I love the current TARDIS interior for being a modern, big-budget take on the classic interior. However, I do think it needs more stuff, splashes of colour, chairs, a hatstand, a food dispenser, something!
Eight’s interior is one I’ve never felt strongly about. Probably because it has only appeared once. And I’ve never pictured it when listening to his BF stories. For some reason, I’ve always pictured something closer to Twelve’s TARDIS interior.
I also like the professor-like feel of Twelve’s TARDIS. Fits his incarnation well.
I’m a firm believer that the Doctor should have a messy TARDIS because do you really think that guy’s gonna go around cleaning his pocket dimension or is he just going to dump priceless souvenirs around the front room? For that precise reason, I love Eight’s TARDIS, because the bombastic, cluttered tapestry of mementos and relics truly reflect the character for me.
It’s also why I agree that we are in desperate need for some props in 15’s TARDIS, that thing is way too sterile for that man.
I just happen to think 11’s version was beautiful. I was also lucky enough to go on set for it in the days when they did TARDIS tours attached to visiting the Doctor Who experience. My mum also came with us and I know she enjoyed seeing it for real.
I think it was mostly the cold green lighting and how it was almost all sheet metal looking that I didn’t care for. But I did like the return of the proper hexagonal console, and the rotating bits up top were cool. The Capaldi years making it so much warmer I thought was a huge improvement.
I just think it looks cluttered - and not in a good way. The 11 version reminded me of the classic era and 12’s more of 11’s first TARDIS interior which I’d never been a huge fan of.
Actually maybe cluttered is the wrong word. It felt more claustrophobic and looking at pictures that’s certainly what I’m feeling. Horses for courses and all that.
I use phrases like this all the time at work and my younger colleagues always look at me like I’m speaking a foreign language.
My all time favourite though is ‘enough blue to make a sailor a pair of trousers’ which relates to whether the sky looks like it’s going to get sunnier or rainier.
The thing with 15’s tardis is, the colorful lights are really cool, but they aren’t used nearly enough. It’s hard to imagine this doctor specifically leaving them just plain white. Rogue and The Devil’s Chord (and the ending of The Giggle, and bits of Space Babies) use the lights to do ambient colors and patterns, like a desktop background. From his characterizarion so far, it feels like 15 would do this all the time, regularly changing them up like he does with his clothes, with a different pattern or 2 per episode. The thing is, the rest of the time it’s just plain white. Even Space Babies implies that the white is the default that he leaves it on most of the time.
It has potential, but the plain white look is the worst one, and it seems to be the one they default to using most often. If anything, last year’s finale and this year’s premire both only used the lighting as strictly functional warning lights
Count me in for team cluttered/lived-in TARDIS - I also much prefer the more shadowy/low-light versions. My ideal TARDIS is Eight’s, but Twelve’s is a very close second
I’m still not sure what to make of 15’s TARDIS - I think it feels quite cold and empty, and the show even calls this out in Joy to the World, which could form the basis for some nice character exploration of 15 and development by adding things to it. Hopefully we get some more on this in the new series, but knowing how the TARDIS was used in RTD1, I’m not really holding my breath.
What I’ve always loved about the TARDIS is that it isn’t just a ship, it is effectively the Doctor’s home of multiple thousands of years - if you’ve been living somewhere that long and you don’t have any decor, I’d find that very odd!
