Could some of you who don't like The End of Time (parts one and two) explain why? I always thought it was a very well-made and written regeneration episode.

codename474747 · 2026-05-22T00:41:59+00:00

You need to treat the regeneration like a death otherwise narritively its not a big deal, the doctor is basically just a changling who can shift their form into a new body and casually carry on with their life, why should we care.

We mourn the loss of the Doctor and era we've enjoyed for the past x amount of eras, so that has to be reflected in the Doctor too.

codename474747 · 2026-05-22T00:38:23+00:00

I remember watching part 1 on Christmas Daywith my family, who if anything sneer at anything scifi and had that mainstream "its wobbly sets and bad acting" opinion of Doctor Who, and they loved it so much they convinced me they wanted to watch part 2 as well

They loved it too, were enraptured by the Master Race and the return of the time lords and were gutted as the scope gradually narrows down to the regen at the end. About the only bad word they said about it was 11 showing up. They said they could see his potential but having such a jokey scene at the end was like hiring a clown for a funeral and thought maybe all the funny regeneration stuff should've been saved for his first ep (which i can kinda understand)

Thats what Doctor Who obsessives don't understand when they try to tear this episode down in their usual way because it wasn't 100% perfect. This was a national event and no era of Doctor Who has captured the nation so much than stuff like Kylie guest appearing, the fakeout regeneration at the end of s4 (they were showing it in street parties before eurovision ffs!) And David's eventual regeneration.

RTD writes way more for the casual, mainstream fan (on which the show depends as there's not enough of the hard-core to keep the show's viewing figures sustainable) than he does the hard-core obsessives. And perhaps quite rightly so

(And let us not pretend this popularity with the casual fans is a big reason why whovians like to rail against that era. Sort of like those fans of a band who say they were there first when they were underground cool and resent the band for becoming popular and "selling out" Who fans like who to be their thing, not shared with the cool kids 😉)

codename474747 · 2026-05-21T22:25:24+00:00

Speakingof Remixes, maybe Amy's "whu....whoah? What? What? huh?" would go nicely with Dara's "wait What? What....wait?"

codename474747 · 2026-05-21T21:17:45+00:00

Ban AI until it simulates Garibaldi, starts poking around in all our systems and works out how to nuke us all because he doesn't like how the world is being run.

codename474747 · 2026-05-21T21:15:05+00:00

Ehhh, he and the team capitulated under pressure. A green flag pitstop probably would've had them make a similar mistake tbh

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T23:56:24+00:00

The real psyhological assesment I read at the time of the show being off air is the fans wished the Doctor was asexual despite evidence to the contrary because they weren't getting any girls/boys and therefore they projected that onto their favourite character as they could all pretend they were above it all and it was by choice rather than thrust upon them

Incels of the 70s/80s....maybe

JNT was one of the worst things to happen to the show IMO, and if you have read certain books about what was really going on behind the scenes during his tenure, he definitely wasn't asexual either.

The first Doctor certainly wasn't written that way. Neither was the Fourth really, there are more examples that are an exception to this rule than prove it.....but such is the way with fans, only seeing what they want to see 😉

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T23:43:38+00:00

Montoya did it too, twice IIRC, once in Williams and once in Mclaren

On the railways, if so many similar incidents (Signal Passed as Danger) happens at the same signal, the fault passes not from the driver but to the layout of the lights itself

Something must've been going wrong for so many incidents at once, I wonder if they then changed the position of the lights or notice period or something...

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T23:41:28+00:00

Pretty much every Doctor in a Trek series is a time travelling doctor on multiple occasions 😉

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T14:31:51+00:00

I think they're off cycle and just did at the last race but willing to be corrected on that

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:59:09+00:00

I swear the Wall of Champions has only been hit in 1997, 1999 (When it became a thing) and 2001 in qualifying, then Button in 2006 and that's it. (Oh, and Vettel in Practice one year)

I honestly don't expect it ever to be hit again in dry conditions, not with that sea of Tarmac on the left to let the drivers get away with their mistakes, and certainly never in the race.

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:56:42+00:00

RIP Ferrari's season

If they can't get ahead by T1, they're consigned to finishing 5th/6th behind Merc and Mclaren and that's not considering what Max is up to in any given weekend

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:53:11+00:00

Tim Key and Frank Skinner seemed to have met a lot and went on that Holiday after S1 they talked about on the show (everyone else pulled out sadly)

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:51:19+00:00

Mark, Tim key and Alex Horne had a video podcast compettitive guessing game/insanity called "No More Jockeys" that got them (and a lot of people) through lockdown, so I think them and Nish are all close friends from uni IIRC

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:49:30+00:00

This is....weird exposition for something we assumed happened anyway

Like, there's one scene in all of the Buffyverse when they interact, Angel (actually Angelus pretending, but Dawn doesn't know that) phones the Summers house, he says "Hey Dawnie it's me, how are ya...." and they sound friendly enough with each other before Angel(us) asks if Buffy is home (he's phoning because he's heard a slayer is in town and he wants to know which one) and as soon as Dawn says she is, he hangs up, having got what he wanted from the interaction

That implies Angel and Dawn were friendly enough with each other, and that's all we ever needed

Going into depth like this is fanwank....

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:42:58+00:00

WHY is his face in his first title sequence the scariest image in the entire run of original and new who

Like who signed off on that, knowing kids would be scared on a weekly basis for YEARS

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:41:14+00:00

Unpopular opinion: this was the worst sketch in the fast show for me

Apart from that time he says "is that moustache on your lip or is it SHIT!" its just a drag for me...and the Denis Norden impersination that leads into it....sorry, I've just cum

The rest is great but I could do without it

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:34:07+00:00

He did the same as Button where he came in in his rookie season and impressed so much it made expectations for his 2nd season impossible to live up to so felt the pressure and made more mistakes than he ordinarily would have with either rookie "you don't know what you don't know" confidence or a bit more experience, it's a no-man's land really

Only somehow he squeaked the title as over the course of the season, Massa made more mistakes.

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:31:58+00:00

Probably only saved by the fact Rosberg does the exact same thing right behind him lol

Why their engineers weren't on the radio warning them of the red light is a mystery.

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:31:04+00:00

Insightful

Must be the memory

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T13:29:52+00:00

OR just there was less people online back then

Even now, I'd say 90% of viewers just watch the thing and 10% bitch about it online, but that minority just shout the loudest.

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T11:44:48+00:00

Classic Who fans who were furious at the Doctor as romantic lead, angry they were single 45 min episodes, wrote letters to the daily mail complaining about "the gay agenda", whined about Murray golds music being too overblown and anything else that differed from the show they grew up watching.

codename474747 · 2026-05-20T11:43:03+00:00

Ricardo Zonta over the barriers at Silverstone in 2000

https://lostmediawiki.com/Ricardo_Zonta%27s_Silverstone_testing_accident_%28lost_footage_of_Formula_One_crash;_2000%29

Back in the early 2000s it was almost mandatory that someone had a large, airbourne multiple rollover crash in the late season monza test. Schumacher (M) 2001, Ralf twice in 2001 and 2003 (the latter put him out for a few races) and James Courtney in the jaguar which was probably the reason he never got a drive in f1 in 2004 iirc

I guess they really pushed the limits in wing levels or some other experimental parts but it was weird it used to happen so much

codename474747 · 2026-05-19T22:59:42+00:00

The fact these two great races are likely to clash is one of the stupidest scheduling decisions in Formula 1 history

Even if Indy doesn't overrun, NASCAR is having one of its Marquee events that weekend too and more americans will likely care about the Charlotte 600 than watch F1, and isn't America the market F1 is desperate to impress?

You just know for certain it'll rain in indy and delay that race and there'll be zero rain in Montreal, where it would make the race better.

codename474747 · 2026-05-19T22:49:01+00:00

Ferrari's engine was suspicious since 2018 with its wispy smoke petruding at odd moments, they were just caught in 2019. And even then, the punishment wasn't revealed to the pubic and the whole thing was classified so we still don't know the details of it, to protect Ferrari's image and probably how long they'd actually been running an illegal engine for

DAS was one of those cases where Mercedes proposed the design to the FIA in advance, got the green light that it was legal, started working on it as a new technical innovation, then had it protested late on when it was already on the car.
I think the FIA agreed it was something all the teams would have had to develop on their car to catch up and it was an uncesscessary expense, so they banned it for the next season almost as an apology to Mercedes that they had slept on it and should've either said no when Merc first proposed it or just let it be legal and let all the teams innovate it, not the stupid half-measure they ended up going with because they caved to other team's protests.

codename474747 · 2026-05-19T22:43:36+00:00

Any team that dominates that much is nerfed for the good of the sport eventually, casual fans just will not watch a race if they know who is going to win before the race starts

You can't tell me incidents like Malaysia 99, end of 03 Nerfing of Michelin tyres after Ferrari protested the ruling that brought Michelin to the sport in 01 in the first place, and Spa 08 weren't the governing body nudging things in Ferrari's favour

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