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[krtek a houby]

Doctor Who's Sutekh TARDIS Retcon Has A Hidden Consequence For The Fifth Doctor Era

Sutekh's hitched ride creates problems.

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Tldr?

Continuity in peril! Again!

Was the Mara aware of Sutekh traveling in/on the TARDIS?

And does it really matter?

 

[Cerv]

Doctor Who's Sutekh TARDIS Retcon Has A Hidden Consequence For The Fifth Doctor Era

Sutekh's hitched ride creates problems.

screenrant.com

Tldr?

Continuity in peril! Again!

Was the Mara aware of Sutekh traveling in/on the TARDIS?

And does it really matter?

I'm going to say no, doesn't matter at all

 

[Silas Loom]

That. Is. A. Disgrace. Russellon should be put beyond time.

 

[Cerv]

Fear Her (S02 E11 the one with the 2012 Olympics) has been removed from Iplayer, on account of Huw Edwards' cameo as himself.

I wonder if they'll make a sneaky edited version to put up as a replacement. I vote for Amol Rajan, since he's in everything. ignore that it'd predate him working at the BBC by a good few years.

 

[Silas Loom]

Fear Her (S02 E11 the one with the 2012 Olympics) has been removed from Iplayer, on account of Huw Edwards' cameo as himself.

I wonder if they'll make a sneaky edited version to put up as a replacement. I vote for Amol Rajan, since he's in everything. ignore that it'd predate him working at the BBC by a good few years.

Acceptably timey-wimey. Or perhaps a CGI Dimbleby.

 

[Cerv]

no great loss though. it was a shit episode.

 

[PTK]

Punching a diamond wall for billions of years is one of my favourite Dr Who moments.

It was much harder than diamond.

I liked the Heaven Sent, but it has its flaws.

 

[T & P]

Sneak peek of the Xmas special just out

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Sneak peek of the Xmas special just out

I think this doctor could be great, but so far he has been written horribly. Some small suggestions . . . .
Make him an eccentric slightly detached alien.
Less crying and sexuality. . . none of that matters. Wastes story time and undermines his other worldly alien hobo dipping in to snippets of life in an infinite universe. Small stories.
Get a good composer. This clip is like a direct lift from scooby doo.
Choose a fucking outfit and stick to it! It's doctor who. How are people supposed to go to comic con dressed as this guy?

 

[mentalchik]

Yes, i like the Doctor but wasn't massively sold on the actual episodes.....as i have shit loads of time on my hands at the moment have been watching loads of old Dr Who....much better imo

 

[lazythursday]

I just don't want to click on the trailer. I fear for what I might feel upon seeing it. And I've never felt that about Dr Who before, not even the generally dreadful Xmas episodes. Or Chibnall era. The sooner the show gets a rest and resurrected by someone with fresh thinking the better.

 

[PursuedByBears]

I just don't want to click on the trailer. I fear for what I might feel upon seeing it. And I've never felt that about Dr Who before, not even the generally dreadful Xmas episodes. Or Chibnall era. The sooner the show gets a rest and resurrected by someone with fresh thinking the better.

Yep, it's time it went on hiatus for a good long while.

 

[Silas Loom]

Perhaps it’s time for the BBC, which has been an erratic custodian, to sell the rights in full to somebody like Disney.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Perhaps it’s time for the BBC, which has been an erratic custodian, to sell the rights in full to somebody like Disney.

That would be great. They can fix it like they did with Star Wars and Marvel*

















*I'm being sarcastic.

 

[mojo pixy]

Perhaps it’s time for the BBC, which has been an erratic custodian, to sell the rights in full to somebody like Adult Swim.

C4U

 

[Silas Loom]

Anyone. How about Apple? Good work with Silo and Severance.

 

[mojo pixy]

Hallmark?

 

[DotCommunist]

Starz

 

[DotCommunist]

They done good with Black Sails

 

[kabbes]

Endemol. They don’t exist any more, admittedly. But timey wimey can wave hands over any problem

 

[DotCommunist]

Davina Mcall would be a good companion. Opens up the possibility of having Nick Bateman as a villain

 

[mojo pixy]

What we should be doing here is pitching story ideas (because of course the doctor who producers definitely read this thread) so that the BBC can just get us to run the next series as like, a writers' collective.

So my idea is a retelling of taliesin where the master (female version) begins a campaign of attacks against the doctor, who escapes by transforming not into a human but something else. Then as per the myth, the master also transforms and each episode has them fight and trick each other through time and space in form after form, till the master catches the doctor, eats him, then gives birth to master-doctor who can remake gallifrey ... or so it seems....

And there we have a setup for series 100

 

[kabbes]

I’d just like stories that concentrate on characters, their motivations and how they overcome their limitations. Rather than stories that are 95% running around, explosions and loud noises.

 

[kabbes]

Also, some level of internal coherence would be nice.

 

[Silas Loom]

A Peladon story where the sinister Faragian figure who has engineered secession from the Galactic Federation is trapped for agonising perpetuity in the moment of a Big Crunch. Light relief comes from the Doctor singing adapted Black Lace classics to soothe Agador. Couldn’t be any worse than what we currently get.

 

[mojo pixy]

I’d just like stories that concentrate on characters, their motivations and how they overcome their limitations. Rather than stories that are 95% running around, explosions and loud noises.

But it's always been running around!

Oh well, maybe introspection is the new running around.

 

[kabbes]

But it's always been running around!

Oh well, maybe introspection is the new running around.

It definitely wasn’t all running around. Tennant used to have long scenes involving nothing but talking to people. And not just about plot.

 

[PR1Berske]

It needs RTD to accept that the first draft isn't the best draft and I'm not sure he's ready for that conversation.

 

[mojo pixy]

It definitely wasn’t all running around. Tennant used to have long scenes involving nothing but talking to people. And not just about plot.

OK fair enough, I was thinking about mainly pertwee and baker, where I remember a lot of running about (or driving about if pertwee)

 

[krtek a houby]

FFS.

Just get rid of the older fans stuck in the 70s and 80s and it will be fine...