#60s Who

[geronimomo-spd]

every day i remember that canonically, the tardis scanner in the 60s is in black and white. and i simply love that

yep, the huge incredible time machine from the most advanced race in the universe? the scanners are in black and white :)

[s-h-a-s-e]

The Doctor doesn't understand how this keeps happening.

Jamie doesn't understand how he's still surprised.

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plus a black and white version as a treat↴

[umbrellasareforever]

Ya just don't get wild stuff like this nowadays, do ya?

Gotta love the 60s. Those guys were bonkers.

[leakyrectum]

i love telesnaps for giving us goofy ass cartoon shit like this

[halestromthewhoobsessed]

Travelling with a 60s Doctor must stink cause not only do you have no control over where you’re going at all but you have to sleep on these horrid excuses for beds.

[doctornolonger]

A long-running theme on this blog is the ways that #60s Who differs wildly from our expectations in its depiction of the Doctor Who universe. The far-out assertions and implications of these early stories – for instance, the Doctor as a human, or the Daleks as friendly childlike robots – have been mostly ignored by later Doctor Who.

This pattern can be found in other franchises as well, and I've previously cited Star Wars as a good parallel example: for instance, Jabba the Hut [sic] was originally depicted as a human in a cut scene from Star Wars, and he later appeared as a fuzzy blue humanoid in comics like "What Ever Happened to Jabba the Hut?" (1978). Of course, all of this was wiped away the second slug-Jabba hit screens in Return of the Jedi.

The reason I'm spotlighting this today is because I recently stumbled across another good Star Wars example of this effect! For decades, all Star Wars fans knew about "the Clone Wars" was that it was presumably fought against clones, and General Obi-Wan OB-1 Kenobi had participated alongside Luke's father (first name Darth, last name Vader).

So what alternate visions of Clone Wars were overwritten by the prequel films in the early 2000s? "Corey's Datapad" gives the answer, and while admittedly it's not as wild as I hoped for, it's still a pretty fun "what if":

[someonecalledyes]

I'll never say it enough but The War Games is such a perfect story. It's really long but it's so good, I don't get any second of boredom watching it!

[yournewlodger]

[a-wartime-paradox]

I.M. Foreman's bottling, in the pre-War version of reality, created Peter Cushing's Dr. Who

In the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Interference (1999, by Lawrence Miles), in the parts named What Happened On Dust & Foreman's World, the ancient Gallifreyan known as (I.M.) Foreman created a bottle universe. Within the Virgin New Adventures novel Dead Romance (1999, Lawrence Miles) it was revealed* that this "bottle universe" contained the continuity of the Virgin New Adventures, featuring the Seventh Doctor, and so as the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures seemed to lack a lot of the Virgin New Adventures's continuity, it is reasonable conjecture to suggest that it was Foreman's "bottling" which removed the Virgin New Adventures from the main universe.

However, Foreman's decision to build the bottle was heavily influenced by the presence of Faction Paradox from the War, and hence these events must have occured differently before the War.

What major piece of lore was underlying in 60s Who, which later disappeared? Why, the Doctor's human origin, him building Tardis, and his name being Dr. Who, of course! None of these was concrete, but it was never previously solidly established he was a Time Lord until The War Games.

I started making this post months ago and want to post it now, so yeah - I'm saying that the pre-War bottling removed the human origin from the War, and hence I'm also saying that the Third Doctor had a possible human (or at least, non-Time Lord) origin.

[the-evil-lovable-simp]

Violence doesn't fit into the second doctors era so this is haahahshsbenekdndndbfjcjcncbcnc

[whatdoyoudoieat]

Ian: 'Doctor, we've got our clothes on!'

'Well, I should hope so, dear boy. I should hope so!'

[geronimomo-spd]

will they bite??? won't they bite???? here are me and my friends's findings!!!

few points:

-somehow 13 has more will bite you energy then 11 even though he canonicly bite someone. but he did it with a reason while i feel like 13 will need very little of it XD

-all the ones in the middle are both, in equal energies, 4 just is happy to do and recive insane things towards him, war we could not decide but will probablt need a reason either way, 7 is... you know :) and 2 just makes sense

-14 has more need to bite then to be biten then 10, as 10 will just let you. though it has been holty debated.

-3 was a suprise to me as much as it is for you

-5 will be very upset about it but will let you

-fugitive just makes sense she will bite and will make it look so good

-in oppision 1 was NOT a suprise to anybody he so will and he will laugh about it

-8 he wants you to do it, he always been fasinated, PLEASE BITE HIM PLEASE, HE WANTS IT SO BADDDD

[s-h-a-s-e]

i call this "oh no! i've done it wrong!" because i couldn't get jamie's face right for the life of me lol

[geronimomo-spd]

11. dealing with living under an occupation, having to face that fact that most of what you knew is gone and having to pick up the pieces of your own culture back up/the daleks plan is to hollow the earth's core and fly it around like a spaceship

12. what having a belief system actually means. what it means to believe in what you want to believe and yet not to use it to hurt others/the is a religion that celebrities oopsies, and they hail oops when the doctor smacks his head on a rock

13. being human means the ability to question, the ability to think for yourself and having the freedom to make that choice/a dalek lets the doctor ride on him while giggling the entire time

14. dealing with the ethical treatment of mental health issues, what it means to lose your memory and how it effects your definition of yourself/the doctor gets his mind taken out if his head to be put in someone elses and he walks around with it

15. dealing with existing during a revolution, trying to decide who is right and who is wrong as people keep dieing/the doctor pretends to be an official while wearing one of the most ridiculous hats you have ever seen

16. a real look about friendship ans suicidal thoughts, about choosing life against the fact the entire world tells you your place/a living house calls the doctor father and gets it right

Things that both happen in the same episode of doctor who

(content warning for dark humour and references to various morbid topics)

Things that both happen in the same episode of doctor who

1.A thoughtful and moving depiction of suicidal depression/The Doctor fights a giant invisible chicken

2.An iraq war allegory involving aliens that cut off human skin and wear it/those aliens also fart a lot and laugh about it

3.The Doctor is tortured for billions of years in a metaphor for the incremental nature of moving on from grief/doors are revealed to be canonically sentient and mad at everyone and the doctor makes a psychic link with one

4.The Doctor grapples with the consequences of abandoning his friend because he cannot face the inevitability of her death/aliens make kids into geniuses by feeding them french fries fried in space oil, they are then killed by said french fry oil

5.A man must deal with his loved one's inevitable death from a terminal illness/the doctor flys a sleigh pulled by a flying shark while wearing a santa hat

6.The Doctor accidentally causes his companion to be killed then brought back only to be trapped in a dystopia for ten years mutilated and dehumanized/missy dabs

7.The endpoint of the human race is revealed to be them mutilating themselves putting their heads in spheres and sadistically murdering other humans for fun/The Doctor becomes tinkerbell jesus

8.The Doctor admits that he's seen so many people die that he's lost count and become numb to it/the villains evil plan revolves around burning a sea monsters poop as fuel

9.The Doctor grapples with the ethical implications of the death penalty/a farting alien tries to blow up a town and then escape on a space surfboard

10.The Doctor abandons his companion for 30 years and then erases a version of her from existence against her will/a robot is killed by getting hit on the head by a replica of the mona lisa

[leakyrectum]

his figure is just so adorable like i just desperately need to give him a hug i bet he's so warm and cuddly and i bet that sweater and the kilt are so soft and cozy and hes just so cute i cant stand it