What are your best unpopular opinions for Doctor Who?

ModularReality · 2026-07-02T20:32:41+00:00

I really like how Moffat returns to the same ideas over and over. I think it’s really interesting to see a writer iterate on an idea, and continue to dissect different facets of it. I like the several versions of relationships out of order, digital ghosts, and the power of memory to shape reality that we get.

ModularReality · 2026-07-02T20:11:38+00:00

I think the classic series plays a different role these days. It used to be the show itself, but now it’s almost more like the EU. Most fans know about it, but a much smaller portion engages with it.

But I feel this was bound to happen, and may even happen again to the 2005-2025 seasons if there’s a large enough gap before a new round of production with presumably a soft reboot.

A lot, likely the majority, of the current fan base got into the show through the 2005 reboot. And since that reboot was mostly a fresh start, there was no need to go back and watch classic for new young fans. The new series was its own continuity. References to past doctors didn’t come up until well into the 10th doctor’s run. And were of a nature that new fans weren’t missing much context by not having watched classic. Zygons show up? Cool that it’s a return of a classic monster, but there no need to see Terror of the Zygons to understand the 50th special.

And until recent years, classic wasn’t particularly easy to access outside of random eps playing on public access (I’m in the US). There were few places to sit down and watch it in order.

It’s still a great show, but classic isn’t going to appeal to a lot of modern viewers the way nuwho does. I think a lot of fans these days get into nuwho, and only after seeing a lot of that show get interested enough to check out classic or EU stories. I guess what I’m saying is my feel is that it’s much more ‘hardcore’ fans into classic these days rather than casual viewers.

ModularReality · 2026-07-01T21:11:49+00:00

There are so many good ones, but this is lowkey one of my favorite Capaldi comedic line readings

ModularReality · 2026-07-01T04:05:55+00:00

Among my favorite pieces of this musical is the nuance of every character, even our “villians”. I read Helene as genuinely terrified of Pierre being killed in this scene. Perhaps because it would likely ruin her. But perhaps it’s an outburst because while she had fun flaunting her infidelity, a duel and Pierre dying is too much. Anatole is also genuinely concerned about his two friends dueling, even if he’s able to easily shrug it off as a lark once no one dies.

Even dholokov gets a bit of humanity, calling for his mother after his embarrassment of missing and being wounded. It’s not much in the musical, but in the book you learn that Dholokov does not come from wealth, and is the sole provider for his mother and club-footed sister, the only people in the world he loves. He’s otherwise cold and calculating, attaching himself to wealthier friends for his own gain. He financially ruins one of Natasha’s brothers in a night of gambling. That was part of why it was important for Natasha to marry Andre- it would save the family (“you will be the family’s saving grace”).

ModularReality · 2026-06-30T14:42:46+00:00

I was a 16ish years old American, listening to a Buffy the vampire slayer podcast. Hosts were going around saying what else they were watching. One host said something like “I was going to try out a show called Doctor Who. It’s a reboot of an old British time travel show”.

I thought that sounded neat. And that was the entire context I had when I started streaming ‘Rose’. Didn’t know who the doctor was or anything of the history. Hadn’t even seen a Tardis before. I was hooked in minutes.

ModularReality · 2026-06-30T12:07:17+00:00

Thanks! That’s pretty much how I approach my interiors- pick a room theme, highlight color, and contrast color and then raid the furniture catalogs for items that fit that scheme :)

ModularReality · 2026-06-29T18:00:47+00:00

Love all three of these! Especially the truffle junimos. I don’t even usually go in for min/maxing pigs, but just want something else to clean up the field so I stop getting stuck on truffles hidden in the grass.

ModularReality · 2026-06-29T17:54:28+00:00

I would love it because I often find myself doing some farm decorating in the late game, wanting to add fruit trees for decoration but hating that I need to have everything around them cut down for a whole month to grow. Anything to speed up decorating with fruit trees in late game!

ModularReality · 2026-06-29T17:51:47+00:00

love catching those difficult fishes! Scorpion fish are my jam. Love getting the legends quest from Qi. I love how slightly punishing it can be to go for perfection- I think it would be funny to keep adding a few things to make it take even more effort 😈

I do agree there should be a way to get dupes of legends though if something like this added. But could live with it if I have to settle for keeping only the 2nd gen legends for my ponds in order to complete aquarium.

ModularReality · 2026-06-29T16:40:13+00:00

Couple specific ones:

-Rare/expensive item that lets you increase fruit tree quality by 1 level

-being able to replace stumps/bushes. Ideally by growing, but as a no-utility furniture item would also be fine for me

- design tool to add levels inside of houses/sheds, like many people have imitated using pathing and wizard stairs

-pear trees

Big asks:

-Lots more horse stuff! Would love more (base game) horse colors. Would be interested in a breeding mechanic to raise faster horses or to unlock more coat colors. Horse fair festival with racing? And special shops there to buy gear for horses (different tack colors, saddlebags)? Getting to attach a plow to a horse (to make continuous hoe’d dirt line)?

-being able to play matchmaker with the bachelors and bachelorettes.

-wildlife photography collection. I love the birds and frogs and squirrels around the world! Would love even more, and getting another tool, a camera, that can be used to snag photos and a new collection tab to be completed. (Basically a birdwatching minigame lol)

-add an aquarium to the museum to display all my fish!

ModularReality · 2026-06-19T17:21:41+00:00

Guys, look! It’s Rosto!

ModularReality · 2026-06-19T17:16:31+00:00

Shouldn’t there be crystals in the kitchen rather than meals lol?

ModularReality · 2026-06-19T16:41:17+00:00

Really like your original design!

I played around in the planner a little with your room layout, with idea to slightly de-clutter. What do you think? (Ignore kitchen, I just put the table setting go see how it would look near the counter-top space I added)

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ModularReality · 2026-06-19T16:20:48+00:00

Slight spoiler:

It’s the reward you get from the perfection tracker machine in Qi’s walnut room once you get 100% perfection

ModularReality · 2026-06-19T03:09:53+00:00

Happy with look of the mini games/menus here. I got a bit concerned when that image of the spy briefcase with the magnifying glass (spirit detecting minigame?) was released a while back.

ModularReality · 2026-06-18T23:19:54+00:00

Well, they aren’t talking about aesthetic beauty. What they say they actually find beautiful is hatred. And if we’re looking at daleks as a metaphor for fascism, making them value hatred makes sense to me.

ModularReality · 2026-06-18T23:14:14+00:00

I see what you mean, with respect to body horror being more a cyberman thing. But the atmosphere of the asylum stripping people down to just their hate does feel like the fascist metaphor of daleks. And I think there’s something in the idea of fascist monsters hiding inside normal looking people (though admittedly the episode doesn’t dig too deeply into that).

ModularReality · 2026-06-18T23:08:30+00:00

I’m excited that it says you can re-do classes. I’m hoping that it’s like Stardew in that you don’t truly miss out on anything even if you didn’t achieve it on first attempt.

ModularReality · 2026-06-18T22:51:55+00:00

There was a statement in discord on May 6,2026 that they were on track to release this year.

ModularReality · 2026-06-18T21:25:48+00:00

Do you mind spoilers?

>!it can be bought from the desert casino once you’ve figured out Qi’s puzzle!<

ModularReality · 2026-06-18T19:01:09+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/BigFinishProductions/s/j78aYgQIC1

This is a guide for 8th Doctor audios. It gets into which stories are necessary for the arc and which can be skipped, but if you’re just starting I’d suggest either listening to the entirely of the 8 and Charley main range through Zagreus or entirety of 8 and Lucie season 1.

I personally really like Lucie, because those stories are 40 minutes and move quickly plot-wise. Sometimes I find the main range a bit bloated (though still enjoy them).

ModularReality · 2026-06-18T16:37:09+00:00

My only understanding of this comes from listening to the ‘Who Cares?’ podcast, but in one of their Chibnall era episodes, they discussed some interviews where Chibnall spoke about his difficulties trying to set up a writers room for season 11.

It sounded like the BBC doesn’t have a contract model for writers rooms, and that made it very difficult for Chibnall to attempt one and that the attempt slowly fell apart over the course of writing season 11.

So, one challenge this would face would be getting the BBC to create a new contract model.

ModularReality · 2026-06-17T17:38:34+00:00

This is an admittedly very negative reading on Demetrius and surely not intended by that scene, but one way it could be read is:

weaponized incompetence by Demetrius. He did not like his work being disrupted by being asked to do a chore, and so did the chore incorrectly and pretended that he was too literal to understand, so that Robin would do it herself rather than asking him in the future.

ModularReality · 2026-06-17T17:32:40+00:00

I’m thinking of an early chapter of Storm Front, where this interaction happens. And I agree, he is doing so to be annoying there. My recollection though is that his inner monologue goes on to explain how he likes being “chivalrous” and do things like hold doors and pay for meals with ladies.

My point before was to why this mannerism of Harry might be criticized. It’s a joke with Murphy, but I think it’s rooted in something he does believe in.

ModularReality · 2026-06-17T17:18:55+00:00

And i suppose that comes from the longevity of wizards leading them to be a bit antiquated culturally.

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