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do you guys have any recommendations for props? everything i find online is either not that great or not made anymore

I’m doing a rewatch for nuwho. I got to the point where meta10 and Rose go live on the parallel world. I’m sitting here thinking, “Why not give meta10 one of those TARDIS eggs from the episode where the TARDIS gets scooped up by salvagers so he can have a ship?” In the latest split of ten, a big comedy hammer was used to simply duplicate the damned thing. Giving meta10 an egg would be the least he could do. Meta10 and Rose are just gonna be stuck on earth unless they can locate their do tors TARDIS.

Also: TARDIS egg omelette, anyone?

I'm sure I wasn't alone in getting excited hearing RTD was coming back, since the flop that was Chibnal's run, but after watching everything that's been put out, I've become a bit pessimistic that the show might never return to something I enjoy. I was wondering if any of you guys share my thoughts, or disagree.

The doctor doesn't feel like the doctor. The doctor is characterized by the combination of; Intelligence, decency/kindness, curiosity, and bravery. The only time the doctor seemed to embody these traits was in one episode, Boom (I will point out, not written by RTD).

The doctor seems to have no agency, things happen to him and he flounders until he gets bailed out either by someone else, or luck. The doctors intelligence also seems nerfed to the ground. The doctor used to be the smartest person in any room he walked into by far, and now he seems equal to Ruby, a random 19 year old human.

Also, I appreciate RTD is trying to make a statement about emotional regulation and correcting the over-supression of male emotions, but he has taken that idea and ran way too far with it. The doctor is now a blubbering mess, crying at events that are miniscule relative to what he has gone through and triumphed over during his long existence. He also gets paralyzed in fear almost getting people killed in Rogue. It really detracts from the character.

Before making my next statement, I will clarify that I am definitely on the left for 90% of issues, I'm pro-trans, abortion, pretty much everything. RTD and people like him hurt our cause and make us look bad, crippling our outreach. The lines from The Star Beast implicitly ripping into men, claiming they get things or let go, we're absolutely disgraceful. There were multiple moments like this that definitely just come across as RTD jerking himself off about how good and progressive he is. Other examples are the Davros change, the comments about the sonic screwdriver.

The show also feels like a children's show now. Doctor Who used to be a family show, it had some seriously dark, serious, and hard-hitting moments. Now, the writing feels catered to children almost exclusively.

If you read this all the way through, thanks.

Hey there! For a few months now, I felt very intrigued to write my own Doctor Who story, featuring my own Doctor with his own companions, new enemies and just my own twist to the whole thing.
However, I still wanted it to feel "Doctor Who". So below, you can find the first one and a half pages of the fanfiction I am writing. Since I havent been watching Doctor Who for too long, and since my native language isn't english, things could get a bit messy. Additionally, I have only watched Seasons 1-5 of NuWho. So my knowladge is a tad limited.
I still hope you enjoy this! Im posting this in the hope of getting feedback for my writing, especially if these first pages hook you or not. Thanks for your interest!

https://pastebin.com/j2bqkFgS

I just had this random thought but, since the doctor can meet himself, and he teleports around time and space routinely, then if he were to live forever, then we'd end up with doctors all the time, everywhere, all at once (lol) and he'd be non stop meeting himself, so the fact that we don't means he's going to die at some point

so since he has met himself (or she herself in some occasions) a few times, then he could make an estimate of the proportion of the time and space he's existed in compared to the time and space he hasn't existed in, giving him an estimate of, well, how much of the whole of time and space he's occupying, that is how long he lives (outside the moments where he's outside of time or the universe)

and if he has enough computing power in his brain (I mean it's a big brain given the things we're given to see) he could even make a weighted sum of these times meeting himself based on how long he spends on some places (given that when he spends a lot of time in a place the probability of meeting himself increases quadratically instead of linearly, if we expect that he's going to go roughly as often in his future to the places he was in his past)

for example, because he spends a lot of time on earth, he must meet himself there more often and more easily

The conversation between the daleks and the Cybermen is I think the funniest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Just knowing the furocity of the daleks and knowing what the Cybermen are capable of and knowing they could actually never align themselves is probably what makes sense. Seem so funny. It's so funny

So I know that River song and the 12th doctor really only spent the one episode together. But it was a phenomenal episode nonetheless and made us all Miss River song and even more. My point is in that one episode you saw so much evolution versus their 4-year relationship during 11th time. I feel like the relationship between River song and the old doctor was so organic and really just showed how he had evolved as a doctor.

I miss the width and depth of the old stories. In this you had the Davros scheme with the mortuary and trying to lure in the Doctor, but you also had the subplot with the "grave robbers" and the security agents, the creepy head embalmer and his lovesick sycophant, the head of Tranquil Respose and her underling, the assasin Knight and his squire, the DJ...all with their own layers, all perfectly cast. There are no disposable characters here, they all have their Great moments and lines.

So often the stories in Nu Who just seem so narrow - there's the core plot and as little as necessary around it. I miss the deeper world building. I miss when even the minor characters were memorable.

Where is my opinion too clouded by nostalgia?

This is my DW book collection in my best approximation of timeline order (I know the way I have these organized is gonna bother a lot of people but it's how I like it). I'm working my way through these buying them as I see them. I've read about half of them. Currently working on the VNAs. The only book that's missing from this picture is Vampire Science which my partner is reading. I wanted to do show and tell but also wanted to ask recommendations for really good DW Books I don't have.

I love them. Give me one Sontaran story every season. Even when they’re badly done they’re brilliant. The perfect balance of comedy and horror. Never can go wrong with a Sontaran story. SONTARHA!!!

Those episodes where they journey into the depths of the Tardis. Last one I can remember is from Matt Smith’s run. Come to think of it, he had quite a few of them. Tardis always captured my imagination as a kid like nothing else, (for how vast and big it is). Nothing gets my inner child going like a Tardis Adventure Story.

The “helmet” was unfortunately very last minute and it really should’ve been grey not black, but otherwise was pretty happy with it. Some people at the party unfamiliar with DW were very creeped out. Planning to upgrade (hehe) bits of it for next year

One of my previous posts got a lot of references to the weeping angels, & since I do a lot of splatoon art, here’s a fusion of both

After rewatching Dr Who many many times in many different orders, I am now desperate to watch all the episodes with River Song but in her chronological order. So obviously it would end with the Library episode but I can't figure out the rest of the order.

Could anyone please help me out and name the episodes in order?

And by that I mean that there would be no Doctor, no TARDIS, and no other returning monsters. It would be in the reigns of the Big Finish Dalek Empire audios, in that it is a story focused on the Daleks and the people opposing them.

My daughter wanted to go as the 11th Doctor and it gave me the perfect opportunity to go as one of my fave companions, Amy Pond (and get to recycle clothes I haven't worn since the early 2010s)

One constant running theme is that the Doctor finds himself annoying when he meets his other incarnations. I have only seen 9-12 with clips of classic who.

So I believe War and 12 will get along the best.

Followed by 9 and 10

The classic who will disapprove of everyone including each other based on clips I've seen.

Everyone will find 11 annoying except 12 who will find him embarrassing.

I am a new watcher, started on season 3 though because I was interested in the weeping angels episode (and I googled if you could skip the first 2 and it was fine to start there and I didn’t feel confused.)

So I have watched S3-S7 and have finally started S8. I didn’t think I’d love 11th as much as I did because I loved 10th acting so much but Matt really played it so well.

But I’m just not fond of the 12th doctor and I’m wondering if I can skip those seasons without it getting super confusing and mess it up for me? Should I just stop here instead? (Well, I’m gonna watch the season with Jinkx Monsoon in it either way, but will either go straight to that one now or work my way there after skipping 12th doctor.)

I don’t have anything against the actor, I’m just not enjoying the show right now.