Cyberwoman really hits all the criteria for a bad introduction. Along with your reasons, I’d throw in that it just looks the worst of all the Torchwood episodes. The poor lighting (even for the plot constraints), the handheld camera, the janky editing; I can’t stand how cheap it looks.
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Obviously Survival.
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Well I really like Cyberwoman for those exact reasons
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Good on you for that, genuinely. I may be opinionated… okay, definitely opinionated, but I like it when others find enjoyment in things that I personally can’t get into. It’s why I like this place.
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I’d also put Midnight in a similar category as Blink and Heaven Sent. It’s a very strong story, but it’s also a companion-lite bottle episode that gets a lot of its impact from subverting the Doctor’s usual role.
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I’m reminded of just how many people tried to start with Day of the Doctor…
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My first ever Big Finish audio was Zagreus, my first VNA was Lungbarrow
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The Book of the War
‘oh hey here’s a book from the Doctor Who universe, it’s written to be an introductory book but none of it’s about Doctor Who and it doesn’t make sense even if you’re an established fan and due to copyright reasons half the names of things have been changed, this is where you should start have fun’
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It was my first Eighth Doctor Big Finish, if that counts. Perfectly straight-forward audio and the Previously On is a great recap, don’t even need the prerequisites.
Also, what’s that one around Caeidroia? That one. Maybe even Caeidroia itself.
I am going a little left-field, I was going to say the MCU (and/or get in through Death’s Head) but then I realised that Erasing Sherlock exists. That.
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Attack of the Cybermen.
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Audio-wise, LIVE 34.
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Ooh, why? (I ask because it was one of my first BF stories – and I think my second ever story with Seven, including TV!)
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It’s highly experimental, likely to be confusing, and also has Hex in it, and isn’t his first round in the TARDIS.
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It is pretty experimental, but made sense to me as one of my first audios (my third, I think, and still one of my favourites). Even having no idea who Hex was, I thought his character was drawn pretty clearly.
But I think the confusion I keep coming to is that I don’t mind not having context myself. My first audio was Spare Parts and I hadn’t seen a televised episode with Nyssa yet, even.
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Yeah, context can make stories better, but not having the context doesn’t always break the story. My first audios were Patient Zero which was nearly the end of the Six/Charley arc, and Legend of the Cybermen which was the end of a trilogy.
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Been watching flux and i kinda feel Dan whilst not introduced in a bad episode per say just kinda feels rushed on the tardis
Nothing else springs to mind right now
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I guess The Ultimate Foe is probably cheating.
A Death in the Family would be a trip, it’s fantastic but I’m pretty sure if you’ve never experienced any Who before you’re going to have no idea what’s happening.
I haven’t heard The Last Day, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say The Last Day.
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Fear Her. I speak from experience.
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Dimensions in Time.
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On a similar note, Lazarus Experiment. Put me off the show until I happened to watch Fires of Pompeii as my second episode, and now here I am.
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