#classic who mine

[billpottsismygf]

Just rewatched The Celestial Toymaker and I think I had somewhat underrated it in my memory. It's not the most exciting, but the way the Toymaker and his world work is actually really well pitched.

One of the most effective parts of the story is the way his toys work. They play against Dodo and Steven, often cheating or being otherwise difficult, but they're people under there. It's ambiguous whether they had lives before they were toys - it's certainly possible, given that the threat is that our main characters might become like them - but Dodo points out that they do have personalities of their own even if they were created as toys. All they want is to be allowed to keep living. They don't want to go back to the toybox. The clowns becoming solemn when they realise they might lose is the first time this is evident, but perhaps the best moment is the "if we go, we go together" between the playing card king and queen. It makes you feel for these people trapped within the Toymaker's world!

The Toymaker himself is also such a good villain. His motivations make complete sense, and even when he's lost at the end, I really believe he doesn't care about losing his world; he just wants to spite the Doctor for beating him. He's also just a fantastically menacing presence, with a really effective, reigned-in performance. It makes me worry slightly just how big a performance NPH looks to be giving in the upcoming episode, but I'll withhold judgement till I've actually seen it. (I also wonder how they'll handle his face having changed, since he's not a Time Lord. Though for a character with the power to bring toys to life, changing his appearance is probably not all that difficult.)

I also love that the Doctor has clearly met the Toymaker before, and that we don't learn when or how or why. It's just allowed to be a relationship with an obscured past, somewhat proto-Master. And, of course, as the Doctor says, "there will be other meetings in an other time." Indeed there will, Doctor!

[expelliarmus]

[fridgrave2-0]

hehe ghost-turbo haunting felix au

turbo is connected to the last piece of his code in the whole arcade - a trophy he gifted to felix in mid 80s as a symbol of him genuinely caring about their relationships on par with being the best racer. felix also gave him one of his medals and both kept their gifts next to other rewards, but when roadblasters and turbotime were unplugged, the medal was gone with everything else

now, after burning in cola-lava turbo is basically dead, but scraps of his code still were intertwined with the trophy (after all, it was his first winner's cup, but felix never knew about it), giving turbo an opportunity to exist as a shadow incapable of interacting with anything and anyone besides felix, who kept the trophy even after the roadblasters incident

also I went crazy in tags, feel free to check them out

[lonelyzarquon]

DOCTOR WHO | The Three Doctors

[rebornrosess]

merry christmas

[oakdown]

[bwallure]

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[dailyclassicwho]

three & jo grant 2/?

[romanovanatalia]

twojamie + letterboxd reviews

[azure-trash]

We need the Master to be the reoccurring villain of the week again, like the Classic Masters were.

Delgado! Master was running around causing a ruckus and being a nuisance every few weeks and everyone at UNIT just let out a collective sigh when he showed his face.

Ainley! Master showed up like once a season for comical shenanigans where everything he did backfired and blew up in his face and he complained the whole time.

Go back to the roots of the Master being just an annoying little shit. Why does every story with the Master have to be such high stakes now. Let him be silly again.

[greyhoundone]

[expelliarmus]

[babblesphere]

TOM BAKER for Radio Times' Doctor Who 60th anniversary feature, photographed by Yoshitaka Kono.

[thekitofit]

haven‘t done some proper art in a while (i hate having a job. please free me), and decided it’s time to pick up the pencil again. here’s six. my light my angel my diva my heart my soul my— [gunshots]

[ please reblog if you like this 🩷 commissions are OPEN! ✨ or buy me a coffee? 🩷 no reposting please ✨]

[lonelyzarquon]

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[dearemma]

happy new year!!