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LEELA: [Sighing] Very well. I am Leela, warrior of the Sevateem. DARKEL: And why are you here? LEELA: I was told to come.

Me, at literally any family function growing up.

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K9: With minor repairs, which I can effect, he will recover.

Me, internally: K9 didn’t you just say machines can’t be compared to living things and therefore can’t “recover”?

LEELA: I thought only organic beings could recover.

Me: No. Stop that. Leela, get out of my head.

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NARVIN: He has broken our laws. He should stand trial– ROMANA: We were nearly destroyed, Narvin, and you’re quibbling about an art collection? Someone tried to hold us, the Time Lords, to ransom, even to change our own history. [Quietly] I want to know who it was. They will be brought to account. [Louder] Or if they are not, you will be. Is that quite clear?

……hearing Romana get sharp and assertive is doing things to me I am not prepared to unpack on a psychological level.

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This appears not to be the case..... you gamers are of the hook...... for now.

Ok, starting the next Gallifrey audio (The Inquiry) and it opens like a full-on courtroom drama. If you people tricked me into listening to a space deposition, I’m walking straight into the lake and not coming back out until it’s time to present the sword.

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Ok, starting the next Gallifrey audio (The Inquiry) and it opens like a full-on courtroom drama. If you people tricked me into listening to a space deposition, I’m walking straight into the lake and not coming back out until it’s time to present the sword.

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10: I totally respect your decision, but I’ve already made my own decision.

Donna: That’s the complete opposite of respecting my decision.

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I know people have been arguing for 60 years about who the “best” doctor who is, so I would never argue against anyone’s personal favorite. HOWEVER, I think we can all agree that 8 is the best doctor to be covered in blood and tired down to his very soul. 

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me and my gf listened to the first couple eps of goth opera the other day and it's SOOOO GOOD. spoilers but there's a whole sequence where nyssa starts transforming into a vampire and when tegan goes to get the doctor nyssa says "NO i don't need him, i need YOU". okay mrs and mrs heterosexual best friends. what's your fucking problem

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While I have yet to step into an actual tardis, watching Jodie's doctor who seasons did somehow take me to the other side of the planet with some really cool people so this first episode will always have a special place in my heart 💙💙

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I do not like to consider behind the scenes stuff when talking about Art, but I do think that this episode fully sealed the deal on the 'Millie Gibson left the show unexpectedly for Some Sort of Reason so they had to cast someone else as a new companion on short notice and quickly rewrite completed episodes to compensate' theory.

That whole maternal bit with Belinda? Out of nowhere. Nothing to do with Belinda. Belinda got very little characterization overall, but none of it was that.

But let's say instead that the companion for this season remained Ruby. We get a little timeskip in between the two seasons, in which Ruby dates Conrad. Maybe the Robot Revolution initially featured him. Then we have a whole season in which none of the other stories (except a new version of Lucky Day) center around her, which makes a lot of sense because the previous season was all about her. She doesn't feel undercharacterized, because she had a whole-ass season of characterization already. Most of the season could have her in the place of Belinda with literally nothing changing, which, well.

And then we get to this finale. The Doctor and Ruby get magicked into a world where they have a magic baby, who looks just like a baby they met previously. Despite the fact that the baby and their life isn't real, Ruby can't possibly find it within herself to abandon - or forget - a child. It doesn't matter whether the child is really hers or not. It matters that someone needs to take care of her and that Ruby steps up to do it. That's a core Ruby character value! That's something that would follow up on a previously established theme!

So, the ending in which she raises the child isn't weird, it's the conclusion to Ruby's character arc. There's no extra character who needs to be shoved into a literal box. The UNIT reunion is a reunion of characters who actually know each other, unlike Belinda, who doesn't know any of those guys. Space Babies is retroactively vindicated.

I cannot believe this was not the intended model of the series. We know these two seasons were written and filmed concurrently. There's no reason for the result to be so awkward if there wasn't some bullshit afoot, given that there was ample opportunity to plan it properly. When Belinda was announced, RTD explicitly said that Varada Sethu was cast because they had already filmed 'Boom' and they knew she had good screen chemistry with Ncuti. She herself said that she was just offered the role out of the blue. This was a rush job. I really liked Varada Sethu as Belinda. She did a lot to disguise the patch here, and it's too bad that she couldn't do more. But we shouldn't think of these seasons as something that was designed to be this way. I'm pretty sure they weren't.

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one thing doctor who is not short of is complicated, messy, compelling female characters who absolutely fucking suck. you can't be saying that time lord baby

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These are the coolest visuals doctor who has ever done and I'm not kidding

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I wish I had friends with the resources and love required to kidnap me and trap me in a custom escape room based on all the times I embarrassed and annoyed them on purpose

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I'm sorry people are doing what?

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

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Being into Doctor Who will take you into some weird places, like learning Python.........