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Just finished rewatching DW series 5 and it annoys me so much how twice at her own wedding Amy tries to get The Doctor to kiss her

Just another icky example of Moffat's writing there uggh

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Donna Noble Doodle that looked good so I colored it. Her Fires of Pompeii hair is so pretttyyyyy

Also she's definitely teasing the Doctor something fierce in this

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Use a numerical method to approximate an integral you already knew the answer to.

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I love that episode, too, even with the questionable choice of watching people (very close up giving birth) to the adipose thing aside.

Before, the story all started from Martha and Rose suddenly being swept into his orbit to another fantastical world. Their interactions with the Doctor was more passive, and they were so young, still on the cusp of figuring themselves out that they were all in a way easily charmed by what he offered until much later.

But Donna had met him once and already saw the real him. Partner in Crime was when she decided to actively seek him out because even though she had tried to make change to the boring life she didn't like, it didn't work out. And this makes me all the more obsessed with her as a companion, because it tells me that she had lived through two entirely different lives and yet she decided she would still choose to travel with him in a heartbeat.

Not to mention they are just so wonderful together, with no expectation of each other. I will always be a sucker for their dynamic.

I just love Partners In Crime.

In the introduction episodes for Rose and Martha the audience is shown the story (at the beginning at least) from the perspective of the human, who is suddenly swept into the mythic sci-fi world when the meet the Doctor.

Then in PIC, we get the whole episode from both perspectives equally, which not only establishes them as equals efficiently from a framing perspective, but also makes perfect sense since, unlike Rose and Martha, Donna has already met the Doctor and is neck deep in alien weirdness.

I pretty much knew I was a goner for Donna as my favorite companion the second the episode opens and we get those gorgeous matching shots of them marching up to Adipose Industries.

She's so fantastic, I could have done with twelve more seasons of Ten and Donna.

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how the doctor looks at donna: partners in crime

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"We need more fucked up female characters" you literally couldn't even handle the 13th Doctor being rude to a Dalek

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I truly fucking despise the new season of Doctor Who being promoted as one that will be unique for showing the Doctor's queerness or whatever the fuck. There's this attitude under all this promo like the 15th Doctor is the first queer Doctor as if a) the 9th Doctor didn't kiss a man b) the Doctor didn't canonically change genders and c) when they were a woman was CANONICALLY in love with another woman. like HELLO??? I don't even like 13 and yaz that much and think they should've been written better, but there's something so misogynistic and revisionist about people acting like David Tennant saying Isaac Newton was hot in the anniversary special is "confirming the Doctor is queer" or that Ncuti's doctor will be the first queer Doctor. like...i hate it. This whole line of marketing reeks of Disney's "first Gay™" style marketing and I fucking hate it.

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There's something about how the costuming of Amy Pond (always in miniskirts/heeled boots even when the circumstances actively call against it, never getting to wear period wear except for once in Vampires of Venice for a one-scene disguise before immediately moving into a nightgown and once in a cutaway honeymoon monstage) is directly linked to the more sexist aspects of her storyline writing and that tie is most likely the interviews with Steven Moffatt where he admits to wanting to make Doctor Who "sexier." In this essay I will-

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The Doctor be like “I know a spot” then take you to watch your planet die

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I love that my two main ships are ships, that according to the fandom, I’m not supposed to ship romantically. The minute you express aloud you ship Donna Noble and Ten/Fourteen or Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller romantically people are so offended. But both David Tennant characters can be shipped with literally anyone else? Odd.

Yes, platonic love is important, but something about the level of mad people get about it makes me wonder.

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doctor who series 4 becomes that much funnier if you consider that it is now canon donna thought this mf was a bit fruity the whole fuckin time and never said a word of it

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Differentiate every fraction you encounter from first principles because you cannot remember the order of the quotient rule to save your life.

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Morgana Pendragon | 4x04

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After finishing Doctor Who during Moffat's run, I think I see a pattern here for most (but not all) of his female characters choices in Doctor Who & Sherlock. I know people have already analyzed this before, but I want to do it myself so here we go.

There are primary three categories:

1. The first is the generic and the normal ones, according to him. Characters like Amy, Donna (silence in the library episode) from Doctor Who, Mary from Sherlock. These are the characters that will always stand with the good people, never straying, and whose life long dream is to settle down and have children. Mary of course is an outlier, because she had shot Sherlock and broke John's trust. But in the final season, it turned out that her hands had been forced, and she had been good all along.

For me, I think wanting to settle down to have a family of course is not necessarily a bad thing. I can't say for Mary and Amy because I couldn't relate to them personally, however, Donna's storyline in the Silence in the Library didn't sit well with me. When she was saved by the Computer, it sort of simulated a life that it thought she wanted. One where she had two beautiful children and a dotting husband. The problem here lies in the fact that she had been ridiculed and thought to be loud and brash and stupid all her life, and had been a temp for a long time. She literally ran to the TARDIS the second time she met the Doctor because she didn't like the life she had had, or the life her mom has been pressuring her to have. Can you see how reluctant she has been to pursue anything really? Do you really think her life-long dream, her secret desire is still to settle down and become a wife to someone? Maybe, but not before taking the chance to see the Universe with the Doctor. I actually have a feeling that finding a husband might have been on her list, but she could be doing that more out of obligation and societal expectations. Again, it's not a bad thing to want a family, but there's a recurring theme for his character choices that I can't help notice.

2. Second are the women who are smart and resourceful. These are the characters that are most of the time portrayed as sexy and intelligent, and most of all above all the others. Characters like Irene Adler and Mary (a little bit) in Sherlock, River and Clara in Doctor Who. I think there are many discussions we can have about the definition of strong, female, characters. However, I agree with many others that these women's lives all revolve around one man. And even if they are smart enough, we have to remember there will be one guy who can still tell them otherwise: which are Sherlock and the Doctor respectively.

3. The third type of women in Steven Moffat's writings are those who are too intelligent they become unpredictable and sometimes downright inhuman. Characters like Eurus in Sherlock, Missy in Doctor Who are in this category. They are extremely smart and morally questionable characters, and certainly, they have a lot of potential to explore. However, they are almost too smart that it becomes harder to relate to them. And since I don't think Moffat really knows how to deal with them, they are either put in a cage when they are being "naughty", or out of the cage at their male counterpart's side when they finally decide to stand with them, to be "good".

By the way, there is one addition that I think is relevant. It is fucking funny that with the way he wrote these women, they are most of the time too put together to really have any story to tell. From first glance, you wouldn't be able to really see what their backgrounds were like and what's on their minds, and as the story progressed nothing really developed. Since this is not good for story telling, he would give you some (in my opinion) unnecessary stories to compensate the lack of substances, such as family drama TM (the whole John and Mary arguments), or the boyfriend drama TM (why didn't you approve my choice of a boyfriend, Doctor? & OMG my boyfriend just been run over by cars because I said "I love you" to him). Those back and forth we didn't really see coming to distract us from the facts. However, this makes a lot of the stories feel disjointed and the time jump between episodes sometimes doesn't make sense. Also when the dramas are added, some audience (normally cis straight guys) can be like look, the main guys don't really care to deal with them and in comparison are way cooler, these girls just needed to be put in their places.

In conclusion, most of the women written by him are either categorized as:

(1) normal girls will -> get pregnant

(2) Smart & sexy powerful women will -> get beaten by the main character (who are always white, more superior and smarter)

(3) Unpredictable brainiacs (who deserve better) will-> get put into dungeons and cages 'cause they are crazy and "bad" (as in their beliefs are not aligned with the hero's). Oh and sometimes they can be sexy, too

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Take your meds, drink some water, get something to eat, take a deep breath, and be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, at just how much this improves your math skills.

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You know what I don't see acknowledged enough? Most notably that the show never explains it, but I've also never seen fans put it into words.

Why Clara is so unsettled by 12 looking old when he regenerates. There's a whole thing in Deep Breath of Jenny and Vastra assuming the worst, that she wanted him young and pretty, but once Clara shuts that down they just ignore that she was unsettled by his age and focus on her seeing him as The Doctor, despite the change. They never take the time to acknowledge why she had that issue.

There are two big reasons, the one they actually imply a little is that when he looked young he felt approachable, like a peer, someone she could be comfortable with and stand beside, not someone standing over her (and that also reflects in their personalities; 11 was casual and easily put off balance by Clara being forward or flirty or controlling, while 12 (at this point) pretends he can't see her properly and is mature and disconnected and unflappable by anything she does.

But the big part... She just watched 11 age a millennium in a few hours. She watched, in drips and drabs, him live out his regeneration for so long that he died of old age, more or less. Then he regenerates, and instead of a whole new life, he's already old. How long does he have, when he starts off old? Does she have to prepare for another death already, when she just faced one, and had to fight to get him one last chance at life?