With very few exceptions, the Doctor lands where he lands and time progresses in the normal linear fashion from there.
I quibble a bit with the idea of writing it only for pre-teens because that's who it was originally created for - a 12-year-old in 2020 has a different and somewhat more advanced taste in entertainment than the one in 1970 did. Moreover, there's been a LOT of ostensibly "kid's shows" in the last 30ish years that were entirely entertaining to adults and written in such a way as to be right for the kids and appealing to teens and adults (Batman TAS and all that flowed from it, for example; shows like "Courage the Cowardly Dog" and "Invader Zim" - which begets the question, would it be better if the future of Doctor Who was animated?) and if you've a quality writing team you should be able to channel that. That said, while I love me some Capaldi (in particular) such a run would have to be noticeably less dark.
In the words of Ursula Le Guin "there are 8 year olds who read 'The Lord of the Rings' and there are 80 year olds who re-read 'Alice in Wonderland'".
I had a dream that the next doctor was a woman with the body/face etc of Rita Peach, she gave me the best blowjob I've ever had - afterwards we went into a room that had the 5th,6th,7th and 8th doctor in - I said "she's a right slut this one, she'll suck you all off" she then got on her knees in the middle of them and started doing exactly that.
So in the serial "Planet of the Daleks" the Daleks try to master invisibility - something they try to learn from Spirodons - the Spirodons rather than using their invisibility which the Daleks haven't mastered to evade them wear big furry purple covers so everyone can see them. Am I missing something or are they just a bunch of idiots??
All genocidal dictators start off with a failed arts career, and in the case of Davros, it was fashion design. The original Daleks failed when he picked a lovely purple taffeta over dalekonium, and while that looked fabulous, it didn't do much when rattling across a minefield towards the angry people shooting at you. And that failure haunted him so much he came to hate purple, and that bled into the Daleks, so the Spiradons actually did their homework...
So a new worker in my office breaths really heavily all the time, I call him "Wesker" - he hasn't caught on yet.
Too bad Spike TV is no longer a thing. They could have handled this show with a new fire... the Doctor smoking a fattie while piloting the TARDIS... companions walking around with their tits out... galactic wars settled with a Hell In A Cell match on PPV. The show practically writes itself.
They did try to do a Who/Trek crossover! I mean, one on hand it might have been awesome, but on the other, probably not. An LD/Who would have worked IMO, but I can't help but feel a live action one would have had a writers room that would have been a giant dick-size contest of who was the most progressive, with the result managing to belittle the target of the message, whilst simultaneously enraging those who were anti- the target, and ensuring part 2 was watched by critics alone.
Hmmm, I can get the numbers for some angel investors, and I used to have some contacts at the beeb... I'm not sure I could generate enough bullshit to sell it though
I know how you do it. 2013 Pelia meets Tom Baker as The Curator. He gives her a schematic for a time circuit. SNW-Pelia jury rigs a time circuit on The Enterpise, and slingshots them back to 2013, and they beam up The Curator. Pelia and Curator use the Enterprise to solve whatever problem they had going on in 2013. Their time circuit blows out, but Matt Smith (who happened to be passing through) gives them a jump. Straight ahead basic timey-wimey; the anti-wokeys have their Tom Baker; everyone's happy.
I love how the Yanks automatically default to Tom Baker, only because he was the first Doctor shown on American television (via PBS, I believe).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in terms of popularity in Britain and globally, isn't Tom Baker considered basically the most iconic of the old-school incarnations for sure and at least arguably all of them?
And for a long time, the only Doctor many of us ever saw. My local PBS station didn't pick up Doctor Who until ~1980, we started with Baker's first episode of the series, they then aired his whole run, twice, then dropped it because they could no long afford what the BBC wanted for the show. It wasn't until like the late 90s, that they picked Doctor Who up again. Mind you, I lived in a large TV market, and for some reason, we didn't really get much of anything of the BBC, outside of Dave Allen (then only for a small while), All Creatures Great and Boring, and some other horrifically boring BBC shows. Never got the Hitchhiker's TV series, Red Dwarf, or a fuck-ton of other British shows that have cult followings in the States. (We got Monty Python, but it aired at a weird time slot in the middle of the day on the weekends or something.) Meanwhile, folks in Assrape, Iowa, were getting the good shit. And no, I wasn't uniquely shafted in not getting stuff. The PBS stations in a lot of places in the US didn't air much Doctor Who after like '86, or any of the other cool shit.
To be precise, Jon Pertwee was the first Doctor shown on American television. Tom Baker was the first Doctor shown extensively on American television.
The classic series? Absolutely. Out of all of them? He has serious competition from Tennant, especially since the new audience now likely outnumbers old farts like moi.
He's the gold standard for the original run, Baker, like Hartnell, had an interesting past and brought something of himself to the character - a charming, friendly, thoughtful, kneejerk-bullshitter. If he'd done that as a standalone character, they'd be in the top 100 of any decent character list. Add in you had the likes of Douglas Adam inputting to the scripts, and you also got plenty of inventive tales that had more a sci-fi slant than some of the more horror influenced run of Pertwee, which dovetailed nicely with an era where Star Wars was about to make itself known, and you've got an era you don't even need rose-tinted specs to look at positively. Always felt sorry for Davison having to follow that, no matter how good he was, he still had a shadow with a floppy hat and long scarf to contend with.
That asks why no one has encountered a Who villain in Star Trek, just use the literal deus ex machina of Trelane to do a 'Q Who' to another reality. Pelia knowing the Doctor can be explained away by her having tried inventing transwarp, and whilst it sort of worked, it just went in a direction Pelia didn't know existed and the Doctor helped her retrace her steps.
