For innocent confessions you have that pertain to DW. This isn’t supposed to mimic the Controversial Opinions thread (so comments like “I don’t like the nth Doctor” wouldn’t fit in here), but rather to, for example, confess anything unique you’ve done regarding the show (e.g. “I bought the DW underwear they produced with Tom Baker’s face on the crotch”) and other little quirks and secrets you may have pertaining to the show (e.g. “I have to watch an entire CW serial in one sitting, regardless of how many episodes it has”). More inconsequential than controversial.
I’ll start:
I never know what people are talking about when they reference seasons. I know the Sixth Doctor ones (obviously), but when people say “s17 of CW” or “s9 of New Who” that means nothing to me. I need episode titles as context.
I’ve always liked classical music, but it was the Sixth Doctor in Vervoids who got me interested in opera.
Once I started seriously writing fanfiction and crafting my own stories for the Doctor, I lost interest in the official DW novels. I wish I would’ve read all of the Six books before then, as now I’m not sure when I’ll get to around to finishing them!
Speaking of the Vervoids, they are the only monster in DW I’d consider genuinely frightening (and it’s not for any lewd reason).
I wish they would introduce a male companion who is more of the outgoing, spunky, “doesn’t take himself too seriously” type. I feel like most of the men (at least in the show) are just “there” with generic, forgettable personalities, or their characters aren’t fleshed out as much as the female ones. I think the closest they got to to this was Dan, but even he isn’t exactly what I’m after.
I think I like the Doctor more as a human living a regular human life than a time-traveling alien from another world.
My confession is that if I didn’t have the transcripts up in front of me when I make my tough quiz questions, I wouldn’t get all that many of them right either.
Katy Manning walked past me in the street once and instead of saying or doing anything I just stopped and stared at her like a deer in headlights as she walked past.
I once saw Matt Smith in an antiques store. I was so starstruck! I sort of followed him round (it was one of those places on lots of floors with lots of criss-crossing pathways) and eventually got in front of him. He clocked me looking, had a definite ‘please don’t disturb me’ face and I sort of smiled and ran away!
I would dread meeting any actor or actress from Doctor Who, I would constantly be worried about saying something dumb, and then I probably would say it anyways .
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