![]() Revisiting the episode almost two years and many, many debates later, though, it was surprisingly easy to set that detail aside and comment on, well, all the other brilliant things going on. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Hell Bent on broadcast – it had a very tough act to follow in Heaven Sent, and after the drama of the previous two episodes, it was jarring for Clara to be, for all practical purposes, alive and well after all. The episode you complain about isn’t THAT bad The more thermally-challenged Planet of the Ood and Thin Ice also featured that week, whilst The Snowmen has remained on the list for so long that it might actually be relevant again by the time I get round to watching it. The joke’s on them, because when I eventually did watch it, it became one of my highlights of the liveblogging quest. In that poll, Dalek won a narrow victory over… er… 42. The first time I asked members of TARDIShitposting to suggest an episode to liveblog, it was very explicitly framed with “please distract me from the heatwave”. The poll respondents enjoy winding me up – with great results ![]() Thirteen years on, is it really that difficult to fix? Earlier series seem to suffer particularly badly from this – The End of the World’s subtitles leave out the 4000-degree external temperature that almost hits Rose, before mis-transcribing the words which begin the main arc of the series: “Indubitably, this is the Bad-Boo scenario” is what appears on the screen. BBC iPlayer’s subtitles, which I left on to make quick screencap based shitposting easier, report this as “HE SIGHS EXASPERATEDLY”, which is not what happens.Īs someone who doesn’t need subtitles to understand the programme, I was more than a little alarmed by how much gets shortened or, worse, omitted entirely. In Sleep No More, trapped mid-chase by a computer who insists he sings to it, Deep-Ando is clearly heard saying “Oh ffff-!”. It might seem like only yesterday that Rose first reached our screens, but it turns out that it’s been over a decade since I first saw Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks on broadcast –- no wonder I barely remembered it! It’s even been five years since Clara’s first series (including Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, which I hadn’t seen since broadcast until it won a poll), which makes me feel like I must have been on my own trip into the time vortex. We all have our favourites, which we tend to revisit time and time again (and sure enough, The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances and Heaven Sent have already been covered), but it’s great to have that little push to try something different. That original broadcast was longer ago than you think On second viewing, I appreciated all of these stories that little bit more. Other times, I only have myself to blame for the half-remembered first viewing – attempting to watch The Time of the Doctor at 2am when the Christmas festivities were over, or judging Clara Oswald’s proper debut in The Bells of Saint John by her terrible crime of not being Rory Amy Pond. Unfortunately, the same applied to Sleep No More fourteen months later, broadcast in the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks that claimed dozens of lives in the city. In hindsight, I really didn’t give my full attention to Listen the first time round, with it airing on a particularly difficult night at the very start of my year studying in Paris. Sometimes, we scramble to watch Doctor Who on or near broadcast even when the circumstances are… less than optimal. As it turns out, there’s a lot to be learned from diving back into old-New Who almost at random, and even more so from putting your viewing choices into the hands of others… If other discussion of a particular episode piques my interest, that gets thrown into the mix as well. The winning episode gets liveblogged, the rest stay on the list for next time and eventually get their turn. Ideally, this is done via open poll in the Facebook group. The result: me, hiding away in my room, giving a running commentary of yet another episode to the population of Facebook group Time and Relative Dimensions in Shitposting (highlighted elsewhere in this issue by William Shaw).Įventually, to get around my own indecisiveness, I started letting them choose the episodes too. Also this summer, there was a prolonged heatwave which, suffice to say, my brain translates roughly as “the end is nigh”. This summer, every single Doctor Who episode since the programme’s revival in 2005 was made available to watch on BBC iPlayer. First published in the print edition of The Tides of Time number 42, November 2018. Georgia Harper has been revisiting twenty-first century Doctor Who for the benefit of a discerning audience.
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