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exiting my years long slumber to post abt Her

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Nuwho doctors meeting each other: HI BESTIE 🤗 let's trade compliments 🥰 and maybe lightly make fun of each other for our silly quirks 😝

Classic who doctors meeting each other: the bbc broadcasting standards are the only thing preventing me from calling you a slur.

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Have this out of context panel from a meme I made for reddit

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It's just about an outfit reveal in the beginning of the episode- one of the best things about Ncuti's era is his outfits

Okay, I see you! Fuck gender, Doctor

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billie piper returning isn’t an awesome feminist moment or “haunting the narrative” or the story going full circle. It’s keys being jingled in front of our faces like babies

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OBSESSED with that pope photo so I drew Benitez

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trying to heal the hole RTD has caused by ignoring bi-generation with f*urteen

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Ncuti Gatwa had a shorter run as the Doctor than Black History Month. Like they seriously started off pride month by removing one of the things that actually kept this damn old ass show fresh. I usually try to defend the show or bury its questionable narratives but not this time. This actually hurt. I felt no satisfaction with this ending at all. RTD can’t seem to let go of his golden years and he really took it out on Ncuti.

What a shit way to start pride month.

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Made for @sambuckylibrary SamBucky Summer Bingo 2025 - On the Job Card - Square Fill: Free Space

Out Magazine interview with Sam Wilson, Captain America.

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THE NCUTI GATWA YEARS (2023 - 2025)

And that is exactly the word. This has been an absolute joy.

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man its honestly been quite the experience watching everyone turn so fucking hard on RTD from this one clusterfuck episode. like EVERYBODY turned on "the GOAT dw writer" so fucking fast you'd think he was going for a Ruin My Reputation speedrun any% challenge. and man he got the world record

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people also dont wanna admit that spock loves religion in an intellectual way while still believing in it. like he is religious for starters but he also loves relating the things going on around him to religious stories its a big part of like. artistic expression for him but people that think theres no place for religion in the future dont wanna see their fav for what he is so they reduce his mind down to facts and statistics they remove the poetry

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I do not like to consider behind the scenes stuff when talking about Art, but I do think that this episode fully sealed the deal on the 'Millie Gibson left the show unexpectedly for Some Sort of Reason so they had to cast someone else as a new companion on short notice and quickly rewrite completed episodes to compensate' theory.

That whole maternal bit with Belinda? Out of nowhere. Nothing to do with Belinda. Belinda got very little characterization overall, but none of it was that.

But let's say instead that the companion for this season remained Ruby. We get a little timeskip in between the two seasons, in which Ruby dates Conrad. Maybe the Robot Revolution initially featured him. Then we have a whole season in which none of the other stories (except a new version of Lucky Day) center around her, which makes a lot of sense because the previous season was all about her. She doesn't feel undercharacterized, because she had a whole-ass season of characterization already. Most of the season could have her in the place of Belinda with literally nothing changing, which, well.

And then we get to this finale. The Doctor and Ruby get magicked into a world where they have a magic baby, who looks just like a baby they met previously. Despite the fact that the baby and their life isn't real, Ruby can't possibly find it within herself to abandon - or forget - a child. It doesn't matter whether the child is really hers or not. It matters that someone needs to take care of her and that Ruby steps up to do it. That's a core Ruby character value! That's something that would follow up on a previously established theme!

So, the ending in which she raises the child isn't weird, it's the conclusion to Ruby's character arc. There's no extra character who needs to be shoved into a literal box. The UNIT reunion is a reunion of characters who actually know each other, unlike Belinda, who doesn't know any of those guys. Space Babies is retroactively vindicated.

I cannot believe this was not the intended model of the series. We know these two seasons were written and filmed concurrently. There's no reason for the result to be so awkward if there wasn't some bullshit afoot, given that there was ample opportunity to plan it properly. When Belinda was announced, RTD explicitly said that Varada Sethu was cast because they had already filmed 'Boom' and they knew she had good screen chemistry with Ncuti. She herself said that she was just offered the role out of the blue. This was a rush job. I really liked Varada Sethu as Belinda. She did a lot to disguise the patch here, and it's too bad that she couldn't do more. But we shouldn't think of these seasons as something that was designed to be this way. I'm pretty sure they weren't.

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Happy Pride Month

To this man specifically.

Ncuti Gatwa the Man you are 💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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ive not been watching doctor who but that indian woman companion is so fucking pretty