This topic is basically just for me to blather on about my love for all eras of Who.
Some things I post may be quite long and in-depth, others just short little posts. But they will all be focused on why I love the Whoniverse, as a whole, and in its individual parts (if that makes sense).
Feel free to contribute too!
Nice, what a lovely positive thread to create!
There are definitely eras of the show that I love less than others but please don’t be mistaken - I will always watch Doctor Who no matter what happens, and some of it may disappoint me but I will always love it with every fibre of my being.
Doctor Who is ever-changing, and even when it’s not perfect for you, it’s still an amazing show!
Agreed - for all my ragging on Listen or Heaven Sent or River Song, I adore the show in all its shapes and forms and will always watch Doctor Who and love it. There is always something I like in every single story and every single story will get another chance.
It promotes endless creativity both within the show itself and within fandom. It brings people together in real life and online.
It is utterly unique.
Woooo… this show is the most beautiful, ridiculous, smartest, dumbest, inconsistently consistent show/franchise I’ve ever known. There are points to where I’m marveled at how brilliant a story is and the next moment baffled by how much it can mess up. And I never stopped loving it. No other series has held my tiny autistic brain for as long as this one.
I’m a sucker for creative/interesting stories. That is where my love for DW comes in. I don’t care if it’s relatively low-budget, if the story is good, I’ll be watching.
I can forgive repetitive story types, as long as the newer version improves on the theme. An example I would give is The Chase vs The Dalek’s Master Plan. The second, IMO, is a better version of the first, even though they are essentially the same story.
I love the characters. Their journey means a lot to me, there is just a handful of companions I don’t like and the rare Doctors I am not too big on I am sure I get something out of in the future. I love a good creative story, but nothing gets to me more than that raw emotional moments.
(A lot of spoilers below, read with caution)
Peri saying goodbye to the Doctor in The Reaping and their heartbreaking reunion. Her words to Percy at the end of The Plight of the Pimpernel - I am proud of putting that quote on the site. He saying all he seems to do is say goodbye to her, in Harry Houdini’s War. His breakdown at the end of Arrangements for War, and his dance with Evelyn in Thicker than Water. Rossiter saying she wanted her to give him away.
Constance accepting her husband’s heart hadn’t been hers for a long time, in Quicksilver; or even something small as Flip invinting the Doctor to her wedding. Charley saying goodbye to him in Blue Forgotten Planet, and saying she loved him in Zagreus. Her confrontation with Eight at the beginning of Neverland about avoiding her fate is to this day one of my favorites. The Doctor listening to Lucie’s diary at the end of To the Death, saying he someday would go back for her. There is a scene I love at the end of the Dark Eyes - Eight and Liv promise to be there for each other as long as they need. Helen’s entire grieving process since Stranded gets to me, but her and Albie’s reunion in Albie’s Angel hurts.
Izzy’s body disphoria in Beautiful Freak. I was breathless after Destrii was almost beat to death in Sins of the Father. The whole character journey EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER go through The Glorious Dead is fantastic. Twelve at the beginning of season 8 saying a hug is just a way to hide your face, just to both he and Clara do that to each other at the end of the season.
And these are just a few examples. I love the characters.
I struggle a lot with mental health. I always did.
The show got me through my teenage years, which would have probably been too much otherwise. And the show is still here for me. A comfort show, that I really need right now.
I am also a writer. And I use the worlds of ‘Doctor Who’ for my writing when the ideas just don’t fit into anything else. More often than not, my ideas and ideologies are heavily shaped by ‘Who’.
I am currently writing something for @shauny’s last dice topic, and that already got way bigger than I was anticipating, because thinking about ‘Doctor Who’ get’s alot out of me.
I still need to get way more into ‘Classic Who’ and all the fantastic Audio Adventures, but the fact that I barely scratched the surface of the ‘Whoniverse’ is more exciting than intimidating to me.
Well, it’s time to actually start posting in my topic about why I love Doctor Who!
To start things off, I’ll be posting about the Doctor. Because I love each an every one, and they all mean something different to me, I will be focusing on each incarnation, one at a time.
So you lot can choose which version of the Doctor I start off with!
Once I’ve finished coverage on the winning Doctor, another Poll will be set up, continuing on until I have done them all, when I shall then discuss the Doctor as a whole.
And after that?
Who knows?
(It’s me. I know)
I really like that Time War Eight looks a lot more like TV Movie Eight
Like he’s gone back to his old look, trying to cling onto still being The Doctor
I love Doctor Who because it introduced me to the wonderful character that is the Sixth Doctor (and friends), and to Colin and Nicola 
. If it wasn’t for DW, I wouldn’t have realized there was a character out there who encompassed everything I love in a person, and I wouldn’t have gotten back into writing. I wouldn’t have known about the Brothers and every other awesome role Colin and Nicola have played. The Sixth Doctor era is the BEST!
This thread deserves to be continued so part of the reason I love 8 so much is the psychological exploration of why the Doctor travels with companions, and especially how the love he has for his companions really helps him emphasise the character’s pacifist kindhearted nature.
Scherzo spoilers The long story short of Zagreus and Scherzo is that the Doctor didn’t primarily sacrifice himself for the sake of the universe. Before that, it was for Charley. And I believe this is the first time the Doctor has ever really been in love in the show, and it’s a love that I don’t think has been rivalled much since. In the dark place he’s in after believing that he’d been betrayed by Charley after she jumped in this seemingly deadly dimension with him, the doctor begins to believe the Time Lord’s ‘memento mori’ theory that he keeps companions merely as a reminder for death. But this is in such contrast to the clear love he has for Charley, which I believe he is struggling to process, and at the end of the story he sacrifices himself again not simply for her but for an abstraction of her. Because he always would die so that any version of her could live.
And this tender love that he first experienced with Charley runs all through the 8th Doctors character. He never would let a single person die, because his companions remind him just how valuable a single life is. In short, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVxCGG79qt0&t=118s
This character trait makes his end in the time war all the more tragic. Purely due to circumstances, he could no longer live true to the values of pacifism that he embodied more than any other incarnation, and so his end to me at least is practically a suicide. He was so true to his tender heartedness, and this is why I love the eighth doctor so much. He also just has an amazing voice I love him <3
I love how, in the Movie, 8 acts like a child a lot of the time, but when we meet him again for his final moments in Night of the Doctor, he seems so different, yet the same.
I haven’t done much of Eight’s off-screen stuff, but he’s been through a lot, and I feel sad for him.
But, he always gets through it, and that’s inspiring.
I’ve decided to just post on here randomly.
No structure, just whatever Doctor Who I want to talk about, and why I love it.
I’ve been thinking about this topic since I saw the subject. If I had to say why I love Doctor Who in one word it would be:
Possibilities.
I’m sure that was the case when I first got into the show at the age of 10ish. As a kid, I was a dreamer. I got into fantasy and sci-fi because they took me to places that sparked my imagination. A friend mentioned Who and I didn’t see wobbly sets or poor special effects. I saw possibilities. Week to week we could go anywhere and meet anyone and do anything.
45ish years later and to be honest, I’ve found a lot of the show’s output in recent years pretty disappointing. Seasons have gotten so short and so far between that when there’s a dud, it’s a big chunk of what I get to see. But I keep watching, no matter what. Why?
Possibilities.
The show can still surprise me. It can still floor me. It can still produce a Day of the Doctor or a Rosa or any number of other stories that have really struck a chord with me in recent years. Even for an episode that isn’t completely all that, there can still be special moments I never saw coming.
I enjoy the long complicated history of the show, I enjoy forums like this one or that other one I spend so much time on. I love looking at my overstuffed bookshelves. But more than anything I enjoy the
Possibilities.
