Spoilers Wish World grade and discussion thread

[Chaos Descending]

I was about 10 years old. I had popped into a friend's house after school and his mom was watching some weird show with some strange grasshopper looking monster that soon cut to credits with a snappy theme tune and stars flying around with rainbowy lens flares and the names of the cast and crew were displayed..

I asked what it was. "Doctor Who", she said..

I was back the next day to watch with my friend and his mom. Back then they showed a 30 minute episode every weekday afternoon.

Of course, what I had just seen was last minute or two of Episode 3 of The Leisure Hive. I became a Whovian immediately. A few weeks later when Logopolis aired, my friend and I were stunned at the regeneration, as neither of us knew much about the history of Doctor Who at the time, and there wasn't really a good means for us to learn except to watch what we could. The PBS station hadn't bought the Peter Davison stories yet, so the next day they started back up again with Robot.

About a year later I met another kid who had been into Doctor Who for longer than I (and had MONEY, which I did not) and he knew all about William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, etc. and had most if not all of the Target novelizations that were available at that time. He became my new lending library! (We're still friends to this day, over 40 years later).

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I grew up during the time Doctor Who had vanished from British TV, so all I saw of it were things like Dimensions in Time and the 1996 movie, and even as a kid I knew that they were terrible.

I didn't pay much attention to the 2005 revival when it came along as it just looked just as cheesy as I thought it would. Though when I saw the hype about Steven Moffat taking over as showrunner, I decided to give The Eleventh Hour a shot, and it was good enough to keep me watching. (I've caught up since then).

 

[Daedalus]

I saw Remembrance of The Daleks and just assumed the Doctor died at the end of part one.

I didnt understand what a cliffhanger was at that age.

 

[Jedman67]

I started playing Second Life in college, and some people had this nifty gadget that was called a police box, that worked with the star trek gadgets I was interested in.
Not knowing anything about Doctor Who, I looked it up and the show must have been running during S4, since this was roughly 2007-8. I do remember that I started watching before the Stolen Earth/Journey's End

 

[Qonundrum]

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I prefer this one over 'The Three Doctors' in terms of Omega's portrayal. Here, he's a tragic figure. In his original outing, he's a generic shouty megalomaniac of the 2D sort that Classic Who could be known for at times. That aside, I wish 'Arc of Infinity' bothered to explain Omega instead of coming across as if it was the first story to feature Omega.

^Agreed about the Daleks not feeling threatening after their first appearance*. They went the way Voyager took the Borg. It's another reason why I'm glad RTD is mining new material rather than going back to the same old proven wells.

The idea of this "pantheon" is not uninteresting, and it is doing something new with a lot of established baddies. But some of his tropes still shine through the ideas.

*Yes! Until Chibnall! I'm glad someone said it. For me, Thirteen's defining moment was this moment, where I said "yes this is the Doctor", and was from her first encounter with a Dalek.

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I never noticed the blue reflective glow off the back of the microphone before. Nice touch.