Doctor Who: spoiler-free meta-theorycraft

[cassandrasimplx]

So etcet and I just watched the entire last season of Doctor Who in a single weekend, which was deeply satisfying and made it far more comprehensible than when I originally saw the episodes roughly one per week with a two-month gap in the middle. The marathon was sparked in part by my getting caught up by a completely spoilerless "spoiler" officially

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[squidminion]

The last Doctor Who thing I saw was "The Wedding of River Song" because my supplier of episodes became unreliable. Since the show is basically only watchable in its original BBC form, I ignore everything locally available as likely too butchered to bother with.

So, since I don't have prospects of getting access anytime soon, I'll promise not to read Doctor Who posts... or at least to not bitch if I do and you spoil something.

[hcastaigne]

If you would care to have HD copies of episodes, I can make those readily available for you.

[squidminion]

The original BBC versions? That would be, in a word, brilliant!

[hcastaigne]

Excellent. Which series do you require first?

[the_axel]

While it hasn't caught up to the present, you need to read The Tardis Eruditorum.

It's a fantastic & scholarly postmodernist (done right) psychochronography of DW.

Axel
(A friend of etcet

[cassandrasimplx]

Oooh, that sounds wonderful. Thanks for the link!

There was a place that used to do lengthy, detailed, episode-by-episode analyses of the new series; I came across them in the 2005-2007 range, bookmarked it, and... yeah. Haven't seen that bookmark (or that hard drive) in years, and I have no idea what it was called; I've been looking for it or a substitute ever since. A quick scan says the Eruditorium might be just the thing.

[hcastaigne]

You are looking for the Doctor Who Reference Guide, which organizes every comic, TV episode, novel, and radio play into chronological order by Doctor.