#krillitane

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Quite a few people responded to my post about low budget vs low stakes in Doctor Who by saying they wanted a lower budget because they wanted more practical effects, but they are not synonymous with low budgets. Practical effects can often be more expensive and time consuming than using CGI, that's why you can have a horde of Macra or multiple Krillitane in an episode, but never more than one Judoon with its helmet off.

[thegr8destroyer]

K-9 really has grown

[doctorwhogirlie]

R1: Which is your favourite?

The Celestial Toymaker

Krillitane

Voting ended onJan 4, 2025

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The Celestial Toymaker has been a foe twice in Doctor Who. Once during Classic and once during New. He's a brilliant character, and a very fun concept. He appears in The Giggle in New Who, a special episode for the 60th anniversary.

Krillitane are maybe one of the coolest creatures from Doctor Who. I'd love to see their evolutionary timeline, because they go to different planets, take the best part from the habitants from said planet and evolue themself to have the traits. Annoying they only show up in one episode, School Reunion.

[fully-embracing-my-autopsy]

According to my calculations based on Doctor Who/Torchwood lore, Jack was looking for Gray for about ~220 years, if he continued during his Torchwood head years, until Hart found him

[i-was-mislead]

The “vacuum packed rats” scene from School Reunion in Doctor Who: snowbaz edition.

Simon, finding a cupboard full of vacuum packed rats: Ha! I caught you!! You are a vampire!!

Baz, very confused: I didn’t even know this was here. Thanks, Snow.

Baz, five minutes later: okay but actually why the fuck does the mage have a cupboard of vacuum packed rats??

[cassidy5002]

No longer a Krillitane.

It only took two seasons of Buffy but I have finally stopped associating Anthony Head with the Doctor Who character that he played in School Reunion (S02 E03). I no longer expect him to sprout bat wings and start screeching when he shows up. I haven’t seen School Reunion in years. I don’t know why it stuck in my memory but it did. Doctor Who gets points for memorability, I guess?

(He was also King Uther Pendragon in BBC Merlin but that role didn’t stick in my head as much as Doctor Who)

[doctornolonger]

I think one of the main reasons Doctor Who has so many spin-offs is because the BBC did (or still does idk) give writers copyright to their creations, hence why spinoffs can be made and the BBC doesnt have any say in it despite the connection to Dr.Who or at least that's my understanding of it.

I completely agree: this was definitely the case for “classic” Doctor Who, at least. Unfortunately, I have reason to believe that this is no longer the case with NuWho: I was recently in touch with the creator of the Absorbaloff, and he said that, if authors create original monsters or concepts for a NuWho story, they’re not able to use or license them for anything else without the BBC signing off.

It makes me sad that, should Doctor Who be cancelled sometime in the future, there’ll be an absolute dearth of NuWho spinoffs: some of the funnest parts of the (first) Wilderness Era were BBV’s individually-licensed Zygon and Auton homevids, but we won’t be able to get the same thing with the Krillitane or the Janus. It makes me worried about the franchise’s long-term future.

[dalekplatypus]

I didn’t have time to do inktober today (i’m planning a special one for todays theme that’ll have to wait till the weekend) so instead here’s a picture of a krillitane holding sparklers and a rat kebab that i drew at some point.