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The first episode of Kaos reveals that ABBA exists in the show's universe. What about the song Cassandra? WHAT ABOUT THE SONG CASSANDRA?

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Had the same thought about Season 6B earlier, followed by the same thought about the Watcher!

If bigeneration is a thing, then a rejoining regeneration absolutely makes sense, and it would be great to have an explanation of what the Watcher was after all these years. When Nyssa says "so he was the Doctor all the time", she's just... completely right.

It's not wild to suggest that Five only retained the memories of one of his predecessors for whatever reason

Season 6B and Bigeneration

Okay, I was just lying in bed thinking about bigeneration and I had a thought.

What if the Second Doctor bigenerated into the Three at the end of the War Games?

Three doesn’t remember because his memory was messed with obviously.

I think it could work because the dirty work they need doing is done by an expendable off shoot of the Doctor.

And it explains how Two knew who Three was at the start of the Five Doctors and basically everything in the Two Doctors.

Plus now I can imagine a version where he settles down with Jamie

(I also headcanon that a bigenerated lifespan is drastically shorter than the 400-500 years a Gallifreyan usually lives in a life, about a human’s lifespan)

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Wait, so was this an Osiran?

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People will be rushing to watch [classic Doctor Who story referenced in this week's episode], but I watched it a few weeks ago so I'm already wondering how [villain] escaped [their grisly fate]

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It's hilarious to me that Dot and Bubble came out while the "I'm looking for a man in finance, trust fund, 6'5, blue eyes" sound is big on TikTok, because it manages to make it sound even worse than it already does

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Can't believe it took 2 full days for me to see someone use this gif in reference to the UK election announcement

I feel like the internet has let me down

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One I didn't learn about until my 30s, after days (weeks?) of being flummoxed: Cleaning the refrigerator's drip tray

one of the worst irl debuffs is "something in the kitchen smells weird but you cant find it". you have to just do the rituals and hope for the best (taking out the trash, boiling water down the sink, look for lost potatoes etc)

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"not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable"

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This scene is interesting because it can be read in different ways, e.g.:

1. As an endorsement of communism

2. As an explanation for how a totalitarian regime was able to sustain itself for 70 years

3. As a condemnation of the power of the church (see 2)

in the second to last serial of classic doctor who, the curse of fenric, there are strange pseudo vampires. at one point the doctor explains that - despite the folklore - it’s not the physical crucifix that repels the vampires, it’s the faith of the person holding it, their absolute belief in something more than themselves. the priest present fails to repel the vampires with a crucifix, because his faith had been broken by the events of WWII. the doctor repels the vampires with his faith in those he has had as companions, muttering their names over and over.

i mention all this because - and i am not making this up - it is immediately followed by a soviet man repelling the vampires with the power of belief in communist revolution. they aired this in the 80s.

as the show was then cancelled one story later, it remains the only show to ever be cut down in its prime twenty six seasons in.

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So as far as I can remember, they managed to make it through the entire 121-episode run of Glee without ever acknowledging the "New Directions" pun.

I know it predates the show, because I heard it years before, but I wanted to know how far back it went. It turns out there's a famous publisher in the US called New Directions (hey, I'm European), and the earliest use of the pun I've found was in a 1940 letter by the poet and fascist propagandist Ezra Pound.

I have no idea what to make of this.

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"Companions of the Fourth Doctor"

Harry, Leela, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan wondering why Romana's in there twice:

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Making my first Tumblr post, because my regret for the day is not having enough people to boop