#doctor who wild blue yonder

[sacha-da-1]

Is “My arms are too long.” Gonna be another “Hey who turned out the lights?”?

[doctor-thedoctor]

“the doctor is nonbinary now” yeah has this not been public knowledge for at least 15 years (when ten told the sybilline sisterhood “just us girls then” when they tried to kick the doctor out because men aren’t allowed in the temple)

like this is canon i’m pretty sure i didn’t dream that

[bartholomeacorsair]

It's insane to watch Silence in the library and Forest of the dead now coz back then Donna wasn't in the doctor's future as per River. But now all of that future, with River has passed, by centuries...

Donna was in the doctor's future but not early enough for River to know or meet.

[vaguely-wormlike]

Wild Blue Yonder. I’m stuck on the horse I want to know who she is.

Trying out some fun colour scheme things for this one cus i thought it might be a bit boring if it were just a horse and i think the result was pretty good!

Amazing episode and i am so exited for the Giggle i might die.

[neverfeartheboysarehere]

Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder plot without spoilers -or context-

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

And did anyone else think about the creature from Midnight with the No-Things? Beings that don't have a form, getting into a ship and stealing people's selves. The method was different, but the similarities make me RATTLED with excitement.

[the-lady-hestia]

1. Watch the new Dr. Who episode it’s fantastic

2. Watch the Behind the Scenes video on YouTube and pay attention to how Russel T. Davies talks about writing this story.

He mentions the temptation of taking a big 60th anniversary special like this and turning it into Something crazy and over the top. I think he literally says “what if we open the door and it was William Hartnell standing back there”

But then he talks about having to restrain himself. He mentions how, when writing the story, he adhered to the idea. I genuinely think that this is what makes this episode fantastic. The horror element isn’t undercut by a nod to the audience, or some fourth wall breaking reference (the closest thing we get is a HADs mention). This is a genuinely spooky episode, and the writing (and writer) allows it to stand as such. That sort of thing takes trust in yourself, trust in your audience, and trust in your actors. I think Russel T Davies achieved all of these, and I am so so glad he is back 

In my opinion, we are two for two in terms of good episodes (Last week’s was 8/10 and this week’s is 9/10 so we’re trending upwards). I can’t wait to see the next two bring 

[lovelyinspiration1463]

Me taking a test:

[buhbuhbuhbuhbeanz7654]

what i got from special 2

[spacethic]

ok so my theory is that the ‘no-things’ copying the doctor/donna are the same type of creature as the entity from midnight (s4 episode 10)

1. this is a species that can survive harsh conditions (the surface of the planet midnight and also the edge of the universe)

2. this species survives by copying its victims so perfectly that it becomes them

[thelittlecoughsomewhere]

I loved the fact that he first took the wrong Donna. I dislike the trope when writers establish that two characters are indistinguishable copies from each other, but the partner/friend of the character just "knows deep down" who the real one is. It is lazy writing.

Fake Donna had Donna's memories, there was no way in hell the Doctor could have differientiated between them two just for how they explained their humour. But the Doctor's senses are far superior to a human's (a well established plot point) and they could just feel that something was wrong: the girth of fake Donna's wrist was marginally thicker (only 0.06 mm). And he realizes he's made a horrible mistake.

And Donna believing to have been left to die: Deliciously angsty. My jam!

[ineffablequeenoftheuniverse]

Okay so my immediate thoughts after watching Wild Blue Yonder was that the No-things are a like an analogy/reference to AI images.

Now I'm neither an expert on AI nor on Dr. Who. The two special episodes I've watched so far are in fact the first Dr. Who episodes I've opted for.

But just the way AI images look correct at first glance but when you look more closely for the details - number of fingers/legs, hair etc., they're off. The same is the case with the No-things at first. They're unable to get a hang of their bodies.

However, I've seen people mentioning now that even AI has upped the game and is becoming more and more accurate. The No-things too become more and more perfect near the end of the episode.

Just my two cents here. Apologies if anyone has already said this before me.

[donna-the-fandom-girl-blog]

Edited these for my phone!!

[actual-changeling]

thinking about this post by @the-bastard-king

because we know the bomb and the plan behind it were real, it went off, it destroyed the space station. we also know that the captain died before the not-things/nothings (?) could fully copy her.

what we don't know for certain is how she died. the likely option is that she killed herself, and maybe she did. but why was she that far out anyway? what happened to the rest of the crew if there ever was one? WHY was that station so gigantic? what was it supposed to be doing?

the thought about the vashta nerada tickled my brain, because maybe it was something else lurking where nothing else can be.

i haven't rewatched the episode in a week or two, so i don't know if they ever say, but either way, i am 100% sure the not-things were running from something, not just towards the universe but actively away from something else.

what is so scary that two beings who do not have form or matter run from it?

then i realized something else: in the other two specials, we are introduced to something by name, and i think it is the same being referenced with two different titles AND the being that the not-things ran from. that way all three episodes tie into each other.

the boss as a cryptic threat from the meep.

the one who waits—the ONLY existence the toymaker is too scared to play with.

a presence out in total nothingness at the edge of the universe, scaring everyone and everything while it patiently sits and waits. a presence known to few, but maybe to the captain's species. a species that then decided to build a station—a watchtower—at the edge of everything light, waiting for centuries and keeping an eye on the creatures in the dark.

the species begins to die, maybe sickness or other races, maybe the creatures caught up with them, maybe it was simply time, and a once bustling station is now nothing but empty corridors and one last captain; refusing to leave her post until the bitter end.

maybe it is more than that. we are introduced to goblins and chance and coincidence—and there is mavity. one tiny change with potentially world-ending consequences. a tiny ripple, probably more we haven't seen yet, and the one who waits does exactly that.

it waits.

[littleogreboii]

doctor: I think I might be gay

donna: congrats you're officially the last to know

[rainbowpopeworld]

Parallels:

The only difference is we know The Doctor has randomly tasted goo before and it’s Aziraphale’s first time ingesting anything

(The first gif is from the “spoiler” clip for next week’s new Doctor Who episode)