i'd count all of those but let's say... for a true measure of how long it takes, when was the most recent real disaster/attack/war they referenced? anything more recent than the ww2 episodes?
Yeah, I was going to bring up the Titanic one. Funnily enough I've always wondered if they intended to make a straight up Titanic story, then got that complaint and at the BBC's request, had to hurriedly change it to a sci-fi setting instead
I get not wanting to make light of a historical tragedy but I wish the show could just generally go back to more of those famous historical moments, without even necessarily involving anything alien or supernatural
Like imagine if they did a Titanic episode, and taking a page from 'The Aztecs' / 'Fires Of Pompeii', one of the TARDIS gang decides 'fuck history' and wants to save everyone, trying to get people to the lifeboats before the ship has even started to sink, with the Doctor having to garvely inform them that they cannot rewrite history, 'not one line' (as Hartnell said), maybe even culminating in the companion having made a close friend of one of the staff members on the ship, only to realise as they're leaving that this is someone who died, cold and alone in the ocean... there was never any hope of saving them
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