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Doctor Who: Boom | Earth Station Who
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Doctor Who: Boom | Earth Station Who
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Join the crew from Earth Station Who as they dive deep into the thrilling Doctor Who episode “Boom,” penned by the legendary Steven Moffat. In this episode review, we see how the Doctor and Ruby Sunday face down death itself in a warzone where any sudden move might be your last. Mike F, Michael G, Mary, and our guests Kirby Bartlett-Sloan and Ken Akamatsu discuss Moffat’s unique storytelling techniques, the episode’s impact on the Doctor Who universe, and its reception among fans and critics alike. Whether you’re a long-time Doctor Who fan or new to the series, this episode of the Earth Station Who Podcast offers a comprehensive review that enhances your appreciation of one of Steven Moffat’s remarkable works, subscribe now for more Doctor Who episode reviews, news, and discussions!
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I hate him so much 💞
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missyblr · 21 days
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HAPPY PRIDE!!!!
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the-slender-doll · 10 months
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In regards to me: my first ever Doctor was the Fourth Doctor and he has a special place in my childhood and heart!
Who was your favorite and why??
I'll be making a poll for NuWho actors and Doctors soon!!
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macguffinman · 25 days
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Just in time for pride month, I've made a pride remix of the Doctor Who theme featuring lots of queer quotes from the show (but mostly Patrick Troughton saying "Well this is gay!).
Please feel free to reblog and share, the youtube video is below.
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bidotorg · 28 days
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Where the Whovians at?! Shoutout to Bill Potts played by the British bisexual bard, Pearl Mackie! #BisLoveSciFi 👽
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nightguide · 3 months
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Timelines in alternate dimensions as displayed in TV shows/movies all go down to one basic explanation, the logic of time travel in media explains the writers relationship to open reality, it’s where their hearts will go in finding key points in their imagination to match up their characters identities they create with the real life character. One concept created is called the Pythagorean Distraction.
Pythagorean distraction was created when art divides itself from the heart from mind overtime, it’s a generational build up from hearts joining into countless fortunate fates within their bloodline due to ‘survival of the fittest’ to ‘survival of the richest’, that only made it determined it worthy of excuse to live if you are wealthy to survive a dying planet made to forge consumers of dead reaction than consumers of pure heart to realise the world is waking up to death of the heart.
Normally that is the heart of the men who are the first to realise. It’s the complaints of hearts misused from their mothers overtime that it went to waste at the last traumatised child of grandfather become.
War.
And the bloodline continued to mass awakening of women complaining of their treatments til hearts died due of a father who made a heart worth existing (daughter)
Conspirators edge have been about time bringing awareness of pure logic, but the stage was set to play by harvesting humanity to work in a pyramid scheme leading dead and unconscious hearts to survive an atheistic scale of heart heightened to depravity despite belief alone. That is mass conditioning.
Mass conditioning made throughout brainwashing the minds to ‘live, work and play’, a heart senseless enough to sell a soul for a dream or selling a heart to feel no more (Hollywood) than to live a 9 to 5 scale of the working man or to live in the streets with a full heart.
Pythagorean Distraction is the worlds end for the believing heart. It’s the renegade scale of the New World Order going back in order to the scale of heart, they say it’s satanic but the ways of Hollywood working is that, it worked in the darkness too long that it went back up to globally going towards the Islamic scale (West becomes the East and East becomes the West)
You can say that it felt like the world had ended due to the hearts scale of heartbreak (change) wasn’t beginning with the way the actors relationship with the role had accepted the role.
Selling your heart in Hollywood meant that your heart actually went into the roles you gave your soul to (life itself), there is scale of how much your heart is gravitated in Hollywood depending on how much your heart is at risk in real life.
Selling heart = children of celebrity will retain heart of celebrity but they can’t be safe enough to survive due to parents lives at full bodied legislation against their will
Selling soul = *they’re part of governments plan to brainwash public, public becomes like them*
Selling time = your life is at risk but you do become a legend (think of major celebs who made an appeal to human interest overtime)
This is not just science fiction, this is real life.
The contribution of media and reality is the balance between reality and dreams, as humanity, we all have a heart to give to make the world a better place, and for the latter of what becomes of fame is that the hearts die out of pure recognition of the actor in parallel of the role itself, fame doesn’t contribute to the value of the name itself but the belief of the role stimulated to the heart itself to progress onto heart maturity to reach the state of heaven known to man. A heart of man in heaven doesn’t just stay on one role taken but he becomes all, as per a mans wish is making a reality seen for his daughter a living hell for him to keep making it abundantly so for that she steps into the world after him knowing her heaven becomes her hearts hell become her husband and no woman known for a heart better to know her sons become alike the way her father was onto her the way she contributes the world of a man when known in intimacy for a man to take guard of a God become him when emitted a heart dancing in pure cold battle against his heart in hell, God knows how much he brings over severity he has for a mother to see him except her kindness will destroy a heart much more than a curse given to him in a space between knowing and losing yourself completely.
A guard between man and a role taken is contributed solely between dreams becoming solely attached to heart that a new heaven becomes retrospect to the attitude given to God on the last day due to gratitude for the heart aching for mercy upon himself cuz it will never appease to him that the last time he walked there that it made him question about everything much more than a mortal mind can never hold, but that’s what is beautiful about mortality, mortality can waste a second upon knowing what life and death can feel like except that happiness becomes immortal to him that he loses himself in time that he becomes no more and transcendence becomes lightweight to him than seeing a body in a grave and smiling for the heart more than it is to see it become you for the grave doesn’t appeal directly above the weight above the world according to heaven, the grave’s doesn’t appeal to him like a pyramid in hell to a carcass in heaven in which he terrified himself more than the angels if they were to look at him scared of hope to be a body in the ages of human loss, make history of what you see but never stop believing in what you never thought you can be but controlling the consequences of the world after a teardrop is the sun rising at the east, God forbid a heartbroken man but a dead woman on his half that he would destroy the world for her to grain a man inside a whole heart become his time and space between him and heart in hell.
That’s the Pythagorean Distraction.
It’s the world separated between heart of man in Babylon and Babylon unbroken become heaven.
Attitude’s don’t stop when a teardrop is emitted in sincerity between a heartbreaker and a heart in hell.
A man is not separated but became.
It’s what Hollywood intended to become when they went too far away to come back became truth of like an Arabian desert growing back in green.
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I am not going to lie to you. When Russell told me that we were putting a ramp in the TARDIS, I cried. I did. He actually told me about a fan who had contacted him, who was a wheelchair user, and said how much he admired Russell’s work. He said, “Even though I can’t get in the TARDIS, because it’s not wheelchair accessible, I just love it.” And Russell was like, “So, we change that instantly. We change that.” When he told me that story, that really hit me straight in the heart. I know what that will mean for the disabled community, and many disabled Whovians who haven’t had that. -Ruth Madeley
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di-42 · 3 months
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Fiction recommendation!
March Marvelous Fictions
The wonderful stories I've read in March, hope you like them as much as I did! Tagging the writers whose Tumblr username I know so they know they are loved and appreciated.
WIPs:
My Heart Was Always Yours by @addledmongoose
It's a slightly alternative universe where Aziraphale and Crowley have somehow never met each other until the present day and each thinks the other is a human.
Each of them has been tasked by their respective head offices to retrieve Raphael's trumpet and each of them wants to find and destroy it. The trumpet will be sold on earth at an illegal auction and in order to gain entry to the auction they have to pretend to be married.
This fiction has it all: characters' personalities are spot on, humour, wit, dynamic, romance, everything!
At the beginning you might feel slightly put off by the first person narrative but give it a couple of chapters and it will flow.
You won't regret it!
Rated M.
The Escort by VinyamaDN @vinyama-23
Human AU where Crowley is an escort and meet Azirapahle via his job. This fiction has a deep level of introspection, it can go from very angst-y to very funny in a matter of two lines and it's a wonderful journey!
Rated E
Complete works:
Infernal Escapes by Journeytogallifrey
Human AU where Crowley works at an escape room company. Aziraphale has always wanted to try escape rooms and finally does. You will have to read it to know the rest but this was such a lovely story, very low angst and a happy ending. I believed I did squeal in excitement at the nod to the whovians in the Roman room chapter.
Rated: Teen and up.
The Lies I Would Tell For You by vampiremama
A season 3 fiction with a beautiful, heartbreaking prologue but do keep reading, there's a happy endong! Azirapahle and Crowley find each other again and work together to stop the second coming. Lovely and imaginative.
Rated: E
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea by @adverbian
Lovely, lovely, lovely short fiction where Aziraphale and Crowley are finally free from heaven and hell but are still... well, Aziraphale and Crowley! So, it's not like they've talked about their feeling for each other. Until someone else expresses interest in Aziraphale and Crowley loses it! Funny and heartwarming!
Rated: E
The Christmas Wedding Scammer by @aracloptia
Human AU where Crowley is an unemployed florist whose name is very similar to the incredibly famous and successful retired wedding planner Antonio Cowley. Anathema and Newton are planning their marriage and Aziraphale is the maid of honour. Oh, and gabriel is the priest celebrating the wedding. I loved the humour in this fiction and the way it captures the characters' personalities. Absolutely delightful.
Rated: Teen and up
Fire, bridges and other sensible idioms by KiaraMGrey
This wonderful, funny, witty fiction had me hooked up from the first sentence! Aziraphale has a new neighbour and things don't run smoothly. Hilarious enemies-to-lovers human AU with some of the best hot scenes I've ever read. Seriously, go and read it!
Rated: E
My wee fiction, Second Chances And Second Choices
Not half as good as any of the others I'm recommending (Or the ones I've left out) but it's my baby, so... Kind of season 3 fiction, post (failed) second coming. Aziraphale is hoping this is the beginning of his life with Crowley but Crowley seems to be of a different opinion. Until old enemies turn up at Aziraphale's door. Low angst, happy ending. I wish it had better humour, I wish some bits didn't feel as much of a stretch as they do but fair enough.
Rated: Teen and up.
Collection:
Bad Communication by Nebz_AlphaCentauri @alphacentaurinebula
This collection has three season 3 works: Bad Advice (Up There With A Suggestion Box); Bad Management (Up There With Not Allowing Questions); Bad Communication (Almost Ineffably Bad But Not Quite).
The stories are set a week after Aziraphale goes to heaven. One is from Crowley's POV, one from Aziraphale's POV and in the third one they finally talk. Funny and Heartwarming.
Rated: Teen and up.
One shots:
They Almost Made A Miracle (1941) by Koala2all
Lovey take on what happened at the bookshop after the magic trip.
Rated: E
Back At The Bookshop by @scottishmushroom
Lovely take of what could happen if Aziraphale went back to see Crowley.
Not rated.
I hope you enjoy these amazing stories and if you do don't forget to let the writers know!
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spoonietimelordy · 7 months
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I think one of the main reason why we're safe in our whovian bubble, is that if you miss one day of discussion, or if you only follow some of us but not others, well you end up lost and enable to understand anything that is going on xD
We need to never change our weird communication style
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esonetwork · 1 month
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Doctor Who: Space Babies & The Devil's Note Review
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Doctor Who: Space Babies & The Devil's Note Review
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Embark on an epic journey through time and space with the Earth Station Who Podcast, as we delve into the exhilarating premiere of Season 14 of Doctor Who! Join us as we unravel the mysteries and marvels of the first two episodes, ‘Space Babies’ and ‘The Devil’s Chord.’ From thrilling encounters with Space Babies to meeting the Beatles and the heart-pounding musical horror of facing off against the Maestro, we explore every twist, turn, and timey-wimey surprise that awaits the Doctor and Ruby Sunday. Whether you’re a devoted Whovian or a curious newcomer, join Mike F, Michael G, and Mary, as well as their guests Elaine Sweatman, Matt Sweatman, and Dave Chapman, for our insightful analysis, engaging discussion, and insider insights that will transport you to the heart of the action. Tune in now and discover the excitement of the new series of Doctor Who, exclusively on the Earth Station Who Podcast, and remember there’s always a twist at the end!!!
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sillydoctorwho · 23 days
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New Doctor Who Tournament!
Hey there Whovians! Been rewatching a lot of Classic Who recently and I had an idea for a tournament I wanted to run! Doctor Who has always been a very serious and intellectual show, as we all know, and there is no better way to communicate a serious sci-fi message than by wearing a really goofy outfit made of tinfoil and PVC! So without further ado, let me introduce the
SILLIEST OUTFIT OF CLASSIC WHO TOURNAMENT!
You can follow along by following @sillydoctorwho or checking the hashtag #sillywho
Some tournament rules:
These must be outfits worn by humans/humanoids, not monster costumes. The silly monsters need a tournament of their own. (Silly hair and face paint don't exclude an outfit from contention, but if the character has significant facial prosthetics/ a mask then they count as a silly alien, not an alien in a silly costume)
There are a few costumes from classic who that are based off of racial stereotypes or are culturally insensitive, so it goes without saying we will be excluding those.
I have included a list of the outfits I have entered into the tournament below the cut, but if I have missed your favourite silly costume don't be afraid to let me know via an ask/messages and I'll add it in!
Have fun! May the stupidest costume win!
1st Doctor:
Altos - The Keys of Marinus
Drahvins - Galaxy 4
Judges - The Keys of Marinus
Moroks - The Space Museum
Robomen - The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Thals - The Daleks
Guardians - The Ark
2nd Doctor:
Astrid - The Enemy of the World
Atlantean Guard - The Underwater Menace
Brittanicus Base Operatives - The Ice Warriors
Caven - The Space Pirates
Celebration Dancers - The Macra Terror
Dominators - The Dominators
Dulcians - The Dominators
Madeleine Issigri - The Space Pirates
Ramo - The Underwater Menace
Spacesuits - The Moonbase
War Lord Guards - The War Games
3rd Doctor:
Guard Captain - The Curse of Peladon
Guards - Frontier in Space
Guards - The Mutants
IMC Guards - Colony in Space
Inspectors - The Mutants
King Peladon - The Curse of Peladon
Miners - The Monster of Peladon
Vorg and Shirna - Carnival of Monsters
4th Doctor:
Argolins - The Leisure Hive
Chancellery Guards - The Deadly Assassin
Hade - The Sunmakers
Morestrans - Planet of Evil
Movellans - Destiny of the Daleks
Passengers - Nightmare of Eden
Savants - Meglos
Skagra - Shada
Skonnan Guards - The Horns of Nimon
Station Medical Staff - The Invisible Enemy
Tesh - The Face of Evil
The Captain - The Pirate Planet
Time Lords - The Deadly Assassin
Toos - The Robots of Death
Uvanov - The Robots of Death
Zilda - The Robots of Death
5th Doctor:
Black Guardian - Mawdryn Undead
Citizens of Sarn - Planet of Fire
Dalek Troopers - Resurrection of the Daleks
Guards - Frontios
Kari and Olvir - Terminus
Lon (Ceremonial Robes) - Snakedance
Mawdryn and Mutants - Mawdryn Undead
Maxil (+Ermintrude) - Arc of Infinity
Portreeve - Castrovalva
6th Doctor:
Android - Timelash
Hugo Lang - The Twin Dilemma
Shockeye - The Two Doctors
Underground Folk - The Mysterious Planet
Valeyard - The Mysterious Planet
Ycarnos - Mindwarp
7th Doctor:
Bannermen - Delta and the Bannermen
Kangs - Paradise Towers
Lakertyans - Time and the Rani
The Happiness Patrol - The Happiness Patrol
Tollmaster - Delta and the Bannermen
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Sacha Dhawan Panel Part 1
Please note this IS NOT word for word, but so you can get a general gist of the panel.
Whovians of all ages got to ask him questions.
This post is just Sachs’s part of the panel there is a seperate post for Michelle’s panel and Michelle and Sacha’s panel.
How do you over come embarrassment?
Being part of Doctor Who, I do think I struggled with quiet a bit of anxiety and I kept it quite private, but weirdly doing Doctor Who allowed me over come it a little bit probably because of the nature of the character where he’s gotta do these confident crazy things so you throw yourself in the deep end. But it immediately felt, being a part of Doctor Who it’s such a welcoming community, not just you guys but also the people who make it. I felt they allowed me to over come my anxiety a little bit. It’s not that it will ever go away but I was just encouraged to be bold and fearless and yes I was doing it in my performance but it made me realise with my anxiety in real life those who are suffering from anxiety lose confidence in themselves so I guess playing the Master allowed me to find my confidence again and not really care to much about being embarrassed and embrace it and from that magic can happen.
So you just met the greatest Master of all time, she just left the stage
Sacha: Oh wow, 😂
What was it like following her?… I mean you are like the second greatest.
Sacha: before Doctor who, yeah I was an actor but I felt like the average guy on the street, when you get the call saying not only are you coming into Doctor Who but your coming into play this iconic character, it’s absolutely terrifying and initially your like how am I going to do that, where do I start? And then people are telling you oh do you know who played him before, people like Michelle, Derek Jacobi, Eric Roberts, John Simm and then I’m like… me? This dude? (Points to himself) so it’s really nerve racking so I started watching little bits and then I though ok I’m not going to be as imaginative if I just think about all of that, I have to approach it like I would any role and over the last couple of years I’ve tried to be just be bold and make crazy choices and sometimes it doesn’t work and that’s cool cos something even better happens. So once I let go of the prestige of the role it really freed me up and I had a lot of support from the creators to put my own stamp on it which they kindly asked me to do it. And it’s only now having done it and stepped off the Whoniverse that you can really take it in sometimes, I’m like how did I do all that, you know from getting the costume to being in the TARDIS, to working with Jodie, having some of those intense scenes. I look back and I think was that me that did that, so yeah it feels great to be able to be a part of it and sitting with you guys.
What was it like going from something like Doctor Who into something like Wolf?
Sacha: It was actually the producer of Doctor Who who was working on it. It’s great I always like to keep challenging myself and playing different people, that’s what I really get excited about a project where I go, that person is completely different to me, I have a moment of panic and wonder how am I gonna play it, I love the idea of just chipping away at it and the ahhhh… that, that’s who that person is. Whether it be a psychopath or a police officer, I think the more complex they are or the more challenging they are going into it the more exciting I find it. Even with the Master I always try to find some truth in it. With the Master I was really interested in the relationship with the Doctor I think that was the real kind of hook point for me.
Moderator: You master was the first time where I actually thought the Doctor might not get out of it, even with Simms you know the Doctor would figured it out but I honestly didn’t see how it was going to happen. That was the terrifying part of your portrayal
Sacha: I was chatting to Chris about it, I felt what I liked about playing the Master, well my version, he was already in such a dark place he had nothing left to lose so it was like to die for the cause and bring down the Doctor with him then it was a win for him so that made him utterly terrifying.
Do you think you can take me on? (Kid is dressed as Darth Vader)
I think you could take me on actually, I’m a bit scared of you.
Does the 4 heartbeat tap on the microphone
Sacha: oh yeah the tap
Moderator: now your scaring me
Sacha: I’m not sure if I want to take you on or to be your best friend
Does the 4 heartbeat tap on the microphone
Moderator: I think that’s psychological warfare
You’ve played a lot of different characters which did you enjoy playing the most and why?
Sacha: I’d probably say the Master actually, it’s the only character I’ve played that has such an emotional range, and then he also appears in so many different time periods, there was so much range to play and also the character has so much fun doing it so yeah playing the Master. Even going back to do the Centenary Special I couldn’t wait to get back into it again.
Did you come up with the choreography for Rasputin on the spot and by yourself? And did you enjoy it?
Sacha: I did yeah, I didn’t plan anything I was gonna do I just couldn’t wait, it was such a big scene. Such an emotionally charged scene. Between me and you I was in London and I was listening to that song constantly just kind of like jamming out, feeling it on the tube so when they played the music, what’s amazing when we came to do the scene filming in the amazing studio and they blasted it through huge speakers so you couldn’t help but just go for it and you know, listen, you put me in front of an audience and I’m going to throw some serious shapes, I loved it and I’m really glad people responded to it as well.
Sacha who do you like better Daemon (the moderator) or Michelle?
Moderator: easy answer
Sacha: You know what, we did the zoo interview, it was lovely doing that interview because we were in lockdown and everything. I can say this now I was a little bit intimidated meeting Michelle, it’s the first time we’ve meet and even though I’ve played the Master, I’m just like the average guy now and I think my god she played Missy! So I think I adore you both. But coming away this, being in NZ I’ve come away with a little soft spot for Michelle I think she’s so sweet.
Given that you’ve been able to travel around the world and meet a bunch of different people have there been any colloquialism that you grew up with that you’re surprised aren’t else where and are there any in NZ that you don’t know or understand?
I think it’s amazing that I’m literally on the other side of the world and I think you guys really get British culture don’t you? It feels oddly like I’m home from home.
Moderator: we’re still part of the commonwealth remember…
Sacha: oh yeah… I don’t know are there some colloquialism that I should know?
Moderator: um…. yeh, nar… sweet as…
Sacha: what other colloquialism are there let’s hear them
Moderator: Yeh, Nar… which is yes, no but then there Nar, Yeh, or we might go Yeh, Nar, Yeh.
Questioner: it means whatever the last word is
Moderator: Sweet as
Sacha: Sweet ass 🤨
Moderator: no not sweet ass, sweet as, like in sweet as sweet thing
Sacha: oh sweet as, I get that
Moderator: chur bro
Sacha: Cheers?
Moderator: no Chur, it’s like a cheers, or a sweet as. Now the word mate
Sacha: I say mate a lot
Moderator: mattttte, Nar mate, now what else have we got?… it’s gone to custard. A nik minute.
Sacha: nik minute? 🤨
Moderator: there was their guy who was a bit of a skateboarder and he said “I took my scooter to the Dairy and went inside nik minute someone stole it” and it became this meme, and now it’s a thing.
What do you think are the motivations for your Master?
Sacha: in terms of the story?
Yeah
Sacha: For me it was the timeless child and all of that and realising the Doctor wasn’t really one of us, and was regarded as so special when it felt like it should have been me. So that, the origins of all of that was really the main motivation. And like I was saying earlier I’d already lost so much I really got nothing else to lose so why not go out with a bang. So I think one of the motivations was to create chaos and even though it seems kind of messy, underneath it all it was extremely organised and it felt like the Master, even though he presents himself as chaotic there’s a lot of… he’s incredibly intelligent underneath all that, so there’s so many different things and the relationship with the Doctor was a huge part of it for me, you may have noticed it was very playful, chaotic, but for me it was very emotionally charged as well, so those things together were a really interesting concoction.
Moderator: here’s a question for the audience, doesn’t the timeless child mean that prior to the timeless child’s existence the gallifreyans couldn’t regenerate? Doesn’t that mean technically the Doctor created your ability to regenerate? How did that happen? Were you subjected to a bunch of experiments and injected with DNA?
Sacha: so partly yes, that’s the thing, they are strangely connected in a way, the thing that really frustrated me (as in the Master) was like the part of her in me, in terms of our story anyway so I was really frustrated.
With your master I got a a vibe of split personality, mentally unstable did you approach the role with a mental health spin to it?
Sacha: I think the character is certainly complex so I wasn’t afraid of leaning into that to be honest, I think I found it really trusting and made him very bold, imaginative, intelligent I couldn’t label him as one specific thing but I utilised a range of different things and just made sure not to be afraid of going there and I did want people to feel slightly intimidated by him.
You came across as really unhinged but when you’re watching it, it’s almost like you kinda feel for the guy but at the same time he’s destroying the universe.
Sacha: yeah, that’s the thing I wanted that and by the end of it you kind of realise he’s just a damaged young boy really
He just needs a hug
Sacha: yeah, lol, that’s really the stem of it I think, he’s totally unloved and incredibly lonely I think, his purpose is to constantly chase the Doctor and once the Doctor was out of the picture and he was the Doctor it didn’t really give him the happiness that he thought it was going to be because he had nothing to chase anymore.
Iron fist is the first time I remember seeing you on screen how did you get the role and how did it feel to became part of the marvel universe?
Sacha: yeah it was amazing, when you audition for Marvel you don’t it’s Marvel because they are really secretive they give you dummy sides, the script is made up, so it’s only until you get later down the process you get “it’s the new marvel show” and I did this thing where they said to me how is your martial arts, and I said it’s amazing and I had never ever even done any martial arts in my life and the most embarrassing thing happened I was in New York and my screen-test, my final audition for iron fist and it went ok and then they said oh before you leave our big stunt coordinator wants to see your martial arts and I thought oh my god, and asked them to give me 5 minutes so I could go get my trainers and I was thinking what do I do. And guys if you could have seen me in that test, when you’re under that much pressure because you want the part, you should have seen the kicks, (demonstrates on stage… they are terrible, lol) and I could see the stunt coordinator was like this guy can’t even throw a kick, but I was filming Sherlock at the same time with Benedict Cumberbatch and we had a fight scene and I had footage on my phone so I showed him that, and asked him to just give me the chance, I’ll learn, and luckily he gave me the chance and I learnt, I spent about a year or so learning. It was amazing.
Did you get really recognised after that?
Sacha: yeah I did a little bit, it’s such a big franchise, it was the first step into me being able to play characters I never thought I would be able to play, I always thought I’m always going to be limited by how I look, we don’t really get to play those kinds of interesting parts, I think the world is shifting slightly so to be able to play a marvel villain or the Master in Doctor Who it’s pretty iconic. And it’s only when I get to chat to your guys I think oh wow, and I feel so incredibly honoured to be a part of two amazing universes.
Who’s your favourite Doctor?
Sacha: My favourite Doctor? I really like Matt Smith. I think he’s great.
Audience: what about Jodie?
Sacha: Jodie is amazing. But if I had to work with another Doctor I’d say Matt Smith I think he’s again, he’s so playful and so sharp I’d love to be able to do scenes with him he’s such a good actor and a really nice guy.
If you had your own TARDIS and the chameleon broke what would you like your TARDIS to be stuck as?
Sacha: I don’t know, I’d have to think on what that would be… I don’t think a police box can be topped honestly.
Moderator: I’d go with a kombi
Sacha: or a mini like Mr Bean drives
Do you have any funny behind the scenes stories?
Sacha: they told me everything was really secretive (on Doctor Who) and I didn’t tell anybody anything and I was also filming a show called Dracula at the same time and I went to dinner with Steven Moffatt and in my head I just presumed he would be working on the show and I must admit my knowledge of Doctor Who was a little lacking and so somethings I didn’t realise the importance of, so we’re having dinner and he said “oh you’re filming Doctor Who” and I was like “yeah yeah yeah, I’m doing Doctor Who they’ve given me this like tissue compressor eliminator thing, you know” and I could see in his face he was like oh my god he’s playing the Master, and I didn’t realise, then I got a call from the BBC saying “could you not be telling people” “I was like yeah but it Steven and they were like yeah but he doesn’t work on the show anymore” So yeah I gave it away some.
Moderator: so you’re the Tom Holland of the Doctor Who universe.
Sacha: yeah, lol
I love The Great, we’re a little behind here in New Zealand, but I thought Rasputin was even funnier because of the link to The Great. Was there actually a link did they do it deliberately?
Sacha: no, there wasn’t, I remember reading it and thinking god there’s such a connection, but no, I think Chris always felt Rasputin would be.. is the perfect kind of Master, the perfect kind of person for me to be disguised as, he’s quite evil, quite manipulative, so yeah it was pure coincidence.
Do you have any any weird or funny fan interaction?
Sacha: they have all been pretty good, I think I had in a picture line up someone said can I pick you up, is it alright if I carry you and I was like “yessss please”. The fan interactions, were the one thing people spoke about but didn’t quite prepare me for is just the community and the fan base is so amazing on Doctor Who and it’s like on Twitter if anyone says a bad word, I don’t have to do anything because I’ve got my own security! Everyone’s great, I’ve had great fan interaction.
That’s it for part 1 of Sacha’s Panel, part 2 will be up soon, and I promise Part 2 will be worth the wait.
Also if you ever defended our little Spy Master on Twitter he’s seen you and appreciates you!
If you wanna know what went down in the other panels they are linked below
Michelle
Michelle and Sacha
VIP Panel
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the-slender-doll · 10 months
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For me, outside of the Fourth Doctor, the Tenth Doctor was my favorite of all time! (Go Ten! 😂)
I didn't add the upcoming Doctor (aka the lovely Mr. Ncuti Gatwa) as I haven't personally seen anything in his upcoming role as the Doctor in any officially released trailers yet! 🥲😅 I can't wait for his debut later in 2023!!
Which one is your favorite and why??
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'*****
No sonic screwdriver. No TARDIS. No city-razing destruction, nor stupefyingly cute alien critters. As Doctor Who episodes go, ‘Wild Blue Yonder’ couldn’t be more different from the show’s blockbuster comeback, ‘The Star Beast’, if it tried. Last week’s adventure was Who at the peak of its silly, sugar-rush sci-fi powers: a spectacular kick-off to the show’s 60th anniversary celebrations, precision-tooled to dazzle newbies (Whobies?) and dyed-in-the-wool Whovians alike. This week’s, however — essentially a two-hander — is an insular Gothic chamber piece that goes toe-to-toe with Alien in the spaceship-as-haunted-house stakes. Invoking everything from NuWho favourites ‘Midnight’ and ‘Listen’ to sci-fi horror classics Event Horizon and The Thing, Russell T Davies strips everything back here to remind viewers at home that there ain’t no bottle episode like a Doctor Who bottle episode.
Arriving under a shroud of sworn secrecy (even press didn’t see this one until it aired), speculation had been rife about exactly what ‘Wild Blue Yonder’ would be. Rumours of a multi-Doctor story — Peter Capaldi, Matt Smith, Jodie Whittaker: you name ’em and someone had an in-depth Twitter/X thread red-stringing together a theory — abounded. But while technically this is a multi-Doctor story (and a multi-Donna one at that), it’s not one in the way anybody would have expected. And honestly, amid a landscape of disposable cameos and inconsequential fan-service, that the secrecy is in aid of storytelling rather than stunt casting is a blessed relief.
A comical cold open sees the Doctor (David Tennant) and a newly memory-restored Donna (Catherine Tate) flung back to England, circa 1666. There, the duo catalyse Sir Isaac Newton’s (It’s A Sin’s Nathaniel Curtis) discovery of ‘mavity’ (a communicational mishap) and the Doctor’s discovery of bisexuality (“He was hot, wasn’t he?”). But a classic ‘Doctor-meets-historical-figure-and-hijinks-ensue’ caper this is not. And before long, the Doctor and Donna find themselves stranded aboard a seemingly abandoned spaceship harbouring a threat so terrifying that even the TARDIS has done a runner.
The eerie, empty (save for glacially slow Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy-homaging Chekhov’s robot Jimbo), seemingly endless spacecraft corridors and wheezing hydraulic pistons of ‘Wild Blue Yonder’ represent a stark counterpoint to the crashy, bangy, flashy Meepiness of ‘The Star Beast’. A sublime combination of pneumatic practical effects, soundstages, and nifty CGI made possible by that sweet new Disney dollar, the distinctly Nostromo-esque sense of isolation about the ship aptly evokes the abyss of the episode’s edge-of-the-universe setting. It’s a spatial oddity that serves the plot and augments the tone of the piece perfectly, centralising our focus on the Doctor, Donna, and their unique bond as the uncanny threat they face is slowly revealed. That threat? Why themselves, of course. Sort of.
Revealed in a properly creepy sequence that starts with the slow-dawning realisation that something isn’t quite right and climaxes with an injection of out-and-out Cronenbergian body horror, the ‘Not-Things’ are Weeping Angel-level nightmare fuel. Cosmic shapeshifters bent on universal destruction, the demonic doppelgängers — brought to life with palpable, dead-eyed menace by a multi-roling Tennant and Tate — are able to mimic the Doctor and Donna’s form, manner, and even memories.
This set-up leads to a succession of intricately written “I know I’m me but how do I know you’re you?”-type exchanges — including one particularly fiendish bait-and-switch — that really allow Tate and Tennant to flex their acting chops, underlining their inimitable chemistry in the process. It’s also an opportunity for Davies to really hammer home that this is the Fourteenth Doctor, not the Tenth — and Donna Temple-Noble with a family waiting for her at home, not Donna from Chiswick gadding about with a two-hearted spaceman.
One particular exchange, in which canon-reshaping events of the Chris Chibnall era of the show come to the fore, allows Tennant to really click through the gears as he embodies elements of the Doctors who’ve been and gone since last time around: Smith’s wistful longing, Capaldi’s bone-deep grief, Whittaker’s emotional vulnerability. In about 30 seconds, several years of head-spinning exposition is simply, beautifully reframed. The Doctor doesn't really know who they are anymore, running from reckoning with the weight of all that they’ve seen and done, hoping against hope for somebody else out there to understand — if even just for a little while. No matter whether you’re a hardcore Whovian or don’t so much as carry a provisional TARDIS licence, if you’re looking for a distillation of the show’s essential nature, you’d struggle to find one better than this.
‘Wild Blue Yonder’ is a brutally simple, slickly executed high concept that we’ve seen iterative versions of before in OG Tennant/Tate-era fan favourites ‘Midnight’ and ‘Waters Of Mars’. But, especially when considered in the context of Who’s recent turbulent history, its use here — in a conversation-heavy hour of TV that digs deep into the past 15 years of the show both on and off screen — feels utterly singular. Giving folks the Doctor, with their plucky companion and techno-babble and eccentric wardrobe is easy, Davies seems to be saying: anyone can do it. But without genuine emotion — without heart — all you’ve really got is a pale imitation of something truly great, iconography and nothing more. Lucky for us, then, that by the time the credits roll there can be no doubt. This bold new Whoniverse is the real deal, and nothing is wrong… nothing in the whole wide world. *Sniffle*.
Taut, tense, and frequently terrifying, this spaceship-in-a-bottle episode isn’t just an instant Who classic — it’s one of 2023’s finest hours of TV to boot.'
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