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Night Terrors, Gallifrey Gals Get Wibbly Wobbly! S6 Ep9

🕑 Added 2020-11-12 18:00:03 +0000 UTC

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Thomas Thompson

I started with the frst few episodes of series 6, then I watched all of series 5 and then all of 6. Then I went back to the start of NuWHO and the thing that made me not able to get into it is all the romantic subtext with the companions that, since I had seen all of Mat Smith, I knew was not going anywhere in the end, and they lean on that HEAVILY and with me it was not a load supporting beam.

UsernameMK

In response to how you started the show, basically, this all still aired at a time when people just started watching TV Shows at whatever episode was on that day and went to watch things back later, maybe, if ever, and Season 6 in particular drew in a *lot* of new viewers from all over the world as the production values and general quality of performances went up significantly while the camp factor dropped almost as much. I grew up with Doctor Who as one of the things I saw at relatives' houses, like Coronation Street and East Enders, and only 'got into it' right after David Tennant announced he would be leaving. (which was right before his fairwell tour not-a-season.) I actually got my start with the whole franchise from a random 24-hour Torchwood marathon the local BBC affiliate aired more than a decade ago. Even then, it wasn't until Season 6 that I started watching every episode religiously and tying up the family internet downloading old episodes. To some extent it's where you started, but which doctor is 'Your' Doctor is very much a personal thing that has to do with your personal image of who the character is / is supposed to be, and just as much about the Showrunner as the actor/actress. In much the same way (but reversed) that there are A Lot of people out there who would probably absolutely love Jodie if the writing wasn't...what it is, and how a lot of people who started with her are going to find a future female Doctor under a better showrunner becoming Their Doctor after the fact because of it, Matt Smith *became* my Doctor after years of me kind of hating him for changing from the much more traditional kind of Hero portrayed by David Tennant, when I realized how much of how I thought of the Doctor's character came from him and how little of it had to do with anything Russel T Davies was in the room for. Given how big an influence my mental image of the doctor played on who I grew up to be, it's a little hard Not to be mentally stuck somewhere in that place between season 4.1 and the end of A Good Man Goes to War. You're absolutely right about the Classic show, though. I mean, the Moffat era is nearly a different show from Eccleston's season. Eccleston's season is an entirely different and tangentially related show to the 'Classic' one, just by virtue of how different Television was in the 80s vs now. In the 1980s, there were basically three genres of television show and none of them were actually any good. The further back you go the cringier things get. Classic Who was good for the time, if not necessarily in any kind of quality (writing, production, or acting) for how ambitious and original it was in a world where a specific kind of sitcom and a specific kind of police procedural accounted for like 90% of all scripted television, but it's a little like comparing a painting made by a talented teenager to something their mom put on the fridge when they were four. It's definitely something worth trying some part of (you literally cannot watch it all and no one under 50 has) at some point if you're really, really, really invested in the idea, but it's an entirely separate show, which failed more than once and for very good reason, and this is just a reboot that sometimes tries to pretend it isn't. It's significantly easier for a millennial / zoomer to watch TOS with no previous attachment to Star Trek than it is for one with a decades-spanning obsession with the franchise to watch Classic Who.

Nik Hayward

Fond memories of this one just because it was filmed nearby to me, so I went down to watch the filming and stayed until the early hours with some other die-hards! :) Had a brief word with Matt Smith who thanked us for coming (god knows why, I wouldn't want anyone staring at me while I worked!). The shot where the TARDIS arrives, I am crouched down behind the wall at the back of the shot with 3 other people, having been told to by a member of the production team so we wouldn't end up in shot peering over the wall :D

Colin 3of5

Suffice to say the Doctor has been creeping people out for the entire run of the series classic as well as nuwho

Colin 3of5

I remember freaking my mother out when she was shopping and I asked her if the dummies in the shop windows had guns in them like on Dr Who. Mind you I was only 7 or 8 years at the time so my mothers reaction was understandable.

Benjamin

I tried so hard to watch this reaction, I just cant LOL It creeps me out so bad! its my least favourite episode of all time

Brandon Scott

That "in the flesh" comment worked here just as well as it would've in the first half of the season because they had been separated for most of the episode and, you know, Amy had spent the last half of this episode as a wooden doll... as in NOT in the flesh.

Jeff Seely

I never got into Classic Who, but I got into New Who when friends introduced me to it during David Tennant's run. So you might think that David Tennant would be my Doctor, but no. While I think the 10th Doctor is very well written and well acted, I don't like his arrogance (even though I understand and accept the character development reasoning behind it). Matt Smith ended up being my Doctor, with Peter Capaldi running a very close second.

Alisa Loudner

Katrina has mentioned a few times that most people think of Smith as their Doctor because they started with series 6 but I'm an outlier. I watched classic Doctor Who starting with 4 so Tom Baker is MY classic Doctor. I started with Eccelston and moved through new Who in order and Matt Smith is MY Doctor of the new era, even though I love Eccelston, Tenant, Capaldi and Whitaker.

Travis Starnes

Loved the Hypnopumpkins reference.

LaRoy Murrell

To be fair Amy and Rory technically did raise their kid but I agree with Paula it would have been nice to have an acknowledgement of proper parenthood

Firefly24601

Dolls aren't my particular phobia, so this episode was a bit boring for me. This REACTION, however, was A++++ would watch again! The guy who plays the Dad, Daniel Mays, was in Rogue One. He played the very nervous information source that Cassian Andor kills at the beginning of the movie.

Stephen Ray

First of all, I loved Katrina's blink-and-you'll-miss-it Ood impression with the nOod-les. I like this episode more with each re-watch. It might be my favourite Gatiss episode. Series 6 isn't one of my favourites, so maybe I've been too dismissive. Great reaction!

John

Kat, you know you can't scrunch the dog's face. It comes pre-scrunched. I forgot how creepy this episode was. The doll's faces looked like Eric Stoltz in The Elephant Man. Mark Gatiss has issues.