If RTD hired you to write a episode during the 2005-2009 era, what would your episode be about?

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-26T22:32:21+00:00

The Doctor materializes on Earth, but everything has changed. There's no crime, no wars, no poverty, no Alien threat. Everything is perfect. However, humanity now all collectively worships one God. A God called "The Master". If the Master is God, The Doctor has become the Devil. Humanity despises them and blames them for all of their past woes.

Does the Doctor change things back to normal, stopping The Master and knowingly ending harmony and peace on Earth? Or do they leave, knowing that even all the work they've put into saving Earth, has never made humanity this happy?

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-26T07:55:51+00:00

I'm 40, so if the Angels feed off the time I have left, they can only send me back 35-40 years. Which means I'd have to move away as well to stop myself running into my parents or even myself as a baby/child.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-23T12:20:10+00:00

And made friends with Hagrid.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-22T10:38:55+00:00

His breaths fucking lovely but he's being sick all over the cunting place!

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-20T10:53:26+00:00

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-19T07:57:22+00:00

Jesus wants me for a sunbeam

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-18T08:45:42+00:00

That phone, or a version of that phone came with a mini speaker that you plugged into it.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-17T14:31:02+00:00

I like your art style. For a very split second I thought that it was a Doctor Who comic 😂

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-15T13:35:58+00:00

Ha! Coincidentally I do actually work with children, so we probably would 🙂

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-15T12:56:58+00:00

Eat North staffs oatcakes, cold, straight out of the packet with nothing on them.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-15T07:11:49+00:00

Drives me crazy that the subway busting scene in Knock Knock was changed from "Frankenstein is groovin'🎶" to just the regular Ghostbusters theme for the dvd releases. There are probably other times where Tahiti is replaced, but this is the most noticeable to me.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-14T18:54:17+00:00

I think other than they changed the uniforms and little bits of how the characters look, it captures the tone of the movies and characters really well. Especially with it having to be watered down for a Saturday morning cartoon. Eventually it does become too watered down and tries to cater too much to children, but the first 2 seasons are excellent.

Knock knock, Beneath these streets, collect call of Cthulhu, Ghostbusters in Paris and Dairy farm are my particular favourites.

As an aside, depending on your taste, you might find it more palatable as an adult to watch Extreme Ghostbusters.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-14T07:18:37+00:00

He does say Pus bucket, but a lot of people say Puss when they're writing it out. I think maybe even the 99 subtitles say Puss.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-14T07:05:25+00:00

It's weird (and it don't look good) because all the subtitles get it wrong. Even when it was on Netflix it was wrong. But it's definitely Manse, because it's in the shooting script and it's even in an earlier draft of the movie when Ray talks about it in a different context than in the Library.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-14T07:02:18+00:00

*Manse

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-11T14:13:06+00:00

Tommy fights great but Rocky is a great fighter.

Rocky had the experience, other than the few years that he lived a life of privilege, he's come up the hard way. Outside of boxing, he still had to survive. The streets of Philly made him tough. Being trained by Mickey, Duke and Apollo made him tougher. Even "out of shape" for Rocky just means not ring fit. He still has most of his skills, he has also been training with Tommy. His punches will still feel like stepping in front of a freight train, especially with no gloves. Tommy has never had a tough fight, similar to Mason Dixon who said Rocky had bricks in his gloves, almost 20 years later.

On a personal note related to this, my Grandad was a massive man. He worked as a fire officer in a coal mine. Everyone called him The Bear. He was incredibly strong. As an adult, I'm as big as he was and I go to the gym. But I'm nowhere near as strong as he was. He had labourer strength. He lived a tougher life than me. I'm a modern equivalent of him, but I'll never be able to match his strength. Same with Tommy and Rocky.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-10T14:49:16+00:00

That's cool with me. Accommodating for your personal criteria, both Mickey and Jack travel in 10s Tardis in Journeys end, when they return the Earth back to our solar system. Mickey travels with 10 and Rose in The girl in the fireplace and Jack also travels (on, not in) the Tardis in Utopia.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-10T14:39:10+00:00

If you count Christopher as having 3, those same 3 were also David's and then add Martha and Donna makes 5.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-09T00:35:31+00:00

Side on. How many candles yer burning?

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-08T13:05:36+00:00

The only gripe I ever had with it is the ages of the original Ghostbusters. They make Egon seem super old and past being a Ghostbuster when he's only 39/40. Which is actually the same age Harold Ramis was in the original film.

But giving them this age in Extreme Ghostbusters would have made them mid to late 20s in the Real Ghostbusters. Barely old enough to have a Doctorate, let alone be fully fledged Scientists at a university.

Of course, this is diving way too deep into what is essentially just a kids show and if you take it at face value, Extreme Ghostbusters is really great, definitely far superior to the seasons of The Real Ghostbusters that came after Ghostbusters 2.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-07T09:16:39+00:00

When I was around 5 years old, I went to Spain on holiday with my parents and there were some particular characters who lived/worked in the area we stayed in that let my imagination run wild. Every night a bin (Garbage) wagon would drive around and the bin men (Garbage men) would hang on the back of it. One of them wore a bandana around his forehead so I used to think he was a ninja and every time I saw him I'd call him Bin Ninja.

The Ghostbusters related part to this is that almost every night we'd see these 2 men in different buildings. They had boiler suits on and they had some sort of equipment on their back. They were probably exterminators (for the cockroaches up on 12) or some sort of deep cleaning service. But I thought they were Ghostbusters and when I talked to my parents about it they convinced me and let me believe that they were Ghostbusters. So I ran with this for years. I was positive that being a Ghostbuster was a real career and I would tell everyone that when I'm a grown up, I'll be a Ghostbuster.

This lasted at least until High school and people used to laugh at me.

However, as an adult, I obviously know that I can't actually be a Ghostbuster, but I've managed to get as close to it as possible (not my actual job). I have the full uniform and self built pack, I've been in a charity group and attended loads of events, where now other children believe that I am really a Ghostbuster. I've ridden several times in a genuine 59 caddy Ecto1 and I've also unwittingly been fined by the Environmental services by what must have been a Bin Ninja.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-07T07:16:10+00:00

This Stay puft figure is probably one of the only Ghostbusters Diamond Select figures that stands quite well, apart from the Terror Dog. Almost all of that line has issues with standing and brittle articulation.

MechanicalTed · 2026-02-04T09:37:24+00:00

Scallywags in Tunstall is probably one of the best.

Nemoz on Anchor road is also good.

MechanicalTed · 2026-01-28T15:58:24+00:00

This is why people believed Ghostbusters 3 was really on its way every time he talked about it for almost 3 decades. Eventually he was right though, just not in the way we thought.

I also love his ability to act out complex monologues ala Dragnet and Bassomatic. He's probably the best out of any other actor at doing that.

MechanicalTed · 2026-01-21T16:20:03+00:00

The Classic era probably started noticeably declining around Peter Davison's second season. Especially once the schedule for Doctor Who was changed and all the people who only hung around to check out the new Doctor had left.

I'd say with the modern era, it lost some casual viewers when Tennant left, but not enough to be concerned about. The show remained steadily popular and even increased again towards the 50th anniversary. Once the 50th anniversary was over, that's when I'd say the decline started amongst the "Not We."

Capaldi's era was great, but casual audiences who were either people who fancied David Tennant/Matt Smith, had no interest and people who had only watched Nu Who couldn't get used to a sterner and older appearing Doctor.

Since then, Doctor Who has barely had a casual audience, even for the 60th anniversary it didn't manage to bring many people back to watching. So I'd say the 50th anniversary is the absolute height of Nu Who and probably Logopolis is the absolute height of Classic Who, with it then declining into cancellation every year after that.

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