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Donna Outfits FINAL ROUND

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gossip rag

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My number one Hellyna thought is that Helly has been loved and cared for her entire life. Helena has seemingly never been loved or cared for. And Petey said his first day Lumon in his memories was as far back as his fifth birthday. So a reintegrated Hellyna will feel like she’s been loved her entire life.

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Tenth Doctor, The Nemonite Invasion

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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION 18.05 "The Brutal Man"

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You remember Andrew Mendoza? [...] He kept pushing for a threesome.

CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION 18.05 "The Brutal Man"

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Donna Outfits Round 2 Poll 5

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"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

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Severance Text Posts 9/?

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Severance Text Posts 32/?

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hot take: the problem with doctor who is NOT that they brought billie piper back, it is NOT that ncuti left early, it is NOT that 15 never faced a dalek or a cyberman, and it is CERTAINLY NOT that it’s ’too woke’

the problem with doctor who is that they have forgotten how to engage an audience without utterly confusing them. if i were a writer, this is what i’d change:

1. i would lower the stakes

my biggest issue with dw in recent years is that the stakes are always SO high - it’s always ‘we need to sort this out or else the ENTIRE UNIVERSE WILL END. this rarely happened at the start of nuwho. of course, there were instances where galaxies and universes were at stake, but there were also plenty of instances where the doctor solves issues to A. save his own skin, B. save his friends, and C. to save smaller populations of people and/or generally do what is morally right.

prime example is in new earth. the world isn’t really at stake, he has a couple of objectives: get cassandra to piss off, free the test subjects, stop the infections from spreading. he doesn’t spend the hour worrying that if he doesn’t help then the world will end, he sees a problem that’s morally corrupt and he solves it for the sake of that group. the payoff is just as good, and actually IMPROVES the payoff for episodes where a bit more is at stake, like the poison sky, for example.

2. i would stop plots from spilling over across seasons

i’d like to remind everyone that, although there were things that kind of linked into each other and were mentioned again, generally for the first 4 seasons of (new) doctor who, an overarching issue was built up, climaxed, and resolved throughout a single season. for example: bad wolf in s1. this has gotten worse and worse over time but has honestly been a problem since rtd1 ended, and for some reason when he came back it got WORSE than it’s ever been!!! there’s just way too much overspill across seasons, things even span accross different doctors more recently which is just too much at times. when it’s little things it doesn’t matter, but it’s not. again, this has been an issue before this finale, but this finale is a good example since there were a hundred and one loose ends before he regenerated. when nuwho began, they literally stated each regen would be treated as a soft reboot and their neglect of that has been a downfall.

3. i’d make doctor who dirty and grungy again

it’s too clean futuristic ultra modern sci-fi these days. the tardis doesn’t look like he stole it. what happened to those fun tardis scenes where the entire thing would shake as it took off and landed? why is everything so light and clean? it should be dim and cozy and imperfect.

4. i’d make the companions’ family members more prominent and interesting characters again

doesn’t take much explaining, really. picture jackie tyler, now picture carla sunday. who has a stronger presence and personality in your head and why is it jackie tyler? (there’s bound to be someone who disagrees and that’s fine but i don’t rlly want to hear about it tbh)

5. i’d re-inject some british whimsy

please don’t mistake this as me saying doctor who ‘isn’t british’ or something weird and gammon-y like that, i love when dw explores different cultures, the story and the engine was one of my highlights last season, i just mean like - let him save the world with a jammy dodger again. let him be brought back to life by a good cup of tea. it makes it enjoyable.

there are lots of things, but those are my main ones.

EDIT: thank you to everyone who has weighed in on this - i’ve found it really interesting to see everyone’s perspectives on this because honestly i could talk for king and country about it, but also i just wanted to say that it makes me kind of sad that one of my only negative posts about doctor who is my most popular post :( if you’re reading this, it’s your sign to do something positive today, if i can help to make just one person’s day better then that’s a win to me :)

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God Archie Panjabi really Gets It.

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having thoughts. a lot of thoughts.

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you know who haunts the doctor’s narrative. donna noble. donna noble whose fate becomes a thematic concern because the guilt is too vast for plot. the doctor wipes her memory and immediately lands next to a man who seems to be himself without his memories. and then he meets a little girl who never forgets anything. amy pond who can bring back worlds and people from memory and remember impossible things. he spends the better part of two seasons pitted against the silence, who are deadly and whom you cannot remember. and cue regeneration amnesia. and he ends up with the face of someone donna begged him to save. and that’s his purpose now. and then he ends up in his bespoke torture chamber where he loses and gains the exact same memory every day, and dies over and over and over. for two billion years. it’s actually tragic when the fourteenth doctor says in the star beast that the universe is turning around her again. girliepop, the universe never stopped doing that so far as you’re concerned.

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She's ruthless! Worse than ruthless, she's indifferent!

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The MONEY I would have paid to see this guy fumble his way through a moderately detailed description of The Tent Sex