#Sensorites

[dailyclassicwho]

CLASSIC WHO FASHION Susan Foreman ◈ The Sensorites

#doctor who #classic who #the sensorites #first doctor era #sensorites #barbara wright #susan foreman #firstdoctoredit #dwedit #classicwhoedit #classic who fashion #companion outfits #susan foreman outfits #gifs #mine #this overall outfit is cute

[6-and-7]

Time Ram - Sensorites and Sensibility

It's Benton's big day out as the Third Doctor gets Rammed into the Hartnell-era story, The Sensorites! It's mayhem, molybdenum, and the Master as Jon Pertwee contends with a foe who wants to Make the Sense-Sphere Great Again! Featuring an acapella score and a brief lesson in economics.

Time Ram art masterpost

Alt. versions under the cut

#time ram #doctor who #art #my art #fan art #third doctor #jo grant #benton #jon pertwee #katy manning #john levene #the sensorites #sensorites #delgado!master #roger delgado

[doctorwhogirlie]

Doctor Who - Sensorites

#Sensorites #the sensorites #doctor who #doctor who girlie #classic who #classic doctor who #first doctor #susan foreman #ian chesterton #barbara wright

[i-like-media]

Yeah alright kids in the 60's had every right to be scared of Doctor Who

#that shot gave me the heebie jeebies #classic who #classic doctor who #doctor who series 1 #1st doctor #first doctor #the doctor #60's doctor who #the sensorites #horror

[unwillingadventurer]

#classic who #first doctor #dw #the sensorites

[cleowho]

“...a mild curiosity in a junkyard...”

The Sensorites - season 01 - 1964

#doctor who #classic doctor who #classic who #first doctor #william hartnell #the sensorites #susan foreman #carole ann ford #barbara wright #jacqueline hill #ian chesterton #william russel

[intuitive-revelations]

Rewatched Heaven Sent a couple weeks ago (I was flying back from a research conference in San Francisco, and British Airways had it available to watch, which was a pleasant surprise) and man, I've got to ramble a bit...

Something-something about how the Confession Dial is clearly pulling elements from the Doctor's childhood. This has been said before of course, but when you really pull everything together, it sure does paint a picture.

It's unclear whether this was the original intent for the soul-catching ritual (which is presumably what the dials are used for, making them a sort of Matrix data slice like Nethersphere), or something added by the Time Lords in corrupting it into a torture chamber, but it's there.

From the teleportation chamber loom...

...to the night sky being a 'burnt orange'...

...to the lilies flowers of remembrance for the lost dead...

...to sentient buildings...

...to that internal soup parallel, both alone in the dial and surrounded by their cousins at the barn...

...to the jars of dust.

And speaking of that "tall woman" in a "grey shawl", who is also oddly oversized, as if putting the Doctor in the perspective of a child,

and is explicitly a nightmare from the Doctor's childhood:

a woman who died, but seemingly passed away far quicker than anyone around her expected (and all the implications relating to that and connecting to the identity of the Hybrid)...

Finally, and this is definitely a stretch, but think back to the room numbers. The Doctor has to find room 12.

Fittingly. But if 12 corresponds to the Twelfth Doctor, then what about those other rooms...?

They must also correspond to incarnations, right? It's not like the God Complex - there was only ever one prisoner in the confession dial, after all.

Incarnations, numbering "a bit confused", in a fascimile of the Doctor's childhood home? Huh...

"Illogical house, a construction that makes no sense..."

#Doctor Who #Heaven Sent #Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible #Lungbarrow #Doctor Who: Flux #The Vanquishers #The Sensorites #Twelfth Doctor #Thirteenth Doctor #DW Meta #DW Theory #Long Post

[kcdahippie]

We love The First Doctor and his cape era

#kc and the quest to watch dr who #classic who #the first doctor #the sensorites

[ian-chestert0n]

Ian and Barbara are amused by The Doctor's claim that he never gets involved in Doctor Who - The Sensorites

With Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright, William Russell as Ian Chesterton and William Hartnell as The Doctor

#doctor who #classic doctor who #classic who #the sensorites #ian chesterton #jacqueline hill #barbara wright #william russell #william hartnell #first doctor

[19thcenturyfuck]

the empty child / the doctor dances and blink are both absolutely phenomenal but the reason why midnight is the scariest is because the real threat of the episode is so mundane. like sure, there's the midnight entity, which is pretty scary in its own right, but the main conflict of the episode is less about the entity itself and more about how the people on the bus react to the situation. nanogenes and weeping angels don't exist but angry mobs sure do.

#midnight = best episode #only chance to change my mind now is either i find something better in classic who #(which to be fair the sensorites serial came close) #or fifteen gets something even better #but for now...midnight reigns supreme!! #doctor who

[colemckenzies]

guess who has access to iplayer for the first time since the beeb added the entire doctor who back catalogue. im returning to my roots this is a classic who blog again.

#the way this show makes me kick my feet and giggle.. they ALL LOVE EACH OTHER #in a way that feels so much more real and grounded and palpable than post 2005. #unfortunately have had to skip hero of my heart ian chesterton #to prioritise the reconstructions i havent seen #then I'll move on to 5-7 since ive only seen random scattered serials from them #i might have a cheeky watch of the sensorites or the aztecs or watch some mike yates episodes .. just as a treat

[dailyclassicwho]

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#doctor who #classic who #first doctor era #first doctor #daleks #cybermen #sensorites #voord #koquillion #menoptra #mechanoids #fanart #dw fanart #classic who fanart #reposted with permission #go commission this artist!

[cringecompanionapologist]

It might be kind of weird to point this out, though Turlough's arc parallels the Doctor's, his origins parallel a combination of the Doctor and Susan.

We meet Susan as a student at a secondary school on Earth. Her teachers think she's weird. It turns out that that's because she's a literal space alien.

We meet Turlough as a student at a secondary school on Earth. His teachers think he's weird and a problem. It turns out that's because he's a literal space alien.

Then the differences:

Susan can go home at the end of every day. After school, she goes home to her grandfather. She's not the only there. She's not alone.

Turlough is at a boarding school. He's the only alien there, as far as he knows, and he can't leave. He's completely alone.

Susan, though very weird, clearly wants to fit in on Earth and likes living there, despite not fitting in. Her teachers are impressed by how intelligent she is, but her knowledge is very inconsistent and she's very secretive about her home life, so they worry about her.

Turlough hates Earth and doesn't really want to fit in. He acts out and gets into trouble. His teachers are aware that he's very intelligent, but he doesn't apply himself. They're confused and see the ways he stands out as a sign of him being a sort of "bad seed". They don't really try to understand him.

The differences all connect with each other. Susan comes to Earth and the humans care about her. She sees the best in humanity and starts to like living with these people. Turlough comes to Earth and the humans don't care about him. They want him to conform to a certain standard and when he doesn't, he's punished for it. So, he hates Earth and is desperate to leave.

Turlough's difference in attitude towards Earth, having been met with more hostility than Susan had to deal with, makes him a bit more like the First Doctor, who looked down on humans and usually tried to avoid them. He's what Susan would be like if she was a bit more like her grandfather, and if there weren't people like Ian and Barbara around who care about her.

Apparently Ian was actually going to be in Mawdryn Undead, but his role was given to the Brigadier. If Ian was going to be written anything like how the Brigadier was in this story, then it's kind of a good thing he wasn't there. Ian would probably have more sympathy for Turlough than the Brigadier did. Turlough might get into more trouble than Susan did twenty years prior, but he'd recognize some of the similarities. He'd at least worry about him a little.

Also, here's a funny tidbit:

One of the earlier versions of the Doctor's backstory, a very early draft, had the Doctor as a human from the future who built a time machine escaping some sort of war. Susan wasn't related to him. She was some sort of alien princess under his protection. They changed it to her being his granddaughter because they thought an old man and a young girl traveling alone together had some questionable vibes to it.

Turlough basically is an alien prince under the Doctor's protection in the aftermath of a war. And with a younger-looking Doctor and a slightly older space royal, it works as a ship.

#doctor who #some rambling #susan foreman #vislor turlough #they were alone in the tardis together for a bit in the five doctors #they should've talked about their similar backstories someone write this fic #they talk shit about british educational institutions #they give beautiful descriptions of their homeworlds #because that's another thing they have in common #there's susan describing gallifrey in the sensorites #and turlough described the forests on trion in loups-garoux

[doctorwhogirlie]

Doctor Who 30 Day Challenge:

Day Twelve: Favourite Monster (Not villian, so any monster goes)

I couldn't pick just one! I tried... I didn't.

Macra, Sensorites, Weeping Angels, and specifically the Mondas Cybermen are my favourites!

Click here for the full list of days

#macra #sensorites #weeping angels #cybermen #mondas cybermen #the macra terror #the sensorites #the tenth planet #blink #doctor who #nuwho #doctor who girlie #classic who #classic doctor who #second doctor #first doctor #jamie mccrimmon

[demigodofhoolemere]

Happy birthday, Carole Ann Ford!

#classic who #carole ann ford #susan foreman #screencaps #an unearthly child #the daleks #the aztecs #the sensorites #the dalek invasion of earth #dwbday

[idkaguyorsomething]

the writers for classic who went “hmmm, how can we ensure that susan has something to do in this arc we’re writing 🤔” and their solution was to make a planet of psychic aliens that get easily overstimulated and have face blindness that the main characters need to negotiate with.

#there’s no way it was intentional but #autistic susan my beloved #like half her scenes are her telling her grandpa that the aliens are gonna have a meltdown if he keeps yelling at them #the plot of that arc is that the aliens are debating whether the british people are gonna try to steal their resources #and the villain’s plan hinges on him realizing that nobody can tell him apart from the deputy if he just puts on his fucking sash #good stuff #doctor who #classic who #the sensorites #susan foreman #LET HER USE HER PSYCHIC POWERS MORE #(he yelled at writers sixty years in the past)