#dw eotd

[infinityinakiss]

there is something beautiful, and so real, about the way that yaz fell in love with the doctor. they say that yaz's love came from nowhere, but it didn't. it came from those little quirks the doctor has, and the way her face lights up when she sees a biscuit. it came from late nights on a tardis, and unspoken words behind heartfelt speeches. it came from stolen glances and slight touches. it came from the promise of an infinity at the side of a mad, incredible woman. this love, it buried itself in the darkest parts of yaz's heart and settled there, growing ever so slightly, until all she could see was the doctor. it did not come from nowhere, it came from the moments we had missed, and it grew until we could not deny it anymore.

their story didn't start as one of passion, longing and unwavering love. it started as a crush, one that yaz didn't even realize, and it turned into something so beautiful and real.

i don't understand why people struggle so much to accept that yaz loves the doctor. how can we not expect her to fall in love with the doctor? falling in love with the impossible was the most human thing she could've done.

[nightmanatee]

"is it that obvious?" well

guess

+ 1 bonus back (i swear there's MORE in this ep alone)

[ssaalexblake]

currently sorting The Ghost Monument screencaps and damn this episode is visually gorgeous 

[gallifriendly]

I find it really funny that for the second time in 12 months a science fiction series I've been watching

was an iteration of 40+ year old franchise +

the first iteration with a female protagonist +

ended with the wlw ship between the female protagonists being canon +

apparently a significant group of people is calling the ending "queerbait because they didn't kiss"

(i say "apparently" because in both cases i never actually saw any posts calling the series queerbait, only the posts refuting that take. apparently i've curated my dashboard well.)

Anyway, "2 nickels" situation.

[queerestqueertoeverqueer]

FLUX SOUNDTRACK ON NOVEMBER 11TH THIS IS NOT A DRILL

(flux + ROTD physical copy will be available on 11/11 apparently, and the flux soundtrack is being released online, with the soundtrack from the specials to be released soon after)

[poppiesforthirteen]

i Fucking Miss yaz writing about her isn't enough i need to see her again

[lilydvoratrelundar]

Opinions on Thasmin?

ok on the one hand my first proper fandom was the thasmin side of the dw fandom so i do love them obviously

on the other hand the only dr who ep that actually addressed them as a pairing was LotSD, imo one of the least well produced (directed written edited etc) episodes of the show in recent memory, and the thasmin bits, while the best bit of the episode, felt like they were building towards something that would never actually come. like.. i wanted power of the dr to be about a hundred times more tragic from the thasmin perspective. or at the very least, i wanted them to acknowlege the relationship. but they didn't and it was just vaguely alluded to and, while lotsd does kind of work as the conclusion to their arc in hindsight, it would have worked a whole lot better if power of the dr had actually worked with the ideas establshed

all that to say i love thasmin but i wish they hadn't made it canon cos as fun as it was to know our run of sapphic companions was maintained and as exciting the moment of revelation in eotd was... i prefer ships to not interrupt the narrative unless they're actually gonna tell a good story, yknow?

[the-bi-fangirl-biatch]

go bestie expose your feelings about the ending😔✌️

before i say anything, these are my OWN opinions! no one take them as me speaking for everyone. you can either respectfully discuss in the reblogs/replies or make your own post if you disagree that much, thank you!!

everything else is under the cut bc oh gosh this is actually pretty long lmao (dw, I have a TL;DR at the end)

let me start with the LOWS of the episode and work my way to a more positive light :)))

first off, we had no resolution to the fob watch/timeless child arc. I can still understand this bit because it's part of the mystery, but it feels like there's so much plot whose ends they still haven't tied together. did she just drop the fob watch containing ALL HER PAST MEMORIES inside the TARDIS and ignore it?? did the doctor really not tell yaz about the memories? did she do that offscreen? like- what? they set up so many plots and didn't even end up continuing them like they deserve

next is how they handled sapphic ships, specifically lesbian ships. I don't know much about the classic companions but from what i've seen, tegan and nyssa are supposed to be together and ace is lesbian-coded, but what we got was retconned tyssa and ace flirting with graham?? and I also disliked how they implied that tegan's life was so dull after being left by the doctor.

they also didnt resolve thasmin at all like?? they gave yaz SO MUCH character development and it looked like her relationship with 13 was gonna have a better resolution because of how they added more of it in EOTD and LOTSD but no?? what happened to "I want to tell you everything" and "if it was gonna be anyone it would've been you"? they just ended it with a nod and walking away silently? now here, I can understand that they both don't want to say goodbye (the doctor bc she hates goodbyes and yaz bc she's holding out hope that they may see each other again) BUT we deserve more than just that. (maybe this is bc I was imagining a killing eve s3 finale-esque goodbye wherein both yaz and the doctor stop in their tracks and turn around for a final goobye kiss, but that's on me lmao)

in addition to that, why is it that the first sapphic doctor is the only one who didn't get a kiss in her entire run, when she had so much chances to kiss yaz? and please don't say "we know it's confirmed to be romantic so we don't need the kiss" bc we have had enough shipping based on subtext and post-show confirmations. i agree that physical touch doesn't define a relationship but can't we have it this once? would it be so hard to give us this on their final day?

finally, imo they hardly gave enough time for jodie to say goodbye to her role properly. it would still have been ok if the episode was only filled to the brim with classic who nostalgia, but then they made her regenerate to 10. instead of giving her (the first female doctor) or ncuti (the first black doctor) the spotlight, they decide to bring back the most popular (and most used) doctor, david tennant. don't get me wrong i LOVE david as a person, but there's a difference between bringing someone back for a cameo and overusing them. with all honesty, I'm tired of him and ten 🤷.

and not only that, they took their most popular (white male cishet) doctor, aka the one that most if not all NMDs compare jodie to, and put him at the end as a cliffhanger? like he was the one they should have been waiting for? they must know that they're diverting people's attention away from appreciating jodie's ending and ncuti's beginning. I keep seeing stuff on twitter like "finally, the good doctor who! they're gonna restore doctor who back to its formal glory! this will prove that the female doctor was a mistake!" which is UTTER BULLSHIT

now here are the HIGHS of the episode because there were a lot of them too:

I LOVED how this episode gave closure to some of the classic companions, aka tegan and ace. I squealed when ace called the doctor "professor" and I'm glad they didn't shy away from showing that a previous companion was (rightfully) upset with the doctor. and all the callbacks! the nitro 9, ace's jacket, and her bat, too. don't even get me STARTED on the "support group for former companions" because that was amazing. IAN WAS THERE?!?!? and it gives such a good open end to them, not only for future projects but also for fanfiction lmao.

the plot of this episode was impressive and fun. its length contributed significantly because it defo wouldn't have worked if it wasn't as long. I really wasnt expecting it to make as much sense as it did because it was a great undertaking, but I'm glad it did. it showed the best parts of chibnall's take on doctor who (utilizing iconic classic who elements well and his own take on history).

THE CHARACTERS!!! gahdamn I loved how they gave the characters their own jobs that only they can handle, like kate and tegan with the cybermen (bc of their history with them), ace with the daleks (same reason, her history) and yaz saving the doctor (bg their PARALLELS here I wanna bawl).

I was also obsessed with the master in this episode!! Sacha played him as such an unhinged little pathetic brat man (affectionate) but he also proved that he was more than capable of delivering powerful scenes. compare the humour of the rasputin dance sequence vs the master so desperately wanting to be the doctor because he feels lonely. he's one of the consistently great things about this episode. i will be hearing RA RA RASPUTIN on repeat in my head for the foreseeable future (as well as thirteen's theme 😭😭😭).

Yaz taking charge!!! my little badass who's grown from being unsure about facing a potential threat in s11 to kicking (the master's) ass, saving ace, flying the tardis like it was nothing, and reversing a regeneration?!?! and not to mention Mandip's acting. she's proven that she has the range of badass action, deep emotion, hilarious comedy, and just raw heart. she's amazing, showstopping, phenomenal. and out of my favourite companions, yaz is the one I connect to the most, both with her struggles (in her mental health, in growing as a person, and in learning she's queer) and her strengths (hopefully her heart, her love for friends, her courage), so to see her grow at the same time as I have is so special to me.

finally, people may disagree with me on this, but I love thirteen's regeneration speech, due to the fact that she did not do it on her own, she didnt just talk to herself on that cliffside (that was just the last bit). most of her speech was to YAZ, her companion, her friend, the one who's supposed to be the viewer's stand-in. her entire message of "goodbyes only hurt because what came before was so special, and it's been so special. no body else got to be us, no body else got to live our days, no body. and my hearts are so full of love for all of you" was not just the doctor to yaz, but jodie and mandip to us. and idc if yall don't like her last words, "Tag, you're it" is SO THIRTEEN and is instantly iconic.

TL;DR I disliked: the abandoned fob watch plot, how they handled sapphic/lesbian characters, the way they hinted at thasmin but never properly resolved them, nostalgia overtaking Jodie's time to say goodbye, and yet another doctor played by david tennant, who I think is overused I LOVED: the closure this gave to tegan and ace, both of them and kate being given unique spotlight, the Former Companion Support Group™️, Sacha Dhawan as the Master, Mandip GIll as Yaz, seeing how much yaz has grown, Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor, aaand 13's regeneration speech (which was directed to yaz and to us, not just to herself)

[evviejo]

14, 17 and 18 for the dw ask game please!

14. currently, i guess the answer has to be either eotd or lotsd, but i am biased.

17. tough one. i'd say the ood probably, with their weird, scary appearance and gentle nature.

18. i don't think i have a favourite planet. it's more about each story i think for me, than a planet it takes place on.

[justalittleguyyouknow]

Yaz short circuiting every time the Doctor just Is The Doctor

[capybaraonabicycle]

River got a mention!! :D

Not by name, I know, but the Doctor said 'my wife'! <3 Honestly, that is so much more than I expected, I'm over the moon.

Also that is quite a declaration of love, Yaz, being put into a category with freaking River Song! I hope she'll understand eventually, but I think she might.

[barrys-butterfly-garden]

helen raynor's profound understanding of the doctor and martha in daleks take manhatten/evolution of the daleks literally saved series 3 the nuance the character work the intermingling of protagonist antagonist setting themes! if that story took place later in the season after martha was welcomed aboard full time i think more people would understand the depths that story goes no i will not be taking arguments at this time

[nightmanatee]

also the fact that yaz has NEVER confessed to the doctor?????

[ssaalexblake]

the entirety of s11 being 13 on her best behaviour, not bothering to go absolutely nuclear on a bad guy because none of them were dangerous enough or interesting enough, only for us to hit spyfall and for her to abruptly stop putting on any front of decency and pleasantness to meet the master smack in the middle, brutal, violent, underhand, terrible... The Structure of it. That this was here the Whole Time and she just never let it out. That the doctor has no need to hide this from the master, they already know, even if they didn’t, they’d never Judge them for it. 

Total freedom was a bad look on this one.

It puts so much perspective on why she uses other people as self restraint. 

[scholarhect]

drives me crazy that more people don’t know about thasmin. like not just the fact that it exists but the whole thing. genuinely an insane thing to happen but nobody really watches doctor who anymore so people don’t really know about it. might pay to promote a post notifying everybody that doctor who made the doctor & her friend yaz gay because the fans saw them and thought they had chemistry, and fucking jodie whittaker and mandip gill were like “wait they might have a point. are our characters in love with each other?” so now the doctor, from doctor who, is in gay love. i’d like to say for the record that when i first saw people shipping them i was like “oh sure, she’s standing next to a woman, people are gonna ship them. whatever” like i thought it’d be cool if they DID go that way, but i did NOT believe at ALL. i just didn’t see it. you can say the destiel girlies were delusional and ended up vaguely vindicated, but the thasmin girlies were so delusional that they made their ship canon. never underestimate lesbians. every time i think about this i’m blown away. the thassies are the gay community’s strongest warriors god bless our troops

[queerestqueertoeverqueer]

HELLO?? HELLO?????? I DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS COMING OUT TODAY BUT AAAAAAAAAAAAADJSHFBSHJFHSH