Warts and all, I love his stuff for RTD and in their entirety I love Series 5-10. A golden period for the show. Not a single episode I'd be reluctant to rewatch.
Is that real?
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Warts and all, I love his stuff for RTD and in their entirety I love Series 5-10. A golden period for the show. Not a single episode I'd be reluctant to rewatch.
Is that real?
Even the one with the eye crust monsters??
That one sucked but for one thing… it managed to be an odd tribute to Saward future who, in the style of Two Doctors. That was practically Dastari’s cousin.
I think I must be the only person who enjoyed "Sleep No More."
Having largely forgotten Sleep No More, I decided to look up our old discussion thread from when the episode first aired to see what I posted about it. Apparently I thought it was a decently entertaining if generic episode that did a good enough job at worldbuilding that I wasn't opposed to it getting a sequel or follow up.
I didn't hate it either, though it kinda takes a long time to have the plot going.
It was just a long bit of meh, with really only Jenna and Peter to keep my interest truth be told. It’s not got anything offensively bad in it, it just… didn’t have anything good in for me.
It’s still above Orphan 55, Ker-blam, probably the ones I skipped, Fear Her and maybe Love & Monsters.
It’s still above Orphan 55, Ker-blam, probably the ones I skipped, Fear Her and maybe Love & Monsters.
It's also a lot better than "in the Forest of the Night," "The Lie of the Land," and "The Caretaker."
That said, I liked "Kerblam!" a lot.
That said, I liked "Kerblam!" a lot.
Here is my primary hope for RTD's 2nd tenure, which I may be alone in wanting: I hope we get back to the simple premise of weird/bad things happen, Doctor shows up with companion, fixes everything, moves on. No more messing around with his backstory, no more arcs more complicated than saying the word Bad Wolf in every episode.
Honestly, I would love that, too.
But I wouldn't hold my breath in that happening with Davies. After all, he was the one who destroyed Gallifrey, created the Time War, and gave The Doctor untold trauma. Also, everything Bad Wolf and season arcs in general.
Maybe this time he'll destroy Gallifrey for real, lol.
Well, technically he did but then Moffat walked it back. 
Of course! This time, multiple Gallifreys.
Oh, yeah, Forest of the Night is terrible. I actually forgot what Lie of the Land was, but having just Googled it, yeah, it was one of the Monk story arc, so not much of a winner there either. I actually enjoyed The Caretaker, and Kerblam was alright too.
Or you've blanked them for your mind
Despite having seen everything episode of Doctor Who since it returned (the only exception of the spider one with Jodie Whitaker) I can remember very few of them.
And then Chibnall un-walked it back.Well, technically he did but then Moffat walked it back.
Gallifrey needs one of those signs in orbit like the fire risk at a national park. “Today Gallifrey is -intact- -in a pocket universe- -destroyed-”
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Gallifrey exists in a quantum state of existence. Either you're looking for it and it's destroyed or you're not looking for it and they haranguing you over doing better for the universe.
or as I believe some-one has already called it "Schrodinger's Gallifrey"
Technically, Chibbers didn't destroy Gallifrey. He just had the inhabitants massacred. Planet's fine.
