genetic dr who story:
- set up a feeling of a certain time
- but something is askew
- involves aliens who are not friendly
- people are disappearing and/or being eaten
- enter who and co making witty comments
- who crew == around 2.5-3.5 members
- team up with a native of that time/place
- each who partner discovers a bit of what’s up
- who crew confront aliens after near death battle
- alien and/or who explain it all in a monologue
- battle to the death (again but this time we really mean it)
- second monologue to explain the parts left out from last monologue
- back to the tardis
and every other episode’s villain must be part of a fascist hive-mind
Which season are you watching now? I’ve seen just about every scrap of DW still available, including the “found” partial episodes.
Season two of the new Who with the wonderful David Tennant
Don’t forget the Doctor’s angst-filled asides about his being the last of the Time Lords and his conflicted feelings about the Daleks. About 1/3rd of the time this is accompanied by the Doctor waxing poetic about Gallifrey.
Russell Davies and so David Tennant do less of this, Jeff. But they do always drop the words “Torchwood” and “Bad Wolf” in each episode.