39,327
edits
Doctor Who/YMMV: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
m (Mass update links) |
|||
Line 12:
=== YMMVs for [[Doctor Who (TV)|the TV series]]: ===
* [[Alas Poor Scrappy]]: Adric.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: Quite a few of these.
** In particular the Master. In "The End of Time" {{spoiler|it was revealed the drumming in his head (that had tormented him his entire life and led to him being [[Ax Crazy|totally unhinged]]) was in fact put there by Rassilon for his own purposes.}} At that point, some just really wanted to give him a big damn hug, so when he {{spoiler|went out in a vengeful blaze with that "[[Redemption Equals Death|get out]] [[Ho Yay|of the way]]" it didn't help at all.}}
** Even a freaking DALEK gets one in the episode "Dalek", giving one last, rather morose-sounding "Exterminate!" before blowing itself up out of self-loathing.
Line 26:
{{quote| '''Bad Wolf:''' I want you safe. My Doctor.}}
** The Beast, from "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit". Is it actually the Whoniverse's version of the Devil, who fought before time against the followers of God, the Disciples of Light, and has inspired all the devils in every religion? Or is the Beast simply an incredibly powerful and evil being who lies to cash in on fears of religion's Satanic figures, so that the scared humans are more easy to defeat and influence? There's evidence for both, and by the end even the Doctor doesn't seem completely sure.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z57Wktiu5Qc This] [[YouTube]] video of a Doctor Who Confidential offers one for Madame Kovarian: a woman "of a certain age" who never had any children of her own. It seems to be suggesting that not only will {{spoiler|Melody/River}} be raised to be a weapon, but also that Madame Kovarian intends to make {{spoiler|Melody/River}} into something of a [[
** The First Doctor. Is his impatience and grumpiness and general abrasiveness because he is old and had a life hard lived, or because he is a young man trying to seem much more important than he is?
** The series on a whole- is it about an ancient alien travelling time and space in a dimensionally trancendient box, or is it about the people who he travels with and how he changes them? Arguments could be made for both sides.
Line 59:
* [[Complete Monster]]: Now has [[Complete Monster/Doctor Who|its own page]].
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Pretty much every Doctor.
** Also, Vincent van Gogh. He's the only person who can see the [[Monster of the Week]]. So he ''stabs it with his easel.'' [[Alas, Poor Villain|It works.]]
** Some of River's stunts are this. Highlights include jumping out of an airlock, confident that the Doctor would show up to save her and defacing the oldest mountain in the universe to leave a message for him. {{spoiler|Oh, and fighting Nazis with regeneration}}.
** John Simm's Master.
* [[
** River is another case.
** Adric.
Line 74:
* [[Dork Age]]: Obviously the 16 years when the show was off the air (TV movie aside), though many fans tend to agree that "The Trial of a Time Lord" and then Sylvester McCoy's first season are the low point of when the show actually was airing.
* [[Dry Docking]]: The fandom has "Stay away from the Doctor!"
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: After a while, John Simm's Master's jokes stop being funny and start being more along the lines of ''horrifying''.
* [[Ear Worm]]: The theme tune.
** The Master's drumbeat.
* [[Ending Fatigue]]: The 15-minute farewell scenes in ''The End of Time''.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:
** From Classic Who, both the Daleks and ''Sir'' Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. Both originally intended as one-off characters in the 1960s. Guess what? They've both appeared on television since ''Doctor Who'''s revival (the Daleks ongoing and the latter on the [[Spin
** Within just one episode, the Weeping Angels were heavily regarded as the show's most terrifying villains. Even more so than the Daleks, just from the sheer [[Paranoia Fuel|paranoia factor]]. Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone only ''increased'' their popularity (except among certain fans who screamed [[Ruined FOREVER]] at some of the changes).
*** Yet another creation from Blink is also widely beloved: Sally Sparrow.
Line 187:
** Eric Roberts' Master.
** Francine Jones, Martha's mother. She's rude to just about everyone right from the get-go, and ends up {{spoiler|selling out the Doctor to Harold Saxon, a.k.a. the Master.}} Luckily, it doesn't keep, but the fans weren't terribly happy with her for all of that.
** Sylvia Noble, Donna's mum. Her [[Small Name, Big Ego|arrogance]], [[Smug Snake|smugness]], constant belittling of her daughter, and inability to say the words "Thank You" left a bad taste in the mouth of many a fan.
** The Slitheen have the unfortunate distinction of being the only Doctor Who race to be almost universally despised. Shoddy costume design, out-of-place toilet humor and the fact that the characters themselves were generally seen to be more irritating than menacing turned out to not be a very good recipe for an alien race, especially one that was the first recurring alien race of the new series.
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: The Third Doctor's last season is easily his worst, despite the arrival of Sarah Jane. Even Jon Pertwee and producer Barry Letts admitted this being the case, due to a combination of fatigue and depression over the death of Roger Delgado.
Line 200:
* [[Shipping Wars]]: In addition to the above, people pretty much ship Anyone/Anyone on the show. Canon or not, they can get ''very'' defensive over their ship(s).
* [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: Sure, ''Vincent and the Doctor'' was basically a [[Very Special Episode]] about depression - even the monster that provides the plot can be read as a metaphor for Van Gogh's mental illness - but it was handled so maturely that it falls squarely into this category. {{spoiler|Even knowing that his paintings will be incredibly famous and loved in the future, Vincent still kills himself, because it's not a matter of cheering him up: he's got a ''disease'' that nobody in his time understands.}}
* [[Space Jews]]: Gibbis in ''The God Complex'' seems to be a deliberate parody of this trope. Hailing from 'the most invaded planet in the galaxy,' he has vaguely ratlike features, no hair, and [[Cheese
* [[Special Effects Failure]]: [[The BBC]] was somewhat notorious for giving the set and costume designers of ''Doctor Who'' a shoestring budget; that is, a bundle of shoe strings that they were expected to make fifteen monsters out of. Interestingly enough, however, this has always been viewed as part of the series' charm, and the fanbase reacted negatively when the TV movie upped the effects budget.
** The low budget also effected the [[Chroma Key]] work throughout the seventies and eighties. It pops up every now and then in the new series but very infrequently.
Line 214:
* [[Tear Jerker]]: [[Doctor Who (TV)/Tear Jerker|Has its own page.]]
* [[Theme Pairing]]: There's a portion of the fandom that ships Adric/Nyssa because they look cute together as [[Conveniently an Orphan|Orphaned]] [[Human Alien]] [[Teen Genius|Teen Geniuses]] traveling through time and space together.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Fan reaction to almost any regeneration and companion addition, sometimes initial, sometimes permanent.
* [[Too Cool to Live]]: The Ninth Doctor had the second-shortest tenure (12 weeks).
** Father Octavian from ''The Time of Angels/Flesh And Stone''. He sets a standard for [[Face Death With Dignity]] that from now on everyone's going to be struggling to match.
Line 235:
* [[Wangst]]: Tegan was always whining and complaining about something.
** The Tenth Doctor may qualify.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: So, Dorium, what did you ''think'' would happen when you {{spoiler|attemped to negotiate with the Headless Monks}}?
* [[What Do You Mean
** A lot of stories from the '80s, thanks to writers and producers making the show [[Bloodier and Gorier]]. ''Attack of the Cyberman'' has a 15+ rating in Australia, but it was still shown at 6 o'clock at night.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[The Woobie]]: [[The Woobie/Doctor Who|Pretty much everyone]] (even many of the villains) and ''especially'' the Doctor.
* [[WTH Casting Agency]]: Eric Roberts as the Master.
| |||