Time Travelling for Beginners: What to Expect from DW

The Doctor explains or at least attempts to explain “Time”.

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There are four easy steps to follow if you want to time travel.

Step 1. Wear whatever’s comfy.

Step 2. Keep an eye out for a blue box. A blue police box. It changes, just a bit, over time. 

 

The Different Designs of the TARDIS over time

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Found the blue box? So, let’s move on to-

Step 3. Now, wait and see when a man walks out of the blue box. He is sometimes caught wearing odd items on his person. Like a stick of celery or a fez. He calls himself “The Doctor”.

Then:

Step 4. Run up to him and yell “Allons-y!”

            Are you ready? Followed all the steps? Then let’s go for a short trip through time and space. Or maybe long, it depends on whether the regeneration of the Doctor that you’ll meet has decent parking skills.   

            You’re probably wondering by now, “Doctor Who”?

The Doctor in all his regenerations over the years, not including the much anticipated 12^th Doctor, who has yet to make an actual appearance on the show.

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Doctor Who is an incredibly popular SciFi Bristish TV series created by BBC. One of the longest running shows in the UK, nearing its 50^th year on television, it continues to induce fangirling seizures all over the world.

It recounts the adventures of a Time Traveller from the planet Gallifrey, who is only referred to as “The Doctor”. He uses his Time Machine called the TARDIS to travel through space and time (sometimes even to an alternate universe), along with “companions” he picked up along the way.

Each episode, over 700 of them, classic who and the newest installment, contains a complex plot interconnected in a big ball of timey wimey stuff. It could get confusing at times, especially when the Doctor explains, so just nod when he stops for breath (a tip from Martha Jones, one of the Doctor’s previous companions).

The Doctor very rarely travels alone, always joined by a companion. She (very rarely a He) gets caught up with the Doctor’s adventures and ends up accompanying him on his travels. Though depending on the plot twists, companions either choose to leave or are forced to part ways with the Doctor. These are usually the heart-clenching moments where fans all over the world weep over the loss of the companions, whom have wormed their ways into the audiences’ hearts.

Action, drama, comedy, romance and a good dose of SciFi all rolled into one, that’s Doctor Who. So viewers, old and new should greatly anticipate an onslaught of “feels”. Arm yourself with snacks and comfy jammies because once you start, it’ll be hard to tear yourself away from the screen. 

(Just one of the greatest lies a person promises to their selves when watching Doctor Who

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Now you are fully equipped in the basic know how in most popular Time Travelling method. You only have to wait for the Doctor to yell “RUN!” and you’re all set. So buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride through time and space.

P.S.

While writing this, the countdown for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary is down to 07 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes!