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shouldn’t have followed, should’ve just gone home

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when you're talking about the character and the person who likes the character starts typing for a long time

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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command-Good Movie

And series!

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BUZZ LIGHTYEAR OF STAR COMMAND: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS August 8, 2000, dir. Tad Stones "I have taken a one-man stand against darkness and depravity, and I have failed. I was wrong. Perhaps if I'd taken a new partner... or two... or three..."

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happy birthday, buzz

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BUZZ LIGHTYEAR OF STAR COMMAND: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS August 8, 2000, dir. Tad Stones "I have taken a one-man stand against darkness and depravity, and I have failed. I was wrong. Perhaps if I'd taken a new partner... or two... or three..."

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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (August 8 2000—January 13 2001)

“The system might be stacked against us. That means we have to fight even harder for what is right. It’s not easy, but name me one worthwhile thing that is.”

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characters who are so inauthentic. characters who only show what they want other people to see of them. characters who simply must have control over every part of themselves. do you even get it

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Self-destruction is against my basic programme. And murder is against mine. [...] Do you have it in you to murder me? Those people down there, they're never small to me. Don't make assumptions about how far I will go to protect them, because I've already come a very long way. And unlike you, I don't expect to reach the promised land. You realise, of course, one of us is lying about our basic programming. Yes. And I think we both know who that is.

DOCTOR WHO - 8.01 Deep Breath

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the combat is so tedious and joyless in DAI that I'm half ready to quit and play something else

every time they make a Dragon Age game they're like "how can we make the combat worse"

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every time they make a Dragon Age game they're like "how can we make the combat worse"

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Jo Grant! (Love all your DW art so much 😍)

the gal <3

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building immunity

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the problem w the Meddling Monk is that EU writers like to turn him into 'the Master, but funny', but that is not his vibe at all.

he is NOT some kind of meglomaniac and i wouldn't even say he's evil. in his 1st story his end goal is just to re-write history into what he feels would be a better course and then move onto his next scheme. in his 2nd story he's out for petty revenge against the Doctor but i don't think he's even planning on harming or killing him? yes he's gonna strand him on a volcano planet but like i think he probably anticipates the Doctor will free himself eventually.

here's the thing w the Monk: a major source of ongoing conflict in the show is the Doctor attempting to tread the line between interfering too much and not interfering too much. the Time Lords represent one end of this spectrum, ie total non-interference in other societies.

the Monk exemplifies too much interference. he decided that the non-inteference policy is BS and that he should be able to do whatever he wants. and the thing is, he is genuinely well-intentioned in this regard! he thinks the changes he wants to make to the timeline are improvements.

and he does genuinely care about the wellbeing of members of other species - in The Time Meddler when an injured man shows up at his monastery he really does try to help him, to the point of using anachronistic medical technology and lamenting the fact that he isn't able to give him a blood transfusion.

but the problem is, he's essentially treating all of history like his personal playground. he treats the Vikings and the Saxons like action figures he can mash together. he's like an overgrown child playing god.

and in many respects he's very like the Doctor!! who is also interfering with other societies with a view to improving things and also, frequently, playing god, acting like a big kid, and expressly describes his goal as 'having fun'.

the Monk is what the Doctor could be if he lacked moral scruples. he's got no backbone. he's straight up a dirty coward. but he's a nice guy! i think in his mind he's the chaotic good hero of the story and the Doctor is the big mean cop trying to put him in jail ):<

im not convinced that putting him in Daleks' Master Plan was a good idea per se but it does make for a really interesting juxtaposition seeing him throwing people under the bus to save his own skin vs the Doctor's repeated willingness to put his life on the line to stop the daleks.

anyways all this to say, i think the Monk makes for a really interesting foil to the Doctor, kind of, in the opposite direction to the Master?

& i think a really good use of the Monk would be in a 'companion grapples with the concept of changing history' story. give him a Scheme that sounds like a genuinely good idea on the surface but would be catastrophic in practice.

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there's found family and then there's my DA2 party where we all hate each other 😊