alot of people in this fandom dont want doctor who to abandon the episodic format because them that what make it Doctor Who or its because thats the version of the show they grew up.

Personally, I think they need to abandon the episodic format.

the episodic format is dead almost no good show uses it and go for a low episode count serialized approach.

while doctor who cant do that since shows dont go on for 12 or more episodes unless its network tv maybe.

and when doctor who tried to do 8 episodes while still retaining the episodic format and we all saw how that fucking went.

They should just have the seasons be 3 to 5 episodes and have it all be serialized.

and before you say that wouldnt work. actually we already know it would how so.

torchwood: children of earth.

its shows a serialised Doctor Who who can work with the execution. i know alot of people dont like the idea of a serialized approach for the show but we have to do it if we want it to evolve and thrive. The show is literally about change and the fanbases refused to embrace change not even just bad change good change that will help it.

i love the episodic nature of the show, but if we want it to thrive in this era of television, we have to do it

and in a way it harkens back to the Classic Who serials which is very simialr to how modern tv works just in Classic Who's case they did multiple sets of episodes in one season instead of just a season with only 8 episodes.

its time for the shows format to regenerate just like the doctor does.

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So, the names of the Silurians and the Sea Devils don't really make much sense.

We know that the Revival Who Silurians are known as Homo Reptilius (evolved Reptilians). Then, the two different Sea Devil types from The War Between the Land and the Sea are known as Homospondyl Erectus (evolved Temnospondyls) and Homo Amphibius (evolved Amphibians). I think it's also save to assume that the Classic Who Silurian and Sea Devils (due to their different appearance) are also have their own different Homo classification.

We also know that collectively, the Sea Devils are all known as Homo Aqua, then this would presumably mean that the Silurians are known as Homo Terra, just like we're known as Homo Sapiens. But seeing as we are also known as Humans/Human Beings, what would the Silurians/Sea Devils "Human" akin name be?

Also, are the Silurians and Sea Devils kind of the same species that just evolved in different ways? Or are they actually just 2 separate species that just lived together before us Humans came along?

I'm 14 years old and live in Russia. I've been a fan of this show since about 2023. It seems the Russian internet audience isn't as close-knit as the British one.

The truth is, it's noticeable that the showrunners are running out of ideas and keep overloading the scripts. It would be great to have a successor to the Doctor who could start fresh from zero. That way, they wouldn’t feel the need to keep messing with the Doctor’s ridiculously complicated past — stuff like the Timeless Child. It’s better to leave that buried as part of the old legend than risk breaking it even more.

I know i know, done to death but I have an idea of how to reintroduce doctor who for a new era. Let's mix an Unearthly Child and Season 10's The Pilot

Forget everything from the past. Time skip. Our audience insert character is a graduate student who starts to develop a crush on his PI, an eccentric mysterious woman with quirky fashion sense and an all star at history (not Billie Piper).

Its one sided but our boy is smitten. We dont see much of her except through his point of view. She's always going off in the middle of lectures or one on one appointments for inexplicable reasons.

Until one day, our audience insert is in the library going over his data for his graduate thesis. He notices his data doesn't always add up. Slight changes in history appears when he swears it wasnt there before.

He goes to his PI and she's aware and is "looking into it."

Our guy is skeptical. It just doesn't make any sense. He wants to take a load off and goes to an <insert important contemporaneous to new series release date> event (he is a massive history nerd and wants to go to events he identifies as a potential historic moment) and he notices something strange. A potato man is seen trying to alter historical event. He follows him, gets made, and almost is killed but there goes his PI smashing the potato man with a hammer. She says "Sontarons, always perverting the course of human history."

She takes him out for drinks afterwards (not because she likes him, but because he saw something he shouldn't) and tries to debrief him. He admits he likes her. She rebuffed him, for now (I can go either way if they develop a Rose/Doctor relationship) and says "what if I can help you with your thesis and you can be sure that the data won't change?"

He says of course. She asks if he can give her a lift home. He obliges. She directs him way out of town to an old telephone police box. She says that's her. Hes confused. She turns to him and states: "you can either leave and continue with your life or you can follow me. If you follow me, the world -- no, the universe, all of time of space will never be the same. You might die, you might lose your mind. Are you sure?"

He hesitates and goes "well, I really want to do finish my thesis."

"Well, come along...what is your last name again?"

She leads him into the TARDIS. Cue reaction. Cue the "bigger on the inside" bit She reveals herself.

"You may know me as Doctor Smith. Smith is the false bit. Call me Doctor, wanderer of the fourth dimension. I'm countless years old, one might say im timeless. I'm an alien. This is the TARDIS; Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, coined by my granddaughter. If you are looking for primary sources, they are all outside of that door. Want to fix history from Sontaran meddling, learn first hand what you are writing about?

After some light q&a, he agrees. "Well let's go then, all of time and space."

Series will go like this: dude and Doctor has to stop in every once and awhile back to the university. Our audience insert has got a semblance of a social life and even a romantic interest. Doctor still has to deal with random stuff (we can sprinkle in some references from New and Classic Who regarding what shes been doing when shes not travelling with companion) as they try to get to the bottom of the Sontaran plot. However, it may be that the Sontarans are being tricked into doing the bidding of the big bad who may be wanting to change history to achieve a goal. The Doctor and companion have some work to do.

Companion will be mostly the star of the show. The Doctor is a borderline Co-star as we start to uncover new mysteries. I'd imagine once companion get his thesis written we can shift to the Doctor's point of view and go on from there. There are a ton of ways we can take this, from being employed by UNIT again to teach or an arc where she finally leaves the university to travel uninhibited once more. Its a nod to all starting points thus far rolled into one.

TL;DR: POV from companion for most of the series as a graduate student trying to be a doctor himself. Doctor is his PI on earth trying to investigate a possible Sontaran plot trying to change history. Shenanigans ensue. Slow drip New and Classic Who continuity as we go. After initial companion leaves, we shift to Doctor's point of view.

What do you guys think, good idea?

Note: Locum Doctor means a physician who temporarily fills in for a regular doctor

Big Finish once did a set of three stories called The Locum Doctors Trilogy in which future incarnations of the Doctor found themselves mysteriously displaced and standing in the place of a past incarnation.

The displaced future Doctors had to work with their past incarnation's companion on a prior adventure and not disrupt history.

The Fifth Doctor was in a First Doctor Adventure in a pseudo historical battling the Monk with Steven and Vicki

The Sixth Doctor was in a Second Doctor Adventure in a Cybermen Story with Jamie and Zoe

The Seventh Doctor was in a Third Doctor Adventure with Jo Grant

If there were a new set of Locum Doctor Stories which Doctors would you substitute for what kind of adventure and which companion would the displaced Doctor would work with?

You can also pick to have past incarnations fill the role of a future incarnation as well.

For example:

The Seventh Doctor in a Fifteenth Doctor Adventure in a Pantheon Story

The Eleventh Doctor in a Second Doctor Adventure in a Land of Fiction Story with Jamie

The Fifth Doctor in a War Doctor Adventure

The Ninth Doctor in a Third Doctor Adventure in a UNIT & Master Story

Just read this exclusive DWM coverage of the discovery in which Phillip Morris Specifically states Episode 3 was never among the Episodes he saw. Was this a mistake or did he just make up Episode 3's dissapearence later?

“These films were discovered in Nigeria,” Philip exclusively tells DWM. “They weren’t actually at the station they were sold to, they were at a relay station. In Nigeria they have an internal bicycling system. We had the privilege of working with the Nigerian Television Authority, who have been a great help to us in determining what they had of their own recordings and overseas recordings. Fortunately for us, I was at a station, and I saw a piece of masking tape on a shelf. I looked up and it said ‘Doctor Who’. And I thought, ‘That looks interesting!’ I pulled a film can down and I saw the story code: ‘Doctor Who. PP’. I thought, PP, let me have a check. I checked on my list and realised this was an episode of The Enemy of the World. So I pulled that can down, I saw there were six cans, and I thought, okay, there are six cans, so it’s possibly complete – but we’ll have to check that the contents match the cans, as cans get reused, or people put things in the wrong place. Then I counted another set of cans, which was Episodes 1 to 6 of The Web of Fear, except Episode 3. Episode 3 was not amongst them. So I checked those, they were complete, and I thought ‘Well, that’s not too bad!’”

I struggled with it at the time. My opinion hasn't really changed - The Well is a script built entirely on RTD banking on the cultural conversation/clickbait headlines that were generated around 'LOOK, HERE'S A CLIP OF DAVID TENNANT IN THAT EPISODE YOU LOVED! REMEMBER THAT? DO YOU? DO YOU REMEMBER IT!' without actually thinking about justifying why they're using the same monster.

I think there's some good bits in it, Rose Ayling-Ellis in particular is terrific, but I'd much prefer it to have been the original plan to have the monster be the Orisha spirits.

It wasnt as good as i expected, or wanted.. but i did love the acting, but the fact that the eighth doctor gets so little screentime after that is sad.

Ace was supposed to be connected to Gallifrey and the Time War, what if the Doctor actually forced her out of the war when he found out she was involved then edited her memories so that it would be something more standard like him forcing her to go too far?

This is a very specific question I am not asking who your favorite doctor is nor which doctor was the best. I am asking in the role who played the part better as an actor. I think they are some actors you cant consider for example Tom Baker is a fan favorite Doctor but in some stories he stops trying. Slyvester McCoy has some issues delivering the anger and self righteous speeches he did get better at this during Big Finish but I am talking about the show. Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker both said they didn't really act as the Doctor just played themselves and I enjoy their eras and doctors but I think this rules them out for being the best in the role. Hartnell did fantastic and I know the show was recorded like a stageplay until the 70s so line flubs would have to happen (and he had health issues) but he did more than Throughton so I feel that rules him out.

In my opinion the people who played the part the best are either Patrick Throughton, Peter Davidson, or Matt Smith. I think both Smith and Throughton can do a wide array of emotions, have the physical elements of the role down, really sell the "Who" in Doctor Who. Davidson while found plain my many when given the ability can perform every emotion we see him angry in Arc of Infinity, he sells the moral conflict of the Doctor and the anger has towards Davros in Resurrection of the Daleks, and he doesn't ever appear to phone it in. He doesn't have a naturally deep voice or commanding presence like the Bakers and Pertwee but he is able to portray it.

I've always seen everyone state this as a fact but when I watched Jodie's era I didn't notice when they said that spy came after Missy

As we all know, the new series has had several adaptations (directly or otherwise) of material from the extended universe. Dalek (Big Finish), Rise of the Cybermen (also Big Finish), Blink (DWM), Human Nature (Virgin New Adventures), The Lodger (DWM), The Star Beast and possibly more. If the TV show does return, what would you like to see be adapted for television with a new Doctor?

Note: much like the examples above, they may be quite similar to the original material (Star Beast, Human Nature but with a new context) or less so (Blink with its original form being a younger Sally Sparrow one-shot comic).

I myself would quite like to see if they could pull off the following:

• Absent Friends (the Doom Coalition audio)
• Shakedown (VNA)
• Vampire Science (EDA)
• Urgent Calls (Big Finish 1-part audio)
• Voyager (DWM comic)
• The Tides of Time (also DWM comic)

Amid all the doom and gloom and confusion and other tabloid nonsense and depressing realities of modern TV...

Let's say nothing goes wrong, some wonderful company gets the tender, and the new Doctor is announced.

Who is your dream Doctor? Let's not hold back. Who would be brilliant? And why?

Let's just have some fun with this one, eh?

OK small introduction: I am a very casual Who fan who's only watched all or most of doctors 1, 9, 10 and 11. And some of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. I also have never been on this sub before I just felt like ranting. Please diss me for being such a filthy casual!

Anyway, I see people swear up and down that 11 is their favorite doctor from NewWho. I'm currently doing a NewWho rewatch, and the last time I tried this (about 5-6 years ago), 11 is where I lost steam. On this rewatch, Series 5 for me stands out as by far the worst-written NewWho series of the first 5 (can't say definitively for 6 as I remember very little).

First of all, I really don't like how STUPID everyone is. Everyone acts like an absolute fool in nearly every high-stress or spooky moment without exception. No one listens to the Doctor, especially not Amy, who spends nearly every moment on the screen ignoring what he tells her to do and doing the DUMBEST possible thing in a scenario. The supporting characters are also all helplessly stupid. I couldn't stop facepalming in "Flesh and Stone" as the soldiers continue to walk into the delete-forever hole in the wall despite Amy warning them not to. "Cold Blood" pmo so bad when the woman whose child and husband are being held hostage kills their only bargaining chip despite being explicitly told not to.

The Doctor has become so reliant on the Sonic Screwdriver in this series that it's amazing that everyone doesn't have such a device. It doesn't just lock doors, it disables guns, it stuns monsters, unlocking wood has become basically the only thing it can't do. And it's such a shame, because it means the Doctor and Co. are never really forced into creative solutions for small problems, it's always just waving what has basically become a magic wand.

And my last huge critique that bugs me so bad... The writing. I'll just highlight the main thing that really gets me going, the bootstrap paradox, the most egregious examples of which are in "The Lodger" and "The Big Bang." This is such lazy writing that it's unbearable. In "The Pandorica Opens," it ends with the Doctor in a box that cannot be opened, Amy dead on the ground, and the entire universe wiped out. At this cliffhanger, I was actually, seriously excited. "How on earth is he going to fix this mess?"

Then, the writers pull the single most lazy trick I've ever seen.

To surmise:

The Doctor travels back in time and gives Rory his screwdriver
Future Doctor tells Rory to go and take him out of the Pandorica and put Amy in there
Rory does that, freeing the Doctor
The Doctor goes back in time to do step 1.

This is so dumb! I can buy the Bootstrap Paradox as a deux ex machina under limited circumstances, but solving the entire big cliffhanger of the last story in the series with a bootstrap is such cheap writing. I really struggle to see how people can look past the problems with the writing in this series. While I really like the actors, the monsters and the concepts in this series, man the writing is really trying me.

My question: Am I blinded by nostalgia for Doctors 9 and 10? Did they have these same problems but I just can't see them? I'm going to try to soldier on through 11 this time. People swear by 12 as a great doctor and I want to give him a try this time. I've never actually made it to Series 7, does 11 improve considerably there?

Apologies for this very long and rambly post and my general negativity. I hope I haven't broken the rules of this sub in any way. Have a great day/evening!

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this IS a serius teory i have since a kid, is imposible that the fourth doctor never hook up with all his females companions,

first and second were to old, and third only was unit co-worker, but IS imposible that later incarnations of the doctor doesnt have an off screen intimate Life, for example peri and sixth in real Life would be two straitgh mature persons sharing Life togerher

also i cant imagine seventh having intimacy with ace.

in the new show this theme IS more clear

There's a lot of talk about the "new wilderness era" and how it will hopefully boost a lot creativity in the EU.

However, I think a lot of people forget the reason the original wilderness era was so far out there, was because of the BBC not giving 2 fucks about the franchise at the time, and basically gave the writers carte blanche to do what they want.

I'm thinking books like Damaged Goods, where the Doctor takes a line of cocaine. Or Combat Rock which features graphic depictions of rape and cannibalism.

What's some other examples of stuff the BBC would never allow today?