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[eponymous_rose]

Back in the day, I started off a valiant attempt to watch all of Who (yes, even the reconstructions) in order from start to finish. Needless to say, I've jumped around a lot in the process, and am presently stuck somewhere in the middle of The Dalek Masterplan. Possibly because I can't remember what episode I left off on. How embarrassing.

But then I was reminded of another valiant thought of valiant...ness that emerged at some point - watching all of Who in chronological order. Oh, yes. I'd have to impose some sort of arbitrary ordering system - say, using this website - lest I make my head explode. And, I suppose, I'd just be watching episodes in the order in which the earliest chronological event takes place (i.e. watching "Runaway Bride" early on due to that scene with the creation of the Earth). But still! It's arbitrary and weird and will totally confuse me w.r.t. character development and such, but I think I've got enough of a handle on these folks to be able to work through it. And it would be so awesome.

The trickiest part? I'd also like to confuse myself further by throwing in the spinoffs/novels/audios/comics as well. As many as possible, anyway. Oooh, that's daring.

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It would be a fun project and I would post my Highly Skientific Findings and it would also be really amusing to go through the 20th and 21st centuries and see what the poor people on Earth have to deal with.

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[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

(This comment is nothing but an excuse to use this icon.)

[rapunzelita.livejournal.com]

Let us praise Neil Gaiman and build a temple to his name. And then we can have some sushi.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Did you see the one a little more recently, where he wrote, like, three sentences bouncing off a single picture from Tennant's Hamlet performance, and it was like a highly-condensed whole episode? I ♥ that man so very much.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

And a truly wonderful icon it is, too! :D (That was my desktop background for a while. So good!)

[rapunzelita.livejournal.com]

Yarr, me hearty, there be no ticky box! (Okay, I can't write/talk like a pirate. It's missing from my language skillz of doom)

Anyway, I wanted to tick both "the chronological rewatch of power WITH spinoffs" and "I can has list? kthxbai", but thar be no ticky box, matey.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Hee, your piratese is infinitely better than mine!

Ooh, WITH spinoffs. A list, no less! That may be slightly beyond my capabilities, after all. I'm looking at creating a televised-only list (and it is coming very well so far!). So much shininess!

[everlasting-day.livejournal.com]

I think trying to experience Doctor Who chronologically with ALL the spin-off media will quite possibly drive you insane. I mean, I've been a Doctor Who fan for 12 years and I've never attempted such a thing, not even the entire classic series from start to finish, partly because I'm not sure I'd enjoy it so much that way and partly because there's so damn much of it. That said, I admire anyone who does such a thing - I'm sure quite a few stories will have more impact when you've seen everything that comes before, so that should definitely be a treat.

The spin-off media is best enjoyed however you want, really. I love the fact that I still have A LOT of Big Finish audio plays still to listen to or New Adventures/Eighth Doctor Adventures books to read - it's a nice feeling knowing that you still have some new Doctor Who stories to experience whenever you want.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

I adore this fandom so much because of its depth and breadth and all that - I've been watching/listening/reading ferociously for about a year and a half, now, and I've only really made a dent in the televised serials, the EDAs, the Eighth Doctor comics, and certain BFA runs. It's a great feeling to have all the rest of it out there! (Of course, I like making lists of things, and when you give me a canon this huge, there will be massive lists involved. Hee.)

I don't think it's really so much the desire to watch the whole thing, strictly adhering to this order, as it is a desire to watch some totally random serials without having to resort to, well, a Randomiser. ;) It's a fun project, anyway! I will probably just stick to the televised stuff, though. I value what little sanity I've got left!

[stunt-muppet.livejournal.com]

...I fully support and encourage you if you want to watch them in chronological order, but the mere thought of that breaks my brain really hard and I don't want to think about it anymore.

Besides, what about stories that don't take place at any specified/discernable time? What about stories (i.e. Mawdryn Undead) that take place at two times at once? What about the five different "end of the universe"s that Who's come up with over the years? WHAT ABOUT UNIT DATING. THINK OF THE UNIT DATING.

Ahem. I don't mean to sound so discouraging, and like I said I'll happily cheer you on if that's what you want to do, but I can't wrap my mind around the concept of how one would do that.

But, on the other hand, I do want to see your skientiffic findings. What a quandary.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

My approach is generally to repeat to myself "It's just a show - I should really just relax!" ;) And then, yes, take totally arbitrary decisions on all of the conundrums you raised.

OR, and this is more likely, I'll just copy out the order from the site linked up there (and the other one, which I think/hope includes s3 and s4 of the new series). I will let that hard-working person and/or persons come up with all the clever explanations for this, that, and the other thing, and when people ask about the order I can feel totally inculpable. Heehee.

(Basically, it's a starting point - it's not the be-all and end-all of chronologies. But, you know, ballpark figures. It's all in the name of skience fun!)

I have come across a couple of serials that the website person appears to have given up on dating - like "The Edge of Destruction", that's a tough one. I think I'll just watch those nebulous serials right after whichever one comes before them in production order.

[memorae.livejournal.com]

I think you should totally post a chronological list and we should all do it together! We could be like some sort of awesome club, or possibly cult.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

The Cult of the Dancing Ian! Oh yes, this will work.

I am hard at work on said list - it's going surprisingly well! :D

[oldstarnewshine.livejournal.com]

I've been watching the Classic Series in order with a friend, and our main problem is simply getting access to the episodes, what with some having been destroyed, some unavailable on DVD, and the lurvly Beeb stomping gleefully on any attempts to put them up on the internet, sometimes we get stuck. But if you have access to all of the episodes, I say go for it. (I do think that if you do it in in-series chronological order with or without the spinoffs you will drive yourself batty. And with this crappy segue in mind, if you do add in the spin-offs, I'd love you to pieces if you put up some sort of chronological order for the Big Finish audios. I'd love to listen to any of them, especially as Eight's my fave, but so far I've been put off as I don't want to miss things or be confused.)

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I adore Eight's BFAs, and anything that gets more people listening = awesome in my books. Here's the order of Eight's monthly audios - there is definitely a running plot, and while most stand alone fairly well, you tend to miss out on a fair bit by skipping around:

Storm Warning
Sword of Orion
The Stones of Venice
Minuet in Hell
Invaders from Mars
The Chimes of Midnight (I absolutely adore this one like you wouldn't believe)
Seasons of Fear
Embrace the Darkness
The Time of the Daleks
Neverland
Zagreus (this one stars everybody but the kitchen sink, and I mean everybody)
Scherzo
The Creed of the Kromon
The Natural History of Fear (another amazing one)
The Twilight Kingdom
Faith Stealer
The Last
Caerdroia (absolutely brilliant)
The Next Life
Terror Firma
Scaredy Cat
Other Lives
Time Works
Something Inside
Memory Lane
Absolution
The Girl Who Never Was

And that's that set of adventures! In a totally separate set of audios (these ones are an hour long, as opposed to the above, which tend to clock in a two hours), we've got:

Blood of the Daleks (2-parter)
Horror of Glam Rock
Immortal Beloved
Phobos
No More Lies
Human Resources (2-parter)
Dead London
Max Warp
Brave New Town
The Skull of Sobek
Grand Theft Cosmos
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
Sisters of the Flame
Vengeance of Morbius

There you go! Hope that's what you've been looking for. :D

[oldstarnewshine.livejournal.com]

...O_O *falls prostrate at your feet* Thank you!!

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

I'm watching in "regular" order, have been for a while now, and I'm still on the First Doctor stuff. I have access to everything so that's not the problem, and I'm enjoying it a lot so that's not what's slowing me, either. The issue is finding the time to watch all of it along with everything else I'm way behind on. I just watched the entire first season of Gossip Girl in three days because I was a YEAR behind with that show.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

I kept finding that my will to marathon a bunch of serials was inversely proportional to the number of reconstructions involved. I can definitely listen to them - it just takes me a while to adjust. Frustrating! But yes, I'm kind of hoping this weird chronological order will encourage me, as there is a lot of jumping around (though, by the looks of The List so far, massive chunks of the First Doctor's era are all squished together anyway. Hee!).

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Watch them in production order. It's not like the show's adhering to any strong guidelines for chronological order anyway. Timey-wimey, remember?

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Timey-wimey! Production order is too suspiciously easy. ;)

It's probably not the sort of Epic Project I'll ever finish, but it is a really nice way to get a feel for the sheer number of serials involved - a kind of flyover history of the Whoniverse. Also, it gives me a chance to rewatch a bunch of the historicals in a row, as I do love them so.

(As mentioned above, though, it's also a sort of Substitute Randomiser that saves me the trouble of coming up with some still more arcane way of watching lots of random Who. Hee!)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

That's an insane idea! Have fun! (And let me know where to send the nice men with the white coat with long sleeves! :P)

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

That sounds hugely ambitious and even more hugely cool. Stop tempting me, I know I'll never actually be wonderfully crazy enough be motivated to do it. ...also, I'd leave out the auxiliary media, at least for the first time around. It's just so sprawling, you'll spend all your time prepping and never even get to the rewatch.

In it's honor, my Who icon which seems to take place the earliest of the ones with a clear setting.

[thisbluespirit]

Coming in way too late to talk like a pirate, it sounds like a fun, properly Who-ish idea in its madness. And there is Lance Parkin's A History which purports to have everything in order if you can beg, steal or borrow a copy. (But About Time 3 is better on the UNIT dating. Not that I'm a sad, obsessed fan, or anything...)

I've never watched the whole lot in order, but I have watched everything I have in order. Which reminds me, I seem to have stopped at the Hand of Fear for some reason...

[thisbluespirit]

Whoops, should add, I have said book & could give you its opinions the date of anything pre-2006 - I don't have the updated version! (The Appendix pretty much is the sort of list you're after.