In 2005, I was so happy to have new Doctor Who in my life. In 2006, even more incredibly, I got back my Sarah Jane Smith.
“You were my life.” Oh yes!
What's on your mind?
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In 2005, I was so happy to have new Doctor Who in my life. In 2006, even more incredibly, I got back my Sarah Jane Smith.
“You were my life.” Oh yes!
For some bizarre reason, UK newspaper The Express recently (on 21 March) ran a story headlined: "Cancelled Doctor Who episode would have completely changed show's history".
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2030686/cancelled-doctor-who-episode-would
Essentially, it's referring to a Series 1 episode originally supposed to be written by the much-admired screenwriter Paul Abbott, which would have been likely called "The Void". The apparent twist: that Rose Tyler's connection to the Doctor wasn't just a matter of chance—it was by design. That the Doctor had, in fact, "played a role in Rose's creation, manipulating events to ensure she would become his companion".
For various reasons, we didn't get "The Void", and Russell T Davies had to fairly quickly write the relatively low-key "Boom Town" instead.
But would "The Void" really have changed the series?
And why are they bringing it up now, 20 years later?
You read the title - what's one favourite line that stands out from every Doctor? You don't have to do all of them, you can just choose a few highlights, which is what I'm going to do.
Second Doctor - The Moonbase (TV, 1967)
'There are some corners of the universe, which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought. To the death...
Eighth Doctor - Storm Warning (Big Finish, 2001)
'That's adventure; the thrill, the fear and the joy of stepping into the unknown! That's why we're all here, and that's why we're alive!'
Insert whole Twelfth Doctor Heaven Sent 'hell of a bird' speech here. I'm not writing that whole thing out word for word.
I read this a few years ago on this wiki and found it rather interesting. It's been lying on one of my "post this onto TARDIS wiki" notes for many years now, so! thought I'd post it here today!
In a Doctor Who Magazine, Jamie Matheison said:
As soon as I found out that Oxygen was due to be a space story I started trying to figure out a way to incorporate the character of Gus.
For those of you not familiar with Gus and seriously, why are you even reading this piece if you aren't?) he was the homicidal computer in Mummy on the Orient Express.
In that episode his origin was left purposefully vague, mainly because explaining the whys and wherefores of the bad guys behind it all would have taken more screentime than we had to play with.
Leaving Gus vague and mysterious saved me five pages of script.
And also, really, once the mummy was out of the way, the audience was subconsciously getting ready to put the kettle on. We were wrapping everything up, which would have made unveiling a shadowy organisation an annoying detour.
But in doing this, we left an irresistible glamour and question mark hanging over the character of Gus. And with Oxygen, surely, I had a chance to fill in the blanks a little.
Having Gus and his corporation revealed as the baddies behind it all would be a nice surprise, but then what? What would be the new angle?
What else could I reveal about them?
What I came up with was this:
The finale began much as the finished episode - the blind Doctor wiring the survivor's lifesigns to the nuclear core. If they die, the station will blow up. But this information wasn't intended to just teach the suits, it was instead transmitted to the head office. Blackmailing the corporation from afar.
And it worked. The corporation deactivated the suits remotely at the last possible second. An oily fat cat rep of the company called Kline appeared on a monitor. He claimed that the company had been impressed with our heroes' resourcefulness and gall, offering them all stock options and higher paid positions. Attempting to buy them all off, in return for not blowing up their precious station.
But the Doctor turned him down, got everyone inside the Tardis and blew the station up anyway. He instinctively felt Kline couldn't be trusted as even though the Doctor was blind he recognised his voice - as the voice of Gus.
The Doctor revealed that the events of Oxygen occurred decades before the events of Mummy On The Orient Express. The corporation behind Chasm Forge would apparently someday have a section dedicated to analysing and acquiring murderous ancient technology. Kline's fall from grace for fumbling this negotiation would eventually lead to him being fired, only living on after his shameful demotion as voice of the company computer.
Effectively, through his own actions, The Doctor had created Gus...
All of this worked fine in the script, with some lovely exchanges between The Doctor and Kline, but ultimately, it faced the same problem as Mummy. Once the monsters were defeated, we should have been wrapping everything up, not unpacking more story. It was kettle switch time. Steven felt that the monsters were too good. Anything after them would be anti-climactic, and I agreed.
So all references to Gus were cut and the ending changed to the what you see in the finished episode. The only thing that remained was to reword the poster that Bill sees while waiting for her suit to auto-repair. It originally read: 'Ganymede Systems - putting the YOU in User' which hinted at a possible future name for the company:
Ganymede User Systems...
GUS
This has always bugged me and I'm curious what others think. We're always told how the War Doctor was willing to be a soldier and do what other Doctors couldn't, but this has never seemed accurate to me. Several Doctors have killed people and destroyed planets, but the War Doctor is supposed to be the one who broke the promise.
Same with the War Master, who claimed his other incarnations couldn't do what he did; keep in mind all these others are killers, one of which wiped out a good chunk of the universe.
Is there something I'm missing? Is it more show vs tell? I'd love to hear what everyone else thinks.
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Do you think she survived in the wood after Finetime has been destroyed? It would be fun to see her again.
One thing I find fascinating about her is that from a real-world point of view, she is satire of several millennial stereotypes:
Finetime at first glance looks like a utopian ultra-connected community as envisioned in the early 2010s
People are overreliant on their smartphones, i.e. their dots and bubbles
Lindy's clothing style is similar to millennial "preppy" look
She looks thirtyish, but she acts like a teenager (delayed maturity).
She is also really entitled
If you had to create a ranking of all 15 of the main Doctors, what would your list look like?
My list would be:
1. Patrick Troughton
2. Peter Capaldi
3. Jon Pertwee
4. Tom Baker
5. Christopher Eccleston
6. William Hartnell
7. David Tennant (10)
8. Matt Smith
9. Sylvester McCoy
10. Peter Davison
11. Colin Baker
12. Paul McGann
13. David Tennant (14)
14. Jodie Whittaker
Not including Ncuti since I don't feel it's fair to judge him until all of his episodes are out; but feel free to include him in your lists if you want.
Have you ever placed something in between 2 opposite facing mirrors? It becomes infinite in the mirrors (Try it out by getting two mirrors opposite.
“What holds the image of an angel becomes an angel”, so, if you place an angel in between 2 mirrors, there will be INFINITE weeping angels.
Don’t blink.
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I'm not sure who I have the problem with I'm just confused. I know Captain Jack is the face of Boe. Now This website states Captain Jack is human This website also states the face of bow is Boekind. Now I get that Captain Jack's nickname is the face of Boe and he got that because he grew up in Boe. My problem is how does he change races The Captain Jack page states he's 100% human, the face of bow page states the face of bow is 100% boekind and mentions Captain Jack's boekind heritage. As far as I can tell either there's some kind of weird story or science that no one has explained yet or whoever monitors this site made a mistake and should have listed Captain Jack's race as Boekind or the face of Boes race as human.
Post your theories to who Mrs Flood is below
Overall
Icon of British Media
Lit the Olympic Flame
Defeated the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Terrible Zodin, Omega…
Won the Celestial Toymaker’s game
…the Weeping Angels, the Silurians, Scratchman, the Master…
Escaped the Matrix and Land of Fiction
…Sutekh, the Zygons, the Rani, the Boneless…
Saved all of Creation numerous times
…the Sycorax, the Racnoss, the Slitheen, the Master again…
Ended the Last Great Time War
…the Sontarans, the Rutans, the Eleven, the Celestial Toymaker…
Inspired some of the works of H.G. Wells (Yes, really)
…Davros, Salamander, the Sea Devils, Tim Shaw, the Master again again…
Is canonically responsible for the word “Doctor”
…Rassilon, the Gods of Ragnarok, the Eternals, The Ma- you get the idea
With the help of their allies, stopped and destroyed the Daleks’ Reality Bomb
Bested The Black Guardian, one of the Guardians of Time
Wielded the Key to Time, the Moment, and the Glory
Became a member of the Guardians of Time
Battled and survived their encounter with the Quantum Archangel
Traveled to other famous worlds, including:
Met Matt Smith (yes, this is real)
My Thoughts Are On John Simm as The Master main villain of story
Peter Capaldi as Twelfth Doctor
Jodie Whittaker as Thirteenth Doctor
This My thoughts what are yours