#chimes of midnight

[theonekierce]

Christmas just wouldn't be christmas!

(some closeup details and version without text under the cut >.<)

[romanathree]

i made a drawing for the chimes of midnight :)

[ID: a digital drawing of Charley Pollard from the Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who audios. Charley has medium length blonde hair, pale skin, wearing a grey dress, white socks and black buckled shoes, and is sitting in an old fashioned pose with her hands tucked into her lap, looking off to the side. Behind her is a large circle with three different manual clock faces showing different times, with a plum pudding off to the side and the outside of the main circle decorated with festive holly berries. End ID]

[digitalafterlife]

christmas eve 19?06?. i offer you some plum pudding, my poppet. it’s been your favourite ever since you were a little girl

[6-and-7]

Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without itt

[goldyapper]

UwU

[who-composed-beethovens-fifth]

if i had a nickel for every time eight and charley created a fucked up creature child by accident i’d have two nickels which is not a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice

[fanonical]

it's christmas day whovians, you know what that means

time to get that plum pudding!

christmas just wouldn't be christmas without it

[trans-temporial]

I just finished listening to the audiobook of the novelisation of Dalek and I’m sensing a theme

[denimbex1986]

'Eagle-eyed Doctor Who fans think the anniversary specials could be setting up a Bad Wolf-style mystery, and they could be on to something...

Following the release of 'The Giggle' on December 9, which saw the Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) face off against Neil Patrick Harris's Toymaker, one viewer took to Reddit to claim that a star motif glimpsed in both the new episode and the trailer for upcoming Christmas outing 'The Church on Ruby Road' might be hinting at the introduction of a new character or ongoing mystery along the lines of the Saxon Master or Bad Wolf in season one.

"The scene where Donna fights the puppets also has the same clock face as a window (numbers and pattern around the outside are identical, just without the star)," another points out. "Could be reuse of design/assets, but the implication that Donna was inside a clock tower is very interesting."

"Three cubes, and a clock... Time for Q-Bert?" said a third.

In the comments, theories as to whether it could be a nod to characters like The One Who Waits, the Boneless or the Rani started swirling, while someone else gushed: "Chimes of Midnight adaptation? I'm f***ing down," referring to a popular Doctor Who audio drama starring Paul McGann. Though not everyone was all in on the speculation...

"It can certainly be a hidden clue. But it could just as well be a reuse of design assets to save money," argued a doubter, as another added: "I'm getting flashbacks to the brooch that both River and that woman at Amy and Rory's wedding both wore. Theories flew. Turns out, they just reused a costume element."

All that considered, it'd hardly be the first time Russell T Davies has teased future themes. When he initially rebooted the long-running sci-fi series in 2005, the showrunner included references in almost every episode of the first season to Bad Wolf, the entity that would eventually possess Billie Piper's Rose Tyler.

Elsewhere, he mentioned the likes of Torchwood and using 'Vote Saxon' posters in backgrounds before fans even knew what they meant. So it's certainly not out of the realms of possibility that he would do something like that again...'

[crystalromana]

Look at what they put up for free with Audacity/the 60th coming out this week.

[not-another-doctor]

WAIT A SECOND 8TH DOCTOR'S CHIMES OF MIDNIGHT EXPLAINS WHY 11 DOESNT JUST GET CLOSE TO NEW YORK TO SAVE AMY AND RORY

[snowsdomain]

chimes of midnight is fucking awesome I love it when the stories get all timey wimey and surreal my favorite modern DW episodes are like that as well

[digitalafterlife]

house is alive house keeps itself alive. House that perpetuates its own haunting and amplifies it like a feedback loop. ouroboros house . self-cannibalising house, pointless, meaningless, full of stolen souls yet so empty. and it’s christmas eve and there’s a murder mystery stuck on repeat. you can never leave. you are nothing and nobody and you die and work and die and work and die and

[sparrowsabre7]

*dead man found in kitchen with tyre track marks covering him*

SHAUGHNESSY: What is all the fuss about now?

MARY: Frederick's dead

SHAUGHNESSY: So I can see, yes. I assume it was suicide, Doctor?

THE DOCTOR: Yes, I imagine so. It's quite clear that Frederick brought the car into the house, ran himself over with it, and put it back outside before he finally expired.

CHARLEY POLLARD *Appalled*: Doctor!

[goldyapper]

8 showing their sass