@janetteb I think most of the Doctor’s have at least that one companion who they’ve got really good chemistry with, and Sarah Jane seemed to go well with the Fourth Doctor like Jo seemed to go well with the Third Doctor.  But I haven’t seen enough of either Doctor’s runs to know whether they had similar success with other companions.

@Janette Oh most definitely.  But you know, as I keep rewatching season 1 of the revived series, I notice how anxiety-inducing it still is a lot of the time.  In almost every episode they get in over their heads.  Just at least now it isn’t happening constantly lol.

So Father’s Day is one of those episodes that I think were better for me to rewatch this time than I remembered them being.  You have your bigger episodes like the premiere and the two-parters and the one with the Dalek, and then you have these smaller affairs – and this smaller episode turned out to be so great, I think, because it was such a…[Read more]

I haven’t got a lot to add here, either.  I thought the episode was enjoyable and psychic paper got a lot of use here.  It was kind of a cool twist that the woman who got promoted was part of some resistance trying to stop what was going on at the news station.  The woman who was upset she didn’t get the promotion turned out to be MVP and saved ev…[Read more]

Van Statten got what he deserved at the end of this episode.  The actor who played him oozed a certain upscale villainy quite well.

I think this episode was key for explaining more about the Time War, and that up to this point the Doctor and this Dalek were the only survivors on either side.

It was something how the Dalek absorbed Rose’s DNA,…[Read more]

I guess reading some of the old responses here I can see where these episodes weren’t perfect.  It was questionable how the whole episode ended with Mickey hacking into weapons systems and managing to guide a missile to the building to stop the Slitheen.

But I would agree with Tardigrade’s assessment that the episode had a lot of good elements,…[Read more]

On my rewatch I noticed that the Moxx of Balhoun actually died when the sun hit him.  Quite a lot of characters bit it in this episode to be honest.  But Moxx dying struck me in particular because that character actually had an action figure!

This was a pretty memorable episode and a pretty good one.  I had forgotten Cassandra was behind ev…[Read more]

I did a double-take because I thought Gwyneth was played by the same actress who played Torchwood’s Gwen.  She even has basically the same name!  I did not know whether she was supposed to be a distant relative of the character, but they are both from Cardiff so maybe.  That was probably the biggest thing I took from the episode on my re…[Read more]

So I just got HBO Max, and sat down to watch the first episode of the rebooted series for the first time in ages.  First of all it felt great to enjoy some Doctor Who again after all of this time, and there was quite a lot I didn’t remember from “Rose”.

To begin with, I think RTD did a fantastic job of centering this episode around the life of…[Read more]

So I saw some of The Sontaran Experiment, and all of The Android Invasion and The Brain of Morbius.  Obviously there are threads for none of these, so I’ll post my thoughts here.

First up, it was a bit stunning seeing the classic Sontarans because, in all honesty, they don’t seem far off from the modern incarnation.  I do question whether a Sont…[Read more]

So I finally got to see Frontier in Space in most of its entirety.

One thing I’ve noticed is how anxiety-inducing some of these old episodes are.  In every single episode of the serial there is some misfortune that befalls The Doctor – being disbelieved by two empires, being captured, being imprisoned on a moon, being tricked and locked in a…[Read more]

I got to see the last two episodes of The Daleks, and then The Edge of Destruction.

The Daleks surprised me with how high the stakes seemed to be and how scary the situation was at times.  The group of companions and Thals going and exploring underground passageways and rock climbing, and then Barbara nearly getting crushed under the door as it…[Read more]

So I watched Attack of the Cybermen.  …Of course there are only topics for two parts of this episode.  So, this is where the discussion will go.

The Cryons had a cheap but effective look.  If I’m not mistaken, they just took a ton of plastic wrap and went round and round to make the craniums, and then frizzled a bit around the mouth and ne…[Read more]

@janetteB Thanks for the welcome!  And yes, I will try to do some more though-posting as I watch more episodes.  Even if I rewatch new series episodes I’ve seen, I’d like to contribute something to the topic about it.  Especially with it being pretty much a decade since I was keeping up with the show.

I think it’s always a fresh experience wh…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Thanks for the welcome!

So I don’t understand this website because very few of the Third Doctor’s episodes even have a forum thread, and we have multiple threads for parts of the same stories.  I don’t understand why they don’t just let users make threads on this website since we have such a good community and could easily…[Read more]

I came here to talk about “The Three Doctors”, but there doesn’t seem to be an episode topic for it.  : /

I just watched through the old special and generally enjoyed it.  This was my first brush with the Bridgadier and Omega.  Both characters are probably well overdue for screen time in the new series, if they haven’t received any already.  In…[Read more]

Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek fame, best known for playing Uhura, has died at 89.

It seems I’m a little late finding out about it.  I consider Star Trek and Doctor Who to be prime examples of classic sci-fi, originating fom similar times.

@dentarthurdent

I could watch it episode by episode and try to give my impressions now on them.  I am sure there are several episodes where I won’t have anything interesting to say though.  Or maybe just comment whenever I feel like it’s worth doing.

I don’t want to put the pressure on myself to commit to this lol.

@blenkinsopthebrave

@janetteb

@devilishrobby

It’s sad to hear about Cribbins’ passing.  Just the other day I was talking about The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End, and made some comparisons to The End of Time.  Wilf had a pretty big part in those episodes, and in the regeneration of 10 into 11.  In a way Wilf’s exit from Doctor Who was my introduction to it.

@winston I also haven’t seen most of the classic Who, so there will always be new content.  With it being the better part of a decade since I’ve seen most of the episodes I did see, even that is going to be fun to watch again.  I don’t know when I’m going to get around to doing any of this – it could be a few months from now, or even a year.  Bu…[Read more]