BetterFuckChuck
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Olivia Coleman would make a decent Doctor if she was picked around 2009 ish
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If I remember right she'd been offered the part before and turned it down but I can't recall when exactly that was, maybe after Capaldi?
starborn427614
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The Doctor was a renegade and regularly answered to the Time Lords. The Fugitive Doctor actively broke their contract with whatever-the-fuck that organization was called and was constantly being chased by their agents.
Apologies, autism and such.
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The only "autism" I see here is that people get paid to write this drivel and ruin what used to be a good thing.
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To be fair I think autism is a prerequisite to even like this show in the first place. Why else would I be watching British television stage plays from the 60s?
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For the love of God just please put it out of its misery already.
GlupShitto
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I will never understand the love for Hell Bent and the Missy shit as a whole (although that last episode with the Cybermen was solid). It's one of the worst bits of the entire Moffat era. One of the few good things I can say about the Chibnall era is that he just ignored it and brought the Master back as the Master. I know everyone involved in the modern era is adamant about avoiding the status quo of the classic series by not letting us get traditional Master or Gallifrey stories, but we're at a point where this subversion has gone on longer than said original status quo did. The War Games was twenty when Who went off the air, so the whole lonely god with no home bullshit is as old as the Time Lords were when the show ended.
skykiii
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A better question is, why wouldn't you? The alternative is to watch modern slop, which is infinitely more insulting to viewer intelligence and infinitely more brain-rotting than the British television stage plays from the 60s were.
It really is kind of sad how when you watch any sort of long running franchise, you can practically see human intelligence degrading over time.
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Yeah that's sorta the point of my last post but for a huge backstory the Time Lords gave to the Doctor's past they really haven't been around a whole lot in the series for the most part. EU media sure but as we've seen in SW any EU can be erased thanks to nuWho aka Chibnall, Moffat and RTD. I didn't like the fact that the Doctor and the Master were the last Time Lords and I definitely don't like that the Doctor isn't even a Gallefreyan anymore but some shapeshifting black woman because stupid reasons. So sure maybe they'll make a more permanent return but we gotta wait till RTD and his ilk are far away from the series assuming it'll survive at all.
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NO NO FUCK YOU DON'T REMIND ME THIS CREATURE EXISTS I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK ILL KILL EVERY FUCKING ONE OF YOU BEFORE I GO BACK!
...sorry...every time this specific cripple appears I have vietnam flashbacks to The Watch....fuck....fuck
My own trauma aside, it genuinely would not fucking surprise me given how this creatura has been pushed by the beeb for years now as a stunningly brave and hilarious actor and comedian despite having the charm and charisma and mobility of a slightly damp sack of potatoes and Davis is going full Paul Feig in faggishly giggling over how he is so #outragously #owning the #biguts even as his shit crashes and burns around him
I am guessing either some kind of overtly hideous genderblob, though I have zero interest in perusing Davis's asspatter ensemble or currentyear BBC enforced diversity hires to guess who it might be......though now that I typed this out I did have a seriously unsettling thought creep in to my gut.....or another desperate membaberries actor from when people still gave a shit about the series and who is not either too old or moved on to better paycheques, which for me would almost certainly be Billie Piper
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What ever happened to Bill? Did you know that she was a lesbian?
Idiot Asshole
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Because you're not man enough to watch British television stage plays from the 50s.
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Maybe you could add Colin Baker to that list if you were REALLY desperate.
Do people really put much stock into Big Finish stories? Everything about them I’ve seen looks like it’s just something to prove fan cred as somebody who watched the show before everyone else did back in 2005.
I’d say it’s more of a case of the writing being on the same level as fanfiction.
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Oh sure, the show going to hell after Moffat left was a big motivator for me to start getting into Classic Who. Although I really didn't start in earnest until this last year or two. Really enjoyed Troughton and McCoy in particular.
I do recall Russel saying that they auditioned a "non-binary" actor for 15 before settling on Gatwa so I shudder to imagine that he's following up on that. I wondered who it was, the only ones I can think off of the top of my head are the chick playing Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon (who once boasted she's "really good at playing women" like it was a flex) and the potato from Last of Us.
I'm really not, my interest in Doctor Who itself was really the only thing getting me through some of the really early stuff that just felt meandering. Even some Pertwee stories just dragged on way too long, there was no reason for these 8 part stories.
Not really, I think the consensus is that Big Finish has gone the way of the main show and should mostly be discarded. Some of the older stories were great though, they're lauded for being the only real source of Eighth Doctor adventures and for bringing back the other classic actors for more stories which were usually alright. I think around the time Chibs took over is when Big Finish really started to decline - it was already kind of crap before but that's when the wokeness mandates kicked in, so you had bad stories scraping the bottom of the barrel for cameos (picrel) and preachy wokeness to boot.
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They just won't let it die. Seasons 3 and 4 are a go if this is accurate. https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/doctorwho-futurereport-may25
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I'm curious to see what the show will look like in a decade of the UK continues its path of regaining its cultural identity and hopefully banning Muslims, troons, fags, and niggers. I know jeets will be a problem there forever, but that's God's punishment for colonizing india instead of sailing the other way once they found shit island.
skykiii
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All this stuff makes me think about the so-called franchise "Dark Ages" we always hear about. With Doctor Who its Colin Baker, with Scooby Doo its the Scrappy era...
But man, how naive we were. I've heard Colin already got a re-evaluation thanks to Big Finish's Sixth Doctor plays actually being good, but I imagine that impression will only rise because now Colin's era has to be compared to all the shit that happened way later.
But man, how naive we were. I've heard Colin already got a re-evaluation thanks to Big Finish's Sixth Doctor plays actually being good, but I imagine that impression will only rise because now Colin's era has to be compared to all the shit that happened way later.
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I'm not exactly an expert, but McCoy doesn't exactly scream "hot dude" to me.
I'd probably add McGann to your list though.
The wig's kind of goofy to me, but apparently chicks dig that shit.
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I suppose you could make the argument that Pertwee was the first attractive Doctor with his dashing aristocrat doing James Bond shit. Weirdly Tom Baker's weird bohemian clown was considered attractive too he especially took the show to it's second most highest ratings and had the hottest girl companions of course. I always considered Davison the most attractive Doctor. Then you got McGann and of course 10 and 11 Tennant and Smith. Your mileage may vary on Capaldi but I know a lot of moms liked him in previous stuff not sure why though? Jodie and Shooty might be considered the most attractive Doctors but with her looking nuts and he crying all the time not so much.
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The Doctor was never really a character to be lusted over in classic Who. It wasn't that kind of show. It was a genuine family show aimed primarily at kids. I'm sure there were some that fantasised about banging the Doctor but that would just be a very small proportion of wierdos.
Davison was probably the first you could describe as conventionally attractive but he was no "alpha chad". He was very well known to the audience as Tristan Farnham from All Creatures Great and Small, the younger and rather passive bother to Robert Hardy's much more domineering Siegfried Farnham. Davison was popular with the female audience but mainly in that "want to take care of him" mothering sense. That combined with the in control character that is the Doctor was part of what made his incarnation all the more interesting.
Colin Baker was much less known to the audience. His Doctor had less obvious appeal to the lustful and what appeal there was ended very quickly with his early very abrupt treatment of Nicola Bryant's Peri.
Sylvester McCoy was hardly what you'd call conventionally attractive but like Davison, he was very well known to the audience. He had been part of a children's show called Vision On made during the 60s and 70s and heavily repeated in the 70s. Vision On was a remarkable show. It was created primarily for the deaf with signing and limited speech - what we'd call woke today. It was hugely popular with the general kid audience being very entertaining and genuinely thunk provoking with more than a little touch of anarchy. It had animation elements leading ultimately to Morph and Aardman Animations. It had incredible art elements from Tony Hart (the stereotypical English posh unmarried uncle but not weird in any way - he became a staple of UK kids TV) such as using a sport's pitch lining machine. It would follow him making these lines on huge fields and you'd have no idea what what was being produced until the end when you'd get the completed perspective shot from the top of a crane and be amazed at how apparently random nonsense became brilliance. It also had McCoy who along with Wilf Lunn created insane contraptions and experiments many of which ended with explosions (which was always a good ending). McCoy brought this tinkering borderline lunatic character into his Doctor which again worked pretty well with the Doctor's core characteristics.
A lot of the companions were attractive, some very much so, but there was nothing sleazy about it. Aesthetic beauty yes; sexuality, not really and they certainly weren't flashing the flesh - OK maybe Leela but even there in the most asexual manner. The one exception was Nicola Bryant's Peri especially with those early cleavage displays. The thing is; there was a backlash with no small amount of shock and outrage at this introduction of sexualisation. And the reason for the shock was because of just how sexually innocent the show was. (Yes there's a certain amount of purving over Liz Shaw in Inferno but that's on the purvers.)
I like McGann but don't regard that as classic Who. It's in a strange twilght zone between classic and nu.
It's only with nu Who that you really get sexuality as a significant component and that's not been a beneficial change. It's undermined the Doctor as a character and made him a little less special, a little more grubby. Probably inevitable with RTD though.
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