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I would bet we are unlikely to ever see another release of this 2007 mobile game. It wasn't great. I played through it when it came out in an afternoon, I remember writing a review on my old blog.

Anyone else have memories of this?

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Bill was robbed.

She had such a great disruptive way of reacting to things that really kept the Doctor on his back foot. Loved her so much and also wish I could find her top from Smile for my wife. Seems to be long sold out.

JODIE WHITTAKER

played The Doctor with an energy and enthusiasm that was absolutely infectious. I loved the way she would talk like a woman running off a cliff, turn back over her own dialog with corrections and revisions like she was off that cliff in Coyote Time.

Look no further than the great Thirteen cosplay we’ve seen in the Who subreddits to see just how much representation matters. She’s a great Doctor, and it’s great that she got to BE the Doctor.

I would have loved to see more of her tinkering like we saw in her introduction where she made her own

SONIC SCREWDRIVER

I didn’t much care for the look of the new screwdriver, but I loved that it was so different from what had come before, and that she made it herself, by hand, at least partly out of spoons. She perfectly encapsulated that mad inventor identity, and no episodes showcased that identity better than

THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH and THE GHOST MONUMENT

This one-two punch pair of stories is easily one of the best new Doctor intros the series has ever seen. It’s exciting, interesting, fun, and at times genuinely frightening, with one of the greatest cliffhanger endings to the first part and resolutions in the second part that this the show may ever see. The ship crash sequence alone is one of the most intense and spectacular moments in franchise history. And speaking of that introduction,

TZIM-SHA IS A COOL RECURRING VILLAIN

Eat my salad, Halloween! The Stenza are such a good idea. It’s been done in sci-fi before, sure, but I don’t think Doctor Who ever did the trophy hunter alien concept better than this. Really reminds me of the Hirogen in Star Trek. But if we’re going to talk about villains in this era, there’s only one who stood tall above the rest, and that is because

SACHA DHAWAN IS ONE OF THE BEST MASTERS

He’s better than Simm, better than Ainley, better than Roberts… you need to reach all the way back to the best of the best for comparisons, to Missy, and of course to Delgado. He has a gravity, a cruelty, an enthusiasm and an incredible deep level of ruthlessness that may be beyond any previous incarnation we’ve seen. Perhaps even more importantly, he does not feel derivative of any previous Master to me. He could have been a new Time Lord villain, if not for trademark elements like the tissue compressor. I adore that the near redemption we had for Missy at the end of her incarnation was sabotaged by her past, turning the Master worse than ever. That is poetry.

Really, he was such an evil Master that they needed a bonus Doctor to take him down, so thankfully

JO MARTIN IS A GREAT DOCTOR

This is not a hot take at all, most of the fandom seems to agree that Martin makes a great Doctor. She’s severe, powerful, impatient, crafty. The Timeless Child arc isn’t everyone’s favorite, but I loved it, because it adds a lot of meat to the Doctor’s backstory, and gives her one more big reason to have fled the Time Lords, even if she didn’t remember that at the time. It also opened the door not only for the Fugitive Doctor to have independent adventures, but other past Doctors who we can be introduced to in the future. But enough about the future, because there are

LOTS OF HISTORICALS IN THIS ERA

Doctor Who has been short on historicals for a very long time, and while we can’t call the Thirteen era episodes “pure” historicals I guess because there are aliens in them, we have still had a bunch of good stories wrapped around historical figures and events. The peak of these has to be the story about Partition, because

DEMONS OF THE PUNJAB IS PRACTICALLY FLAWLESS

This is god-tier Doctor Who. I love the fact that the villain isn’t a villain. I love what that antagonist turns out to be in the end. I love all the characters, I love the tragedy, I love the feelings we get to sit with as we watch history play out. This episode succeeds where the Marvel series Ms Marvel did not, though that was also good.

The other thing that’s good are time loop stories, so look no further than the perfectly executed

EVE OF THE DALEKS

This has everything a holiday special needs. It’s self-contained, it has some character advancement, it’s scary and fun and at times heartwarming with some romantic threads as well. And I love a good time loop story. This was an era that did a really good job of making the Daleks scary, using only one to a handful of them at a time, and it did that in a way that seemed effortless. I took it for granted at the time, but it’s really great.

Reached this moment at the end of Zygon Inversion tonight on my Capaldi rewatch. I was relieved when Clara left the first time around, but this time, I’m not looking forward to it.

I feel like he's probably had enough.

This came in a Loot Crate and I recently placed it next to my bed. I need to hand wash it in cold water but just being stepped on has made it start to fall apart already. I guess they don’t make em like they used to.

I just spent two days trying to find this exact behind the scenes photo of Mary Tamm from Ribos Operation. I think I even found the photographer's blog but all the links are broken on that page. Thankfully someone had tucked it away on Pinterest.