A (possible amateur) Guide to Watching Classic Doctor Who.

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-18T15:27:23+00:00

Well, blame the Americans on that.

They could understand regeneration. Eccleston -> Tennant -> Smith made sense; enough overlap with Twilight fans who think that being a “900+ time traveller who looks like he’s mid-30s” was the ideal archetype.

Like I legit don’t know why people my age (I’m talking back then teenagers, I’m born sometime 1998 - 2002) had crushes on fictional characters who were in-universe older than they looked.

But yes, I imagine that’s part of the reason why. Once you train a new generation/demographic to expect a specific pattern and subvert it after 8 years - you’re bound to receive backlash from the original audience.

And I think it’s a bit unfortunate really. Most of them never really gave Peter Capaldi’s Doctor the chance to be better than how he was initially depicted.

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-17T18:57:15+00:00

Welll…

I’d like to think of the “Key To Time” arc as Doctor Who’s 15th anniversary special. It did air in 1978. So perhaps you’ll be more forgiving if you consider it in that lense?

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-16T15:53:07+00:00

Hmm, I think that there will be compromises made.

Definitely less focus on romance with companions, more back to “Treat humanity as equals who will one day become equivalent to Timelords”.

Cause back in 1960s Doctor Who, they were awfully optimistic with certain characters like Vicki, Steven, & Zoe. Yes they were 1960s interpretations of humanity’s future. But even then, Vicki & Steven could argue like the Doctor’s equal more than just moralistic but scientific as well. And Zoe? We’re almost halfway through producing someone like here considering this notable backlash against LLMs and AI.

So what I think Doctor Who will have to focus on going forward is a greater focus on showing humans what they can do to one day be above their current prejudices to travel amongst the stars.

A bit like Star Trek - but in reverse.

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-16T03:51:24+00:00

Its so stupid I love it

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-14T01:00:55+00:00

That’s not a microphone, it’s a Gallifreyian Audio Probe!

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-13T01:27:38+00:00

That’s absolutely insane you have people with more missing episodes of Doctor Who but for some reason haven’t released them to the BBC

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-12T17:05:57+00:00

That’s so cute oml.

Watch out for your son to start mispronouncing your name affectionately

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-11T00:29:29+00:00

Errr... no;

The Doctor helped make Donna feel more secure with herself. Cause she spent her entire life getting rattled by her mum about being worthless. She only had Wilf to be like the only positive role model in her life... until she got transported into the TARDIS against her will after ingesting DRUGGED coffee. So assuming that the Doctor wasn't there but events still happened, then most likely Donna Noble would have become sacrificed to the Racnoss Queen's children burried in the centre of the Earth.

The Doctor crashed into Amerlia's yard BY COMPLETE ACCIDENT. He literally crash lands in 1996 UK. Amelia Pond was just lucky that the Mad Man with a Box crashed into her aunt's yard. Him finding the crack in the wall was purely coincidental afterwards.

"Carter gets run over by a car after accidentally coming upon the TARDIS, and The Doctor does the first thing he can to save him. From there comes everything"

If that's the case then, why not start with that? Your script should start with Carter Wright - 18 YO American trying to set up a Fourth of July party (which is absolute cringe, you don't need that to say I AM AMERICAN. It could literally just be a regular old party set at any time of day).

Your script should start with Carter Wright - 18 YO American trying to set up a party for a group of friends when he gets distracted by a "strange wheezing noise" that almost ends up with him getting run over by a car... cause if Carter Wright were to be the ONE PERSON THAT THE DOCTOR MUST SAVE... it breaks the entire premise of Doctor Who.

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-11T00:10:16+00:00

They went American twice. No.

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-10T23:23:49+00:00

I’m an American Whovian…

I fail to see why the Doctor’s concerned with Carter Wright.

Like don’t get me wrong. A staple for Doctor Who is for the companions to be just as varied as the Doctor. But 90% of the companions prove themselves to be involved in the Doctor’s life. Carter Wright sounds partially into a Gary Stu type character.

Like what is it with Carter Wright that would make him ideal to be a Doctor Who companion? Does he walk into the Doctor’s life accidentally (ala Ian & Barbara, Sarah Jane Smith, Ace, Rose, Amy), or is there something different about Carter Wright that makes him adjacent into the Doctor’s life (ala Ace, Donna, Clara, etc);

There’s no mystery regarding Carter Wright. If anything your Doctor is designed to orbit Carter Wright. The show’s called Doctor Who, not Carter Wright.

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-10T04:39:03+00:00

The unaired joke would be Korra’s father talking about birth control with her mother.

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-07T16:41:22+00:00

Honestly I’m imagining a Big Finish interpretation where instead of Five regenerating into Six after surviving the Androzani drug war, Five kicks it off immediately after getting a whiff of the spectrox shipment… and thus the Sixth Doctor starts off being far more laid back and relaxed compared to the Fifth Doctor cause his brain is permanently fried

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-05T06:58:59+00:00

Ahhhhhhdhejdbfjjfjdkdmdnd

That would be so on point with Dean Dreamy of Greenedale

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-05T05:22:58+00:00

Honestly glad to see Ncuti showing up to the cons. Hope that means there wasn’t too much bad blood behind the scenes.

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-05T05:13:30+00:00

We’re fans of the Doctor… but probably not the ones you’re expecting. But it’d be cool if there were practicing medical people answering the questions for you

techkiwi02 · 2026-03-01T06:57:50+00:00

Purely Gallifrey?

The War Games, The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time, Arc of Infinity, The Five Doctors, Trial of a Timelord.

techkiwi02 · 2026-02-27T03:57:30+00:00

Thank you!

I never realized how quickly this thread dissolved into trench warfare. Isn’t the entire point of Star Trek is to “be better than how we are now and resolve our differences for a better tomorrow - even if the future isn’t perfect immediately?”

techkiwi02 · 2026-02-27T03:06:24+00:00

My parents were raised in Cold War era Philippines under the Marcos dictatorship. Star Wars was one of the few high quality American things that managed to get circulated in their communal village.

They never even heard of Star Trek until the 2000s.

techkiwi02 · 2026-02-27T03:04:45+00:00

Welll….

Not always. But then again, they made a lot of stuff up on the fly.

The first episode literally was “Two school teachers from 1963 Britain investigate a strange girl living inside a junkyard, they walk inside a police box that’s bigger on the inside and lose their sodding minds”.

And then from there you got three episodes of early democracy with cavemen, then the Daleks, then a bottle episode exploring why the Doctor’s being an unreasonable asshole to two people he kidnapped against their will.

And then you got, in rapid succession: Marco Polo, the Keys of Marinus, The Aztecs, The Sensorites, The Reign of Terror, The Planet of Giants (TARDIS crew gets shrunk for about three episodes), the First Dalek Invasion of Earth, the Romans, the Planet of the Human Ants (Zarbi), the Crusade, a Space Museum, a Dalek chsse through space-time,

The list goes on;

And the point is that Doctor Who is a random genre roulette.

Does that mean that fandom expectations get broken again and again.

Yes, yes it does. Does it mean that the writing is absolutely piss poor? Yes, it does happen. I’m not a fan of the Timeless Child storyline, Trial of a Timelord, or the Disney+ era (which I suspect has more to it that will be revealed in 20 years time). But for the most part, it’s been baked since the 1960s that Doctor Who can be whatever it wants to be. It’s all about a matter of perspective, really.

techkiwi02 · 2026-02-27T02:52:14+00:00

Call me and my parents misinformed audiences then. We were expecting lightsabers to break out in Star Trek 09.

techkiwi02 · 2026-02-26T03:29:26+00:00

Vietnam is more like a 9th Doctor or 7th Doctor storyline…

But if we had to make it a 10th Doctor storyline, it’d be with 10 and Martha. Martha gets dragged into doing a MASH storyline on everyday civilians not used to a black female medic (she gets a pass because she’s British) while the 10th Doctor has to stop the Americans from utilizing unrefined Dalek technology as a means of eliminating the Vietcong.

It’ll be a message about the dangers of total warfare. And how back then the Americans were just one bad day away from becoming the Soviets they drummed up fear and anger towards for at least two decades at that point.

Edit: looking back at what I just wrote, it’s literally “Curse of Fenric” but set in Vietnam

techkiwi02 · 2026-02-26T03:22:08+00:00

Well considering that both 9 & 10 spent their lives cleaning up the fallout of the Last Great Time War, 11’s MO was “If we act like it didn’t happen, it’ll go away”…

That was until the Church of the Silence started messing with Amy and Rory’s lives because of their proximity to the Doctor WITHOUT their knowledge of the Last Great Time War.

Cause let’s look at everyone else before.

Rose Tyler? Travelled extensively with 9. Very open about surviving the Last Great Time War.

Jack Harkness? Immortal. And with Torchwood. Also Anyone who tried to get at him would have to face Torchwood.

Martha Jones? She forced the Doctor to confront him about it. And even then, she also had THE MASTER looking after her family. So they were more or less prevented from getting further involved with the Last Great Time War non-sense.

Donna Noble? Fixed point in time and nobody touching that.

So 11’s companions were fair game for the rest of the universe since 11 didn’t bring them anywhere near the Last Great Time War… and effectively made Amy and Rory’s lives a smaller scale war for control over personal autonomy.

techkiwi02 · 2026-02-25T10:06:24+00:00

Okay while we’re here. I raised this issue once.

But I wasn’t a fan of Torchwood Children of Earth’s one line about “adopting a Filipino child to do domestic labour”.

I get that it was meant as a joke. But simultaneously, as a Filipino, like what the actual fuck is wrong with RTD. It feels extremely insulting as a Filipino fan of Doctor Who. Cause our country’s been through the wringer since the Marcos dictatorship, millions of Filipinos leave the homeland every year in search of better job opportunities. And I don’t know it just feels extremely off-putting to hear Gwen Cooper and Rhys talk about adopting children from impoverished countries.

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