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do they forget that yasmin khan is a police officer?

during my 13 era re-watch I took note of all the moments that I think are police training related or just general police officer mentions, it's a mixed bag. this is all of them in one post along with a mini conclusion/tldr at the end check the twitter thread version of this post for screenshots with every point and alt text too

11.01, the woman who fell to earth

when we first see yaz she’s on the job, sorting out a parking dispute between two women

she tells her superior that she wants more of a challenge and he sends her to ryan

we then see her on the train where she meets the doctor. she starts out trying to take charge but realistically she’s out of her depth and the doctor manages to convince her to not call it in

she then goes down to the station to ask if there’s been any mention of the things she’s seen that evening. we see her get frustrated

later in the episode she suggests her and ryan do some investigating

11.03, rosa

yaz immediately steps in when ryan is assaulted

while talking with ryan she mentions her job and the things she’s experienced

along with the rest of the fam, yaz then helps with investigating what’s going on with rosa

1.04, arachnids in the uk

yaz’s dad uses the fact yaz is a police officer to sort out all the stuff he’s been noticing and collecting. she said she has mentioned it to them and they’re looking into it. (it’s not said but I think it’s possible that they don’t really care and aren’t actually doing much/any looking into it, maybe bc yaz is newer on the job and doesn’t get listened to as much/taken as seriously)

later in the episode yaz goes to pick up her mum and goes into police mode to try and calm down the situation when robertson pulls out a gun

11.05, the tsuranga conundrum

thirteen gives yaz the responsibility of keeping an eye on the pting, which involves using a weapon to stun it. it makes sense for yaz to get this responsibility over ryan/graham bc she has some kind of weapons training

11.07, kerblam!

yaz searches for dan, asks about where he is and generally seems to find it important that she does what she can for him/his daughter. (i do believe that most companions would probs feel similarly about this but with yaz i think it is related to her being a police officer bc she would have training in ways to help loved ones of a deceased person and we also see yaz supporting children multiple other times during this season so I think it’s safe to say it’s important to her (and relates to why she got the job as a police officer in the first place). while I think most companions would want to find dan, I’m not sure how many would want to go and see his daughter or be as passionate)

we also see her grab and detain charlie effectively, something I’m sure she would have been taught during training

11.08, the witchfinders

after willa’s granny gets pulled out of the water, yaz is the one to check her pulse to see if she’s still alive

yaz then takes it upon herself to go and find willa. she knows how to approach and talk to her and she uses her own experiences as a way to try and relate/understand how willa is feeling

in this episode we again see yaz wanting to help a child, and it has strong parallels to what we see later in can you hear me, with yaz being the police officer and willa being yaz

11.09, it takes you away

we see yaz helping another child, she knows how to talk to her and keep her calm and tells ryan that it’s because she’s had training

a bit later in the episode she goes into police mode when ribbons pulls out a knife on graham

resolution

yaz takes lin and mitch’s information, escorts of them out of the site and is seen being the one trying to get in contact with lin later in the episode

12.01 spyfall pt1

at the beginning of s12 we see yaz telling her boss why she won’t be around to work. he’s not too happy about it. it’s clear she’s taken a lot of time away from work recently in favour of being with the doctor

this is small but the way she says this has always had kinda authoritative vibes to me? idk how to explain it

later in the episode yaz goes undercover with ryan. she is clearly more confident than he is. she tries to reassures him, covers for him when he’s acting weird and is good at asking barton questions

when she gets trapped in the kasaavin dimension she reassures herself

12.04, nikola tesla’s night of terror

she confronts the guy when he comes into wherever tf they were in this scene idr

12.05 fugitive of the judoon

the doctor uses yaz being a police officer as a way to try and get the judoon to believe what she’s saying

kinda a small thing but yaz is the one who finds something actually useful when search lee and ruth’s flat, potentially meaning she has some kind of training/knows more about searching for evidence

yaz uses the fact that as a police officer she can speak more on the judoon’s level and uses it as a way to stall them

12.06, praxeus

yaz mentions being ‘on sabbatical’. I don’t know if this is supposed to be taken as she actually is on sabbatical (aka paid leave) or if it’s just for ease in the convo (as in jake and co don’t need her life story so just not correcting it is easier) (back in spyfall her excuse for not being at work was another ‘secondment’ (which means she’s been assigned work at a different place) so either that isn’t the excuse she’s using anymore and she is just straight up taking leave or, like I said, she’s just going with the sabbatical convo for ease bc the details don’t really matter, what matters is she’s pointing out that bc she isn’t on official police work, she doesn’t go around saying she’s police, unlike jake who clearly does)

I think what happens here is a mix of yaz being a more seasoned companion, us seeing yaz get more reckless (clara vibes) but also potentially police vibes in in that she’s noticing what’s important and wants to investigate it

12.07, can you hear me?

in this episode we find out what made yaz want to become a police officer in the first place. a police officer helped her when she was in a bad place, she goes on to want to do the same for others

12.09/10, ascension of the cybermen/the timeless children

yaz gives some small pep talks and knows how to reassure people. we’ve seen her do this a bit before with other characters. this far into yaz’s time on the tardis, some of these moments do feel more doctor-y than police training-y but it still feels work mentioning

13.01, the halloween apocalypse

when yaz and the doctor first get to dan’s house, yaz calls to ask if anyone is home and then looks around to get an idea of who lives there

13.02, war of the sontarans

when yaz meets the tunnel guy she asks him what’s going on and she tries to talk to him in a way that keeps him calm because she can tell he seems unstable/confused

when meeting vinder, yaz initially introduces herself normally but when vinder introduces himself using his titles she does the same as a way to show she’s on his level (some ppl take this scene to be contradictory to other moments where I guess it’s implied she quit her job but I don’t think it matters. the reason she says this is bc of how vinder introduced himself, it’s got nothing to do with whether she is actually still police or not. I think it’s more interesting to parallel it with her not claiming it be police when jake mentions that he’s police. in that situation things were less scary and she wasn’t alone but here she is alone and wants to be seem as authoritative as possible to this stranger (vinder))

when swarm and azure show up yaz to keep some control/gain respect but they obviously don’t give a fuck lmao

13.03, once, upon time

a small moment but we see yaz on the job in her memories

13.05, survivors of the flux

yaz fights someone off pretty skillfully, presumably something she would’ve been trained in

the power of the doctor

the doctor tells them to give yaz a gun. she obviously trusts her with it because she knows yaz will have had training (and yaz says as much)

in conclusion

ppl like to say yaz being a police officer is basically not mentioned and i just think that’s.. not true. if you average it out, based on the moments in this thread, it works out that it’s mentioned/something directly related to police training is brought up about once an ep which imo is more than enough I don’t really know what ppl want when they say there’s not enough of it. there’s a clear story of first of all why yaz wanted to be a police officer (bc a police officer helped her), why she didn’t like it (bc she was stuck doing boring stuff when she wanted to be out helping ppl) and how travelling with the doctor gave her what she wanted more than being with the police ever did (we see her doing good and helping ppl pretty much every episode) and also in my opinion through the seasons while we do see her use her training/mention the police, over time she starts to be more doctor-like than police-like in the way she talks and handles situations which is why in s11 there’s more clear examples in almost every ep of yaz talking very police-like/using her training but then later in the show it’s less bc she’s switched to being more doctor-y

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the start beast thoughts

(literally just my serializd review)

- actually love the new intro and theme, looks so pretty, sounds very cool. ugly logo at the end kinda ruined it but whatever

- the doctor stood in space looked dumb as hell, especially cut with donna just sat in her kitchen like um maybe have him sitting in some unknown place and not greenscreened and floating in space??

- imagine saying 'nice to meet you skinny man' to someone you just met. I don't love that that joke made a return, especially at the frequency it did

- loved the little nods to the doctor having just been a woman, 'grand mistress' and him telling the psychic paper to keep up was my fave

- there's was some good stuff in there for sure but lot of that dialogue was very basic (like too basic) or was just exposition so like.. I don't wanna hear any bs about how 10/10 incredible writing has finally returned bc the majority of it was on par with the previous era and was imo a downgrade from rtd1 dialogue

- I was like there's no way donna would give her money away and there has to be something else going on and so then her being like, almost appalled that she had tried to be doctor-y and given away all that money killed me it was so funny

- so in love with meep, that's my little demon child

- I also really liked those ant things (idk what they're called) I didn't expect them to be so chatty

- the music was kinda a lot some of the time it was kinda overwhelming idk

- I don't love the slap but other than that the scene where sylvia was losing her mind at the doctor showing up was so good

- sonic shield thing was a little silly but whatever

- the wilf mention <3 very excited to see him

- catherine tate is sometimes great at acting and sometimes... really not great (in part bc of the dialogue) and her voice goes right through me especially when she shouts

- I'm honeslty not sure how I feel about the doctordonna and donna not dying resolution, it feels kinda ridiculous tbh idk like waffling about being nonbinary sorry idk what's going on. and that comment about male timelords not being able to let things go genuinely what are you on about 😭

I need to rewatch it so I can fully understand it and see how I feel I think but rn my main thought it that it's a bit silly and no matter if that opinion changes, I'll always feel like it was a bit of a cop out to save donna, especially in that way like they've been banging on about how she'll die and then it gets resolved so quickly with That explanation like hm okay. like when she was led there dying I didn't even give a fuck bc I was like well that's obviously not what's happening rn

- so is the meep's boss gonna be the toymaker?

- the tardis interior is kinda a flop idk. I like all the little paths, let's the doctor have the zoomies, but it just too empty and plain looking

- overall was a fun ep. gave it four stars. gonna rewatch with the commentary at some point before the next one

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pre-8b ftwd ramblings

I have thoughts about 8b so I thought I’d make a post just going through them to get them out of my brain ready for tomorrow and bc it’ll be cool to look back on later. I tried to keep this post semi-organised but it’s defo a bit messy

I haven’t read through every single spoiler/leak that’s out there but I have seen/heard a few bits here and there so maybe don’t read if you wanna avoid them. feel free to add on to this or send me asks about it or whatever, I’m down to hear what ppl think

under the cut bc it's long

character that aren’t Troy thoughts

Charlie - last time we saw her she was literally dying of radiation poisoning and it was implied (/maybe even straight up stated idr) that she was going to die fairly soon but now she’s in promo pics looking completely recovered and I just don’t know how I feel about it. I think if they do something interesting with her instead of just having her back for the sake of it then it’s kinda whatever like okay she’s alive, fine. tho it does take a lot of the weight out of what happened with her in the previous season. I’ve seen in a leak that Madison finds out about Charlie being the one to kill Nick and sends Charlie to Troy (which we’ve seen in promo pics) as a way to basically prove herself/gain forgiveness and I am pretty interested in seeing that play out so

Strand - I was excited to see him reunite with Madison but that has already been shown (idk if it was official or a leak) which is kinda annoying like I wish we coulda had that be surprise bc them seeing each other again is a big deal but whatever I guess. I hope we see them be a duo a bit throughout 8b bc they were great in prev seasons. I found Strand annoying as hell in s7 and his whole pretending to be a different person thing in that clip we’ve seen doesn’t spark much joy like he just irritates me so other than him seeing Madison again I can’t say I have that much interest in whatever it is he has going on. there are some seasons where I don’t mind him as much tho so idk maybe he’ll turn it around somewhere in these eps and I’ll like him again

Daniel - over the last season or three Daniel has grown on me quite a lot so I’m looking forward to seeing more of him. I worry about him potentially wanting to kill Troy which, idk, is it fair enough to want to kill the guy responsible for your daughter’s death? Yes. Do I think he should be over it after 12yrs? Kinda.. I mean, Daniel has got up to a lot through the last few seasons and I think his relationship with Charlie helped a lot with his sadness, anger, etc surrounding Ophelia so while I think it’s obviously fair enough for him to dislike Troy still, I don’t want there to be some ‘Daniel desperately wants to murder Troy in his sleep’ subplot like, hate him, say mean shit to him but I do not care about his sadness about Ophelia anymore sorry move on

Luciana - I don’t really have any huge wants or fears for Luciana in these final eps I just hope she gets some fun stuff to do. I think there’s some small clips in the trailer where it looks like she’s stood with Troy with a bunch of other ppl around which is cool and I’m interested to see how they intersect with each other. I liked her and Daniel a lot in the last season so seeing more of them as a duo would be nice too and I obviously want to see her and Madison reunite

June - I like June but I have zero hopes wants or fears for her. Kill her, don’t kill her, I don’t think I really care. She is not what I’m in these six eps for literally at all

Dwight and Sherry - I beg they get a happy ending like please omfg. I’d kinda kill for them to go back to Alexandria (/the Commonwealth) and be a part of whatever it is they have planned in terms of bringing all the current spin-offs together into one thing. seeing them reunite with a few people and see Negan again would be very cool. I know they go back to the Sanctuary for whatever reason in 8b so they’re gonna be in the area, why not stay there… tbh I don’t know what it would take for them to do that bc I don’t think that’s something either of them would actually want to do but I would like to see it lmao

plot stuff and Troy thoughts

I really don’t want Troy to die. I’ve seen some ppl say they worry it’ll happen and bc of Stuff They Know it’s not looking great for him but I am choosing to not hold onto that too much and have some amount of faith in the writers (which may make me an idiot but whatever). if he doesn’t survive, I hope he dies for a good reason (like to save Madison and/or his daughter) and that he dies in one of the final two episodes and not early on bc bringing a character like Troy back and retconning a death that imo was actually good only to use him for a few eps and kill him again for stupid reasons would just be insane

Troy having a daughter (especially one that he seems to have had via actually getting with a woman lmao) has still not computed in my mind and I’ve had this info for months now. I’ve kinda accepted that it’s a thing that’s happening and I am actually looking forward to seeing it play out but it still doesn’t connect fully lmao. there are aspects of Troy being a dad that I’m excited for like seeing him be protective over someone and presumably caring about someone more than he cares for himself. like sorry to my boy but I wanna see him be angry and sad and lose his mind over things related to getting his kid back bc I think seeing Troy in that state bc he cares about someone so much would just be so interesting

why the fuck is Troy’s daughter (according to leaks so take it with a grain of salt I guess) called Tracy like… I’m hopeful for these six episodes but I fear there is no universe where the writers have put actual thought into that name and what it would mean for Troy to call his kid that. there’s just so much to unpack?? first of all it’s sad as hell like, genuinely, the idea that Troy would name his kid after a mother who he knows didn’t love him is the saddest shit I’ve ever heard and is something that should absolutely be dived into through these eps bc what state of mind does he have to been in all these years later to do that. like is it a thing of he’s accepted that his mother didn’t love him but she was important to him and this is his way of kind of taking back something from that time in his life? idek how to word it. or is it a thing of he’s kinda delusional and has reinvented his mother in his mind into the kind of person who deserves to have a kid named after her? or is it something else? or is it that thing show/movies do where they just name kids after ppl for no fuckin reason bc they just can’t think of new names? I know what I’m betting on

Troy being the villain is very unsurprising like duh but I hope there’s more to it than just him being the bad guy and nothing else. from trailers and misc stuff I’ve seen I’m wondering if maybe his villainy is basically just to do with him wanting his daughter back and at a certain point there will be a switch where him and Madison and co will end up begrudgingly working together on the same goal.

I think Troy’s ‘you took everything from me’ line is referencing his daughter and not the dam bc like.. it’s been 12yrs. I think him still be pissed about the dam is reasonable (much like Daniel still being pissed about Ophelia is reasonable) but Troy finding Madison after all these years all bc of that would be silly. I think the thing Madison took from Troy is his daughter and he basically just caught her (like we’ve seen in that leaked scene) bc he knows she knows about padre and where to find it etc (which I swear we’ve seen him say in a trailer somewhere, like he’s asked what padre is/where to find it) and then somewhere in there obviously everyone is gonna disagree on shit which is why we’ve seen things like the leaked bts thing of Troy and Madison going for each other out in the dark, or him facing of with Luciana. like it seems like maybe chances are they have similar goals (save the kids) but maybe just conflicting ideas about how to go about doing that and knowing Troy he’ll probs get carried away quicker and have more extreme ideas

okay I just rewatched a trailer after typing up that last bullet point and now I’m actually thinking that Troy’s goal is to destroy padre whereas Madison and co’s goal is to keep it safe and that’s what the big fight is about. which also does make sense now that I’m thinking about it. I do still agree my initial thought of Troy wants to get to Madison probably partly bc he just wants to see her again but mainly bc he wants info on padre and he obviously know she has that info bc of the radio message she sent out. and then it somehow turns into I guess Madison wants to save padre and idk make it a better place whereas Troy just wants to destroy the whole thing (presumably once he gets his daughter back? or knowing Troy I wouldn’t put it past him it go in there guns blazing and maybe not think through the fact that his child is in there and could get caught in it. tho maybe he assumes she’s dead). that makes me worry that Troy really is gonna stay in villain mode of the whole season but idk, maybe somewhere in there he will be convinced of a different way to do things, and like I said before, result in them begrudgingly working together

I was thinking that Daniel saying about the dead being Troy’s army wasn’t him saying it as a warning to watch out but as a statement of like almost support for Troy like ‘this guy knows what he’s doing when it comes to weaponising the dead’ but now I don’t think that’s the case bc going by trailers it does seem like Troy is in the opposing side to everyone

I’m interested in the scene where two characters, presumably Troy and Madison, fall off a bridge bc I’m like why are they on the bridge in the first place. I really hope it’s bc they’re going somewhere together and working on something together and not like they’re chasing each other down to murder each other and happen to end up on a dodgy bridge

what the fuck is in that tub thing that Madison has. If it’s Nick’s ashes like I saw someone suggest/saw in a leak I will die bc that it so stupid

also saw in a leak that Madison assumes that Troy murdered the mother of his child which is very interesting. I like the idea that she thinks that but it turns out she actually killed her whenever she took Troy’s kid to padre. Idk. I’m interested to see any kind of background on how Troy got to where he is now. I’m not holding out too much hope for a ton of focus on it, liike I feel like literal flashbacks might be too much to ask for, but I need them to give us something I guess via Troy talking about it (which feels like something he’s not likely to want to do but idk, I can also see him and Madison having the ability to have actual convos with each other despite their relationship obviously being bad like the convos wouldn’t be loving but I can see them telling each other misc things)

thinking about how this is only gonna be six episodes fucks with me bc I feel like I have a lot of wants/hopes for things I wanna see but then I’m like oh yeah this is six episodes in a show with a main cast of like 10 people, Troy is so not gonna get the amount of air time I’d like and it’s gonna be very sad lmao. I don’t want the writers to dismiss other characters bc they did that in the past and I think it’s just shitty but I do hope they kinda recognise that a lot of ppl are probs gonna be watching for Troy and he should get the focus he needs to make him coming back worth it

I saw like two ppl on twitter a few weeks ago theorise about a potential spin-off coming from this spin-off and when I say I need it so badly like.. please. I don’t think there is any evidence to support that a spin-off is coming but i for some reason have this tiny part of me that thinks it’s not impossible. basically I would want it to be a Troy and Madison (or just Troy) spin-off and honestly with how good dead city and daryl dixon were i would have hope it would be pretty good if we got a spin-off that is just centred around a couple of characters instead of an ensemble thing ftwd has going on rn. tbh depending on how s8 ends in terms of where their relationship lies, a Troy and Madison spin-off could be very Maggie and Negan in dead city coded which I would loooove a lot. the final ep

I think Alicia is gonna make an appearance. saw a thing somewhere that said like, someone unexpected shows up or something like that and I’m like…..

more

I just re-read this so (assuming all of it is true which it may not be idk) I now have a few more tbihgths that i cba integrate into what I’ve already written so it’s going here instead

It says Troy’s daughter goes missing which is vague as fuck but I feel like Troy’s daughter being with padre is the only thing that makes Troy being so passionate about padre make sense so maybe it means she escapes padre, they get her back and then she goes missing or maybe they know she’s in padre but just can’t find her for whatever reason. we know she pops up in front of Madison and asks her something (idr what) so I’m very interested in seeing Madison spend time with Troy’s kid. and I think her finding out/realising it’s Troy’s kid has potential to be funny too

Troy’s daughter’s mum being someone who saved him from the dam makes sense to me like yeah. the person in the screenshot I leaked said he seemed like he might be lying but they also said they think the actual mother might be Alicia so like I’m not holding onto their analysis too much bc that would be dumb as hell

Charlie killing herself a couple of eps into 8b is so stupid like why even bother bringing her back like you’ve retconned her dying of radiation poisoning only to bring her back and barely use her. it’s defo possible she kills herself bc she knows the poisoning is catching up with her but idk, that’s still stupid. I am excited to see her scenes with Madison and Troy but it feels pointless in the grand scheme of things bc these six eps already have enough characters to juggle why add Charlie when there was a simple way of writing her out right there already

conclusion idk

I feel like I had a lot more to say and I kinda regret not making tons of notes over the last few months about my misc thoughts bc it woulda made it a lot easier to compile them all into one post but oh well. overall I think I’m way more excited than I am nervous. there are probs some things they could do that would really irritate me but for the most part I feel like I’m kinda good at just accepting what is happening in a show and being like okay this is what we’re doing now idk

I think one thing that wouldn’t be my fave is if Troy is just 100% villain for the whole season like, if they don’t end it with him joining them (begrudgingly or otherwise) like I’d like, even with him in the villain role I think there is room there to show his non villain side and how he does have a lot going on as a character. but for things like him dying, even though it would suck and imo be a stupid choice, I can see myself being fine with it if it’s done decently

and as for all my theories about what could actually happen story wise, if I’m wrong I’m wrong idrc. it possible a lot of the leaks I’ve seen are waffle but for the purposes of this post it was just easier to go in assuming they’re real. theorising honestly stresses me out bc I hate talking about what ifs like I just wanna know what’s going in fr and analyse that instead of having to think about all these different directions things could go bc we don’t have many concrete answers right now

idk how to end this. bye

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the giggle thoughts

- is the toymaker racist btw bc why did he ask that man at the beginning where he's from?? and the man's reaction was like 'I'm from cheshire (or some other uk place beginning with C I don't remember)', like he was offended the toymaker asked omg the toymaker is racist fr isn't he that so weird

- have been shitting on the toymaker's german accent for months but it was funny at points. the american was cringe tho idk

- a long intro without the doctor showing up felt sooooo chibnall era coded (not in a good way I hated when chib did that)

- that today text that came up on the screen was very unnecessary and weird

- obviously the ep is a commentary on ppl online being very 'I'm right, you're wrong' and wanting to fight ppl and I get it and I love it but also it was so on the nose and unsubtle like ppl say chib was unsubtle (o55 speech) but this was too and not always in a good way

- that first scene at unit with everyone went on for a bit too long

- I have no attachment to mel so I really don't care that she's here

- saw someone on twt say what if mel is ruby sunday's mum and I was like don't be stupid you're just saying that bc the actors have done a photoshoot together but mel specifically mentioning being alone and having no one and the fact we know she's gonna be in the show a bit going forward and we know ruby is gonna search for her parents... have dots been connected or am I being insane too now? idk anything about mel so idk if it would make sense for her to abandon a child but I guess there a millions reasons it could have happened that could work with mel's character

- the amy clara and bill puppet show <3333 so obsessed

- I liked the spice girl scene and a lot of other toymaker scenes but also he wasn't as good as i was expecting him to be. a lot of the ep didn't have the vibe I was expecting tbh idk

- 15 showing up genuinely made me sob like idk I think just waiting so long to see him and it finally happening and him just have such amazing vibes INSTANTLY really fucked me up like I love his attitude and the way he talks and the things he says and his energy so much and it just hit me quick as fuck

- 14 and 15 hugging and being there for each other really got me I loved it

- 15 really is the embodiment of like, the doctor has been on their feet too long and needs a break and I guess 15 is the doctor once the doctor has finally had that time to just relax and he's just so happy and full of life AHHHHHHHHHH

- idk how I feel about 14's face explanation. it's kinda silly? like.. i really don't know

- no yaz mention in that tardis scene is a genuine piss take. they were literally talking about the doctor's lifestyle and the ppl he's loved and yaz didn't come up??? are you joking? she literally fits right into the convo around the doctor needing to take a break and just Be for a bit like 13's whome thing was not wanting to attach herself bc she doesn't ever know what's gonna happen and now 14 is here literally about to live a normal life. genuinely really annoying. basically every other significant companion got a mention

- 14's ending feels like fanfic and part of me likes it and part of me is like.. idk. I'm gonna need to sit on a for a bit

- I've known about the bi-generation for months bc of leaks and I was expecting to REALLY not be a fan but I didn't hate it. idk if I love it either tho. rn all I know for sure is that ncuti is our doctor now and I love him

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wild blue yonder thoughts

(initial live watch and next day rewatch)

live

- the very beginning for a second was giving me ascension of the cybermen vibes, like bright, green, really calm idk

- not sure if the newton stuff was funny or cringe

- all that happening bc donna spilt some coffee is so dumb 😭 like okay the tardis is weak as fuck

- the amount of cgi was mildly off-putting at times but also like obviously a corridor like that would need to be in large part cgi

- 14 may have just meant newton was good looking generally and also his 'is that who I am now' comment was probs more of a 'oh am I the kind of person to find ppl attractive/be open about it' rather than a 'do I fancy men now' moment (tho donna assuming it was kinda funny) but also I'm hoping 14 being kinda openly attracted to men is a sign for what 15 is gonna be like. like let's keep it going and have a male love interest.........?

- fake donna and fake 14 were so creepy like I stg right as fake 14 showed up to the way it was shot made me feel weird bc it just wasn't showing him and I was like well show him then and then it did and I was like oh he's normal okay but then it went down hill fr dt was v creepy

- the long ass arms and stuff was simultaneously unserious and creepy as fuck

- flux and timeless child mention ahhhhh I kinda am obsessed with it and I really hope it's a sign that rtd is gonna explore it a bit more (which based on xmas special info he seemingly is). I love the way it ended with 13 but there's defo room there to explore more about how the doctor really feels about it all and accepting it. bc it's one thing to decide you don't want the memories but it's another to actually come to terms with it all

- the vibes were kinda midnight-y, like monsters impersonating and tryna copy someone and replace them yknow

- wilf <333333

- I'm writing this up right after it ended and I haven't looked at what other ppl thought and I didn't type up my thoughts as I was watching so I probs forgot a ton of stuff that I had opinions on but anyways. I cheered

rewatch

- ppl getting mad that isaac newton isn't white is so predictable like omg I couldn't imagine giving a fuck. that scene is defo cringe tho but it's fine. I like the 'have you got the controls set to famous' line

- the tardis playing that song is so funny like she looooves the drama tbh

- I hope the mavity thing continues for a long time but I don't want it to get mentioned every episode bc that'll get old very quick

- 14 acknowledging that newton was hot and then being like 'is that was I do now' is defo a him being like oh do I notice attractiveness and be open about it now situation and not an oh am I gay now situation bc the doctor has BEEN fancying men. and it fits with the moments from the star beast where he says he loves people and is like oh do I say that now

- the let's go and kick it's ass line, and the way it's shot idk, is not very good

- seeing the outside of the ship was sooo weat/tdf vibes

- the doctor joking around with donna about dying is my fave I miss the doctor being like this fr (that's NOT a chib diss)

- the timeless child and flux mentions and the doctor finally being open with someone but then it ends up not actually being donna oh I'm gonna lose my whole mind I'm so obsessed with that scene and then meanwhile donna figures out she's with the fake doctor like the genius she is

- and THEN the doctor's little tantrum that I and most others was clowning on before the ep came out but actually it ends up being kinda harrowing liiiiike woah

- obsessed with the scene where they're separated by the glass wall

- fake donna in the tardis and real donna stuck out there.. ctate actor of all time

- I really did think for a second that donna was gonna die on first watch and how wild would that have been especially if the doctor didn't end up noticing fake donna and we were stuck with her for the giggle. probably woulda been a nightmare tbh so I'm glad it didn't happen but also idk

- donna saying the doctor timed getting back to avoid the awkward convo makes me think of all the times chib had shit happen to avoid having the doctor and (usually) yaz complete a convo, it used to drive me crazy it was so annoying

- wilf <33333

- I kinda wish we saw the toymaker in the background during all that drama that was going on at the end

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the star beast next day rewatch thoughts

noted down thoughts as I was watching rather than figuring out my thoughts at the end like I did when it was on live

- the new theme kinda has disney vibes idk how to explain it. also the sequence feels kinda fast like it's cut weird but also I love that moment where it's far away and zooms in fast to the tardis

- donna missing stuff again and her just rambling on was so good

- fourteen hearing the wilf mention <3

- nerys mention, luv her

- have seen ppl say they don't like the deadnaming scene and I can defo see wh like that's probs not nice to watch and also some ppl are deadnaming rose which is like okay gross but also it's a real experience that ppl go through and it's important to show it and also rose isn't real so yknow

- obsessed with how protective donna is over rose !!!

- sylvia and donna talking about rose being trans and not being sure what to say, great scene

- donna spending 15yrs thinking there's something missing from her life actually kills me so much like ahhhhhhh

- the doctor saying he loves donnna and being shocked that he said it omg 14 >>> 10

- idk why the doctor questions if donna is happy, I dont think he's so far been given a reason to think she isn't? maybe he's just assuming from what he knew of her life before but I mean, he's just met her clearly very nice and happy kid and husband

- obsessed with the meep's little pre-evil voice it's so cute

- ctate is very good at playing funny and sad and everything in between except angry/shouting. her shouting isn't it for me

- all the different names donna gave the meep and it grabbing her leg 😭😭

- sylvia losing her mind and her initial 'you' is my fave thing ever

- I like shaun more than I thought I would, not that had any expectations going into this when it came to him tbh, I wasn't really bothered about him either way

- I didn't for a second thing they were confirming wilf as being dead lmao, it was very obvious it was gonna be a misunderstanding. love sylvia calling the doctor an idiot and love that kate is looking after wilf

- rose being like 'you're assuming he pronouns' was so cringe like, yes, it is good and important to have easy discussions like that but I don't think there's harm in asking for it to be written non annoyingly like it made rose seem kinda snotty idk and it didn't feel natural. also THE DOCTOR, known to not care about gender etc, having to be asked/reminded about pronouns is a bit ??

- sonic is overpowered as hell

- court scene was a bit meh idk how I feel about it. kinda just five minutes of exposition in a car park like okay? meep turning evil was cool tho

- I hope the 'we all have weapons in our wheelchairs' includes my guy wilf

- donna saying the doctor's name.. cinema kinda

- donna being fuming that she gave her money away actually kills me

- donna led there dying made me feel nothing partly bc she clearly wasn't gonna die but also idk it didn't feel as grand as donna dying should be (presumably bc it obviously wasn't gonna happen but if you wanna trick me into thinking she's gonna die then at least do it well idk)

- I think I like rose having some of the meta crisis-ness being passed down to her, that makes sense I think. Idk about it seemingly making rose nonbinary though like that's dumb as fuck I fear

also I kinda wish she wasn't called rose even if it makes sense why she chose that name and if we're being fr her being called martha wouldn't have been quite as 😱😱 so. her being called rose is veryyyy rtd not being able to move on from her coded tho

- excited to see who the boss is and I said in my prev review that it was maybe the toymaker but I feel like it isn't like the toymaker is presumably something to do with why the doctor has that face and ended up near donna and I don't think the meep has any relevance to that

- 'we've got all that power and a way to get rid of it, something a male time lord will never understand. just let it go' is truly the stupidest shite I've ever heard like HUH? like I'm all for a men suck, women rule moment (like when 13 and missy said they were upgrades) but this moment was so odd like what are you even on about 😭😭 also them just.. letting the energy or whatever go is like... oh is that it? okay????

- I think I like the tardis interior actually idk. it's kinda a bit empty and massive and I do wish there was more Stuff about the place but I love all the circles on the walls and the light changing and the paths are very cool. as long as we never have to see it in full bright white mode like a lot of the stills we've seen of it are then I'll be happy

- donna saying the doctor should visit, him saying her leaving killed him AHHHHHHH. also this must mean something Bad happens in the giggle bc she's right, there is no reason for them to leave each other now that she's not gonna die from the meta crisis

- that coffee spilling thing was kinda stupid and I hated donna's shout but anyways

- the weird noises in the theme at the end genuinely made me feel like I was gonna have some kind of panic attack like it sounded like weird breathing and it was fucking with me bad woah I fucking hate that

- still think some of the dialogue was basic and not what I was expecting from rtd but it wasn't as bad as I remembered it being and there's A LOT of funny as fuck moments throughout the ep fr. some of the resolution was also silly/nonsensical but overall its like, okay I guess that's what we're doing let's move on

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Negan’s Wives

I’m like, a villain supporter through and through, I don’t really give a fuck what a bad guy has done, murder away and I will cheer you on etc, and Negan is very much included in that, but I’ve always been iffy on his wives situation and I know a lot of people bring it up as a reason why he’s irredeemable so I want to figure out how I feel about it. 

During my recent re-watch I basically paid extra attention and took note of various moments related to his wives and general attitude towards sex/consent. I know this is an old conversation, but I need to talk about it to get my thoughts out so here we are. 

Parts of this post mention rape and coercion so tread carefully if those topics are likely to upset you.

I don’t know the best way to format this post so I’m just going to go through each moment I noted down first

(1) 7.03, 7mins in

(Dwight notices a pregnancy test) SHERRY: It’s negative. DWIGHT: Well, maybe next time.

(2) 7.03, 12mins in

(Negan offers his wives to Dwight as a reward) NEGAN: Pick whoever you want, as long as she says yes.

(3) 7.04, 16-18mins in

(Negan is at Alexandria and asks about Maggie) NEGAN: Widows, especially ones that look like that, they are special. I love ‘em. Right after their husbands go they are just.. empty inside. But usually not for long. NEGAN: A damn tragedy, that’s what this is.... I was gonna ask her to come back with me. Oh, I know what you’re thinking, how could I have a shot, guy that just bashed her husband’s head in? You’d be surprised. boy, people, they-

(I don’t actually end up using this quote in the post anywhere, but I cba with going through and changing all the numbers so it’s staying here)

(4) 7.07, 10mins in

(Carl shoots up the sanctuary) NEGAN: Damn, I am not gonna have time to screw any of my wives today.

(5) 7.07, 17mins in

(Amber, one of Negan’s wives. cheated on Negan. She knows he knows and is sat crying, seemingly terrified about what’s going to happen) NEGAN: Amber, baby, you know I don’t want anyone here that doesn’t wanna be here, right? AMBER: Mm-hmm.  NEGAN: So if you wanna leave and go back to Mark... you can. But what can’t you do? AMBER: Cheat on you. NEGAN: That is exactly right. You can’t cheat on me. There’s plenty other gals who would love to take your place, and there’s a few job openings that I can think of. You want to go back to Mark and your mom? Hell, I’ll put you all on the same job. AMBER: No. I’ll stay. I’m sorry. NEGAN: You know what that means, right? You know what that means, right? AMBER: Yes. I love you, Negan. NEGAN: Oh, of course you do, darlin’. I don’t know why you’re crying. It’s all gonna work out aces for you.

(6) 7.07, 27mins in

CARL: Are all of those women actually your- NEGAN: Wives? I always wanted to screw a whole bunch of different women. I mean, why settle for just one? Why follow the same old rules? Why not make life better?

(7) 7.11, 30mins in

FRANKIE: You saw Amber last night. She just drinks and cries. She didn’t want this. We signed up for it. It’s better for us. She had to. Her mom needed meds. She can’t work. Amber thought... that she could live with it. She can’t. 

(8) 8.05, 29min in

GABRIEL: Carl told us about your wives. The women you pressure into marrying you? NEGAN: Every one of those ladies made a choice.

(9) 8.12, 36mins in

RICK: You use people to bring you food, to sleep with you, to protect you. 

(10) 11.22(?), ??mins in

EZEKIEL: Melting people’s faces with irons, coercing women into marrying you, slaughtering my own people. That shit I have not forgotten.

Now for some rambling. I’ve put it into sections as much as I can.

Did Negan sleep with his wives?

I sometimes see people say they don’t think Negan had sex with his wives at all but from these quotes we know that’s canonically not the case. He makes a comment to Carl about screwing his wives (4) and then mentions how he’s always wanted to screw multiple women (6), implying that now that he has multiple wives, that’s exactly what he does. And of course there’s Sherry’s pregnancy test (1), which is the most concrete proof of all.

I’m sure some people would say, ‘Well maybe he’s lying’ but I think, while it’s feasible that a character like Negan would lie about something to sound impressive or whatever, I think going down the ‘he’s lying’ road is a slippery slope and kind of just an easy way to explain away something you may not like. You could also say Sherry may have been cheating with Dwight which is why did the test and not because she had been sleeping with Negan but again, I don’t think that is implied anywhere so it’s, in my opinion, a dumb road to go down.

Consent

Negan makes it clear in a couple of scenes that consent is important and he has zero tolerance for rape. He tells Dwight he can get with one of his wives but only if they say yes (2) and there’s a scene I didn’t include in my quote list where he literally murders a guy for attempting to rape Sasha.

Did they choose to be his wives? 

While Negan having a bunch of wives and making it so that being his wife makes life easier for you is morally questionable, there are multiple times where he says they’re there because they chose to be and not because he forces them to be. He tells Amber he doesn’t want anyone there if they don’t want to be there (5), and he tells Gabriel they all chose to be there (8). Frankie also tells Eugene that her and Tanya signed up to be his wives because it’s better for them (7).

I think Amber and Sherry’s cases are definitely where it’s the most morally messed up. With Amber, we know her options are either be Negan’s wife or let her mum die, as without being Negan’s wife she would have no way of getting meds her mum needs (7), and going by her interaction with Negan (5) and the fact she literally would rather die than be his wife (7), she’s clearly not happy. With Sherry, we know that the reason she agreed to be Negan's wife was to stop him from killing Dwight after they ran away. So while Negan is right about them technically having a choice, when the choices are be this man’s wife or let your mum/partner die, is there really a choice? 

Which wives does Negan sleep with?

Since we know Negan sleeps with more than one of his wives (6), and we know his rules on consent (2), I think it’s fairly simple to deduce that while he definitely sleeps with some of his wives, he probably doesn’t sleep with all of them.

Amber clearly doesn’t like Negan at all and is only his wife because she wants meds for her mum so I don’t think she would ever be willing to have sex with him and since we know his rules on consent, I don’t think they ever sleep together.  

In my opinion it’s fairly possible that he sleeps with Tanya and Frankie, which may seem ridiculous because of the fact they literally wanted him dead but I just get the vibe that they wouldn’t be against it despite their dislike of him. Their general attitude towards him, while they definitely hate him, is a lot more, idk, relaxed(?) than, say, Amber who is seemingly terrified of him, spends all her time drinking and is so unhappy with her situation that she wants to die. So yeah, I think it’s possible they would be down to sleep with him despite their feelings about him as a person.

Sherry is I think the only wife we know that he for sure has slept with (1) which I think is interesting and potentially messy because we know Negan’s rules on consent and we know that Sherry absolutely hates him and loves Dwight. So why would she say yes to sleeping with him?

Her attitude imo lies somewhere between Tanya/Frankie and Amber. She clearly hates him/the situation and gets out of there as soon as she can, but she doesn’t seem scared/broken in the same way Amber is. She gets on with things and in the scene where Negan talks to Amber about Amber’s cheating, Sherry seems kinda willing to stand up to Negan a bit and talk back to him. I find their dynamic interesting tbh.

With Sherry what it comes down to for me is the fact she loves Dwight. As far as we know, Tanya and Frankie don’t have partners who that can’t be with because of their marriage to Negan so them saying yes to sleeping with him isn’t as odd to me as Sherry saying yes, because I wouldn’t have thought she’d do that to Dwight. So that just makes me think that the reason she’s slept with Negan is out of fear or because she thought it would make Dwight’s life easier if Negan had that up on him, idk, something like that. 

And also obviously, while imo it’s possible Tanya and Frankie would to sleep with Negan because they were okay with it, it is also a possibility that they would agree more out of compliance/fear rather than enthusiastic consent. 

Amber remains the only wife that I for sure don’t think he would sleep with because of just how much of a mess she is and how Negan would be very aware that a yes from her would be a yes out of fear whereas with Tanya and Frankie (and also Sherry but like I said, the existence of Dwight makes it weird to me) seem like if they were saying yes out of compliance/fear, they would be able to keep it together and hide that they don’t really want to be sleeping with him.

There’s also at least two other wives that we know nothing about so I can’t say if I think he has slept with them or not. I’d just say that if he hasn’t sleep with Tanya or Frankie then he probably does sleep with those unnamed wives, because we know he has slept with multiple of his wives (6), with Sherry for sure being one of them.

Other Characters

Gabriel mentions Negan’s wives who he says Negan ‘pressures’ into marrying him. Negan corrects him and says they all have a choice (8). I do think in this case Gabriel is wrong here about the pressuring. There doesn’t seem to be any pressure/force to marry but like I said before, mainly with Amber and Sherry,  it’s also not as simple as, ‘Yeah, they chose this and are happy to be married to him’.

The next instance is Rick saying Negan ‘uses people to sleep with him’ (9), which, yeah, depending on how you look at things, like which of his wives you think he sleeps with and if you think they say yes because they want to or because they are scared/feel like they have to, Rick is correct. 

Rick obviously isn’t saying that because he has tons of insider info (like about who chose to be there, specifically which wives Negan sleeps with, etc), all he knows is what Carl told him which is probably just, ‘Negan has a room full of wives, he says he sleeps with multiple of them, they don’t all seem too happy to be there,’ so I wouldn’t take Rick’s comment as like, concrete proof that Negan sleeping with his wives is categorically him ‘using’ them, but yeah it makes sense why Rick would say that and I don’t think we can concretely say he’s wrong.

The third time we get a mention of Negan’s wives is after, from what I remember, nearly three full seasons of his wives not being brought up at all. Ezekiel calls him out for ‘coercing women into marrying him’ (10), which yeah, he’s not fully wrong about. 

I think the use of the word ‘coerce’, meaning ‘the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats’, really only comes into play for Sherry and Amber because when the choice is be Negan’s wife or let a person you love (Dwight, Amber’s mum) die, there isn’t really a choice and that, despite the fact Negan isn’t specifically saying to them as a threat, ‘If you don’t marry me, I will kill these people you love’, is still close enough to a threat to probably be considered coercion. There might be a better word to explain it because coercion doesn’t feel like it hits it quite right for me but idk, that’s the only word I have so.

Other than it’s made pretty clear that all wives have a choice and he doesn’t threaten to hurt them, they can leave if they want to. Sure, they would be going back to a not as good life, but their choosing to not be Negan’s wives, as far as we know, wouldn’t have as big consequences as it would for Sherry and Amber.

Redemption / How it was handled

If you personally cannot forgive Negan for the way he treated his wives then I think that’s fine but I do think it’s pretty shitty of people to condemn those who are able to forgive him and believe he’s been redeemed. It’s very clear through S9, 10 and 11 that he’s changed a lot from his days at the Sanctuary and in my opinion, while I do think his wives could/should have been brought up more and we should have seen him acknowledge that it was fucked up, he has been redeemed from it. 

I kind of see the lack of mention as more of an issue with how the show handled his wives more than with Negan himself, which I know some people will say is me just trying to make the fault not lie on Negan which, if you think that then fine, but that’s not what I feel I’m doing. 

S7/8 Negan is pretty clear and says multiple times that those women all have a choice while not acknowledging that for a couple of them, the choice is marriage or the death of a loved one. He also has a clear no rape policy but brags about sleeping with women who hate him and may not actually be happy to sleep with him. 

I can and do believe that Negan has grown from those Sanctuary days but I think it was very cowardly of the show to not give us some scenes where Negan is talking to someone about how looking back he knows that agreeing to marry because the other option is death of a loved one is not a choice and then either make him state that he was lying about sleeping with his wives and maybe even go as far as to say the pregnancy test thing was to get a reaction out of Dwight or have it be true that he slept with some of his wives but idk, make it clear he knows that there was a awful power imbalance there and there’s not really a sure way of knowing if they said yes because they wanted to or because they were scared/felt like they had to.

In conclusion

I basically was figuring out my thoughts on this situation as I writing this post up and now that I’m at the end I think I’ve come to the conclusion that while I can see, and agree, that some of the wife stuff is very gross, I think people are sometimes dramatic about it but also the show doesn’t handle it in a very good way so I can see why people either don’t feel he was redeemed well or don’t feel he was redeemable at all. Because, in order to figure out my thoughts on it all, I’ve literally had to make this long ass post, and analyse the few moments we have to make sense of it all. It’s just a mess they could’ve avoided by either being clear somewhere in S9-11 that Negan recognises it was messed up or by just.. doing things differently from the start.

So yeah, I think because of the set up of being Negan’s wife meaning you have a better life, Negan coerced, for lack of a better word, a couple of his wives (Sherry, amber) into marriage because their worse life would have resulted in people they love dying. But for wives like Tanya and Frankie, I don’t think he coerced them. 

and in terms of redemption, I believe he is redeemed because I think from the way his character is now, there's no way he would do something like that again but I do think it was a misstep on the show’s part to not make it clear that he not only wouldn’t do that stuff again but also sees that it was wrong to do in the first place and he doesn’t have that same ‘well they mde their choice’ mindset as he did in the past.

Feel free to send me asks or whatever about this post, I’m down to hear if you agree, have more to add or want to share your POV, but, yknow, I know this topic is a rough one within the fandom so try and do so without being nasty idk

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Every single thought I have about the Doctor Who 60th specials… (Part 2/2) 

Part 1

I feel like I’m losing my mind with all the opinions, questions and theories I have about what we’ve watched over the last three weeks so this is part 2 of a full semi-comprehensive list of pretty much all of it so I can get it out of my head and (mostly) move on

The Giggle

Toymaker Stuff

I didn’t love the mad guy’s speech at the beginning, it felt very unnatural idk

Wilf isn’t affected by what’s going on so that would surely mean that Kate shouldn’t be affected either because they both went into the TARDIS for pretty short amounts of time. Wilf probably even less than Kate as far as I can remember. I’m kinda just gonna assume it’s to do with when episodes were written, filmed and aired like I guess RTD didn’t know that Kate would end up in the TARDIS during PoTD and it was too late to change it when he found out

The tune in everyone's head reminds me of the Master in S3 using the beat to get everyone to vote for him

I don’t know how I feel about the Toymaker showing up because of the salt in WBY like.. Okay I guess. Wait I don't think I really care that much either way actually. It’s fine

NPH did a fine job for the most part but I low-key wish the Toymaker was played by someone unknown because I just couldn't get out of my head that it was NPH lmao but maybe that’s just a me problem

I liked the Spice Girls scene but I didn't love the lip-syncing idk, it didn’t have enough power to it, just felt kinda awkward. Also while I loved it, it is probably my least favourite out of the three scenes like that that we’ve had. Rasputin number one!

I’m not sure if I like the bit where the Doctor basically does what he did with the Master and offers to be with the Toymaker and go travelling and stuff like.. Did he mean that? What would have happened if the Toymaker agreed? I do get what he’s saying though about how the Toymaker can do all of that and chooses to cause problems for people but idk, offering to go out to space with him isn’t my fave like why are you tryna give the Toymaker a redemption arc rn fuck him

The flashback to 1 and the original Toymaker!! Love it

RTD said in the commentary that the ‘I made a jigsaw out of your history’ comment was kinda to relax the rules a bit and make more sense of contradicting things we’ve seen like the half-human thing and the Timeless Child for example and like.. Okay, I guess. I think it’s an unnecessary addition tbh. And the ‘Did you like it?’ comment is like right, are we saying the Doctor has memories of, say, believing they were half human because that’s so silly to me. Just chalk it up to a dumb writing choice that went nowhere and move on. We don't need an in-universe explanation for it.

‘I made every opinion supreme. That's the game of the 21st century. They shout and they type and they cancel. So I fixed it. Now everyone wins.’ - CRINGE sorry. Like ppl say Chibnall has on the nose commentaries (@ the Orphan 55 speech) but some of the stuff in this ep was like yeah okay Russ mate we get it. Also I don’t trust that a 60yo man fully understands what ‘cancelling’ is and it always makes me side eye ppl when they mention cancelling bc I’m like right but ‘cancelling’ is a lot of the time actually just people being held accountable for things but whatever. I get though that the point in this episode was to make people extreme so there were examples of ‘cancelling’ in the ridiculous sense rather than the holding accountable sense so whatever

I cba to check what he specifically said but there was a moment where the Doctor was like ‘if I told you he [could do this thing] would you believe me’ and the person he was talking to was like ‘can he do that’ and the Doctor was like ‘no’ so um why mention it then? Dumb as fuck

Not sure about the Toymaker being racist, feels unnecessary? Obviously recognising that the original character is fucked up is important but I don’t know if having the new Toymaker straight up be racist towards someone and spend the episode doing different accents was really needed? Like was the actual character of the Toymaker racist in that original serial or did he just have aspects to him (like name and outfit) that we now recognise as being fucked up? And he’s not from Earth so idk why he would be racist and also in unleashed they’re like ‘he is now a white character played by a white actor’ which he also was in the 60s so?? Unless what they’re saying is that back then the character was intended to be Chinese but was obviously played by a white person? Idk everything about the original Toymaker so maybe overall it does work that he’s racist, idfk

Hints

The Master - RTD said in the commentary for this episode that he hasn’t got any Master plans right now and if that’s true then I truly do not understand why he would bring the Master up at all let alone hint at their return (in the same way he hinted at it back in S3 mind you like get some new actually decent ideas Russell I’m begging). It’s just such a waste of time to do that. Let whoever decides to bring the Master back in the future figure out how they want to do it, and if it’s RTD that ends up doing it, do the hinting and explanation at a time when it makes sense, not in the midst of an episode two plus seasons from the Master even coming back. Baffling choice. I did love the laughs we heard as someone picked the tooth up though and also I love the idea of the Master going up against the Toymaker.

The One Who Waits - Okay. Idk how anyone can have any theories about this tbh but someone who the Toymaker would rather avoid has gotta be pretty rough

‘My Legions are coming.’ - They say in the commentary that this is true and every few episodes the story is kinda supernatural and the rules are suspended a bit and I’m SO excited for that, sounds really interesting

Name Drops

Obsessed with the companion puppet show. I’ve seen a lot of people basically try and clown on the fact that no Chibnall companions got mentioned during that as if it’s the funniest thing in the world and Chibnall has been skipped for shady reasons or something and I find it so embarrassing. It’s literally like well no, 13 managed to get all her companions home safe so why would the Toymaker mention them in a puppet show about the Doctor’s dead companions? Like ppl seem to think it’s funny bc they’re skipping Chibnall’s companions but imo it’s more funny bc it makes the Toymaker’s little story less impactful like he’s got a run of three companions that leave via traumatic experiences but then he has to skip four whole companions bc they literally got home fine like it ruins the flow and is kinda embarrassing for him if he’s tryna prove that the Doctor get’s everyone killed all the time bc clearly they don’t. But anyways

The lack of Yaz mention in the scene at the end literally full of namedrops is frustrating icl. Like, the whole conversation they’re having is around the Doctor never resting. The Doctor is literally about to go and rest by staying in one place for an extended period of time with a companion, FIXING THEMSELVES SOMEWHERE, and you don’t think now would be a good time to do a quick mention to the companion the Doctor left less than 24 hours ago that they decided they couldn’t be with because they ‘couldn’t fix themselves to anyone’? Are you being fr? Like, a Yaz mention fits in so perfectly with that conversation so the fact they left her out is CRAZY.

I don’t think it would have made sense to mention her along with River and Rose because the vibe of the conversation was about like, hugely devastating moments/experiences and the Doctor leaving Yaz isn’t quite on that level in terms of Yaz is just in Sheffield if the Doctor wanted to see her whereas they lost both Rose and River in devastating ways. But I think when people point that out they do it as a reason to not mention Yaz but to me it’s like, well no, she should still have got a mention, just at a different point in the conversation. Even if it wasn’t in relation to the whole fixing themselves to someone thing, they could very easily have had 15 been like ‘Yaz left less than 24 hours ago and I bet you haven’t even tried processing that’

Idk. I know so many ppl are clowning on the fact Yaz wasn’t mentioned or trying to justify why there was no reason to mention her anyways but it’s like no matter what you think of the previous era and the quality of it, it is a FACT that the Doctor thought of Yaz very highly, literally comparing her to River, so not mentioning her during that scene, especially when the Doctor left her not even 24 hours ago, is beyond ridiculous and I’ll genuinely never stop being baffled by it

I know some people don’t like the Sarah Jane mention and feel like she deserved something bigger but I liked it tbh. The Doctor was like ‘Can you just think for a second about how crazy it is that you’ve been so busy doing shit that you not only haven’t been to see your old companion in YEARS to just catch but also it’s taken you so long to do so that she’s died.’ I get wanting more emotion but I kinda liked that it was more of a call out and also like a ‘woah’ moment because I think Sarah Jane is one of those characters you wouldn’t think of dying so her being gone is in universe now too IS a woah moment

The Mavic Chen mention was kinda unnecessary. Idk I don’t really know anything about the character other than it’s a white guy portraying an Asian character so like… of all the characters to mention idk why that would be the one. I don’t even know if they’re that significant of a character, the racism is literally the only thing I hear people mention which leads me to think there’s not really much else going on there that’s worth them getting a name drop after however many decades but whatever

Bigeneration, Face Explanations

I think bigeneration as a concept is interesting and I actually do like the moment where it gets brought up and they’re like ‘It’s a myth apparently not’ and 15 is like ‘myth, myth, myth,’ like ‘the details don't matter right now, what’s happened has happened, moving on’ but at the same time, while the details didn’t matter in that moment, I actually do want details.

I can’t remember which Doctor it was but one of them says to the Toymaker, ‘you did this, you doubled us’ so I guess we’re saying that the reason the bigeneration happened is because of the Toymaker. That’s fine by me tbh. Like okay, the Toymaker, and people as powerful as the Toymaker, are rarely around to make that happen so I guess it makes sense that bigeneration could be SO rare that it’s thought of as a myth rather than a real thing. But that’s about the only thing about bigeneration that I think is even remotely clear or like, un-annoying enough for me to just be like okay cool whatever

From the commentary - ‘I think down the timeline they all separated and came back to life with their TARDISes, the gift of the Toymaker. What I'm calling the Docterverse. I want to create a future in which Sylvester McCoy could just survive and have an adventure. Because one of the thing about The Star Beast is to get you back we had to jump through so many hoops which is a great story but it's like why can't you just arrive and step out of the tardis. So hopefully it creates a story where that happens.’ - This is just unnecessary and I don’t really see the need for it and the reasons RTD gave aren’t really THAT compelling to me.

First of all, the ‘gift of the Toymaker’ comment is proof of him being why the bigeneration happened. I don’t think the bigen is in any way related to the state the Doctor was in after years of bottling things up like I think some people have speculated. But also there is a moment in the episode where 15 says ‘bigeneration has never happened before’ so that makes me be like well if it hasn’t happened before why would it be a myth? And I guess how do you know it’s never happened before? IDFK

Second, ‘we had to jump through hoops to get DT and CTATE back’... You quite literally did not. 13 regenerated into DT, Donna magically survived with the help of girl power and her plot device daughter. It was actually quite simple.

Third, I get the thing of wanting to be able to tell a story that’s set in a world where Sylvester McCoy didn’t regenerate when he did and instead went on to continue travelling with Ace or met new companions or grew old or whatever else but I just don’t think bigeneration was the solution for that. You can absolutely write those kinds of stories without bigeneration. Like somebody introduce Rusell to the concept of Alternate Universe fanfiction fuck me. All of that stuff does not need to be added to the official canon timeline of the Doctor.  Doctor Who is already a massive franchise with content all over the place but imo the idea that every Doctor bigenerated adds to that on such a ridiculous level. And also I know that there’s already so many Doctors travelling the universe but the fact that now I guess there’s TWO of every Doctor is like.. Why? 

I also think all of it happening in the same universe cheapens the story of our main Doctor and each incarnation’s life and ‘death’ on some level. Like, now RTD is basically saying that 13 bigenerated and 14 went on like we saw in the 60th but 13 coulda gone back to Yaz and said ‘Actually I’ll be with you because I can do that now.’ and I just HATE IT. That would completely take away all the emotional impact of their ending because it’s all in the same universe as what took place in the show. That’s not some AU Yasmin Khan that now gets to have a happily ever after with the Doctor, it would be OUR Yaz from this universe and that’s STUPID. For another example, 10’s final words of ‘I don’t wanna go’ well don’t worry, he didn’t go! Like omg write all the AU fanfics you want about 13 running back to Yaz or 10 crying about not wanting to go only to then actually not have to go or whatever else but don’t put that shit into the actual canon Russell?? Not that 13 going back to Yaz is in the canon now (10 not actually ‘going’ is tho according to RTD’s everyone bigenerated theory), but it’s possible we’ll get some EU book that’s about that and I just would much prefer stuff like that to be kept to fanfics or even be official DW content but be specifically alternate universe/what if style stuff. 

Idk like at the end of the day I will just be ignoring that RTD is saying every Doctor bigenerated in that moment unless we see some stuff related to it in the main show (though even then I’ll probs be like nah) because it’s genuinely one of the dumbest things a showrunner has ever come up with but even though I’m gonna ignore it, it still winds me up because I’m just so baffled that it’s even real and the reasons for it aren’t even good. 

Like ‘now we can bring a Doctor back whenever and not have to worry about where they fit in their timeline or how old they look’??? How STUPID omg I actually can’t cope. There’s basically infinite space in every Doctor’s timeline where you can just be like okay let’s say they came from that point. The need to be like well now we don’t have to figure that out is SO lazy. A lot of stories don’t even get too specific, because half the time it doesn’t really matter much

And the whole them aging thing is like did anyone give a fuck that they looked old in Power of the Doctor? No. Because it doesn’t matter. And if it did matter, just recast them. Like if we ever got a full on multi Doctor episode with a Classic Doctor (like TUaT) I would much prefer to see them be recast than have the character be played by the older actor and have it rationalised by saying ‘Well they bigenerated and they’ve got old’ like how FUCKING DUMB get me out of here. Just recast them and think for two seconds about what point in their timeline they could be coming from. 

And if you want to tell stories where they magically survived and met new companions or went on adventures that wouldn’t fit with what we know their general timeline/arc is then create specific alternate universe content, don’t make every Doctor magically survive their regeneration. The Tales of the TARDIS stories on iPlayer are interesting but the idea of it being in our main Doctor’s universe/timelines is just silly. Say it’s an alternate universe where the Doctor didn’t regenerate at the point they did omg, it’s that simple

He also literally says ‘it’s what everyone does in their imagination’ and ‘it's Big Finish’ and um yes Russell, there is a reason that stuff is imagination and alternate universe and not like, canonically a part of the Doctor’s life, because it’s just silly.

Also I’m not fully clear on what this means for 14 like okay so (1) is he going to get old and die, (2) is he his own Doctor now that will regenerate as normal for potentially an infinite amount of times or (3) is he gonna at some point regenerate and magically appear as the 15 that bigenerated out of him however many years previously on the roof? 

I want to say it’s (3) mainly because of 15 saying ‘I’m fine because you fix yourself’, and it does make sense that 15 is the way he is because he’s a result of the recovery 14 goes through but it raises more questions because like... How tf does that happen? 14 regenerates one day and turns into a puff of smoke while his consciousness travels across the country to the roof and implants itself into 14’s brain as the Toymaker shoots him and then he pops out as 15? Like? It’s SO ridiculous. This is kinda the only thing that makes me want bigeneration to come up again in future seasons because maybe RTD has a clear explanation in mind that will play out better on screen and make more sense than what we’re working with right now

Tbh I think option (1) would’ve been my favourite if we’re saying every Doctor bigenerated because it makes things a lot simpler and also would mean that whatever the Doctor goes through post bigeneration doesn’t effect the main Doctor so essentially our main Doctor would be existing as if the bigenerations never even happened because unlike if option (3) is what’s going on, they won’t have any memories of what the post-bigenerated Doctor got up before they magically get transported back to become them yknow? It does kinda make 15 being like that (happy, therapized) less interesting though because it would basically mean that he is a true fresh start for the Doctor and he basically fobbed all the trauma off onto 14 when he popped out rather than having memories of overcoming that trauma etc while living with Donna. And that’s kinda cop out-y and doesn’t make sense if we’re saying EVERY other Doctor also bigenerated (which I’m not saying bc fuck that but it’s Russell’s theory so). 

Like if 11 bigenerated in Time of the Doctor, 12 would NOT have that personality bc he presumably would have fobbed all the trauma onto 11 and came out fresh as fuck like 15 did (and like obviously the reason that actually didn’t happen is because bigeneration wasn’t invented back then out of universe but you know what I mean, if we’re saying retroactively that it DID happen then it doesn’t make full sense. Unless 14’s bigeneration was a one off and not every bigeneration results in one Doctor being left with the trauma and the other Doctor being fine. Wait, I'd much prefer that actually…

If the explanation we’re going with is every Doctor bigenerated then I prefer the idea that both Doctor’s that come from the bigeneration are exactly same, but maybe bc 14/15 are the main focus and reason the bigenerations happened, that’s why 14 is fucked still and 15 is recovered. So then 14 lives his life, dies of old age. Then 15 continues as the Doctor. And for previous Doctors, 12 would still be the 12 we know because the bigeneration didn’t change the Doctor’s personality.

This is what kills me about Russell saying EVERY Doctor bigenerated btw. I'm so down for 14 bigenerating then living his life resulting in 15 being the way he is but it happenining to EVERY Doctor is where it falls apart. It’s STUPID. Because if we’re saying 15 is the way he is because 14 lived his life and go therapy then surely the same would’ve happened with all previous Doctors? And maybe they wouldn’t necessarily be thereapized but they wouldn’t have the traumas of what they just regenerated from because they would have just lived however many years between then becoming slightly or largely different people. Like if 10 bigenerated and didn’t go, essentially getting what he wanted, would the 11th Doctor then have wanted to run away to a fresh start like he did in S5? Because who knows what sort of things 10 would have got up to between bigenerating as himself and magically getting back there again as 11. Does any of this make sense omg I feel like I’m waffling like crazy

As for option (2), yeah, I hate that idea. Like, 14 (and every previous Doctor that apparently bigenerated (fuck you Russel T)) going on to live that life out but then also continue on regenerating and basically being their own person now that’s branched off from our main Doctor? Horrific. No thanks.

Regardless of how he got that way, I am so in love with 15’s vibes and just how happy he is. I feel like it’s not gonna last long (which I’m fine with because I love a traumatised Doctor) but I’ll love it for as long as it lasts

I love that 15 basically takes over the episode instantly like he says to push, he explains stuff, he has the throw that makes them win. Idk I understand why people were worried about the first main black Doctor being overshadowed by the people’s princess but I think anyone who believes DT overshadowed Ncuti in those final 15 or so minutes is SOOOOO wrong. 14 still had his moments obviously, but 15 was absolutely present and had great stuff too, probably more so

The ‘do you come in a range of colours’ comment from Donna was honestly kinda jarring like I know what she was asking and why she was asking it but the way she asked felt crazy. But also if she has memories of what the Doctor has been through since he left her then surely she knows he ‘comes in a range of colours’ because she would’ve seen 13 meet Fugitive? Unless I’m misremembering and Donna was being fr when she said she couldn’t remember the stuff she saw properly. Idk 

There’s vibes to it that I don’t love but overall I think I am happy and okay with 14’s ending like I’ve seen a lot of people say it ruins 10’s ending for various reasons or like, it’s not fair that other Doctors didn’t get this but I think that’s kinda silly. In terms of 10’s ending, him bigenerating (according to Russell, I'm pretending that shit didn't happen) is what ruins his ending, not the fact that 14 now gets to be happy. And in terms of other Doctor’s deserving it, you just sound childish icl. Like yeah okay every Doctor deserves to be happy and healthy and rest up but that just isn’t what happened, grow up. Wish they got that, sure, but don’t act like 14 getting that instead of them makes the story bad because clearly if you want that for your fave Doctor then you mustn't think the story is that bad

I don’t think I looove the explanation that his face came back because he was wearing himself out and wanted to go home or whatever like idk. It feels kinda simple and boring. I do like the idea of the Doctor just being so worn out that he ends up spending a regeneration recovering, that’s VERY real and the Doctor defo needs that. But that being the whole reason the face came back is very cop out-y imo, much like the explanation for Donna surviving the metacrisis. Two big story points that could’ve had really interesting explanations but were kinda nothing in the end. I’m glad 14 got the ending he did but that part of the explanation was a bit boring

14 accepting he’s regenerating only to then.. Not regenerate is kinda haunting like everyone has BEEN saying oh it would be nice if 10 didn’t want to go and 14 finally got closure or whatever and was okay with it and then that literally happened and he didn’t even end up going like.. Okay. I think it makes sense for him to be okay with going bc as much as people love to say it, he’s not ACTUALLY 10 and the Doctor’s attitude to regeneration has changed since he was 10 but idk, I’m just wondering if the bigen kinda ruins that moment of acceptance from him

14 saying he fought all those battles and now he knows what for because he’s living a happy life makes me feel INSANE. Honestly, I think that’s the line that really makes me remember that this isn’t just 10 3.0, this is the Doctor with pre- and post-10 baggage and I really felt his age and felt how deserving the Doctor is of just being happy and living that life. 

There’s a moment where 15 says about how they’ve never just stopped and rested and I’ve seen people not like that and bring up things like Darillium or the time 11 spent mourning the Ponds or 12 working at the university and I defo understand where that POV is coming from but I think for me there is a difference between those and 14’s ending because 14’s ending is really just as simple as he is living on Earth pretty much permanently with the odd trip away and that’s just his life now whereas with all the others there was bigger things going on that the Doctor simply staying at a place because they feel like it. Darillium is probably the closest to being like 14 but I cannot imagine 12 and River just spent 24 years doing nothing, I’m sure they travelled during that time. And then 12 at the Uni had watching vault duties and 11 was in deep mourning. 14’s ending is a lot more simple y'know and focused specifically on his recovery and just living his best life.

Misc

The TODAY text that came up when we first saw 14 and Donna was so unnecessary. It’s 100% the kind of thing Chibnall would've got shit for bc ppl have a weird hatred for his location texts but I haven’t really seen anymore mention it even though it’s defo the worst location text the show has seen

I am obsessed with the music when 14 first appears in the ep and when they first meet the Toymaker in the shop, it’s so good. I’m not that happy about Murray Gold being back bc it’s suuuuuch a ‘getting the band back together’ thing like omg just hire some new ppl but I’ve always liked his stuff so whatever I guess 

I like when the Doctor calls out about people and how they love to poison and hate each other like yeah, the Doctor loves humans but also he can see how shit we are at the same time, and calling those things out specifically was just really good imo idk

Idk why Mel was in this tbh like I have no attachment to her so I can’t even say it was nice to see her bc I don’t know her. All she did was sing a song, hold 14’s hand and carry a box around. I feel like she could’ve been used better. I’m hoping she gets used better the next time we see her. Also I’ve seen some ppl literally say that she was used better than Ace and Tegan were in POTD and genuinely if you think that you’re an idiot

Love the scene of Donna and the puppets, spooky

I like catch as a final game, I think I saw some ppl say it was too simple/boring

Why did 14 start explaining bits of the TARDIS to 15 like brother that is literally you I think he knows

The ‘you’ve finally caught up with the 21st century’ comment is cringe a fuck. Very an old man just wrote that coded. And also Shirley doesn’t even get to go in lmao

The whole old man, you’re older, I’m younger thing is a funny moment but also doesn’t make sense unless the intention is that 14 goes on to become 15, in which case, yes, 15 is the old man. If 14 never becomes 15 and they’re just living parallel lives from now on then they’re the exact same age

Why is Wilf shooting moles? That does not feel very Wilf at all

Giggle Commentary Misc

Russell said something like there’s proof Ncuti has the real TARDIS because he’s sure people will worry but um.. Why would people worry about it?

DT says in there that he didn’t make a conscious effort to play 14 differently to 10 and I find that baffling for two reasons - first because he FELT different, so the fact he wasn’t trying to be is kinda impressive and second because I’m like surely you know the character has changed over that time? Like I know 14 is essentially 10 but he is 10 with 1000+ years of extra baggage and not taking that into consideration when going into the part is borderline unprofessional? Naive? Embarrassing? Makes me think he wasn’t taking the story/character seriously? Idek. I find it strange. RTD’s fault too, I’m sure. Though the fact 14 feels a bit different is in part to do with the scripts etc

Also in the commentary they were laughing at the idea of DT coming back and playing the Doctor differently and like, I get it, obviously the excitement about him coming back was because people love 10 and the story they told made it make sense he was acting a lot like 10 but to laugh off the idea of him playing it differently is CRAZY, there’s surely interesting stuff that coulda been done there. Like one day an actor coming back to the role as a main incarnation and playing it completely different to how they played it the first time round and having a completely new arc etc would be really cool imo

I love seeing the Doctor be high on regen energy when they first regenerate, it’s one of the best parts of seeing a new Doctor, but I also kinda agree that it’s nice to do something different and seeing 14 and 15 interact with each other was 10/10. I do hope the next regeneration is a back to basics one though after two fuckeries in a row.

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Thirteen Era Rewatch: Fugitive of the Judoon

I'm re-watching Thirteen's era in lead up to the Centenary and since this is likely going to be my last full re-watch for a while I thought I'd do a post on each ep where I just go over all the things I love, hate or just have some general thoughts on.

Lee and Ruth’s relationship is actually so interesting to me it’s unreal like I wanna know every detail. Like we’re they in a relationship pre-chameleon or we’re they just friends? Did this relationship happen randomly or was it planned?

How does the fugitive Doctor feel about him once she’s back to being the Doctor? I NEED ANSWERS

I love Ruth at the beginning of this ep, Jo Martin is just so great I love her

Them sitting on the stairs like that is not the vibe like 13’s TARDIS is just not really homey like all the prev ones

13 is chef’s kiss in this first scene. And so are the fam.

I actually love the shopkeeper in this ep he has no business being as funny as he is

I love the first confrontation with the Judoon and also their reaction to Graham going missing is so good. This versus LotSD where 13 is like I’m too busy tryna woo Yaz idc that Dan has ran off lmao

JB being a twat hasn’t ruined Jack’s return for me, I still think his reveal scene is cool and it still kinda gets me. Tho nowhere near like it did the first time lol

Love how Jack is playing it cool and joking around with ‘the Doctor’ (Graham) but the second he hugs him you can see on his face that this is kinda big for him and he missed the Doctor a lot

Convenient that the Doctor doesn’t say her name for the whole of that scene with Lee and Ruth and also doesn’t say it when she’s with Ruth later on. Not a huge issue. But it’s defo noticeable imo. I also kinda wonder how Lee would’ve reacted to her saying her name tbh

I wonder if when 13 found out who Ruth was she kinda thought back to Ruth’s relationship with Lee and was like wait, that was me. Or if it made her think of all the other people she has no memory of. Literally like Twelve forgetting Clara but on steroids

I think Jack accidentally picking up everyone who isn’t the Doctor is kinda funny. I remember when the ep first aired I REALLY just wanted him to meet 13 but it doesn’t really bother me now, maybe bc we know he comes back and meets her in RotD but also bc of the other big stuff in the ep, I don’t think them not coming face to face is a big deal. Like if no other cool stuff happened I’d be disappointed but bc cool stuff DID happen so idrc. I think Jack is a cool surprise that then makes the other surprise even bigger

No you don’t loves

13 telling Ruth she’s her best hope versus her going on to do all the searching for her past alone and having no one (except Yaz but obvs 13 doesn’t let her in)

TARDIS reveal is cool I literally don’t care that it’s a bit of a coincidence that the Fugitive Doctor’s TARDIS also happened to get stuck like that

The way the Fugitive Doctor got changed before coming out to reveal herself is so funny

Her glasses !!! She’s so cool

The whole first scene on the Fugitive Doctor’s TARDIS is great they have such a cool dynamic

A scene of all female time lords feels cool and important idk

I love Gat tbh, rip queen

Her face kills me she’s actually so fucked up from all that

Obsessed with this final scene. Them asking questions, 13 being messed up, having a go at Ryan, them not taking it, them giving her pep talk, FAMILY, her face when Ryan says she’s the Doctor. It’s true chef’s kiss

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Thirteen Era Rewatch: Rosa

I'm re-watching Thirteen's era in lead up to the Centenary and since this is likely going to be my last full re-watch for a while I thought I'd do a post on each ep where I just go over all the things I love, hate or just have some general thoughts on.

I don’t like that they referred to the TARDIS as ‘it’ and ‘thing’, it sounds wrong lmao

I like that 13 jumps in front of everyone after Ryan gets hit but then Yaz jumps in front of her and basically takes more control than 13 does for a second

I’ve seen people say that 13 should’ve done more during this ep to defend Ryan/Yaz from the racism but I don’t think there was much she could’ve done tbh. I think it makes more sense for her to just tell everyone to lay low and be careful bc racism is like, woven into basically everything there. It’s not like in S10 when 12 slapped a racist and then the worst that happened is him and Bill got tied up, if the they up too much of a fight in Alabama everyone else around them would’ve been on their ass and things would just get worse.

Thirteen continuing her trend of confronting the bad guys when the fam aren’t there to properly see it, basically hiding that side of herself so the fam just think of her as a happy spacewoman. Don’t understand how people can see confrontation scenes like this and come out of it thinking 13 doesn’t have any authority and isn’t threatening. She’s great??

I know people say they were tryna plant seeds for Ryan and Yaz getting together but tbh I’ve always seen that scene more as two friends/siblings who never compliment each other just being awkward but idk, it might just be bc I’ve always got my Thasmin goggles on

I love all the small references to 13 being a woman. Acknowledging that it’s a change but not making it a big deal. Tho we do so it in how she acts. Like I think chances are if she was a man, she would have handled Ryan being hit slightly differently

I love Ryan and Yaz’s chat while they’re hiding and also Ryan and Rosa’s chat outside Rosa’s house. I find it interesting that Ryan can have these deep chats with other people but will brush Graham off most of the time.

Love how much Grace is brought up in this episode. I feel like it would’ve been very easy to kinda forgot about her and not bring her up that often even tho she’s a big part of Ryan/Graham’s arcs

I really don’t care that Krasko doesn’t have any motives other than being a massive racist. He doesn’t need another motive, people who just Are racist for no real reason actually do exist. Not every racist needs an explanation behind it (like Joan in HN/Fob). He’s also not the main focus. We don’t need some fancy fleshed out space racist with a sad backstory for this ep when the focus is supposed to be on Rosa and her story.

I don’t get how some people think this episode is them taking the choice away from Rosa or causing it to happen? The whole point is that this is what Rosa does herself but Krasko is in the way trying to stop it so The Doctor and co have to keep it on track. They don’t force or persuade Rosa to do anything. She chooses to stay seated. The only thing is the Doctor and co just happened to be there when it took place.

I love that Ryan is the one to get rid of Krasko. I’m sure ppl have complained about how 13 doesn’t care that Ryan shot Krasko off into the far future but like… he’s a space racist so why would she care? Ryan didn’t kill him or anything, he just sent him somewhere else.

Seeing Graham not want to be involved in what’s happening but have no choice is kinda interesting idk

I find the moments where Yaz is kinda stuck in the middle and doesn’t know what she should do pretty interesting. Like, she is allowed to sit in the white area of the bus but also she is getting called a Mexican and hiding behind bins from the police.

I like the talk at the end about Rosa’s impact but the asteroid thing is a bit odd. Like idk how her having an asteroid named after her is exactly proof she ‘changed the universe’. Don’t asteroids and stars get named all kinds of random shit??

Carrying on the theme of talking about what we know about the characters - 13 keeps mostly happy around the fam but goes off on her own to confront the bad guy. Yaz is authoritative, showing her police training, and says she likes/wants to be in charge. Graham and Ryan have a better relationship than the previous eps but Ryan is still iffy with him sometimes.

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Little Girl, President’s Wife, Cloister Wars. Which was Missy’s lie?

So in The Magician’s Apprentice, Missy lists off three things to Clara and tells her one of them is a lie.

I thought I would go through them all, explaining which is a lie, partly because it’s fun and I’ll take any opportunity to ramble about DW and partly because I don’t really understand how/why some people come to the conclusions they get to and I want to kind of explain what’s actually the lie. 

Obviously, headcanon what you want but this is coming from the POV of like, what works canonically.

CLARA: Since when do you care about the Doctor? MISSY: Since always. Since the Cloister Wars. Since the night he stole the moon and the President’s wife. Since he was a little girl.

Let’s get the easiest one out of the way first.

Since he was a little girl.

Missy point blank could not and did not know the Doctor as a little girl. The Doctor and Master met during their time at the academy when they were both little boys. Thirteen is the first time during the time the Master has known the Doctor that they’re presenting as female.

Missy also does not know about the Timeless Child because she canonically comes before Dhawan!Master in the Master’s timeline. And even if she did know about the Timeless Child (which she doesn’t) she still wouldn’t have known the Doctor as a little girl, she just would have known that he was one at some point.

Missy is lying about knowing the Doctor as a little girl.

Since the Cloister Wars. 

In Hell Bent Twelve references the Cloister Wars (‘Probably leftover from the Cloister Wars.’) so we know the Wars happened. That reference alone should be enough to make you come to the conclusion that what Missy said was true. There’s nothing to contradict it. 

But if you need more convincing, in terms of when the Wars happened and if the Doctor and Master even knew each other during that time, then it’s on the DW Wiki:

‘According to human historians, [the Cloister Wars] were waged sometime after the Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey, which was the first event to reveal the existence of the Matrix to the wider universe, but long before the Last Great Time War.’

The question now would be if the Doctor and Master were alive during that time. And yes, they were. The DW Wiki says the Doctor and Master both had some involvement in the Sontaran invasion, and we obviously already know that they also had involvement in the Time War. Since the Cloister Wars happened in between those two events, the Doctor and Master would have both been alive and knew each other during it.

So now we know the Cloister Wars were real and the Doctor and Master were alive during it. And since The Doctor and Master have known each other for their whole lives (or at least for the whole of the Doctor’s current regeneration cycle) they would 100% have known and cared about each other during that time.

Missy is telling the truth about the Cloister Wars.

Since he stole the moon and the President’s wife.

With the little girl one, we know the Master never knew the Doctor as a little girl, we didn’t actually need anything in the episode to confirm that it was a lie. And with the Cloister Wars, Twelve straight up references it in Hell Bent, confirming it’s a real thing that happened. This one is kind of different in that we have to connect a dot or two ourselves but like.. it’s really not that confusing at all.

Since we know already which one of the three options is a lie, and Missy said only one of them was a lie, that should mean that this one is true. But in Hell Bent we have this:

TWELVE: The last I heard, he stole the moon and the President’s wife. CLARA: Was she nice, the President’s wife? TWELVE: Ah, well, that was a lie put about by the Shabogans. It was the President’s daughter. I didn’t steal the moon, I lost it…

I’ve seen a lot of people say this confirms that this one is the one lie, because it wasn’t the wife and he didn’t actually steal the moon, and therefore that must somehow mean both of the others are true.

What this really means is that Missy told two lies, it’s just that she didn’t realise she was telling two. When people say that the President's wife and moon option must be the one lie Missy told they always for some reason forget it’s physically impossible for the Master to have known the Doctor as a little girl and they forget the part where the Doctor tells Clara that it was a story that the Shabogans spread about him. 

The obvious conclusion, at least to me, is that the Master heard the rumour the Shabogans were spreading, assumed it to be true and never spoke to the Doctor about it.

Missy is (unknowingly) lying about the moon and the President’s wife.

So, in conclusion...

Missy told Clara she was only telling one lie because she herself believed she was telling one lie (that she knew the Doctor when he was a little girl) but she in fact was unknowingly telling another lie as well (that the Doctor stole the moon and President’s wife).

Like I said at the beginning, headcanon what you want, this isn’t me being like, ‘No, you must think this,’ but this is the only explanation that I think actually works and I have pretty much zero interest other people’s interpretations because I don’t think they work and/or I don’t think they were the intention. I’m also just generally not a headcanon-y person. I find canonical explanations far more interesting.

The couple of other explanations I’ve seen people come up with just aren’t enough for me to be like okay, yeah, that definitely works/was the intention. Like I’ve seen people say, ‘Well, Missy is a known liar so maybe she was just lying about all of them,’ which, is true, she is liar, but I think I’ve explained in the post why each option is/isn’t true can be explained using proper canon instead of being blown off with a, ‘Welp, Missy is a known liar.’ Feels like a cop out explanation to me idk. Like if we’re gonna just start saying ‘Well, this character lies sometimes’ instead of trying to find proper explanations, especially when the proper explanations are right in front of us, I think that’s really dumb.

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Thirteen Era Rewatch: The Witchfinders

I'm re-watching Thirteen's era in lead up to the Centenary and since this is likely going to be my last full re-watch for a while I thought I'd do a post on each ep where I just go over all the things I love, hate or just have some general thoughts on.

I’m saying the reason they didn’t end up at Liz 1’s coronation is bc the TARDIS isn’t a royalist

Idk why but the scene where Becca says she had all the horses shot is really funny to me

Yaz going off on her own to see Willa like the legend she is!! I feel like you can sometimes tell that maybe 13 trusts Yaz to do stuff more than Ryan and Graham, probably bc she’s a police officer and has those skills

They’re the same person

I like when 13 has to deal with shit for being a woman. I think this era does fairly good at acknowledging there’s been a change but not letting that change dictate the entire era. And I love how 13 handles it too, being sarcastic and making snide comments. Love her.

I actually kinda find 13 even saying she’s a woman a bit weird/interesting?? I guess bc we know she doesn’t really give a fuck about that sort of stuff so hearing her ‘be like it is a tough time for us women’ is cool and a bit odd to me idk.

James fancying Ryan. He’s so me. And I think it’s cute how Ryan handles it through the ep. Like they do actually get on a bit. And I like that he kinda plays into it at the end of the ep when he tells James he can’t stay.

Yaz talking about the bullying! I really feel like we know a fair bit about Yaz’s life idk why ppl say they STILL don’t know her when 8 eps into S11 I’m like yeah we know a decent amount amount idk.

Potentially the funniest scene in the whole show ngl

James calling out the Doctor for hiding behind that title makes me scream bc she’s probably the Doctor hiding behind the title the most and she already doesn’t really know who she is and it just gets worse as the era goes on. It’s all connected i stg !!

Something something James’ shitty mum making him a twat but 13’s shitty mum/life making her good. But also this reminds me of 12 and his arc of going from twat to not twat and worrying if he’s a good man or not idk

I kinda feel like there’s a low-key mum theme in S11 as well as obviously the dad theme. Like there’s Ryan’s dead mum and nan, there’s James’ twatty mum, there’s Epzo from 11.02’s shit mum, there’s the mum (who wasn’t Really the mum) in 11.09. Idk

Also 13 once again confronting people when the fam isn’t there to see her be Like That properly. Inch resting theme.

This is one of my fave eps of S11, the vibes are just so good, it’s pretty funny, the topic of 13 being treated different for being a woman is low-key but works pretty good. Everyone has something to do. It’s cool.

Character wise it’s probably best for Yaz bc we find out more about the bullying and see her be more police-y and 13 bc of the woman stuff and her chats with James and Becca. But Ryan and Graham defo have fun in this ep too even if it’s not huge character stuff

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Thirteen Era Rewatch: Kerblam!

I'm re-watching Thirteen's era in lead up to the Centenary and since this is likely going to be my last full re-watch for a while I thought I'd do a post on each ep where I just go over all the things I love, hate or just have some general thoughts on.

Seven eps in and Thirteen is still saying she isn’t used to the new systems lmao I feel like that’s a bit much. The systems aren’t really new anymore are they

Her excitement, she’s so cute I love her

Ryan instantly going to grab the bubble wrap. He’s actually me I stg

Do the whole gang REALLY need to make a comment??

Find it interesting how far into the series we are an how little the fam Really know about the Doctor. They all know about her hearts. Graham knows about regeneration, Ryan saw the glowing in 11.01. Yaz has been there for two explicit mentions of the Doctor previously being a man. Funny how they just kinda give weird looks but never push the Doctor to elaborate on any of it. Though I’m pretty sure Yaz mentions something about the Doctor never giving more info in Spyfall. So it’s possible they have asked and the 13 has kinda brushed them off

I stand by that the systems didn’t put 13 in the same job as Charlie specifically bc it wanted her to be near the problem, that was always gonna be the job 13 was best suited to anyway. If they wanted us to think the system purposely put 13 in a job with Charlie then they shoulda had Charlie doing a job that 13 wouldn’t have been best suited for. Made a post about it a while ago

13 being awkward, what a mood

I love when Ryan and 13 are left together as a duo. This ep, Arachnids, their chats in 11.01, 11.02 and RotD. I wish we got more of them

Not them making us feel bad for Kira (and Dan) and then killing them both off lmao

She knows from experience

Ppl crying about the conspiracy lines is dumb to me ngl. The contexts are different. In 11.04 she says she likes conspiracies after hearing about a conspiracy which at that point didn’t involve ppl being in danger, it was just some crap Yaz’s dad was collecting. And then in 1.07 she says she doesn’t like them after she hears about ppl going missing. Therefore, she likes harmless, fun conspiracies and doesn’t like conspiracies that involve ppl being in danger. It’s not that hard to grasp.

I love Ryan’s nervous rambling just before they go down the tunnel thing

I wrote a long ass post about the part of this ep ppl hate a while ago but in short, I think the main quote ppl don’t like was maybe worded badly (clearly, bc so many ppl take it really badly) but mostly ppl just overreact

This quote makes me insane actually. She is literally just talking about herself!! Thirteen’s plan was to keep her distance, but she’s the Doctor and falling in love is DEFO what happens with them

One thing about me is I love Yasmin Khan

I feel like this was maybe a somewhat big moment in 13’s feelings for Yaz growing tbh. Like just seeing how much Yaz cares for people.

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Thirteen Era Rewatch: The Woman Who Fell to Earth

I'm re-watching Thirteen's era in lead up to the Centenary and since this is likely going to be my last full re-watch for a while I thought I'd do a post on each ep where I just go over all the things I love, hate or just have some general thoughts on. I've tried to keep this organised but it's a bit ramble-y.

I don’t fully understand Graham’s desperation for Ryan to call him Grandad. He married Grace when Ryan was like 16. I can’t imagine many 16yos are going to call their Nan’s new husband Grandad. I don’t think it’s the end of the world bc I love Ryan and Graham’s relationship and watching them grow through the series and I think Ryan changing to calling him Grandad is a good way to represent their growth but it is a little odd imo

Love 13 and Yaz’s interactions on the train, the Doctor basically convincing Yaz to not call it in, and of course it doesn’t take much. Could be showing that Yaz is already intrigued by the Doctor this early into knowing her or it could be showing how Yaz is young/naïve bc she’s letting this random train woman take control, basically showing the Doctor companion power imbalance, Yaz is obviously out of her depth with this.

I love Ryan’s vibe. Sometimes he’s quiet, sometimes he’s moody, he’s low-key kinda funny. I’m a big fan. The moments are small but they work for me.

The back and forth between Graham and Ryan in this ep is so good. I think the scene where Graham mentions Ryan blaming his dyspraxia for starting the invasion is maybe a bit much? But idk, Ryan has been making comments for like half the ep at this point, and probably for the last three years, so maybe Graham is allowed to say something twatty back every once in a while.

The scene where they find the dead body is a bit odd because we don’t see anything, we just get them taking turns describing what they see. I get why, they’re obviously not gonna show the stuff they’re describing in a family show, but I wish they’d showed us something.

Thirteen is true chef’s kiss when it comes to confrontations. I love how she says ‘Get behind me now’ and I love that it’s a theme that runs through the era. It’s giving not wanting Bill 2.0 to happen because she wasn’t in the way to stop it.

Love that while Thirteen clearly wants to keep the fam safe and seems to like them, she isn’t massively attached to them. There are multiple times where she basically tells them to shut up because there’s important shit she needs to get on with.

I find it very interesting, and depressing, that Grace is the only one in the episode to explicitly say that she loves what’s happening and then she is the one who dies.

It isn’t my fave thing in the world that the way Tim Shaw was defeated was because 13 did a bunch of things offscreen that we didn’t see and that weren’t mentioned at all prior to that point. They show the red thing that helps Tim get home during the sonic making scene but that’s it from what I noticed. It's not a big deal for me because I think the main thing about this ep is that we get to know all these new ppl and not that the resolution to the plot is 10/10 but it is something I noticed.

I love the start of this ep with Ryan’s video and how we think he’s talking about the Doctor but it ends up being about Grace but tbh Ryan doesn’t give me a YouTuber vibe. It feels like they did it in this ep bc it was cool and they didn’t think about it much outside of that

I would really like more concrete information on what happened between Grace's death and her funeral tbh. I find the fact the Doctor stayed, especially this Doctor who goes on to be known to not want to let people get too close, very interesting. In my mind she spent the time before the funeral living at that place where she made the thing to get her to the TaRDIS, maybe with the fam dipping in to see her, bc imo that would explain the fact she still hadn't got changed, and then she decided to stay for the funeral and leave as soon as it was over

I love Ryan and the Doctor's chat at the funeral about Ryan's dad. She is literally his surrogate dad I stg

Graham's funeral speech is so Thasmin coded it's disgusting. Only having a short amount of time with her, she showed him a better way to live?? Also this shot while Graham is saying that? Earlier Yaz was complaining she wanted more and now she is about to get more !!

I think the fam are well fleshed out in this ep? Especially Ryan and Graham. Idk I’m not that good at like, analysing shit but just from this one ep I feel like we know them decently.

Graham - Wants a relationship with Ryan, had cancer, was a bus driver, loves making one liners

Yaz - Wants more from her job, can be authoritative

Ryan - has dyspraxia, isn’t a fan of Graham, bad relationship with dad, works in a warehouse, doing his NVQ, YouTube

Yaz is defo the one we have the least concrete info about at this point but even then I think the main thing we do know about her, the fact she wants more from her job, is kinda an important thing so meh

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Thirteen Era Rewatch: The Haunting of Villa Diodati

I'm re-watching Thirteen's era in lead up to the Centenary and since this is likely going to be my last full re-watch for a while I thought I'd do a post on each ep where I just go over all the things I love, hate or just have some general thoughts on.

This ep is crazy bc I feel like I could just list every single second of it in this thread bc I just love it all

Love how 13 throws Byron out of the way when they’re dancing, she really has no time for him in this whole ep

The ghosts appearing when Graham is looking for a toilet is actually kinda creepy ngl

The fact this at one point was the biggest Thasmin hint we had. This scene still shits me up, it’s v cool. Also reminds me of Clara

chatting with that blonde woman in Mummy on the Orient Express

She’s just so uninterested in Byron’s horniness and general vibe I’m obsessed with it

Polidori trying to fight Ryan is one of my fave scenes in this ep i stg it kills me every time I watch it

Fletcher is such a king. Him jumpscaring Graham twice is also so good

I feel like on some level Byron is just all 13 stans. RTD’s era had Clive, Moffat had Osgood, we have Byron

What

Graham seeing the ghosts is funny. I think when it first aired I was like oh surely this is going somewhere and was kinda disappointed when it didn’t but now I couldn’t care less. I just think it’s a bit of fun. Graham sees ghosts. Good for him

The lone cyberman’s voice is cool as fuck

And I feel Bill Potts’ presence in this Chilli’s tonight. The way she’s still so fucked up by it, probably bc she hasn’t had proper time to process it since it happened and probs wouldn’t have let herself even if she did, gets me fucked up

This ep handles all the characters so well it’s unreal

Reckless queen

Her face!! She’s like, so disgusted/confused that he’s said that omg

The whole basement scene is chef’s kiss idek what to say about it, I just love it all. The idea that Frankenstein is inspired by Ashad is also v cool

There was a period of time where I thought this might’ve ended up being how Thasmin ended but now I’m like nah I really can’t see any spell breaking with Yaz. Also idk what 13 would have to do for that to happen, it obvs wasn’t gonna be bc she’s a whore like Byron

I’m fine

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doctor who rewatch thoughts (eleventh doctor)

for each episode there is:

for each episode there's two things I like (✅️) and one thing I dislike (❌️) (sometimes more/less) and general thoughts overall along with a rating out of five stars

there's a quick list of ep ratings and average series ratings at the bottom of the post

🍎 5.01 the eleventh hour

✅️ not to be dramatic but 'why did you say five minutes' gives me literal chills every time I watch it ✅️ the scene on the roof, seeing all the prev doctors, 'im the doctor. basically, run.'

I just love it so much like... how can you not stan

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🐳 5.02 the beast below

✅️ the whole 'old, last just made it kind' thing is my fave thing ever and I love that amy figures it all out ❌️ I've always liked liz 10 but she made me cringe a bit this time round rip

overall love it a lot, the smiler things are creepy, the resolution is cool, I love star whales

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🪠 5.03 victory of the daleks

✅️ eleven losing it and attacking the dalek lmao ❌️ why is he best buddies with winston churchill

it's just a bit boring like.. I literally sometimes forget this ep exists

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🪖 5.04 the time of angels

✅️ eleven's attitude towards river, like annoyance but also intrigue idk ✅️ amy rubbing her eye and dust falling is v cool ✅️ eleven's lil speech at the end and the music

love it a lot, cool vibes, I'm a big weeping angels stan

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🪨 5.05 flesh and stone

✅️ amy and river's dynamic is cool, I kinda wish I could watch without knowing they're mother and daughter ✅️ the doctor losing it a lil bit and shouting. mixed feelings about it, could be a negative on a different day but rn I think it's good ❌️ I understand that amy has been through a lot and her feelings for the doctor are confusing but how hard she goes tryna kiss him is insane. like attempt once, get rejected, move on. we didn't need all of that

idk which part I ike more, they're both bangers

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🐟 5.06 the vampires of venice

✅️ rory's first proper adventure, him clocking and calling out the doctor instantly, you love to see it ✅️ the moments where eleven and amy just get really excited about the stuff that's going on ❌️ amy thinking its weird for the doctor to be seen as her brother but not rory. dumb as hell

overall it's a decent ep. not obsessed but also don't hate it. has some good moments

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🥶 5.07 amy's choice

✅️ when rory dies and amy shouts at the doctor and then decides that world is the dream ✅️ the dream lord being the doctor is very cool and idk I like seeing how the doctor really thinks of himself ❌️ far too many jokes about amy being big like.. planet? having rory call her chubs? not my fave

this is a great ep for getting clarity on how strongly amy really feels for rory, it's a shame the show back tracks and continues doing 'ooh who does she really love' moments

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🌏 5.08 the hungry earth

✅️ I like all the side characters ✅️ the doctor talking to/shouting at the silurian

overall a decent ep, not much to scream about but I like the vibes idk

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🦎 5.09 cold blood

✅️ them talking about how they could try and make humans and silurians live in peace was interesting ✅️ the doctor silurian guy was cool ✅️ nasreen

a decent ep, don't have much else to say. rip rory

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🌻 5.10 vincent and the doctor

✅️ how much vincent likes amy ✅️ the end scene with vincent at the gallery, obviously

the end doesn't get me quite like it used to, presumably bc I've seen it so many times, but it's a certified banger ep despite the mild sadness it causes

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🏠 5.11 the lodger

✅️ no companion (kinda) eleven is fun and I like seeing him trying and sometimes failing to be normal ✅️ I like craig sorry ✅️ the scene where eleven gibes craig all the info about who he is and why he's there ❌️ telling craig he looks like his sofa is a bit gross innit

overall a fun ep that I like a lot

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🛸 5.12 the pandorica opens

✅️ eleven realising rory is back ✅️ amy and rory chatting, amy crying, cut with river telling eleven what she's finding out and the kinda creepy music that plays

I don't think I praise this ep quite like some ppl do but I do like it. I've always just felt like there's a lot going on that my brain for some reason no matter how much I watch it, cannot fully take in so it feels a bit messy

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💥 5.13 the big bang

✅️ obsessed with eleven hopping back and forth with the vortex manipulator ✅️ eleven punching rory ❌️ amy tryna kiss eleven at her wedding. literally piss off

there's something about the s5 finale where my brain refuses to retain whats going on. I mildly understand it but I couldn't explain it and anytime it's been explained to me I forget it pretty quickly afterwards. based on vibes and what I do know tho, it bangs

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🦈 a christmas carol

✅️ I love seeing the doctor interact with kids, especially eleven bc he basically is a kid lmao ✅️ silence is all you know is a BANGER ✅️ the idea of the doctor re-writing someone's life and that person watching it happen is pretty cool ❌️ idk if kazran and abigail really needed to get together, it's not the end of the world but does feel a lil weird that she's seen him grow up and then suddenly is like damn

overall a solid ep, always been a mild fave of mine. I like the music, I like the vibe, I like the story (for the most part), shoutout dumbledore

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👩‍🚀 6.01 the impossible astronaut

✅️ the whole beach and initiations thing ✅️ river talking about how one day the doctor won't know who she is ❌️ americans

I feel like this is never really an ep I think much about but then when I watch it I'm like wait this does slap, ppl are right

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📺 6.02 day of the moon

✅️ the resolution with the message within the moonlanding is cool ✅ river and the doctor kissing and river being sad when she realises it’s the doctor’s first time kissing her ❌️ the bit where they try and make us think amy might be talking about the doctor and not rory, literally stfu !!

preemptively gave it four stars when I still had like ten mins left, but there was some cool stuff in that last ten mins so

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⚫️ 6.03 the curse of the black spot

✅️ rory high on siren song is funny ✅️ eleven has a lot of funny moments, specially early on, idk I like his vibes

I was not looking forward to watching this ep but it was fun actually, maybe I stan

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🦴 6.04 the doctor's wife

✅️ amy and rory running round the tardis is fun bc seeing more tardis is cool and it's also kinda creepy at points ✅️ the end where idris dies and eleven cries

funny, spooky, emotional. it has the range

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😠 6.05 the rebel flesh

✅️ rory is so nice, I love him ✅️ the gangers have a couple of spooky moments and I like the cliffhanger ❌️ amy is mildly annoying

good ep

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👬🏼 6.06 the almost people

✅️ the doctor(s) ✅️ more spooky moments ✅️ the moral stuff idk ❌️ I get feeling weird about the gangers but amy comes off as really nasty with the 'don't call me that please' bs and her general attitude in both eps. glad she changes her opinion in the end but making her be that strongly against them was defo a choice and makes rory look wayy better than her bc he accepts them as ppl almost instantly (which tbf didn't work out amazing for him but yknow)

I find eps with difficult moral questions really interesting but also really frustrating. overall a good ep but felt like it went on a bit

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🪖 6.07 a good man goes to war

✅️ vastra and eleven's mildly awkward chat about melody etc ✅️ the reveal that river is melody will get me every time ❌️ the fat and thin husbands moment was a bit weird

this isn't an ep I really think too much about spare for the river reveal but it is good idk. everyone coming together to save amy and the baby is cool

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🪼 6.08 let's kill hitler

✅️ the reveal that mels is river ✅️ the doctor and his cane, falling all over the place ✅️ river finding out who she is and saving the doctor ❌️ mels is really cringe and annoying sorry.. other than her final moments I am not a fan of her vibe at all

there's defo stuff going on in this ep that I'm not obsessed with but overall I do like it a lot, I think more than most ppl

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😨 6.09 night terrors

✅️ rory being like 'oh my god we're dead aren't we' ✅️ eleven interacting with kids is always cute

actually better than I was expecting (last time I watching this ep I got bored and ended up skipping most of it) and is kinda creepy, but idc that much idk

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🤚🏻 6.10 the girl who waited

✅️ rory getting mad at the doctor ✅️ amy and amy talking to each other ✅️ rory and old amy talking at the end ❌️ amy pressing the red button.. embarrassing

overall I stan. obviously a great amy ep but also a great ep for rory too

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🦍 6.11 the god complex

✅️ rita, the fact the doctor instantly likes her and their interactions throughout the ep ✅️ the ppl who'd seen their rooms being all weird was cool ✅️ the reason they're there being bc of amy's faith in the doctor and rory being immune

an absolute banger, love it all, no choice but to stan

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👶🏻 6.12 closing time

✅️ eleven interacting with children is so cute, I love him and alfie ✅️ the love confession distraction

there's actually so many small funny moments in this ep and i love craig and eleven as a duo, it's great idc

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💍 6.13 the wedding of river song

✅️ amy killing madam kovarian ✅️ the wedding and river talking about how ofc ppl would be willing to help the doctor

an ep i've always had a love-hate relationship with bc there's aspects I enjoy but generally I thought it was just a bit odd. there's still a mild vibe there that i don't looove but I liked (and probably understood) it a lot more than I usually do

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🌲 the doctor, the widow and the wardrobe

✅️ eleven and the kids ✅️ the power of being a mother??? kinda cool ❌️ some guy following you home 'every day til you marry him' is a bit weird actually

I was not paying attention for most of it but the stuff I did pay attention to was fine

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🥛 7.01 asylum of the daleks

✅️ owsin ❌️ 'it was a phase' comment

I have mixed feelings about some of the stuff going on in this ep, and there's a couple things I straight up dislike, but overall it's fine idk

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🦕 7.02 dinosaurs on a spaceship

✅️ brian is such a legend ✅️ amy, nefertiti

don't have much to say but it's a fun ep. I like amy and eleven's chat too

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🌵 7.03 a town called mercy

✅️ the doctor losing it and tryna kill that guy and amy being the voice of reason ✅️ the ending

a solid ep

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🕋 7.04 the power of three

✅️ amy and eleven's talk about if her and rory are gonna leave etc ✅️ the doctor's dodgy heart ✅️ brian!!

like this ep a lot for the emotional stuff and I think it's really cool to see eleven hanging around. the cubes are cool but idc about the ppl ngl idek what they were doing I wasnt paying attention. also shoutout kate

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🗽 7.05 the angels take manhattan

✅️ when the doctor reads the chapter title and loses it a bit ✅️ amy and rory's 'deaths'

love this ep a lot!! thought I was kinda desensitised bc I've seen it so many times but turns out it still makes me sad as fuck

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⛄️ the snowmen

✅️ clara and the doctor's general vibe ✅️ clara and vastra ✅️ clara first seeing the tardis then getting dragged out

good ep

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💻 7.06 the bells of saint john

✅️ the scene where elevens outside the house and clara is talking to him out the window ✅️ eleven's weird little dance when he's telling clara she should be doing 'young ppl stuff' ❌️ clara's clearly empty mug that she waves about on the plane and tardis annoys me

I am not that passionate about the villains of this ep, they're fine idk, but I love clara and eleven's vibes a lot

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🍁 7.07 the rings of akhaten

✅️ the long song is a certified banger and low-key makes me wanna cry ✅️ the doctor's speech

cool vibes, I like seeing all the aliens, the kid was good, clara and eleven are cute as usual and I liked her kinda calling him out at the end

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🥶 7.08 cold war

✅️ eleven and clara are cute

was not paying attention icl

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🏚 7.09 hide

✅️ clara getting freaked out in the tardis about her dead body probs being out there and the convo they have ✅️ 'every lonely monster needs a companion', eleven putting his arm around clara, it's a love story !!

there's a lot of great moments in this ep, I like it a lot

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🔥 7.10 journey to the centre of the tardis

✅️ seeing more inside the tardis is always cool, need more of it tbh ✅️ when the doctor freaks out at clara and she obvs don't know wtf he's on about ❌️ the doctor slapping clara's ass, and the fact she doesn't react at all, is kinda insane

I'm too stupid to understand how that 'big friendly button' actually reset stuff and idrc about the brothers but there's some stuff in there that I like for sure and the vibes are cool

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🟥 7.11 the crimson horror

✅️ eleven and clara had some good moments ✅️ ada ❌️ eleven kissing jenny and being generally creepy

wasn't as painful to get through as I was expecting but still wasn't that great idk like I just don't care

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🏰 7.12 nightmare in silver

✅️ clara being in charge ✅️ everything with the cyberplanner ❌️ the tight skirt comment

the kids are mildly annoying but overall I think this is a pretty decent ep, a mild banger

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🪦 7.13 the name of the doctor

✅️ the doctor crying when clara mentions trenzalore ✅️ clara going into the timestream and the montage/narration ✅️ river, eleven seeing her ✅️ war doctor reveal

literally a banger idgaf

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🖼 the day of the doctor

✅️ eleven, ten and war all meeting each other ✅️ all thirteen!! ✅️ the curator

there's just so many good moments in this ep like woah I have to stan. funny but also emotional, changes something big without taking away from what came before, love it a lot

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🕛 the time of the doctor

✅️ eleven and clara's vibe ✅️ the timelords giving him extra regens ✅️ the regen speech !!

best regeneration episode by a mile I fear

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series five episode ratings:

the eleventh hour - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the beast below - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 victory of the daleks - ⭐️⭐️💫 the time of angels - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ flesh and stone - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the vampires of venice- ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 amy's choice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the hungry earth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 cold blood - ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 vincent and the doctor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 the lodger - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the pandorica opens - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the big bang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 a christmas carol - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

series five average rating:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | 4.1428571429

series six episode ratings:

the impossible astronaut - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 day of the moon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 the curse of the black spot - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the doctor's wife - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 the rebel flesh - ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 the almost people - ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 a good man goes to war - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ let's kill hitler - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ night terrors - ⭐️⭐️💫 the girl who waited - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 the god complex - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ closing time - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the wedding of river song - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the doctor, the widow and the wardrobe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

series six average rating:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | 4.00000000

series seven episode ratings:

asylum of the daleks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 dinosaurs on a spaceship - ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 a town called mercy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the power of three - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the angels take manhattan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the snowmen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the bells of saint john - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the rings of akhaten - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 cold war - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ hide - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ journey to the centre of the tardis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 the crimson horror - ⭐️⭐️💫 nightmare in silver - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the name of the doctor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 the day of the doctor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the time of the doctor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

series seven average rating:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | 4.00000000