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Leela: doctor the time of the warrior is upon me you must land so i can gather leaves

Four: say what

Leela: my bleeding has begun I must gather leaves

Four: .............what

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Now, I've only seen clips of logopolis but WHY is the master always toucing/sticking to the doctor like that

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What makes you think this program of the Monitor’s is going to work, Doctor? Oh, I don’t know…

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@enokitaki

If you were ever curious what a bird ear looks like, now is a good time. Yes, it is that hole below the eye. These miserable looking birdies are not sick, they are molting while the weather is nice. They lose old feathers and grow nice new ones. You can see the new ones coming in with the Blue Jays and the Finch. (Cardi, Grack, Blue Jay, Blue Jay, Cardi, Blue Jay, House Finch, Blue Jay)

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that’s MY doctor

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i think about a lot of things....like doctor who...and the master.

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i love woke dog and his nuclear family 💖💖

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don't mind that the doctor's image is slightly tilted, i'm not fixing it

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invented a chess opening called the lovers gambit where you toss the pieces aside and start kissing your opponent on the table

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season 18 is one of my favourite doctor who series, full stop. granted, its first two serials are kind of terrible, but even then they still contribute to the broader point of the series: it's about entropy. the series is obsessed with entropy. at the centre of every single story is a stagnant society broken into by entropy; in every single story some core part of the doctor's life is, effectively, broken. going one by one:

the leisure hive: the argolins are a species which have reached an apparent dead end and seem like they're about to die out due to being infertile, but the villain's machinations backfire on him and accidentally lead to new life; k9 blows up, and the doctor is aged into an old man and is effectively incapable for large chunks of the story

meglos: the tigellans are a stagnant society divided into an obsessively religious and an obsessively technological faction, depending on a mysterious power source they don't understand, and their society literally collapses when the villain steals that power source to attempt to destroy the planet. the villain is capable of changing form and is the last of its kind; the doctor and romana are trapped in a time loop by the villain which they ultimately only escape by exactly replicating then changing their actions, and the villain impersonates the doctor to get into tigella, leading to the doctor impersonating the villain to defeat it

full circle: alzarius is home to a stagnant society which believes itself to be superior to the other life forms around it, only to be forced into the starliner, according to legend. as it turns out, none of the wise old men know how to pilot the starliner and it turns out they evolved from the "lesser" humanoid spider lifeforms that they previously viewed as the villains. there's no grand antagonist, just incompetence and the passage of time; the time lords insist that romana go back home, and the doctor tries to take her back, but romana defies the odds and refuses to go. they fall through a cve and into e-space, which puts both of them out of their comfort zone. i mean it's literally called full circle

state of decay: again, it's literally called state of decay. the villains are fucking vampires, the ancient enemies of the time lords, and they are literal bloodsucking feudal lords ruling over a stagnant society; as in all her best moments, romana is the doctor's equal - he's her copilot

warriors' gate: a metaphorical minefield, the humans and the tharils are both shown at different points to be corrupt enslavers of each other, with the tharils in a vision of the past being a stagnant society founded on cruelty and the humans (the ones in power, anyway) in the present being a stagnant society founded on cruelty and obsessed with profit; k9 breaks down, the doctor is essentially irrelevant except to wander around some shattered ruins of the past, and romana must save the day, culminating in her leaving and the doctor returning to n-space with adric

the keeper of traken: traken is - let's all say it again - a stagnant society! where nothing changes! until the master is introduced as a very literal representation of entropy and death which slowly, first metaphorically then literally, upsets the balance of power in traken until the entire society is destabilised; the master steals the role of keeper of traken and actually immobilises and incapacitates the doctor within his tardis, but ultimately chooses to steal the body of nyssa's father, a kindly man who was supposed to be the next keeper

logopolis: also a metaphorical minefield. speedrun - the logopolitans are a stagnant society which literally crumbles to dust and is consumed by entropy when the master stops it functioning (it holds the universe together through. maths), taking a large chunk of the universe with it; the doctor is haunted by peter davison in really thick makeup and then regenerates

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series 18 i think beautifully captures this general sense of pervading despair and destruction in the fourth doctor's life, which is partially to do with behind the scenes chaos - tom baker was at the end of a seven-year run, had been ill during filming, and, well, lalla ward happened - but which meshes really well with the stories that occupy the series. i mean, one of the serials is called state of decay, for god's sake; another is literally structured around the idea of accelerated entropy destroying the universe. it's a series which is all about stagnancy, about time running out, about the inevitability of endings. the doctor is followed about by the watcher; he must say goodbye to k9 and romana, his friends of very possibly hundreds of years. adric loses his last remaining ties to his family and, in the process, his planet; he runs away to a whole different universe only to lose the doctor (like romana). tegan loses her aunt and is forcibly, albeit accidentally, torn from her home planet. nyssa is orphaned and loses her own planet, permanently. the only character in the whole series who is granted a new lease of life in the whole series is the master, and even then only by destroying countless other lives. and romana, oh, romana - the doctor has accepted that he has to go back to gallifrey, to return her, but romana is absolutely horrified by the idea - she vanishes when the doctor brings it up and can barely tolerate the idea - and, i suspect, by the doctor's resignation. the doctor remembers the war games; the doctor remembers his presidency. he's done fighting the time lords; in a very real sense he's given up. death comes to time. but romana hasn't reached the doctor's rock bottom of misery yet. she doesn't want to go home; i think it terrifies her, the claustrophobic possibility of being stuck on gallifrey for the rest of her life. it really is striking how, amidst all this ambient moodiness, this air of loss, the doctor's glum acceptance of his death (perhaps encouraged by romana leaving him, come to think of it) romana is the one who can't accept her fate, not the doctor. their roles have completely reversed from the ribos operation. series 18 is just so beautifully atmospheric; i adore it.

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No bc its the way Four just accepted his death so easily. He denied the Cloister Bell so many times but he knew something was wrong deep down. Then the minute he saw the Watcher he just knew. His whole demeanour changed the rest of the serial. He started lashing out at his companions not bc he didn't care about them but bc he didn't want them wasting the time they had, knowing he had little left. Then the minute he was hanging mid air he knew it was happening. He got flashbacks of all the times he thought he'd die before and it caused him to panic when grabbing the railing, which made him slip and fall. And as he lay there, he didn't get angry or upset at his mistake. Not at all. He just accepted his fate. He thought about all the companions he had along the way and that he'd be okay. He embraced The Watcher. He knew it was his time.

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man the thing that really gets me about logopolis is it's just like. Dr Who Has Given Up: The Episode

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Logopolis is a legitimate masterpiece of a regeneration story. I don't know if I've mentioned that before. Like, it's one of the best to ever do it. That aside, it was a truly insane way to end a run that spanned seven years and began with fucking ROBOT.

the master possesses a companions father and wears his corpse for the entire rest of the show

The doctor is haunted by the specter of his future self who stands at a distance watching everything happen like a cosmic pervert

The universe is being held together by Logopolis (the city of words) whose mathematicians are singlehandedly keeping the forces of entropy at bay

The master destroys logopolis which causes an entire third of the universe (including a companions planet) to decay into nothingness. BY ACCIDENT.

This is never mentioned again.

The plot contrives to have the master and the doctor work together to stop the universe from decaying by anchoring it to a radio tower on earth??? This also is never addressed.

The master betrays him and leaves the doctor hanging onto the radio tower for his life.

The doctor can fly. He lets himself fall.

He has also survived worse falls than this, I might add. He fucking dies.

He absorbs the Watcher and turns into the fifth doctor, and this is never elaborated on

There is absolutely nothing left of how his run started in season 12 and?? On the one hand it's such a weird way to end the fourth doctors run, essentially taking every 80s kids favorite bohemian hero and gradually wearing him down until he commits suicide in front of his friends (citation needed) which haunts his next life like a spectre. Its such a thorough and brutal dissection of a well beloved era. On the other hand I don't think there was a better way they could have possibly done it

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I haven’t been liveblogging classic who at all on here but I need you all to know I just watched logopolis for the first time and was left quite literally incoherent. That was the most insane thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I hate the doctor and the master so fucking much. I’m planning to rewatch it as soon as possible, before even starting castrovalva. It’s 1:33 am and I don’t know how the hell I’m going to be able to sleep after this. I feel fucking delirious.

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remember when teachers would tell you to fold paper hamburger or hotdog style. kind of sounds like some fake shit but just another example of burger centric american thinking

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I haven’t been liveblogging classic who at all on here but I need you all to know I just watched logopolis for the first time and was left quite literally incoherent. That was the most insane thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I hate the doctor and the master so fucking much. I’m planning to rewatch it as soon as possible, before even starting castrovalva. It’s 1:33 am and I don’t know how the hell I’m going to be able to sleep after this. I feel fucking delirious.