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[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 81 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Where would The Runaway Bride go? It's set in 2006, but they also travel to shortly before Earth is formed.

Also, what about episodes that are set outside of time or entirely within the TARDIS (e.g. Time Crash)? Or when all of time sort of happens at once (e.g. The Big Bang, The Wedding of River Song)?

What about false realities (e.g. Amy's Choice, Extremis)? Bubble universes (e.g. The Doctor's Wife, Hide)?

And then there's the matter of the Doctor and River. Do we go in the Doctor's order, or in River's order?

What about cliffhangers and cyclic stories?

Absolutely I'd do this, but I'd need a very large corkboard and about a mile of red yarn to figure out the order.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 66 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You would need to start on the middle of the episode where they are at the start of the world and go from there. Can’t do episode by episode but could scene by scene

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a marvel fan edit like that, pretty wild watch as it jumps from one movie to the other...

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • Cut all the episodes to have snippets that keep the same timeframe, then watch those in order
  • If two clips are supposed to be the same time, splitscreen
  • TARDIS scenes would make sense to keep before they arrive to their destination. And TARDIS episodes should be kept in the """present"""
  • If the time happens all at once, play all the frames of the clip at once. Preferably stretched to be in the background of all the Chronological Dr. Who Marathon™
  • False realities and bubble universe should either be split screen or inserted in between the start and end of that part.
  • We go in the time's order. We don't care about the love birds.
  • If there's a cliff hanger, just play the next chronological clip
  • Cyclic story can be split screened.
[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

I got all wibbly wobbly just reading that.

[–] Logh@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Or in true timelord fashion, make a compund super episode with all of them playing overlayed on each other simultaniously. Takes less time too, not that it matters.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For the Doctor and River: watch it twice, once for each perspective.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I saw a video once that was from Rivers point of view as she keep meeting the doctor in a reverse order.

I think it was called The Timeline of River Song

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

Some of your questions can be answered when the episodes are split which would make the idea even more crazy

[–] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

skip them all, there's too many anyway

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

If I'm skipping any, it'll just be Love & Monsters (a bit rubbish), The Angels Take Manhattan (too sad; can't watch that one again), and a few (but certainly not all) of Chris Chibnall's episodes (e.g. The Tsuranga Conundrum; I didn't enjoy them that much).

Other than that, I'll take the lot. I might even throw in the Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, Class, the BBV Productions movies, and those spin-off movies starring Peter Cushing, for good measure.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago

Stitch runaway bride, what about castrovalva?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How about City of Death, which takes place in 1980s Paris, Renaissance Italy, and billions of years ago when life on Earth began. Where do you put that in the chronology?

(Answer: You watch this episode first regardless because Douglas Adams wrote it.)

Edit: Technically a bunch of other times too because you get glimpses of other fractured selves of Scaroth from other points in human history.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Programmer solution:

Each episode is defined by the earliest point they travel to, excluding that episode's "present".

Jam all edge cases at Epoch (1970) or the present if you prefer (2024). Sort these by order of release.

Push to production.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

I like it!

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It should be easy to figure out, you just order it one storyline at a time:

1 - Unearthly Child - 100,000 BC
4 - Marco Polo - 1289 AD
6 - The Aztecs - Aztec Empire, 1300-1521
3 - Inside the Spaceship - Tardis interior, present.
2 - The Daleks - Far future, unspecified
5 - Keys of Marinus - Far future, unspecified
7 - The Sensorites - Far future, unspecified

And so on...