Saw something about Peter capaldi having doctor who's greatest two parter and i think its funny I had to wonder which one they actually meant because 12 has so many amazing 2 parters
Work on that since week ago but I finally finished it !
The Gallifrey back pic is obviously a photo, I’m too rubbish at drawing landscapes 🙃 and it’s ofc the amazing work of @nipuni that inspire that fanart 🤍✨
dark water (2014) / end of days (2007) / jack's captain's log for torchwood 2.06 reset / dialogue - heaven sent / a day in the death (2008) / heaven sent (2015) / dialogue - dead man walking / dialogue - hell bent / dialogue - dead man walking / a day in the death (2008) / hell bent (2015) / dialogue - the waters of mars / dialogue - hell bent / children of earth: day five (2009) / dialogue - dead man walking / dialogue - heaven sent
webweaving: something about the way jack and 12 love
There's something to be said about Heaven Sent/Hell Bent, despite the Doctor overthrowing the Time Lord Council and spending four and a half billion years in the confession dial and him and Clara and Me meeting at the end of universe, therefore technically spanning the longest time span, being fundamentally the smallest in stakes of any of the modern Doctor Who finales. At the end of the day, there is no threat to earth or the galaxy or the universe or reality. It's just about two people and the way that they turn each other inside out and the way that they reflect each other as two sides of the same coin and the way their relationship was always going to end this way- with the flip of the coin, spinning in the air, each trying to override the other, each trying to take control of the story, each haunting each other forever.
It's under my microscope. It's rotating rent free in my head. It's everything good about Moffat's writing- fairytale vibes, wrenching character work, two characters that thematically parallel each other- and none of the bad, because he's not trying to be too clever or fuck with the rules too much, there's a couple of simple concepts played straight to their inevitable conclusions: Clara Oswald needs to die but the Doctor can't let it happen, he wants her to forget but she can't let it happen, so they both will do the most devasting things in the world to stop the other and they both get their way in the end but only in a way that will leave them haunting each other forever.
orpheus succeeded. he made it. resurrected his eurydice, led her out of the underworld, never turned his head to peek, not once.
they were free. awake on the sunlit surface, out of the darkest pit, out of the longest night. he brought her back. he'd broken all the laws of tragedy, held the narrative at gunpoint, staved off inevitability, defied preordained fate and the will of every god who ever told him otherwise.
but when he looked around to find eurydice's face – a stranger smiled back. pretty. faintly familiar. unrecognisable.
moffat stories always save the day with big important spee- WRONG the day is most often saved by people who love each other so much, no enemy however big, no obstacle however insurrmountable, sometimes not even death, can stop them from saving each other