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That might be a popular headcanon, but I'm convinced that K1, the titular Robot from the Fourth Doctor's first story, is in the same model line as K9, the robot dog that will later become the same incarnation's companion.

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Jango was a brand new character and the Legends writers had to build his character out of the scraps they had in the film, so I suppose there's a tendency to take his line about "a simple man trying to find his way in the universe" at face value or as something sinificant.

I've always though it's just a line of vague bullshit that Jango is trying to feed to Kenobi because the Jedi like to deal in that sort of platitudes.

Fuck you, junior novel published 17 years before The Mandalorian first aired.

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It says something that Tumblr, the gayest social media of them all, is still not blocked in Russia.

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I've started 15th Doctor's second and final seasonal and nowI see she's played by the same actress who did Badass Lesbian Rebel Operative from Andor and my cognitive dissonance is complete.

I ain't gonna watch the current Doctor until the next regeneration, but I hear there's a character named Belinda. I have to prepare to my inability to take her seriously.

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QUITE LIMITED POWER

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When I was watching Classic Doctor Who the first time, my grasp of English was relatively worse and I didn't pay much attention to the secondary characters. So I was shocked to see that a beloved supporting character of Captain Mike Yates genuinely turned heel in Invasion of the Dinosaurs. I was expecting a double agent reveal, the same way they did it in The Green Death, but no. He actually was on board with the main thrust of the villain's plan. I just wish they picked a better-looking story to do that subplot.

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I don't think it's a hot take to say that we need more companions that stick around after regeneration. That was one aspect that I feel is lacking for changing of the guards in the modern Doctor Who. Seeing companions mourning the Doctor that has gone and struggling to accept the Doctor they have on their hands is big part of the process, but 10>11, 12>13, and 13>14 regnerations have also scrapped the supporting cast in favor of different faces.

One thing I kinda wish to see and I'm certain I will never see because of the way life and TV works is a companion sticking around for a second regeneration.

Imagine a newcomer freaking out over Doctor getting mortally wounded, changing their entire everything, and acting completely different and erratic, and the veteran companion helping them through the process, while, explaining to the newbie that it's just something the Doctor does from time to time. That would be a new and unexplored dynamic, isn't it.

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This looks like those shots you will find on tumblr with some famous posts pasted on top.

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Huh. The Time Warrior is the only Third Doctor serial that takes our heroes to the past. The rest are either contemporary or set in the far future.

Don't know if I would have noticed it if it wasn't pointed out to me. I suppose, it speaks mostly of the writers and what sort of stories they wanted to tell, but one can also draw some conclusions about Third Doctor's personality based on that.

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Been thinking about how Matt Murdock's power set is geared toward investigation-type work. He's basically an evidence radar and a lie detector all rolled into one. Sure, he's not infallible, but his powers are still a tremendous asset for a lawyer. I sort of wonder, how good of a lawyer he is without them.

In comparison, Jennifer Walters' powers don't help in her day job in any way whatsoever unless you apply some creative thinking. Whatever success she has had is all down to her unenhanced legal acumen. And let's not forget how she's basically working two jobs, since her superheroing tends to be separate from her lawyer job, while for Matt one goes hand in hand with the other.

Can't help but think sometimes that Jan may be a better laywer than Matt if we take both of their powers away.

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I'm still getting over how this dude put his palace in what clearly used to be a Roman bath at some point. Must have been the fanciest ruin in town.

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I very rarely (if ever) try discussing and/or analysing Discworld books because their themes and writing feels way beyond my reach. Whatever I understand, I tend to understand on the emotional level rather than rational, so have problems verbalising it. But a lot of stuff just leaves me stumped.

Like, I just finished reading Wintersmith and what the hell was the idea behind the oak Tiffany breathed life into when she tested out her Summer powers?

It's not there for a joke, so it must be there to make a point (not the two are mutually exclusive or anything). Beats me what it is though.

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I believe, there's an entire book about why he shouldn't have.

I keep catching myself thinkin that Discworld's witches are ment to be single and/or viriginal, but every time I keep remembering that Nanny Ogg exists. A delightfully dirty old woman whose progeny constituted a decent percentage of the Ramtops popualtion.

Maybe I'm just overexposed to Star Wars media, but I've been a bit exasperated with the trope where "special" people of the setting are not allowed to have romantic/sexual relations of any sort, so Mrs. Ogg has been a breath of fresh air.

Besides, Pratchett already did it with the wizards. They are the ones who aren't allowed to bang.

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I keep catching myself thinkin that Discworld's witches are ment to be single and/or viriginal, but every time I keep remembering that Nanny Ogg exists. A delightfully dirty old woman whose progeny constituted a decent percentage of the Ramtops popualtion.

Maybe I'm just overexposed to Star Wars media, but I've been a bit exasperated with the trope where "special" people of the setting are not allowed to have romantic/sexual relations of any sort, so Mrs. Ogg has been a breath of fresh air.

Besides, Pratchett already did it with the wizards. They are the ones who aren't allowed to bang.

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This is my second watchthrough of the Classic Who and I'm quite fuzzy on the details. But I'm confident I don't care about spoilers for a 60+ y. o. show.

And so, with the final epiode of The Green Death, we bid adieu to Jo Grant. I blame her for everything.

Well, I suppose "blame" is a harsh word. What I mean is that she seems to be everything that comes to mind when the topic of the Doctor's companion comes up.

A young pretty woman, cheerful and lively, a rather girly girl. Airheaded enough to serve as the audience's surrogate when the Doctor explains the particulars of made up science or sticky situation they are currently dealing with, but quick-thinking and resourceful in a crisis. Jo can play a role of a damsel in distress or a cunning adventuress as the plot demands. She might be the one eveyohe has been trying to emulate to some degree when it comes to the Doctor's companions. My impression of her flips between endearing and annoying depending on the story.

Her exit is a bit peculiar though. She leaves the Doctor because she falls in love with a guy and choses to follow him around instead. Not very progressive, I know. The thing is, the show went out of its way to paing her future would-be husband, Professor Clifford Jones (no relation to Indiana), as a younger version of the Doctor. Not only the Doctor himself comments on it, but their first meeting is very much an exact recreation of Jo's first meeting with the Doctor - she barges into his lab uninvited and clumsily ruins one of his experiments.

I suppose, it is easy to see it as the evidence of a romantic tension between Jo and the Doctor. She can't have the Doctor, so she choses someone very much like him. Me, being a staunch beleiver in the Doctor's asexuality and aromanticism, would like to direct your attention to another young girly girl who left the Tardis to stay with a guy: Susan.

The relation between Jo and the Doctor is much closer to that, a grandfather and a granddaughter. And it would fit a generalized old-timey British understanding of female psyche that a woman would look for someone who resembles their father.

With that, we move to the next companion. If I recall correctly, she will be the one to see Third Doctor's regeneration and to become the longest running companion in the history of the show.

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The Ghorman Massacre is harrowing and very well done, but I can't help but feel that it missed out on some of the fantastical elements of the setting.

So, the Empire shot up a crowd of peaceful protestors. That's fucked up, sure. Is it more fucked up than, for instance, Tarkin landing his ship on top of the same a decade earlier? Would it be better if the Ghor got glassed by ISD cannons, for example?

Then again, the goundedness is what makes the scene so powerful. The overt sci-fi shit would probably stand in the way of the emotional impact for the viewer.

And there's political intricacies too, what with ISB baiting the Ghor into a trap. Can't claim self-defense if you nuke the underdog from orbit.

Still, I wish the series was more appropriately fantastical at times, even if I get why it's not.