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Which season of Doctor Who should get a Blu-ray set next? This poll is closed. |
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| One of the black-and-white seasons |
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16 | 29.63% |
| Season 7 |
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7 | 12.96% |
| Season 11 |
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1 | 1.85% |
| Season 13 |
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0 | 0% |
| Season 15 |
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2 | 3.70% |
| The Key to Time |
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21 | 38.89% |
| Season 21 |
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0 | 0% |
| Season 25 |
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7 | 12.96% |
| Total: | 54 votes | ||
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Welcome to the stopgap Doctor Who thread, where we re-litigate the (season) 30s and speculate misinformation on how to watch the show outside of the UK. ANYWAY, Russel T Davies and his independent production company Bad Wolf have clearly won over the Goon audience, what with the last thread (for four episodes) getting almost as many pages as the thread for Whittaker's first season and New Year's special (eleven episodes). Will the honeymoon last? We won't know until May, when Doctor Who returns! Or debuts, if you believe the Walt Disney Company. The previous thread can be found here Now, the formalities. NO SPOILERS We have a designated spoiler thread that is thankfully relevant once again. If you think it's a spoiler, don't post it in this thread! WHERE DO I START? The Church on Ruby Road is the easiest place to start, given that it features a new Doctor and new companion giving first impressions. Hey, you finished! If you want to watch the original series, there are plenty of places to start. You COULD start with An Unearthly Child and watch everything in chronological order. You could also watch individual serials of all the Doctors and determine which you like the best. Keep in mind, don't shotgun a whole Hartnell or Troughton in one go, or else you'll get complacent. Those 60's episodes are meant to be seen one at a time, and if you only just rented the DVD, wait a few hours between episodes. The most popular serials for the original series you can jump into are: First Doctor: An Unearthly Child, The Aztecs Second Doctor: The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Enemy of the World Third Doctor: Spearhead from Space, Carnival of Monsters Fourth Doctor: Pyramids of Mars, The Robots of Death Fifth Doctor: Kinda, Frontios Sixth Doctor: Vengeance on Varos, Revelation of the Daleks Seventh Doctor: Dragonfire, Remembrance of the Daleks HOW DO I WATCH DOCTOR WHO? If you're in the UK, it's easy - turn on BBC One to watch new episodes, or fire up your iPlayer and watch almost every episode of Doctor Who in existence! For everyone else, it's complicated. Here's where you can stream: 1963-1989: BritBox 2005-2022: Max in the United States, Prime Video in Canada, and Foxtel Now in Australia (if you live somewhere else, I'm sorry, but I can't put every nation here) 2023-20??: Disney+ And no, it's not getting any simpler. Also, don't ask about how to stream the TV movie, because I can't find out. Leave me alone! SHOULD I BUY THE DVDs AND BLU-RAYs? Just for the bonus features alone. They can't take those away from you! THE ALL-NEW GUIDE TO BIG FINISH There are literally THOUSANDS of Doctor Who and Doctor Who-related audio dramas released by Big Finish Productions. In previous threads, I would pour over all the individual lines and describe them. With the great restructure of Big Finish lines, though, I have to adapt. So, here are some bullet points: -Doctors 1-12 have their own individual lines now, although obviously the first three Doctors are not played by Hartnell, Troughton, and Pertwee. Here's a handy guide: if it's current series Doctor Who, "Adventures" means it's the actual actors, while "Chronicles" means it's not. -The Companion Chronicles & the Early Adventures generally do not feature the Doctor, and some of them are essentially audiobooks with sound effects. Check the cast list if you want to know which is which. -If you have ever asked "what about <random character x>?", boy are you in luck! There are so many spin-offs featuring characters both familiar and unfamiliar that you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a series that makes you say "THEY got a series?" Some are good, some are bad, most are unremarkable. -Everyone has a taste, so don't rely on other people's opinions. For example, I don't care for or about Charlotte Pollard and her spin-off, but some people do! Some crazy people enjoy the story Nekromanteia - you do you! THE DISCORD Here it is. The future is now! FINALLY, let's take a look back....all the way to ten years ago! Plavski posted:I hate that cold feeling of horror that shivers up my spine whenever I remember Bonnie Langford was a companion. 
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Dec 30, 2023 06:19
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There's a reason the End of Time is a punching bag on Radio Free Skaro, particularly the potions bit.
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Dec 31, 2023 03:03
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This derail reminds me of when Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS aired and uninformed Americans believed the character of Albert Steptoe was Black.
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Jan 1, 2024 19:05
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Doctor Who: ((Scottish noises)) Moffatt 
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Jan 5, 2024 00:55
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I've always wanted to see a Doctor Who episode with the setting of the Klondike Gold Rush. Obviously the villains wouldn't be Cybermen, but there's plenty to mine there.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:32
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2house2fly posted:I can take or leave the first ten episodes of series 9, but the last two are some of the best the show's ever done. So on balance it's a good series. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there has not been a single episode of Doctor Who before or since as good as Heaven Sent. Yes, the Caves of Androzani, but that’s four separate episodes.
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Jan 5, 2024 23:36
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LividLiquid posted:Moffat's run is my favorite and it's not close. I speedrun 9 and 10 to get to 11 and 12. It blows me away that people think he sucks. I liked Coupling for what it was 
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Jan 7, 2024 20:45
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I don't think anyone said anything about the private collector with two missing Doctor Who episodes reluctant to reveal their identity for fear of prosecution, but I guess it's something to discuss.
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Jan 11, 2024 09:14
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The_Doctor posted:The Blu-ray collection continues with Season 15 That one person who voted for Season 15 will be over the moon!
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Jan 11, 2024 18:30
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If only the Ninth Doctor asked Rose if she had stairs in her house....
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Jan 14, 2024 22:47
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Hollismason posted:I got past the Aztecs lmao Ah, the Sensorites. Few people doing the Hartnell watch-through make it past there!
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Jan 15, 2024 19:30
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Hollismason posted:Any thread suggestions for watching certain episodes of Doctor Who out of order? I'm super enjoying Genesis of the Daleks. I slave over an OP, and this is the thanks I get?
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Jan 15, 2024 23:10
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My random classic episode selector is "what Blu-ray did I just get for Christmas?" It looks like....Timelash?!?!?!?
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Jan 15, 2024 23:54
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My first classic serial was Planet of Evil, and I turned out OK.
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Jan 16, 2024 02:35
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Hollismason posted:Hrmm so this episode comes with a precursor warning that people may find it offensive. Obviously this is going to be hella racist. I'm assuming you're watching the Talons of Weng-Chiang, which is probably the most unfortunately racism-adjacent serial. If not for the yellowface, you'd bet your rear end it would be the #1 story of all time.
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Jan 22, 2024 00:07
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SirSamVimes posted:time of the doctor sure is a messy episode, huh Considering Moffatt had to 1) do a Christmas episode 2) do a regeneration episode 3) wrap up the Eleventh Doctor's lore and 4) explain how the Doctor can regenerate beyond 13 times, it was as good as it was going to get.
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Jan 23, 2024 01:03
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Creature posted:Why on earth were the Smith/Capaldi/Whittaker blu-ray collections only released in Germany? They’re a much better solution than individual series sets. I know Smith and Capaldi had all-encompassing Blu-ray collections - I own them! Whittaker, though...
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Jan 23, 2024 22:04
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Hollismason posted:Not a fan of the Underworld at all. Rather boring and its a story that was already done this season . Don’t worry, that’s the popular opinion.
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Jan 25, 2024 00:44
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Hollismason posted:I'm not that impressed with Season 15 other than those two stand out episodes.. Yeah, season 15 is not one of the best, yet somehow is next in line for a Blu-ray release despite the Key to Time being right there!
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Jan 25, 2024 03:28
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Something I missed on the first watch of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: the Doctor claiming that he’s (probably) a Sagittarius. I laughed when I looked up the dates that a Sagittarius is born under.
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Jan 26, 2024 09:23
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Hollismason posted:I stand by my assessment. The overall outfit is alright but the shirt with question marks is too much. You’re not going to enjoy the 1980s, then.
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Feb 2, 2024 02:31
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If Pete McTigh is to write another episode for Doctor Who, someone else needs to be in charge of naming them. He's 0-2.
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Feb 7, 2024 07:49
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I just realized a missed opportunity in Twice Upon a Time for Moffat to explain away William Hartnell fluffing his lines on occasion. You had your chance to make it a feature, not a bug!
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Feb 8, 2024 08:45
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You know what? You've got a point there. Probably for the best.
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Feb 8, 2024 10:04
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February 2020 was decidedly pre-lockdown. It was, like, days after the Timeless Children aired that everything shut down.
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Feb 8, 2024 21:43
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Dabir posted:Ah, so Jodie survived because she was also breaking a glass ceiling 
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Feb 12, 2024 23:41
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Jerusalem posted:I feel like a broken record at points, and part of why it has taken so long to run through write-ups for this run on the show is that I feel like I'm often saying the same thing. There is potential in Chris Chibnall's era of running Doctor Who, but it never really realizes it. There are talented actors, great intentions, a welcome embracing of diversity both on-screen and behind the scenes, the germ of good ideas, plots that COULD be developed into something special. But it never quite manages to pull it off, with even the best episodes having flaws that largely require the viewer to deliberately try to ignore or forget those parts to keep them from pulling down the good. Chibnall has a set of familiar tricks in his toolbox, and he's far from alone in this, both RTD and Moffat often went back to the same well too. But the execution of these ideas matter, and where RTD and Moffat could (usually, not always) make these work, for Chibnall they fall flat more often than not. Which is, you know, a drat shame, because on paper I really like a lot of his ideas and I want them to work. But how many times can I say that? Seventeen more times, by my count.
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Feb 13, 2024 16:17
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Jerusalem posted:This legit gave me a moment of dread before I went and counted and it's "only" 13. That's only a single (RTD first run) season! Oh yeah, Flux is six episodes. I forgot!
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Feb 13, 2024 20:21
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There were too many proper nouns in episode titles during the Chibnall era. What's wrong with calling an episode something like "The Eaters of Light"?
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Feb 13, 2024 23:54
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I just realized the double meaning for the episode title of A Holiday For the Doctor (episode one of the Gunfighters). 
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Feb 17, 2024 23:48
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In another example of forgettable characters, I had to search Wikipedia to find out who Professor Jericho was.
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Feb 18, 2024 23:44
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I don’t get fan Wikis, but then again I’m a very boring person.
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Feb 26, 2024 04:35
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The 13th Doctor isn’t really a character, as much as a blank sheet of paper that things happen to.
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Feb 27, 2024 19:59
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For Flux to be bad, it would have to muster an emotional response.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:27
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The Rings of Akhaten is comprised mostly of third acts, but there is no second act in the story. It's kind of weird.
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Feb 29, 2024 06:46
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I don’t know what any of that means.
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Mar 8, 2024 05:27
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Pinwiz11 posted:I'm eagerly awaiting Who to return in May, likely when I'm on vacation because why not? I’m just wondering which bank holiday it’ll start on.
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Mar 15, 2024 01:56
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This sounds a lot like the broadcasting of Class (remember Class?)
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Mar 15, 2024 17:11
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We MAY need to make changes regarding this thread's policy for untagged spoilers. And by may I mean will.
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Mar 15, 2024 22:40
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It turns out we’re not getting AN episode of Doctor Who on 11 May. We’re getting SOME episodeS of Doctor Who. Two, to be precise.
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Mar 17, 2024 08:51
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