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OK, I've not read any final episode spoilers, so may be way off...

But...

What if Clara is the TARDIS?

We know it explodes. What if bits of it are shattered across time and space? And each bit... is Clara?

Watch The Doctor's Wife to know who the TARDIS is.

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OK, I've not read any final episode spoilers, so may be way off...

But...

What if Clara is the TARDIS?

We know it explodes. What if bits of it are shattered across time and space? And each bit... is Clara?

Remember the bit where the TARDIS wouldn't let her in in an earlier episode? I thought that was significant.

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Bit of a shame that the once great Robert Holmes couldn't keep up on his quality as he wrote the Two Doctors I believe.

That reminds me: what's everybodies favourite Doctor story per actor who played the doctor part?

1st - Keys of Marinus. Mainly due to the fantastic Target novelisation

2nd - The Invasion

3rd - Carnival of Monsters

4th - The Stones of Blood (I swear that thing shit me up as a tiny)

5th - The Five Doctors. (Odd choice I know but it blew me away when I first saw it)

6th - Attack of the Cybermen. I think it's the only decent one out of the bunch

7th - Remembrance of the Daleks. No contest

8th - Zagreus

9th - Empty Child/Doctor Dances

10th - Love and Monsters. Because fuck you. ELO are ace and they did a blowjob joke

11th - The 11th Hour. Utterly sold me on Smith and the best pre-credits sequence ever. (Until Saturday hopefully)

*Edit* Be flexible with the 8th Doctor. Include audios and if we're including books I'd like to change my selection for 8th to Alien Bodies because it's fucking amaze.

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Warrior's Gate is wonderful, I watched it the other night. State of Decay is even better though, and you should watch that next anyway as it's the next in order.

The Five Doctors is pure nostalgia and is good for a laugh, but not much else.

As for favourite stories per Doctor:

Hartnell - The Aztecs

Troughton - The Invasion

Pertwee - Inferno

Baker - difficult...but...Robots of Death

Davison - Caves of Androzani

Baker - Vengeance on Varos but they're all shit

McCoy - Ghost Light

McGann - No choices here, but the TV movie is terrible

Ecclestone - The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

Tennant - Blink

Smith - The Girl Who Waited

Realised that I had to really reach for Tennant and Smith stories I remembered/liked.

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If you ask me The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances is still the best modern Who story. A really iconic "monster", great dialogue, some genuinely scary scenes, and Captain Jack was a really compelling character before he turned into an oversexed ham. And most amazingly of all the denouement actually makes sense. In a way it's another "power of love" ending but the mother/child reunion dovetails perfectly with the technological explanation of what happened.

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The Android Invasion

(Blog has pictures)

I continue to be impressed by how much this TV show achieves with so little. An alien invasion, android duplicates of people, a copy of Earth, bombs going off, a space rocket launch and the whole human race in danger of extinction, and yet much of it simply filmed in a little village or a forest or in the standing UNIT sets. Quite amazing, really.

[Picture: The Doc gets some great lines, including this one: "is that finger loaded?"]

It's often best to simply let your imagination fill in the gaps, and that's put to good use here, because you're not quite sure of what's real and what isn't. I really liked the twist that they were in a training area, with clues being slowly revealed. The android Sarah Jane was another great reveal, and the moment when it falls over and the front of its face comes off, or when one of the other androids bursts into flames and melts, is pure sci-fi horror at its best.

[Picture: A freaktastic reveal!]

Before they know where they are, it seems like a village of brainwashed people, acting very strangely indeed. The space-suited androids, the abandoned village, the phones that don't work, the calendar with the same dates on every page, and the superb moment when the clock strikes midday and all the people in the pub come to life, is all so wonderfully creepy.

[Picture: The Kraal.]

The actual aliens themselves, the Kraal, are just another in a comically long line of rubber-masked menaces who want to conquer the Earth. I thought they were Sontarans at first, but then you get a good look and they're not. They're a bit dinosaur-looking, and there's obvious limitations in getting the rubber mouths to move properly, but they are effective enough. I found it hard to believe the human astronaut would believe them to be benevolent, as they so obviously aren't, but it's all part of his brainwashing.

[Picture: The optimistic British space program appears again, to retrieve its astronaut from Jupiter. Uh-huh!]

A few of the UNIT bunch return, including Harry, but there's no sign of the Brigadier in this story, as he's said to be in Geneva. There's quite a lot of action towards the end. The Doctor gets into a few fights and, at one point, jumps through a window! He and Sarah continue to play off each other well - there's definitely a trust developing between them and some relaxed dialogue. Sarah doesn't seem to get hysterical as often, either. Good stuff, and if this is what Terry Nation can do when he's not writing Dalek episodes, I hope he continues to not write Dalek episodes!

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The Android Invasion was one of my absolute favourites as a kid. I must have got the hardback Target novelisation out of the library dozens of times:

Android_Invasion_novel.jpg

Watching it on VHS in the 90's though I was less impressed. It's ok until you start questioning some of the logic, and the Discontinuity guide slates it. I might watch it again though, as this review seems to think it warrants a second chance:

http://www.shadowlocked.com/20101006651/reviews/doctor-who-complete-reviews-the-android-invasion.html

The good news is, this is one of the two stories I would consider "clunkers" in the first 3 and a half seasons of Tom Baker's run (the other being the awful Revenge of the Cybermen), so if you enjoyed this then I'd be very surprised if you found anything to dislike about the next, oooh, 9 stories. :D

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Watching it on VHS in the 90's though I was less impressed. It's ok until you start questioning some of the logic, and the Discontinuity guide slates it. I might watch it again though, as this review seems to think it warrants a second chance:

http://www.shadowlocked.com/20101006651/reviews/doctor-who-complete-reviews-the-android-invasion.html

That seems a wee bit harsh to me. The astronaut bloke was said to be brainwashed. The invasion was supposed to occur stealthily, which is why they gave up after it went wrong, and although you probably don't need an entire duplicate village to test your androids' effectiveness at pretending to be humans, it can't really hurt. It's a minor concession to the plot and makes for some eerie scenes. Alternatively, it's just "alien logic". *shrug*

Yeah, give it another go! Although I suspect it's less effective if you already know what's going to happen. :)

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Sometimes the effectiveness of the setting and certain set pieces can carry you through, which is probably the case here. Certainly I agree that the bits in the village at the start are memorably creepy. Doesn't it also start with a UNIT soldier just marching straight off a cliff as well?

Morbius next. :D

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Hartnell - An Unearthly Child
Troughton - The War Games
Pertwee - Inferno
Baker - The Deadly Assassin
Davison - Mawdryn Undead
Baker - attack of the cybermen
McCoy - rememberance of the daleks
McGann - tv movie obviously
Ecclestone - Dalek
Tennant - tooth and claw
Smith - nightmare in silver

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Just heard the trailer for the finale on the radio... I haven't seen anything but the first episode of this series and I haven't read any spoilers for what I've missed or yet to see.

However...

I think Carla is the Tardis that blew up at the end of series 1.

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Hartnell - Aztecs

Troughton - Tomb

Pertwee - Inferno

Baker - City of Death

Davison - Earthshock

Baker - Varos

McCoy - Remembrance

Mcgann - Alien Bodies

Eccles - TEC

Tennant - Family of Death

Smith - 11th Hour

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That reminds me: what's everybodies favourite Doctor story per actor who played the doctor part?

Ooh, ooh, can I play? Pick me! Pick me!

Hartnell - The Ark

Troughton - The War Games

Pertwee - Spearhead from Space

T.Baker - dunno yet... probably The Sontaran Experiment, so far.

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Eccleston - Dalek

Tennant - Blink

Smith - hmm... The Lodger? :eyebrows:

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For me..

Hartwell - Tenth planet (even if it's missing stuff)

Troughton - Mind Robber

Pertwee - Death to the Daleks

Tom - Ark in Space

Davidson - Caves

Colin - Revelation of the Daleks (yep, I said it!)

Sylvester - I'll say Remembrance

McCann - only seen 'the movie'

Eccleston - rewatching series one at the moment, probably say Dalek or Parting of the Ways

Tennant - Blink

Smith - Doctors Wife

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