#boom town

[felicitywilds]

nine is just so besotted with rose he cant even pretend to be annoyed at her for more than a second. she struggles to pronounce raxacoricofallapatorius and at first hes like “🙄🙄🙄” and shes like “no hang on!” and then as she starts getting the hang of it his attitude pivots so quickly. he breaks out into the dopiest smile and she jumps into his arms and they hug and he swings her around and they’re so giddy and he’s so proud of her for such a tiny, silly reason. made for each other behavior.

[khruschevshoe]

How Behind-the Scenes Issues Affected the Writing of Doctor Who (Both Good and Bad)

Doctor Who is such a fascinating show to look at from a Watsonian v. Doylist perspective. Like, entirely just from an episode writing point of view:

Twice Upon A Time feels so slow and meandering and even boring in places because Chris Chibnall didn't want to start his run as showrunner and Steven Moffat didn't want the show to lose the coveted Christmas timeslot (ironic, I know) so he bumped the Twelfth Doctor's regeneration from the end of The Doctor Falls (where it makes sense) to the end of the Christmas special

Boom Town (my beloved) only exists because originally there was going to be an episode in its spot explaining that Rose had been molded to be the Doctor's perfect companion (by the Doctor, gross) and the writer didn't have the time to commit to the show

The ending of Last Christmas feels like one inside-a-dream too many because originally Jenna Coleman was questioning whether she was going to leave the show or not and the ending was rewritten after the first readthrough when she decided she wanted to stay for another season

The first five episodes of Season 7 feel like each one takes place in a different genre because that's literally how Steven Moffat pitched it to the writers; for example, A Town Called Mercy was literally pitched as "Doctor Who does a Western"

Not so much a weird one but one I find cool: Eleven's first words and Thirteen's first words were literally written by Moffat and Chibnall respectively, as they were brought in to write the first words of the first Doctors of their runs so as to make it cohesive

The reason why Fourteen isn't wearing Thirteen's clothes when he regenerates is because Jodie Whittaker is much shorter than David Tennant and Russell T. Davies didn't want it to look like he was making fun of the genderfluidity of the Doctor (still think he made the wrong decision, but eh)

Wilfred Mott isn't in the Runaway Bride and Donna's father isn't in Partners in Crime because the actor who played Donna's father, Howard Attfield, died after filming several scenes for Partners In Crime, leading to the character of "Stan Mott" from Voyage of the Damned being written into Partners In Crime as Donna's grandfather

Astrid Peth doesn't die in the original drafts of Voyage of the Damned, but Russell T. Davies wrote what is generally considered one of the most emotional deaths in Doctor Who just because he wanted Kylie Minogue to be able to focus on her music career

Originally Oxygen was written as a prequel to Mummy on the Orient Express, where a corporate representative appeared on a monitor. Said representative was fired for his fumbling of the station and would later live on as the company computer, Gus

During Season 11, Chris Chibnall had to do some major rewrites for many of the one-off episodes, therefore The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos ended up being a first draft that made it to screen. He later admitted it was his least favorite episode of the series

And this is only a fraction of what I found in terms of major behind-the-scenes writing reasons. Though I am still totally willing to critique the product that made it to our screens, finding out the reasons behind some of the more badly written episodes of the show really made me feel sympathy for every showrunner of the show as well as appreciate a lot of the good episodes that ended up here despite the short production schedule/unexpected problems (once again, Boom Town my beloved AND everyone's favorite companion Wilfred Mott only exist because of unforseen problems). Absolutely bonkers, isn't it?

[chodoyodes]

Boom Town had the best outfits

[witchofthemidlands]

"Cardiff, early 21st century. Safest place in the universe." - Ninth Doctor ‘Boom Town’

For @kirstyth

[eccleston]

DOCTOR WHO | Boom Town

We’ll stop by and pop her in the hatchery. Margaret the Slitheen can live her life again.

[playa-pariah]

A bunch of slitheens I drew for a university project :P so silly

[doctorwhoisadhd]

fully i think in boom town torchwood's version of jack is standing there on that invisible lift the whole time watching them so he can just get a glimpse of the doctor and rose again

[shiveringfrogspawn]

do y'all wanna see my rose tyler cosplay?? hell yes you do, it's sick

idk who this other guy is, he just asked for a photo 🙄 guess that's what happens when you dress like this, maybe he's a doctor who fan??

[doctorwhogirlie]

[toshsato]

NEW WHO Rewatch: 1x11 BOOM TOWN

Captain Jack Harkness and Rose Tyler

[just-a-twinge-of-cosmic-angst]

I just realised Torchwood existed in 2005.....so how did Jack convince the others not to get involved in the events of the DW episode Boom Town?

Obviously Jack knew he couldn't meet his past self, and he couldn't allow his team to either, but we can't pretend Tosh isn't gonna notice that a new nuclear power plant has a serious and potentially fatal design flaw, can we? So what did Jack say to them to convince them it was all fine?

[felicitywilds]

fuckin. immaculate nine/rose/jack vibes at the start of boom town. flirting off the charts from all three of them. finishing each others sentences. mickeys even in there too finishing jacks joke. theyre all made for each other.

[khruschevshoe]

I think people forget that Nine actually offered Mickey a travel in the TARDIS and that Ten was the one who was reluctant to bring him along. Like, despite Nine calling Mickey "Rickey" and an "idiot" and everything, he not only offered Mickey a shot travelling but also covered up for Mickey and was willing to look like an ass so that Mickey could still look alright to Rose. Nine wasn't always great at showing that he cared about humans other than Rose, the one-episode characters, and occasionally Jack but he DID.

(Also this is why I think that despite the fact that Mickey was jealous of the Doctor, especially early on, he came the moment Rose called in Boom Town and was down to hang out with the TARDIS team, help saved the day, and honestly felt like an extension of the poly vibes that Nine, Rose, and Jack had, fitting in rather easily if always a bit uncertain of his place/still prone to jealousy sometimes. Also why he helped Rose get back to the Doctor in the Parting of the Ways. Because he could tell that Nine DID care. It's only when Ten comes along that things get rocky again.)

[airprime7]

I've been watching Doctor Who episodes randomly, because I'm bad at deciding things, and I've decided to liveblog the next one because I'm insane.

I've already seen them all (NuWho), so I'm not going to be too surprised by anything, more interesting things or thoughts.

The first time I got randomly Partners in Crime (I'd already watched it recently), The Day of the Doctor (watched it literally the week beforehand, Love and Monsters (no) and A Town Called Mercy, which is what I went for (surprisingly good! It had a trans horse that swears!)

Then The Caretaker (eh), The Pilot (I had watched it 3 days ago), Ascension of the Cybermen (which would have come with The Timeless Children, but I wasn't really up those) so I settles on The Sound of Drums (and with it Utopia, and Last of the Time Lords. Better than I remembered, save the Doctor turning into Gollum).

This time my options are Boom Town; Once, Upon Time (probably would choose to watch all of Flux with it if I were to); The Doctor's Wife; or Wild Blue Yonder, which I'm interested to re-watch.

[witchofthemidlands]

i just know jack was having a low key aneurysm every time he saw or heard anything about ‘the mayor of cardiff’ during 2006 because he couldn't do or say anything about the fact that she was a slitheen & unfortunately a part of his timeline especially when said slitheen was actually girlbossing too close to the sun with suzie.

[eccleston]

Go on, then. There’s no choice, is there?

DOCTOR WHO | Boom Town ⇢ Rise of the Cybermen