14th Female Doctor for the wrong reason not the right

Edward M. Grant said:
Wasn't he a Big Finish creation?
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The War Doctor was a Moffat creation for the 50th anniversary specials in 2013. The Big Finish audios for the War Doctor were made between 2015 and 2017.
 
farntfar said:
Oh, calm down everyone.

As Onyx says, it's meant to be fun. And at least until we've seen some of the new series, that's what I'm looking forward to.
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Are you both mad ???

Supposed to be fun ???

Well let me tell you there's nothing "fun" about Doc Who.

Lest we forget the in a Bill Shankly-esk fashion

It's much more serious than that.

It's all right for you youngsters: sitting there in your nice lounges with your high teas watching the next episode of dross the EBB churns out in the franchise.

But I come from a generation where Doc Who was more serious than death. When the talk in the school playground on a Monday was all Doc Who.

Did you get to see it? (some parents in those days were responsible and wouldn't let thirteen and fourteen year olds watch age inappropriate content).

What about the way the monster bit the head of that dog? would be discussed all through assembly and the morning break as well. God knows how O levels were passed.

What do think will happen next. How will she escape the ten tentacled octopus that has it's beak round her neck? Would be the talk in the park, interrupting the game of football after the program and all through Sunday.

Now-a-days all that has faded. Nothing happens in the first twenty minutes (establish plot location and characters) Oh look, it's an old Ned lighthouse keeper setting, (again) and look that light in the sky - I bet that's significant, probably aliens again it usually is - Daleks - Cyber men - Gut Rippers from the planet Zigwy. Oh well maybe this one will be different (yeah right) -

It'll probably be a "leave or be wiped out ten centauries ago" ending, the usual plot.

Then there'll be a five minute joking in the Tardis session (probably ten this week - new Doc and all).

Out we go onto the lighthouse platform where old Ned threatens them with prosecution for being there and sticks his shot gun up the Doc's nose - Then the old "I don't like guns" line. Then the aliens'll show up - Sad about Ned, but he was warned.

Doc gives it to the aliens after having his side kick, thoroughly kicked

Then back in the TARDIS for another laugh and a joke for five more minutes , then roll the credits and Match of the Day.

Whereas we, the true believers and chroniclers of the Who life line. We had to suffer. Our heroes where left in peril and we didn't know about the gold leaf: that in those days Daleks couldn't fly: so all she had to do was run upstairs. That the octopi tentacles and beaks were just a holographic projection and the horrendous nightmare inducing creature from Zigwy would turn out to be just a slug on the grass.

No, you youngsters have it easy. No back of the sofa for you lot. No wetting yourself (so I was told) when the alien appeared with it's monster brain sucking appendage.

Fun

PAH!!! You have no idea.
 
@TheEndIsNigh I also miss the death of the Serial as apposed to the Series - Doctor Who and Batman - where you couldn't wait for next week to see how they would ever get out of that situation (often for it strangely to be completely rewritten in a different way.) That is what you get with catch-up TV and Boxsets - no one is prepared to wait anymore.
 
TEIN, I don't recall it myself, but there was an episode where a man's face melted off on-screen. Apparently that got some complaints (I used to own the book of it but gave my Doctor Who books away some years ago).
 
TheEndIsNigh said:
It's all right for you youngsters:
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I'll have you know I watched the first episode; although I didn't do my O levels until 10 years later.

I don't remember the brain-sucking episode though.
Sounds more like Man from Uncle to me. (There was an Uncle story where scientist's brains were sucked clean over the telephone. I remember it had Commodore Schmittlap in it.)

The Daleks' brains used to bubble out of the top of the pepperpot if they got killed sometimes.
 
farntfar said:
I'll have you know I watched the first episode; although I didn't do my O levels until 10 years later.

I don't remember the brain-sucking episode though.
Sounds more like Man from Uncle to me. (There was an Uncle story where scientist's brains were sucked clean over the telephone. I remember it had Commodore Schmittlap in it.)

The Daleks' brains used to bubble out of the top of the pepperpot if they got killed sometimes.
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But did you see it twice due to the assasination?

Oh by the way :- The Brain Sucking episode will be aired on 21st Dec 2093 when such things will be common in the real world.
Remember this is a SFF strongly author/writing based site and poetic license is always in the mix. Especially when trying to win a point
 
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TheEndIsNigh said:
Then back in the TARDIS for another laugh and a joke for five more minutes , then roll the credits and Match of the Day.
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It's being shown on a Sunday: so no Match of the Day. Instead there'll be a Match of the Day 2. (Nothing, it seems, is scared sacred....)
 
Well I was playing with time a bit anyway. Afterall isn't MOD and MOD2 shown at about 10.00PM

Not that any sane person would watch such dribble anyway.
 
The female doctor almost makes me curious to go back to the series. How are the new episodes?
I stopped watching at the beginning of the 'Moffat Regime'.
 
The Moffat regime has been very uneven. Series 5 was very good I thought. Series 6 was too, but it was much like the Marvel franchise in that you need to have been following it to understand what's going on. Every other series has been a mix of good and bad. I felt Capaldi's earlier seasons contained more bad than good, but his later ones had more good than bad.

On the whole I would say he runs a better series long story than Russel T Davies, and most of his season finales have been better too, tending to be more emotionally driven than just "Let's add more Daleks and/or threaten more of the Universe with going boomshatter".

Except for Heaven Sent. That story can go jump off a cliff.
 
Dave said:
What about the story where the Moon is an egg, and hollow, and made of cheese, or something (I stopped watching it so no idea)? Wasn't he involved in that one? I think he wrote it.
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It's Doctor Who...didn't Tom Baker impale a giant vampire living underground with a spaceship? ;-)
 
Venusian Broon said:
It's Doctor Who...didn't Tom Baker impale a giant vampire living underground with a spaceship? ;-)
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The secret vampire wars History archive on his Tardis described how the Timelords had created Bowship with which to impale the Vampires in the heart. He used part of an old earth spaceship to that effect.
 
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Kill the Suspension of Disbelief Moon was written by Peter Harness.
 
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