#the Doctor as the Fool

[itsclydebitches]

Love it when the kinda half-formed observations you make about an episode finally come to the forefront.

Watching the start of "Dot and Bubble": Hmm, everyone in this episode is very... white.

Halfway through: The Doctor certainly continues to stand out, especially in that bright red sweater amongst all the pastels

Lindy freaking out about the Doctor and Ruby being in the same room together: I suppose that could be due to some cultural taboo about interacting in-person when everyone is supposed to communicate via bubble, but that doesn't track with what we've seen of her work day...

The "twist" that the chronically online, all white, super rich, entitled to the point of satire, willing to sacrifice others without hesitation, oh so eager to colonize people living in a literal bubble (TWO bubbles) are *gasp!* actually, devastatingly racist...

Yeah, that's not a twist. That's all deliberately interconnected. The episode didn't suddenly move from an argument about social media use to an argument about racism; the two historically go hand-in-hand.

[little-alien-duck]

if I were doctor who showrunner I would instigate a policy that every season should have one episode where the stakes are so low. like the worst possible outcome is our characters are incredibly embarrassed, just some good low stakes shenanigans (pranks, good-natured competition, etc) however I would also instigate a policy wherein every season should have one episode that lacks violence entirely but is still so wildly fucked up and unsettling that you are afraid to go to sleep that night and haunted by it for years to come. these two episodes CAN be back to back. 

[villiarty]

[nightwonder7]

This was funnier in my head

[elennemigo]

booping hands!!

[carveredlunds]

The Toymaker + accents

[momokat]

"Axyon... You have to let it go."

I saw this spy au made by @re-colligere And I remember Anxiety can pull a flash so... I made this silly doodle on Drawpile

[captainswan618]

she's everything to me so I physically had to make this

[aq2003]

like the important thing you must keep in mind about ten when you see him do literally anything is that he's soooooooooo so so so bad at actually isolating himself from other people. so TERMINALLY bad at it. he thinks to himself "i don't need human connection because everything i do causes pain and destruction to those around me :(" but then he experiences a crumb of human connection and his heart starts to spill out of his chest

[unamusedyams]

Love this case for the weird girls it gave us.

[linguistwho]

Word of the Day - Day 1838: Boop

[coldlesbians]

Leo please don’t dump all your sorrows in the waiting room!

Featuring the survivor Leo design I just recently made :-)

Easy to read version here is what Leo says:

“I had to put Lisa in an orphanage because you wanted to elope with my wife?? I missed so much of my baby’s life because you had eyes on my WIFE? I trusted you as a close friend only for you to stab me in the back……”

[lilbitofmac]

Play it cool, Tony…

[remyfire]

Loving the implication that Margaret's going to crash in the spare cot. Honorary doctor/man/Swamp Rat Margaret Houlihan, as it should be.

[cbartonscoffee]

Ncuti's acting choices were outstanding during the episode, because at the start you don't suspect there's anything wrong. We come from the specials where he was simply sunshine and at the start he's still that, we still think the Doctor worked through his issues and is doing fine. And then he kind of spirals until that end scene where he's simply convinced that he's a bringer of bad luck. Which is on brand with the Doctor we know, to blame oneself, but we had been led to believe that this Doctor was going to be different. And I think it's brilliant the way in which Ncuti wears that mask of wellness, I dare say it's the best one. I didn't suspect a thing until it started happening, and now I am kind of worried for him, because if he's that quick to blame himself in a situation that doesn't really revolve around him, what's going to happen next?

[tardxsblues]