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DOCTOR WHO | 1.06

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I can't...Peter is just so good at being expressive💔 it's in his eyes.

(Jenna is good at that, too.)

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If someone says they’re a Doctor Who fan, I think that basically tells you next to nothing about what kind of nerd they actually are. Like they could be a cranky old man who’s been watching it for decades, they could be one of those white ladies who makes all the crochet daleks and “accio tardis” keychains on etsy, or they could be like… one of us. You never know

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just some doctor/clara: [36/∞] "I will hold Clara's hand, but that's it."

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Steven Taylor -> The Chase

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He would say this and then spend four billion years grieving Clara.

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Happy Birthday, Jon Pertwee!

Happy birthday to the Third Doctor, and Worzel Gummidge, who would have been 106 this year! He’s brought me so much joy since I’ve first seen him on my television screen. Much love to Mr. Jon Pertwee!

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“And you’ve seen me do that more often than most. Isn’t that right, Clara?”

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Ncuti and Varada’s results for the “Which Doctor Who Character are you?” Test 😂😂

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"He's ancient and forever, He burns at the centre of time, He can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful"

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The most romantic line

Fun fact: Steven Moffat revealed that the most romantic line he’s ever written for Doctor Who is when 12 said “Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?”

Peter to Jenna: So there would be no romance then!

Steven: I will write my most romantic line ever for these two, have his arch nemesis ship them and have the Doctor die billions of times to save Clara. See what I did there 😂😂??

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seeing everyone come together and actually agree with each other for once bc the ending was that bad

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I do not like to consider behind the scenes stuff when talking about Art, but I do think that this episode fully sealed the deal on the 'Millie Gibson left the show unexpectedly for Some Sort of Reason so they had to cast someone else as a new companion on short notice and quickly rewrite completed episodes to compensate' theory.

That whole maternal bit with Belinda? Out of nowhere. Nothing to do with Belinda. Belinda got very little characterization overall, but none of it was that.

But let's say instead that the companion for this season remained Ruby. We get a little timeskip in between the two seasons, in which Ruby dates Conrad. Maybe the Robot Revolution initially featured him. Then we have a whole season in which none of the other stories (except a new version of Lucky Day) center around her, which makes a lot of sense because the previous season was all about her. She doesn't feel undercharacterized, because she had a whole-ass season of characterization already. Most of the season could have her in the place of Belinda with literally nothing changing, which, well.

And then we get to this finale. The Doctor and Ruby get magicked into a world where they have a magic baby, who looks just like a baby they met previously. Despite the fact that the baby and their life isn't real, Ruby can't possibly find it within herself to abandon - or forget - a child. It doesn't matter whether the child is really hers or not. It matters that someone needs to take care of her and that Ruby steps up to do it. That's a core Ruby character value! That's something that would follow up on a previously established theme!

So, the ending in which she raises the child isn't weird, it's the conclusion to Ruby's character arc. There's no extra character who needs to be shoved into a literal box. The UNIT reunion is a reunion of characters who actually know each other, unlike Belinda, who doesn't know any of those guys. Space Babies is retroactively vindicated.

I cannot believe this was not the intended model of the series. We know these two seasons were written and filmed concurrently. There's no reason for the result to be so awkward if there wasn't some bullshit afoot, given that there was ample opportunity to plan it properly. When Belinda was announced, RTD explicitly said that Varada Sethu was cast because they had already filmed 'Boom' and they knew she had good screen chemistry with Ncuti. She herself said that she was just offered the role out of the blue. This was a rush job. I really liked Varada Sethu as Belinda. She did a lot to disguise the patch here, and it's too bad that she couldn't do more. But we shouldn't think of these seasons as something that was designed to be this way. I'm pretty sure they weren't.

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God Archie Panjabi really Gets It.

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me, on my deathbed, holding my grandson’s hand, coughing and whispering: listen….. clara and twelve were in love

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"Thank you Whovians for everything. All the love that you pour into the show itself is what makes it - is what has kept it alive for 60 years." -Ncuti Gatwa's Farewell to Doctor Who

Behind the Scenes of The Reality War | Doctor Who

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Ugh it is always so sad to see the Doctor change actually.

I miss Ncuti already.