#wild blue yonder spoilers

[abstractfrog]

There's something on this ship that's so bad the TARDIS ran away?

[isogenderskitty]

[despisedtoolofsatan]

God I love them 💙💙

[mrv3000]

So this episode really had everything I loved about the RTD era of DW:

▪ the Doctor is angsty but keeps that hidden, and you never know if or when that surface will be scratched

▪ the kind of sci-fi that unsettles you

▪ right in the feels when you expect it

▪ right in the feels when you LEAST expect it

▪ the goofiest shit imaginable

[gayleviticus]

bruh wtf were donnas family smoking letting a 92 year old man in a wheelchair go wait for the tardis to come back in an alleyway when the world is ending in some kind of hate plague

[sacha-da-1]

Is “My arms are too long.” Gonna be another “Hey who turned out the lights?”?

[twilight-zoned-out]

So Doctor Who is a show

[officialrapunzelfitzherbert]

and it feels good to be known so well / i can't hide from you like i hide from myself / i remember who i am when i'm with you / your love is tough, your love is tried and true blue

prints

[thethirdromana]

Some thoughts on Wild Blue Yonder:

I fucking love this kind of thing - Midnight is one of my favourite episodes - so this was basically catnip to me.

It's hilarious to me that this was a (presumably) quite expensive episode that could equally have been achieved in the 60s.

Honestly I'd kind of love to watch the zero-budget black and white version as well.

"My arms are too long" was deliciously creepy. The line between things that are genuinely frightening and things that kids will enjoy freaking out over was trodden very well.

Deeply enjoying the sense of RTD unleashed that we're getting in these episodes. If in his first stint as showrunner, he ever did any self-censoring for fear of Daily Mail reviews, those days are GONE.

Exploring the impact of Flux and the Timeless Child instead of just moving on like it's a Voyager storyline... is RTD writing fix-it fic here? If so, I'm here for it.

WILF!!

I can't wait for Ncuti Gatwa but am also genuinely sad that we only get one further episode with this TARDIS crew.

[spacewives-in-spacetime]

we talk about the doctor naming things - bootstrap paradox and all - but donna naming a fundamental force that enables us to survive "mavity" is just fucking golden

[thepunkmuppet]

truly so intrigued by the idea that the creatures from wild blue yonder are different forms of the midnight creature, like they’re the same type of being trying to achieve / capable of doing different things. I never ever want concrete canon answers on this because that defeats the point, but thinking about it is TANTALISING it’s so interesting

[beelzeebug]

I love it when a creature pretends to be human but gets it very wrong because I too am a creature that's pretending to be human and getting it very wrong

[the-lady-hestia]

1. Watch the new Dr. Who episode it’s fantastic

2. Watch the Behind the Scenes video on YouTube and pay attention to how Russel T. Davies talks about writing this story.

He mentions the temptation of taking a big 60th anniversary special like this and turning it into Something crazy and over the top. I think he literally says “what if we open the door and it was William Hartnell standing back there”

But then he talks about having to restrain himself. He mentions how, when writing the story, he adhered to the idea. I genuinely think that this is what makes this episode fantastic. The horror element isn’t undercut by a nod to the audience, or some fourth wall breaking reference (the closest thing we get is a HADs mention). This is a genuinely spooky episode, and the writing (and writer) allows it to stand as such. That sort of thing takes trust in yourself, trust in your audience, and trust in your actors. I think Russel T Davies achieved all of these, and I am so so glad he is back 

In my opinion, we are two for two in terms of good episodes (Last week’s was 8/10 and this week’s is 9/10 so we’re trending upwards). I can’t wait to see the next two bring 

[20furiousbluebirds]

Can't believe we finally got the Among Us Doctor Who Episode

[lurking-latinist]

Of course Donna has an Auntie Iris. Bet she drives a bus.

[missingmoonflowers]

wild blue yonder was literally amazing because half the time I was absolutely TERRIFIED out of my skull and the other half I was scream laughing at the effects