#the whoniverse

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

If I had a nickel for every time the Doctor had a sassy ginger companion he referred to as his best friend, and then said ginger companion had a daughter whose name begins with R (and was not the name they were born with) and this daughter even though human, has certain time lord characteristics due to complex plot reasons, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

#doctor who #Donna noble #Amy pond #rose noble #river song #the tenth doctor #the eleventh doctor #doctor x river #the doctordonna #the whoniverse #doctor who 60th anniversary

[vivvision]

It'll never not amaze me the depths and vast expansive-ness of Doctor Who spin-off content. Can any other fandom or show truly say that they have a 'universe' in the same way that Doctor Who does? You have decades of audio dramas, licensed, partially licensed, and unlicensed. Books about the main character, books about the main characters friends, books about timelines that never were or might have been! Movies with villains from the show and promotional shorts that occupy a secret third special place between plain fun and actual canon. Is all of it canon? Is none of it canon besides the show? Are only the bits we like canon? YOU decide, because you have decades and mountains and worlds to choose from.

Not to mention that this all gives fans the easiest in to make fan-content, fan doctors, etc and they do, hundreds of them! They have been for decades!

The Whoniverse is ever expanding, vast in a way that few can truly grasp onto, and you'll never be done discovering it. I'll never not be in awe of it.

#doctor who #doctor who eu #the whoniverse #torchwood #faction paradox #gallifrey audios #bernice summerfield #the Sarah Jane adventures #Forgotten lives #morbius doctors #iris wildthyme #jago and litefoot #doctor who vnas #virgin new adventures

[idobebeinggay]

I want a historical companion in the future for the doctor. Like a Victorian woman who wants to help people but is restricted but her situation. Or a Native American woman from pre colonisation times who comes along to just see the universe. Or a factory worker from the Industrial Revolution who’s like been obsessed with space since he was little but rarely gets to see the stars anymore. I don’t want them to have massive world shaped around them plots. Just have them see the beauty and the horrors of the universe with the doctor, let them help the doctor see their place in the universe again. A silly little alien who bobs along helping out in their sentient space ship that takes them wherever they need to be.

Some could return home happily, I’m thinking the Native American woman(maybe a few years out of a couple miles out but home enough to actually get home) or the factory worker goes home to tell wonderful stories to his children.

Some could end up in other times like present day (probably working for unit Kate really is on a mission(i love her) or not) or on another planet wanting to help out there?

It just sounds like a good idea…

#doctor who #classic who #new who #the whoniverse #Russell listen to me I have ideas #kate stewart #kate lethbridge stewart #the doctor

[twilightzebby]

For those Whovians not in the UK but curious as to what's included in The Whoniverse collection on BBC iPlayer, here ya go (typed-up list below read-more divider under image)

Classic Who (1963 - 1996 Series, including the TV Movie)

Modern Who (2005 - present day Series)

Tales of the Tardis (exclusively made for The Whoniverse. Read more here)

Doctor Who Confidential (Behind the scenes for first 6 Modern Who seasons)

K9 & Company (1-episode pilot for a K9 & Sarah Jane spin-off during Classic Who that never led to a full spin-off....for now)

Dreamland (animated episode with 10th Doctor)

The Infinite Quest (animated episode with 10th Doctor and Martha Jones)

The Sarah Jane Adventures (The actual spin-off during RTD's first era)

Torchwood (very adult spin-off with Captain Jack Harkness)

Class (another adult spin-off, based on the Coal Hill School location)

Delia Derbyshire Documentary

The Science of Doctor Who (by Professor Brian Cox)

Doctor Who at the Proms (Music performances)

Whose Doctor Who (Documentary from 1977)

#doctor who #the whoniverse #all the who content #well most of it anyways #classic who #modern who #tales of the tardis #doctor who confidential #k9 and company #k9 & company #sarah jane adventures #torchwood #class (doctor who) #class

[voice-of-illogical-sense]

@nomadviii

#dalek #cybermen #dw #doctor who #the whoniverse #tiktok #video #gender #the library is open #reading is fundemental #sassy #vois humor #disco

[denimbex1986]

'Doctor Who's BBC iPlayer expansion arrives with a new opening sequence spanning every era of the long-running sci-fi franchise. Doctor Who will celebrate its 60th anniversary in November, with three specials featuring the return of David Tennant as an all-new incarnation of the leading Time Lord. With a number of spin-offs, tie-in programs, and documentaries on the way, November is set to feature an incredible amount of Doctor Who media, while Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor debuts in a December seasonal special.

On the eve of the BBC iPlayer's sizable Doctor Who update, the official Instagram has shared a preview of what audiences can expect from the new streaming home of the entire franchise, revealing the unique introduction set to play in front of each show.

The sequence features a new track by returning composer Murray Gold while footage featuring each Doctor from William Hartnell to Gatwa, a number of recognizable companions, and a selection of the Doctor's greatest foes plays within the lettering of the new Whoniverse logo. The animation concludes with the TARDIS flying by.

Doctor Who's Universe Is About To Expand

With the majority of the Doctor Who franchise available on BBC iPlayer in time for the 60th anniversary, the Whoniverse opening sequence hints at showrunner Russell T Davies' goals of ensuring everything is available in one place. With footage from both the classic and modern eras, and spin-offs Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, K9 and Company, and Class, it's never been clearer that the universe has more to offer outside the main series. For the first time in years, newcomers can see the wider scope of the franchise all grouped together.

But Doctor Who's future isn't just limited to the main series and the existing spin-offs, as Davies has already promised that there is more to come. iPlayer's November 1 update will also see the debut of a new spin-off series titled Tales of the TARDIS, where former companions and Doctors come together to reflect on their past adventures. With a new series already set to drop and Davies promising that more is on the way, Doctor Who will become a large multimedia franchise once more.

The Whoniverse opening perfectly exemplifies Davies' ambitions for the series' future. With the franchise now receiving an opening similar to Disney+'s own treatments for the MCU and Star Wars, it is clear both Davies and the BBC see the franchise as capable of being a title that can rival the two Disney tentpoles. While Doctor Who season 14 will kick off a whole new era with Gatwa's Doctor as the lead, the Whoniverse will still cherish everything that has come before.'

#Doctor Who #The Whoniverse #BBC iPlayer #Ncuti Gatwa #Tales of the TARDIS #60th Anniversary #David Tennant #Murray Gold #William Hartnell #Russell T. Davies #Torchwood #The Sarah Jane Adventures #Class #K-9 and Company #Disney+

[truebluewhocanoe]

I saw someone in the comments of my Tales of the TARDIS uploads bitching about how every companion ends up in a position of authority so here's me going through every televised companion, what occupation they ended up with after leaving the Doctor, and then analyzing whether there is an uncalled for number of authority positions in the list. As this is televised companions only I will be prioritizing the canon of televised stories. Here we go:

Ian Chesterton: Professor at the University of Cambridge (Death of the Doctor)

Barbara Wright: Professor at the University of Cambridge (Death of the Doctor)

Susan Foreman: Member of the Earth Council world government (Audio: An Earthly Child), though this is contradicted by some other stories

Vicki Pallister: Farmer (Tales of the TARDIS)

Steven Taylor: King (Tales of the TARDIS)

Katarina: N/A

Sara Kingdom: N/A

Polly Wright: Co-running an orphanage (Death of the Doctor)

Ben Jackson: Co-running an orphanage (Death of the Doctor)

Jamie McCrimmon: There are way too many sources for him and none of them definitive; the Tales of the TARDIS episode he appears in does not confirm what he got up to, but does decanonize certain other sources such as The World Shapers

Victoria Waterfield: Head of New World University (Some home video called Downtime?)

Zoe Heriot: President, presumably of Earth (Tales of the TARDIS)

Liz Shaw: Multiple contradicting sources: includes but not limited to doing scientific research, teaching as a professor, or running P.R.o.B.e. (don't ask me what that is, I'm not deep enough down the rabbit hole yet)

Jo Grant: Climate activist (Death of the Doctor, multiple other sources)

Sarah Jane Smith: Reporter, defender of Earth (School Reunion, all of The Sarah Jane Adventures)

Harry Sullivan: This man's EU canon is a mess but we know at the very least that he stayed with UNIT for a while as a scientist (The Zygon Invasion)

Leela: Bodyguard (Gallifrey audios)

Romana: President of Gallifrey (Gallifrey audios)

Adric: N/A

Nyssa: Scientist/medical researcher on Termius (Terminus, multiple other audios), but she eventually returned to Earth, occupation unknown (Tales of the TARDIS)

Tegan: Airline attendant (multiple EU sources), later activist (Power of the Doctor)

Turlough: Astrophysicist (Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma)

Kamelion: N/A

Peri: Canonically multiple endings including brain death, talk show host, botanist, Queen of Krontep, married to Yrcanos in multiple different arrangements ranging from happily to unhappily (Mindwarp, Peri and the Piscon Paradox, Tales of the TARDIS, lots of other audios and books too, sheesh)

Mel: Unknown (multiple EU endings have been decanonized by Power of the Doctor)

Ace: CEO of A Charitable Earth (Death of the Doctor, At Childhood's End, Power of the Doctor)

Grace: Copyright hell

Chang Lee: Copyright hell

Rose Tyler: Marital bliss (Journey's End)

Mickey Smith: UNIT Agent (End of Time)

Martha Jones: UNIT Agent (End of Time)

Donna Noble: I'm posting this a week before the first of the 60th Anniversary Specials, so... TBD?

Amy Pond: Novelist (Angels Take Manhattan, The Bells of Saint John)

Rory Pond Williams: Not 100% determined but presumably nurse (Angels Take Manhattan, misc. EU sources)

Clara Oswald: Traveling the universe with her immortal girlfriend, also technically N/A (Hell Bent, Twice Upon A Time)

Bill Potts: See prior entry, crazy how that happened twice, huh (Twice Upon A Time)

Nardole: Implied to have ended up a farmer (The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon A Time)

Yasmin Khan: Presumably still a cop, unfortunately (Power of the Doctor)

Ryan Sinclair: Unknown, too recent, implied to have been studying to be a mechanic (Revolution of the Daleks)

Graham O'Brien: Presumably still a bus driver, also head of the companions group that never got an official name but we all agreed to call it Companions Anonymous (Power of the Doctor)

Dan Lewis: Presumably still unemployed and volunteering (Power of the Doctor)

Okay. Phew. That's all of them.

So, that's 41, not including K9 (there's too many K9s running around, sorry, also he's a robot dog.) Let's cut Katarina and Sara Kingdom, who I only really included to flex. That's 39. Okay, now let's cut Adric and Kamelion, who died before they could have a post-TARDIS career, as well as Grace and Chang Lee because c'mon, you need to actually travel in the TARDIS before you can have a post-TARDIS career. Now we're down to 35 companions.

Companions in a position of high authority, not just an expert in their field or whatever but with governmental authority are: Susan (choosing the specific EU canon where she's on the Earth Council), Steven, Zoe, Romana, Peri, and... oh wait, that's it! Just those five! And three of them are from sources that aren't the main show episodes! Considering that fiction usually follows interesting people rather than the average person, and both the Doctor and the TARDIS are picky about who they let on board, I'd say that 5/35 is a perfectly reasonable figure. Some people just want to complain.

#doctor who #all the companions #the televised ones anyway #no I'm NOT tagging all of them #if you're wondering why I didn't try too hard to figure out an ending for Mel: don't worry about it #if I got any of my facts wrong here: I humbly invite you to write a massive wall of text schooling me on Who lore #no seriously #do it #I would be honored #I ALMOST FORGOT HARRY SULLIVAN #I am so sorry Harry Sullivan I love you so much please forgive me #doctor who canon #doctor who extended universe #doctor who eu #the whoniverse #edited to add nardole #I'm so sorry nardole

[speedygal]

BBC Iplayer has settled the debate on when the revival era has ended and a new one began.

Please click read more for Doctor Who content in the Whoniverse as of Dec 15th, 2023. A screenshot from a moment of time that is sure to expand, eventually.

#the whoniverse #doctor who #revival who #classic who #modern who #bbc iplayer

[starstruckpurpledragon]

Super curious, if you're willing to share, about what your favorite Dr. Who relationships (platonic, romantic, whatever) are. DW is such a huge canon that there's so many options for what people love! (I am admittedly a sucker for mixing eras and placing companions with Doctors other than their own incarnation. Particularly Modern/Classic pair ups, but I also definitely have my favorite canon dynamics.)

Donna and the Doctor are definitely my favorite platonic ship and favorite DW ship overall. I may not have had the language for describing a QPR when I first encountered them, but that's the vibe their ship has to me. I just want Donna to keep showing up to randomly traveling with the Doctor once a season going forward from here on out. Don't care who is playing the Doctor, I have faith that Catherine Tate can forge an instant connection with any actor. (So obviously I've been super pleased by this year's specials.)

I have really enjoyed the one-sided Jack/Doctor ship too. Jack and the Doctor's relationship has been messy, but the Doctor does care about Jack (as a friend) and Jack's accepted that as enough. Him being devoted to someone without feeling entitled to having romantic attraction return is a sort of love story that doesn't get told a lot so... I think maybe that's precisely why it means so much to me.

Ace and any version of the Doctor. That is her father figure and even when she's pissed off at the Doctor for being a cagey jerk, she loves them very much. And the Doctor, no matter which version, always loves Ace as their daughter.

I really like the Doctor in mentor/mentee relationships, though obviously Ace in the father/daughter dynamic is my favorite. But Bill is definitely a close second. I would have loved for Bill to meet other versions of the Doctor and having to grapple with finding her weird grandpa hot as the two lady Doctor versions we've seen thus far would have been funny. Like, Thirteen and The Fugitive Doctor are still very much her weird grandfather person, but... Twelve would also be annoyed by this but only because Bill is making it weird and definitely not because the Doctor can't ever get along with themself. (Really, he'd be the one making it weird, let's face it.)

Sarah-Jane and Luke are a wonderful mother/son relationship and it's so lovely how quickly she comes to love this kid as her own. And then she also not-quite-adopts (but totally would if they needed it) three more kids and actually adopts one more. She is an excellent mom and mentor and I will forever be a little sad about what could have been with the show if Elizabeth Sladen hadn't passed away.

So clearly my favorite Whoniverse ships are platonic ones, but I do have a soft spot for Any Doctor/Rose as a romantic ship because they really were very cute together. They did not always bring out the best in each other, but Rose was very much someone the Doctor needed in their life, especially after the Time War. While these days I personally see the Doctor as being aromantic (or arospec) and their relationship with Rose as being a sort of romantic-coded QPR, I do enjoy it written as a straight up romantic ship when I read fic.

Ianto/Jack is my overall favorite romantic ship in the Whoniverse though. They're just adorable and I wish we'd gotten more of them instead of a nonsensical death in a third season I prefer to pretend didn't happen. (It's not so much that Ianto died that bothers me about it either. It's that it was such a poorly written death, especially after how Tosh and Owen's deaths were handled in S2.)

#starstruckpurpledragon answers #doctor who #doctor who ships #the whoniverse #starstruckpurpledragon rambles

[starscream1998]

RTD2 has just had this energy the entire time and I've never been happier to be a Whovian than right now

#doctor who #the whoniverse #rtd2 #russell t davies #tales of the tardis #doctor who 60th anniversary

[themistressofdolls]

I feel like the only person who thinks the MCUfication of doctor who is a bad thing or it getting billions of dollars worth of cash investments will steal away a part of its spirit?

People are cheering "Its going to have a big budget like all the big name streaming shows now." and are you listening to yourself?

Its like a deal with the devil and I am someone who likes RTDs work and am sure he is going to create some fantastic stories with this era but what he is flirting with here is pandoras box.

Doctor who has always been low budget, sometimes goofy but its authentic, it has soul, it was a public project and its fans had a lot of sway over it across different eras as many people where allowed to play in the sandbox.

When it becomes just "content" and another IP for the IP machine it loses everything it is.

You might get spin offs, see all your fav big finish stuff now in live action, all the classic doctors returning for a new show, that UNIT spin off you wanted for years, so much content, so much new doctor who content to feed upon like a slurry.

But it will come at a price, just remember star wars, all the other stuff that got reduced to content, to IPs to collect like pokemon.

#doctor who #the Whoniverse #I despise the term content #People just want more content but they don't care how the sausage is made

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

Is the fact that she has got about 50 apples in her fruit bowl some sort of pun about how she hasn’t interacted with the doctor in about 5479 days

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #the whoniverse #Donna noble #the tenth doctor #the doctordonna

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

We Won (Sort Of): The BBC Won't Use AI for Doctor Who Marketing After Complaints

We Won (Sort Of): The BBC Won't Use AI for #DoctorWho Marketing After Complaints

The BBC has backed down and said that it won’t use artificial intelligence to market Doctor Who after outrage online at the notion. On 7th March 2023, the BBC Media Centre announced a new experiment: Doctor Who would be one of the first shows to have AI-generated marketing. While headlines would be written by humans, the actual article contents would be made by Large Language Models (LLMs). That…

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#Artificial Intelligence #BBC Studios #The Green Death #The Haunting of Villa Diodati #The War Machines #The Whoniverse

[aziraphaleapologist]

i’ve only seen a few episodes of four’s era but i found this outtake and i’m fuckinf crying because of it. why does he say it as if that’s his actual line

#doctor who #classic who #fourth doctor #whoniverse #4th doctor #sunken scrolls

[voice-of-illogical-sense]

@nomadviii

Hey @amor-est-potestas! Here's another one.

#dw #doctor who #video #the whoniverse #daleks #cybermen #served #superior at dying #vois humor #tiktok

[illustoryart]

So... all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will - where do you want to start? ✨

Hello Whoniverse! 💙🔷💙

#doctorwho #doctor who #whoniverse #whovian #tardis #doctor who fanart #my fanart #wibbly wobbly timey wimey #doctor who quotes