#series: 15

[dandelionjack]

best joke in the episode, possibly one of the funniest lines russell t davies has ever written

[koschgay]

I cannot believe the doctor who fandom has spent the last twenty full years clowning that Susan and the Rani are going to come back and then they both turn up IN THE SAME EPISODE

[sphxxshthealien]

wait. that’s what Midnight was about.

it made everyone turn their backs on each other.

and that’s what made it dangerous.

but now that’s literal. you turn your back on someone and you kill them. you go behind someone’s back and it kills you.

because that’s what it learnt the first time it met the Doctor. the first time it met any other life. it learnt how they turn on each other, how it can gain power by making monsters out of people.

so this is what it became. because of what they did to each other.

[kitskiis]

“I want to win this season”

The evil and intimidating snail:

[off-traveling-in-the-stars]

[mediumsizedwildcat]

“i'm the last of the time lords” you bigenerated. you're not even the last of yourself

[tinkerbitch69]

I want to make it very clear that while I think the head of a large military organization allowing a dangerous alien monster to brutalise some guy was pretty fucked up regardless of the circumstances, it is 100% in character for Kate Stewart.

She would fucking do that.

[paternostergays]

can i just say how much I loved archie panjabi as the rani in these two episodes. she's a wicked witch abducting babies rapunzel style she's a mad scientist with her bone beasts and big sky laboratory she's flying around on her green goblin segway she's having beef with her past regeneration she's dancing with the doctor and dropping lesbian one liners on mel. panjabi!rani you will always be famous

[dandelionjack]

that and COVID denialism, obviously, which i somehow managed to miss despite *this* plot point below

UNIT aren’t always cops. they’re a nebulous enough fictional organisation that they can be whatever the show wants them to represent. in Lucky Day, they’re the NHS, the WHO, and they’re climatologists.

[koschgay]

so I’ve spent a very long time insisting that Mrs Flood couldn’t possibly be the Rani because she’s a weird little camp storyteller type and the Rani is a cold hard scientist. however. I think maybe it’s much funnier if the Rani regenerated into a campy little weirdo ONE TIME and pissed herself off so much that she had to bigenerate for the express purpose of telling her past self how annoyed she was about it

[greenisfred]

Belinda running out into the woods to have a good scream is the realest thing I’ve seen all week

[vampyre-daisies]

My Library of Alexandria fr

[leikeliscomet]

Favourite scene of the episode right here hands down. Paying homage to the slaves who used cornrows to map routes to freedom. Recognising natural hair as its own form of storytelling.

I love this scene bc it centres Black women especially. Just as the barbershop is a space for Black men and a part of Black men's storytelling, braiding has always been a part of Black women's traditions across the diaspora.

[immortalclarareborn]

[fugesyt]

Tumblr, I would like to propose a new sexyman

[lazarrusrising]

Flirting with the idea of developing a fic idea I had where Dean freaks out after Cas is bought back (post s15) and flees to Jody's under the guise of fixing her roof or her fence or something and just keeps finding things to fix instead of going back to the bunker, and in that time he actually learns how to unwind and set aside his soldier mentality for the first time ever, opens up to Jody a little about not knowing how to accept someone's love without thinking it will kill them, and he also begins to grow out his hair and beard because again, he's no longer a soldier he doesn't need the utilitarian cut anymore, and when Cas finally gets fed up enough to chase him down and confront him he bursts into Jody's house ready to fight it out but is blindsided by Dean Winchester, love of his life, with floppy hair, a beard, some fuckass Hawaiian shirt, bickering in the kitchen with Claire as he cooks dinner or something and the steam is taken out of him so fast because it's the softest and most relaxed he's ever seen Dean that he just kind of walks up and puts his hands in his hair and stares at him while Dean has that emotional in love with my best friend crisis he was avoiding for months in like fifteen seconds flat