Episode Discussion: The Reality War

That sounds a lot like cope my friend

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I do agree, the sentiment is quite nice but my biggest problem is that RTD’s already done this

The End of Time, remember, when the Doctor gives his life just to save Wilf.

Hell, even Moffat did something similar with Eleven spending centuries defending one small town.

Here, it’s done in such a contrived and morally confused way that I just can’t get behind it, whatever the intentions

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I would totally be down for next season to be nothing but fake realities, especially if we kept thinking they were over, then things got really weird and it was another one. Like the Doctor regenerates back into Colin Baker for an episode, or, say, the Jonathan Pryce Master shows up…

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Perhaps to a degree, but I’m actually cool with the idea of Billie as Sixteen. The thing I’m not completely sold on is the idea that everything we were shown was exactly what really happened. If it turns out that it all went down precisely the way that 70 minutes presented it, then okay, on to the next thing.

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Jodie as 17 and 18 and 19

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Bradley Walsh actually gets to be the Doctor for an episode…

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100% this! Things have gotten so messy that we’ve gone meta - is The Doctor aware of their fictional nature? Are we? Where is the line? Is there a line? In the end, what constitutes ā€˜reality’?

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Yaz and 13 actually have a proper relationship as hinted at in the episode

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Reality is the friends we made along the way

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Wait hold on what if it’s the Doctor and TARDIS fusing together?

The Bad Wolf Doctor

The TARDIS Doctor

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My mind just makes that the bad Wolf Doctor, rather then the ā€œBad Wolfā€ Doctor, making me think of, like, a werewolf Valeyard or something…

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Okay but now I want to see the Doctor turn into a feral werewolf

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I really hope there is an actually explanation! This theory is certainly intriguing

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It would be an actual interesting way to take it. Let the TARDIS have a go once. It’s something interesting!

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I howled!

I thought of this too, but I’m fairly sure she was only pulled in after that decision was made. I think the scene in the TARDIS is where the reshoot started, and the exact leak was something to the effect of ā€œ13 appears to help 15 cope with his regeneration.ā€

I genuinely thought for a while that this was going to happen.

15 explicitly says to 13 ā€œthere’s no chance of a bigeneration,ā€ so I guess that was RTD’s attempt to get out of that corner he’d painted himself into.

She’s definitely wearing at least a bit of lippy in both; it might just be a lighter/more natural shade in the second. I think she’s wearing mascara and/or eyeliner in the first, and maybe not in the second.

Then it turns out to just be his nickname on The Chase (the game show, not the DW serial).

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I can’t believe I didn’t make this joke earlier…

Fans: Why do you keep making bad decisions?
Production team:

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Something I just clocked - this is our third ever onscreen female doctor. That’s a net positive regardless of what you think about it being Piper

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I was thinking ā€œwe got three Doctors in one episode and two of them were blonde women.ā€

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And one of them had just been really good on the screen, so I was hoping it’d be more of them…

Edit: Them, in this case, referring to the two blonde women.

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Absolutely agreed

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