DOCTOR WHO | Series 3 | Mid-Series Thoughts
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Thank you Britany! 🥳 hope you had a lovely time over the holidays
Siobhan Brennan
2022-12-28 09:07:53 +0000 UTCHi! The video hasn't been deleted. Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, Patreon randomly removes links from some posts. I never know about it unless someone lets me know... like you are. So, thank you for letting me know!! I'm current on the road on my way back home from visiting family for the holidays, but I should be at my hotel in about two hours. I'll get the link added then and let you know when it's good to go.
Britany Felix
2022-12-28 00:37:47 +0000 UTCHi! I can’t seem to see a video attached to this post for some reason? Has it been deleted? Thanks!
Siobhan Brennan
2022-12-28 00:01:04 +0000 UTCI have a thought on the witches that might help. I completely agree they were too campy and silly. But just to add a layer to this, Shakespeares plays had witches in them that were just like these ones. Its one of the cliches of his plays (and of the era geverally), that you have to have ridiculous witches casting spells via word play, especially a trio of them. The phrase "Double double, toil and trouble" that you might know, is spoken by three witches in his play Macbeth. Audiences at the time clearly liked this. So the episode was deliberately using the cliche from his plays and giving them an alien twist. This won't make it any more enjoyable, but might help you understand the intention of the writers.
Richard Austen
2022-08-29 23:26:40 +0000 UTCCompletely agree about what you said about mid series thoughts. If you can share thoughts after each episode then the mid series thoughts are redundant.
Richard Austen
2022-08-29 23:18:31 +0000 UTCAlthough the Time War was not the same war as the one the Doctor mentions in Runaway Bride, Clara's post makes a very good point: A Time War's battleground can be anywhere in space AND time. (How it left the Classic Doctors unaware of it - and unaffected by it - though, is far too murky to have to think about!)
Ian Smith
2022-08-29 11:16:36 +0000 UTCThe invention of the Time War was also a handy way to eliminate all of the continuity baggage that had built up throughout the Classic series with regard to Gallifrey In getting rid of all that, he had reduced a great deal of laborious info-dumping for new viewers. Much easier to have the Doctor say "they're all dead now!"
Ian Smith
2022-08-29 11:09:41 +0000 UTCThe Time War is not part of the classic series (although certain stories have since been retconned into being part of it). It was invented by Russell T Davies purely for the revival of Doctor Who in 2005, not only for its inherent dramatic potential but also to emphasise that vast changes had occurred for the Doctor during the fifteen years that the show had been off the air, and there was no need for audiences to have any familiarity with what had gone before. For the whole of that first series, the viewer only needs to know as much about the Doctor as Rose knows, and so the first we heard of the Time War was that scene at the end of "The End of the World" when he tells Rose about it, and that he's now the last of the Time Lords. As for Mr. Saxon, you've heard him mentioned at the end of "The Runaway Bride", when the tank fires on and destroys the Racnoss ship after receiving "orders from Mr. Saxon". At the end of "Smith and Jones", he's mentioned again, as Martha listens to the radio while getting ready for her party. Oliver Morgenstern (her fellow medical student), being interviewed, says that the encounter with the Judoon "just proves Mr. Saxon right -- we're not alone in the universe". Then that thread goes dormant for a few episodes before surfacing again in "The Lazarus Experiment" and "42". Make of that what you will... :-)
Steven Cooper
2022-08-29 00:45:25 +0000 UTCLotta good yet-unanswered questions you've got there ;) I'll just comment on one thing -- the honesty patch in Gridlock is hilarious to me because it seems like just the kind of thing a kinda hippy roadtrip couple like that would be all about.
Thomas Midena
2022-08-29 00:29:16 +0000 UTCI'm not going to throw loads of info at you, I think everyone else in the comments have covered the main questions you may have. Just glad to see you're still enjoying the show, it is always tricky after losing your favourite doctor/companion, but I'm sure you know with this show there is the potential for you to feel that again in the future. Looking forward to the rest of the series and beyond! It only gets better from here...
dwp
2022-08-28 22:06:27 +0000 UTCWhat Malcolm said about the Daleks is important. You got the first encounter of the Cult of Skaro in the end of series 2. They even have names and are the most non-Dalek Daleks there are. As they lost quite some times against "less" species. As a result, the purpose of the cult of Skaro was to learn to think like the enemy (the red team so to say). Also, they didn't want to take humans for their experiment, they crashed on Earth after their emergency temporal shift and basically had not much choice (IIRC they mentioned this in the episode). As for the Empire State building: at that time, it was the highest in New York. They needed the lightning strike (charged particles) from the sun flare and of course a lightning goes to the highest, sharpest, conducting thing near the lightning. So using the Empire State building was not an afterthought, but has physical (technical) reasons.
Michael Oswald
2022-08-28 20:06:36 +0000 UTCSomething tells me you’re gonna change your mind about not having thoughts videos for series 4, just my opinion 👀
Clara Gros-Louis
2022-08-28 20:04:43 +0000 UTCIn the Christmas Special, the war the Doctor was talking about was a separate war the Timelords had against the Racnoss (known as the dark times). This shows how ancient the Gallifreyans as a species were. Basically back then they put order in a Universe that was full of chaos. As for Shakespeare seeing the psychic paper was blank; I took it as not just the fact he was a genius, but also a person whose mind worked very differently from anybody else. (His complete mental breakdown after his son's death might have also been a factor). I do not know as much about him as some enthusiasts, but some do say there was nobody like him, and there will never be anybody quite like him. The Time War happened after the end of Classic Who, (and movie) and before NuWho. In a way, it provided a bit of a fresh start and a firm separation between the classic and new eras of the show. That group of Daleks (known as the Cult of Skaro) were specifically engineered to have an imagination and individuality to the point they even had names which did not happen with mainstream Daleks. The goal with these unique traits was they would be able to think of solutions to survive and kill beyond what the usual Dalek soldier would be capable of. Dalek Sec was even more unique which proved to be his undoing. Daleks were created to be Nazi-like in their thinking, meaning they viewed themselves as the only beings fit to survive, so Sec mixing them with humans, (or anything else) was abhorrent to them. So you are quite right that the hybrid idea would not go down well. Hopefully not having a separate thoughts video will save you a bit of time. If you have extra thoughts later on about an episode you watched before, you could always mention it at the start of the reaction you are currently up to if you wanted to.
Malcolm Wolf
2022-08-28 19:38:03 +0000 UTCThe time war is a war that happened, as its name suggests, at various moments in time all at once.
Clara Gros-Louis
2022-08-28 18:57:23 +0000 UTC
