This is the post for discussing Season 2 and all the stories set within and around this season. How well does this season work? Do all the stories shoehorned in help, hurt or not effect how you view the TV season?
Looking at the timeline on Tardis Wiki (Theory:Timeline - First Doctor - Tardis Wiki), I count ten short stories, twenty-one comics, eleven audio stories, five novels, and a webcast. There’s actually a lot of stuff set between Seasons 1 & 2 too, but I’m thinking of counting that as a separate “expanded season”. What are your thoughts on the expanded media in this season?
Note: I’m counting Season 2 as starting with Planet of Giants and ending with The Time Meddler and only counting the stuff set in between. Everything set between Season 1 and Season 2 I count as a separate season.
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This is one of the areas that will benefit from playlists on this site, I’ll be able to start to wrap my head around chronological story orders…!
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Unfortunately, not every timeline agrees on a chronilogical placement. I use the Tardis Wiki timeline and Kearley’s eyespider timeline. There are often times they don’t agree and I tend to side with the wiki because it has more explanitory than eyespider.
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Makes sense, a certain amount of chronology is going to be completely arbitrary, which I suppose is part of the fun. (Sorry for derailing your thread…!)
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Don’t worry, you haven’t. 
This is here for anyone to comment on.
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Season 2 is one that I would think it’s Expansion wouldn’t do much for me, but looking at the Stories we have there, gosh.. this one is actually pretty damn good!
Home Again, Home Again is brilliant! I adore it! The Narration is superb! What does it for Ian, Barbara and 1 is great Character material! Susan sadly doesn’t get much here, but still such a good little Story!
Venusian Lullaby is such a good Book! My favorite of the VMAs so far!
The Revenants is pretty solid! I especially enjoyed Russels Narration!
There are of course also the Show TV Projector Comics, one of the best is “Dr.Who meets the Watermen”, a brilliant, thought-provoking and a clever Story with Humor & Heart! The Comics are sadly very much in the vein of the worst TV Comics and the Battle in Times Comics, very dull and not very worth reading.
In general, exploring this Short Period with Ian and Barbara alone is lovely! Glad we got a few Stories set around it!
I sadly didn’t do that many Stories which are set in the Meat of this season. A few that I did here: 1963 is a lovely, that I wish had a bit more minutes to fully be expanded on! ‘All I want for Christmas’ is quite a nice surprise, I must say, I really enjoyed that one! And Journey out of Terror is pretty solid!
Overall, I need to get around to more of its Stories, the ones I did so far, I enjoyed for the most Part, so I very much look forward to doing so!
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