Forged in Fire - A The Day of the Doctor Thread

Totally forgot about this :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks for posting the link :grin:

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Me too! I played it a lot back in the day! I used to love these small Easter eggs Google came up with.

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I don’t think I ever played that!!

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OH MY GOD! THE CYBERMEN!!! :joy:

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The cyberman design is just so stupid and I love it!

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The bloody Weeping Angel, though!

I’ve won!

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Love how they just went ā€˜nope’ for Colin’s coat.

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all the doctors dancing at the end is the best thing ever

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Wasn’t tomorrow but today instead (let’s just say it was ā€˜cause of timey wimey or something). And… i don’t even think it was necessarily that good, but it was just so much fun. Every single silly little moment was the most exciting piece of television ever made. Ignore what I said btw recency bias has taken over.

Though gotta say, I had expected a bit more War Doctor. Everyone always seemed to talk about him like he was very important and belonged among all the other incarnations (and listening to some Big Finish, i agreed with that) but in the show itself he’s like, barely there. Bro was made to have a secondary role in this single episode. But the little we see of him is peak so like i said who cares 10/10

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When Day of the Doctor first came out I was in kindergarten, and i remember being so excited that both the 10th and the 11th doctor were on screen together. However during 2020-2022 I fell out of love with the episode, I thought it was too silly and didn’t make much sense. Over the past year I realised I was the silly one, and that all the things i didn’t like about the episode were actually what made it great, I stopped looking at it as a regular episode of Doctor Who and saw it for the fun self indulgent celebration it is, and now once again it is 100% in my top episodes of all time list.

sorry if my ramblings make no sense :sweat_smile:

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Sentences that make me feel old #346…

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You are so very right, of course. I love this little minisode too. I’m also so thrilled with the Season 15 Collection trailer and how it all ties together.

The Last Day is wonderful and typically has fun with perception. We were so fortunate.

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yeah this place me feels so young sometimes cause ya’ll are all my parents age

(I mean i am young but thats not the point)

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Are you trying to make it worse! :dizzy_face:

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Yeah even I feel old on that one

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I’m not as high on Day of the Doctor as a lot of people are. I definitely really enjoy it and had a great time with it when it released, it’s just never been an absolute favorite for me. Still get very excited for it when I get to it on a rewatch though. By far the best part is John Hurt as the War Doctor. We were so incredibly lucky to get him in the role, and anyone who hasn’t listened to his Big Finish sets should really consider checking them out, as they’re some of my favorites and have elevated him to being above a decent number of mainline Doctors in my rankings.

And Night of the Doctor is just incredible. It’s a 5/5 and one of my top 20 stories, maybe top 10 depending how I’m feeling

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To this day, seeing The Day of the Doctor in theaters, in 3D, with the at the time record setting for most countries simulcast, is the best day I’ve had as a Doctor Who fan. Actually getting the Time War on screen, while a disappointment to some, I have always thought is really cool. We’re just seeing one battle, late in the war, they even say just about all of the big weapons that we can’t even imagine had been used. War, 10, and 11 together were electric, on par with 2 and 3. The whole thing at the end with all of the Doctors coming together to save Gallifrey was huge, even if it was archive footage, but in context it made more sense to see each Doctor in their prime, as if they went to Gallifrey in the middle of their run. And if that wasn’t big enough already, we get Capaldi’s face and a huge cheer from the audience, the biggest moment of the episode for a whole 5 minutes. The collective gasp at ā€œYou know I really think you might,ā€ followed by muffled ā€œwas that…?ā€ and eruption from the crowd when Tom Baker was on our screens again. Maybe it’s just the nostalgia, or the experience on that day, but The Day of the Doctor is I think still one of the finest things this show has ever put out.

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I’m getting a copy of the Day of the Doctor novelisation soon, and I was just wondering, the first time you read the book, what chapter order shoukd you read it in? The way it’s written, or the way it’s numbered?

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I read the way it’s written and I think that’s probably best for a first read

I’m not sure the interludes would quite work going by number order, at least not as well, and they definitely add to the experience

Plus way it’s written is the way the episode is structured so it works well with that too

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The way it’s numbered worked for the first half od the novel and we kind of followed the war doctor’s perspective. Then the continuity falls apart. Better to do it on re-read

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