Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

This rules

there goes my work week... can't get past the 8th doctor

I got to 9

Yeah, this is a total time hole.

Haven’t played for a couple of years, but clicked through and got to McGann on my first go, so tapping out gracefully.

Broke 3000 called it a day

Got Eccleston! Weirdly satisfying seeing Pertwee next to Davison, they are so unalike

McGann and about 3200 playing "properly", and then I remembered from the 2048 craze five years or so ago that just bashing a particular sequence of keys yields good results?
I dunno about that, but left-up-down relentlessly for about a minute got John Hurt and 5504. But where's the fun in that?

I did get John Hurt twice but nowhere near that score

I can't reproduce that fluke! Just circling through three cursor keys since has resulted in a very early blocked board. Oh well. I had to look up Hurt's number as it all happened so quickly I wasn't sure who he was worth two of :) How do I get Peter Cushing?

I did laugh when I finally hit #9 and it was the War Doctor instead of Eccleston... nerds!

3969 and I only got to McGann.

6692 - I think I actually had one of everyone on the board up to and including Hurt by the end.

MJ otm, it's totally 2048 reskinned - I think I saw a sudoku once, using the nine doctor's faces instead.

Got to Eccleston, personal best 18736

Damn, and I was happy to break 6000.

Can we have a Masters version

it's totally 2048 reskinned

It’s been up for three years, and was promoted as a 2048 variation at the time

curse you for sharing this today when I had a lot of work on

i got 7164 and John Hurt on my first go and have never gotten that far since lol

you know I'm sure that isn't William Hartnell.

also Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy seem to have the same hat

also I am terrible at this, have yet to reach 4000 points

Yes I’m not sure my efforts are any better than random

just got 6848, still can't get to 9th Doctor though.

12908, Eccleston, late for nursery pickup

16584, Eccleston, and I'm done

How do you get such high scores?? Honestly I have no strategy

there are strategy guides to 2048 but i find them all as useful as this one - https://www.gameskinny.com/lnagr/2048-game-strategy-how-to-always-win-at-2048

basically keep your highest numbered doctors along the right-hand edge, combining using up/down and right shifts, and never, ever shift the board left.

Got to 10,860 and Eccleston, good enough for me.

21180, got to Tennant

Make that Tennant, 30816

Nice. I stopped at 17k and Eccleston - too scared to go back on that site now lol. It’s such a time-sink!

this is my best score, think you would need sth like 40,000 to get to Matt Smith, and a good hour of your time, so reckon I'm done.

https://i.postimg.cc/NMGym48k/Screenshot-20230303-104121-Chrome.jpg

Sorry for posting this! Trying to go cold turkey here too

got to Tennant this morning before questioning where my life has gone wrong

Though Moffat, who succeeded Davies from 2010 to 2017, isn't intending to eventually follow suit, he made it clear that he remains a loyal fan of the series. In fact, during filming of his new show Inside Man (in 2021), Moffat and series star David Tennant "talked about Doctor Who constantly" and even indulged in a fan-favourite pastime on set.

"We were both playing that game where you slide the Doctor's faces. He was very excited when he finally managed to get a Matt Smith, which is the second time he's turned his face into Matt Smith."

omg

<3

Still only made it up to 10.

Oh good grief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i62oNmyEyw

(That's Sooz Kempner, I spent ages trying to remember where I'd heard her name before but eventually realised that I only of know her because she sang the three times table song in Numberblocks).

she looks like she's standing in front of a screensaver

needs more flying toasters

someone was telling me something about colorizing a hartnell episode for broadcast... which i don't think is actually happening, some misunderstood rumors and whatnot... but reading that it looks like they got funding to do animated versions of "the smugglers" and "the underwater menace"? wondering if an S4 blu-ray set is in the future, or if they're gonna try to flog them individually. S2 blu-ray is supposed to come out in the US next week or so... we'll see what winds up being cut, you get into the Beatles thing and rights issues start getting involved. i guess... is there a list of edits/cuts to the existing blu-rays by region? spearhead from space has that bit of "oh well" and mind of evil has "the devil's triangle".

anyway that leaves only one story per season (minus season 3, which, you know, not much you can do with S3) soundtrack-only. the animations are pretty crap, but for me they're easier to watch than the Chris Marker versions...

I have utterly stopped paying attention; did the regeneration into tennant happen already?

it's harder to get het up about edits when there's entire episodes missing, I just want 'em to get the entire OG series out in Blu-Ray before the world stops caring about physical media entirely

like, the supplemental material on the Blus is really fun and good! you can't beat the peter davison and crew's commentary tracks

to clarify, i'm buying them all irregardless, i'm just curious as to what cuts there are by region, haha. nerdy shit.

it'd be nice to have the whole classic series out on dvd before the culmination of the events of "turn left", which it seems the uk has taken as a blueprint to follow to the letter.

Season 2 box came in today. I'm watching "The Rescue" - it's a good background episode. I've never seen it before. Kind of surprising how, well, _postmodern_ it is. I knew about the twist but I didn't realize that it's not really sci-fi at all, just a domestic violence allegory. David Whitaker really was a very good writer.

We talked about precisely that realisation on our podcast a while back:
https://www.illexplainlater.com/post/141022895293/episode-10-behind-the-mask
It's a story that gets written off as a functional filler, but it's amazingly rich.

Maureen O'Brien was always great, even in later serials when she was sometimes stuck doing generic companion stuff, but she's particularly good in The Rescue. Vicki seems to be a relatively unsung member of the of the Dr Who companion pantheon, which is a pity?

It's funny how the multiple companion set up works so well in this era but worked so badly when they retried it in the early 80s, I'd say it's the biggest single problem with Peter Davison's era

It's funny how the multiple companion set up works so well in this era but worked so badly when they retried it in the early 80s, I'd say it's the biggest single problem with Peter Davison's era

― soref

re-watching episodes from that era i'm inclined to say the single biggest problem with the show from seasons 18-26 was john nathan-turner. always making ridiculous demands. (he, of course, was the one who decided the show needed three companions.) he _finally_ lets robert holmes write a script again and it's the show's best story ever, so of course for the next one he says "make it (the equivalent of) a six-parter!" (bob holmes hated six-parters) "put the sontarans in it! put the second doctor in it, boy if there's one person who knew how to write the second doctor it's you! set it in new orleans! you did all that? we couldn't get the budget to go to new orleans, it's now set in seville!"

even considering that holmes seems to have completely burned himself out and wrecked his career in his three years as script editor, you know, jnt wasn't exactly hinchliffian.