Doctor Who General

[Shane for Wax]

Ever since I wrote it up, I've been waffling linking people to a fic I made starring the Doctor (10) and the Master.

Be kind?

If you aren't intimately aware of the childhoods and early adulthoods of either Time Lord most of this will seem like I made it all up when it comes to their names for each other and various parts of their time in knowing each other.

Well, it certainly isn't awful! 

I'm not sure what that means. It can mean anything...

As for scary episodes mine are Blink and Midnight. But emotionally trying goes to Turn Left and of course Journey's End.

As for companions right now mine go in order of Donna, Martha, Sarah Jane Smith (got her own spin-off that one), and Ace tied with Wilf for top 4. Being almost all women is totally inconsequential considering the Doctor's choices of companions.

[Dakota Bob]

Meant it as more of a positive and less of a negative I'll be honest though, it's not exactly the kind of fanfic I would normally read, but it was written bretty good.

[Shane for Wax]

Heh. I normally don't write brotp. Usually it's very much romantic otp. I mainly wrote it to torture a friend of mine. lmfao

[TheL]

Hmm... I found Midnight and Blink to be creepier (actually most of the Weeping Angels eps), but I guess your scary mileage will vary, of course.

For me, it's the body horror.  Watching the scars appear on people and their faces turn into gas masks is insanely creepy.

[SpaceProg]

Understandable.  Mine is anticipating things you can't see, but know they're coming.   Also... things that you have to see to keep them away from you.

It's hard to describe. 

[Patches]

I find "Midnight" to be the scariest episode since it's the one that most closely matches my greatest personal fear of being permanently mentally damaged or altered in such a way that I'm aware that I used to know certain things, but can't mentally function at that level anymore.  Like a perpetual brain fart. 

Most of the time mind takeovers in the media are played like in "Nightmare in Silver" where you have two personalities battling with each other for control, but stuff like "Midnight" is infinitely creepier where the takeover is a gradual process where you're not even aware of your "self" being replaced until it's pretty much already gone, and by that point there isn't enough "self" left to even know what to do.  "The God Complex" also played on the idea of gradually manipulating a person's mental state, but didn't do it quite as effectively.

I wrote a Ten/Donna-era short story a year or so ago called Mind Heist that dealt with that same "losing one's mind" theme, based on the prompt of "What kind of monster would scare the Doctor the most?"

[Dakota Bob]

It's time to get hype, 50th anniversary poster revealed!

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[PosthumanHeresy]

Those Daleks are some of the worst CGI ever.

[SpaceProg]

They're not the best, but I still like the poster muchly.  Good to see both Ten and Eleven on it.  ... And whatever number John Hurt's Doctor is (If he even really is/will be/was the Doctor)

[Patches]

I appreciate the "Bad Wolf" graffiti in the lower left corner, though. 

Although, I am hoping this is just regular S2 Ten and Rose rather than giving Pete's World Rose another ridiculous timey-wimey excuse to come back again.  Ten's hair looks a bit more like he wore it in S2 (it got progressively spikier as the seasons progressed), but I don't know how anal about continuity they're being, so I won't read too much into it.

[Shane for Wax]

I had an odd thought about John Hurt being 8 revisited but that's just silly.

With that said, 8 is the only Doctor I haven't seen because of whatever reason (money/availability).

I also rewatched all of 9 and 10 and stopped on 11. I have my hangups about 11 we've all read about so I won't repeat them. But I may give it the ol' college try especially without my ex babbling on about 11.

Most important woman in all of creation kinda beats Bad Wolf. If not in emotionally trying stuff but in just how cool it is. The parallel world didn't rewrite itself around Rose, now did it?

[Dakota Bob]

Just saw Logopolis for the first time, what a fantastic way for the 4th doctor to go out. I loved the concept and it kept me interested from beginning to end. Also had one of the creepier scenes in the history of the show, where the TARDIS materializes around a police box so the Doctor can take measurements. but it turns out it's another TARDIS, when they go inside the lights are dark, and the Cloister Bell rings in the background. and there is another TARDIS inside that one. I hope 11th can get an exit as good as this.

Also, I'm waiting for a DVD boxset including the TV movie, so if anybody wants to watch the 8th doctor, I could livestream it on my justin.tv account for all y'all.

[SpaceProg]

Logopolis is indeed a goody.  You know the "Watcher" is based on an ancient bit of folklore about some strange entity that follows you around portending your eventual death?

The best 'Swan song' of the classic series I think is Caves of Androzani (Davison really got to shine in that one).  Went out not saving the world, universe, or time... but one person.

EDIT: Oh, and I think it's awesome they kept the cloister bell and its sound for the 'new' series.  That sound just screams "Oh... Crap."

[Shane for Wax]

And I looked upon the answer to Martha hate and thought it... good. /John Simm's the Master

[Thejebusfire]

I'd love to see McGann in the 50th. There are rumors going both ways, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.