#creator of the daleks

[alex-the-moss]

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#kaled #davros #shan #skaro #creator of the daleks #i davros #doctor who #doctor who fanart #fanart #sketch #themoss’art #genesis of the daleks #dalek

[kierstenevan]

This is probably a wildly unpopular opinion but I’m just gonna say it: I find the Daleks to be extremely boring as a villain and I wish Doctor Who writers would stop writing them in over and over and over again.

Like, look, obviously terrifying if they were real. And they’re great for a few episodes and I get that they’re, like, the “big bad” or whatever that the Doctor can never get rid of no matter how many times he thinks he has. But they’re just so one-dimensional. They have no motivations, no thoughts or feelings, no background or personal history. They’re evil alien robots that want to kill everything and everyone and there’s no reason or explanation beyond the obvious comparison to Hitler.

#this goes for the Cybermen too #but at least with them you maybe get a glimpse of a creator with some vague motivations #this is my official petition to finally kill off the Daleks for real so we never have to deal with them again #Doctor Who #Daleks

[khruschevshoe]

You know what? I'm gonna say it. As someone who is asexual and on the aromantic spectrum myself, I'm a bit tired of the Doctor Who fans who all say that Donna is the best companion of Ten's just because they were best friends and nothing more and that automatically makes her the best companion of RTD and for a lot of you, the best companion overall.

Listen, I LOVE Donna. Adore her. And I also think that her friendship with the Doctor is amazing. But it has always rubbed me the wrong way that the companions who have a romantic interest in the Doctor (and let me tell you, there is textual evidence for every one of them that the feelings were reciprocated in some way) are somehow considered lesser BECAUSE of that interest. That just because they fell for the Doctor means that their relationship with the Doctor is cheapened in some way.

I personally think that just as platonic relationships should not be considered lesser than romantic ones, the same goes in reverse. Amy, Clara, Martha, Rose, River, and Yaz's feelings may have some weak writing decisions attached to them, but so does Donna.

Personally, I love Donna's character arc/the tragedy of her ending, but I've always felt a little disappointed by the fact that her becoming the DoctorDonna in Journey's End was not predicated on her strong characterization/choices (Ala Planet of the Ood/Fires of Pompeii) but by "fate" pushing it to happen. It's honestly more Dalek Caan than Donna making all that happen.

This is NOT to say that I don't love Donna, but just to say that the fact that she had no romantic feelings for the Doctor doesn't automatically catapult her above the rest. Romantic feelings can lead to just as interesting, well-developed character arcs/complicated dynamics as platonic ones can, from the creator/created reciprocated question mark wanting but unable to choose each other over everything dynamic of 11amy to the fascinating destroying each other saving each other one taking all of the emotional toll but honestly craving that prophet-god relationship of 10martha to the shaping each other making each other kinder and braver reminding each other there is hope dooming and saving each other of 9rose to the full dooming each other but running straight at it full tilt because we are purposefully ignoring the turn back now signs of 10rose to the batshit insane codependent reflecting each other refracting each other who is Orpheus and who is Eurydice of 12clara to the there was always someone else in the room keeping us apart but you somehow became my whole world and I knew you from birth to death and we will never be anything more than a shut door of 13yaz to the you doomed me and saved me and you hate me but you might have loved me once and i will spend the rest of my life devoted to you dynamics of 10jack 11river and 12river.

Every relationship is interesting and personal preference might steer you in a certain way due the character arcs/ending preferences/etc., but elevating one over the other because the companion wasn't "foolish" enough to fall in love with the mad genderfluid alien in a box who ran away with you and stole you away to the stars doesn't sit well with me. Romance doesn't cheapen a relationship just as it doesn't automatically make it the ultimate relationship, either.

#eleven x amy #eleven x river #ten x martha #ten x rose #nine x rose #ten x jack #twelve x river #twelve x clara #thirteen x yaz #ten & donna #donna noble #clara oswald #rose tyler #martha jones #jack harkness #yaz khan #river song #amy pond #tenrose #tenmartha #elevenamy #twelveclara #tenjack #elevenriver #twelveriver #thirteenyaz #listen i like each of the relationships for their own reasons don't fight me #doctordonna #doctor who #meta

[etherealspacejelly]

thinking about the daleks and cybermen as equals and opposites. thinking about how this is reflected in the soundtrack

thinking about how the cyberman theme is simple and sinister and understated. it crawls under your skin. the horror of the cybermen is that they are us. you look into the eyes of this cold, unfeeling thing and know that it could so easily be someone you knew, someone you loved. it could so easily have been you.

thinking about how the dalek theme is grand and orchestral with an otherworldly choir. the horror of the daleks is that they are so Other, so powerful, so unstoppable. they are hatred personified. they perform genocide with an almost religious fervor.

the cybermen want to turn everything else into them. the daleks want to destroy everything that isnt them.

they both consider themselves superior beings, one because it is their birthright, the other because they were upgraded.

the creator of the daleks made them from his own flesh, but was deemed unworthy by them. the creator of the cybermen was converted against his will, turned into their leader by force.

im so normal i am so normal i am normal i am so so normal

#doctor who #cybermen #daleks #davros #john lumic #murray gold

[fanonical]

okay, so here's the thing with the daleks.

the daleks are nazis. like, that's not subtext, that's not implication, it is literally text. in the fourth doctor serial genesis of the daleks, one of the major kaled bad guys wears a literal actual iron cross as part of his costume, and in their debut, the daleks, they are presented as being fascists determined to completely exterminate the thals from existing, seemingly just because they were thals. hell, the story makes note of the fact that the attractive blonde thals are seen as being hideous and mutated by both them and the daleks - deliberately subverting the nazi ideal of the 'perfect aryan' look.

terry nation, the creator of the daleks, had an fixation on nazis. he lived during world war two, and the idea keeps cropping up in his work. daleks want everyone to be like them, daleks think they are 'superior' and are the 'masters' of the universe. notably, the images of a deserted, abandoned london in the next dalek serial, dalek invasion of earth, are based on fears of a nazi occupation of london. this would have been clearer to adult viewers in the 1960s, who would themselves have been around for world war two, and would be familiar with the ideology and attitudes to it.

so we have this bad guy who wants to exterminate all other species because they are different to the daleks, and see themselves as superior. the trouble is that, while this can make them scary as villains, it does force writers into a corner where individual daleks cannot really have their own personalities. daleks are meant to all be the same, that's part of their thing. but that means that we can't have character exploration for any dalek characters, they are one-note evil bastards. they also don't have faces, so they will always be inherently inhuman to the viewer

enter davros. now we have a charismatic leader for the daleks, one who has a face and can emote, and one the audience can identify as a person. but that starts to take a little bit away from what makes the daleks scary. they're all the same, apart from this one guy, who is either superior to the superior race or is somehow meant to lead them. he's a person, he has frailties. he can be silly and campy

the thing with the daleks is that they sometimes fall over into being just generic movie monsters, rather than specifically fascists, and i think this evolution from being very clear metaphors to just another monster is interesting

#Doctor Who #Classic Who #Daleks #Nazis / #Nazi / #Nazism /

[silvereyedowl]

What We Know About Series 14

Doctor Who series 14 is coming up next year. This is a roundup of advance information and leaks about the season and the preceding Christmas special. Sources are at the very bottom below the cut.

CAST

Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor. Unlike his predecessors, this Doctor changes his outfit a lot.

Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday. Like her actress, Ruby is a native of Manchester.

Returning characters:

Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, head of UNIT.

Bonnie Langford as former companion Mel Bush.

Villains:

Jinkx Monsoon as a villain favouring piano-themed attire, described as "the Doctor's most powerful enemy yet". Not everyone survives the encounter...

Indira Varma as the Duchess. RTD: "a whole new audience will be hiding behind the settee when the Duchess unleashes her terror." Varma previously played Suzie Costello on 2 episodes of Torchwood.

Other characters:

Aneurin Barnard as Roger ap Gwilliam.

Jonathan Groff as a "mysterious key" character.

Lenny Rush as Morris, in time for the Doctor's "greatest nightmare". RTD: "But what secrets does he hold? What's secreted in the Segway?! And will his terrifying probabilities be proved true..?"

Jack Forsyth-Noble as Will.

Gemma Arrowsmith and Mary Malone will appear in the Christmas special, while Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy and Billy Brayshaw will appear in separate episodes.

Also announced to be appearing: Sophie Ablett, Anita Dobson, Michelle Greenidge, Bhav Joshi, Millie Kent, Eilidh Loan, Pete MacHale, Miles Yekinni, Hemi Yeroham. Dobson previously appeared in the audio play "Blood of the Daleks".

EPISODES

There will be a Christmas special in December 2023, followed by an eight-episode season. (The BBC posted that the season would air in spring, but then removed the information.) Russell T Davies is the showrunner.

A guest star from 2005 returned for the special.

Episode 1's title was coincidentally spoken aloud in a third-season episode of Star Trek: Picard. It includes the words roar, Glastonbury, and conquistador.

Episode 2 contains the words Liverpool, legions, and non-diegetic. Scene 10 begins "INT. CANTEEN. DAY."

RTD thinks episode 4 is one of the best things he's ever written. The line "I once went to the top of the Shard" was cut from it.

The script for episode 7 begins with the line "INT. COFFEE BAR, USA — DAY, 1947".

Episode 8 will contain the words kingdom, gold, and Tigella. Scene 73, featuring the Doctor and Ruby in the TARDIS while "enemies are being fought", was the last scene filmed for the season.

There's a 1960s episode, featuring the Doctor and Ruby in snazzy period outfits.

The episode guest-starring both Varma and Groff will be set in the Regency era. "Dress to impress, and beware the Duchess."

CREATOR RAMBLINGS

According to RTD, we will be "staggered" by the 2023 festive season surprises.

There are monsters which are "impossible to describe" without referencing Fourth and Seventh Doctor adventures.

RTD promises that there are "plans still unfurling" which have yet to be made public.

Production designer Philip Sims said he was excited about "designing a new Dalek".

Davies has hinted that the blue doors Michelle Greenidge and Anita Dobson were photographed with are significant.

Script editor Scott Handcock mentioned filming which required nine babies, as well as Ncuti and Millie.

Monsoon's first day on set "teams her with an unexpected name from the Tom Baker era".

Anita Dobson has said she's playing Ruby's neighbour, whose name is either Mrs. Flood or Blood.

RTD used a potato emoji while commenting on publicity photos from the Regency episode (Sontarans?). Davies was also very coy about the identity of Groff's character.

RTD mentioned one episode having gone through three titles with no decision having yet been made. Another episode had "sixpence" in the title for a while, until the coin was cut.

RTD teased a famous guest star appearing in a scene with a giant statue head in the finale.

While writing about the final days of filming, RTD said that "Yasmin Finney wrapped a few days ago".

OTHER

Filming began on December 7, 2022 and wrapped on July 14, 2023.

Block One was directed by Dylan Holmes Williams. Block Two was directed by Mark Tonderai. It included the Christmas special. Block Three was directed by Julie Anne Robinson. It contains "two wildly different episodes, by two different writers". Block Four was directed by Ben Chessell. Block Five was directed by Jamie Donoghue.

Posters of the Doctor and Ruby.

Fifteen will be getting a brand-new sonic screwdriver.

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Leaks and sources below the cut!

LEAKS

Michelle Greenidge appears to be playing Ruby Sunday's mother. Since Greenidge and Millie Gibson are different ethnicities, she is presumably an adoptive, foster, or step mother.

Campaign posters for the "Albion Party", with Roger ap Gwilliam as the "Space Saviour", were spotted on location filming.

Jinkx Monsoon is in the '60s episode.

Millie Kent is playing Valerie, and Sophie Ablett is Marti Bridges.

Mel Bush will be appearing in the season finale.

Reports from finale location filming, albeit second-hand, of someone on set saying, "This is where the Daleks come in".

According to his CV, Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy will be playing Carson in an episode directed by Julie Anne Robinson.

Davina McCall may be the returning 2005 guest star. She will apparently host a genealogy show on which Ruby appears, and will be crushed by a falling Christmas tree.

RUMOURS

UNIT may be getting its own spinoff. (SOURCE)

The DWM production journal has led some fans to theorize Steven Moffat will be returning as a writer.

SOURCES

Doctor Who filming begins with new director

Doctor Who filming in Penarth as Doctor and companion costumes revealed

Doctor Who filming at Capitol Shopping Center in Cardiff

Doctor Who filming with new monster at Swansea Bay Campus

Doctor Who filming in Newport with UNIT, Space Saviour and companion

Doctor Who filming in Swansea: new monster details

Doctor Who filming with Aneurin Barnard at Cardiff City Stadium

Doctor Who filming with Millie Gibson on a moving train from Cardiff

Doctor Who filming at Loudoun Square flats

Doctor Who Filming in Bristol With Millie Gibson, Michelle Greenidge and Anita Dobson

Doctor Who filming in Pembrokeshire with Millie Gibson

Doctor Who filming: new photos of Millie Gibson in Pembrokeshire

Photos snapped of Millie Gibson filming Doctor Who

Doctor Who filming: Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson in Pembrokeshire

Doctor Who filming in Bristol with Millie Gibson and Anita Dobson

Russell T Davies talks “exciting” Doctor Who scenes as programme films in Bristol

Doctor Who filming with Ncuti Gatwa at two venues in Cardiff

Doctor Who filming: Block Three begins

Doctor Who filming: clue found for secret location filming

Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson film 1960s Doctor Who scenes

Doctor Who films in Bristol with Ncuti Gatwa and Jinkx Monsoon

Doctor Who filming in Cardiff with Beatles connection

New Doctor Who photos of Jonathan Groff alongside Nucti Gatwa and Millie Gibson

Doctor Who filming at Margam Park

Doctor Who films more scenes with a Beatles connection

Doctor Who films in Cardiff theatre

Doctor Who films in Cardiff with Ncuti Gatwa and Bonnie Langford

Michelle Greenidge films Doctor Who in Cardiff

Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson and Bonnie Langford film Doctor Who in Cardiff

Millie Gibson and Ncuti Gatwa film Doctor Who at Cardiff City Hall

Doctor Who films scooter stunt on Cardiff streets

Bonnie Langford and Ncuti Gatwa film Doctor Who scenes on a scooter

Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson film Doctor Who in Barry

#doctor who #series 14 #dw series 14 #doctor who series 14 #fifteenth doctor #ruby sunday #information #information roundup #ncuti gatwa #millie gibson #jemma redgrave #kate stewart #mel bush #bonnie langford #jinkx monsoon #indira varma #aneurin barnard #lenny rush #russell t davies

[nogoodninny]

watching Stolen Earth again, and my favorite moment is, and always be

The transmission coming in from the alien ship

Who is it?

Everyone was tuned in on their respective computers.

Then comes the voice.

EXTERMINATE!!

The terror on the faces of the Doctor’s former companions as they each hear that voice. The voice they could never forget. The voice that chilled them to their very core…

EXTERMINATE!!

Sarah Jane Smith holds Luke close. Her poor boy! He’s so young! She couldn’t protect him! Not from them. She herself has come face to face with the creator of these monsters. She knew how twisted and cold they can be.

She was there at the beginning, it’s only fitting she’d be there at the end.

EXTERMINATE!!

Captain Jack Harkness cries. He pulls Ianto and Gwen close and holds them tight. There is nothing he can do! So soon after losing two members of his found family, he will now have to say goodbye to the two most important people in his life. The two people that were his entire world. His best friend and the man he loved, gone. In a second. The worst part of it is, he knows exactly the pain they will feel when it happens. He knows what will happen. He’s felt it himself. After all, you never forget your first death

EXTERMINATE!!!

Martha Jones, surrounded by a military specially trained to fight the supernatural, and all of the sudden that doesn’t matter. There is not a military in the universe that could stand against them. Not one that could survive the onslaught. Dead, all of her coworkers, dead. Her family, dead. Humanity, dead.

She’s faces them in New York, she saw them take good people, people who only wanted to survive, and turned them into experiments. Into pigs. She stood against them and has seen what they are willing to do to survive, and it was horrifying.

EXTERMINATE!!!

Rose Tyler hears the voice through a laptop, alone in a trashed electronics store. Terrified. Rose Tyler is the only person who has ever shown mercy to these creatures. She made one feel. She stood by the Doctor when he was ready to give up. One of his darkest moments. But the Doctor chose coward over killer, even facing his worst enemy, even after he sent her away

But she found her way back to him. Rose Tyler looked into the heart of the TARDIS to find her way back and she saw them, and she made them no more, and it hurt. But she did it for him, and he saved her.

Her doctor. The one that grabbed her hand and told her to run. Her doctor who was fresh out of the Time War. The first time she’d ever seen him afraid, was when he simply looked upon one, one who was broken and chained and tortured. She had never seen her doctor show this much fear or anger. Now here she was, alone. Where was her Doctor? Her Allies? She has to find them. No one should have to face them alone.

EXTERMINATE!!!!

Now these people, who have dedicated their lives to protecting the earth when the Doctor wasn’t there, are facing such horrible creatures and he was nowhere to be found. And they couldn’t fight them alone, not these creatures, these horrible creatures

Not these creatures that have haunted every nightmare they’ve had.

Not these creatures that they all know the Doctor fears above all

The Daleks.

#doctor who #the stolen earth #rose tyler #sarah jane smith #captain jack harkness #luke smith #ianto jones #gwen cooper #tenth doctor #martha jones

[nortism]

doctor who liveblog pt 44

last christmas

- i didn’t liveblog but i think that was my favourite of all the christmas episodes, so so good. i love twelve and clara man

s9 ep1 the magician’s apprentice

- oh i do not like these hand mines

- DAVROS?! isn’t he the dalek guy

- off topic but great hair on the doctor

- i knew he was the creator of the daleks

- anyway rip davros ig

- so you’re telling me we were robbed of an episode where clara and jane austen kissed?!?

- MISSSYYYYYYYYY

- ofc he’s in the uk, they shouldn’t have bothered with any other countries

- wtf is going on 😭😭

- i love u mad old man

- seeing missy and clara and immediately playing pretty woman,,, i know what u are

- I ALWAYS SEE YOU 😭😭

- uh oh giant snake man

- vworp! vworp!

- fuckinf daleks

- SKARO

- cmon now missy

- DID THEY JUST KILL MISSY

- CLARA NOOOOOO

- THE TARDIS!!!!!?!?!

- this is not very good

- oh shit

s9 ep2 the witch’s familiar

- yay missy and clara

- silly fucking guy 😭😭

- bro’s having tea inside a dalek

- uh oh moral conflict

- clara in a dalek

- uh oh clara being dalek-ified

- THE BITCH IS BACK

- NO DONT REGENERATE HIM

- DOCTOR NO

- ohhh the sewer daleks

- MISSY WTF

- oh babygirl those sunglasses are not as cool as you think they are

#nortism liveblogs doctor who #doctor who #doctor who liveblog #dw #new who #doctor who series 9 #doctor who s9 #12th doctor #twelfth doctor #clara oswin oswald #clara oswald #missy doctor who #missy #the master #last christmas #the magician’s apprentice #the witch’s familiar

[darkpastelpurple]

i always liked to think of the dalek emperor in the parting of ways as not the emperor during the time war.

I liked to think of him as an ordinary ship commander, billions of those during the time war, certainly

but his ship survived through happenstance, and him being the commander, managed to be the first dalek with delusions of grandeur since the Creator of all daleks.

elevated to emperor and deciding he will be able to kill the god who stood against them. the devil of all daleks

and then failing spectacularly

it also makes the cult of skaro funnier because they're like "you met the emperor?!?!" in awe and it's not their emperor it was some fuckin nerd they were way above in rank and shit

#daleks #doctor who #the parting of the ways #the parting of ways #the doctor #the ninth doctor #the 9th doctor #rose tyler #captain jack harkness #russell t davies #christopher eccleston #john barrowman #billie piper

[doctorkinktraveller]

First look at colourisation of 1963 first serial episodes - The Daleks [S1E2 / 7 Parts]

Initially titled "The Mutant"

First serial written by Terry Nation, whom created both the Daleks and their creator Davros [first appearance in 1975 serial - Genesis of the Daleks with Tom Baker]

#doctor who #tardis #classic doctor who #william hartnell #susan foreman #ian and barbara wright #the daleks #colourisation #tom baker #genesis of the daleks

[alex-the-moss]

I’ve fixed an old sketch^^

(lyrics from Starlight by STARSET)

I love the inevitable tragedy of their fates

Such a great basis for soulmate-themed ideas

2023/2024

#davros #shan #my favourite drawing of them yet #doctor who #doctor who fanart #fanart #kaled #skaro #i davros #creator of the daleks #dalek #themoss’art #digital art #sketch

[justahumblememefarmer]

Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 2 - Matchup 6

Episode Summaries under the cut

27: Dark Water/Death in Heaven - Season 8, Episodes 11 & 12: After Clara's boyfriend, Danny, dies she asks the Doctor to bring him back to life. While he refuses to do that, he takes the TARDIS to investigate the afterlife, ending at the 3W Institute where they are greeted by Missy. The Institute claims to communicate with the dead, who are still conscious and feeling, and beg not to be cremated. In the afterlife Danny is given the chance to talk with the child he killed as a soldier. Clara communicates with Danny, while Missy shows the Doctor what the Nethersphere where the dead are held really is, a database to house their minds while their bodies are converted into Cybermen. She activates the Cybermen and reveals herself to be the newest regeneration of the Master.

UNIT arrives and takes Missy prisoner. She releases more Cybermen that fly above every town and city in the world and releases Cyber-pollen, raining down all of the minds in the Nethersphere to their bodies, which are then converted into Cybermen. Clara holds the Cybermen at the 3W Institute at bay by claiming the be the Doctor. One Cyberman shows up to rescue her, who is revealed to be Danny. The Doctor plans with UNIT on how to defeat the Cybermen, but Missy escapes lockup and has Cybermen attack their plane while she teleports away.

The Doctor summons his TARDIS in midair and joins Clara and Danny in a graveyard where they are surrounded by Cybermen. The Doctor questions Danny on the Cybermen's plan, but as his emotional inhibitor has not been switched on, he cannot properly connect to it. Clara turns it on and Danny states that the Cybermen will convert all of humanity. Missy teleports in, and gives over control of the Cybermen to the Doctor, trying to convince him to use the army to defeat evil across the universe, and show that they are not that different. The Doctor realizes that Danny is not following the Cyber's orders and is still protecting Clara, despite his lack of emotions. He hands control over to Danny, who orders the Cybermen to fly into the sky and destroy themselves.

Missy is seemingly killed by the Cyberversion of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The Doctor and Clara part ways, with him going off to search for Gallifrey.

102: The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar - Season 9, Episode 1 & 2: Missy seeks Clara's help to track down the Doctor, who is then taken to see a dying Davros, the creator of the Daleks. Missy and Clara seem to be exterminated and the TARDIS destroyed by the Daleks. They teleport elsewhere and Missy shares that she set their teleporters to be powered by the same energy the Daleks use, so when they were shot, they just teleported away.

hey sneak back in through the Dalek sewers and Missy puts Clara in a Dalek casing as a disguise with Clara pretending to take Missy prisoner. Davros tricks the Doctor into showing him compassion, and when the Doctor goes to give him a small amount of regeneration energy to heal him, he is seized and they begin to drain his regeneration energy. The energy begins to restore Davros and the Daleks in the city. The regeneration also begins to restore the discarded Daleks in the sewer, who begin to overwhelm the Dalek city.

Seeing Missy alive, the Doctor realizes that Clara must also be alive. Missy attempts to trick him into destroying Clara in the Dalek casing, but she is able to reveal herself to him. He summons the TARDIS, which had simply displaced itself and takes off with Clara while Missy finds an alternate way to escape.

#doctor who #ultimate doctor who poll #my post #polls #12th doctor #clara oswald #missy #peter capaldi #jenna coleman #michelle gomez #dark water #death in heaven #the magician's apprentice #the witch's familiar

[rachelbethhines]

Speed-running Doctor Who - 4th Doctor

A quick and dirty guide for those who want to get into the show, but don't want to watch everything from the beginning.

For Those Who Just Wanna Get An Idea of the Era

State of Decay - S18E4

The Fourth Doctor technically has like three or four eras within it, and State of Decay is sort of a blend of all of them.

Produced under JNT's time on the show, with a companion introduced during Douglas Adams' previous season, using a script that was originally submitted for season 15, when Robert Holmes was head writer.

Therefore I deem it the best summarization of the entire Fourth Doctor run.

Plot Important Episodes

Entrances, Exits, Enemies, Lore Drops, and Character Development

Robot - S12E1 (Fourth Doctor's first story and introduces Harry)

The Ark in Space - S12E2 (Harry's first trip in the Tardis and kicks off the season's 12 stranded story arc)

Genesis of the Daleks - S12E3 (first appearance of Davros, the creator of the Daleks)

Revenge of the Cybermen - S12E5 (the team finally makes back to the Tardis ending S12's stranded arc and the Cybermen return after being off screen for several years)

Terror of the Zygons - S13E1 (introduces the Zygons, Harry leaves the Tardis, last appearance of the Brigadier for a long while)

The Android Invasion - S13E4 (Benton's last story and Harry's final appearance)

The Brain of Morbius - S13E5 (the Sisters of Karn are introduced and its the beginning of the of the very controversial Other/Timeless child theories)

The Seeds of Doom - S13E6 (final UNIT story for a very, very long while, no UNIT regulars appear marking the end of that story line)

The Hand of Fear - S14E2 (Sarah Jane leaves the Tardis)

The Deadly Assassin - S14E3 (The Doctor returns to Gallifrey and we meet the "Decayed" Master)

The Face of Evil - S14E4 (meet Leela)

The Talons of Weng-Chiang - S146 (character development for Leela, and there's also Jargo and Litefoot if you care about spin-offs)

Horror of Fang Rock - S15E1 (meet the Rutans; while they haven't reappeared in the series yet, they're the Sontarans adversaries in their never ending war and so are named dropped often)

The Invisible Enemy - S15E2 (K9 comes aboard the Tardis)

The Invasion of Time - S15E6 (Leela's last story)

The Ribos Operation - S16E1 (Meet Romana the First, also the start of the Key To Time arc and the introduction of the Guardians)

The Pirate Planet - S16E2 (character development for the tardis team and more plot progression for the Key to Time arc)

The Armageddon Factor - S16E6 (The ending of the Key to Time arc and the last story to feature Romana I)

Destiny of the Daleks - S17E1 (Romana the First regenerates into Romana the Second)

City of Death - S17E2 (the randomizer is introduced as a means to escape the Black Guardian)

Shada - S17E6 * (perhaps the most remade Doctor Who story ever, you might want to watch a version just to see what all the hubbub is about)

The Leisure Hive - S18E1 (The end of the randomizer arc.... also Harden and Mena are the best couple in Who)

Meglos - S18E2 (I only recommend this story because it's the last time Jacqueline Hill appears on the show, but sadly she's not playing Barbara)

Full Circle - S18E3 (Adric's first story)

Warriors' Gate - S18E5 (Romana and K9 leave the Tardis)

The Keeper of Traken - S18E6 (Meet Nyssa, oh and the Master regenerates into Anthony Ainley)

Logopolis - S18E7 (The Fourth Doctor's final story and Tegan is introduced)

Personal Favorite and Least Favorite Stories

Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa

Favorite: The Sontaran Experiment - S12E3

Least Favorite: The Planet of Evil - S13E2

(disclaimer: no spin-offs or extended universe stuff was considered when making this list)

Up Next: The Fifth Doctor

#doctor who #classic who #fourth doctor #tom baker #harry sullivan #sarah jane smith #leela #K9 #romana #adric #nyssa #tegan

[khruschevshoe]

"You too, huh?": An Unhinged Ten/Jack/Martha Meta

Alright, so, Ten/Martha/Jack's dynamic has been rotating rent free in my brain all week. You have two people- Jack and Martha- who both admit to fancying a man who could never love them back, a man who is so embroiled in grief over a woman that Jack clearly once loved as much as he loved the Doctor, a man who showed them the stars and showed them the horrors of the universe. A man who directly leads to them both becoming greater and worse than they ever were before, a man who took their lives and twisted himself inside of every strand of them forever, a man who offered them a hand and kissed them and became the best and the worst thing to ever happen to them.

And it's not just the Year That Never Was- it's more than that. It's Jack dying for the Doctor and then being cursed with eternity and yet despite a century of being tortured by Torchwood/waiting for the Doctor, he never lost hope in the Doctor being able to fix him. It's Martha going through some of the worst shit any companion has had to in a single season (the racism/hopelessness she had to face in Human Nature/Family of Blood, being stuck in the 1960s for months and having to get a job with no guarantee that she'd ever make it out, having to walk the dystopian earth for a year with the weight of the literal world on her shoulders, nearly burning to death due to a living sun, taking on the psychological weight of keeping the Doctor steady- hell, the Doctor's purposeful ignorance of her feelings isn't even at the top of the list and yet it still did damage) and yet managing to find the strength to respect herself and leave.

It's the way that both of them have their images of the Doctor irreversibly cracked at the end of the Year That Never Was. They still believe in the Doctor, would still go to the ends of the earth for the planet, as we see in Journey's End, but they don't quite fancy him anymore. They can't. Jack was tortured and killed over and over again by the Master for a year straight and Martha was forced to walk the burning earth for a year straight while her family was tortured and yet at the end of it all, the Doctor didn't comfort them. He cradled the Master in his arms and begged him to regenerate and sobbed when he didn't.

It's the way that Martha and Jack are the ones to make the initial threats to Davros in Journey's End. (Yes, Sarah Jane helped with the warp star, and made threats of her own, but Martha and Jack opened up the comms. They looked the creator of the Daleks in the eyes and said do you hear me?) Martha and Jack walk off at the end of Journey's End holding hands, because they're so similar, at the end of the day, because they understand each other, because "you too, huh?"

But it's also the Doctor looking at them both and seeing Jack and seeing something wrong with the man he once loved (don't tell me that Nine didn't reciprocate his feelings, I've got a whole post on the Rose/Jack/Nine dynamic) that he can't ignore, because he's the last one of his species and he's the only one left to pay attention to the laws of time. It's the Doctor needing a doctor of his own, someone with a better grasp on themselves than he does, and completely ignoring the damage that it does to her to keep him steady.

It's the Doctor being unable to love Jack while Jack over and over again coming to his call. It's the Doctor coming the second that Martha calls him in the Sontaran Stratagem and maybe, just maybe, realizing that he got something wrong. It's about Martha being a doctor being a soldier and the Doctor being a soldier who never wanted to be a soldier but won't admit that he's a soldier and Jack being a con-man who was fixed and broken by a doctor and so became a soldier to find his Doctor.

(It's about the fact that after Journey's End happened and the Doctor lost Donna and Rose, he really should have realized what he could have had waiting for him. Maybe gone back and groveled and maybe gotten slapped and then gotten hugged. Or kissed. Or they slept together, if that's your jam.)

#did not mean to ramble for so long #i want to read every fic about them #i want to explore the fucked up dynamic between them #I want Jack and Martha to have comfort sex after the Year that Never Was #i want the Doctor to grovel for forgiveness #i want him to understand that he loves them and actually figure out what to deal with that #never would have happened but a girl can dream #ten x jack x martha #tenmartha #jack x martha #ten x jack #listen just as unhinged as the nine/jack/rose ot3 but WAY less wholesome and way more damaged #captain jack harkness #martha jones #tenth doctor #rotating RENT FREE in my brain #meta #i don't even know if this is proper analysis #i just have some FEELINGS about them okay?

[bananonbinary]

so was anyone going to tell me that bernard cribbins was in one of the non-canon Dr. Who and the Daleks movies from 1966, meaning he was involved with doctor who as a franchise only 3 years after its conception, AND that he filmed some scenes for the upcoming december 2023 specials before he passed, almost certainly making him the longest-running creator in the doctor who franchise, and possibly one of the longest-running creators in any tv/movie franchise, ever?

#doctor who #his doctor who career spanned FIFTY SEVEN YEARS #thats MIND BOGGLING #the only person i can think of that even compares is stan lee cameoing in marvel movies

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turns out the creator of the daleks wasn't an evil supergenius, it was literally some bloke from down the pub called dav ross

#Doctor Who #Classic Who #Davros #Daleks