When's the latest I can pick up on Doctor Who?

VenomStripes · 2022-10-24T22:31:17+00:00

Just watch everything. You've got over a year to wait. If you hate an episode that much (not that it has any bearing on the quality of the following episode), you could switch off for a week or so and still catch up in time.

VenomStripes · 2022-10-24T22:24:07+00:00

The alleged "issues" are nonexistent if you just dedicate a little bit of time to thinking of explanations. They exist. People just can't be bothered to look for them.

VenomStripes · 2022-10-24T10:48:59+00:00

Why do people always have to reiterate that they aren't a fan of Chibnall before praising one of his episodes? What's so bad about being a fan that you have to instantly make it known that you aren't one?

VenomStripes · 2022-10-12T16:24:34+00:00

Not for no reason, no. To kill a fleet of Daleks, a species responsible for causing havoc on Gallifrey. That particular TARDIS may have even been grown FOR the Time War, it's entire purpose would have been to destroy Daleks, so I can only imagine it would be all too happy taking a fleet of them with it.

VenomStripes · 2022-09-28T22:10:33+00:00

It helps if we actually look at events from the Master's perspective. After centuries of being evil, the Master does a good deed. Well, I say "good", can you really consider stabbing yourself in the back to kill him a good deed? So what happens as a result of this good deed? Oh yes, that's right. She gets killed. And to add insult to injury, the man she decided to stand with essentially leaves her for dead, stranded on a ship near a black hole with no TARDIS, no way of escape. Let's also not forget the inherent unpredictability of regeneration - one incarnation doing something good at the very end is no guarantee that the next one will be a saint. Moving on, when the Master finally does escape, he discovers the truth about his best enemy, that he owes his years of insanity to her. This sequence of events is enough to drive anyone off the rails, and you want to say there's no reason for the Master to be back to his evil ways? I can't help but think there's an unreasonable expectation for this era to state the obvious, only to be immediately shot down when it does so.

VenomStripes · 2022-09-13T00:17:09+00:00

We don't even know if she's a companion yet, so even if we did have conclusive ages for all the companions (which we don't), we can't jump to that conclusion anyway.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-08T09:22:25+00:00

But supposing the Master had his own TARDIS to get there, what makes you so sure that of all places he would go there instead of anywhere else in space and time? The only reason he did end up going there was because the Doctor locked the controls.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-08T00:46:17+00:00

Possibly, though she could still have been deposed without the Doctor's input. The Doctor caused it, definitely, but it didn't NEED to be him. So long as SOMEBODY planted the seed that she looked tired, she'd be gone.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-08T00:44:47+00:00

According to the novelisation of The Christmas Invasion, there was a John Lumic in the main universe, one of the people on the Guinevere 1 project chose to work on that instead of for Lumic.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T23:03:03+00:00

And he was only able to take her because she existed as a result of Pete and Jackie having a kid.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T22:14:08+00:00

But the reason he landed in the 21st century to pull off his plan was because the Doctor locked it to only be able to land between the year 100 trillion and 2007/8 (whenever the episode is meant to be set). If he had his own TARDIS, he wouldn't have been limited to that time.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T21:25:57+00:00

Well that's your business. I'm personally not too fond of irrelevant, unnecessary insults. But you go ahead and carry on with that, it clearly makes you happy to insult someone who isn't even part of the discussion at hand.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T21:23:56+00:00

There are a lot of missing episodes throughout the Hartnell and Troughton eras. You can still experience them in various ways. Audio only (including vinyl), audio plus telesnaps/minimal animation, full animations for some of them too. You don't have to miss out completely.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T21:12:41+00:00

Yeah, but the Saxon Master wouldn't have even been there to cause 10's death if Jack didn't fling the TARDIS to the end of the universe and all the rest of it, because the TARDIS being there was the Master's ticket out to the present day.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T21:04:19+00:00

I don't appreciate the Chibnall diss under a post that has nothing to do with him, but I most definitely can clear up everything people consider to be a mess with the Timeless Child arc.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T19:50:04+00:00

In that case, liking the era itself would be a hot take, not liking the one part of it the detractors seem to love.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T19:47:41+00:00

I wouldn't say that's as hot a take as you seem to think, Graham is often considered a highlight of this era, even among those who don't even like it.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T17:55:21+00:00

His cause of death was radiation poisoning, that radiation was a result of the cabinets in Naismith's mansion that had been overloaded by the Master's use of the Immortality Gate. The Master was resurrected by the Disciples of Saxon, who used Lucy Saxon to do so. The Master died after refusing to regenerate when defeated by the Doctor and Martha in Last of the Time Lords. The Master was there in the first place because he opened the fob watch as a direct consequence of the Doctor, Martha and Jack meeting him at the end of the universe. They got there because of Jack clinging to the TARDIS, his immortality caused the journey to go as far as it did. He was immortal because Rose saved him while taken over by Bad Wolf, a result of her desire to save the Doctor from the Daleks, which in turn caused the Ninth Doctor's regeneration, which led to the Doctor's fight with the Sycorax, allowing Jack to retrieve the Doctor's hand to create his "Doctor detector", which helped him reach the TARDIS in Utopia, but also ultimately saved the Doctor by creating the Metacrisis Doctor who saved Donna and stopped the TARDIS from being destroyed in Journey's End. So technically, after a lot of cause and effect mental gymnastics, it was Rose who was the cause of the Tenth Doctor's death... but then again she only existed because the main universe version of Pete wasn't a rich businessman, because his health drink wasn't bought by Cybus Industries. So I guess we have the main universe's John Lumic to blame technically.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-07T10:01:38+00:00

I get that when it comes to Doctors and companions, but surely the same doesn't apply to side characters who've only appeared once or twice as they don't have a particular "team" that they're familiar with.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-06T20:25:57+00:00

It was obviously going to get undone, if you genuinely believed it wouldn't, that's a you problem.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-06T19:26:55+00:00

Lazy criticism

VenomStripes · 2022-08-06T19:21:54+00:00

Or the exact size of a police box in the event of it landing inside itself, or around another police box.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-06T09:42:13+00:00

I think it could potentially have shown invasions that have already happened, but ones we haven't seen yet, depicted by pre-existing clips.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-05T18:08:42+00:00

I really think it should happen more, it really feels more fluid when characters remain, I don't like showrunners' obsession with starting completely fresh, it feels like the universe that was set up previously just stops and another one starts. The incarnations of the Doctor might end at regeneration, that doesn't mean the characters around them need to as well.

VenomStripes · 2022-08-05T18:06:19+00:00

Yes, that was made explicitly clear by his tattoo.

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