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if you’re a new doctor who fan who likes donna noble and fires of pompeii in particular and are looking for where to start with classic, may i introduce you to your new fave and mine, barbara wright

barbara was one of the first companions to travel with the doctor. she was a history teacher from contemporary london who got essentially kidnapped by the doctor (along with fellow teacher ian) and really wants to go home. she has a little character arc along with ian and the doctor over the first three stories (an unearthly child, the daleks, and edge of destruction) because the doctor at this time is incredibly self-centred and pretty terrible! he treats them awfully and in the edge of destruction, barbara stands up to him.

and i love this moment because barbara’s not, like, special. she’s not a chosen one, she’s not extraordinary, she’s just a woman from london who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, who was kidnapped and terrorised and treated like dirt by this alien.

and she stands up and says you know what, no. you have treated us terribly. you have been monstrous to us, and you are going to stop doing that. you are going to listen to me, you are going to give me respect, and you are going to treat us with kindness, because i deserve that. and the doctor listens! he apologises, and changes his behaviour.

it’s a small moment, but ultimately? this is the root of the doctor changing to love humanity and protect humans. all the good they have done, all the lives they have saved - it all comes back to this one moment where a regular human woman stands up to them and tells them to be better. and i love her so much.

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"I pronounce thoschei like this" "well I pronounce thoschei like that" well it's PRONOUNCED timecock. But we can't say that anymore. Because of woke.

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you know sometimes you think about making a post and then you realize how incredibly poorly it would go down and decide okay maybe i will keep that to myself actually

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there are 2 versions of any dr who season at the time it comes out:

1) the actual dr who season

2) the much cooler version of the same season created, goncharov-like, by fans theorizing about what everything could mean, which will slowly dissipate like sand running thru an hourglass as more and more episodes come out

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🎶 There's always a twist in the end!

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DOCTOR WHO - 'Deep Breath', 8.01

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NEXT TIME ON DOCTOR WHO:

Ninth Doctor: Here we are! Mediaeval England!

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Rose: It’s like… an egg. A big egg.

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Mediaeval king: My men! We ride!

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Ninth Doctor: There’s something wrong here. I can feel it.

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Rose: Hello? I’m Rose. I’m not gonna hurt you. The Doctor, he’s got this… thing. This screwdriver. Maybe he can put you back together again.

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Unsettling seer: The fall is nigh. The eggs are in their baskets.

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Ninth Doctor: Oh, this is really bad.

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Charismatic villain: I’m sorry, Doctor, but I’m afraid it’s time… for a fall.

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CGI monster: (hissing) The Geltheen Host must rise again! The hatching must commence!

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(Shot of something emerging from an egg and shrieking)

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Ninth Doctor: They’re on every wall, in every square, in every town in the country! A hundred eggs, all ready to hatch!

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Rose: We have to do something, or they’re all gonna die!

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Ninth Doctor: (shouting from the distance) ROSE! DON’T TOUCH THAT EGG!

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Charismatic villain: When I use a word… it means exactly what I choose it to mean.

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Ninth Doctor: (shouting, angry) ALL THE KING’S HORSES! AND ALL THE KING’S MEN!

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Charismatic villain: Let the shattering of this world… commence.

cliffhanger sting

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the thing with doctor who's historicals in more recent years is that there's clearly an aim to educate there - that's why they've had episodes about rosa parks or ching shih or the partition of india. but by focusing on alien invasions and time travel over the history, they've shot themselves in the foot and diminished that aim

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this took way too long eugh

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i love people who are like “rose would love every doctor! ^w^” like if this is true let’s put rose in with the first doctor and see who dies first

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You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?

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TORCHWOOD (2006-2011) Naoko Mori & Daniela Denby-Ashe as Toshiko Sato & Mary in S1E07 - Greeks Bearing Gifts

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here are the torchwood books i’ve found! they’re in .pdf but i also have .mobi for most of these if anyone’s interested. oh yeah and i’ve also included john barrowman’s biographies and rtd’s the writer’s tale. 

another life by peter anghelides border princes by dan abnett slow decay by andy lane something in the water by trevor baxendale trace memory by david llewellyn the twilight streets by gary russell pack animals by peter anghelides skypoint by phil ford almost perfect by james goss into the silence by sarah pinborough bay of the dead by mark morris the house that jack built by guy adams risk assesment by james goss the undertaker’s gift by trevor baxendale consequences by james moran, joseph lidster, andrew cartmel, sarah pinborough and david lewellyn exodus code by john barrowman and carole e barrowman

anything goes by john barrowman and carole e barrowman i am what i am by john barrowman and carole e barrowman the writer’s tale by russell t davies and benjamin cook

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never having actually abdicated the position, the doctor is still technically the president of gallifrey

all of gallifrey have spent a lot of time and energy keeping them from realising this

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Chris Eccleston and Camille Codouri’s chemistry was everything. Don’t get me wrong, David Tennant’s chemistry with Jackie was also everything. But they’re two very different kinds of everything.

Ten was Jackie’s horrible spoilt son-in-law with an attitude problem. He would turn up at her house with zero notice and whinge about wanting to leave immediately and still stuff his face with her shepherd’s pie. And she would complain about him eating her out of house and home, “why don’t you ever call”, “what do I look like a laundry service”, and she’d still show off photos of him to neighbours on the estate like “check out Rose’s new man. Not much in his head but look at that smile!”

Nine and Jackie were two girls outside a club at 3am, five seconds and one bitch-slap away from fighting each other to death in the gutter

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MASTER: Do you remember the name experiment, Doctor? The names. DOCTOR: Ah... ELANORA: What names? MASTER: Our names! DOCTOR: It was just a practical joke. MASTER: Can we create a perfect tactical pinpoint alteration of the timelines? Wipe both our birthnames clean. Replace them. You, the Doctor. Me, the Master. DOCTOR: We went too far. MASTER: So that no one would remember our true names but us. And we succeeded. A half-dismantled TARDIS, a link to the Matrix, time rewritten yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

— Blood of the Time Lords