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Terrible blurry screenshots bring me life

thinking about them. more specifically, terrible blurry screenshots of them

(bonus lukes)

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“Sarah!!! Give me your bank details! It’s for Xavier!!”

“Did you see what I did there…”

“It’s a scam.”

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𝐸𝓁𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃

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nobody has been there for me like the ‘x reader’ tag has been there for me

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Talking to a friend about this helped me to clarify my main problem with the current era of Doctor Who.

Imagine if you made a whole Doctor Who season out of: The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit, Blink, Human Nature/Family of Blood, Midnight, and Turn Left, before heading into your finale.

Those are all great episodes. They're all regularly cited as highlights of David Tennant's run on Doctor Who. I can sing the praises of each at length and will do so on demand. You compare them to the other episodes that make up their respective seasons and they're clear standouts amongst the alien runarounds and celebrity historicals.

But you can't make a season out of them. Because if you do, you lose the characterization of Ten as the Doctor. These are all episodes that stand out because they're exceptions to the way that Doctor Who usually goes. They either put the Doctor in unusual situations where his 'being the smartest guy around' strategy doesn't work, or they hardly feature the Doctor at all and build their tension through his absence. And in each case, they work so well because they're subverting expectations the season has already built up. And though the past two seasons have featured some really great episodes, they are all banking on expectations the seasons themselves have not engendered.

Let me put it this way: if I put the list of Series 4 Doctor Who episodes in front of 1000 people and asked them to choose a favourite, I don't think anyone would pick the Sontaran two-parter from the middle of the season. It's as generic a Unit-Monster runaround as you're likely to find. But that was my first Doctor Who episode, and it hooked me immediately. I got it completely, and it's never let me go since. But if that first episode had been Midnight? I'm not sure. Midnight is a much better episode by every conceivable measure, but so much of its power comes from the fact that it puts the Doctor in a vulnerable situation that you are not used to seeing him in. It's cashing in the cheque that the 'normal episodes' have written. 73 Yards is also a great episode, but I don't think you could hook a new viewer by showing them 73 Yards.

And that's what 15 is lacking. Normal Episodes. In the crunch of the too-short 8-episode seasons, RTD has clearly prioritized the Weird Ones. And there have been some great Weird Ones! But without the Normal Ones, the Weird Ones lose their punch. Ncuti's never had the chance to do a proper Celebrity Historical (the Beatles don't count they were barely in it) or a Base Under Siege or any of the bread-and-butter sci-fi plots that make the experimental fantasy ones pop. And that leaves 15 as a Doctor undercharacterized, because we only ever see him outside of his natural narrative habitat. That's the tiny germ of truth in the (otherwise kind of silly) complaint about 15 crying in every episode - that every episode is one that pushes the Doctor way out of his usual role. And it's not like Ncuti can't pull it off - he clearly can - but I also need to see him in that usual role. And it just isn't happening.

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Okay I don’t know how many people are going to see this but I want to get my thoughts out.

I am absolutely in no way hating on Doctor Who or Ncuti Gatwa or ANY of the new series/seasons I love this show with all my heart and that’s never going to stop.

I am however going to mention the fact that through the whole of the new seasons it felt like the writers were forgetting what they’d written?

Like there would be such intense foreshadowing for something that could potentially be an interesting plot line but then nothing about it would ever be mentioned again?

It’s like the writers were like “They’ll love this let’s add it in!” And then decided “‘Kay that’s done not doing anything else about it now” and it made it all feel so unfinished.

Some examples:

Why was Ruby making it snow?

Why was there a song following her around?

Why was there so many 4th wall breaks?

What would have happened to Captain Poppy if the Doctor changed reality to make her Belinda’s child?

Why did they change gravity to mavity and have no one acknowledge it? Like surely the Doctor would be able to like sense it’s not right or something?

What happened to Mrs Flood then?

On a slightly different but still similar note:

Reality War: Timelords can’t have children. Can’t. It’s impossible. Nope.

Ten all throughout his run: I had kids once…

Also the Doctor has a granddaughter? Who they literally brought back (and proceeded to do nothing with)? How does that work then?

Like I said this is not me hating. Absolutely not. I would never do that to my favourite show.

I would like to express my confusion though…

(Okay I keep coming back to this and editing it as I remember more stuff I need to stop)

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He is actually so hot and sexy in this episode I need him like I need air to breathe someone help I’ve been like this for years but can’t stop won’t stop I shall never stop loving him AHHHHHHHHHHH

DOCTOR WHO — JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE TARDIS (S07E10) directed by Mat King | written by Steve Thompson ››› Matt Smith as The Doctor

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Labels a folder 'Very very very important pictures' and its contents are these

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[ 11th Doctor ]

id give him a vital organ if he asked

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Happy 20th anniversary New Who!

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Woah guess who’s been here for 5 years that’s crazy!!!

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official elon musk hate post reblog to hate like to hate reply to hate

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i don’t know how to explain to normal people that i’m madly in love and feel an actual emotional bond with a fictional character without sounding like i should be locked in a psych ward.

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Erm so I got slightly bored whilst listening to the Ithica saga and made this…

Hope yall like it!

(TW: blood except it’s not completely realistic but it is there)

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No because like imagine your newly found best friend decided to suddenly go against everything she had told you she believes in (ie. The Wizard) and asks you to do the same when all you’ve ever really cared about is not being hated by people. And although you do love this friend if you choose to go with her it will mean everything you’ve done in your life up until now to make sure you’re not hated by society will ultimately mean nothing. Now say that she made the “wrong choice” again.

Yes she may have regretted it but at the time she could not see any way that going with Elphie would have ended up better for her than staying with her normal life.

I love how inherently selfish both Glinda AND Elphaba are as protagonists. But where one gets praised and admired for it, the other gets demonised and hated.

People always attack Glinda’s decision not to runaway with Elphaba, but no one acknowledges how overtly selfish it is to ask that of someone.

Elphaba is asking Glinda to throw her ENTIRE life away for her. To be ostracised and hated all throughout Oz when she knows full well how badly Glinda cares about what people think of her.

And while Elphaba is used to such ostracisation, Glinda is not.

It is an equally selfish decision to refuse Elphaba request. To perpetuate corrupt beliefs you don’t believe; in order to be accepted and validated by people in power.

They’re BOTH in the wrong, for entirely different reasons. It was an impossible situation with no right answer. And I’m sick of people acting like Glinda made the “ wrong choice ”