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When superstars like John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Bobby Lashley, and The Rock debuted, you might not have been able to predict their entire career trajectory but you had a pretty good idea where they were going to end up and hw successful they were going to be. I don't think anyone who say Memphis era K-Krush, or even Smackdown era R-Truth could have predicted he'd be in the world title scene in two different companies, spend time as a beloved heel, or that his last ten years would involve him being everyone's favorite airheaded wrestler. But he did all that and more. Hopefully, he'll pop up back in TNA or AEW for a nostalgia run before he retires for good but, for right now, it looks like his wrestling days may be over, so please enjoy this series of episodes. Each is between 55 and 94 minutes and features some of his best promos be they the intensely serious TNA speeches or the ridiculous skits with The Judgment Day in WWE. I will miss every aspect of R-Truth's characters. Except, possibly, the 24/7 championship. 101. Get Rowdy (1999-2001) Our introduction to R-Truth comes from his brief stint in NWA’s Memphis territory. After a couple of matches he gets snatched away by WWE. This is not the hilarious comedy wrestler WWE fans came to know and love, This was an athletic rapper who did a lot of acrobatics in and outside of the ring. He looks like he’s headed up the mid-card but he got cut during the middle of the dreaded WWE/WCW/ECE InVasion storyline. We also see our first R-Truth Intergender match. It’s going to be years before we see another but the prototype here was a blast. 1. Aj Styles (NWA Champ) vs R-Truth (as K-Krush) from NWA Wildside 11.06.1999. 2. R-Truth (as K-Krush) vs Brian Christopher (as Grandmaster Sexay) from Memphis Championship Wrestling 02.19.2000. 3. Road Dogg and R-Truth (as K-Kwik) vs The Radicalz from Smackdown 11.16.2000. 4. Taz & Kaientai vs R-Truth (as K-Kwik) and Too Cool from Raw Is War 01.15.2001. 5. R-Truth (as K-Kwik) vs Taz from Sunday Night Heat 1.21.2001. 6. Matt Hardy (WWE European Champ) vs R-Truth (as K-Kwik) from Smackdown 06.14.2001. 7. Jacqueline and R-Truth (as K-Kwik) vs Haku and Ivory from Jakked 06.16.2001. MAIN EVENT: BILLY KIDMAN (WCW CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMP) vs R-TRUTH (as K-KWIK) from SUNDAY NIGHT HEAT 07.15.2001 102. The Killings Field (2002-2003) R-Truth’s run in TNA can be divided into thirds, this first third reintroduces him to the NWA and then puts the belt on him, as he is easily the best TNA-era NWA champion until AJ Styles. His run had a few flat matches but that was due to booking, not his talent. He puts on some bangers here, including the last ever good Scott Hall match, which was also the first good Scott Hall match in years. The ending is bad because lol, Vince Russo, but again that’s a problem of this entire TNA-era 1. R-Truth (as K-Krush) vs Norman Smiley at TNA #5. 2. Ken Shamrock (NWA Champ) vs R-Truth (as K-Krush) at TNA #8. 3. R-Truth (as Ron Killings)(NWA Champ) vs Lo Ki at TNA #15. 4. R-Truth (as Ron Killings)(NWA Champ) vs Scott Hall at TNA #19. MAIN EVENT: R-TRUTH (as RON KILLINGS)(NWA CHAMP) vs JEFF JARRETT at TNA #22 103. 3 Live Kru (2003, 2004) Part two of Truth’s TNA run is almost entirely filled with multi-man matches including his run with Konnan and Road Dogg (as BG James) as 3 Live Kru. 1. R-Truth (as The Truth) vs Elix Skipper at TNA #39. 2. David Young, Disco Inferno, and Simon Diamond (NWA Tag Champs) vs 3 Live Kru at TNA #64. 3. 3 Live Kru vs America’s Most Wanted vs The Gathering vs David Young & Disco Inferno vs Ekmo & Sonny Sakai at TNA #71. 4. AJ Styles (NWA Champ) vs Chris Harris vs Raven vs R-Truth (as The Truth) in a Deadly Draw Match at TNA #98. MAIN EVENT: R-TRUTH (as The Truth)(NWA CHAMP) vs AJ STYLES vs CHRIS HARRIS vs JEFF JARRETT vs RAVEN in a KING OF THE MOUNTAIN MATCH 104. Team Truth (2006, 2007) The end of Truth’s TNA run was more multi-man madness but with more of a center on him as a character. And, in the end, we see him team with future New Day member, Xavier Woords (as Consequences Creed) in his debut match. 1. Abyss, America’s Most Wanted & Jeff Jarrett vs Rhyno, R-Truth (as The Truth) & The Dudley Boyz (as Team 3D) at Destination X 2006. 2. AJ Styles, Rhyno, R-Truth (as The Truth), & Sting vs America’s Most Wanted, Jeff Jarrett & Scott Steiner at Lockdown 2006. 3. LAX vs R-Truth (as The Truth) & Sonjay Dutt at Victory Road 2006. MAIN EVENT: R-TRUTH (as THE TRUTH) and XAVIER WOODS (as CONSEQUENCES CREED)(NWA TAG CHAMPS) vs AJ STYLES & TOMKO at BOUND FOR GLORY 2007 105. Little Jimmys (2011) Truth came back to the WWE in 2008. He had some fun, short matches on Smackdown but his career really picked back up in 2011, when he went full-heel, full-comedy, and began a feud with John Cena. 1. R-Truth vs Dolph Ziggler from Raw 04.18.2011. 2. R-Truth vs John Morrison from Raw 04.18.2011. 3. R-Truth vs John Cena from Raw 04.18.2011. 4. R-Truth vs John Morrison from Raw 04.25.2011 MAIN EVENT: JOHN CENA (WWE CHAMP) vs R-TRUTH from RAW 05.30.2011 106. The Truth Has Set Me Free (2011) 2011 was easily Truth’s best year in wrestling. There are a lot of skits in this era but they’re worth it. Truth was gold on the mic, and his brief time near the top of the WWE is worth several episodes to truly appreciate his genius. 1. Awesome Truth vs John Cena & Alex Riley from Raw 06.06.2011. 2. John Cena (WWE Champ) vs R-Truth at Capitol Punishment 2011. MAIN EVENT: ELIMINATION MATCH Alex-Riley, John Cena & Randy Orton vs Christian, The Miz & Randy Orton from Raw 06.20.2011 107. Awesome Truth (2011) The fun Easter Egg of this episode is that the opening match is the setup for CM Punk’s pipebomb, while the main event match doesn’t have R-Truth in, but he makes a major impact. 1. John Cena (WWE Champ) vs R-Truth in a Tables Match from Raw 06.27.2011. 2. John Morrison, Kofi Kingston & Rey Mysterio vs Alberto Del Rio, The Miz & R-Truth at Summerslam 2011. 3. R-Truth vs CM Punk from Raw 09.05.2011. MAIN EVENT: ALBERTO DEL RIO vs CM PUNK vs JOHN CENA in HELL IN A CELL at HELL IN A CELL 2011 108. Trouble In Paradise (2011, 2012) When The Awesome Truth implodes, R-Truth hits a lull in his career until he forms another tag team with future world champion, Kofi Kingston. They have a brief run but fun run as tag champs here. 1. John Cena & The Rock vs Awesome Truth at Survivor Series 2011. 2. R-Truth vs The Miz from Raw 01.23. 2012. 3. Kofi Kingston & R-Truth vs Epico & Primo from Raw 02.20.2012. 4. Kofi Kingston & R-Truth (WWE Tag Champs) vs Jack Swagger & Dolph Ziggler at Over The Limit 2012. MAIN EVENT: KOFI KINGSTON & R-TRUTH (WWE TAG CHAMPS) vs TEAM HELL NO at NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS 2012 109. R-Truth Is For The Children (2012-2016) This is peak clueless R-Truth. After some charming matches from the short-lived but entertaining kids' WWE show, Saturday Morning Slam, R-Truth begins cutting promos for matches he isn't in, and preparing for the wrong sort of match when he is actually booked in them. 1. William Regal vs R-Truth from Saturday Morning Slam #13. 2. R-Truth vs Cesaro from Saturday Morning Slam #33. 3. R-Truth & Xavier Woods vs The Real Americans at a House Show 03.28.2013. MAIN EVENT: THE MIZ & MIZDOW vs DOLPH ZIGGLER & R-TRUTH (as R-ZIGGLER) from SMACKDOWN 09.24.2014 110. US Champ 24/7 (2019) I think everyone was pleasantly surprised at R-Truth's second run as the US Champ. He was only in five title matches but they were all excellent. Then he spent more time than anyone as the 24/7champ. That was less excellent but occasionally fun. 1. Shinsuke Nakamura (WWE US Champ) vs R-Truth from Smackdown 01.29.2019. 2. R-Truth (WWE US Champ) vs Rusev from Smackdown 01.29.2019. 3. R-Truth (WWE US Champ) vs Andrade vs Rey Mysterio from Smackdown 02.26.2019. 4. R-Truth (WWE US Champ) vs Andrade vs Rey Mysterio vs Samoa Joe from Smackdown 03.05.2019. 5. Samoa Joe (WWE US Champ) vs Andrade vs Rey Mysterio vs R-Truth at Fastlane 2019. MAIN EVENT: R-TRUTH’S BEST OF 24/7 TITLE MATCHES 111. No Judgment Day (2020-2024) R-Truth really wanted to be in Judgment Day. Judgment Day really didn't want anything to do with R-Truth. This was basically a re-tread of his run with Goldust as The Golden Truth but the jokes here were funnier and the matches better, so we skipped over The Golden Truth entirely to get to this superior storyline. 1. R-Truth vs JD McDonogh in a Miracle On 34th Street Fight from Raw 12.18.2023. 2. Awesome Truth vs Judgment Day from Raw 01.01.2024. 3. The Miz vs JD McDonough from Raw 01.08.2024. 4. Awesome Truth vs Judgment Day from Raw 01.15.2024. MAIN EVENT: ROYAL RUMBLE MATCH 2024. 112. The Ron Cena Retirement Tour (2024, 2025)
This seems to be the end of R-Truth's WWE wrestling career. Once he wrapped up his Judgment Day story with the surprise title run as part of the reunited Awesome Truth, he disappeared for a while, resurfacing to try and take down WWE Champ, John Cena. It looked to be a reigniting of R-Truth's character but, alas, he was let go by WWE shortly after his shot at the WWE title. 1. Awesome Truth & #DIY vs Judgment Day from Raw 02.19.2024, 2. Six Pack Ladder Match For The WWE Smackdown Tag Championship. A-Town Down Under vs Awesome Truth vs #DIY vs Judgement Day vs New Catch Republic vs New Day at Wrestlemania 40. 3. Awesome Truth (WWE Smackdown Tag Champs) vs #DIY from Raw 04.22.2024. 4.Awesome Truth (WWE Smackdown Tag Champs) vs Judgement Day from Raw 06.24.2024. MAIN EVENT: JOHN CENA (WWE CHAMP) VS R-TRUTH (as RON CENA) in a SURPRISE TITLE VS CAREER MATCH from SATURDAY NIGHT’S MAIN EVENT 05.24.2025
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Now that The Doctor knows who he is, and knows to keep a better eye on his companions, it's time for him to have some therapy sessions about his interpersonal relationships. And once that's over, there is also a problem with planets disappearing. Sometimes, even entire solar systems. Three major interplanetary problems are introduced (and two of them solved) this season, amongst The Doctors and his companions trying to get some downtime, only to be sucked into some really weird traps. Donna is the A+ companion in this season. As The Runaway Bride she encounters two different faces of The Doctor, only...they're the same face? What does that mean 301. The Runaway Bride
(10, Donna) We ended our last season with The Doctor's sad separation from a companion. Then a random woman just appeared on his TARDIS, this is his first adventure with that woman, and serves as a mini-therapy session as he talks about his grief and loss. There's also a spectacularly campy villain. 302. The Doctor's Wife (11, Amy, Rory) The Doctor's...married? Not really. We determined last season that Leather Doctor and Smiling Doctor both belileve they are the last surviving Time People, so when The Doctor received a message begging for help from a fellow Time Person, he rushes to a planet where we get an in-depth look at a relationship that the series usually ignores. 303. The Three Doctors (1, 2, 3, Brigadier, Jo, Benton, Omega) We saw in the first season how The Flute Doctor was exiled to Earth and forced to regenerate into The Kung-Fu Doctor. This Doctor is mostly Earth-bound but occasionally the incompetent Time People need his help in space and send him on very specific missions. Well, they finally have one so important that they need not just Kung-Fu Doctor but also Flute Doctor and Grouchy Doctor too all add their unput to stop a rogue Time Person. 304. The Celestial Toymaker (1, Steven, Dodo, The Toymaker) This is a wacky, mostly animated episode (due to the BBC having erased a bunch of the episodes from the 1960s) about a chaos god messing around with The Grouchy Doctor and his companions. 305. Midnight (10, Donna) Smiling Doctor takes a break from his companion (The Runaway Bride) and goes on a relaxing train trip for tourists where things get real weird and real wrong real fast. 306. Pyramids Of Mars (4, Sarah Jane, Sutekh) Scarf Doctor and Sarah Jane end up being trapped by The God Of Death in a fun, archeology-focused adventure. 307. Planet Of The Ood (10, Donna) A very polite race of aliens is being used as slaves by a greedy corporation. The Smiling Doctor and his Runaway Bride get caught up on the corporation's home planet and are determined to end the slave ring. 308. The Sontarem Strategem (10, Donna, Martha, Sylvia, Wilfred, The Sontarans, UNIT) One of The Doctor's companions from the first season is now working for UNIT and sends a distress signal to The Doctor. A warlike race that we've encountered a couple of times has created technology that threatens human life in a variety of ways. 309. The Poison Sky (10, Donna, Martha, Sylvia, Wilfred, The Sontarans, UNIT) Continuing from the last episode, The Smiling Doctor and his companions try and save the Earth. An evil and easily manipulated tech nerd is involved in the possible destruction of the human race, which hasn't at all been relevant at any point in 21st century history. 310. The Doctor's Daughter (10, Donna, Martha) We know The Doctor has a granddaughter floating around, surely he must have a child that produced said grandchild. While his UNIT friend and The Runaway Bride are still travelling with him, he ends up in the midst of an unusual civil war that creates the circumstances for him to have a child. 311. The Pandorica Opens (11, Amy, Rory, River Song, Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Autons, Sycorax, Judoons, Silurians) Bowtie Doctor stumbles into a trap connected to those weirds cracks in the walls he's been seeing since the first season. Also, that woman from the library in the first season appears to be involved. 312. The Big Bang (11, Amy Rory, River Song, Daleks, Autons) Oh no, is The Doctor the reasons for all those cracks in the walls? Is that woman from the library way more important to The Doctor than we could have possibly imagined? Did one of his companions wait literally thousands of years to re-enter The Doctor's life? What's the deal with the fez? 313. Turn Left (10, Donna, Rose, Sylvia, Wilfred) While The Smiling Doctor checks out a street fair, The Runaway Bride enters a fortune teller's booth and experiences what her life would be like without The Doctor, which, in turn, shows her what would happen to The Doctor without her. 314. The Stolen Earth (10, Donna, Rose, Sarah Jane, Martha, Jack Harkness, Sylvia, Wilfred, Harriet Jones, Gwen, Ianto, Davros, Daleks) Luckily for everybody everywhere, The Smiling Doctor and The Runaway Bride did encounter each other and now the two of them, having run into Bad Wolf again, end up encountering a ton of characters from our first three seasons as the Earth is transported away and invaded by Daleks. 315. Journey's End (10, Donna, Rose, Sarah Jane, Martha, Jack Harkness, Mickey, Jackie, Sylvia, Wilfred, Gwen, Ianto, Davros, Daleks, K-9) K-9 is pretty much a kitchen sink, so let's just use the cliche "everything and the kitchen sink" are thrown into this episode as The Smiling Doctor must save The Earth from The Daleks and then somehow get it back into its proper galaxy. 316. The Rebel Flesh (11, Amy, Rory, Mme Kovarian) They're not precisely autons but there is a manaufactured alien race of doppelgangers designed to keep miners from being killed in dangerous operations. This, of course, leads to the problem of Who Are The Real People and Who Are The Dopplegangers? 317. The Almost People (11, Amy, Rory, Mme Kovarian) Things from the last episode get even more complicated as a Doppleganger Doctor gets involved in the adventure. Which one is he? Naturally. 318. City Of Death (4, Romana) Time to go back to The Scarf Doctor Days for a good old fashioned art heist involving The Mona Lisa. 319. The Space Museum (1, Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Daleks) Now let's travel even further back as The Grouchy Doctor and a couple of his original companions find a museum in which there are exhibits focused on them! 320. Kerblam! (13, Graham, Ryan, Yas) It's Amazon.com in space. The Steampunk Doctor sees how poorly employees are treated by a space corporation. See how it indirectly helps AI start to kill its employees, even though it was programmed to help them. See how corporations make everything go horribly, horribly wrong whilst, naturally, underpaying their workers. 321. The Star Beast (14, Donna, Sylvia, Shirley, Shaun, Rose Noble) The Smiling Doctor is back but having been regenerated into his old face. He doesn't understand it. Things then take a worse turn when he encounters The Runaway Bride who, last time we saw her, would literally explode if she ever rememberd The Doctor and her adventures with him. Oh, there's also a very cute little alien who needs help. 322. The Giggle (14, Donna, Kate Lethebridge-Stewart, Mel, 15, Sylvia, Shirley, The Toymaker, Shaun, Rose Noble, Vlinx) It's another multi-Doctor, multi-companion episode as that chaos god who we encountered earlier this season has laid a trap in the early days of television that has become a problem in the early 21st century. Can the extensive team The Once Again Smiling But Not As Much Doctor has assembled stop the chaos god from overpowering humanity? 323. The Devil's Chord (15, Ruby, Maestro, Susan Triad) The Once Again Smiling Doctor regenerated into The Crying Doctor during the last episode. This new face has a new companion and a new very campy, very fun antagonist. Buuuuuuut...is she connected to the chaos god from the last episode? And if so, are there more of these gods? 324. Lux (15, Belinda, Mrs Flood) Yes, there are more of these gods! The Crying Doctor has yet another new companion and they end up having to rescue a theater full of people who've been trapped by....a cartoon? It's a mixed media adventure with a lot of meta references but it's really fun. 325. The Well (15, Belinda, Mrs Flood) We end this season with a call back to The Smiling Doctor's train trip. It appears that the antagonist, who we never precisely met, still exists and has become, potentially, much more dangerous. In the background of this story, we learn that The Earth seems to have not just disappeared physically this time but disappeared historically, as if it never existed. This seems like it might be a big problem next season. I started the X-Files Headcanon project during the pandemic and ended up being distracted by a thousand other things. We're considering watching this Headcanon in a couple of months when we wrap up our watchthrough of The Stargate Headcanon. It will be a fun tonal shift, as the last season of Stargate was pretty bleak, and the X-Files goes from "just spooky" to "occasionally very silly" pretty early in its run. 41. Paper Hearts
(Mulder, Scully, Skinner, Samantha Mulder, Teena Mulder) The whole root of Mulder's obsession with aliens began when his sister was abducted by aliens. But what if she wasn't abducted by aliens but by a serial killer. 42. Never Again (Mulder, Scully) Did you ever get a really bad tattoo? Not just poorly drawn but one that speaks to you and leads you to to commit crimes? Me, neither. 43. Momento Mori (Mulder, Scully, Skinner, Smoking Man, The Longe Gunmen, Grey Haired Man, Margaret Scully) What if there was a type of cancer caused by alien abduction? Would that mean that Scully has that type of cancer? Mulder hires The Longe Gunmen to find some answers. 44. Small Potatoes (Mulder, Scully, Skinner) A series of babies are born with tails. This seems very alieny. 45. Zero Sum (Skinner, Smoking Man, Grey Haired Man, Mulder, Scully, First Elder, Marita Covarrubias) The bees from Season Four are back! Also, Skinner is definitely up to something that Mulder and Scully might want to be aware of. 46. Demons (Mulder, Scully, Smoking Man, Samantha Mulder, Teena Mulder) Mulder wakes up with a headache and missing time. Did he kill someone during that time? 47. The Unusual Suspects (The Lone Gunmen, X, Mulder) The Lone Gunmen are caught running from a box containing a naked Mulder. They're caught by the police from the show Homicide: Life From The Street, which means Lieutenant Munch from Law & Order and a billion other shows, also exists in the X-Files Universe. 48. The Post-Modern Prometheus (Mulder, Scully) The monster of the week is a Frankenstein in a comicbook style story. 49. Kill Switch (Muder, Scully, The Lone Gunmen) Artificial Intelligence is the center of an episode written by famed Cyberpunk writer, William Gibson. 50.Bad Blood (Mulder, Scully, Skinner) We're just over halfway through this Headcanon, and we're just now encountering the possibility of vampires? Well, Mulder and Scully aren't fully convinced they've encountered vampires and decide to get their stories straight before getting Skinner involved. At its core, the entire modern era of Doctor Who has been less about creating good sci-fi and more about being nostalgic for the 20th century version of the show. And that's ok. It has created some wonderful emotional moments and some genuinely good sci-fi that isn't dependent on you enjoying a random sci-fi episode from fifty years ago. Russsel T Davies was the showrunner for the 9th and 10th doctors, which was a love letter to Daleks, Cybermen, and The Master that also introduced three very different companions who each had their own merit, and got to team up with some classic companions for a big showdown at the end of his run. Steven Moffat, who wrote the 11th and 12th Doctors, liked creating his own villains, mainly The Weeping Angels and The Silence, but drawing in some more obscure 20th century villains like The Zygons. Sure, he also threw The Daleks and some Cybermen in from time to time, and he had a wonderful take on The Master but his series was really a love letter to fairy tales. His ending was flat and uninspiring but there were tons of highlights during his run. Chris Chibnall, who exclusively wrote the 13th Doctor, wrote terrible fanfic in the guise of Doctor Who episodes. Occasionally, one of his writing staff would sneak in a good episode while he wasn't looking. He didn't know The Doctor at all, and so wrote her as a woman who never knew what she was doing and never felt comfortable being herself. It was very frustrating. His Master was initially fun but got bogged down in a terrible storyline called The Timeless Child that also turned the Cybermen into a much stupider and toothless enemy than previous versions. The first two times he wrote The Daleks were very boring but at the very end of his run, he wrote a wonderful time loop Dalek episode and then threw a lot of nostalgia at his final episode, which ended up being one of the very few highlights of his era. Then Russel T Davies came back for the 14th and 15th Doctors, and he wrote...a love letter to his previous time writing Doctor Who. It's very self-indulgent. It really relies on people already loving the series and knowing obscure episodes from the 1970s. There are no Daleks, no Master, no Cybermen. There is a whole new pantheon of villains who are mostly very entertaining but who are also tied to obscure 20th century villains that only Russel T Davies cares about. It was a slog to get into but then early in his second season, he started to do something really interesting and I was totally on board for his finale. And then I watched his finale, and it was awful. But it doesn't negate its interesting setup. If you've been on this Headcanon journey, I think you'll find this to be a really strong season. If you don't bother with the beginning of the 15th Doctor's adventures or his terrible final episode, you get a much stronger Doctor than poor Jodie Whittaker's 14th Doctor from last season. Episode 1: The Star Beast
(10/14, Donna Noble, Wilfred, Sylvia, Rose Noble, Shaun, Ruth) Using an amazing villain from the Big Finish Audio Plays, The Fourteenth Doctor turns out to be the same face as The Tenth Doctor, which seems dangerous when he runs into Donna Noble who, last we knew, would literally explode if she ever remembered who The Doctor was. Her whole family returns, including her daughter for this space shenanigans on Earth story. Episode 2: The Giggle (10/14, 15, Mel, Donna Noble, Kate Stewart, Sylvia, Shaun, Rose Noble, Shirley, Vlinx) An audio remnant from one of the first ever TV shows wreaks havoc on Earth as people start behaving like Youtube comments. Neil Patrick Harris as The Toymaker, is clearly responsible for this mess, and it's up to The Doctor, Donna, Kate Stewart, and a long absent companion of The Sixth and Seventh Doctor to sort everything out. Also, Two Doctors! Episode 3: The Devil's Chord (15, Ruby, Susan Triad) The new face of The Doctor has a new companion, and they decide that their first time-traveling adventure should be seeing The Beatles record their first album. Unfortunately, someone has altered time so that there's no more joy or emotion in music. This is a very silly episode but it's tied into The Giggle and is a campy blast! Episode 4: 73 Yards (Ruby, Kate Stewart, Susan Triad, Carla, Cherry, 15, Mrs Flood) A Doctor-Light episode where Ruby finds herself on her own. Luckily, it's on her own planet, in her own time, relatively close to where she lives. Unfortunately, she's haunted by the specter of a woman who won't leave her, and who drives anyone who tries to talk to her away from Ruby forever. There are some wonderful moments of humor at the beginning, and the overall plot is a nice little slice of political sci-fi tropism. Episode 5: Dot And Bubble (15, Ruby, Susan Triad) Doctor Who has swung wide several times trying to do episodes about social media. They're usually terrible. This one has the nice twist of Russel T Davies channeling Steven Moffat's "Blink" but imagining what would happen if the people The Doctor was trying to save were more revilable than sympathetic. Episode 6: Lux (15, Belinda, Mrs Flood) The first ever live action/animated hybrid episode is also the first episode that goes full-meta, as The Doctor and a new companion find their non-white selves in mid-twentieth century Florida where they have to flout segregation to solve the mystery of a group of people who disappeared while watching a cartoon in a movie theater. This is a really fun episode that reminds us that the pantheon of gods we started seeing back in "The Giggle" are still floating around wreaking havoc. Episode 7: The Well (15, Belinda, Mrs Flood) A terrifying sequel to the David Tennant era episode, "Midnight", The Doctor and Belinda encounter a planet where a military base has massacred themselves for reasons no one can explain. The one survivor is a Deaf woman who watched all the madness unfold. We also discover that a small problem from the last episode (they can't seem to get back to Earth on the day Belinda left) is a much bigger problem as even humanoid aliens have never even heard of Earth. Episode 8: Lucky Day (Ruby, Kate Stewart, Shirley, Conrad, 15, Belinda, Carla, Cherry, Vlinx, Mrs Flood) Ruby meets and falls in love with someone who, as a child, encountered The Doctor and Belinda and who has become obsessed with them. Of course, nothing is as it seems, and UNIT has to step in and help her pick up the pieces when Conrad turns out to be a very human villain. Episode 9: The Story And The Engine (15, Belinda, Mrs Flood, The Fugitive Doctor) The Doctor goes to his favorite barber shop in Nigeria to relax, only to discover that the shop is being used to fuel a god machine using storytelling. The Doctor is briefly shown as The Fugitive Doctor, as we discover that she left one of her companions behind to become entangled into the storytelling engine. Episode 10: The Interstellar Song Contest (15, Belinda, Mrs Flood, Susan Foreman, The Rani) It's Eurovision in space! With a touch of the comic series "Saga". A terrorist from an oppressed race is willing to commit mutiple genocides to get his revenge on the corporation that destroyed his planet. Of course, The Doctor isn't having it. Holiday Special: Wish World (15, Belinda, Ruby, Shirley, Mrs Flood, The Rani, Conrad, Kate Stewart, Mel, Susan Triad, Carla, Cherry) The Rani and Mrs Flood's plan comes together as they use Conrad and a pantheon baby to create a mid-twentieth-century-like dystopia. This is technically part one of a two-part finale but, trust me, you're better off not ever watching it. The second season of my non-chronological doctor Who watchthrough focuses on two of the most famous villains in the canon. The Daleks and The Cybermen. Each of these inhuman alien races is focused on evolving humanoids from their emotional baggage to create genocidal killing machines. While they are both at the forefront of this season, the underlying story is one of how people process being abandoned. We will see several companions separated from the various faces of The Doctor and see how they cope with life without him. And because this is a season of an action sci-fi show, we'll end the storyline by throwing a bunchh of Daleks and Cybermen at a love story and see how The Doctor copes with it. 201. Dalek
(9, Rose, Adam, Daleks) The Leather Doctor and Rose are visiting a museum when they stumble upon an alien that The Leather Doctor identifies as an ultimate killing machine. Why is it so dangerous, though? 202. Eve Of The Daleks (13, Yasmine, Dan, Daleks) Steampunk Doctor encounters a time loop on Earth where a small band of Daleks keeps resetting the timeline, resulting in them and some innocent humans repeatedly dying. 203. Genesis Of The Daleks (4, Sarah Jane, Harry, Daleks, Davros) Meet The Scarf Doctor! This jellybaby obsessed face of The Doctor has taken his companions all the way back to when The Daleks were invented, and he debates the ethics of destroying them before they become an interstellar problem. 204. Ark In Space (4, Sarah Jane, Harry) Scarf Doctor and the crew from the last episode live out the movie Alien, only instead of the terrifying xenomorphs, they're mostly battling bugs and bubble wrap. 205. Terror Of The Zygons (4, Sarah Jane, Harry, Brigadier, Benton) It's the Loch Ness monster! And weird rubber chameleon aliens. They are Not messing around. It's some good old fashioned mistaken identity shenanigans with The Scarf Doctor and friends! 206. The Brain Of Morbius (4, Sarah Jane, Sisters of Karn) It's a Frankenstein's monster style adventure with Scarf Doctor and Sarah Jane. The lovely Sisterhood of Karn will be reappearing a few times in this continuity, and their first appearance is a fun one. This episode has it all: buggy aliens, a wrecked spaceship, and an assistant with a hook hand! 207. The Hand Of Fear (4, Sarah Jane) A criminal in stasis has his pod blown up but his hand survives (this part of the season has some serious George Lucas vibes), and causes chaos for Scarf Doctor and Sarah Jane. 208. The Long Game (9, Rose, Adam) The Leather Doctor and his companions end up on a sattelite that broadcasts TV shows to Earth and other planets. But it's bad. TV bad. 209. Vengeance On Varos (7, Peri) A corrupt government uses TV to broadcast public executions to entertain the masses. It's not long before The Overdressed Doctor and his companion end up on the chopping block. 210. Dot and Bubble (15, Ruby, Susan Triad) If TV is bad, wait until you see The Crying Doctor's take on social media. A planet of influencers is being targeted by a species of monsters that they can't seem to be aware of. (No, it's not The Weeping Angels.) 211. The Empty Child (9, Rose, Jack Harkness) It's London in the Blitz, and The Leather Doctor and Rose encounter a small child in a gas mask obsessed with finding his mommy. Is there something demonic at work, or is it alien in nature? They also meet another time traveler. 212. The Doctor Dances (9, Rose, Jack Harkness) Continuing from the last episode, we learn more about the people wearing gas masks, as well as Jack Harkness. 213. The Dalek Invasion Of Earth (1, Susan Foreman, Barbara, Ian, Daleks) In a dystopian future, Daleks have settled on Earth and completely subjugate the human race. Fussy Doctor, his grandaughter, and the companions he abducted last season must survive in this world, at least until they can get the TARDIS to take them away. 214. A Girl's Best Friend (Sarah Jane, K-9) In the last episode, The Fussy Doctor abandoned a companion when she wasn't doing precisely what he wanted. Earlier this season, The Scarf Doctor abandoned a companion who wanted to leave. Now we catch up with Sarah Jane when she receives a package from The Scarf Doctor, which contains a robotic dog that will help her solve a very Scooby Doo like mystery in her life back on Earth. 215. Bad Wolf (9, Rose, Jack Harkness, Mickey, Jackie, Daleks) The Leather Doctor, Rose, and Jack Harkness are ensnared by the TV satellite from earlier this season. Only now it's being run by Daleks! 216. The Parting Of Ways (9, Rose, Jack Harkness, Mickey, Jackie, Daleks) Everything looks especially bleak, so The Doctor sends Rose back to Earth while he and Jack battle the Daleks. Only Rose refuses to be separated from The Doctor and gets her mother and boyfriend to help her get back to the space station. 217. School Reunion (10, Rose, Sarah Jane, Mickey, K-9) While on a mission to figure out some strange goings on at a British school, The Smiling Doctor and his crew run into Sarah Jane who is also investigating the school. How will she react to this much later face of The Doctor who abandoned her so long ago (from both their perspectives). 218. Rise Of The Cybermen (10, Rose, Mickey, Jackie, Pete, Cybermen) The Smiling Doctor, Rose, and Mickey accidentally pass through dimensions and land on an alternate Earth where Rose's father is alive and is involved in the creation of Earth's version of The Cybermen. 219. Age Of Steel (10, Rose, Mickey, Jackie, Pete, Cybermen) The Smiling Doctor and friends must stop The Cybermen they encountered in the last episode from taking over Earth and turning all the humans into a new type of Cybermen. 220. Inferno (3, Brigadier, Jo, Timelords) While we're crossing universes and dimensions, The Kung Fu Doctor stumbles into an approximation of Star Trek's Mirrorverse, where everything is diamatercially opposed to what it's like in our universe. There, an environmental catastrophe looms and The Doctor can't convince anyone to listen to him. When he returns to our dimension, he encounters a similar problem. 221. Resurrection Of The Daleks (5, Tegan, Turlough, Davros, Daleks) When The Cricket Doctor once again encounters the genocidal trash cans who've been haunting The Doctor all season, he decides that this time, he's going to kill Davros in order to protect the universe, which causes one of his companions to decide to leave. 222. 73 Yards (Ruby, Susan Triad, 15, Kate Lethebridge-Stewart, Carla, Cheery) The Crying Doctor's companion gets separated from The Doctor on Earth, where she is followed by a woman who is always 73 yards behind her. Whenever this woman speaks to someone, they become horrified and refuse to speak to Ruby ever again. This includes her family, and UNIT, who initially plan on helping her. 223. The Girl Who Waited (11, Amy, Rory) The Bowtie Doctor and Rory are separated from Amy while waiting to take a holiday. Amy is put in an accelerate timestream and is much older when Rory comes to rescue her. 224. Army Of Ghosts (10, Rose, Jackie, Mickey, Daleks, Cybermen, Torchwood) The Smiling Doctor and Rose check in on regular old Earth and discover that humanity has grown accustomed to visits from ghosts, who stop in on a schedule, which people seem to find comfort in. Only they're not ghosts at all but Cybermen breaking in from another universe. When The Doctor is approached by an organization called Torchwood to help discover what the Cybermen are up to, Rose finds a sphere that contains The Daleks who survived Bad Wolf. 225. Doomsday (10, Rose, Jackie, Mickey, Pete, Daleks, Cybermen, Torchwood) There are come genuinely funny moments when the invading Daleks and the invading Cybermen interact while trying to take down Torchwood but it's otherwise a dire affair as The Doctor realizes he and his crew create the problem when they broke into the alternate world way back in "Rise Of The Cybermen." The only way to stop both invasions is to close the barrier forever. Wrestling is a work. It's sports entertainment with predetermined results. It's a soap opera famously designed for late twentieth century male-identified fans of steroid-riddled beefcakes. It's silly. It, like all sports, is 90% garbage, 10% amazing. It's way better than fat old white guys wearing tacky clothes on a liesurely walk through manicured grass while occasionally hitting a ball with a stick, or that other ball with a stick sport where a bunch of steroid-riddled non-beefcakes stand around in the sun (or the moon if it's a night game) waiting for someone to hit the ball in their general direction so they can maybe catch it or something. Look, it makes just as much sense as soccer or lacrosse or underwater foosball. When it's great, it's Ping Pong Parkour Great, and when it's bad, it's insufferable golf with sweatier men. I've watched A Lot of it. First in the eighties. All of my friends were into wrestling during the Hogan-centric era. All of them. Kids would act out The Interviews, not even the matches, The Interviews during recess, probably realizing they were more likely to grow up into Gene Okerlund or Tony Schiavone than Bret Hart of The Ultimate Warrior. In the 90s, I lived with a family who got really into The Rock, Steve Austin, and Rey Mysterio, and I got hooked back in for a couple of years. Poetry slam took over most of my life in the 21st century, but I would hear people talk about certain names that I would remember, and I would go on Youtube or DailyMotion and seek out the match and see if it still had any emotional resonance. And sometimes it did. I am going to Seriously Condense wrestling history into a few seasons. Each season will contain YEARS of storylines. Maybe that sucks some of the drama out when you don't have to wait a full year for a feud to peak and resolve, but I want this list to MOVE. It will be mostly WWE (which is the product I grew up on) and some WCW. And eventually ROH, Impact, and AEW (which didn't even exist when I came up with this idea). The first season, Rock And Wrestling starts off with a Pilot Episode that doesn't really fit with the rest of the season but includes a bunch of famous matches from before I was born. Some of those matches are historically important, some of them just introduce characters who will come back much later but who you should probably see some of their Ancient Work. I have edited all of these episodes together for my own personal use. I won't ever be sending these files out to people (because copyright is important) but a few of us meet every week on Discord and watch these reimagined episodes. Season One: |
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