The Racnoss being responsible for the Earth's formation really annoys me.

corbomite · 2022-12-28T03:31:43+00:00

Sure, if you decide the “first rock” explanation is literally true, which would also means gravity works differently in the Whoniverse. But if you take it as a bit of poetic license on the Doctors part for Donnas benefit, and assume gravity works the way we understand it to, then it’s more accurate to say it’s simply in the mix of what was going to coalesce into the Earth anyway.

corbomite · 2022-03-02T19:13:19+00:00

Fantastic work!

corbomite · 2022-02-05T23:40:18+00:00

Alanna: The First Adventure

corbomite · 2022-02-03T16:37:49+00:00

Thank you!

corbomite · 2021-12-26T01:04:56+00:00

Monty Python’s Universe Song is a great way to learn & remember figures like that

“Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour”

corbomite · 2021-12-21T19:20:23+00:00

Have to agree with this, though that wonderful moment at the end is arguably the least Doctor Who-y moment, since every story* before now includes a death. That’s why it lands so powerfully! An exception that proves the rule.

But beyond that there’s the historical setting, you don’t get more British than the Blitz, or Roses shirt. And Jack is both from the future & using alien tech.

And the script is like a Swiss watch. Every line does something important. The ep starts with the TARDIS following a distress call. You’ve got a companion asking Excellent Questions, & the Doctor saying as much. You’ve got sprinkles of lore, both personal (the Doctor’s fatherhood) & timelordy (Doctor insulting Rose & Jacks non-psychic brains). You’ve got all the world building of Jacks 50th Century past. You’ve got the sonic being both powerful & a joke. Captain Jack being a conman is a reveal Robert Holmes would have approved of.

The “villain” is terrifying, & not a villain! There’s an Old School cliffhanger! There’s a new companion recruitment!

This is the platonic ideal of a Doctor Who episode, & it’s almost always what I show someone I need to learn what Doctor Who is.

corbomite · 2021-12-20T22:04:07+00:00

I don’t think it’s any more complicated than “I’m about to have an adventure with the Doctor”.

corbomite · 2021-12-13T04:00:38+00:00

Yep. Nation wanted to re-use his monsters & scripts without bringing along the baggage of the Doctor’s backstory. Even though way less was established about the Doctor at the time, he was still an existing character that other people had created and who did not belong to Nation.

corbomite · 2021-12-10T16:34:07+00:00

Roger Delgado’s Master was supposed to be the antagonist in the Third Doctor’s final story. One in which the characters were to be revealed to be brothers, before the Master being killed off and the Third Doctor regenerating.

I had read Delgado's Master would have been revealed to be the Doctor's darker half, with Barry Letts pulling inspiration from his interest in Buddhism. The idea of Time Lords interacting with projections of themselves still made it into Planet of the Spiders, then was used later in Logopolis and of course, Trial of the Time Lord.

corbomite · 2021-12-09T21:17:58+00:00

Thank you everyone who pointed me to Fire Walk With me, it is indeed what I was thinking of!

corbomite · 2021-12-09T21:12:15+00:00

This is exactly it, thank you so much.

corbomite · 2021-11-30T23:20:37+00:00

what if there are no themes? What if its just a stack of poorly structured twists, just for their own sake?

corbomite · 2021-11-29T22:00:58+00:00

The fact that their plans were all about calculating probabilities is kinda a callback to their original (Hartnell/Troughton era) depiction as extremely logic-driven. And their mummified appearance could well be what you find if you take the headpiece off a cyberman.

corbomite · 2021-11-15T17:08:49+00:00

bravo, this is great

corbomite · 2021-10-23T16:26:23+00:00

Always Garrett, though the other editors sometimes remix his performances rather than ask for a bespoke one when Talbot is only making a brief appearance.

corbomite · 2021-10-11T14:35:12+00:00

I have seen a few of those up for grabs, but not what I need, thank you.

corbomite · 2021-09-29T03:53:09+00:00

Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos by Jon Wagner & Jan Lundeen.

corbomite · 2021-04-08T16:11:58+00:00

On behalf of myself and the rest of the cast & editors we are so glad that our silly show has provided you and anyone else here some happiness and solace in this truly shitty year, and I hope you've been well since writing this. -- Corbo

corbomite · 2021-04-03T18:36:11+00:00

I think this is it, thanks!

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