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DW could’ve had a full series in 2009 if Tennant wanted it; it wasn’t until midway through Matt’s second that budget overruns started to be a massive thing that they had to do slip to “a new bunch of episodes roughly every eighteen months”. The announcement at the NTA that David was stepping down was the biggest chad poo poo I’ve ever seen, though.
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Dec 1, 2022 19:44
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Yeah it seems like RTD did an ok job with the books side of it - the series got all wonky under Moffat's tenure. IIRC his pitch for splitting the series was "well now we get to have EVEN MORE DRAMATIC cliffhangers." lol
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Dec 1, 2022 21:18
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Right, the only reason the year of specials was that way was that Tennant was off doing plays and stuff. The BBC side was fully prepared for a full season.
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Dec 1, 2022 21:25
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Dabir posted:Right, the only reason the year of specials was that way was that Tennant was off doing plays and stuff. The BBC side was fully prepared for a full season. RTD talks about that in the Writers Tale, having the show cool off a bit allowed it to come back as an event.
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Dec 1, 2022 21:36
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Well I sure am glad we all have to wait a whole goddamn year for more Doctor Who just so it's on the 60th
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Dec 1, 2022 22:29
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Big Finish's version, with it implying that Susan got killed in the Time War is fine. Messing out with explaining Susan's nature, or regenerating her just seems like a mistake. Having the character be a painful, distant memory that drives the Doctor on works fine. I like the bit in Nightshade where 7 tells Ace that he thinks about Susan every day, but eventually stands by his decision. 
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Dec 1, 2022 23:43
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Oh yeah, I'd be more than happy to leave Susan exactly as the show left her, I'm just considering other ways to salvage that Timeless Child bullshit. In the end, perhaps the method that Chibnall himself came up with is the best: the Doctor dumps the whole thing in the garbage and never speaks, references or thinks about it ever again.
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Dec 2, 2022 01:06
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i want the Doctor to vocally dismiss the entire concept as absolute bollocks in every single new Who episode going forward for the next 60 years.
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Dec 2, 2022 01:31
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Jerusalem posted:I'm just considering other ways to salvage that Timeless Child bullshit. Just double down on Time Lords Are EVILLLLLLLLLL Choose your poison - Fugitive Doctor is a clone of the Doctor, hence "Same brain" - Fugitive Doctor is a future incarnation of the Master, hence why they have no qualms with using weapons, who still draws from memories that were once in the Doctors body. - Timeless Child still occurs, they're just false memories implanted in the Doctor via Chameleon Arch fuckery while they were trying to research the history of the timelords - "We collapsed a parrallel universe entirely, that's why your memories got all hosed up and why you can regenerate past 12 times. You've seen the life of that universes Doctor" - "You've hosed around with the TIme Vortex one too many times, and your memories get intertwined with our progenitor. Now you know our secret, prepare to die" The harder one to unfuck is Cyberlords, and the Master murdering all the Time Lords off screen.
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Dec 2, 2022 03:06
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Infinitum posted:The harder one to unfuck is Cyberlords, and the Master murdering all the Time Lords off screen. Romana: Oh that? Yeah he just loving lied. Doctor: But that's... well yeah that's pretty in character.
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Dec 2, 2022 03:36
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I mean, the Doctor DID go back to Gallifrey, and there were no Time Lords there.
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Dec 2, 2022 03:45
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he looked for like 15 minutes when everyone was out on a picnic
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Dec 2, 2022 03:48
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they can restore a backup from the stasis cube or something
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Dec 2, 2022 03:56
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Edward Mass posted:I mean, the Doctor DID go back to Gallifrey, and there were no Time Lords there. Romana: We were at a very bitter, recrimination-filled arbitration meting with Rassilon. Believe me, most of us WISHED we were dead by the time it was over. So did Borusa, but I mean, that's understandable...
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Dec 2, 2022 04:11
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He destroyed one of the Nine Gallifreys made during the Time War as decoys for the Daleks.
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Dec 2, 2022 04:27
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Also we saw the Fugitive Doctor’s Time Lord handler so they still exist in the past, it’s not like the Time War where they were gone from all of time and space. Just go back a few days before and tell them to hide. I don’t think it’ll happen under RTD’s watch since he never seemed to have much use for the Time Lords and is probably fine with them being gone again, but it’s easily fixed.
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Dec 2, 2022 04:40
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The_Doctor posted:He destroyed one of the Nine Gallifreys made during the Time War as decoys for the Daleks. 
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Dec 2, 2022 05:27
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"We used real Time Lord corpses to heighten the believability, cause we're evil"
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Dec 2, 2022 05:37
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I just imagined Gallifrey had been wiped out by some sinister malevolence and the Master just happened across the aftermath. And of course instead of trying to find out who did it or the implications, he just decided to claim credit for it and try to use it to dick over the Doctor with a recovered Matrix slice he could mess with.
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Dec 2, 2022 06:28
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Just do a Modified 6B Theory: Two basically gets strong-armed into working for the CIA, and then at some point after Two Doctors, he has to regenerate into Fugitive for reasons unknown. She does more dirty work for the CIA before the first fight against the Sugar Skull Gang. There she finds out some poo poo she shouldn’t have, tries to bail for a bunch of time before she gets found and then is forced to regenerate into Three, with the Time Lords being like “well if you like Earth so much why don’t you just stay there”. Also fixes up the plot-hole with Fugitive having the blue box before stealing the faulty TARDIS.
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Dec 2, 2022 15:17
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TinTower posted:Just do a Modified 6B Theory: Two basically gets strong-armed into working for the CIA, and then at some point after Two Doctors, he has to regenerate into Fugitive for reasons unknown. I feel like Russel T. Davies probably won't go for something that draws so heavily from the lore when trying to invite new viewers, especially when most people don't see the blue box as a plot hole. Unless he's going for a full-on Timeless Child retcon, I'm not seeing it happening, though I'd like to. The Fugitive Doctor is good, but the lore she was saddled with is very bad.
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Dec 2, 2022 18:19
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https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1598708817184841728?s=20&t=FEpMQ7fCXLYsHiSc2CViCQ
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Dec 2, 2022 19:24
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Davros1 posted:https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1598708817184841728?s=20&t=FEpMQ7fCXLYsHiSc2CViCQ That man's spray can game is on-point. He's not even using a stencil!
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Dec 2, 2022 20:09
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TinTower posted:Just do a Modified 6B Theory: Two basically gets strong-armed into working for the CIA, and then at some point after Two Doctors, he has to regenerate into Fugitive for reasons unknown. This has been my take on it as well, it's just a separate thing to the Timeless Child nonsense, she's just one of the forced regenerations foisted on the Second Doctor before they ended up at the Third. I honestly, legitimately thought we were gonna get a final episode where the Fugitive Doctor starts regenerating and then cut to (the HD!) footage from Spearhead from Space of Pertwee falling out of the TARDIS.
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Dec 2, 2022 23:17
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Davros1 posted:https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1598708817184841728?s=20&t=FEpMQ7fCXLYsHiSc2CViCQ Yeah, I'm pretty psyched for this. Though they've gone from 12 episodes to 9, unfortunately. The last two seasons were really great.
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Dec 3, 2022 00:45
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, I'm pretty psyched for this. Though they've gone from 12 episodes to 9, unfortunately. I'm seeing the site saying each set is four discs?
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Dec 3, 2022 00:55
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Davros1 posted:I'm seeing the site saying each set is four discs? Oh sweet, hopefully that's correct (there have been errors on the site a lot recently -- e.g. Scott Handcock being credited twice as the script editor for the first of the new season sets). I was basing my deduction off price comparison. BTW, someone really needs to go through and fix the BF credit listings generally. There's a deadnamed author and everything.
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Dec 3, 2022 01:21
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Jerusalem posted:This has been my take on it as well, it's just a separate thing to the Timeless Child nonsense, she's just one of the forced regenerations foisted on the Second Doctor before they ended up at the Third. I mean, my whole view on the Timeless Child thing is "you're trusting the Master on this? The exact same man who proved the Matrix could be edited?". It would be funny if the Timeless Child was the Master all along, though. 😂 (Also, if you add in a memory wipe, then you can write away Handy counting as an incarnation as Eleven knowing he doesn't have any juice left in the regeneration tank but he can't figure out why because he can only count eleven previous faces.)
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Dec 3, 2022 01:37
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Open Source Idiom posted:Oh sweet, hopefully that's correct (there have been errors on the site a lot recently -- e.g. Scott Handcock being credited twice as the script editor for the first of the new season sets). I would email their customer service and let them know
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Dec 3, 2022 01:43
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Davros1 posted:I would email their customer service and let them know They've been informed. They haven't changed anything.
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Dec 3, 2022 02:33
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Calling The_Doctor and all McGann fans: https://www.moviejawn.com/home/2022/11/28/doctor-who-am-i-examines-a-lesser-loved-incarnation-of-the-beloved-franchise Documentary on the 1996 movie and the guy who wrote it, featuring McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, and examination of American Who fans, and a shout out to Big Finish. Turns out the writer is the son of the guy who played Doc Holliday on The Gunfighters. I didn't know that. I want to watch this, though I'm not sure where, as when they say it's appearing on "Streaming" that's a bit vague...
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Dec 3, 2022 04:13
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It's on iTunes Uk or whatever and the bluray is also on Amazon UK available to ship to the US (i dont know where you are) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Am-I-Blu-ray/dp/B0BGPYV3SD/?fbclid=IwAR06s2MjZ9n5pDmoHq_7u7a22QYyr7xXtGl1WHsIOCrh17U_y7b0Bfk8exE https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/doctor-who-am-i/id1649818300?fbclid=IwAR28Z6XOyr4ynQgFpsPADElp-vylBmqyZ9v0IEzSjuAn4q80PYSOkXHWmwc
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Dec 3, 2022 04:19
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TinTower posted:I mean, my whole view on the Timeless Child thing is "you're trusting the Master on this? The exact same man who proved the Matrix could be edited?". It did crack me up that the entire argument the Master makes (and the Doctor accepts) is that what he's showing her MUST be true because it's in the Matrix, which is an infallible record of all Time Lord history. The Matrix, a device that was first introduced back in the 1970s as being an infallible record of all Time Lord history... that was shown to have been compromised and its records faked even in that very first story.... by the Master! 
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Dec 3, 2022 06:33
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Astroman posted:Calling The_Doctor and all McGann fans: Oh, is that what that is? I’ve been getting adverts for something called ‘Doctor Who Am I?’ in my FB ads for weeks, but no clue as to what it actually is, as I don’t generally click on ads that aren’t clear about what they’re selling. Huh, might be interesting then?
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Dec 3, 2022 11:34
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Davros1 posted:I'm seeing the site saying each set is four discs? 3 stories + interviews
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Dec 3, 2022 18:57
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Filming for series 14/season 40 started today.
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Dec 5, 2022 21:02
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We’ll probably see a costume reveal very soon, then. https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1599848595691343882
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Dec 6, 2022 01:52
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Desperately looking in the shadows behind the camera slate for any sign of the St John's logo 
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Dec 6, 2022 02:01
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Jerusalem posted:Desperately looking in the shadows behind the camera slate for any sign of the St John's logo Extremely terrible idea: Fourteen decorates the TARDIS exterior like a nerd decorates the back of their laptop. It starts with a St John's Ambulance logo, but every single story they add another sticker from wherever they went until eventually you can only vaguely tell the space under them is meant to be blue.
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Dec 6, 2022 02:07
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The inverted colours on the sign 
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