Doctor Who, things I wish we could have seen on the show.

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'll start this off with a thing I wanted to see more of on the show. Ideas that were shown but never really followed up in a big way unless you go to other media like books, audio or comics. I don't follow any of that and have no desire to but there are those of you that love that and that is great.

Anyway I like the idea of the Cult of Skaro and Dalek Sec.

I think those Daleks under Dalek Sec would have been quite interesting had they been given a more decent story to be in, and imagine that a faction of Daleks that wanted to evolve, and maybe change, that would be bloody amazing but nooooo can't have that and we can't have nice things.

 

[Mr Awe]

Going back to the beginning, I always wanted to learn more about Susan and how she ended up traveling with the Doctor. I suppose it's risky tampering with the very foundations of the beginning of the series (see: Timeless Child), but I've always been curious!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Going back to the beginning, I always wanted to learn more about Susan and how she ended up traveling with the Doctor. I suppose it's risky tampering with the very foundations of the beginning of the series (see: Timeless Child), but I've always been curious!

Actually that would be very interesting to learn how that all happened and why, the actual why he chose to abandon Gallifrey and take her with him.

 

[dupersuper]

I mean, the show's still going...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I mean, the show's still going...

Indeed it is...... I'd love them to do more stories from the past though or back history.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I wish we could have seen the Doctor meet the Brigadier. For such a momentous occurrence, it seems odd for it to have happened off screen.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

OK found this from one of the Titan comics........ OMG great vampire swatting a fleet of Dalek ships in the time war, imagine had we seen this on screen or would it have looked too cheesy?

 

[dupersuper]

I wish we could have seen the Doctor meet the Brigadier. For such a momentous occurrence, it seems odd for it to have happened off screen.

Didn't we? It's been a long time since I saw Web of Fear. Was it not portrayed or is it one of Troughton's oh so many lost scenes?

 

[C.E. Evans]

I wish we could have seen the Doctor's TARDIS before she got stuck as a Police Box. We briefly saw her in her original default mode in "The Name of the Doctor," but as told in various books and audio dramas, the TARDIS did travel around quite a bit with a properly-working chameleon circuit and wore many disguises until she landed in I.M. Foreman's yard.

 

[N-121973]

Didn't we? It's been a long time since I saw Web of Fear. Was it not portrayed or is it one of Troughton's oh so many lost scenes?

I wish we could have seen the Doctor meet the Brigadier. For such a momentous occurrence, it seems odd for it to have happened off screen.

Episode three of The Web of Fear. The episode that they recently had to animate because, according to rumour its now in the hands of a private collector who won't give it back.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Episode three of The Web of Fear. The episode that they recently had to animate because, according to rumour its now in the hands of a private collector who won't give it back.

But we don't see the actual meeting. It happens off screen.

 

[N-121973]

But we don't see the actual meeting. It happens off screen.

Now that you mention it...um.

 

[Qonundrum]

Going back to the beginning, I always wanted to learn more about Susan and how she ended up traveling with the Doctor. I suppose it's risky tampering with the very foundations of the beginning of the series (see: Timeless Child), but I've always been curious!

I liked the mystery, nothing so concrete. There are basically two generalized reasons. Given the adventures prior to the Doctor and Susan ending up on Earth 1963 that they told Ian and Barbara about, it's not implausible that the Doctor saved Susan on some planet, who calls him "grandfather" as a term of endearment. Seems a bit more interesting than "Doctor had intercourse, produced an offspring, which did the same thing, that's how Susan came about, parents died or some other lame predictable thing and what not, the Doctor is a louse like Han apparently became and had to pay child support too." Ugh, lame... Maybe three - she's also a Gallifreyan, he rescued her or she rescued him and they stole the ship together and she still called him "grandfather" as a nickname. Like how Ace called the Doctor "Professor", which was actually quite brilliant...

But people took Ian and Barbara's clearly-platonic relationship and made them lovers for some of the missing adventure books too. Really bizarre...

 

[Qonundrum]

Indeed it is...... I'd love them to do more stories from the past though or back history.

Chibnall's era had a strength in doing history-based stories fairly well. The only way they'd be better is to ditch the sonic prop, but that's not going to happen. Note how "Demons of the Punjab" succeeded to bring in everyone without the psychic paper as a crutch as well. Very refreshing to have seen...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Chibnall's era had a strength in doing history-based stories fairly well. The only way they'd be better is to ditch the sonic prop, but that's not going to happen. Note how "Demons of the Punjab" succeeded to bring in everyone without the psychic paper as a crutch as well. Very refreshing to have seen...

Indeed.

I'm a minority in that I liked all the Timeless Child stuff.

We might get Nyssa Adventures one day

 

[dupersuper]

But people took Ian and Barbara's clearly-platonic relationship and made them lovers for some of the missing adventure books too. Really bizarre...

I'm not generally a shipper, but I'm not sure how clearly platonic that was...

 

[Qonundrum]

Indeed.

I'm a minority in that I liked all the Timeless Child stuff.

We might get Nyssa Adventures one day

I've grown to accept TTC, especially if they're not going to use any means to keep Jo Martin as the Doctor - the way the situation was set up can be undone way too easily ("time can be rewritten" crutch aside, the Master easily could/would have meddled in the Matrix, which is also one of DW's more memorable tropes despite having been done only once or twice in the show's past) and it makes more narrative sense for Fugitive Doctor to be #14 since it's not the best scripting when the current incarnation saves a past one, it creates a paradox. Robert Holmes made the same mistake in "The Two Doctors" but he was terminally ill at the time and died a year later... At least there's a way to fix the paradox as well as bringing in the best modern incarnation since Capaldi, which is saying something since we saw her for - what - 5 minutes, and she knocks it out of the park, right down to the sonic screwdriver (future incarnation with a memory block regarding it at the time - another problem solved FWIW.) Real Doctors use it sparingly or not at all. Granted Jodie's Doctor said "the real Doctor doesn't use violence", even though most previous incarnations did (thus making one wonder why Jodie's would say such an incredulous claim. Unless Chibnall was being 4th wall, but that's not really Chib's style, who doesn't seem to care and (has even said he) prefers to make his own show... which is what most showrunners tend to do, anyway, to out their mark on it...

 

[Qonundrum]

I'm not generally a shipper, but I'm not sure how clearly platonic that was...

Maybe "sufficiently", then? It could be perceived either way, there is a bit of leeway, even for 1963 standards. But in the 2 years on screen, I saw Barbara kiss a Thal with a modicum of romantic interest during "The Daleks", which is more than Ian ever got on screen, but that was about it. They started with zero horniness toward each other... Their exit in "The Chase" also seemed nothing more than their being jubilant when they got back to their own time (plus two years) and without any cliched lovey-dovey hand-holding, which was good considering how they show took care of the first companion to leave...

Okay, some of their televised episodes were missing and maybe the two got goo-goo-eyed on screen for a nice lapse of continuity, but that seems unlikely. NuWHO definitely chose the lazy route and spoonfeeding it out with their being romantic because they had nothing more creative to do. At least nobody wrote them as marrying then divorcing, that's even lazier - unless it turns out Ian used her as a punching bag, since the rarity of women being outright aggressors will never be used as plot fodder - this isn't "All in the Family", a show that had the guts to - despite having them break up - letting Gloria be the bad one rather than Meathead... but I digress. It was lame enough when the show married off companions to begin with... unless there's a Missing Adventure from the 1990s I missed out on... there's just no reason to say I&B weren't merely platonic friends with no romantic undercurrent. It's okay for straight people to be that way too.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

"does not use violence" but calmly kills a TARDIS.
No not very violent there /s

But having said that I do like 13 and the Doctor has most certainly used violence in the past when necessary.

 

[arch101]

it's not implausible that the Doctor saved Susan on some planet, who calls him "grandfather" as a term of endearment.

Except that in "The Five Doctors", she knows they're on Galifrey when she and the Doc see the tower.
But on a flip of that, she thinks the Cybermen's bomb could destroy the TARDIS, which any viewer knows is unlikely. -Especially after you watch it go off the cliff in the first "Peladon" show.