I always thought Spring-heeled Jack carried scope for an excellent Doctor Who story. I'd also like to see something akin to the purely historical stories from the early days, as in an episode without any sci-fi elements (barring the arrival of The Doctor and his companion/s in the TARDIS). There are many things from history they could play on to make an interesting story, without throwing aliens into the mix for once.
Series 10 - What do you want?
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I'd quite like to see a pure Dalek finale two-parter. We've not had one since Series 4 and although overall I'd say in New Who the ratio of good to bad Dalek two-parters is about fifty-fifty, Moff's last Dalek two-parter was tremendous and I'd really like to see them there for one huge showdown, hopefully with the Time Lords as well.
I also don't think they need to go too hard at Gallifrey just yet. Have it lurking in the background a bit, as they did with Classic Who.
To echo what others have said, a couple of good returning monsters and side-characters but lots of new monsters and new characters, two or three two-parters, not one or four, and a good mix of writers. One or two new writers, but keep some of the favourites like Mathieson, Harkness deserves another chance and Sarah Dollard did a decent job with Face the Raven. I personally couldn't care less either way about Whithouse and definitely don't want Gatiss to write a Sleep No More sequel but it seems that car crash is going to be forced on us whether we like it or not.
I also don't think they need to go too hard at Gallifrey just yet. Have it lurking in the background a bit, as they did with Classic Who.
To echo what others have said, a couple of good returning monsters and side-characters but lots of new monsters and new characters, two or three two-parters, not one or four, and a good mix of writers. One or two new writers, but keep some of the favourites like Mathieson, Harkness deserves another chance and Sarah Dollard did a decent job with Face the Raven. I personally couldn't care less either way about Whithouse and definitely don't want Gatiss to write a Sleep No More sequel but it seems that car crash is going to be forced on us whether we like it or not.
What would I like to see?
No "Doctor will be dead by the end of the series
Or should that be, he's going to die but oh wait, no he won't because the series isn't ending so of course he isn't.
Killing off the companion
I mean, actually killing a companion off. Clara is the prime example of how Doctor Who always backs off doing this...she dies but then, oh wait, she's still alive in some way anyway. I mean, it's so stupid and pointless and wasted the end of the series and even, to me at least, rendered that whole episode where she 'died' pointless now and without any tension it would have had otherwise.
Historical events
Especially ones we wouldn't expect. I know it won't happen but like meeting with someone from American history, not just British history. Meeting Martin Luther King Jr or even meeting Columbus or Lincoln. Like I said, that wouldn't happen. Failing that, if it has to be from British history (I know they haven't done just British, Van Gogh for example) just someone we wouldn't expect. How about meeting The Beatles? Or someone from the past we have had no connection with at all.
NO series long story-arc
Only because it's Moffets final series, I just want one two-parter that would come at the end of the series and an episode at the end that would spell the end in terrific finale which WOULD feature Jack Harkness, River Song and the Paternoster Gang.
Just for my own curiousness
An episode based around the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe play on the mythos behind it, make an Alien thing, or some sort of rift in time where people disappear into the past or something? An episode dating back to the supposed Roswell incident, make it where the Doctor has to save whoever/whatever crashed landed there
No "Doctor will be dead by the end of the series
Or should that be, he's going to die but oh wait, no he won't because the series isn't ending so of course he isn't.
Killing off the companion
I mean, actually killing a companion off. Clara is the prime example of how Doctor Who always backs off doing this...she dies but then, oh wait, she's still alive in some way anyway. I mean, it's so stupid and pointless and wasted the end of the series and even, to me at least, rendered that whole episode where she 'died' pointless now and without any tension it would have had otherwise.
Historical events
Especially ones we wouldn't expect. I know it won't happen but like meeting with someone from American history, not just British history. Meeting Martin Luther King Jr or even meeting Columbus or Lincoln. Like I said, that wouldn't happen. Failing that, if it has to be from British history (I know they haven't done just British, Van Gogh for example) just someone we wouldn't expect. How about meeting The Beatles? Or someone from the past we have had no connection with at all.
NO series long story-arc
Only because it's Moffets final series, I just want one two-parter that would come at the end of the series and an episode at the end that would spell the end in terrific finale which WOULD feature Jack Harkness, River Song and the Paternoster Gang.
Just for my own curiousness
An episode based around the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe play on the mythos behind it, make an Alien thing, or some sort of rift in time where people disappear into the past or something? An episode dating back to the supposed Roswell incident, make it where the Doctor has to save whoever/whatever crashed landed there
Originally Posted by lylonic_x:
“Just for my own curiousness
An episode based around the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe play on the mythos behind it, make an Alien thing, or some sort of rift in time where people disappear into the past or something? An episode dating back to the supposed Roswell incident, make it where the Doctor has to save whoever/whatever crashed landed there”
“Just for my own curiousness
An episode based around the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe play on the mythos behind it, make an Alien thing, or some sort of rift in time where people disappear into the past or something? An episode dating back to the supposed Roswell incident, make it where the Doctor has to save whoever/whatever crashed landed there”
I love the idea of a time-bled story where lots of elements from different eras are kind of just dumped in this 'nowhere' kind of space. You'd have pirate ships, Spanish warships, spaceships from the future, downed planes, lost tourists and so on (probably beyond the scope of Doctor Who's budget considering it's all at sea as well). I'd love for them to work in Christopher Columbus and the mystery of Flight 19. There's so much scope for a great two-parter there though again I think money stands in the way of it.
I'm watching it from the beginning with our 13 year old and we've just reached The Empty Child. Oh it was SO good back then! And Captain Jack was SO dashing in his first story.
Originally Posted by Abomination:
“I love the idea of a time-bled story where lots of elements from different eras are kind of just dumped in this 'nowhere' kind of space. You'd have pirate ships, Spanish warships, spaceships from the future, downed planes, lost tourists and so on (probably beyond the scope of Doctor Who's budget considering it's all at sea as well). I'd love for them to work in Christopher Columbus and the mystery of Flight 19. There's so much scope for a great two-parter there though again I think money stands in the way of it.”
“I love the idea of a time-bled story where lots of elements from different eras are kind of just dumped in this 'nowhere' kind of space. You'd have pirate ships, Spanish warships, spaceships from the future, downed planes, lost tourists and so on (probably beyond the scope of Doctor Who's budget considering it's all at sea as well). I'd love for them to work in Christopher Columbus and the mystery of Flight 19. There's so much scope for a great two-parter there though again I think money stands in the way of it.”
I really like this idea, it kind of reminds me of the Peter Davison story Enlightenment (which is a good thing) although a bit more bizarre. I can picture something like Napoleon's forces and warriors of Feudal China attempting to conquer remnants of an Ottoman Empire fleet, who have re-established their own "space empire" based in the enlarged ruins of the Flight 19 bombers, while Celtic tribes hunt down any stray wanderers and others whose minds have deteriorated have tried to recreate an Earth-like civilisation and live like they're home again.
Keeping in mind what we know (that Moffat will obviously be writing, that we seem to have a near-contemporary companion, that Gatiss is likely going to write another episode, that Mathieson has said he has an idea for another episode, that the structure of the series will differ once again), and tallying it up against what I would want, I wouldn't mind a series that shaped up like this...
1 - Standalone, by Steven Moffat
2 - Standalone, by Jamie Mathieson
3 - Standalone, by Sarah Dollard
4 - One of Three, by *new writer*
5 - Two of Three, by Jane Goldman
6 - Three of Three, by *new writer* & J Goldman
7 - Standalone, by Mark Gatiss
8 - Standalone, by Toby Whithouse
9 - Standalone, by Catherine Tregenna
10 - One of Three, by Steven Moffat
11 - Two of Three, by Steven Moffat
12 - Three of Three, by Steven Moffat
It caters to the 'new format' again as we've not seen three parters outside a finale before. The first three-parter could hypothetically be two standalone episodes that then converge into a single story come the third episode...if the writers had a decent idea for it. Moffat could have command of the home stretch given its his final year too, and the perfectionist in me counts eight writers there (Moffat's series have all alternated between seven and eight each year so far) - with one new one thrown in and a few who are relatively new still.
The Bermuda Triangle ideas which I love would cater to a three parter like that brilliantly. I also think some more standalones is crucial... Series 7 went too far with standalones, Series 9 didn't go quite far enough. Series 8 nearly got it right but its stories just weren't strong enough without a big two-part event in the middle or something. It's all about balance.
1 - Standalone, by Steven Moffat
2 - Standalone, by Jamie Mathieson
3 - Standalone, by Sarah Dollard
4 - One of Three, by *new writer*
5 - Two of Three, by Jane Goldman
6 - Three of Three, by *new writer* & J Goldman
7 - Standalone, by Mark Gatiss
8 - Standalone, by Toby Whithouse
9 - Standalone, by Catherine Tregenna
10 - One of Three, by Steven Moffat
11 - Two of Three, by Steven Moffat
12 - Three of Three, by Steven Moffat
It caters to the 'new format' again as we've not seen three parters outside a finale before. The first three-parter could hypothetically be two standalone episodes that then converge into a single story come the third episode...if the writers had a decent idea for it. Moffat could have command of the home stretch given its his final year too, and the perfectionist in me counts eight writers there (Moffat's series have all alternated between seven and eight each year so far) - with one new one thrown in and a few who are relatively new still.
The Bermuda Triangle ideas which I love would cater to a three parter like that brilliantly. I also think some more standalones is crucial... Series 7 went too far with standalones, Series 9 didn't go quite far enough. Series 8 nearly got it right but its stories just weren't strong enough without a big two-part event in the middle or something. It's all about balance.
No Two Parters just for the sake of wanting Two Parters. Last Series I felt like stories were just prolonged for a second part but I guess the fans asked for it begging for more two parters, but theres a difference between needing it and wanting it, which I felt Moffat did really well in Series 5 and Russell throughout his run as you got that tension, like for example in The Impossible Planet's cliffhanger. I also liked The Angel two parter in Series 5.
Also can we have more a fun travelling vibe for future series'. And more stuff going on I'm not a fan of just Monologues throughout an episode Some people like it some people don't but I'm the latter rather than the former. I am interested in The Doctor's "Psyche" but execute it in an interesting way if you have to do it, maybe? Just my opinion.
This is just me but I enjoy those filler-ish episodes we used to get like: Love and Monsters, Boom Town (Even though the ending was the basis of how the TARDIS Crew got transported to The Game Station), The Downing Street two parter, Monsters in Venice, The Lodger.
Those are just refreshing sometimes on a Saturday Evening. And gets me pumped even more for the next episode.
I'd also prefer maybe an extra TARDIS member like Captain Jack in Series 1, whom has no connection to the companion.
Also when a character dies, can they just die none of this "Well there dead but not technically dead" it makes death mean much more when it isn't cheated.
As abomination said about that Postcard feeling I'd like that too when Donna when into the TARDIS in Series 4 They wouldn't pop back to earth everyday and Donna got into situations when she almost died and when she called her parents and her parents didn't hear from her in months it felt so real, the danger, I actually felt we were travelling abroad. The only time they came back to earth is if they needed to like how Martha summoned The Doctor back to earth because there was trouble and The whole Bad Wolf Scenario after Turn Left.
It would be nice if we got that same emotion that Donna did, she wasn't just loud mouthed she had her genuine moments. It broke my heart when she was walking down the street to visit her parents and when The Doctor left her alone and gave her Dad a call. Also when Donna thought about all those times she wouldn't have come home.
But FINALLY, I'd actually prefer if there were little to none returning characters, especially for the 2018 Series as it should be creating its own memorable characters not constantly clinging on to relic and nostalgia of the past. Like in 2010 it felt like a mini reboot it felt like its own universe which was amazing and 2005 was amazing too. But yeah I'd prefer if Chibnall made his own mark,
Also can we have more a fun travelling vibe for future series'. And more stuff going on I'm not a fan of just Monologues throughout an episode Some people like it some people don't but I'm the latter rather than the former. I am interested in The Doctor's "Psyche" but execute it in an interesting way if you have to do it, maybe? Just my opinion.
This is just me but I enjoy those filler-ish episodes we used to get like: Love and Monsters, Boom Town (Even though the ending was the basis of how the TARDIS Crew got transported to The Game Station), The Downing Street two parter, Monsters in Venice, The Lodger.
Those are just refreshing sometimes on a Saturday Evening. And gets me pumped even more for the next episode.
I'd also prefer maybe an extra TARDIS member like Captain Jack in Series 1, whom has no connection to the companion.
Also when a character dies, can they just die none of this "Well there dead but not technically dead" it makes death mean much more when it isn't cheated.
As abomination said about that Postcard feeling I'd like that too when Donna when into the TARDIS in Series 4 They wouldn't pop back to earth everyday and Donna got into situations when she almost died and when she called her parents and her parents didn't hear from her in months it felt so real, the danger, I actually felt we were travelling abroad. The only time they came back to earth is if they needed to like how Martha summoned The Doctor back to earth because there was trouble and The whole Bad Wolf Scenario after Turn Left.
It would be nice if we got that same emotion that Donna did, she wasn't just loud mouthed she had her genuine moments. It broke my heart when she was walking down the street to visit her parents and when The Doctor left her alone and gave her Dad a call. Also when Donna thought about all those times she wouldn't have come home.
But FINALLY, I'd actually prefer if there were little to none returning characters, especially for the 2018 Series as it should be creating its own memorable characters not constantly clinging on to relic and nostalgia of the past. Like in 2010 it felt like a mini reboot it felt like its own universe which was amazing and 2005 was amazing too. But yeah I'd prefer if Chibnall made his own mark,
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