#like a scream of the shalka richard e grant maybe

[ohdeargodwhy]

Loki, devastated

[bunnywand]

watched the 1996 movie yday and then the 2003 animated special “scream of the shalka” 2day, so i’m Officially done w/ classic doctor who now.. 🥺

i don’t have much 2 say abt the movie.. it was good, i liked paul mcgann as the doctor and i wish we’d got 2 see him in the show (and maybe one day i’ll get around 2 listening 2 his audio plays?? 🤔) but at the same time i’m.. glad they didn’t continue w/ a show from that 😅 it was a V american movie, it reminded me of the difference between the x-files show and the movies, which isn’t ~inherently~ a bad thing, but also i think i’d have hated 2 see an american continuation of doctor who like, it was just so tonally different?? 😳 but like i said, i did enjoy it as like, it’s own thing anyways!!

scream of the shalka tho was V interesting.. 🤯 for anyone who hasn’t heard of it (bcos even i hadn’t until a few months ago 😦) in 2003, for the 40th anniversary and 2 years b4 russell t davies bought the show back w/ christopher eccleston, they were considering bringing back doctor who as like, an animated show u’d watch online, and scream of the shalka is the first and only one they made for it!!

it had richard e grant (who came back as the great intelligence in the matt smith doctor who’s) as the 9th doctor (this whole special got ignored when the show Actually came back 😅), derek jacobi as the master (4 years l8r he played the master in the proper show!!), sophie okonedo as the companion (she l8r played liz 10 in the matt smiths ones!!) and even david tennant in a V minor role b4 he was ever famous!! 🤯

it was mostly abt some aliens invading the world, but there was also some v interesting backstory in it that i kinda wish they’d done in the actual show in some way?? where i think something bad had happened 2 one of the doctor’s previous companions so he’d sort of.. given up being the doctor and helping ppl at first (i suppose a bit like they did w/ matt smith after amy and rory died??) and the master had been bought back as a robot who lived in the tardis and was reluctantly helping the doctor?? 😨 and the doctor gets sent 2 earth during this crisis by someone ~unrevealed~ controlling the tardis (i’m guessing the time lords??) and the story was abt him like, deciding 2 help ppl again, and taking on this new companion, so it was v cool!! 🤯

again a bit like the movie, i’m glad that’s not how they actually carried on w/ the show, but it was like, an interesting lil piece of history 2 watch on it’s own!! 😭

so now that i’m finally done w/ all of classic who, i think i’m gonna start rewatching the modern series from the start next week.. 😳💕