Welcome, Who fans! Doctor Who is the longest running British Sci-Fi show. It features an alien scientist called the Doctor, who travels through time and space, trying to fix problems, which are often planet or universe-ending threats. The Doctor can also regenerate, a process in which he can avoid death by healing his injuries and transforming into a completely different person while still being the same fundamentally. This is why there are so many different Doctors throughout the show. Every Saturday, I like to go through a story of the show. Feel free to discuss anything Doctor Who, either about the story or just in general.
>>215488445Faggot show
You can watch Classic Doctor Who on Tubi, Pluto TV, Britbox, and it's also free on YouTubetonight's episode: The Androids of Tara
No franchise has been as thoroughly cucked as this
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>>215488445Every single Who fan I've ever met has been a sissy.
>>215488466>classic who>actor from a previous episode shows up as an important character>it's simply understood to be a real world coincedence>nuwho>actor from a previous episode shows up as an important character>THIS IS THE MYSTERIOUS ULTIMATE SECRET KEY TO TIME AND SPACE OF THE MEDUSA CASCADE ANAL PROBE WE NEED A 20-PART MULTIMEDIA SPECIAL SPREAD ACROSS COMICS AND AUDIO DRAMAS TO EXPLAIN THISwhy are they like this
>>215488445It might be so over...
Watching The Deadly Assassin right nowI love these old shows so fucking much
>>215489879Oh yeah, I'm mostly exclusively a classic Who fan :) I feel Classic had good writing but lacked in special effects and budgetNow nuwho has good special effects and the budget, but lacks the writing. Sad.
>>215489905I'd hardly say new who is lacking in writing, though that mostly depends on the season I feel. I didn't like the writing in the most recent season for example, I didn't like it that much in most of the Whittaker era, and I also wasn't too keen on the latter parts of the Matt Smith era. Though other than that, a lot of the good stuff in new who has been exceptional.
>>215489905sweaty 1980s sex with Peri
>>215489905What do you think about the classic shows redone with updated effects?I'm pretty sure that the very first episodes I ever watched was on a Sunday afternoon on the PBS station out of DC before pretty much anyone here was born. It was Revenge of the Cybermen and I remember laughing at the effects, especially right at the end when the beacon was crashing into the planet. Now I watch that and it doesn't bother me.The renewed effects in that particular scene kinda does bother me.
>>215490138The idea behind the updated effects on certain serials is good on paper but as always the BBC are fucking cheap and the new CGI effects end up looking worse than they did before.
>>215490138i don't really care as much about effects but i'd love if someone went through and re-edited them to have less filler and focus more on the main story. it doesn't need to be as breakneck as nuwho but there are some 8 fucking part stories that have no business being that long and there's so much shit in them where it's blatant they're just trying to fill the format, not that they really have a story that needs that many episodes to be told.obviously the job they did with The Daleks is a perfect example of how not to do this, trying to cram all that into one episode was retarded.
Which actor would you like to be the next Doctor? Mine would be Jamie Campbell Bower.
>>215490336Philip Hinchcliffe had the right idea when he took over as producer and the first thing he did was shorten every story to 4 parts instead of 6 like they'd been doing in the 3rd Doctor seasons. Only finales remained as 6 parts.
>>215490100I agree for the most part. There are certain aspects about RTD1 I don't like, but this was mostly the golden age of Doctor Who most people today know. It only started declining during the Moffat/Matt Smith era, still solid but a quality drop. Then by Whittaker it was pretty bad, I've seen RTD2 with Ncuti but it's pretty bad in my opinion. >>215490138I haven't seen much but I really like updated effects. A while back I was watching Day of The Daleks and I was surprised by how good it looked lol. More stories could use this. But I don't mind the corny effects, I think it's part of the charm.
>>215490499I honestly think RTD wrote better characters than Moffat did FOR THE MOST PART but Moffat also took away a lot of the corny soap bullshit that didn't age well from the first RTD era
>>215490345a heterosexual white man older than 40, beyond that i don't care. i don't watch enough british television to really have any candidates in mind.>>215490473i think the majority of classic stories could be done as 3-parters.>>215490570Moffat wrote better/more interesting stories (even if his conclusions could be crap, like Demon's Run) and had a much better grasp of the Doctor's character and the show as a concept. his time travel plots were always way cooler, a lot of dumb shit in RTD2 felt like him trying to one up Moffat's time travel plots. his devotion to the classic era of the show was also really apparent and he was making callbacks to classic all the time which i appreciated.
>>215490602He is almost 40
>>215490602>had a much better grasp of the Doctor's character and the show as a concept. It's funny because people will tell you that it's the opposite; that RTD understood who the Doctor was and it was Moffat who "made him a God" when that's not true.RTD is all about the Doctor being a lonely God, the Last of the Time Lords, the oncoming storm, the Time Lord Victorious, etc. etc. and Moffat is all about the Doctor just being a man in a box who happens to be at the right place at the right time.10 buys into his own hype, while 11 rejects it.
>>215491003Russel really loved being on the nose
