I finally got the first season of the new series..

[Gingerbread Demon]

Finally got a copy of Doctor Who series one.

Not fond of the word Whoniverse. it sounds like something someone in marketing made up. It's stupid

Watched the Christmas special and first episode and I like the new Doctor it's just the rest of it I'm not sure about

 

[Tuskin38]

Not fond of the word Whoniverse. it sounds like something someone in marketing made up. It's stupid

Some fans have been using it for decades.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Some fans have been using it for decades.

That may be so, does not change my opinion

 

[Tuskin38]

That may be so, does not change my opinion

Fans aren't very creative when it comes to naming their fictional universes.

 

[bdub76]

I recommend Rogue and Boom.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Fans aren't very creative when it comes to naming their fictional universes.

Is anyone? You got your slap the name if front of "verse" approach and then the Acronymize approach. Or the science approach: Universe ####

 

[Qonundrum]

Finally got a copy of Doctor Who series one.

Not fond of the word Whoniverse. it sounds like something someone in marketing made up. It's stupid

Watched the Christmas special and first episode and I like the new Doctor it's just the rest of it I'm not sure about

It's like "Whovians", another corny term that had split fandom back when JNT was too busy trying not to split fandom over the usual Davison-vs-CBaker-vs-McCoy gripefests.

But, that aside, both do roll off the tongue fairly easy and feel more natural than contrived and don't come across as demeaning as "Trekkies". Almost, but most fans didn't adopt "Whoies" for a plethora of reasons, the least of which being the suffix "ies".

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It's like "Whovians", another corny term that had split fandom back when JNT was too busy trying not to split fandom over the usual Davison-vs-CBaker-vs-McCoy gripefests.

But, that aside, both do roll off the tongue fairly easy and feel more natural than contrived and don't come across as demeaning as "Trekkies". Almost, but most fans didn't adopt "Whoies" for a plethora of reasons, the least of which being the suffix "ies".

It's taken a while but it has grown on me now a bit. I like Ncuti a lot as The Doctor and Ruby is great and i really like her a lot.

I still wonder how they are going to resolve the situation with two doctors running around though.

 

[Sketcher]

Do we know/speculate 14 is still capable of regenerating? Or was the bigeneration all he could do, and now is rendered effectively mortal? If he can't then it seems the 15th Doctor is basically like how in in Buffy, after she died, the continued line of slayers passed on to Kendra and then through Faith.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Do we know/speculate 14 is still capable of regenerating? Or was the bigeneration all he could do, and now is rendered effectively mortal? If he can't then it seems the 15th Doctor is basically like how in in Buffy, after she died, the continued line of slayers passed on to Kendra and then through Faith.

I think so, unless they pull something like the Watcher storyline where 14 somehow reunites with 15 or another Doctor down the line.

 

[matthunter]

I read a fanfic on Teaspoon & An Open Mind where 14 didn't come back to life like everyone else did when 15 reversed Sutekh's destruction, and that would make a lot of sense (perhaps he and his copy of the TARDIS giving their essence to keep 15 and his TARDIS stable enough to pull it all off).

 

[JD]

I can't imagine them getting rid of 14 with at least one more appearance by David Tennant &/or Catherine Tate.

 

[Starkers]

Controversial opinion, but I think in many ways the concept of the bigeneration annoys me more than the Timeless Child does!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Controversial opinion, but I think in many ways the concept of the bigeneration annoys me more than the Timeless Child does!

Can I ask why?

 

[Steve Roby]

The Timeless Child can be ignored in 99.99% of Doctor Who stories. But there's a retired Doctor living in 21st century London now. Doing nothing. Any story in the present that requires 15 or a later Doctor to save the day is going to have at least some viewers thinking, is 14 really just hanging out with Donna in Blackpool or Brighton for the weekend while the Warriors of the Profanation of the Tantalized Rhombus are attacking the fancy UNIT tower in London?

 

[Starkers]

Can I ask why?

Steve has answered better than I could have. The Timeless Child isn't remotely as radical as people think whereas the bi-generation is almost too radical!

 

[matthunter]

Totally radical!!

Dudes.

 

[matthunter]

A retired Doctor is only radical if we ignore all the times the Doctor tried to go fishing, or visit the Eye of Orion, or fucked around in ancient Rome. Or became the Curator.

It's like complaining that Superman takes time off to have lunch with Lois. Somewhere (or WHEN, for the Doctor) there is ALWAYS a crisis.

 

[Steve Roby]

"Tried" to go fishing. Because when there's a crisis the Doctor gives up on plans and deals with it.

Not to mention that late 20th and early 21st century Earth is wildly overrepresented in Earth's history of alien invasions and other crises. The Doctor wants to retire? There are plenty of times and places the Doctor can kick back and relax. London in the 2020s isn't really one of them.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I had zero problems with the Timeless Child . I thought it was a radical and very refreshing turn they did with that story. Now the other loose ends like the Fugitive Doctor.. Still not resolved on TV but probably in other media which I don't count.