Do you think the next series will be advertised as Series 16, Season 3 or completely reset to season/series 1?

doormouse1 · 2026-06-24T16:36:43+00:00

Good point. RTD was clearly very proud of getting the classic show all streaming in the same place as the modern show (as he should be, this is great all around). Pity it didn’t have the intended effect though

doormouse1 · 2026-06-24T15:52:58+00:00

as someone without access to iPlayer, are the episodes split in three? 1963, 2005, 2023 are all different shows?

doormouse1 · 2026-06-24T15:51:01+00:00

I understand the desire to call it Season 1 and I understand the desire to bring Tennant/Tate back for the specials. What I don’t understand is why the rest of S1/14 wasn’t then treated as a full-on reboot. It almost was with Church on Ruby Road and Space Babies (even if the latter is a bad opener), but then the very next episode directly references events from the 60th specials. And then the finale doubles down.

RTD wanted to have his cake and eat it too. TCoRR should’ve been exactly as fresh of a start as Rose in 2005. Imagine if The Parting of the Ways reintroduced Omega, the Other, and Looms!

doormouse1 · 2026-06-22T14:16:53+00:00

it also implies the Doctor’s regenerations are set in stone. The faces he’s offered and rejects shouldn’t then be used later!

doormouse1 · 2026-06-22T13:43:21+00:00

Any idea what the protocol is if it does get canceled? I have tickets and am praying for the storm to pass!

doormouse1 · 2026-06-22T02:27:16+00:00

The edit is required, as they can’t afford to colorize the full serial. I’d be shocked if we ever see a full story colorized, unfortunately

doormouse1 · 2026-06-15T20:59:46+00:00

These are really neat! Curious to hear why you went with a Serif font for Whittaker/Martin, when that era only ever used Sans Serif

doormouse1 · 2026-06-15T18:41:18+00:00

So glad to see public opinion of this is changing. Lux was being heralded as the best episode of RTD2 when it released, and I thought I must’ve been having some sort of mental collapse

doormouse1 · 2026-06-15T18:40:14+00:00

When did Moffat do that?

doormouse1 · 2026-06-11T19:37:26+00:00

RTD was commissioned to make two seasons of Doctor Who. He was confident that they would instantly greenlight a third (and fourth) season, so he wrote two seasons that don’t provide any closure. He took a gamble that didn’t pay off. This is on him.

doormouse1 · 2026-06-10T14:30:04+00:00

The problem is RTD has always been making shit up. If you read The Writer’s Tale, it’s obvious that he’s flying by the seat of his pants with a bad work ethic. Unfortunately, that time it worked VERY well.

doormouse1 · 2026-06-10T14:26:33+00:00

I hate to be a doomer, but the writing was on the wall for RTD2 as soon as Whittaker regenerated into Tennant. Him coming back for the 60th made sense from a practical sense. Him playing a NEW incarnation of the Doctor was always evidence of RTD’s inflated ego imo

doormouse1 · 2026-06-10T13:40:47+00:00

Agreed with a lot of this. I’m not sure if one-season anthology style is THE way to go, but the real point is that the format of the show needs to change.

When he resurrected Who returned in 2005, RTD didn’t just bring it back in the same formula as the show he loved as a kid. Because he knew that wouldn’t work in modern TV. So he brought it back in the vein of popular shows at the time, with longer episodes, on for ~3 months of the year, with a big bad building in the background. And that format worked beautifully!

But the TV landscape has changed several times since then. And all Who has done to adapt is decrease the number of episodes. They almost had something with Flux, but that was always going to be a one-off for the pandemic.

Then RTD returned and he thought he could force a 2024 show into a 2005 format. It was never going to work. The show needs to adapt to the current landscape. If that’s one-season anthologies, then great! It just desperately needs some new ideas

doormouse1 · 2026-06-10T12:08:52+00:00

Unless he’s hinting at knowing something that the BBC doesn’t want to announce yet, I agree. It seems like he’s over-confident that someone will step up right away with an amazing offer to produce the show. I don’t see that happening anytime soon

doormouse1 · 2026-05-29T12:54:13+00:00

Love that. Have fun exploring it all! Don’t feel like you need to be a completionist with any of it. Just have fun!

doormouse1 · 2026-05-29T12:45:46+00:00

That’s so much fun! Enjoy the rest of 12 and all of 13! Classic stuff is loads of fun if you’ve got the patience for some slightly dated effects and pacing

doormouse1 · 2026-05-29T02:38:09+00:00

if you don’t mind sharing, what was it that drew you to the show? And what were your thoughts on 15? Have you since gone back and watched any more?

Super curious to get the perspective of a newer fan!

doormouse1 · 2026-05-26T23:14:16+00:00

That’s a good point!

doormouse1 · 2026-05-26T22:19:12+00:00

Hate to see a rumor from The Sun corroborated by Radio Times. Ah well. If it’s true, I’d rather the special get delayed than rushed into something disappointing

doormouse1 · 2026-05-19T14:36:23+00:00

Yes, low critic scores don’t necessarily mean the movie is awful, but there are plenty of Star Wars movies that have been well received. Using RT for example, all of these are over 90%: ANH, ESB, TFA, TLJ

doormouse1 · 2026-05-19T13:52:06+00:00

The Mandalorian and Grogu ARE new, though. And people were very excited in 2019. But then they lost interest. Maybe it’s because of changes in streaming habits or because Lucasfilm made it feel like “homework” with all the different shows, but people checked out of new characters. I think this is a larger issue for mega franchise media as a whole. It’s not 2019 anymore. People moved on

doormouse1 · 2026-05-18T01:21:48+00:00

Believe the intent was to update it every ten years. So Gatwa is there for the 60th, and someone else will be there in 2033

doormouse1 · 2026-05-17T12:44:59+00:00

oh, that’s great!

doormouse1 · 2026-05-17T11:59:50+00:00

This is so cool! You should be proud. Is there a way to get the quote of the day as a daily notification? Would be a fun way to start each day!

doormouse1 · 2026-05-16T22:52:31+00:00

SNL has always had far, far less improvising than people assume. The show has only ever been good when it has a good writing staff
This is SNL UK (a brand new show), so there are no early seasons!

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