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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Apr 6, 2018 23:03:28 GMT
I rather like the idea that the Doctor can speak “baby”. Smiths stories played it for a gag, but I dare anyone to watch “The a Girl Who Died” And not get s lump in their throat when Capaldi starts to translate for everyone what the baby’s saying.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 5:43:58 GMT
I rather like the idea that the Doctor can speak “baby”. Smiths stories played it for a gag, but I dare anyone to watch “The a Girl Who Died” And not get s lump in their throat when Capaldi starts to translate for everyone what the baby’s saying. I like to think The Doctor actually learnt it, rather then it being a Time Lord thing
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 5:59:50 GMT
The Cybermen. Tragic, horrific, heartbreaking and haunting.
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Post by relativetime on Apr 8, 2018 0:12:12 GMT
I really like Russell T. Davies' addition of the Time War. Not only does it solve a whole lot of the issues of continuity the show had, it's also really impressive how despite the fact that we've had several releases exploring it in the show, audio, and comics, there's still this sense that we haven't even scratched the surface there - props to Russell for creating something of that scale. And it can hardly be forgotten that RTD gave us Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, two fantastic spinoffs (though the former was a little shaky in the first two series).
On Moffat's end, it really comes down to the small things that make me cherish his era of the show. I love The Doctor's Wife - "I always took you where you needed to go" still gives me shivers every time I watch it and sums up the entire show better than nearly everything before or since in my opinion. I appreciate that he focused less on the Doctor being some "Lonely God" like RTD did and instead portrayed the Doctor as "a Mad Man in a Box," which I think is more true to the show than the former.
I really love the characters both RTD and Moffat created. River Song, Jack Harkness, Sally Sparrow, the Paternoster Gang, the families of RTD's companions, Missy, and so on. And while I was on the fence about it for a while at the time, I really do like the addition of the War Doctor. There's been some inspired casting in general and while sometimes the stories haven't always matched the caliber of skill on display, I'm really grateful we get to say many of these characters are a part of Doctor Who.
From the Eighth Doctor's era, it really is easiest to say pretty much everything Big Finish has added - and definitely the same for the Sixth Doctor - but I'd like to specifically mention what I consider to be the Eighth Doctor's definitive villain, The Eleven.
Finally, from the classic seasons, I think my favorite addition - besides the obvious answer of basically the whole foundation for the show - was the Cartmel Masterplan... For the most part. It definitely added a whole new layer of mystery and intrigue to the Doctor the likes of which the show hadn't really had after the first couple of incarnations, and it really improved the Seventh Doctor and set him apart from the other incarnations in a way that up until Season 25 hadn't been done before. But, that all being said, I think the novels took the concept too far. The whole point of the Masterplan was to add mystery and otherworldliness back to the Doctor's character - spilling the beans about it all defeats the point, guys.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 1:09:19 GMT
The Cybermen. Tragic, horrific, heartbreaking and haunting. Ditto. Particularly how the Cybermen evolved from "race of cyborgs from doomed planet Mondas" to "race of cyborgs that wish to see everyone become like them". They're so gloriously chilling. The chapter "You've Got to Have Soul" from Steve Lyons's Killing Ground remains the most horrific depiction of cybernisation I've ever seen. Hegelia willingly submits to conversation to see how it feels, worshipping the Cybermen and in doing so discovers not what's gained, but what you lose. And the answer is everything. To be a Cyberman isn't to become a superman as Nietzsche thought, but a non-person. The ultimate destruction of self and personality. Someone's probably gotten to this already, but everything that Big Finish did with Davros. I, Davros, Terra Firma, Davros, The Juggernauts, all of it. Taking that one incident mentioned in the novelisation for Remembrance of the Daleks and just running with it. Giving him a backstory, a family (a career soldier father, Machiavellian mother and peacemaking sister), a life beyond what we saw in Genesis of the Daleks. Even giving him an unrequited love. And somehow, never diminishing the character as a result. Far from it, he ends up being one of the most dangerous figures in the series' history, period.
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Apr 8, 2018 5:32:25 GMT
So many things... But, as I've just recently read it, I'd like to nominate just about everything from Alien Bodies. Humanoid TARDISes, the War, the Celestis, the Relic, Faction Paradox, the Shift... The whole book is flooded with brilliant ideas. It's a shame that the Doctor Who universe didn't make more use of them, but Faction Paradox is still running strong primarily on the ideas from this book.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 6:06:06 GMT
I know every series gives a character a Moriarty-figure eventually, but given the concerns of the series and the abilities of, it was a great move to give The Doctor a reoccurring 'human' Time Lord figure. Someone who is just as intelligient as The Doctor, but none of the empathy and compassion and it gives the series a edge in a series traditionally ruled over by monsters.
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Post by thethirddoctor on Apr 8, 2018 13:18:08 GMT
The regeneration. The Regeneration limit. The Valeyard.
I would have listed more, but they have been contradicted in recent history.
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