#ricky ep

[doctorwhommm]

about to throw hands with l*ndy pepper bean

[saw-x]

RINACENTRAL — EVENT 1: FAVOURITES ↳ my top 3 rina episodes in every season

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

yeah thats about right.

[gotyouanyway]

“lindy was sooo evil” “justice for gothic paul and ricky” they were all friends they were all rich white kids living in rich white kids only land happily and willingly…. don’t be tricked into sympathizing with any of them just bc they were nice or smart and don’t pick just one to villainize while excusing the rest pleeeaassee

[eggwaffles]

cody is to ricky what telemaine is to gorgug

[laylakeating]

12 DAYS OF RINA DAY FIVE → favourite episode(s) [insp]

[seaweedstarshine]

Late to the game as I’ve kinda been kinda non-here for a minute but I scrolled through the Dot and Bubble tag, and thought I wanted to write this post into existence.

There's this part in Doctor Who Unleashed where RTD says this:

“What we can’t tell is how many people will have worked that out before the ending. Because they’ve seen white person after white person after white person, and television these days is very diverse. I wonder, will you be ten minutes into it, will you be fifteen, will you be twenty, before you start to think, everyone in this community is white. And if you don’t think that — why didn’t you? So, that’s gonna be interesting. I hope it’s one of those pieces of television you see, and always remember.”

And I'm like. Yeah. But the reason this works even as well as it does is largely thanks to the work of the previous showrunner with the previous creative team, which was notably the first era to have any writers of color (amongst other firsts in terms of inclusivity in directors, composer, actors). While Chibnall fumbled whenever he tried to write about race himself, he did have the self-awareness to have Black and South Asian writers writing the episodes where race is the focus (and a female writer for the episode where sexism is a focus; my point is, he seemed to know his shortcomings).

I wonder what the current creative team looks like? (not really, but I wasn't 100% sure for all of them)

To quote RTD:

“...before you start to think, everyone in this community is white.”

This is pretty non-self-aware, right? It's pretty “It is said, and I understand this, there was a history of racism with the original Toymaker, the Celestial Toymaker, who had ‘celestial,’ and I did not know this, but ‘celestial’ can mean of Chinese origin, but in a derogatory way,” right? (from The Giggle Unleashed) It's pretty “and I had problems with that, and a lot of us on the production team had problems with that: associating disability with evil,” right? (from Destination Skaro Unleashed)

—none of which are issues that should be overlooked, but think how much exponentially better they might’ve been addressed if he’d consulted with Chinese writers and wheelchair-using writers before going straight to giving the Toymaker weird fake accents and making Davros walk?

How many Black or non-white people do we think saw the Dot and Bubble script before it landed in Ncuti’s hands?

And this just keeps happening.

And like, from some of the shocked responses I've seen from white viewers to the ending of Dot and Bubble, maybe the episode's unsubtlety was needed? From the way RTD talks about it in Unleashed, the episode was written with a white audience in mind, Baby's First Microaggressions (where of course the microaggressions come from people who are pretty self-admittedly white supremacists). Ricky September, a more seemingly normal depiction of someone in the racist bubble of Finetime, seemed like an interesting element, up until the way he died.

The ending worked for me, because I do think the Doctor's reaction is true to how the Doctor would react. I just keep thinking of how much better the core themes could've been handled by someone with actual lived experience on the subject matter.

[cat-chthesehands]

What a weird....shithead....

[18catsreading]

Not the questing sword choosing Cody?!!! This crazy little shit stain! Lmfao, and everyone is just DYING while trying to stay in character.

[mwagneto]

ricky being the only one that 1) shows compassion 2) isn't racist and ALSO being the only one who logged off (literally left his bubble) and went outside and read books and studied.....

[ginaporterr]

RICKY & GINA IN EVERY EPISODE ✿ 1x04: Blocking

[curtsies-from-princess-ashlyn]

Ricky and Gina's conversations in 1x05 are giving wayyyyy more depth than what is needed for a 3-episode romantic subplot that's a plot-device to keep the main ship apart. It's honestly hard to fathom that they weren't the planned endgame yet when this ep was written, since they're already giving such a strong connection

[wildm00re]

i like to think im not a hater when it comes to “the opposing ship” but something about s2 rini just irks me

and i don’t mean it like it makes me dislike nini as a character because it genuinely doesn’t, i’ve always liked her character just fine regardless of rini

but more so that i want to throw imaginary tomatoes anytime they had some ‘cute’/‘romantic’ scene together like get off my screen???

i really must’ve missed what had everyone in shambles about rini during s1/2 because even before 1x09 (*when i became a full blown rina shipper) i was watching people irl and the internet freak about how ‘good’ rini was and i was just not seeing it. i was actually the happiest when nini flushed her dress down and said she was done with boys and the first thing i thought was “ok lesbian” bc neither ejnini or rini were doing anything for me. i don’t even like gini now but those were the only edits i was saving before becoming a rina because nini and the boys literally had no chemistry for me idk

(*ik rina had their first real moment in ep 6? but i had assumed they were just going to be an “obstacle ship” for rini so i didn’t let myself get too attached to them but then ricky looked at gina like *that* while she performed, waited for her to get off stage, and said “i wish…” and i fell so hard and have never recovered since).

[humanteethmarksonhumanbone]

*cracks knuckles* graffiti guy when i find you-

[rosesradio]

caswen 100 (ish) word drabble prompt: kiss

The way EJ’s contradicting feelings collided was entirely not right—like two ocean waves defying nature to crash into each other.

On one side, Ricky had driven a wedge between him and Gina the entire summer.

But then, the way he looked at EJ turned his breath shallow. That flowery shirt that, in Bowen’s words, “showed too much cleavage”. His pouty lips, his dumb doe eyes.

“Well, we’re at the dock, now,” Ricky pointed out. The lake spanned endlessly in the darkness. “You gonna throw me in, make it look like an accident?”

“No,” EJ shook his head, pulling Ricky close by his stupid flowery shirt, his lips crashing into Ricky’s like a wave to the shore.

[hannie-dul-set]

choi beomgyu.