Actual /who/ since the mong who's been making these threads lately doesn't know how to format the subject

Ncuti regrets taking the role and not fighting a Dalek. Billie Piper teases her future as the Doctor while also admitting she has no fucking clue what that future is.
Also Alex Kingston is on Strictly now. Dine show edition.

Doctor Who is dead.

Why bother with the general? There's no one left to even dance on its grave.

>>213341508
We still have that one UNIT spin-off left tbf

meh, /who/ will be dead for good when ofcom blocks 4chan and the yanks don't give enough of a shit to continue (then they also block 4chan when their own kids online safety act comes into force)

>>213341664
>police state
>English nationalism/nostalgia
>Scottish independence
>16-year-olds can vote

'The Beast Below' is all in vogue again.

It's unironically never been more over.

>>213341725
Don't have a black monarch yet though unless you count Chuck being a simp for African culture and Islam

>>213341830
Prince Harry went and married that mixed-race American lassie.

more likely a king/queen would randomly fall in love with an Asian or something (our sense of the word 'Asian'). and even then, my money would be on an Edward VIII type situation: abdicates, just passes on to someone else.

>>213341595
we will be /unit/

will it be as good as Class?

>>213341664
>then they also block 4chan when their own kids online safety act comes into force
Love how all western governments have just collectively decided that ID must be tied to everything you do online. Great stuff.

"UNIT spin-off" sounds great.

but honestly i'd want it set in the 70s/80s. doesn't have to be Sergeant Benton and them, just do a Life on Mars style period piece, right down to using 'classic' costume and effects. some daft monster-of-the-week type series, during the UNIT wilderness years.

>>213342333
Class was shit so it being good as Class still makes it shit
At least it actually has characters from the main show, even if they're wooden planks with no personality

The Tardis wiki looks like they're finally getting rid of all their fanfiction slop
Some are arguing against it but it looks like a strong majority including admins want to rewrite the coverage rules
It seems that one Star Wars fanfiction was the final straw lmao

https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Forum:T:NO_FANFIC:_An_Addendum

>>213342481
>For example, we are currently covering a Star Wars fanfic titled Hunters of Angkor, due to it briefly featuring a character who debuted in another (albeit non-fanfic) novel by the same author — Kingdom Cryptiqqa — which is covered by this Wiki due to briefly mentioning Tekker and Krennos.

god this shit comes up so much on there.

just random asides about how a character mentioned something else, therefore that whole thing is (or 'could be considered') part of the Doctor Who universe. it goes from speculation to outright making stuff up.

https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Ring_(Sonic_the_Hedgehog)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB4UO3Ywmko&t=1811s

why won't Russell tell this lady who Billie Piper's new character is?

>>213342962
because he knows he isn't going to be showrunner anymore and has left it for the next person to pick up the shit and figure out

>>213343017
this confuses the fuck out of me. purely as a writer, how do you have NO plan, like the new Star Wars? it sounds lovely leaving a blank slate for people, but the end product is actually getting messed with: both Ncuti finales had all these cut scenes and threads which cleared things up, but ended up on the cutting room floor. Disney HAVE had creative input.

what happened to just writing a script, and filming it? RTD always had some frenetic writing style, but what's with this new clusterfuck? you couldn't have a series bible, or a general plan?

>>213343136
RTD wrote and filmed these two seasons back to back so they couldn't change much of it when the first season flopped
And due to Disney not giving the greenlight they were unable to film a new season, and so RTD couldn't deliver the "no more year breaks, new season every year" promise
RTD also has the mindset that generating content will make a series succeed, which is why he made Billie the Doctor in order to generate discussion and attempt to make Disney change their mind
The only successful thing to come out of that way of thinking is getting a bunch of tiktok literal school kids obsessed with Ring a Ding and Dugga Doo, but that's it

>>213342333
It's being written by the Kablam guy, so doubtful

Didn't see it get posted before so I'm just reposting for discussion sake.

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/new-mixed-media-adventure-doctor-who-circuit-breaker-coming-to-the-whoniverse-in

>Spanning audio dramas, comics, mobile games, novels, and digital storytelling, Circuit Breaker is a bold new chapter in the Whoniverse offering an ambitious interconnected narrative that will unfold across multiple formats, inviting fans to experience the mystery from every angle. The overarching narrative is crafted by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, best-selling author and rising star in speculative fiction and features Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor.

>In Circuit Breaker, strange alien artifacts begin appearing inside UNIT’s Black Archive. Each object is unmistakably linked to a different regeneration of the Doctor, but they’ve been tampered with. A corrupted energy signature of unknown origin pulses through them, and their sudden arrival has torn tiny ruptures across time and space.

>UNIT is out of options. To repair the damage and restore the timeline, the objects must be returned to the exact moments they were taken from. If not, the Doctor’s adventures – and the universe itself – could unravel.

>To solve the mystery, UNIT calls upon a little-known incarnation of the Time Lord: the Fugitive Doctor, played by Jo Martin, who returns in a central role. But how does UNIT know about her? And is she the Doctor they expect?

>>213343331
Couldn't have Russell just gotten Jo Martin to do some specials until they found a new 16, instead of dragging out Billie Piper?

>>213343331
>artifacts
>i

>>213343331
Why do they keep doing this multimedia shit when Doom's Day turned out to be an even bigger flop than TLV

>>213343466
Try and make merchandise sales while the show is on soft hiatus.
Sole reason we get shit like Time Lord Victorious, Doom's Day and now this.

>>213343350
I think the next show runner should start it off with Billy Piper just letting out a huge belch and then flash regenerating into the next real doctor (Smith to Capaldi style). Then the new doctor doesn't even acknowledge anything weird and moves on.

>>213343484
>merchandise sales
lol
lmao

>>213343500
her zipping through a bunch of different iterations (cameos/randoms) Romana-style would actually be pretty funny.

They named the fish lady, salt?

>>213343500
oh, and maybe they say something like "wow, new penis! oh, it's white"

>>213343570
well, she is my wife after all.

>>213343570
interspecies sex with salt

>>213343570

>>213342481
Fucking finally
They should purge the author of any fanfic pages too
and then purge the rest and start again, the whole thing, start over from page 1

>>213342481
>is it licensed by the BBC?
If yes, keep. If no, junk it.
Not hard.

>>213343331
>Spanning audio dramas, comics, mobile games, novels, and digital storytelling,
So it consists entirely of throwaway garbage nobody will ever listen to/read/play/read/read? Sounds exciting! Transmodal storytelling was a fucking mistake

>>213344000
Like TLV and Doom's Day, they severely overestimate how much fans care to go out of their way to buy books, comics, and audios just to get a complete story.

Nice trips.

>>213343984
So you would junk Downtime then

>>213342481
>>213343937
from what i can gleam from the discussion, this...person has their whole crossover-with-everything fan fiction world, that sometimes happens to feature Doctor Who characters?
http://tardis.wiki/wiki/Atom_Mudman_Bezecny
but compared to some random user on fanfiction.net, these were actually published, in print, despite not having the licence to use these characters?

who the hell reads these? is it at least a fun schizo thing, Ulililia/Chris-chan type nonsense?

>>213344473
It doesn't feature any DW characters, one book just happens to mention a Classic Who character because the author managed to get the rights to it, and the wiki then considers any character that debuts in that book a DW character in their own right so now you have all this schizo nonsense that's several degrees removed from DW on the wiki

>>213342481
Why was that the final straw and not that kid's Peter Griffin comic though

>>213343331
>Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
that's a name of a real person

>>213344279
Yes, otherwise we get into "why scrap X if you're letting Y through?"

>>213344548
weird. they've given the example of a Sooty fan-fiction/parody that includes Bernice Summerfield, which is pretty questionable. but this Star Wars fan fiction has the author's OC that was also in this Doctor Who fan fiction? that's it?

The Curse of Fatal Death, i'd understand. but at what point do they include every parody that references Doctor Who? Simpsons episodes, Community, why don't those get articles?

>>213344811
>Simpsons episodes, Community, why don't those get articles?
Because those never got the rights to use Doctor Who characters like this author did

http://tardis.wiki/wiki/The_Snowmen_(TV_story)
http://tardis.wiki/wiki/The_Snowmen_(in-universe)

this cracks me up. because Doctor Who is a programme inside the Doctor Who universe, there's both a real world article for 'The Snowmen' and the in-universe 'The Snowmen' episode.

maybe they'll do this for every story because of the Land of Fiction/cartoon episode fourth-wall gimmick.

>>213343350
Because Jo Martin isn't going to draw a dime on her own.

>>213344900
the discussion seems to indicate their six-way crossover only got the rights to some 80s science-fiction film. Night of the Living Dead was public domain, the others just had a 'Doctor Who is owned by the BBC' attribution at the start?

what counts as fair use/fair dealing, i have no clue. but the Star Wars story is one degree removed from having the rights to officially use a character. Lawrence Miles could just say some schizo nonsense on his blog, that's not the same as a Virgin New Adventures novel, is it?

>>213344924
>>213343350
>Inb4 they do the Valeyard prison planet plot

>>213344924
>oh my goodness the new Dr Who is my favourite actor, Matt Smith!

https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Theory:Unusual_articles

>>213345069
It's not about previous popularity. It's about getting the role for the right reasons.

>>213345175
yeah i agree, just think it's daft an actor/actress has to be a 'draw', y'know? and if anything people WOULD tune in for 'fat black lady Dr Who' (for one episode).

haven't listened to the audios, no clue what they're doing with the teases in the show, but a full two-Doctors story with her mite b cool.

>Jenny Everywhere, also known as the Shifter, was an individual who seemingly existed in every universe capable of supporting life.
>Jenny Everywhere is an open source character who has crossed over into the worlds of Doctor Who numerous times, both officially and unofficially; the Doctor was even cited as an inspiration for the character by her creator Steve Wintle.

https://wiki.jennyeverywhere.net/wiki/Jenny_Everywhere

the fuck?

https://wiki.jennyeverywhere.net/wiki/Category:Sexual_and_romantic_partners_of_Jenny_Everywhere
>Clara Oswald

>>213343136
>>213343269
Also Disney doesn't give two shits about Who and only got it because of the Bluey deal with the BBC

>>213345265
Jo seems like a nice lady who seems genuinely grateful for the opportunity. I don't see how the show is salvageable so I could at least derive some feelgood factor from seeing her getting her moment. But why waste the opportunity of a multi-doctor story on more of the shit that helped sink the show in the first place?

>>213345761
>why waste the opportunity of a multi-doctor story on more of the shit that helped sink the show in the first place?
i want her to have a real, full (televised) story. unfortunately that does mean getting into all the seekrit Timeless Child backstory stuff (i was fine enough with The Division). or at least somehow getting it out the way.

a whole series? not as interested. i think Dr Who should be an (ideally elderly) English/Scottish male. she'd be a good foil.

Ncuti > Tennant

>>213346046
>i want her to have a real, full (televised) story.
Why though? She doesn't seem a particularly good actor or to have much gravitas. Plus as you say, her version of the doctor comes loaded with baggage. Not arguing, I just hear that a lot and wonder what people saw in her that I didn't.

>>213346255
>She doesn't seem a particularly good actor or to have much gravitas.
nah i disagree. pretty run-of-the-mill the-Judoon-are-back episode with a fun twist (even though i'm sick to death of chameleon arches and fob watches).

don't want grimderp or (too many) grandiose speeches, but her being a bit more First Doctor, i wanted to watch THAT series. she does seem like a decent enough actress, and was written less gurning/gormless. if you can do it as a one-off, why not just do it all the time? so sick of irony and quips.

>>213346179
Everyone is better than Trannant now especially after the last pathetic performance he shit out.

>>213343466
because like doom's day i assume asides from jo martin there's some nepo hire who's going to be the lead companion and they're not going to get any work otherwise

>>213346255
>She doesn't seem a particularly good actor or to have much gravitas
compared to Jodie and Ncuti she's Clint Eastwood

It's over

>>213349488
>RTD brings the show back
>he's the one to take it out to pasture when it's ready to die again
it's like poetry

>>213345298
>>213345381
most editors there also edit the jenny everywhere wiki and write for it which is why they're obsessed with this idea tardis must be an everything wiki too

>>213343331
>Time Lord Victorious didn't work
>Doom's Day didn't work
Surely Circuit Breaker will be the success

>>213345381
>having so many sexual partners you need a wiki page
what an absolute slag

It's really fucked up that the doctor who wiki gets all the jenny everywhere articles, but jenny wiki doesn't even get a character page for skibidi toilet despite being ultra canon.

>>213351015
>cookieboy 2005
it's always him isn't it

>>213344912
I see this and raise you with
https://tardis.wiki/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Snowstorm_(in-universe)_(in-universe)_(in-universe)_(in-universe)_(in-universe)

>>213351700
the fuck does any of this have to do with doctor who istg

I'm FLABBERGASTED

>>213351700
why are they writing as if it's on this wiki and was only PREVIOUSLY on the old wiki?
surely in a 2023 story, it was on tardis.wikia.com. nothing to do with tardis.wiki.

>>213351700
Kek this almost seems like it was deliberately done to fuck with the wiki editors

>>213353868
It was written by a wiki admin, a lot of this shit is just wiki editors circlejerking each other

https://tardis.wiki/wiki/I_Don't_Really_Have_a_Title_for_This_Please_Stop_Pressuring_Me_(short_story)

>>213354403
https://tardis.wiki/wiki/TERF
i feel like someone just wanted this to be an article, then this story gave them an excuse.

>>213354403
>In the story, as Crescent sits on a leather recliner on the station, Luigi appears. Crescent and Luigi talk to Satrick Ptewart, captain of Birmingham, who says that Zombs have breached the cargo port. They suppose that the Zombs are looking for estrogen and testosterone after the Legion of Seriously Establishmentarian Reactionaries bombed the intergalactic hormone supplement plants. They elect to get gender-affirming care to them, and find them attempting to loot the cargo port in desperation, with its Shunterbots crying in the corner. Crescent decides to shout that they have the estrogen and testosterone, causing the Zombs to encircle her and Luigi, singing a chorus of appreciation. They find that the Zombs have blowtorched every container except the one containing what they needed. Crescent makes a speech to tell them to fight back against the Legion.
>The Zombs repair Birmingham, reimburse the damaged goods, and bake an apology cake for the Shunterbots. They team up with the Space Explorers, and work with them to revert the infringements of civil rights and other major societal changes, creating a utopia.

i'm going to write a story about tinnitus because it's an important part of my life.

https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Legion_of_Seriously_Establishmentarian_Reactionaries

>>213341345 (OP)
If you had to pick one story that shows off what makes each Doctor unique, and trying to avoid the most typical choices, what are you going with?

9th Doctor
>S01E02 - The End of the World

10th Doctor
>S03E03 - Gridlock

11th Doctor
>S06E11 - The God Complex

12th Doctor
>S08E04 - Listen

13th Doctor
>I genuinely don't know. I couldn't get through any of her seasons. I just couldn't.

14th Doctor
>2023 Special E02 - Wild Blue Yonder is GOAT

15th Doctor
>S14E05 - Dot and Bubble

War Doctor
>Big Finish - The Shadow Squad

GAH

>>213354717
The Giggle > Wild Blue Yonder

Doctor Who failed because it didn't generate enough content.

My arms are too long.

>>213356566
that's not my hand, because my hand isn't white.

>I know. Back to the Future. It's like Back to the Future.
>The film?
>No, the novelisation. YES, THE FILM
Why was he so fucking rude to Martha, jesus

Rewatched 11's era and Amy is such a fucking unlikeable cunt. Rory deserved much better than her.

>>213358148
I think Amy and Clara were some of the most entitled companions out there. They thought they both thought they were more important than they were, and their egos got one of them killed. Bill was surprisingly reasonable compared to Rose, Amy, and Clara. 13's "senpai" can be safely disregarded except for Graham. I'd drag him along.

>>213358794
Huh, it autocorrected F A M into senpai. Regardless, Amy was a shit companion elevated by her hotness.

>>213358826
>autocorrected
How new are you?

>>213358826
Amy is the most based female companion.

>>213343460
British English will cease to exist in your lifetime.

>>213359224
That's Sarah Jane, Leela, Liz, and Martha

I've missed them so much /v/ros, I'm tempted to make a gif/webm of Jodie lustily licking her lips while looking Mandip.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K1mkCAizwE

>>213354717
9th - Dalek.
>"You just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground, underneath tons of sand and dirt, and label them. You're about as far from the stars as you can get."

10th - The End of Time
>"It's not fair!"

11th - The Big Bang
>"It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool."

doccy who

Sack Russel T. Davies

ok