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The Green Death finale was... INCREDIBLE. THE EMOTIONS... THE CINEMATOGRAPHY... MY HEART 😭

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i must request a sixth doctor

optionally a cat furry version

cat doctor shows you his paw

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Just finished it, it was an absolute banger

I decided to change the way I watch classic who. Since I don't have the energy to watch it all chronologically (this method worked until the end of the third doctor) I decided to watch which episodes I feel like, no matter the era or order. This night I decided to watch vengeance on varo because I craved the sixth doctor (I love their audios) and why does Sil the Mentor seem so horny all the time 😭 the tongue flipping particularly cracks me up, masterpiece

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The fifth and sixth doctors! Five is a golden retriever. Six is a fluffy cat.

As for companions, I reckon Tegan would be a cockatoo or kookaburra, Adric could be a mouse of some sort? Turlough a rather surly ginger cat. Nyssa maybe a deer? Peri a songbird of some variety (which makes the perilous mutation experiment in ‘Vengeance on Varos’ kinda funny. Like, yeah, turn her into a bird if you want. She already is one, idiot). Mel… a red setter? A pony?? Undecided!

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I just had this epiphany when it comes to Doctor Who. It probably applies to other things as well: Best, Favorite, and Most Interesting are three separate categories that don't always overlap.

Dhawan is my favorite Master, but I don't think he's the best or the most interesting. Missy is the most interesting due to her arc, and Delgado is probably the best in a Simple, But Effective sort of way.

Turlough is my favorite companion, but he's nowhere near the best, especially just looking at the TV stuff, where they often didn't know what to do with him.

Out of the Sixth Doctor Tv stories I've seen all the way through, Vengeance on Varos is the best, but The Two Doctors is the one I found the most interesting.

So sometimes ranking questions have three different answers.

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I decided to change the way I watch classic who. Since I don't have the energy to watch it all chronologically (this method worked until the end of the third doctor) I decided to watch which episodes I feel like, no matter the era or order. This night I decided to watch vengeance on varo because I craved the sixth doctor (I love their audios) and why does Sil the Mentor seem so horny all the time 😭 the tongue flipping particularly cracks me up, masterpiece

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I know a lot of people like to believe that Martin grew up in Kvatch all his life, but I think differently. Here’s why

The city closest to the Shrine of Sanguine is Skingrad.

Skingrad is also very much a city of farmers. We see sheep herders (occasionally) and there are two massive grape farms around the city. Other city’s have farms too of course but Skingrad definitely is a rich place for farming compared to the other cities.

Martins father was a farmer. Martin became a Sanguine worshiper. Skingrad is closely related to both of those things. So I prefer to believe that Martin grew up with his farmer father in Skingrad til a bunch of Sanguine worshippers came into town and roped Martin into joining them.

Later, when he left, he felt as if he couldn’t return to his home and traveled down south to Kvatch where he came to know Akatosh and his chapel.

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Asa Lim, Nerevarine and Azura devout. She found Azura's guidance as a stranger in a hostile, strange land. As an Argonian, it was an uphill battle to get the Dunmer to acknowledge her as Nerevarine, so she bears the title and Azura's favor with pride.

[Hauled ass to not to miss the @tes-gala. Hopefully made it in time!]

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It makes me so mad how excited I was for Belinda. To see a companion who didn't buy into the hype and the mystique that often surrounds The Doctor, who didn't see him as this infallible hero but as this flawed and potentially dangerous man, who never fell in line or at his feet but stood in front and asserted herself as an equal, who isn't in the TARDIS by choice and has a life of her own as a single woman in a high-pressured job that she still wants to get back to despite the time travel and the adventure, because she too gets to save lives every day even back on Earth and she doesn't need a Time Lord to do that - it was so incredibly refreshing.

And the issue is, while Belinda continued to call the shots for at least the first five episodes of the series, they dropped the ball with her characterisation as early as the second episode. For her to be so critical of The Doctor at the end of episode one, and so immediately perceptive of his ability to endanger those around him for the sake of his own pursuit of adventure, and yet for her to already abandon that notion and trust him entirely by the end of the next episode, to the extent that by the end of the series she is completely unfazed when on several occasions her instincts were proven to be correct, is not only a massive change in characterisation, but also a colossal waste of such a compelling premise.

And then for her character to be reduced not only to being the mother of The Doctor's child, but ultimately completely rewritten so that they were brought together so that she could be Poppy's mother - and choose to leave on that premise also - is so unbelievably insulting and disappointing. Varada is wonderful. Belinda is wonderful. The dynamic between the actors and the characters is one of my favourites in a long time.

Belinda and Varada aren't the only ones who deserve better after this series (I could write entire essays about Ruby and Fifteen), but I really thought we were onto something and while Belinda will always have a place in my heart, I'm just gutted the series and the character ended on this note.

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Haha, ok, RTD. WE have to accept that 40 years have passed. Sure.

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I love chaotic images of 80s conventions so much

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Listen, I already know theres no thasmin kiss, I KNOW that like, cognitively. But my gay little heart is yearning for one. Pre-regen kiss?? Little regen energy particles flying from the doctor's mouth into yaz's? They break apart and do the little like past kiss giggle and yaz ends up breathing out regeneration energy and its kind of funny and hilarious and HEARTBREAKING because this is their first and probably only kiss and just-

Can yall see my vision here?

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The doctor: Ian and Barbara how dare you doubt my ability to get you home! I have given you no reason to believe I cannot get you back to London 1963. It's preposterous that you think we could have landed at the wrong place again this time. I am a master of my craft!

The doctor 2 minutes later: Okay so we are near Paris instead of London, but I suppose it can be expected to be off by a few hundred kilometres (he also dropped them in the middle of the French Revolution)

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It's really striking me, going all the way back to the beginning of Chibnall's Era (I'm currently watching Arachnids in the U.K.), how much this Era cares about how it talks about family and adoption and unconventional families and the like.

There is a stark contrast between Ryan talking about his father and protesting that his father doesn't get to use the words "proper family" to describe their relationship when his Nan (and Graham, as the season comes to show their growing relationship/understanding) was the one to actually show care and raise him and take care of him when his father didn't show up and Ruby referring to her biological mother- who gave her up at birth- as her "real mum" above Carla Sunday, the woman who raised her and loved her and was the one that was there for her. (The Timeless Child complicates the themes of adoption in this era, what with how the Doctor's own adopted backstory is complicated by themes of colonialism and other matters, and I think that's actually a good and interesting angle to explore in contrast to the Sinclair/O'Brien storyline, without treating adopted families aa if they don't matter- if anything, the Doctor's messy feelings on the subject only hammer in how complicated it can be to wrestle with adoption and nature v. Nurture and exploitation and the like without invalidating experiences entirely, as I think is done so often with the treatment of Carla Sunday in alternate timelines/Ruby's elevation of her biological mother as her "real mom" over the woman who took her in. There is a difference that the Chibnall era makes between child-stealing/colonialism and adoption with the contrasting character arcs/themes/circumstances that RTD2 absolutely lacks nuance on.)

I think it really shows both the complicated feelings of being someone is adopted as Chris Chibnall is while also the appreciation and respect for adoption and the fact that "real" family is the family that chose you, biological (Grace and Ryan) or not (Ryan and Graham).

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Jo grant at companion support meetings

"And i suspose it was quite unfair of the timelords to put the doctor in the 70s of all times. And they mustve known the master would show up too. God knows theyd follow each other every where. I just think if their inital meeting was somewhere a bit less homophobic, and a bit more progressive i could sorted them out in five minutes with a marriage counselor"

Every other companion choking on water: with a *what*

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I love season 10 of new who because it’s so… quiet. The setting of the season is the university, which makes everything feel grounded; the Doctor even has a “home” outside of the Tardis (his office). Outside of the Vault, which is a mystery that’s solved midway through the season, there’s no big problem or enemy that hangs over the heads of the characters. Missy would maybe function as that, but instead she becomes a part of the core cast, and her character is given time to be fleshed out. And this was the end of Moffat’s run; he’d established so much lore that he could have easily put in a big overarching narrative about the silence or the daleks or what have you, but he didn’t.

I really miss the grounded energy that this series had, especially compared to the most recent series of RTD2, where seemingly every problem is universe-threatening and there are 50 billion characters that are packed into eight episodes. I think that if the series were to have another season like 10, it would improve the show greatly.

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So angry about what they did to Susan. Left her on Earth with a bland guy she'd known for five minutes because "every woman should have a normal life." Sure, there's an entire universe of new knowledge and experiences out there, but that's just for men. A woman's proper place is stifling mediocrity. Enjoy cooking and making babies, Susan; we're off to meet the Platypus People of Riglos 7.