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thediaryofriversong · 4 months

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Is this not just the entire plot of the show

#The eight doctors #doctor who #dr who #dw #the doctor #the master #edas #dweu

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humandisastersquad · 2 months

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[ID: Excerpt from The Eight Doctors by Terrence Dicks that reads: The Doctor took Romana's arm, moving away from the table until they stood by the great window. 'I'm afraid we must still decline. Time to leave, Romana.' At a sign from Zarn, the vampires left the table and moved to block their way to the door. The Doctor looked down at Romana and said urgently, 'If we get separated, don't wait for me. Make for the dome and get help.' Romana looked at him in puzzlement, wondering what he meant. All became clear when he picked her up and hurled her through the curtained window with incredible force. Protected by the heavy velvet curtain, Romana crashed through the shattered window and landed on the ground outside in a tangle of cloth. End ID.]

still laughing at this scene where Four just YEETS Romana out the window

#eighth doctor adventures #romana ii #fourth doctor #the eight doctors #forgot i had this in my drafts lol #anyway can you believe these two both have/will be lord president of gallifrey lol #idk who'd bring it up more like #'ah yes. lord president romana. i once threw her out a window you know'#or 'hey remember when you threw me out a window' 'that was ONE time'#probably both tbh #eda lb

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partiallithopseffect · 1 month

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love how even the most boring DW books hit you with surprise moments of visceral existential horror

#the eight doctors #doctor who #edas #eighth doctor #dw #certified tara posting

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walks-the-ages · 7 months

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anyways, gonna put it on tumblr as well!

Eighth Doctor fans!

Did you know there's some fanmade EDA audiobooks?

Websites+youtube channels were updated 8-10 years ago, so make sure you back these up, and leave a like and comment to show your support, just in case they're still active :)

And don't forget to save the links regularly to the Wayback Machine!

General links:

Original website: https://heroic-efforts.blogspot.com/?m=1 (mix of everything including Doctor Who)

Youtube account 1: https://www.youtube.com/@TwilightZoneAudio/featured (has Doctor who )

Youtube account 2: https://www.youtube.com/@StarTrekTheReturn/videos (does not have Doctor who, instead has some of their Star Trek fan audios)

Audios in particular:

The Eight Doctors: https://heroic-efforts.blogspot.com/2010/01/click-on-play-to-listen-to-chapter.html?m=1

The Bodysnatchers: https://heroic-efforts.blogspot.com/2010/05/coming-soon.html?m=1

Vampire Science: https://heroic-efforts.blogspot.com/2010/03/doctor-who-vampire-science-audiobook.html?m=1

Osskah: https://heroic-efforts.blogspot.com/2010/11/doctor-who-osskah-short-trips.html?m=1

Tales of Christmas Past: https://heroic-efforts.blogspot.com/2010/12/doctor-who-tales-of-christmas-past.html?m=1

Evergreen: https://heroic-efforts.blogspot.com/2011/12/doctor-who-evergreen-audiobook-heroic.html?m=1

#bold text #doctor who #fan audios #media preservation #edas #eda #eighth doctor #8th doctor #vampire science #the eight doctors #the bodysnatchers

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master-missysversion · 2 months

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He smiled bc he knew the master would be hurt by it 😭😭 they're both so mean to each other

#doctor who #the eight doctors #the master #eighth doctor

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dalesramblingsblog · 5 months

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OK well, about ten per cent of the way through The Eight Doctors and there's already a bit in which sixty-two year old writer Terrance Dicks thought it'd be really funny to include a moment in which a school teacher jokes about sexualising a student in Year Five - which as far as I can tell translates to "about nine or ten years old" in the English school system - and then has our new companion comment internally on just how "well developed" said student is, so um... yeah that's basically one of the worst things ever, really. Christ.

I mean, we all knew Terrance had some... issues with sexism but this is... this is on a whole other level. Very bold to try and go toe to toe with John Peel's "The Doctor tells Ace that she should just be totally chill about Gilgamesh sexually assaulting/harassing her" in the "shitty things to include in your new book series' first novel" stakes, but he certainly did make that choice.

Rassilon preserve us.

#doctor who #eighth doctor adventures #terrance dicks #the eight doctors

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reecypontiff · 2 years

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Interested in getting into the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels but don't have the time or inclination for all that pesky reading? Well fanboy A.A. Mitchell made audiobook versions of four out of five of the first books in the series, available free at the links below!

The Eight Doctors by Terrence Dicks

Vampire Science by Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum

The Bodysnatchers by Mark Morris

War of the Daleks by John Peel

(I highly recommend Vampire Science instead of the Eight Doctors as a jumping-off point for new readers to the series)

#doctor who #eighth doctor #classic doctor who #edas #vampire science #The Bodysnatchers #War of the Daleks #The Eight Doctors

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intuitive-revelations · 11 months

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Thinking more about the Eighth Doctor / War in Heaven / Time War timeline, and I remain convinced that the Doctor is in Gallifrey's future timeline for the near entirity of the EDAs.

What's more, I think it's possible to pinpoint the exact moment the protocols of linearity broke and the Doctor got thrown out of sync with Gallifrey's relative time. This may also be the exact moment where the Great Grey Eminence makes his deal to rewrite Romana's presidency.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it all comes down to the TV Movie.

In the beginning of the movie, we have the Doctor explicitly travelling from Skaro to Gallifrey, 5725.2 RE. What's more, it's the "Local Dateline" so we know that's the actual date there, and not just the Doctor's own relative time.

This is following on from Lungbarrow, where President Romana enlists the Doctor with retrieving the Master's remains as part of the "Act of Master Restitution".

Now, we don't see a different RE date in the movie, but do we get a glimpse of Gallifrey at the end, and something is...well...off...

Incidentally, have you ever paid attention to the dialogue here? First of all there's the contentious line about Gallifrey being "250,000,000 ly away" on the other side of the galaxy, contradicting the usual placement of Gallifrey 29,000 ly away at the centre of the galaxy. But there's something else the Doctor says first:

DOCTOR: So, let's see where we are. There. The future. LEE: Wow. DOCTOR: Look over there, on the other side of your galaxy. That's home. GRACE: Gallifrey. DOCTOR: Two hundred and fifty million light years away. That's a good ten minutes in this old thing. GRACE: So, where are we? DOCTOR: December twenty ninth. Do you want to get off here?

Note, the Doctor simultaneously says the TARDIS is in 'the future' and still on December 29th. Seemingly, the "future" the Doctor is referring to is Gallifrey's, and his own. In other words, the planet we see isn't 5725.2 RE Gallifrey, but 6916? RE (estimated based on Romana III being 150 years into her presidency in The Ancestor Cell) Gallifrey.

It should also be noted that the TV movie seems to be the one time in the series where Gallifrey's present and Earth's present are actually synced up, at least roughly. Technically previous Gallifrey stories all take place in Earth's past, whereas later stories take place in Earth's future.

This can actually be inferred from the TV Movie itself, based on the TARDIS console, even before the Master starts meddling. It's seen aiming for December 30th, despite present-day Gallifrey being the target. Though granted, it could be that the RE time control - bottom right in the left image - is disconnected from the other date controls.

Considering the time between Greyjan's presidency and the TV Movie for the Doctor/Gallifrey and the Earth, roughly 250 years for both, also supports this, further cementing that the 'future' line can't make sense if it's meant to be a present-day Gallifrey.

My personal take is that the Nine Gallifreys project has already been initiated by this point in the future. It's ambiguous whether we're looking at the original planet, moved and disguised, or one of the cloneworlds, although given it's the Doctor who shows us, I assume the prior. Either way, if the project is active then it's another sign we're in the future, as according to the Book of the War, it's not initiated until 400 years after Greyjan's death, in contrast to the 250 years previously mentioned. (I do have some issues with Book of the War's timeline, but this isn't necessarily one of them.)

We also see history has changed in The Eight Doctors, which takes place directly after the movie's events where we do actually get to see the present-day Gallifrey monitoring the Doctor as he continues unstuck from his own time, albeit in his past rather than future. In contrast to Lungbarrow, Flavia is now president once more and seemingly has been since the Doctor's trial, with Romana's presidency now having seemingly never occured. This concurs with Big Finish's stories, where Romana doesn't become president until 6776 RE. On Flavia's Gallifrey, there is no mention of the Doctor's mission to recover the Master's remains.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the timeline begins to change at the same time the Doctor gets thrown out of sync with Gallifrey.

OK, so the Doctor's linearity with Gallifrey seemingly breaks during the events of the TV movie, but when exactly?

The answer's pretty simple, actually. For the TARDIS to have jumped in relative time, it must have skipped a time track, hence also the changes in history. Usually when a time track is skipped we see some turbulence in the TARDIS and usually some damage causing sparks, maybe some monitor glitches. See the beginning of The Empty Child as an example.

And what do we see at the beginning of the movie?

Now obviously some of the damage is likely from the Deathworm!Master's sabotage, but things are clearly getting weird even before he starts meddling, none of which is ever explained beyond cinematic flavour, even by the books which went out of their way to explain the Master's survival.

We even see the record literally skipping, exactly the same analogy used for jumping time tracks.

And so the Doctor gets thrown out of his own place in time for the next century or so...

#Doctor Who #Faction Paradox #Eighth Doctor #Seventh Doctor #Gallifrey #War in Heaven #Lungbarrow #The Eight Doctors #Rassilon #The TV Movie #Doctor Who EU #EDAs #DW Theory #DW Meta #long post

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gotyouanyway · 1 year

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god he’s so messed up. “feeling really depressed lately, seeking mental health care or going on holiday are viable options but they just don’t have the success rate of a genuine suicide attempt. i’m off”

#girl.#p #the eight doctors

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rassilon-imprimatur · 1 year

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I think a lot about the EDAs launching with an amnesiac Eighth Doctor creating himself and cementing his unspooled history, and then the series' momentum, sixtysome books later, climaxing with the amnesiac Eighth Doctor creating himself and cementing his unspooled history.

And if Unnatural History revealed The Eight Doctors as Rassilon's deal with the Faction to, not control the timelines, but make history comfortable, to his liking, I think Sometime Never..., the Council of Eight's failure and the creation of the “First Doctor and Susan,” iterations of them lost in the expanding multiverse as the Jonah collapsed into a police box, was the Daleks doing the same.

The Daleks, sheltered in the post-War froth, destroyed Gallifrey here, Klade-ridden Needle there, pushing and prodding and peering at the events of Time Zero, Timeless, Sometime Never..., all trying to help restore their archenemy’s history and bring things to a degree of normalcy.

#Eighth Doctor #Eighth Doctor Adventures #EDAs #The Eight Doctors #Sometime Never...#Unnatural History #Daleks

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eda-quotes · 1 year

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"Oh, oaths to Rassilon, proclamations of Rassilon, if you could only imagine how much I've had it up to here with the This, That, and the Other of Rassilon..."

Vampire Science by Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman

#doctor who #eighth doctor #edas #eighth doctor adventures #book quote #the eight doctors #doctor who: the eight doctors #having just listened to zagreus again this hits different lol

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dweuquotes · 8 months

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“I can see that for myself. What did you say it was called?”

“The TARDIS - the initial letters of Time And Relative Dimension In Space. The name was coined by my granddaughter, Susan.”

Sam gave him a look. “Sure it was. And you're an alien?”

The Eight Doctors

#doctor who #dr who #expanded universe #extended universe #doctor who eu #sam jones #eighth doctor #edas #samantha jones #the eight doctors #susan foreman

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pixel3603 · 2 years