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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Baker’s scarf is stupid and annoying. The bigger it gets, the more stupid and annoying it is. I genuinely believe that Tom thought this too. In Seasons 15-16 he looks thoroughly sick of it.

Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely this! Such a missed opportunity.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, me too.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 1d

Seasons 8-11 take place in another alternative universe. After going sideways into a fascist Earth in Inferno, the Doctor has another go and ends up on a warm cuddly Earth where soldiers have long hair and make tea all day and the Brigadier is a daft twat. For some reason he decides to stay there.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 5d

Aww Little Simon Mayo wearing his dad’s suit #toto

Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 5d

Princess Di scrubs up well #totp

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 5d

This entire song is an outro #totp

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 5d

Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be Boris Johnson as a five year old #totp

Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 5d

Paul’s backing band like a group of dads standing round the barbecue #totp

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 14d

Opposite the hotel! 👌

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 15d

We used to get videos and images from people who liked making videos and images. AI means we can now get them from people who dislike making videos and images. This doesn’t feel like an improvement.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 15d

Lesley and Peter just…. Embody the 70s here! ❤️

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 15d

@wheezingpod.bsky.social please can you flag up your forthcoming episodes on Bluesky so that those of us who don’t use Twitter can join in the correspondence? 😊

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 15d

Had the Power of Kroll one one whilst driving north at the weekend. ‘Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt, Fixing the car’ nearly made me cause a pile up on the M1.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 16d

Troughton’s was a necessary step, if a little cruel to the original leading actor.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 16d

I should add that I’m a big fan of Hartnell’s Doctor. There’s nothing lacking in his performance, it just doesn’t gel at this point the way it had in the first two years. The series had to change since young audiences were already growing more sophisticated by the later sixties, so the change to

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 16d

Like War Machines, Tenth Planet shows rather harshly that, regardless of Hartnell’s declining health, the direction the series was going in no longer suited his style of performance or that characterisation. He’s out of step and, sadly, seems to know it.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 16d

Same here. I just wouldn’t rush back to it.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 16d

War Machines is such a breathtaking shift in tone and realisation that it could almost be a different series entirely. Ben and Polly are a blast of fresh air but Hartnell’s performance as the First Doctor feels completely out of step with what’s going on around him.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 16d

Celestial Toymaker is a textbook exercise in taking a high concept premise and making it as mundane and tedious as possible. The animation did a great job of making it watchable - but only the once.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 16d

Roadster. Novelisation.

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 16d

Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · 22d

Absolutely. They needed a second series together!

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Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · Sep 13

Preston Front. It was just absolutely joyous.

Rob Davidson Leonard @robthatisleonard.bsky.social · Sep 11

that it’s a real shame they didn’t have longer together. The resolution is a bit of a damp squib - it feels like Armageddon should have been two episodes shorter, with a climactic two-part showdown with the Black Guardian, but the money sadly has so clearly run out.

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