Worst thing with Moffat was the Caroline Skinner fallout which bled into Series 7 as a whole, certainly the cast all seem happy to be associated with him. Same with Chibnall where the biggest production mess was out of his control.
I'm still amazed over 15 years later that the Vampires of Venice cold open was cleared. A joke about a stripper in a kid's show, Mary Whitehouse would be rolling in her grave! The whole episode is horny as fuck, it might be Doctor Who's horniest episode. The evil plan is *literally just fucking*.
Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Debbie Watling, Liz Sladen, Stuart Bevan all spoken of in hushed reverent tones, meanwhile Matthew Waterhouse is like "folks I am right here". Same with BRIAN BLESSED (BLESSED'S ALIVE!!!!!)
This reminds me of Matthew Waterhouse's eternally funny thread where he talked about not knowing why a bunch of Classic Who actors were in Cardiff at the same time he was and they all assumed he was also doing TotT. Turns out Adric stays dead and he's treated like he's *actually* dead as well.
Off the top of my head -
Classic: Enlightenment or Robots of Death
Revival: Ghost Monument or Vincent and the Doctor
With Rob Grant gone I think we need to quietly put RD out of its misery and fund something that can be the *next* Red Dwarf.
Fun fact - the original plan for Sarah Jane was for her to leave in Season 13. Elisabeth Sladen thought Mandragora sounded cool and wanted to stay and make it, hence hanging on for 8 more episodes. Such a cool trivia point.
It’s 50 years since the end of The Seeds of Doom, which means 7 months until… oh god, I’m crying already. Nearly half a century!
Third Doctor and Donna
Eleven and Zoe (not just cause of the meta reason I legit think they’d be cool together)
Two of the characters are canonically dead (and one of their actors is also dead), another has gone batshit googo gaga, and Fillion is busy with the DCU. This’ll be… interesting? Depends what it actually IS.
So have they prised it off Whedon’s cold dead hands? Minear seems cool though
This is MIND-BLOWING. Literally EVERYTHING is getting rebooted? It was fine the first time!
Kinda fits my theory that people are not voting for any party in particular and are actively voting against Reform in any way possible. If LD, Green or Monster Raving were the tactical vote, they’d have won. People’s views are broad enough to vote for whoever isn’t Reform.
The War Chief is not the Master but he could easily be Brayshaw’s other character Leon Colbert, simply an undercover identity to study humanity during a violent period to see if they’re suitable for the games (and recruit Napoleon?)
We should start calling Edge of Destruction The Brink of Disaster just to mess around.
Everyone except Delgado is playing Time Monster perfectly straight and that's why it's so wonderfully stupid, Pertwee is basically Leslie Nielsen in it, plus the whole thing about it being full of ideas, which is why it ranks higher than Nation-on-autopilot Planet of the Daleks for me era wise.
Horns of Nimon starts to unironically work when you watch it as the Christmas pantomime it was meant to be and Crowden is deliberately doing a bit for the kids, not just throwing the towel ala Briers or Berkoff.
It's why I find the idea of the NEED for Christmas specials maddening, "it's Christmas" is not enough of a reason for a story to exist. The good ones had things to say beyond "it's Christmas". They're stories, not gimmicks. If you can't think of something, don't do it.
Now there's some bad Who with great ideas! But personally, I still have time for those ambitious failures like Web Planet cause they're trying! Vs Idiot's Lantern, or King's Demons or Wheel in Space. Yawn inducing. Nothing is there. It insists upon itself.
Great Who is connected by these ideas that the show can do anything, and MUST. Bad Who is "shit, we have an episode to fill... um... yeah that'll do". Formula, copy paste. Bad Classic Who is this, bad revival is this. But great Who soars no matter what era. It's all about the ideas.
I think basically all bad Doctor Who is generic and cheaper creatively. Great Who leaps off the screen with ideas and themes and weight and concept and ideology and so much more. Revival wise, compare Akhaten vs Cold War or It Takes You Away vs Ranskoor.
Yeah, everyone forgets 1985 was an actual cancellation whilst 1989 was just "it's resting until we figure things out".
On a scale of foot fungus and Inferno, it's definitely The Ice Warriors.
New theory - the Judoon at the end of Series 12 aren't arresting the Doctor due to the Fugitive, they're arresting the Doctor over a long-standing warrant for violating Clyde's ban on space travel in Death of the Doctor.
Season 17 of Doctor Who is the only season as broadcast that doesn't visit the UK. The only Earth story is France and a brief trip to Italy. Obviously Shada would've changed that but added it to the list of seasons with no London.
kris marshall the sixteenth and fifteenth and fourteenth and thirteenth and twelfth doctor
🤯The Doctor is coming to London Comic Con 🤯🤯🤯
Someone close to him needs to intervene and get him off the Internet, I am being serious.
*clears throat*
eRm AKSHULLY the 5th of March 1985 was a TUESDAY because The Two Doctors had concluded that previous Saturday the *2ND*
SACK -
In fact James Callaghan died *the day of the revival starting” meaning every Doctor Who show introduction has had a present or former state leader die in close proximity.
