#* t. murray.

[youngexwivesclub]

Interview for the AT&T Block Party

[ghost-bison]

Doctor Who: 1x08 The Satan Pit (2006) / 60th anniversary special 2/3 Wild Blue Yonder (2023)

I frankly love that parallel. One scene taken out of each of the two RTD eras.

First there's the colour palettes. You can see that they're polar opposites. RTD era1 was warm all the time as talked about in this post (which I love dearly, I keep referencing it in my posts), and then we have RTD era2, which has a more modern-looking, colder palette for science fiction.

But it's also a directing choice for the mood I think, cause on the one hand, we have Rose who, we all know, would even give up on seeing her mum again if it meant she got to spend the rest of her life with the Doctor (quite like Donna back in series 4 actually, who was very prompt to say she was going to travel with Ten forever). On the other hand we have Donna in 2023 who's now got a daughter and a husband and who hadn't even planned on doing a trip with the Doctor in the first place, let alone at the edge of the universe. I mean, they were just supposed to go see Wilfred! On one side we have Ten who's slowly recovering from the trauma of the Time War and falling in love for the first time in a while and re-learning that he deserves to be loved, too. On the other side we have Fourteen who, just as Donna put it, is "staggering", and as Fifteen said, is "running on fumes". He's got FOUR regenerations worth of trauma on Ten who was already struggling as it was with one (since the Time War I mean. Maybe two if we count Nine, cause who knows what he's been through between his regeneration and meeting Rose). Fourteen went through losing Rose, Donna, Amy, Rory, River, Clara, Bill, and he went through Pandorica, billions of years imprisoned by the Time Lords in his own personal hell, finding out about the Timeless Child, etc... and now, on top of everything, he's got to deal face to face with the guilt of what he did to Donna as she's been given back to him. Anyway, it's dark, when you think about it. No wonder the colours are so much colder in Wild Blue Yonder.

Then there's the music. In The Satan Pit, the soundtrack, The Impossible Planet, has a mystical quality to it. It's slightly creepy (I mean, it IS an episode about Satan), but it's mostly mysterious. Ten and Rose are only 500 years away from home. But in Wild Blue Yonder, Fourteen and Donna are 100 TRILLION YEARS away from home. The soundtrack from that scene, The Edge of Creation, isn't just mysterious, it's eerie and ethereal and perfectly encompasses what it would feel like to stand somewhere so impossibly alien it has become supernatural (if you can't tell I am obsessed with that track and episode lmao).

I love the contrast between Rose and Donna and the questions they ask. Rose's question is cute, she's like "I've seen it in films, is that it?", it stems from a place of curiosity, like she doesn't really realize the deep shit that they're in. She's just a kid. Whereas Donna's question, it stems from a place of dread: "Where's the light?". It almost has a "The Licked Hand" quality to it (if you don't know that story: the girl is scared, she puts her hand under the bed, her dog licks it. She goes into the bathroom, finds her dog dead in the tub, and written in its blood are the words 'humans can lick too').

Then, finally, there's the order in which things have been done: in The Satan Pit, Rose remarks they're "a long way from home". Ten takes a long look at her, and seeing that she seems a bit scared, he explains to her how long it would take to get home. In Wild Blue Yonder, Fourteen first explains to Donna how long it would take to get home, and only THEN, he takes a long look at her, and finally Donna says "that's my family, over there". It parallels Rose's sentence in the sense that they both talk about home and how far away it is, but they use different words for it with a different meaning behind. Donna is more specific on what she'll be returning to when it's over (her family), whereas Rose, who isn't as grounded as her, just says "home" (which, for her, probably just means the place she grew up). I also love the contrast between Rose's "a long way" and Donna's "over there". The first implies foreign, the second implies close enough to see. What's interesting about this bit is Donna is further away from home than Rose is, geographically speaking. But for Rose, Home is actually the Doctor, just him, so she has no problem saying she's "a long way from home" since she doesn't mean it in the same way Donna would. So for Donna, when she says "over there", it's because the Home she's talking about is closer to her heart, and she's probably trying to reassure herself that she'll see her family again (I used to do something like that when I was in primary school, I'd travel all the way back to my house in my head to kiss my parents on the cheek because I was so homesick).

So that's that I guess

[see-arcane]

Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles. Once or twice it came quite close, but was, I suppose, frightened at seeing me, and flitted away across the harbour towards the abbey.

Dracula, flying away: THIS WENCH AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!

tfw the same random girl keeps spawning out of nowhere to thwart your chomping time

[doctorwho247]

Composer Murray Gold has officially returned to Doctor Who to score the show for its return in November 2023 and beyond.

Read the full story at: doctorwho.tv

❤️ ❤️ ➕️ 🎶

[thedoctorsunderwear]

Some of you forget that the song used at the end of The Christmas Invasion

WAS SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN FOR DOCTOR WHO.

It’s called ‘Song for Ten’ and in the episode it’s sung by Tim Phillips, but on the soundtrack it’s sung by Neil Hannon. I personally prefer the TV version as it feels more triumphant and full.

And what makes it better, is that it’s written from 9/10’s perspective! The TV version only goes over the first half of the song, the happy part, it’s about the doctor and rose!

But the second half… oh goodness. ‘So have a good life, do it for me, make me so proud, like you want me to be. Wherever you are, I’m thinking of you, oceans apart. I want you to know…’ ITS ABOUT THE DOCTOR AND ROSE BEING SEPARATED! AND THE WAY THEY CUT OFF THAT LINE LIKE ‘If it’s my last chance to say it… Rose Tyler…’ AHSBSJBEKCND

‘And I woke up today AND YOU WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE?!?’ LIKE BRO AKBDJWBJDISBKCJWKOCJWNFLOCBAKXOISBEMFOC ATOP YOU’RE KILLING ME MURRAY GOLD!

[ohmerricat]

hey uh. so what’s up with these lyrics actually.

you know how song for ten included lyrical foreshadowing for doomsday? murray gold doesn’t pull this shit accidentally. well i haven’t heard anybody discussing how ominous these lyrics really are. “what you intend i can’t defend” “i think this song will never end”??

pretend, descend (into hell? where are we descending? and most importantly, pretend to do what?? one more penny for the “it’s all happening inside a tv show” jar)

Land’s End — presumably foreshadowing for the cliffside where the TARDIS will land in 73 yards…

?? im being serious they wouldn’t write complete nonsense right. what does this mean. there’s a special little dance you’ll run the risk of WHAT. what the fuck does this mean, mr gold

[cyber-corp]

holyshitholyshithOLYSHIT IT WAS SO GOOD.

Here are some of my favourite bits from the new Doctor Who special;

(MASSIVE SPOILERS)

UNIT supplying their wheelchairs with stun guns and missiles. like. sure thing kate

14’s psychic paper still looking like 13

THE INTRO!!!! IT’S LIKE I’M PROPERLY FALLING INTO TIME AND SPACE

The fact that they brought in a trans actress, not only emphasising her importance for her being trans, not only for her to be supported by Donna but also link her up to the Metacrisis and the DoctorDonna is really beautiful to me

Also Rose gets up the Doctor for assuming the Meep’s pronouns (whose pronouns are just “The Meep”). Russell T does it again

The aliens going after the Meep are kinda chill actually

Honestly I was expecting the Meep to be at least dubiously evil, but the way they did the twist caught me off guard, so well done for that

David Tennant in a barrister’s wig

The scene in the Meep’s ship with the Doctor and Donna got to me. He’s so desperate to not let Donna die but in this life-or-death situation, it’s all he has. Kinda similar to the bit in The End of Time.

Then when the DoctorDonna comes back, a variation of “I am the Doctor” plays! Murray Gold’s score was on-point (and in the coming specials, it’ll stay that way!)

The Doctor just creating fucking screens and temporary walls with the new Sonic Screwdriver! So cool! (but also still resonating concrete with it. fantastic)

THE NEW TARDIS!!!!!! IT LOOKS AMAZING!!!!!!! DONNA SPILLS COFFEE INTO IT!!!!!

This whole special was absolutely fantastic. I still can’t believe we’ve got two more specials to go through, and I can’t wait for either of them

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

Oh my gosh the star beast was EVERYTHING I could have hoped for and more we are so freaking back (slight spoilers)

WE GOT:

David Tennant running around the tardis like a little boy in the most soul healing way imaginable

Best Supportive Mom Donna Noble

Best Supportive Husband Shaun Temple

HOPE FOR WILFRED MOTT?!

the doctordonna being the greatest thing ever to exist

David and Catherine making me laugh AND cry (sometimes in the same scene)

David in general doing an amazing job playing the Doctor a bit more mature and tired and gentle and lost

THE DOCTOR BEING VULNERABLE AND OPEN WITH HIS EMOTIONS?! IN THIS ECONOMY

David Tennant Losing It Scene (kinda)

amazing trans rep THANK YOU Yas and Russel

beep the meep

ten’s theme AND Donna’s theme AND I am the doctor (and Murray gold’s score killing it in general)

being nonbinary is a superpower apparently

Literally no notes it had ALL the wonder and magic that made me fall in love with this show 8 years ago I am so so pleased

[haredjarris]

Super specific poll time.

Feel free to add propaganda in the tags and reblogs. I would but I'm lazy. And also I don't wanna start crying.

Edit: I meant to set this longer than a day, damnit. Might do it again if this one doesn't get many votes.

[causalityparadoxes]

I totally understand why some don't enjoy the news Murray Gold is returning to Doctor Who. I'm ecstatic, but i get why some people aren't.

But lads, RTD has had Murray Gold composing for literally every show he's made in the past 2+ decades. They did Queer as Folk, Second coming, Casanova, Doctor Who, Years and Years, It's a Sin, and now Doctor who again, together.

Theres no conspiracy. yes I'd like a new take on the music too but Murray Gold and Russell T Davies clearly just like working together

[kindlythevoid]

May 9th: Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra

Pinterest // Same Old Things by Black Match // Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel // @stuffedgrapeleaves // The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot // Pinterest // Adventurers by Holley Maher // Ode byy Arthur O'Shaughnessy // Pinterest

Jonathan Harker's Insta Begins Here, Lucy's Interlude (Next)

[beegriffs]

Throwback to when Sean, Cote, and Michael tried to solve the mystery of how to take a serious photo…

[see-arcane]

Poor Mina! The suspense is getting dreadful! If only she knew where to write and go to so she could contact her beloved Jonathan! 🥺

The address thing really gets to me, honestly

Because there is technically ‘somewhere to write to.’ Dracula has to use one or more postal services to deliver the letters. And Hawkins had to have correspondence before Jonathan ever went to the castle. But Mina still has no place to write to. Why?

Because by now she thinks Jonathan is either on the move or dead. And the only disquieting messages she has from him are the brief announcement that he’s going to stay an extra month with Dracula, followed by his departure scribble. The latter are hopeless to write to. But the former?

I’d bet money she did write to him early on, attempting to do as Hawkins did. I bet the old man even showed his exact steps so she could do it; maybe he wrote too. And when Dracula received those letters they went right into the fire with Jonathan none the wiser.

[ohmerricat]

i believe a leitmotif is a kind of haunting. ghosts are able to pass through the walls of a house and musical themes are able to move through imaginary walls between different tv series. when something is gone it keeps existing

^you don’t know how long it took to find the sheet music for this fucking motif because i can’t just type ‘ooooooOoo oOo OoO…oOooOo’ and every one of the doctor’s themes is also referred to as the doctor’s theme

[dimensionsix]

Gordon Murray Automotive T.50s Niki Lauda

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

GMA T.33 Spider, 2023. Gordon Murray Automotive have revealed the open roof version of the V12-powered T.33 supercar. Two removable roof panels and a rear drop glass open then interior whilst providing rollover protection and optimal stiffness. Like its coupe stablemate, the T.33 Spider is powered by a naturally-aspirated 617 PS Cosworth GMA.2 V12 driving the rear wheels. Production will be limited to 100 cars