#return of the mysterio

[notyoujamie]

Doctor Who Advent Calendar —Day 18

[m-a-salter]

Twelve down.

[neon-psychopomp]

Couple more 12's I'm having so much fun with this technique >.>

Kofi | Inprnt | Cara

[glitterypin]

[freakcliff]

man I love the return of doctor mysterio imagine if during the entirety of Spiderman (2002) there was just some old Scottish guy there. Hanging around during every scene between Peter and Mary Jane and trying to set them up because seeing their budding young love reminds him of his dead wife. Peter has a deep chat with Mary Jane and he's Watching them and after it he gives Peter Notes. They do the upside-down kiss and in the background Old Scottish Guy solves the entire plot. it's unclear how Peter Parker knows or met this guy but he keeps hanging around in plot relevant scenes standing around and making snarky remarks

[foolishlyzephyrus]

did you remember that pokemon go is canonically referenced in doctor who? because i sure didn’t

[dandelionjack]

SURPRISE AUTISM ATTACK

[twelverriver]

sorry but the way river literally always haunts both the narrative and the doctor??? like. she turns up and she dies. we could say she's a ghost for the rest of the show even though we know she's very much alive for the rest of the show. the way the question of how to save river is something the doctor thinks about all the time. the entire episode of the name of the doctor with river's LITERAL GHOST HAUNTING HIM AND CLARA. the minisode "date night" where she says "oh doctor, you and your secrets, you'll be the death of me." and he's looking like he's mourning her all over again. it's twelve hiding a key of the tardis in the book "the time traveler's wife" for me. the way river appears again in the husbands of river song and we know that afterwards, she's headed to the library and dies and gets uploaded to the library as a data ghost. the episode that follows that is literally the return of doctor mysterio, where the loss of river is SO PRESENT??? and he's mourning her the entire and HAS been mourning her. nardole's speech!!! after that is season ten and he mentions her to bill (even if its a deleted scene it is REAL TO ME) and her diary is shown and a passage is read from it to convince the doctor of something and nardole shows up again as a "wife-approved companion" and twelve has a picture of her next to susans on his desk!! and bill asks if someone's really gone do pictures help !!! LIKE. I'm connecting the dots!!

[thetorturedlovergirl]

Today on my school trip we went to a nature reserve and our guide wanted to do an experiment with some plants and to do so, out of nowhere, he took A GLASS OF WATER out of his pocket.

A. GLASS. FULL. OF. WATER. There was not enough space on his pocket to do that !!!

Ohh you know what? Close enough, WELCOME BACK TWELFTH DOCTOR!

[doctor-mccoys-sanity]

Doctor Who is so funny because they spend an episode making fun of superheroes and then a brain replacing alien just calls the girl the superhero is on a date with a SLUT

[agentoffangirling]

The way the 12th Doctor eats sushi is DIABOLICAL, wdym you're poking the chopsticks through the sushi?? Sir I cannot approve

[notyoujamie]

My children. My screams. I could not save you, little ones. Such pain. And yet, still, still I am not brave enough to die, to let go of this wretched life. I will endure, but no more babies. I cannot, will not, suffer such heartbreak again. From now on, it's me against the world.

[m-a-salter]

Twelve descends.

[r-truth]

There's guys you can wrestle and not say a word to, but usually that comes with repetition

[ocean-irl]

TV stories where the Doctor has only male companions

Because there are so few of them

We’ll start with the ones that have regular series companions:

The Massacre (1966): 1st Doctor and Steven. Yes, Dodo shows up at the very end, but that doesn’t count.

The Keeper of Traken (1981): 4th Doctor and Adric. Introducing Nyssa, who doesn’t technically join the team until Logopolis.

The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016): 12th Doctor and Nardole, featuring Grant Gordon.

Yep, that’s it as far as I recall. If we expand our list to guest/recurring characters, we can include:

The Next Doctor (2008): 10th Doctor and Jackson Lake.

The End of Time (2010): 10th Doctor and Wilf, who is not a full-time companion.

Closing Time (2011): 11th Doctor and Craig. Amy is in this one, but only briefly, and not in the role of companion.

Then, if we include episodes that start with a male companion before bringing in a female companion partway through the story:

The Evil of the Daleks (1967): 2nd Doctor and Jamie, introducing Victoria.

The Wheel in Space (1968): 2nd Doctor and Jamie again, introducing Zoe.

Planet of Fire (1984): 5th Doctor, Turlough, and Kamelion (man-shaped android), introducing Peri.

The Pilot (2016): 12th Doctor and Nardole, but Bill shows up pretty much immediately.

Honorable mentions:

The Ribos Operation (1978): Starts with the 4th Doctor and K-9. K-9 is voiced by a man, but he is a robot and, perhaps more importantly for the purposes of this list, a dog.

The Five Doctors (1983): There are plenty of female companions in this one, but the 2nd Doctor is initially paired up with the Brigadier.

The Two Doctors (1985): The 2nd Doctor starts the episode with Jamie before the two team up with the 6th Doctor and Peri.

The Lodger (2010): Amy is sometimes there over an earpiece, but this one is mostly the 11th Doctor and Craig.

A Christmas Carol (2010): See above, but with Kazran Sardick instead of Craig.

The Deadly Assassin (1976) and Heaven Sent (2015): All-male crew in that the Doctor is the only crew.

The Power of the Doctor (2022): This one gets a mention for having a same-sex TARDIS team for most of the story.

Interestingly, the trend of the lone female companion doesn’t start to emerge until the later years. It took nearly ten years for the Doctor to travel with a girl unchaperoned, if you count the boys from UNIT as companions. Then the show gradually transitioned to the “Doctor + girl” formula that’s the norm today.

[doctorwhogirlie]