#doctor who the wilderness years
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90s doctor who is just writers getting giddy because they’ve been let off the reins from the bbc. acting like they’ve got the nucleur launch codes because they can make Dr Who gayer and fucked up
#good for them#doctor who#dweu#text#expanded universe#vnas#edas#vmas#my posts#classic who#wilderness years
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[image description: Top text reads, "Died 2003. Born 2024". Below on the left is an image of the Doctor, voiced by Richard E Grant, from the 2003 animated episode, Scream of the Shalka. On the right is an image from the 2024 episode Rogue, of a blurry face that looks like it could be Richard E Grant. Bottom text reads, "Welcome back Richard E Grant as the Shalka Doctor". end description]
#i swear im not crazy it looks like HIM!! IT DOES!!!!#doctor who#dw spoilers#rogue#shalka doctor#richard e grant#dw speculation#spoilers#season 14#series 14#s14#the doctor#meme#scream of the shalka#dweu#wilderness years#rtd2
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"One of the most exciting things about ROGUE is the consequences of the scene below - enough to make hardcore fans scream! #DoctorWho"
#doctor who#Doctor who spoilers#Unbound doctor#The Valeyard#scream of the shalka#Peter Cushing#rowan atkinson#The curse of fatal death#The wilderness years#Big finish#Classic doctor who#Classic who#doctor who speculation#fifteenth doctor#Doctor who rogue#Rogue#doctor who memes#Doctor who meta#certified banger
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im sorry boss i can’t come into work today my wife has returned from the war
#good morning fellow virgins how does it feel to WIN#who at the bbc do I have to snog#paul McGann#1996 tv movie#eighth doctor#8th doctor#doctor who#wilderness years
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#I was going to do more specific things but there’s too many options for that#so you get this#doctor who#dw#classic who#wilderness years#dw eu
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any thoughts on sam jones? i just started the edas and i think she's incredible but i saw someone say that she's unlikeable and i frankly can't see where they're coming from
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Do you think Sutekh had his own Wilderness Years writing increasingly oddball and insane books during the 600 years the Eighth Doctor was on Orbis, the 700 years the Eleventh Doctor was on Trenzalore, etc etc....
#doctor who#dw#dr who#new who#classic who#eighth doctor#big finish#big finish doctor who#big finish audios#dw spoilers#doctor who spoilers#spoilers#eleventh doctor#orbis#trenzalore#the time of the doctor#fifteenth doctor#sutekh#empire of death#wilderness years#sutekhs a doccy who fan and you cant convince me otherwise
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So it’s fine when you wip out Doctor Who Wild Blue Yonder (2023) at the function but when I wip out Doctor Who Scherzo (2003) at the function I get put in a psych ward??
#doctor who#classic doctor who#wilderness years of doctor who#fourteenth doctor#dr who 60th anniversary#doctor who 60th anniversary#doctor who big finish#eighth Doctor audio adventures
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getting really annoyed that the wilderness years / expanded canon of doctor who has so many contradictions but also contradicting ourselves because every discontinuity can effectively be dismissed by saying "faction paradox did it"
#doctor who#faction paradox#me complaining#wilderness years#eighth doctor adventures#virgin new adventures#big finish
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i dont really know how to go about this other than making Posts and leading by example, but i really would love to try and build a culture in dweu fandoms to Leave The Wiki Better Than You Found It. SO MANY works on tardiswiki don't have synopses, and so often i see people complaining about tardiswiki being innaccurate or unhelpful. these are problems that you have the power to solve! you can edit the wiki! as i read wilderness years books, i make a point to write a synopsis if there isn't one. if you're worried about not doing it well, a bad synopsis is better than no synopsis--it gives other editors something to edit! even if it's just a few paragraphs overviewing what happens, it makes the wiki better and makes these stories far more accessible and comprehensible to the average dr who fan. i think many people forget that fan wikis are made and edited by fans and that The Power Lies In Your Hands. the style guide/editor's manual can be found here.
#doctor who fandom#doctor who expanded universe#dweu#eighth doctor adventures#virgin new adventures#dasi's wilderness years#i say all this. i made this post to procrastinate on my unnatural history synopsis
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Apologies but the scheduled piece needs redrafting so here's my first crappy attempt at a Faction Paradox meme. The dialogue subtitles is in a non meme font because I like the idea of subtitles utilising different fonts for different people or groups, the Faction's naturally being Tempus .I.T.C..
#faction paradox#book of the war#doctor who#bbc doctor who#whoniverse#whovian#nuwho#the tragedy of darth plagueis the wise#the war in heaven#wilderness years#meme#doctor who eu#dw#dweu#DW
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As much I want Shalka Doctor to be real. I'm also excited for it to be an entirely new face played by Richard E Grant. Because then he will have played THREE entirely different incarnations of the Doctor over the course of 25 years and that would be hilarious
#shalka doctor#curse of the fatal death 10#and now this new one ajsjskdkd#maybe the valeyard as ive seen others propose 👀#dw spoilers#wilderness years#dweu#doctor who#spoilers#rogue#rtd2 era#season 14#series 14#dw speculation
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i want to try and get some people to edit the eda tardis wiki pages with me since they’re all quite empty.
if anyone wants to help or generally just wants to see what’s being edited on the eighth doctor adventures pages, then i’ve set up a discord server! this is largely to plan what needs adding/changing. anyone is welcome to join
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I'm thinking about making video essays exploring the history of Doctor Who, especially the weird lore and queer storytelling of the wilderness years.
After my post about how *60TH ANNIVERSARY SPOILERS* biregeneration ties into pre-existing lore surrounding The Watcher from the classic series got over 6,000 notes (not bad for one of my first ever posts, lol), I've realized that lots of people don't know the wacky history of Doctor Who.
For instance, this is of interest to me as a queer person: did you know that in 1997, Russell T Davies wrote an official Doctor Who novel where the Doctor's male companion gets head from another man in the back of a taxicab (and, in doing so gives the guy the cure for HIV in the process because he's from the future and he's already been cured???)? And, to top it all off, it's wrapped in a story about a drug dealer who rose from the grave and is basically giving everybody alien cocaine, so it basically rules.
The thing is, this is far from the only story like this during that era. After the original series went off the air in 1989, we went into what's informally known as "the wilderness years". During this time, there were no new episodes of Doctor Who being broadcast on TV, and so the story continued across multiple different mediums, novels, audio dramas, etc. As it also was no longer a flagship BBC title anymore, the executive oversight got extremely lax, enabling creators to start exploring themes that would normally have been rejected for being "too dark" or "too gay" for a normal BBC production. In some cases, this led to some deeply messed up edgelord fanfic being published officially, but in other cases, it led to some of the coolest and most experimental years of Doctor Who's history.
It's also the time period where we start seeing more and more queer representation, as well as several instances of
(because for real there's one audio drama where the Eighth Doctor's companion gets transformed into an insect broodmother thing and it's very, uh...the writer of that one is certainly an interesting person)
(The Creed of the Kromon if you're interested)
(don't be interested, please)
BUT all that is to say, there are so many absurdly cool moments in the show's history pre-2005 that I feel most modern fans haven't had the opportunity to explore!!! That's not in a neckbeard "uh, you're not a true fan unless..." way, that's in a "oh my god you're so lucky you get to experience this stuff for the first time!!!!" way.
Going back and looking at those things also makes the modern show have sooooo much more depth, because many of the writers and behind the scenes folks of the revival series worked on the expanded universe projects during the Wilderness Years. As a result, they pulled a lot of their ideas from their old projects into the show! For instance, Human Nature and The Family of Blood, and the whole concept of Chameleon Arches?
That entire episode is LITERALLY an adaptation of a preexisting novel from the 90's, Human Nature:
The only difference is that they changed a few details to make it fit into the continuity of the 10th Doctor's storyline.
All that is to say, there's so many cool Doctor Who things out there, and so few people going in depth with them. I think I might start producing some video essays about some of these (like Faction Paradox, my beloved <3), if anyone's interested.
#doctor who#the doctor#doctor who eu#faction paradox#eighth doctor#seventh doctor#classic who#wilderness years
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heal thyself
#listening to some eight audios and feeling the full spectrum of human emotion#Doctor who#eighth doctor#8th doctor#night of the doctor#Paul mcgann#wilderness years#classic who#minsart#my art#fanart
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ACTORS SHARED ACROSS THE WHONIVERSE ⇢ RICHARD E. GRANT as...
The Doctor in “The Curse of the Fatal Death” (1999) The Doctor in “Scream of the Shalka” (2003) Dr. Walter Simeon | The Great Intelligence in “The Snowmen (Special) / The Bells of Saint John (7.06) / The Name of the Doctor (7.13)” (Doctor Who | 2012-2013)
#doctor who#wilderness years#the curse of the fatal death#curse of the fatal death#scream of the shalka#nuwho#moffat era#eleventh doctor era#the snowmen#reg!doctor#shalka!doctor#walter simeon#the great intelligence#richard e grant#dwedit#multidoctoredit#nuwhoedit#whoniverse shared actors#gifs#mine#happy birthday king!!#i am including cotfd and sots in this series and you can't stop me
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