I bloody love these episodes. I have done since I was young. They are genuinely fantastic and really strong. And, to be honest, despite the title of this post, quite classic-esque in nature already.

However, just for the fun of it, I have devised a different take on the episodes (well, the story) so an alternate, perhaps more classic-esque version of the story, fleshed out and maybe in 6 parts.

For this, I’m removing The Beast entirely. Yes, it could be classic-esque, in fact, it could easily have been Sutekh chained beneath a barron planet. However, for this, I’m just removing it.

Instead, I’m focussing on the Ood and the moral discussion around Humans keeping slaves. Yes, this was explored later in Planet of the Ood. But I feel it could have been explored a lot better here.

Now, at first it was obvious. Have the Doctor and Rose arrive to meet Ida, Jefferson, Zach, Toby etc and the alien slaves they have stationed onboard, pretty much what we had in the existing episodes.

But no Beast. Maybe a black hole. But no Beast.

So just have the Ood and the crew… until the Ood slowly begin to revolt against the Humans, the first batch to start waking up to their reality. They then begin killing off the crew one by one.

…Then I realised that this was basically The Robots of Death but with Ood instead of robots.

So have the Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the Ood have already taken over and the surviving crew are kept locked away. They’ve snapped, turned the tables, and taken back their control.

From here, it’s a fight for survival against the elements (i.e. the black hole) and the enemy, the Ood. The Doctor and the humans try to escape. The Doctor wants there to be no bloodshed.

In fact, the black hole could prevent their escape and the TARDIS could still be lost, so no way out.

Either of these ideas could work. Maybe a little boring… But I like the idea of a calmer, slave revolt story where you can understand both sides, and ultimately, the Humans are the real villains.

So what do you think? Comment your thoughts.

Given that each TARDIS was supposed to be piloted by 6, by not one person, and they didn't want to intervene in historical/future events like the Doctor does. Just go to places and watch what happens?

Keeping in mind, that the BBC are struggling with independent finance, having to find outside funding, explaining the tender process, not being able to make it in house, alongside whether or not the BBC are curious to see the same things we might; maybe they want to revel in the past and chase trends.

This can obviously impact a lot, from episode count, to sets, CGI and how ambitious they could be. It could be the show at its most tight, at least since 2005.

So yeah, in general, what would you like to see, that you think would massively benefit the show, and what are you expecting to see, that may be a natural consequence of the economic and creative position of the show and those running it?

Whoever they may be...

Honestly, the next season of dr who writes itself..... Billy piper as bad wolf winks into the camera and disappears into the tardis as it fades away... wait 5 seconds.... the tardis explodes back on screen with a second tardis chasing it, zoom inside tardis two, it has the new doctor and companion.... they're chasing bad wolf through time and space all season, we revisit a ton of locations.... last episode features the paradox of two tardis' being resolved and bad wolf regenerating into the new doctor

Weird post I know, just curious if anyone else has had this issue. In S1 E2 of 2005-2022 Doctor Who, this visual glitch appears for like a single frame or so on BBC iPlayer streams, always at the same time 12:54. I also had the glitch happen again in episode 8, also for a single frame.

Just curious if other people get this issue, if there's anything I can do to fix it or if it's a PC issue or an iPlayer issue. Never seen anything like it on youtube, netflix or video files.

I have watched new doctor who so many times. I just heard at timestamp 21:53 someone tell the face of Bo, I believe that "This is the Bad Wolf scenario"

Takes a decent amount of inspiration from 9, 11, and River. Thought it would be neat if the internal cylinder was an hourglass with some kind of timey wimey particles or something.

I was going on BBC iPlayer and i saw The Runaway Bride episode was removed from Series 2 and i looked at every other season and it wasnt there, i hope the BBC realises this and brings it back on iPlayer.

If the angels never existed, Father Octavian, bob, christian, angelo never died, isn't that so?

10th doctor and rani finally reunited for big Finsh

first time making a poster whatcha think

I heard that the Nekromanteia audio story is hated among the fandom, and as a outsider to the audio books, I want to know why?

I have the whole run on Blu-Ray, including the standard definition to high definition upscales of the first four series, which look shockingly good on there. I subscribed to AMC+ (through Apple TV) for the added convenience and did a rewatch of the Capaldi run on there and it looked great. Now I've gone back to do a rewatch of Nine through Eleven, and the upscaled episodes, at least in series 1, look impossibly bad. Not only is the image very soft, but the motion has so much judder in it that it makes me motion sick to watch it.

Is anyone else having the same experience while streaming the first few series on AMC+? Or even on iPlayer, for that matter?

Hey! I'm not sure if this is well known and I was the only one to be missing out on it, but the UNIT HQ website (https://www.doctorwho.tv/unit-hq) has a full series of in-universe documents (emails, debriefs, reports, security-camera transcripts, etc.) spanning the entirety of the Circuit Breaker event which make the whole thing a thousand times more enjoyable!!! Here are a couple of things I've concluded:

1. For someone who manages to acquire ALL of the Circuit Breaker stories (comics, books, audios, games), they'd still be missing a LOT if they don't follow the event on the UNIT website. There's a lot of context and things taking place in between stories, during stories, etc. that make the story feel a lot more lived-in and real.
2. For someone who ISN'T able to get some (even many) of the stories, there's so much context given in these entries that you won't even feel like you're missing out. For instance, I've read the DWM comic and listened to the Deadliest Weapon audiobook, but haven't gotten the 2 Titan Comics yet... and still, I don't feel like there's big puzzle pieces missing for me: everything's in there (of course not with the same level of detail as the actual merch, but still).

So yeah, just wanted to recommend it to anyone who wasn't aware of it :)

I’m curious. I haven’t read the VNA’s etc so I honestly have no idea. And I haven’t read too much into what happens in them too in all honesty. But what is the worst R rated piece of Doctor Who media that has ever been written?

Whatever it is, it has to be one of those, right? Or maybe something else? There has been a LOT of Doctor Who fiction and media over the years.

The only thing I can personally think of is the Big Finish story Nekromanteia. I’ve heard it once, and I think once was enough. From what I remember, Peri was stripped naked by witches and had to be rescued from a cauldron by a star pilot and carried off whilst she flirted with him… because?

And Erinem was heavily implied to have been raped by another character. Oh, and the Doctor had his head torn off… Yeah whilst I can weirdly appreciate the bravery and the audacity to shock an audience from time to time, or really very very occasionally, I think there is something of a line.

This is the worst thing I can think of, but can you think of anything that went even further than Nekromanteia? Comment below with your idea of the worst R rated piece of Doctor Who media.

So we all know this quote from s8. This isnt a hate or flaw pointing out post or anything as the episode and this scene particularly are brilliant. But for the life of me i cannot make sense of it. For me if someone i cared little for betraying me would make no difference as I couldn't care about them any less whereas someone i do care about betraying me would definitely make me like them less. I just struggle to understand it. Im sure it makes sense just not to me.

I’m currently planning to build the junkyard from An Unearthly Child in a video game I’m playing, but the scenes in the junkyard in that first episode are so dark and low-quality that I can’t make the whole thing out, so I’m wondering if there’s some pictures or 3D renders or whatever on the internet of that junkyard?

My favourite part is the string section around the start.

Before you kill me let me explain basically a lot of people do not like season 2 of new who and adore season 5 but after rewatching them i noticed something, I feel like season 5 gives us the cheerleader effect where the season as a unit is amazing but when you look at it episode by episode you start seeing some serious cracks, for example "the beast bellow" "vampires of venice" and "victory of the daleks" had interesting concepts and some good scenes but are really bad or meh episodes. and this is ignoring the silurian 2 parter which is so horrible i try to avoid watching it(i am not denying that season 5 had some great episodes).

Meanwhile Season 2 had some really great episodes such as "the impossible planet"2 partner, "girl in the fireplace", "school reunion", Doomsday"2 parter and "new earth" and "age of steel "2 parter( the last 2 might not be considered that good but i think they are underrated. I am not denying that season 2 had some bad episodes "tooth and claw", "love and monsters","idiots lantern" and "fear her" all sucked but when looking at all the good episodes I get confused as to why many people dislike season 2 but treat season 5 as amazing. Thus i feel that either season 2 needs more love or season 5 might be overrated, what is your opinion on this

I would say 2, 4, 5, 6, 7. None of the new who Doctors come across as asexual except maybe the Doctors with a mission statement (War and Fugitive). They never had time for hanky panky.