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My Collection

I've been purchasing and receiving Doctor Who DVDs/Blu-ray discs for awhile now and have built up a sizable collection. I'm including both the classic and modern eras as well as spin-off programs. The Beginning Boxset The Keys of Marinus The Aztecs The Sensorites The Reign of Terror The Time Meddler The Ark The Gunfighters The Tenth Planet Lost in Time the Hartnell Years Lost in Time Troughton Years Power of the Daleks The Tomb of the Cybermen The Ice Warriors Enemy of the World The Web of Fear The Mind Robber The Sea Devils Tom Baker season 1/12 Blu-ray The Seeds of Doom The Pirate Planet The Androids of Terror Power of Kroll Shada (2017 release) Season 19 Blu-ray The Five Doctors Warriors of the Deep Timelash Survival Scream of the Shalka Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 The Infinite Quest Series 4 Dreamland Planet of the Dead The Next Doctor The of Time Series
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A Ranking of the New Who Doctors

1. Matt Smith 2. David Tennant 3. Peter Capaldi 4. Jodie Whittaker 5. Chris Eccleston
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The Doctor's Two Moms

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Let's face it Doctor Who is never going to have a super consistent singular canon. The only way it could all possibly make sense together is as a complicated mess of alternate universes and timelines with jokes thrown in. Still as a massive fan I will bend time and space to make it all make sense. This brings me to a few major issues. Firstly the Doctor is regularly written as being a human from space, in the very earliest stories. He's shown to have one heart. He seems to refer to himself as human in The Sensorites when there is no in story reason he would do so. Furthermore in the original (unaired) pilot episode it is actually stated that the Doctor and his granddaughter Susan are humans from the 49th century. As the series progressed the Doctor's alien identity became more consistently established and by 1989 there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the Doctor was a two hearted Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. In the 1996 movie it is stated multiple tim
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The Role of the Companion

           The primary focus of the popular scifi franchise "Doctor Who" is a strange alien being known only as the Doctor. He/she is an ancient time and space explorer with a tendency to play the hero. The Doctor is most often accompanied by at least one traveling companion. These are usually  (though not always) relatively young human women from modern Earth. At the start of both the classic and revived series the Doctor is a somewhat abrasive and incredibly mysterious figure who is difficult to approach. The companions whether they be Ian, Barbara and Susan or Rose Tyler act as our way into the story and we meet the Doctor through them. In stories like 'The End of the World' we see these characters exposed to a side of reality which is outside of anything they have established a context for. The Doctor is on the other hand far more knowing and has a different perspective than the companions of the audience. Here lies a major part of what makes an effective co
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