#* t. murray.

[s0phyy]

business meeting

[benoits-neckerchieves]

russell 😭😂

oh my god 💀💀

[marvelmaniac715]

How I think the Dugga Doo pitch went down (based on a comment I read which said that Murray Gold wrote it on his own without prompting and it wasn’t in the script):

Murray Gold: Hi, Russell, listen, it’s so great that you’re doing another episode devoted to music. So glad I could contribute some songs.

Russell T Davies: Well thank you, it’s a pleasure to have you on board for this, you’ve written some great tracks for Doctor Who over the years, always so thought-provoking and moving.

Murray Gold: Thanks… so anyway, I’ve written another song. It’s three minutes long, it’s a bit like that one song from the Muppets sung by the pink hoover things with eyelashes.

Russell T Davies: …I’m not sure if we’ll have time for that-

Murray Gold: It’s called Dugga Doo.

Russell T Davies: It’s called what? Anyway, like I said, I’m terribly sorry but-

Murray Gold: *Heavy breathing* DUGGA. DOO.

Russell T Davies: …Right, you know what? Okay, we’ll put it in the episode, it can be in the background of a character’s mental breakdown, it seems quite fitting for how I feel right now.

Murray Gold: *Happy Dugga Doo noises*

[krystinaarielle]

No thoughts … just dugga doo

[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

[youngexwivesclub]

Interview for the AT&T Block Party

[tornrose24]

A plea for a Dugga Doo episode (yes, really)

Regardless of how the future of Doctor Who will look–and if Billie Piper is indeed the 16th Doctor–the only thing I want is an episode about Dugga Doo.

I'm serious. I don't care if it's a filler episode. I want more Dugga Doo. That little creature stole everyone's love and interest with their song, and the fact that it's Murray Gold's creation is even better.

I want to know where those creatures come from. I want to know where they stand, were they against that corporation, what that song means to them, what threatens their existence, and I want to see plushies coming out of this.

"But Dugga Doos contribute nothing but meme material" you might say. Doctor Who has had filler episodes whether we want them ('Blink,') or not ('Love and monsters'). We've had silly episodes that heavily divide folks ('Space Babies'). If any creature deserves to be the focus of a silly/filler episode, it's Dugga Doo. The fact that Dugga Doo has driven Russel T. Davis insane is perfect, but it would be hilarious if he had to be forced to allow a Dugga Doo epsiode due to fan appeal. For some folks who hated how the new series has been handled, that might be the perfect torture/punishment.

Especially because you know Dugga Doo merch WILL sell if they allow it.

Russel T. Davis may have wanted to focus on farting aliens, talking babies, and whatever that mind screw 'The Reality War' is. It's now Murray Gold's turn to let his creature shine and grace us with their presence and their song once more.

[rapha-reads]

Alrighty, allons-y! Finally found the time to sit down and watch Lux, and what an episode! I'm more and more convinced that RTD is preparing us a really meta story arc, as in, we're definitely going to come out of the screen at some point, and Lux is just an appetizer, to throw us some crumbs and make us think now that it's done, it can't be the big thing. Anyway, live commentary:

"You're a Time Lord!" - "Let's go home to Gallifrey" - Belinda is Rani / another Classic Who Time Lord theory intensifies. Also the whole thing where she's like "so there's no other Time Lord coming to help us" after the cartoon moment: 1, how does she know about Time Lords, 2, who else but another Time Lord would be wary of relying on the Doctor and want another Time Lord's help, especially a Gallifreyan one?

Belinda going "out of my way, let me see 1952" was super cute. Girl may want to go home bad, but she's definitely going to enjoy the trips in the meantime.

And the Doctor going "better that nobody sees us as we are in 52" - Fifteenth definitely learned from Thirteenth. Sexism, done, ah, now let's do racism. We only need the queerphobia now to complete the trifecta (genderfluid Doctor when?).

"This time of night, who's looking?" Ooooooh. Putting my money on Logan the diner boy is queer.

"I have toppled worlds. Sometimes I wait for people to topple their world." OOOOOH. Not only is that River's Doctor, the one that makes whole armies turn around at the mention of his name, but that's also one hell of a deep commentary about the Doctor: even he has to wait for the times to evolve.

Nooooooo, don't tell me. Nooo? Come on. ANOTHER ONE? Another Pantheon god? I mean, I was expecting it, but not that soon. Also I'm pretty sure Lux is not one mentionned by Harbinger in the last series. Can't remember his name in her list. You know which ones I'd like to see? God of beasts the Mara, and the threefold deity of malice and mischief and misery. Because these two are speaking of deeeeep folklore. Anyway this ain't the place, but one day I'll write a word or two about it.

Holy shit we're going SO. META. Lizzie, Hassan and Robyn are SO on brand. Wish that were me tho. But "Blink" is such a boring answer. Yeah, it's amazing and a cult classic, righteously so, but come on. Be original. Say... "Gridlock", the death of Face of Boe. "The God Complex", a deeply complex episode about faith and fear. Or "Hell Bent", the Doctor in front of himself, without artifice.

Wait. The music. The music when they're talking with the Whovians, guys, that's Eleventh's music, unless I'm wrong, and I'm not wrong, I know all of Eleventh's by heart, that's his sad theme. Yep, it's either "The Sad Man With A Box", or "The Mad Man With A Box", series 5 soundtrack. Is Murray Gold reusing old leitmotivs or is there a reason why this one in particular? Because, the title is quite evocative. Are Gold and Davies trying to tell us something about Fifteenth? Music is really important, in any media, but moreso in Doctor Who where it's been particularly peculiar since the beginning of Fifteenth's run (Maestro, Ruby being in a band, even the Toymaker's laugh). There's definitely a reason why this particular theme at this exact moment. Are they hitting at the Doctor's not being real?

Aaaaaand I just notice there are already video essays talking about that on YouTube, so disregard all of this and let's go watch the videos.

Ah, obligatory Mrs Flood cameo. Girl who are you what do you want and how do you manage to always be where the action is?

All in all, gotta agree with the Whovians at the end. Solid episode, a good 7 out of 10, for sure. Love the meta aspects, love the love shown to the fandom (RTD knows who he's doing this for, after all, crew and cast, they were and still are one of us). Love Belinda warming up to the Doctor, and the Doctor respecting her more and more.

Next episode looks like the scary sort. The teaser made me think a little of the Bill and Twelfth one where Twelfth loses his sight, "Oxygen". Deep space trip with monsters and horrible life conditions, yey!

[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

[dandelionjack]

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

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

So during the scene where Belinda talks about her parents they played a small bub very obvious snippet of Amy's Theme.

WHY, RUSSELL??? WHY????

[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!

[michelsens]

Tennis Players x Random Screenshots in My Phone Part 2 (Part 1)

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Murray Gold Confirms New #DoctorWho Soundtracks (Including Series 10) Are Coming Soon!

[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

[bluespring864]

Post match fistbump, pat on the back and chat.

video found here