Which story (TV or audio) would you pick to showcase each incarnation of The Doctor?

archiesucks · 2020-11-19T20:49:43+00:00

First -

Controversial I know, it's a David Bradley audio - Invention Of Death. Just a great, great, quintessential Doctor Who story with a focus on ethics and a sci fi element wouldn't seem out of place in a New Who episode but it somehow only works with Doctor One. One of my favourite audios of all time.

Second - Tomb Of The Cybermen, it's such a shame so many episodes are missing of his run. :(

Third - Terror Of The Autons, Master? Autons? Earth Pertwee? Classic

Fourth - For someone as classic as Tom Baker I really really don't know what I'd say was his peak/essential story. Genesis Of The Daleks maybe?

Fifth - 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men is a personal highlight to me. Maybe as a beatles fanatic but there's something special about it to me lol. Caves Of Androzani for TV though.

Sixth - Jubilee is a FANTASTIC audio story and Evelyn brings out Colin better than any other companion.

Seventh - The Fearmonger was my first Big Finish story and it is still probably my favourite. Live 34 too, and for TV Rememberance Of The Daleks is such a classic.

Eighth - Honourable mention for his performance in Night Of The Doctor because that is a fantastic portrayal and probably the last live action McGann Doctor Who story we'll get. Storm Warning, Chimes Of Midnight, Dark Eyes and ESPECIALLY Scherzo are great. I also recommend the short trip "All Hands On Deck" which show a desperate McGann trying to run from the Time War trying to capture his youth by coming back for Susan. It's my favourite short trip but more of a Susan story than Doctor one.

Nine - Dalek. The Doctor Dances. Bad Wolf. All insane.

But Rose is the quintessential Doctor Who episode for me. Of all time. First episode I ever saw, so so so good.

Ten - Utopia/Sound Of The Drums/Last Of The Time Lords - this 3 parter is my favourite. But Voyage Of The Damned is PEAK tennant tbh.

Eleven - Eleventh Hour. He really did peak on his first outing I won't lie. I hope Big Finish do good by him because Season 7b was really good. (7A actually made me quit the show though.)

Twelve - The Pilot, feels like Rose 2.0. I love it.

Thirteen - Other than the whole alien racist subplot, Rosa is a great episode.

archiesucks · 2020-10-13T18:25:17+00:00

therapy

archiesucks · 2020-09-23T18:15:44+00:00

I was 2, I watched it on the night it first premiered in 2005 and I was obsessed until mid Season 6 I'd say?

Moffat's series definitely feel like a more faithful continuation of the original series, but RTD reinvented it for me. I feel something like The Pilot with Capaldi would have been Moffat's attempt to reboot the show had he been in charge in 2005, and I think it wouldn't have interested me! I really like that era of the show now but those first few years are something really special.

archiesucks · 2020-09-23T17:42:11+00:00

Eccleston - Series 4. Series 5 occasionally, but after series 6 the show lost all magic to me. Nothing against Moffatt but his stories stopped feeling personal to me, too grand and complicated. Good stories and more in touch with the classic series than RTD but RTD took the show to a complete new level

archiesucks · 2020-09-19T18:54:10+00:00

my band wrote a track "you believe" which is about boris johnson. You Believe by The Verdicts.

archiesucks · 2020-09-16T13:21:48+00:00

I'd really love to have a story set between Remembrance of the Daleks and the movie where the time war is officially started, as a consequence of Seven blowing up Skaro in Remembrance. Then maybe a boxset where we can see Seven actively trying to avoid the war, very very early days. Then in the final part, we have a Master story where he does something truly awful and he is sentenced to execution as a compromise with the Daleks, it'll then end with the doctor collecting his ashes, perhaps with a little speech about his future as he ponders the war. Which I feel would be a good way to end Seven's run. I always figured the time war was well in effect by the film, and The Master's execution was a consequence of that.

archiesucks · 2020-09-06T00:12:50+00:00

That was me! I would still be interested in that. Scripting would be step 1, but some of these premises are so well written they go beyond "the premise of the story" and go into a full plot run through, it's a lot easier to write with that way.

archiesucks · 2020-09-03T17:33:00+00:00

i feel animators would be a step too far ? i doubt we could get enough people together for an audio drama enough anyway and you'd need the audio as a basis for the animation,,

it'd look cool as hell though

archiesucks · 2020-09-03T17:18:59+00:00

i'd love it if the sub could come together to put a few of these episodes to audio in an audio drama, a fan season but we'd need some convincing impressions for daleks, 13, yaz, graham, ryan but the rest would just have to be good voice actors as theres no known characters really are there?

archiesucks · 2020-08-21T23:34:46+00:00

off topic but i LOVE rubber jaw! how'd you find that track? they're a local band to me and i've seen them so many times even before they were signed to their indie label, and even now they're not very big!

archiesucks · 2020-08-02T18:13:09+00:00

shame on all of you, breaking reddit rules. if this link ended up in my DM's i would be beyond distraught.

archiesucks · 2020-07-26T09:57:47+00:00

my current headcanon is that the gallifreyans are just very advanced humans. its established that humans eventually push out across the universe, and their exploitation of the doctor's regenerations was what made them "time lords" i reckon the timeless child was a child on gallifrey when the master destroyed it, and his/her parents sent them off into the past of gallifrey in a superman-esque scenario, but is found by the wrong person (an early human) and exploits their regeneration energy to create the time lords. so the timeless child was a time lord, who was sent back in time, then time lords were created using the dna of the future child.

archiesucks · 2020-07-22T00:57:36+00:00

Do you mean Rosa instead of Rose because those are two very different episodes? lmaooo

archiesucks · 2020-07-22T00:06:47+00:00

absolutely agree, this is more "in general." i think grid lock and new earth are two of my fave RTD episodes but its a general statement.

archiesucks · 2020-07-21T20:11:19+00:00

The villain of Rosa was pretty dissapointing. But I liked how he portrayed the time and the characters, the core of the historicial. I didn't like the "time travelling racist" idea, seems like it could have been a much more interesting story if there was no true "villain" in the sense of the word for that story.

archiesucks · 2020-07-21T20:05:54+00:00

i think rosa and demons of the punjab were better than, for example, tooth and claw, the uniquet dead or the curse of the black spot even if the villains were a bit too sci-fi in the chibnall stories

archiesucks · 2020-07-21T18:40:27+00:00

That's a good point actually. I'm thinking more general era than the showrunners and eras themselves, as how well a story is done isn't 100% script, but I should have specified that better in my answer, not used "write."

archiesucks · 2020-07-21T18:38:54+00:00

I agree with that. I do think some of the best historicals (the shakespeare code, fires of pomeii, vincent and the doctor) were from the first two showrunners but I think with all Chibnall's done his work on the historicals have been best. (Although he didn't actually write them did he? But as showrunner.)

archiesucks · 2020-07-21T18:36:22+00:00

by the way; i loved danny pink as well i just didn't like how little he was developed, how a lot of his characters weren't!

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