#not even on RTD

[ncutii-gatwa]

really makes me laugh seeing some people complain doctor who is gay now. babe THIS aired in 2005. doctor who has been gay a long damn time get with the program

[waywardmillennial]

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[true-bluesargent]

ncuti gatwa had 17 episodes as the doctor. TOTAL. including the christmas special (not including the 60th specials). 2 series and 17 episodes... and for two of those he wasn't even in most of it because they were ruby solo eps. GONE TOO FUCKING SOON

[yesokayiknow]

ok ive slept. why did they finally cast a south asian woman as the rani if they were gonna immediately kill her off & leave the white version standing anyway

[doccywhomst]

what kills me is it wouldn’t actually be difficult at all to have an alien companion on doctor who. budget aside there’s still so much left to explore in comedy science fiction, a veritable wellspring of ways to put our position in the universe into perspective, to compare and contrast cultures, and room to do all of that well and with respect. but something tells me that ain’t gonna happen

[magiefish]

Seeing people post-The Well going “Tenth Doctor Girls We Won!” as if they haven’t been consistently winning for the past billion years:

[quantumshade]

can anyone explain to me at what point rose tyler was "unbelievably stupid". was it when she was inventing transdimensional travel

[mizgnomer]

The gymnastics of playing ball Doctor Who style Behind the Scenes of The Giggle with David Tennant as the fourteenth Doctor

Bonus: Ncuti's impressive one-handed cartwheel:

[codegreen14]

Personally I don't think the Doctor/Rani dance was inherently romantic. I think she was taunting him, making fun of him, probably straight up lying to him and making up that story.

[teh-nos]

actually i loved 11's run, i think a lot of it gets just wildly misinterpreted because when 10 behaved like that the narrative might semi-subtly nod to him being a dick but it didn't really hold him to account and preferred to focus on how sad he was about this latest problem he had caused himself. whereas 11. does not get that. but i think the parallels to 10 and the learned expectation that the story approves of his actions or at least will be too chickenshit to openly admit he fucked up makes people somehow think the series/characters/writers approve of however he's messed up this time.

especially the amy thing. the doctor accidentally makes a child fall in love with him and she basically goes mad and self-destructive because of it and is a dick to her everyman boyfriend while the doctor is never going to marry her because what the fuck. i suspect a lot of fandom does not want to think too much about what the obvious comparison being made here is.

if you approach 11’s era assuming it was written as a weird wish fulfillment fantasy by the worst human who ever lived then yeah that’d probably be horrible. i’d hate it too if i had done that. but to me it was just not pulling the punches on the "oh my god what the fuck have you done this time" things that the doctor occasionally does. he fucks up, it causes problems later on, but we are not just sweeping it all under the rug at the end of the episode while he cries at the camera and goes back to being a straightforward hero. which i love! but i also feel like this is for many other viewers the reason they get mad at/about 11.

[whoify]

so the funny thing is. is that fifteen’s final moments of looking up at joy the star and his final words being “it has been a joy.” aka what i would consider to be the only wholesale good moment in the entire episode. was based entirely on a premise set up by steven moffat.

[noirineverysense]

i thought at first it was misogynistic and gross that belinda chandra was turned into the mother of the doctor's child tying her forever to him when she kept saying all she wanted was to go home to her family, that she wasn't the doctor's next adventure.

then we reached new levels of doctor who misogyny by remaking her whole purpose of going home into wanting to look after a daughter she met a day ago! turning her into a single mother who liked space but just needs to be home for her child instead of a woman who loved her life and family so much the stars meant nothing to her.

not to mention throughout the finale she basically stayed the same character as she was when she was brainwashed by a misogynistic man its insane!

[ghost-bison]

Doctor Who: 1x05 World War Three (2005) / 2x08 The Satan Pit (2006)

"Stuck with you, that's not so bad."

"Yeah?"

"Yes."

[canisonicscrewyou]

fans of the show where the only constant is change when the show changes: what the fuck why did they change the show??

[themostfinalofpams]

Justice for Belinda Chandra

[irn-bru]

best part of the episode was Belinda in the yellow dress, obviously. second best part was the series 5 music. third best part? alan cumming playing a little FREAK