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@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.

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@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.

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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 personal episode for Rose’s character.

The flying time wound monsters, I think, were the thing that initially threw me off about the episode, because of the sketchy CGI.  I wasn’t really bothered by it this time.  And I think that’s because I was more invested in Rose’s attempt to connect with her father in some way.

I forgot a lot of things from the episode, like little Mickey was there.  And that the Doctor had a way to make the TARDIS return to him with the use of a battery.  It was funny listening to Jackie get on Pete’s case about Rose, thinking she was the other woman.  Even the Doctor getting picked off by one of the monsters, I did not recall that.

At least this time around the car that hit Rose’s dad wasn’t a hit-and-run, and stayed to give information to the police.  And Rose got to be there for him in his final moments.  I am fairly certain the thing about the Doctor and Rose not encountering previous versions of themselves is wobbly writing, since the Doctor has interacted with other iterations of the Doctor on many occasions.

You know they really ought to have someone else cheat death or something just to bring these flying time monsters back, maybe have another go at the CGI for them.

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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 everyone by tampering with the thermostat.

Adam.  So on the one hand he wasn’t really the one who decided to go down to floor 16 and he didn’t initially want any chips or implants.  On the other hand when he went for it he went big.  I didn’t recall him saying anything in the episode about his dad being sick or anything so kudos to everyone who knew more about the initial plans for this story, that was interesting.  I guess it was kind of a weird way to end things with the character, but as Rose had retorted pretty quickly early in the episode, he wasn’t her “boyfriend” anymore.

And yeah, Simon Pegg stood out pretty well.

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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, and then healed itself back to working status.  When the Doctor first said the Dalek would find a way to kill everyone I had my doubts, but the episode went that way pretty quickly.  We see that bullets are pretty ineffective against a Dalek.

I had forgotten entirely about Adam and that he traveled with the Doctor for a bit.

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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, especially the Doctor not being able to ensure Rose’s safety and Rose’s travels impacting the people in her life.  The episode was also the introduction of UNIT into the new series, though they seemed so minor in the overall scheme of things.

Hearing that Mickey had to deal with a year of accusations that he had killed Rose made me feel pretty bad for his character.  And I had forgotten all about the whole aspect of the episode where the Doctor misjudged time and brought Rose back an entire year later.  I mean come to think of it, couldn’t they have just corrected that by getting back into the TARDIS?  Ah, well.

Seeing Harriet Jones go through all of this only to become a sort of villain one season later is kind of sad.  At least she ushered in three good terms of progress.  I haven’t rewatched Boom Town again and actually that is the next one I will be watching, but I don’t know/remember how the one Slitheen survived the events of this episode.

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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 everything, but of course she was.  It was kind of ironic that all of these wealthy aliens had gathered together to watch Earth’s final moments but nobody really got to watch it because of everything else that was going on around the outpost.

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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 rewatch.

I always kind of appreciated The Unquiet Dead because Eccleston’s Doctor seemed a bit more open to spiritual things such as the seance.  It is something I think most of the other Doctors up to that point probably would have taken a more scientific stance on.

Dickens basically saved The Doctor and Rose in this episode by messing with the gas.  They were quite literally behind bars while trying to get away from the undead people.

I guess just lastly I want to comment on how malicious of a creature the Gelth were.  I get it, they were caught up in the Time War and had lost their physical bodies, but it still doesn’t excuse how evil and menacing they were.

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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 Rose Tyler, and giving us a glimpse into her world.  We’re seeing the Doctor come back after some time, yes, but foremost this episode plunges us into Rose’s world.  It is appropriate that the episode was named for her.

Mickey comes off as mostly likable in the episode, offering to take Rose out for a drink after her work is blown up and being concerned about her.  And then he makes that comment about her doing anything to get into the bedroom and about staying away from his emails, which foreshadows that he might be on a different wavelength from Rose.  Rose’s mom kicks off the tradition of the new series involving family of the companions getting some screen time, and it’s funny and hard to shake the moment when she comes onto the Doctor while she thinks he is at her home to inquire about the explosion with Rose.

The Autons made a nice neutral enemy choice for the premiere episode, and an especially creepy one.  Having Rose work at a clothing store made them weave into the plot nicely as menacing mannequins.  The moment when Rose becomes trapped in the basement room with a gathering of Autons really did elevate the suspense.  The Nestine Consciousness is, of course, the real villain of the episode and the thing controlling the Autons, basically a pile of molten plastic in an underground vat.  Having it use the large ferris wheel to broadcast to the Autons felt like a stand-out British moment of the episode.

I forgot all about Mickey confronting the moving trash can, only to have it stick to his fingers and gobble him up.  And it goes without saying that I’d forgotten all about the rather hilarious “Plastic Mickey”.  Also gone from my memory was Clive, the conspiracy theorist who Rose reaches out to on the computer in an attempt to learn more about the Doctor.  Clive and his research of the Doctor being present at the Kennedy assassination, the Titanic and several other places was a stand-out moment for the episode.  It makes it all the sadder that Clive is a victim of the Doctor’s return later in the episode while shopping at the mall with his family.

While we’re at it I guess I could take a really good guess and say the Doctor regenerated into his Christopher Eccleston form shortly before the episode, or at least recently enough that he hadn’t really seen his face yet, as he comments on his ears while at Rose Tyler’s home.  If I had to guess I’d say that the Doctor regenerated from the War Doctor and went immediately to Kennedy and the Titanic within a few days of that event, before coming to present time where he was dealing with the Autons.  At least that is what would make sense given those plot points.

Rose ultimately makes good on helping the Doctor defeat the two Autons holding him, with a little help from gymnastics experience.  Despite the Doctor’s diplomatic approach to getting the Nestine Consciousness to leave, the end result is still killing it with the anti-plastic, and no tears are really shed nor should they really be since the Autons pretty much went on a killing-spree outside of the mall.

At that fateful moment at the end of the episode Rose is given the option to tag along with the Doctor…and she refuses, noting that she has to help her mom and Mickey.  The Doctor leaves.  I have to say, it irritates me that this was her answer, because it’s not like she couldn’t just say, “Let me clean up from the excitement from tonight and then I’ll go with you!”  You’re talking to someone with all the time in the Universe, it’s not like they can’t just hop in their TARDIS and meet you in a day or two when the timing is better for you.  Fortunately the Doctor comes back and reminds Rose that he can travel not just in space, but also in time, which I guess she must have forgotten about or else needed more pestering about it to push her to say yes.

All in all, it was a pretty great episode.  Not all of the Doctor’s companions get this kind of in-depth treatment like Rose and Amy, so whenever the opportunity comes along for the show to really invite us into the world of one of the companions it is a special treat.

Well, I am not sure how often I will be back to comment on other episodes in my rewatch.  This one definitely deserved the attention.

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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 Sontaran would do 1-on-1 combat with a knife or if they would feel that is too cheap as well.  It was fun watching his head “deflate” at the end, but after Styre’s defeat I don’t know what would be keeping the Sontarans from sending another scientist to perform tests immediately.

I didn’t care much for the Kraals.  To be honest, I thought the mask for the Kraals looked like a “melted”, hairy version of the Sontaran mask – which would be a clever way of reusing props if that’s what they did.  I did like the Android Invasion episodes, and how the actors acted like creepy androids half of the time.  I saw this was considered one of the weaker episodes in the season, but if it was then it sure still held my attention and moved at a decent pace.  It was a nice touch to have The Doctor reprogram his android at the end and send in his stead.

The Brain of Morbius was straight up just comical at times.  The best part was the Sisterhood of Karn, and the worst part was Morbius’ body.  It was also obnoxious how they made Sarah Jane lose her vision, which I am guessing was trickery of the Sisterhood but I don’t know if it was ever explained.  Solon oozed villainy quite well, a sort of Master-worthy villainy.  I felt bad for Condo, and really I mean he could have just given Morbius the hook arm.

Not sure what else to say, but Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen made a great Doctor/companion duo in this era.

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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 room without air, being held captive by The Master, being left floating in space after the police cruiser speeds forward, having Jo get kidnapped, and ultimately being shot by The Master.

I stand by my assessment that it would be good to see more of the Draconians.  And maybe the Ogrons because why not?

I think after this adventure The Doctor and Jo really could have used a break.  It’s funny when you realize it immediately leads into another clencher.

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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 locked.  If Doctor Who were real, then I imagine those things would be panic-inducing, not to mention the group having to come face-to-face with the Daleks and figure out how to free The Doctor and Susan from their metal restraints.

Since I didn’t see all of that special I can’t really comment on most of it.  It was apparently the first Dalek episodes, so I’d say that counts for something.

The Edge of Destruction.  Okay so I see above me someone had already commented on the thing I noticed – the scenes with Susan brandishing those big scissors was a bit frightful.  It was kind of cool to see an entire episode set on the TARDIS, especially in a show from the 60’s.  There were also some things that you never really see in newer Who that much, like beds and a machine that can produce milk or water on the TARDIS.

I felt at a loss of making sense of the plot of this episode, however.  I get that it came down to a button on the console being stuck, but then what caused the sharp pain in The Doctor or Susan’s necks, and why did everyone go a little crazy?  It is basically left up to the imagination to surmise there was some wibbly-wobbly stuff going on there.

I will say that I’ve enjoyed these Hartnell episodes quite a bit.  There is a certain magic there.  But I do wonder if Susan is a time lord, or what that whole situation is.  Is The Doctor really her grandfather?  And where did Susan go?  Just some things I’ll probably ponder.

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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 neck-disc.

The Cyber Controller made an appearance.  And we got a bit of lore about Telos and Mondas.  I didn’t know Mondas was a mobile planet or that Telos was a captured planet.

I thought for the longest time that Lytton was like the regenerated Master or something, but that obviously wasn’t the case.

Peri is an American companion to the Doctor!  It took me a solid 5 or 10 minutes to notice she wasn’t British.

The plot in this episode revolved around the Cryons having access to a large supply of explosive powder, which goes off between 10 and 15 degrees.  It is ultimately used to blow up the Cybermen’s base on Telos, but not until after several supporting characters are killed.

Lastly, it was funny seeing the Chameleon Circuit of the TARDIS work properly and disguise the ship as other things.

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@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 whenever series mainstays appear alongside other series mainstays.  I suppose I’ll have to be on the lookout if they show The Deamons in rotation.  It’s very likely the next time I tune in they’ll be on some other Doctor and some other season.

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@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 caretake and moderate this place ourselves.

That said, I also went on to watch Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks.  By this point I accept Pertwee pretty believably as The Doctor, and surmise that the change to color episodes really helped the series following the Troughton years.  Though I have only seen these three Pertwee specials thus far, I enjoyed much of what I saw.

Frontier in Space, I unfortunately missed chunks of.  I remember less of this episode than of the other two I watched through today, but I remember it featured the Master and the Draconians.  But this was the first time I really ever got to see the first Master in action.  Robert Delgado essentially set the tone for this character, and as this was apparently his last serial, he sent the character out with the sort of foul play one would expect of the character.

The Draconians had very well-done makeup.  And much like I said of Omega in the previous serial I watched, it would be interesting to see them make a return to the series one day in modern form.  I wish I could say I got to know the Draconians better, but because I missed several parts of the episode I can only use my imagination to fill in the blanks.  The episode also features the Ogrons, who are working with The Master for much of the episode.  I may be repeating myself by this point, but once again another set of beings that I might have liked to get to understand the motivations of better.

That episode ended with an unexpected partnership between The Master and the Daleks, and pretty much led directly into the next serial, Planet of the Daleks.

I’ll start by saying, I’ve still no idea what caused the Doctor to take ill at the beginning of this episode, though a gun did go off near him at the end of the previous episode.  But the episode featured a bacteria or fungus or tree sap of some kind that can make people ill, and I guess that’s what was up there.  It was interesting to see The Doctor enter a below-zero state to regenerate in that condition.

The episode features the Thals, the human-like race from Skaro who have a history with the Daleks.  We don’t see much of these people these days, either, do we?  It also featured the Spiridons, who might have been equally interesting, but who are shown to be invisible beings in most of the episodes, sometimes wearing purple furs to stay warm on the cold planet.  The Spiridons are mostly functioning as an enslaved race to the Dalek army on the planet.

Most of the episode revolved around people people captured by the Daleks and escaping, and the Thals attempting to set explosives in strategic places to wipe out the Daleks.  Initially they think the blast would be enough to wipe out a dozen Daleks, but it’s soon revealed by a reinforcement ship that there are over 10,000.

Probably the most interesting part of the episode was that the Spiridon planet had molten ice within it, and produced a type of ice that always stays liquid and never freezes.  This fact becomes the key to stopping the Daleks, as it’s learned that under a certain temperature the Daleks can’t survive, or at least function and will go into stasis for centuries.  It is decided, ultimately, to use the explosives to cause a chain-reaction and flood the Dalek base with liquid ice.

I guess if I had anything else to say it would be that Jo Grant, while not the most impactful companion to the Doctor based off of what I’ve seen, is still quite likable and has a good dynamic with the Third Doctor.  It also seems like she had a decent-length run on the show, and it’s no wonder she was anxious to go back home to Earth for a break after the events of Planet of the Daleks.  Hey, I’m not so sure I would be brave enough to break into a Dalek military base by hiding in a laundry basket, and have no real plan beyond that lined up.

I am likely to catch some other old DW adventures one of these days.  Hopefully some of them will have their own threads to talk about them on.

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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 particular, I just thought Omega would make a great villain if modernized, due to its origin as one of the time lords of old and creator of its own land.

Seeing Troughton and Pertwee work together was also a lot of fun.  If I had one gripe about the entire special it was how dishonest the title of the special was – it was more or less just those two Doctors, and occasionally they’d speak to the first Doctor over a television monitor.

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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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.  But I’m gearing up for it!

I think being able to go back and watch a lot of the series without too much bias will be great.  You know, I was hard on Smith during most of his run, when I really can look back on it and say that guy gave it his all from the minute he stepped into the Doctor’s shoes.  Capaldi and Whittaker may very well be the same situation.  But hey, a few years older, a few years less critical hopefully.

I’m both excited about and intimidated by rewatching the revived series.  It’s hard to say which I will feel more when the time comes that I do actually rewatch it.  You know back when I got into Doctor Who there were over 4 seasons of content.  Now there are over 13.  We’re approaching this point where the revival is getting weighty and has some years behind it, so it’s a little daunting.  But I’m sure that watch will happen, one of these days.

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@dentathurdent I think The Doctor him/herself would be one to live life in the moment and leave some things to chance, so I’ll submit that your snafu with the partition would have been Doctor-worthy.  🙂

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Doctor Who To Stream On Disney+? BBC & Disney Reportedly In Talks (msn.com)

I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned it here on the forums yet, but there has been talks about Doctor Who potentially moving to Disney +.

Currently here in the US, Doctor Who is streaming on HBO Max.  Personally I think that seems like the better fit, and I kind of hope it doesn’t go to Disney.  But that’s just my thoughts on it.  I also don’t really want a “Whoniverse” of the same magnitude as the tangled Marvel movies anyway.  I think one show is honestly enough.

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So my earliest brush with Doctor Who was probably quite late compared to a lot of people here.  I got into the series at the end of David Tennant’s run, beginning of Matt Smith’s run.  I don’t recall which episode was the first one I’d seen.

I ordered the DVDs from the 2005 season and watched through the Ninth Doctor’s adventures, and followed that up by gradually ordering each DVD of the Tenth Doctor’s run.  If the Eleventh Doctor was already airing when I became a fan, then I had caught up to the show pretty quickly.

I ended up buying all of the super-deformed Time Squad toys from the Tenth Doctor’s series, and the Ood one is what I’m using as my avatar here.  I was pleased with how all of those toys captured the majority of monsters from those episodes.

Season 7 I fell behind, in part because I think Season 6 might have been the weakest of Smith’s run.  I ended up catching up on all of the episodes and remember finally thinking that Smith had really hit his stride as the Doctor by some point.  I caught the Day of the Doctor and was glad that the series had finally touched on the events of the Time War, which was the one dangling thread from the revived series up to that point.

My last memories of the show are the first season of the Twelfth Doctor, which as I’ve mentioned else where I thought suffered from lousy writing at points.  But that’s been it!  It’s been the better part of a decade since I have watched Doctor Who now.  Despite plans early on to eventually catch up on Capaldi’s later seasons, I ended up mostly taking a break from the whole thing.

David Tennant remains my favorite Doctor of the revived series, but Matt Smith and Christopher Eccleston were also superb in the role.  I am planning on either jumping right back in where I left off, or else rewatching the entire revived series at some point.  I come back to the show with an open mind, and really just missing the Doctor and the fun of the series since I’ve been away from it for so long now.  Ready to give Capaldi a fair chance, and to see what Whittaker brings to the table.  And, of course, to see Gatwa in the role.

I would really need to think about it and probably do a rewatch before deciding what my favorite episode is.  I would say that Season 4 was my favorite of the Tennant era, and once again as my avatar might hint at, the Ood were one of my favorite creatures from those days.

To this day I think we are sorely lacking in needing a proper Doctor Who video game.  I think it might be kind of cool to have the player create their own companion to play as, or heck, even their own Doctor.  And the possibilities of who would show up and what could go on could be pretty massive in something like that.

But I think Doctor Who is one of the greatest pieces of sci-fi ever made, right up there with Star Trek.

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@winston I guess there are a few factors there that determine how good the new doctors are.

I think there is always a bias for certain Doctors over others, especially your first Doctor.  Like I consider Ten to be my first Doctor because he was still around when I got into the series, even though Eleven had been cast and that series was getting ready to begin.  And I ended up being fond of Ten’s run.  But looking back a lot of the other Doctors did a really great job.  Heck, a lot of props go to Christopher Eccleston for bringing the series back from oblivion with the right amount of mystery, warmness and temper for the Doctor.  I don’t know if the Ninth Doctor has made any sort of comeback in the show since Capaldi’s run, but I feel like he certainly deserves to show up for some anniversary.

@dentarthurdent I really hadn’t given it much thought, but your theory about DVD extras simply going the way of yesteryear could be true.  Which, I am really sort of surprised that Netflix hasn’t had the idea, “Hey, let’s make a category for each show for extras!”, because I know a lot of people who would absolutely love having that content available in any format.

I think, coming off of Matt Smith, it was like Moffatt went from having a show with a sensible plot, to one with a chaotic and unpredictable story every week.  We had a messy Doctor, and then we had a messy plot lol.  Like you’re going to the Nottingham Forest, from a story book….  Not that the Doctor hasn’t retconned things or gone to fictional places before, but it was so random.  Then trees and the moon, among other things – it just became a bit much in a season where we were already trying to get to know this new Doctor and find out who he was as opposed to our Tweed-fellow.

It actually just occurred to me that the Capaldi years started in 2014, so it’s nearly been a decade since that time.

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I remember these episodes really felt like the culmination of everything the revived series had been working towards at that point.  While I also enjoyed The End of Time, and the return of the Time Lords in that, I felt like these episodes concluded the story of the past 4 seasons.  (Minus the Time War, of course.)  The End of Time was more of a conclusion for the Tenth Doctor, while this was a conclusion for his companions.

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Nice to meet you, Dentarthurdent!  Yes, I am glad I am not the only person who felt that way about later seasons tending to get better!  I guess I would say I was okay with Matt Smith from the start, but it did take me a little time to really accept him in the role, though I think he played the character quite well from the moment he stepped into it.  Capaldi I had these higher hopes for, but I felt the writing for that particular season was just so odd at times…  I took a look and a few other episodes I remember being odd were the Robin Hood one, and the ones about the moon.  I remember I kept saying to myself I would catch up on Peter Capaldi’s other seasons, but then another year would pass, and I guess I ended up taking a break from all of it.

I used to have the Davies’-era DVDs, all the way through the Specials that aired prior to season 5, and I seem to remember them being decent on content as well.  I’m not sure why the newer seasons would be light on content, though perhaps it has something to do with the series barely airing in 2019, and Covid hitting in 2020.  Who knows.  Maybe it’s possible that Davies and Moffett were thorough at producing extras and bonus content as a byproduct of being such big fans of Who?  Or maybe there were just more Red Nose Day events and such things going on before.  Maybe they used up the budget on maintaining the look the series has now, lol.

Well with Whittaker’s last season being somewhat short, and her run ending on yet another block of specials, perhaps those DVD releases will see some extra content.

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I’m new to this forum, greetings everyone!

So I have been out of the modern Dr. Who loop for several years now.  The last series I watched was the first season of Peter Capaldi.  So I haven’t seen the majority of the 12th Doctor’s run, or any of the 13th Doctor.  But lately it’s really been feeling like high time to get back into things and catch up with all that I’ve missed.

One thing I’ve noticed is that I tend to like most of the Doctors late in their run.  It can take a while for the actor/actress to really come into their own version of the character.  Even if the actor did a smash-up job the entire run, it usually seems like by that last season they really find their groove and solidify themselves in the role.

I suppose I am curious about what all I’ve missed, and if there have been some noteworthy moments from Capaldi and Whittaker.  I’ll find out soon enough when I finally decide to subscribe and stream them.  Curious if anyone has some fond memories of those years?

I do remember thinking the 12th Doctor’s first season was rough around the edges in some spots.  Mainly it was a little irritating how trees were supposed to have this alternative purpose, and things like that.  But I suppose the season also had some good moments…  Hopefully the writing improved again since that time though.

Somewhat surprised there doesn’t seem to be an official forum for the show!  Or maybe the BBC just doesn’t want to have to be in charge of all that moderation yet.

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