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Wilderness edition. What's your favourite thing about the Wilderness Years?

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tfw after a brief period of activity, /who/ has died again

Yep. Still love The Gunfighters.

Gunfighters is surprisingly comfy desu

I'm a sucker for shootouts in the Old West, too. And it's surprisingly well shot and choreographed.

Man Revenge of the Cybermen is a huge stinking pile of shit. First terrible episode of the 4th Doctor's era (though Robot completely fell apart after the start). Generally though Baker's era has been a complete improvement so far.

The new Doctor has never done TV before, only stage, and is 24

Baker himself is what makes his era, not the stories. He has some great stories, but also some absolutely terrible ones (i.e. The Invasion of Time - one of the worst Doctor Who stories ever conceived in my opinion). The Sontaran Experiment is also underrated, and it's something I always recommend to people new to the Classic Series because of its length.

The Pertwee era is one of my favourites because of how profoundly different it is to the previous two Doctor's eras.

With luck we will be experiencing another wilderness years shortly.

bbc wouldnt let a huge money maker go I don't think

Care to expand on this? How do you know this? Are you Gareth?

They would have kept the Doctor Who Experience going if that were the case.
Incidentally, Facebook is telling me it's been two years to the day since I was there. Good times.

Using a younger actor to try bring fans back is pathetic weather I believed this or not. Just tragic.

The actor is also half-caste

Submitted this to The Mirror, should have an article about this soon.

Were those rumors of a Genesis of the Cybermen debunked?

She must be in a West End production at the mo then, Andy Pryor is always there looking for new talent.

Pertwee's tenure is Doctor Who with the charm surgically removed. Instead of a charming pacifist travelling all of space and time we get a bossy asshole who works foe the government driving around the home counties in his car. And too many stories try to be straight action thrillers, which is the thing Doctor Who is worst at.

But it works more because it becomes more of a character piece. It's basically a sitcom with all the recurring characters in a familiar location, getting in and out of scraps with each other. It goes back to normal once the budget gets restored. I mean, once the exile is lifted.

Inferno is fucking amazing, in fact I love all of Jons first season.

Just finished catching up on Sherlock, buds

It's kind of funny how Doctor Who's hiatus and Sherlock's shitty release schedule still made them both come back in the same year. Moffat never really did get that break, did he?

It's going to be even funnier when Moffat steps down from Doctor Who and finally has all the time in the world to focus on Sherlock and the show is never renewed for a fifth season.

That's good. Sherlock needs to stay finished for a good long time. Maybe in five or ten years they can come back for a Christmas special or something.

I said this yesterday, but he really needs a new project, maybe something not associated with classic litriture works or vintage franchises

Or Marvel will snatch him up eventually.

Tintin 2

Who's the best choice for female Doctor, and why is it pic related?

peter capaldi in drag

Very unlikely. Comics have to be planned meticulously in advance and the artist makes a huge contribution to the finished comics.
He could probably do those awful Titan fanfic shitters though.

I meant the MCU.
They should give him Captain Marvel.

>A female superhero written by Steven Moffat

Stuff of nightmares.

He'll go the RTD route and write some miniseries, possibly on Channel 4 given how much the BBC shafted him on occasion.

He was basically doing it anyway.

not technically but if they haven't been confirmed by now they're probably false

Yes, but an actual superheroine would be terrifying.

capaldi confirmed them

Boycott the show is Capaldi is not in S11?

yes

I've boycotted the show ever since Gareth Roberts was ERASED

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What did he mean by this?

>peter capaldi in drag

Wow. Even his followers are cunts.

That he's an atheist?

christfags BTFO

The time that you guys never existed and could stay quiet at your corner without do shitposting and let people enjoy things without turn out as a auto critical idiot for everything that he looks, thanks /who/

...You too?

literally what?

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Leave this place and never come back, you don't belong here

Yeah well, if you have a big hotel, who in this post Why do you stick to solve the problem? Would not it be better to go to a forum with topics of interest and like-mindedness?

Just wondering...

In the last 2 weeks /who/ doesn't even pass the 200 comments or worse, 50 images, what's happening guys? The hype is dying?

>In the last 2 weeks /who/ doesn't even pass the 200 comments
u wot? The last thread had 295 posts.

And 58 images.

Anyone else feel bad when a really good VNA/EDA writer leaves Doctor Who and winds up writing barely anything else?

I stopped watching the show.

Got bad after Matt Smith's second season and it is almost unwatchable now

Sure, Larry.

I don't feel bad for Larry though. Obverse Books would happily publish anything he'll make, but he's like "Fuck you, I'mma play with my legos."

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>Four Doctors sucked
>Big Finish cancelled Novel Adaptations so no Timewyrm Revelation audio
>Third Doctor comic is just ultra-trad story with Salamander for some reason
>Creator-owned works like Shadow Police aren't even that good

How do we save Cornell?

it's too late for him he's fully SJW now

Why are people working on Doctor Who and Doctor Who fans so left-leaning ?

I frequent a few Big Finish and classic who discution websites and there's always quite a large number of people explaining the virtues of third-wave feminism for exemple.

I don't want to start any debates regarding the value of those politics, I'm just curious to see if anyone here can answer or has a theory about ti.

If the novel adaptations weren't selling well, why couldn't they just release them as part of the main range? Was "novel adaptation" really putting people off?

Because Dr Who is socialist, anti-establishment, anti-imperial, anti-corporate, anti-war and has been since day 1.
Except the 11th Doctor who is a Tory cunt.

>Was "novel adaptation" really putting people off?
They fucked them up in a number of ways.
Mostly because they hacked them down to 2 discs and removed far too much of the novels.
Sylvester plays the totally wrong 7th Doctor and takes away all the atmosphere of the novels.
Ace is still the one-note Ace of her first stories.

Cold Fusion was adapted by the author and 6 eps long. It works the best. And there is no fucking terrible Ace in it.

>that tweet
This shit makes me mad. There are people who you not only need to provide a disclaimer for whenever you say anything controversial to keep them from instantly assuming things about you, but there are people who will ignore it anyway and not even listen to anything that sounds close to what someone they don't like might say.

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to be fair, all trump supporters are either racist or they think its okay to have a racist as president. though to be fair they could also just be delusional and think he isnt racist.

Why doesn't anyone at BF know how to make a cool Ace story. They've done wonders for Peri, Mel, and even Adric in that 5th Doctor box set, but never Ace? When was the last cool Ace scene in an audio?

wait nvm i misread the tweet. not that i take back what i said, its still true

That's a shame then. How does Ace change in the novels? She's my favourite companion but I've not gotten round to reading the VNAs.

Ace is not cool any more. She had character development in the novels only.
After that she regresses to Sophie's default Ace.
25 years of Ace is too much. The character is not interesting enough.
Big Finish ended up down the shittest path of all. She goes to Time Lord school and becomes a fucking Time Lord.
Fanfic.

Although Cartmell wanted Ace to study on Gallifrey there was nothing said about her becoming a Time Lord. She was just there to mature as an entity.

The WORST part is, she is a Time Lord on audio and Sophie is still doing the same fucking character who doesn't seem to have learned anything since she was a teenager.

Yeah. Best thing is read the novels.

She jumps ship after the Doctor kills one of her boyfriends to save the day. Becomes a hardened warrior who's mutilated Special Weapons Daleks for a living. Comes back to the TARDIS where she's on really shaky ground with 7 and Benny, refusing to take part in his plans and still bitter at what he did. Eventually, they reconcile, but then Ace leaves again to become Time's Vigilante, using a short-range vortex manipulator to oversee and protect 1887 Paris.

yes after the Hex arc she went straight back to 'weasel dung' Ace
utter shit

Probably the scene where she beats Nobody and resurrects the DoctorA Death in the Family. After that point, they started de-evolving her from mature young woman back to shouty teenager.

Hey now he doesn't have to read any of the novels as you have spoilered all of them. Nice.

It sounds a bit shit though so I'm not really bothered about the spoilers. I'll just stick to the audios up until Death in the Family.

>It sounds a bit shit though
But it's not shit. That was also a reason for not typing it all out.
You can make ANYTHING sound shit with an awful description which also skips 99.9999% of the details.

I wonder when a brave user will write detailed entries for each VNA on the the /who/ wiki.

What did he tweet? I'm blocked.

/WHO/ WILL NOT DIE

When's series 11 going to air? Spring 2018 or Autumn?

Spring.

this thread is litteral fucking cancer.
When will you nolifers stop this shit?

/who/ is one of the less cancerous threads on Sup Forums.

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an eternal general about a who gives a fuck show that only half a dozen retards watch a shitpost about here all day long?

It's fucking cancerous

You sound inexplicably angry, user. Are you bored?

Yes I'm in a shit mood.

Regardless, this doctor who shit has to stop.

I agree. Once you piss off we will all be happier, user.

Sherlock spoiler

Sherlock, unable to defeat a tyrannical media baron through brainpower alone, shot him in the head, declaring himself to be a “high-functioning sociopath” in order to justify the act.

bravo moffat. not. you ran out of ideas a long time ago didn't you.

I fucking hate life.

Also, I'm staying, because fuck you.

If you don't give a shit about the show, you're not obliged to comment.

No, because things that make you mad should last forever.

what doesn't last forever is the question.

right to opinion bitch

Moffat doesn't even need ideas for Sherlock: most episodes are loosely based on a Conan-Doyle story anyway.

You guys should know that I already stopped redditaholics thread on here and if I want to put an end to your little thing I can do it very easily.

It just requires a little shitposting effort.

*correction - all episodes

It's going to be ok user.