out to stop evil contradicts, e.g. Genesis of the Daleks, in that he did not eradicate the ultimate evil when he had the chance.

how regeneration works

Yes, Series 1 did this, but only because the Doctor regenerated, because Eccleston decided to leave. That was not the plan at the beginning, becoming apparent later in the production of the series. It wasn't planned at the start - see RTD's big Series 1 plan, discovering things as and when we need to. The idea that regeneration HAS to be explained in the first series, even if the Doctor does not regenerate (which is not specified in ) is a bad idea.

Cybussy Industries

Would you a Cyber Femboy?

i will call my creations... the cybus men

i'm not racist, but it is pretty funny that the past 5 doctors have been niggers, women, and david tennant

Sign me up.

Classic Who has a HORRENDOUS over acting problem. I also hate the gay "le quirky" costumes of some Doctor's.

He should wear a suit like a real man.

no but the whole black people fetish by insisting that including black people is a Moral Good shows that it's for religious reasons, whatever brainrot these people have is religious even if it's a secular religion

that and "it's a TV show, it's not real" (or something to that effect) are the correct answers to the question. but this ideology presented in a moral, religious way allows for mediocre ladder climbers to fail upwards whereas others can get by on meritocracy. (at least in theory, Doctor Who is extremely nepotistic)

Actually kino and unironically makes more sense

youtu.be/VtjjSWcz3yM?t=95

I actually like Tooth and Claw but fucking loath School Reunion. Only carried by Sarah Jane Smith. The Doctor realistically would have just killed the alien race in that episode right then and there since children's lives are at risk. Imagine what he did to Racnoss or The Family for far less than the goals of the whateverthefuck the shapeshifters were called. Instead kino K9 saves the day again.

The over acting is part of the fun. It's stage actor kino.

you forgot that he started to do a guitar solo after he said that, the Doctor always does a guitar solo after he says a slur

Racism is bad.

how the TARDIS works

It has never been fully explained exactly how the TARDIS works. Indeed, in "Rose", the Doctor specifies "Disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand." This both opens the way for future episodes to elaborate and dissuades any discussion from elaborating at that moment. Later episodes mention the Eye of Harmony, specific functions of the TARDIS more-so, but the exact inner-workings have never been explained and never should be, thus this idea may be discounted.

the state of the timelords (sic)

Time Lords, to give them their correct name, were known to be extinct in Series 1. That's all. We don't know anything else about them yet. That adds to the power and suspense when Gallifrey is finally named several years later in The Runaway Bride, and retains the mystery of who the Doctor is. We do not need to know much else about the Time Lords, the programme has never been very interested in revealing much more (and good thing). Putting this in the first series would be excess baggage, that's the whole reason the Time War was invented, to dispose of this unnecessary clutter you are now suggesting we drag up again - a direct contradiction to Series 1.

who the main villains are (Daleks, Cybermen)

Again, this seems to suggest Doctor Who as a whole is a programme with a main plan, that the Daleks and Cybermen must always show up, every series or so. I postulate the author of this post is basing their ideas of what Docto Who should be like primarily from the Revived Series, as RTD and Moffat invented, rather than the Classic Series, which did not emphasise such elements frivolously. The Daleks and Cybermen are great villains, but are not necessary to one series. Series 1 only has a passing mention to the Cybermen, not even saying their name. The Daleks are very popular, and since it could have been the only series of Doctor Who for years, of course they wanted them back.

Thus we conclude your idea is not wholly accurate, and that theirs was wholly mistaken.

Did they drop/resolve/forget the (M)avity shit yet?

whoops
doctor who and the daleks
and the silurians

i'm watching the interstellar song contest right now and they're still calling it mavity

binary
binary
non binary

You don't need the Doctor to regenerate to explain regeneration. You could simply have the Doctor get injured and show them healing using some post regeneration energy.

Example: Doctor gets cut on the face, the the companion sees this, the Doctor wipes their face with their hands and a subtle golden glow, the hands then come down to show a clean face.

Maybe it's fixed now after the last episode.

drop

no

resolve

no

forget

fingers crossed

i expect the billie episode will do a big reset on all the magic shit

Mavity is gone now btw. The fixing of the universe by 1 degree fixed any "glitches".

It's only since Let's Kill Hitler, and then The Angels Take Manhattan, that regeneration could be used like that. It was never used like that previously, but only as a mechanism to live a little longer, or indeed, a lot longer. It does rather reduce the stakes if the Doctor can just infinitely do that now. I don't really like the idea much, and anyway I think it's not necessary in the first series (if at all) as you suggest simply to show what regeneration is.

As I see it, regeneration was invented as a tool to keep Doctor Who continuing beyond Hartnell's exit. It's since been used for dramatic story purposes, but in general, is just a made up part of the fiction to get around why they have to change the actors. Attempting to explain or deliberate on it much beyond that, unless you intend to make a whole story around it (sort of like The Power of the Doctor did) isn't too great a plan, in my opinion.

Carey and the brunette should have been bi-generated lesbian Doctors

GIWTWM

can you stop being annoying? yeah i don't mind Clara but this faggotry is getting on my nerves you're like an attention seeking schoolboy

You have to create a new jump on point. Create a season where we go back to the basics and explain the general lore again for new viewers like in 2005.

what's funny is that's essentially what RTD promised everyone and instead he created self-referential crap where everything from the old he invokes he fucking ruins.

i wouldn't really consider it that, i'd consider it like Colin Baker and Peter Capaldi getting the role after playing a one off character. it's when you're bringing back old recurring actors that it becomes stunt casting. unless you mean casting anyone other than a white male is stunt casting in which case that's a different point.

You could simply have the Doctor get injured and show them healing using some post regeneration energy.

Why would you do this though? Just for a checkbox? Why explain it if he's not regenerating?

Remember checking the youtube comments and it was nothing but praise immediately after the clip dropped
Now it's changed and all the top comments are calling it out for what it is
Even that like-dislike ratio

youtube.com/watch?v=XgLpmL9p3Go

Exactly. Some people here have incredibly stupid ideas.

explain the general lore again

No
Absolutely not
Only explain lore as necessary

what geographic location and time period would (YOU) write about?

The original script is worse. The Doctor practically feeds a kid to the nurse who shuts him up then puts down a teacher who says he doesn't want to call out the weird goings-on for the sake of his pension. The definition of cruel and cowardly.

I just explained all of this, see below their post. It's like the end of Colony in Space, what the Doctor says to Jo, that applies here.

ReTarD is making fanfic at this point.

I think we shouldn't take away from the show by having another memberberry. Let a new cast come in. Fresh blood.

I think I can already see where this is going. Are they going to end up with David Tennant as 14th and Billie Piper as 16th eventually becoming one because of the biregeneration thing? Two halves of the Doctor, coming back together?

Thoughts?

Go to bed, Steven.

The show is dying because of spastics like you who refuse to let the show be fresh. The truth is that the target audience wasn't even born during RTD1.

Things need to be explained or there will be no new fans.

How is "explaining the lore" creating freshness? Don't explain anything except the bare minimum as required by the setting

Things need to be explained or there will be no news fans

You and I have a dichotomy of ideas about what Doctor Who should do.

How many fucking times do you need it drilled into your head. Nobody is asking for an info dump. The point is that you would learn all of the essential info by the end of S1. It's not a checklist. It's an example.

Yeah, your idea will kill Doctor Who.

The truth is that the target audience wasn't even born during RTD1.

kids will never watch normal tv again

learn all of the essential info

The essential info to Doctor Who is that there's the bloke, he's got a time machine, and he sometimes likes to take other people along with him, to explore the universe.

That's it!

This just came into my head and I am already half-convinced it is a bad idea but, go to the Palaeolithic and the Doctor encounters that tribe from the An Unearthly Child. For the tribe years have passed though for a few their encounter with the First Doctor is still in living memory.

tfw no prime jenna coleman gf

was already bogged in 2009

do people realize how weird billie is going to look as the doctor? she's only gotten way older and had a lot more surgery

It took the show years to start explaining lore the first time around. Several years before we see another Tardis, and learn that the Doctor has "a people". Several more years until we hear the word "Time Lord".
The fundamentals of the show are "the doctor is a mysterious old man with a time machine". You don't actually need more lore than that.

need a 10 minute version

EIGHTIES
JAPAN

Don't try and explain, Anon.

S1 (2005)

time war

timelords

last of my kind

dalek

cybermen

time travelling blue box

Sonic screwdriver

psychic paper

Etc..

NOOOOOOOOOOO THAT DOESNT COUNT!!!!!

Astounding bait.

time war

Was invented to get rid of all this excess baggage!

timelords

Were killed in the Time War. Problem solved!

last of my kind

Thank god.

daleks

Hooray, the favourite monster!

cybermen

Wrong.

time travelling blue box

The single greatest idea in the history of television, yes, I think we should put that in.

Sonic screwdriver

Fun gadget, silly idea, sells more toys!

psychic paper

Literally invented to get out of having to make episodes with the Doctor constantly explaining who he is, and getting locked up over and over.

See how these were put in to AVOID adding unnecessary details? Do you understand yet?

the truth is this isn't an exact science. what we might consider important is superfluous to others, or meaningless with no context.

Bro you bodied that freak

I thought said theory would've involved Donna but having Ncuti leave abruptly probably fucked with the retard's plans

I was talking about the 60's.

This would be cool.
And somehow the oldest caveman can recognise the doctor

There is a comic of that, I'd watch her in it

Alight lets meet in the middle. Black actors are in but they need to wear whiiteface.

BY HIS HAND ALL Anon Babble SHALL FALL INTO DUST AND ASHES AND RUIN