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So... all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will - where do you want to start?

DOCTOR WHO + RAINBOW

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on the subject of Master incarnations, I continue to be a "Delgado was a very early regeneration" truther

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on the subject of Master incarnations, I continue to be a "Delgado was a very early regeneration" truther

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Some of David Tennant's finest acting in "The Christmas Invasion"

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adding this one 2 the gwen cooper 🤝 clara oswald collection

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What if 11 had to get fobwatched. I don't think Amy and Rory would know how the fuck to handle Extremely Autistic Human Man!Doctor at all. He's still climbing everything and taking things apart for fun except now if he falls off their roof he actually breaks something. And because this is the Doctor any of his instructions on how to keep an eye on him are completely utterly useless to them

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You don’t trust us, I get that. And from what I know about you, I wouldn’t expect you to.

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY S5E04 | Face the Strange

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DOCTOR WHO || Spyfall; part I

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[Ignore the previous poll if you saw it; I wanted the poll to go for a week instead of a day]

Idea stolen from @sillylotrpolls:

Counting all media, and you may take as generous a definition of companion as you like. To specify what 'number of characters' means in this context, if one character has multiple names, (fr'instance Bruce Wayne/Batman) that character only counts once. Otoh, multiple different characters with the same title, (ex. Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, et. al.) might all be Robin, but they each count as separate characters.

As always, feel free to reblog for wider reach.

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We've been having a conversation in my science fiction class about science fiction as allegory, and I've been thinking a lot about it as both metaphor and not-metaphor.

So, in Doctor Who, the Doctor regenerates. This is very clearly a metaphor for a normal human experience: "We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people all through our lives. And that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be." This is also very clearly an alien experience to which none of us can relate. There is no human equivalent to having your entire body rewritten in every cell, becoming a new but same person with a new but same personality, and retaining all of your memories of someone you no longer are. Like. It's weird! Regeneration has to function as both metaphor and not metaphor at the same time, and a lot of its power as a narrative device comes from that flexibility.

My other example is mutants in X-Men (because X-Men and Doctor Who are the only two science fiction works to ever exist <3). The mutant metaphor is a long-standing part of the X-Men story, from God Loves, Man Kills to the cartoons to the movies. Mutation is a metaphor for difference; they talk about workplace discrimination, about government surveillance of mutants, about screening for mutant genes in utero. It has always been and will always be in part a metaphor. It is also a category that is extremely unlike any existing category. Some mutants are inherently a serious threat, some mutants are genuinely horrifying and disgusting, some mutants defy long-established notions of what it means to be a "person." And stories about the X-Men have to grapple with that as well as with the metaphor. Treating it purely as a metaphor misses the point, treating it as not at all a metaphor misses the point, you have to understand it as both at once.

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I’ve seen Orphan 55 and Kerblam! compared for both having the “The corporation isn’t the bad guy, the real bad guy is this angry anti-corporation person” but I think Orphan 55 is loads better bc a) it comes down hard with the climate change stuff, b) the Doctor is like way meaner to the corporation people in that episode, and c) at least the person in Orphan 55 isn’t a terrorist like deliberately making an anti-corporation point. Also Kerblam! is an excruciatingly boring episode and at least in Orphan 55 they’re being chased through Siberian tunnels by dangerous mutates.

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I love how even as RTD fans and Moffat fans try to bash each other to death with hammers, RTD and Moffat themselves are braiding each other’s hair in the writers’ room.

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Today in obscure Doctor Who jokes:

Somebody on Twitter pointed out that the Big Finish companion Hex is canonically from the year 2021, so when he occasionally abbreviates the word "suspicious" to "sus," it's probably an Among Us reference.

The punchline is that this character was actually introduced back in 2004. It was made-up future slang that they happened to get right.

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describing a character i like: liberal (derogatory), centrist (derogatory), cop (derogatory), that bitch who justifies mass murder (derogatory)

describing a character i dislike: yeah idk i just don't vibe with it

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Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | Doctor Who

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SCRIPT TO SCREEN: 3.01 “Smith and Jones” (writ. Russell T Davies) ➞ Martha listens to the Doctor's heartbeats

MR STOKER: John Smith, admitted yesterday with severe abdominal pains – Jones, why don't you see what you can find? Amaze me.