I finally got to marry my partner after 13 years, i'm a huge Doctor Who fan and she's a huge Star Wars fan. Plus, we both love Steven universe, hence all the crystals! My wife designed the cake and it was so amazing to see it bought to life!

The jacket and shirt was thrifted the pants shoes and sonic I already had the only thing I had to get new was the bowtie and suspenders

I know that 19 year old Kiss-o-gram Amy is with Rory, a nurse, but I don't know how long it takes to become a nurse in the UK. Does anyone know, perhaps from their tombstone, their relative ages?

Who are these people? I get Susan is the doctors granddaughter but who are the others? I feel like I have been thrown into the deep end here.

Starting with the dalek and the thaal is certainly exciting but I really feel as if I am missing some information about everything really, especially considering this is the first episode

So for context this woman in Aliens of London is an Expanded Universe character. Her name is Muriel Frost and works for UNIT she appeared in the 7th Doctor comics The Mask of Mandrogora and the controversial Evening's Empire comic and an alternative universe version in Final Genesis and then in the 7th Doctor Audio The Fires of Vulcan in the 2000s, this would her last appearance in the EU.

Five years later this Woman in Aliens of London was part of the Alien Experts at Downing Street and part of the UNIT team. Now without prior knowledge, she seems to be just background cannon fodder.

More bizarrely apparently in early drafts, The Doctor was going mention her by name. However on the in-universe UNIT website, she mentioned by name, confirming this is her.

There's a book called Classified! A Confidential 3-D Dossier which seems a Series 1 Dossier that seemly her and UNIT prepared prior to Aliens of London which is even more bizarre.

Anyway, I thought this was just a weird decision imo, why go through all this effort to a kill off a side character at that new audience won't know lol

I forgot Balthazar from Infinite Quest so they are here

I knew I recognized the voice!

I knew Kevin Stoney from his role as Tobias Vaughn in "The Invasion," but I had no idea he also plays Mavic Chen in "The Daleks' Master Plan" until just now as I'm rewatching the serial and it suddenly struck me that his voice sounded very familiar. (He has enough makeup as Mavic Chen that he's physically not recognizable.)

Looking it up, I learned he also has a role in "Revenge of the Cybermen." Definitely didn't recognize him there either given his character's appearance.

(On a tangent, I'm pretty sure Bernard Horsfall holds the record of actor with the most roles in the show, as he ends up playing 4 different characters in the classic era.)

So Larry must have known how the angels worked before the finale, right?

The easter egg is quite explicit even without Sally's half of the conversation.

Why didn't he bring up the killer, quantum locked angels at any point earlier?

I feel insane.

Well... I misread the calendar, I'm off by two days. It was October 25, not the 27th. But it's still worth mentioning the anniversary of a life-changing moment for me. According to this Doctor Who fan site, October 25, 1977 was the first time I saw DOCTOR WHO, 49 years ago on Buffalo's channel 17. I'd been reading about the show in science fiction reference books, and I had seen the two Peter Cushing "Dalek" movies. Then the local paper ran a photo of a T-Rex that caught my eye with a caption that read something like, "This creature is a Silurian from the show Doctor Who..." Which I knew was a gaff, because I knew what a T-rex was, though I had no idea what a Silurian was. I just *had to* tune in, because of the legendary status DOCTOR WHO had in those TV reference books I found at the library. I slinked into the guest room of my parents' house where the beat up old clunker TV was, and fixed the rabbit ears for the clearest picture. How did my life change? Aside from the discovery of a new fandom? The storytelling on that run of DOCTOR WHO was anarchic. "Anything goes!" was the mandate. Silurians? Reptile people? With T-Rex guard dogs? Super secret underground science labs? A global, "Andromeda Strain"-like plague unleashed? It gave me permission to tell stories, in my infantile first steps as a writer, and later as a Dungeon Master playing D&D, to let slip the dogs of my creativity. 49 years ago this week, my brain was rewired. And I'm deeply thankful for it.

After watching this story (reconstruction) at least 5 times, I have to finally admit it: I find Odysseus to be insufferably annoying. His arrogance, his loudness, his demands, his laughing at anything and everything...

I seriously wonder if Odysseus is the reason why the Doctor, 1000+ years later, couldn't stand Robin Hood's laughter either 😂

(Though, interestingly enough, I like Robin Hood and found him to be endearing. While Odysseus makes me prefer nails on a chalkboard over hearing him speak or laugh.)

Edit: This is a continuation of this post detailing beauty products I think would be used by the companions. Which is a continuation of this post detailing the Doctor’s dop kit. And this unserious post about picking the doctors pocket. Any more posts and we have a fence so ttfn

The 11th and 12th Doctors’ TARDIS exterior had this configuration in the window panels that faintly suggest eyes. Personally, I always loved this little detail. I would have loved for it to have been adopted as a permanent characteristic of the TARDIS exterior, but sadly it seems to have been ditched.

Hello! Is anyone aware of complete copies of these early books anywhere online?? [Edit: list updated.]

• Doctor Who Puzzle Fun No. 1 (1966)
• Doctor Who Puzzle Fun No. 2 (1966)
• Doctor Who: Travels in Time - Painting Book (1966) - Doctor Who Toybox has a listing for this but I can't find details anywhere else, so it's possible that it's been mixed up with the Sticker Fun Book: Travels in Time. It may also be the same as the "Dr Who Painting Book No. 2" mentioned elsewhere.

I'm aware that reproductions of some of these have been published in recent years (eg), so if anyone could put me in touch with the producers of those, that would be hugely appreciated!

(Note that, confusingly, there were both Travels in Time and Travels in Space 'Sticker Fun Books', AND a *Travels in Space '*Painting Book'.)

Thank you!

Jenna & Peter were SO complimentary about my handmade space suits!

Putting aside the drama of the Second Doctor being forced into regenerate, there’s something hilariously ironic about one of the Time Lords (Chancellor Goth?) admonishing the petulant Doctor for “wasting time.” Was that meant to be a comedic line or did the writers stumble into that irony by accident?

Obviously there’s no way for me to ask the writers themselves what they intended, but either someone does know, or else we can speculate. And as I hinted above, I was curious as to whether this unnamed Time Lord counts as Chancellor Goth, given that the actor came back to play Goth.

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-thirteenth-doctor-adventures-armageddon-dawn-3134

Yes, the scarf is quite difficult to work with. But, with a little patience, you can get it to look quite nice. The colours are beautiful, so it would certainly be a shame not to use it.

As for the rest? Gorgeous. This is their best Tom Baker yet. I am beyond thrilled with this!