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/r/Gallifrey's No Stupid Questions - Moronic Mondays for Pudding Brains to Ask Anything: The 'Random Questions that Don't Deserve Their Own Thread' Thread - 2017-09-04

NO STUPID QUESTIONS

Or r/Gallifrey's NSQ-MMFPBTAA:TRQTDDTOTT for short. No more suggestions of things to be added? ;)

No question is too stupid to be asked here. Example questions could include "Where can I see the Christmas Special trailer?" or "Why did we not see the POV shot of Gallifrey? Did it really come back?".

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Posted Sep 4, 2017, 11:00 AM UTC

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iloveGod12341•

I've made a few comments on YouTube about how I'm excited for the new Doctor, and I was accused of being paid by the BBC to make positive comments. That is all.

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aliaswhatshisface•

Can I be paid to make positive comments too? Pretty much all I do all day is say positive things about Doctor Who on the internet.

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Ender_Skywalker•

In-universe, would the War Doctor be known simply as the Warrior? He was said to have given up the name of Doctor.

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Bolanis•

Most of the time, the War Doctor prefers anonymity, would not tend to introduce himself properly, but he has called himself John Smith a few times though. The Time Lords still tend to call him the Doctor and everyone else tends to create nicknames and titles in order to refer to him (e.g. Greybeard, the Lord of Death).

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ProtoKun7•

Possibly he went without naming himself at all, or he used his real name, given how eager he was to keep it secret and the fact it was written in the History of the Time War.

I'd've preferred if we'd called him the Warrior or something though; for someone who abandoned the name Doctor, he sure got called the Doctor a lot.

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WikipediaKnows•

Would anybody be interested in (proof-)reading my uni paper about the TV movie? Shoot me a DM if so.

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this_old_can•

Here's the Big Finish Podcast News for the week of the 3rd of September!

#Doctor Who News

  • The winner of the Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Competition has been chosen; the winner will be announced when the story has been written and approved by the BBC, likely in the coming months.
  • An update for the upcoming Tenth Doctor Chronicles and Eleventh Doctor Chronicles sets has been announced. Nicholas Briggs will be replaced by Jake Dudman, a YouTube impressionist, as the narrator of these two sets. Also announced were members of the guest cast for the Tenth Doctor Chronicles set, Jacqueline King as Sylvia Noble, and Jon Culshaw. That set comes out in April 2018, as exclusively revealed in the Big Finish Podcast.
  • You can find examples of his impressions of David Tennant and Matt Smith on his YouTube page.

#Other Big Finish News

  • On Tuesday, the 5th of September, The Time Machine, the penultimate release in the HG Wells set of releases, will be released. Adapted for audio by Marc Platt, the release stars Ben Miles as The Time Traveller, alongside Nicholas Rowe, Anjella Mackintosh, and Nicholas Asbury, and is directed by Ken Bentley.

#Listeners' Emails

  • Asked about further Sherlock Holmes releases, Nick stated that studio time for the next set is currently being scheduled, and they hope to record this month. Nick stated that something might be out for either this Christmas or next Christmas.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the podcast, which includes such features as...

  • ...a discussion of The Last, a deep cut from the Big Finish archives, courtesy of the Randomoid Selectortron...
  • ...a funny, ribbing-heavy interview with Karen Gledhill of Counter-Measures by her old friend David Richardson...
  • ...and a further fifteen-minute drama tease of The Prisoner, Volume 02: I Met a Man Today. You can find the first two fifteen-minute segments in the previous two podcasts: 2017-08-21 (Part 1) and 2017-08-28 (Part 2).
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No311•

Why didn't they use David Tennant and Matt Smith for the Chronicles sets?

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DarkEyes8•

With Big Finish releases, the word "Adventures" generally indicates full cast audio drama (Fourth Doctor Adventures, Blake's 7 Classic Audio Adventures), whereas "Chronicles" implies two hand audiobooks (Companion Chronicles, Liberatir Chronicles).

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Ender_Skywalker•

They're full-time actors who probbly have busy schedules.

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FactionParadoxFucker•

Tones of reasons

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Director_Coulson•

So The Doctor got Stevie Wonder to sing for River for her birthday in 1814. What songs did Stevie sing at this little time travelling concert?

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jphamlore•

Overjoyed. Nike had an incredible commercial for Michael Jordan's retirement after the 1998 season using this song.

Over time, I've been building

My castle of love

Just for two, though you never

Knew you were my reason ...

And though you don't believe that they do

They do come true

For did my dreams

Come true when I looked at you ...

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martygras2002•

Signed sealed delivered

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Probatsy•

Are there any episodes in NuWho that we know for sure were written for a different Doctor but had to be changed?

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WikipediaKnows•

Most of the episodes of any Doctor's first season are first written with the previous, or a vague version of the new Doctor in mind. Neil Gaiman definitely wrote The Doctor's Wife originally for Tennant, before it went through countless rewrites. And Kill the Moon was first conceived in the Smith era.

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williamthebloody1880•

You sure about The Doctors Wife? I know it was planned for series 5 but got bumped for budget reasons (meaning Gaiman had to write Rory into the episode) but this is the first I've heard anything about Tennant

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WikipediaKnows•

Smith was cast in autumn/winter of 2008, the script was first discussed in March 2008, back when Tennant was still considering staying on. Source

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williamthebloody1880•

That doesn't actually confirm anything like it being written specifically for Tennant. It's just you reading into things. For all we know, Gaiman was asked to keep it general in case Tennant either left or stayed

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williamthebloody1880•

Not quite what you're looking for, but the writer of Closing Time has admitted he wrote the episode before Matt Smith had been cast

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SirAlexH•

You sure you don't mean The Lodger? Closing Time was series 6.

I know Gatiss wrote Victory of the Daleks for an unknown Doctor. He said it was a very Three type Doctor.

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Probatsy•

That's the kind of stuff I mean! Whether it was written for a different specific Doctor or just without a Doctor cast, same thing to me.

I find that quite interesting since I can't imagine that episode without Matt Smith being in mind, it feels very written for him. The writer probably altered it, though I guess.

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williamthebloody1880•

Either him or Moffat will have adjusted it.

It came out because people kept insisting the football scene was a reference to Smith almost becoming a professional player. The writer admitted it was written in the script before Smith was cast

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Probatsy•

Oh you're talking The Lodger, aren't you? Even still, it feels like a very 11th episode, aha.

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ProtoKun7•

Shada was rereleased as an Eighth Doctor story; filming for the original TV version began but was never completed. It was a Fourth Doctor story initially; what's been done is available though.

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mushaslater•

Are the comics that have appeared in DWM collected? Is there a collection of those that we can buy?

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zPhix•

Almost everything from DWM has been collected.

Here's a list of the graphic novels.

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mushaslater•

Thanks!

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Love_And_Happiness•

So I want to listen to Big Finish 8th in chronological order except placing stuff like his story with Mary Shelley in the story telling context.

How far in do I listen to the Monthly Range before switching to EDA? Should I catch up with the EDA/Dark Eyes/etc. storyline before listening to the new Time War in general?

If I want to resume my classic who re-watch with 2, where can I find the reconstructions?

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zPhix•

Release Order:

Chronological Order (roughly):

The Main Range and Eighth Doctor Adventures are independent of each other, with only minor references to a few Sixth Doctor stories in EDA Series 4 and Dark Eyes (though the connection is interesting). The EDAs lead into Dark Eyes, which mentions keys events from the Series 4 finale. Dark Eyes leads into Doom Coalition, which builds on established characters and relationships. The Time War sets will probably be independent of Doom Coalition.

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Love_And_Happiness•

This is perfect. I thank you so much!

I thought Shada was with fourth Doctor. But this is great. What Six Doctor stories are referenced?

I'm mainly interested in the character growth of the Doctor. Does enough of that happen in the Main Range to justify starting with those?

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zPhix•

Shada was a partially produced Fourth Doctor serial that never aired on television. The filmed material was eventually released alongside linking material with Tom Baker in the '90s. The story was later adapted into an animated serial with the Eighth Doctor in the early 2000s, which itself was edited into an audio drama. More recently, we've had a novelisation of the story with the Fourth Doctor, and there's been rumours that the story will receive a full Fourth Doctor animation for DVD release.

As for the relevant Sixth Doctor material, I've included it after the Eighth Doctor stuff in the Main Range link. You should probably avoid looking too much into the bottom of that list due to spoilers though. There's also Destroy the Infinite (Fourth Doctor) and The Seeds of War (Sixth Doctor), which are related to Dark Eyes.

All the Doctors and companions go through character growth in the Main Range. The 'seasons' are less defined than the EDAs though, with some arcs lasting trilogies and others lasting as long as a decade. The original-to-audio companions have the most development, but TV companions have had their fair share as well. Anyway, I'd recommend starting with the Main Range.

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Tobar•

What's the difference between Big Finish's Companion Chronicles and Short Trips?

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FrayedHats•

Short Trips usually run about half an hour at most. Originally, Short Trips were readings of stories that were already published in print, but in more recent years, the Short Trips are original stories by the writers at Big Finish. Short Trips are often narrated by the companions, but some have narrators who aren't linked to Doctor Who.

Companion Chronicles usually run about an hour, sometimes run two hours, and are almost always narrated by the actor who has played a companion or character before. Sometimes there's a secondary narrator, and a tiny of handful the Companion Chronicles are full-cast.

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