Celebrity Historicals

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Part of the issue is I think I originally thought that a “Celebrity Historical” should be an episode like Vincent and the Doctor or The Shakespear Code where the whole episode is about that person.

Now it’s tagged on things where the celebrity is just present - not really what I originally intended, but fun too.

I’m just making this up as I go along :joy:

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Yeah, how much involvement is a question, since I was just thinking about Silver Nemesis, where Ace sees but doesn’t manage to meet Queen Victoria II…

(And yes, meant Timelash, but had Mindwarp in the back of my mind…)

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I think that’s pushing it a bit. I think the Doctor or companion should at least interact with them, that’s got to be the minimum here.

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Whats funny now that I think about it, is that Water of Mars is playing off the tropes of a celebrity historical, though tossing them to fictional near future celebrities so it can have its cake and eat it too for the whole breaking a fixed point thing

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Yeah. Timelash is a definite, though. HG was there all through it.

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Would the Queen Vic Torchwood stories class as Celeb Historicals?

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I suppose they probably should…

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Is automatic bumping back now?

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I never noticed it was away?

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It used to bump things fairly often during Spring and early summer last year. Then it stopped.

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I set it to never bump anything twice in 365 days.

Guess what? That was 365 days ago :exploding_head:

Some things may be bumped :blush:

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So! Celebrity historicals! Yay!

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I’m neutral about celebrity historicals (I love some of them, indifferent to others, and there are others that I haven’t seen for 5+ years so I can’t accurately judge them), but I find it a bit off that most of them are the Doctor meeting that person for the first time. Maybe the Doctor is just a procrastinating fanboy like me. /j

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What can get a little irritating there is when the Doctor is meeting celebrities for the first time that they’ve met before…

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…and neither party recalls the earlier meeting. I know!

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Also the trouble with celebrity historicals is the writers can’t help but make it out like the Doctor was responsible for the celebrity’s accomplishments, that happens so much.

At this point all of human evolution is thanks to the Doctor, no wonder he’s so invested in Earth :grin:

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The best celebrity historical is The Kingmaker mostly because it takes the piss :sweat_smile:

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This pisses me off so much :weary_face: The first time I watched something like this it’s great fun, but the whole thing gets old so quickly…

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Genuinely shocked we’ve not had the “and his name was Albert Einstein” meme made real with the reveal that The Doctor essentially was Einstein …

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