peter capaldi rocking up to the doctor who set for seasons 9 and 10, wearing his own clothes: alright yall this is the fit for today just let me throw that coat with the red lining over it and lets get this motherfuckin show on the road! actually do I even need the coat this episode? what do you guys think? is this a coat episode or no-coat episode? or is it totally the other direction: a full-suit-under-the-coat episode? what’s the vibe?
after clara, bill actually being concerned for her safety and scared of potential dangers seems so—weird?
clara hears danger and runs directly at it while the doctor follows with a smile on his face, bill is trying to make sure they don't get killed.
if the raven hadn't happened, they would have ended up trying to conquer the universe or died on the way; at least they would have been happy and together though.
If you want me to take the doctor seriously as a tragic hero then they have to be played by Christopher eccleston or peter capaldi, otherwise im just gonna laugh at the doctor's face for being a drama queen or wanna slap them for being a dick
Just finished the three doctors, and boy oh boy i have thoughts. Mostly how much I love the brigadier. My man really didn't want any of this space crap to happen to him. I rather think that most of the people in the Tardis didn't want to go back to regular life once everything was back to normal. They were all hypnotized by the doctors. Not the brigadier. He was fighting for his life and just wanted to go back to his paperwork 😭✋️
When the the doctor tries to wipe Bill's memory, and then she asks him how he would feel if someone did that to him, clara's theme starts playing, and it's such a subtle but devastating reminder that his subconscious is trying to tell him that that did happen, that he lost something important, but he doesn't know what 😔
continuing my doctor who rewatch (multifandom requires multitasking) and in s10e03—which is "Ice"—there are so many painful parallels to the 50th anniversary special it makes me sick.
You know what happens if you don’t move on? More people die.
[...]
I’m two thousand years old and I’ve never found the time for the luxury of outrage.
the man who regrets and the man who forgets—what does that make twelve? because no matter what he might say, he has not moved on, far from it. he carries so much guilt with him it makes him question his entire existence & turns him suicidal.
then there's the conversation they have with racist dude aka sutcliffe, and right before, twelve says the following:
Passion fights - but reason wins.
does it though? does it really? REASON is what made him blow up gallifrey in the first place, reason is what keeps fueling his mistakes. they didn't leave gallifrey behind because of passion, they haven't saved earth over and over again because of reason.
they changed the past because their guilt made them sick, and it wasn't the reasonable choice, it wasn't even the best one, but it's the one that drew strength from their passion—and that's what made it work.
it's passion that keeps the doctor going and what ultimately makes them win. you cannot save everyone, but passion makes them try, and sure—passion can get in the way, but it goes hand in hand with hope.
passion makes you care, reason makes you numb and utilitarian.
Just in time for April Fool's Day, here are some truly eyebrow-raising and head-scratching costumes. I know neither of these shows had a huge budget, but that's no excuse.
Coeli's comments:
"If I had to look at them, so do you!"
Blake's 7 (s4e4, "Stardrive")
"Punk space pirates who totally fail to come across as menacing:"
Doctor Who (s10 e5, "Carnival of Monsters") / Leslie Dwyer as Vorg (and Cheryl Hall as Shirna)