r/DoctorWhumour

Things you hated in Doctor Who... that never happened!

Shortly after John Hurt was introduced in The Name of the Doctor as "The Doctor" I saw a video of a few kids that had just watched the episode. The poor buggers cried their eyes out, because they seriously thought their beloved Matt Smith would soon regenerate into that sad-faced old grandpa. They absolutely HATED his guts!

To be fair: We all were puzzled over this reveal back in the day. But there were more than enough clues that this couldn't possibly be a future incarnation of the Doctor. As if the BBC could afford John Hurt for a full run as the Doctor!!!

Now and then there were moments people hated on changes in the show that never happened, due to a lack of context, lines they'd missed or jokes by the showrunners that had been taken WAY too serious. What do you remember?

u/WachbaerWien — 11 days ago

Let's play "Um, Actually..." Doctor Who edition

Rules are simple: You make a statement concerning Doctor Who and the others have to guess what's wrong with it! Example:

The Fourth Doctor had a robot dog once named K-9. He called him his best friend!

"Um, actually: He called K-9 his SECOND best friend!"

u/WachbaerWien — 11 days ago

Interesting Fact: The Church on Ruby Road, indirectly canonises that Queen (Queen Elizabeth the 2nd) is officially dead in the Whoinverse, allow me to explain

The policemen seen here has the CR logo on the hat, due to change in Royals after the Queens Death with Charles in charge, he is the first one to do so in Doctor Who.

You seen the Met Police in real life had the ER 2 for a long time, the E stands for ‘Elizabeth’ and the R for ‘Regina’, which means Queen in Latin. This was reflected in TV and Film, UK police in those had ER in fictional and non fictional media. However she died in 2022, and Charles, now King Charles the Third, took over and now the Police changed ER 2 to CR 3. This has made it's way into the TV and Film media.

So cut to here, which was last minute scene, they add this scene to CONRR, which was the real Fraser sign was visible and not Henricks and i guess they found a seemly mostly accurate Met Uniform which even seemly has the 'Greater London Police' placeholder for rights issues, which is the usual affair for other TV shows but not Doctor Who as never really bother with this, they also get a bodycam and walkie talkie together, which is also interesting as Police uniforms sometimes are seemly cobbled together and not this well put together, and as result the CR3 logo was put here.

This also confirms that scene does indeed take place 2023 as well.

I know this a pointless yap of nothing but i just wanted to point this amusing detail.

So yeah from CONRR, the Queen is indeed dead

u/IllustriousAd6418 — 11 days ago

Funny how Doctor Who did Secret Invasion better than Secret Invasion did Secret Invasion

For non-Marvel fans, same premise, alien shape-shifitng displaced refugees are hiding amonst humans with the help of the alien-aware secret agency, but a small gang of extremists don't want to hide and kick off trying to antagonise the humans against themselves.

It was also a flop compared to the original comic-counterpart, and Doctor Who did the concept better in 90 minutes than Secret Invasion did in 6 epsiodes / 3.5 hours

u/ArizonaFlats — 11 days ago

What are your thoughts on Series 1,what is yout favorite story and do you think this season even nowadays aged well?

Honestly what a season to introduce you to the show,when i watched this back in 2015 i completely loved it. I just loved Eccleston as 9 and Rose was so likeable,theres also stuff like Dalek,Fathers Day and Empty Child that were just amazing. Slitheen were a cool thing they did and i wish they appeared more. Wish he stayed longer?

u/Mat1711 — 11 days ago

Wen you realise there are 2020 games left :P

Technically first player to get to 1012 games wins the series. If it stays close, 2023 games max. 3 have been played, so 2020 games.

u/marblesandcookies — 11 days ago

How it feels to watch that season:

(Thought it was funny so I made a low quality meme of it...)

u/TeamSkyCat — 10 days ago

If you had your own TARDIS would you immediately set sails through all of Time and Space? Or stay there and enjoy having all the rooms you could ever want to yourself?

u/WachbaerWien — 10 days ago

FanCast these Gentlemen (The Bonds Actors...Minus One) in Doctor Who

In honour of another Franchise Birthday, (in Movies Wise) I would love if you guys cast these men in Doctor Who. I was going to list them all but one beat the others to it! (Notice the Clear Lack of One!!!) Please don't be Nation Baised since on is an Aussie and another is an Irishman! Happy Bond Day Whoviains. Don't repost this on r/JamesBond because I want to ask the Bond Fans Next on November 23rd! Also before anyone asks: Please don't be a Troll, yes one of the six was Lord President Rassilon doesn't mean all should be cast as him! Good Luck!

u/Amazing-Activity-882 — 10 days ago
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This is even funnier with context of the show and what was happening around the time of it's first series broadcast

u/IllustriousAd6418 — 14 days ago