#Helen Raynor

[casasupernovas]

Catherine Tate and Helen Raynor on Donna's reaction to Martha:

Catherine Tate: "Donna thinks God, you know this girl's gone on to be very you know, important and she's obviously clearly brave and she's fairly impressed by Martha I think."

Helen Raynor: "She's curious about her and she doesn't feel she's a rival, but automatically without even realising it she kind of ups her game a bit when she sees what she's like."

#doctor who #martha jones #tenth doctor #10th doctor #tenmartha #donna noble #helen raynor #catherine tate #freema agyeman #david tennant

[casa-supernova]

"martha jones is keeping you alive."

"all that life."

#doctor who #myedit #dwedit #martha jones #freema agyeman #tenth doctor #10th doctor #tenmartha #the poison sky #the sontaran stratagem #clone martha #martha 2 #marthajonesedit #martha jones edit #dw fandom #david tennant #russell t davies #helen raynor #rtd era #series 4 #i made these on prequel #martha jones art

[doctorwho-rewind]

S3 E4 & 5: "Daleks in Manhattan" & "Evolution of the Daleks"

The Doctor and Martha travel to New York in 1930, where people have been mysteriously vanishing from the streets, and an old enemy resurfaces. // In 1930s New York, the Daleks' plan is in full force. Faced with the cyborgs' most evil and dangerous scheme yet, will the Doctor and Martha be able to defeat their greatest opponents?

Episode: S3, E4: “Daleks in Manhattan” & S3, E5: “Evolution of the Daleks” Date: April 21, 2007 / April 28, 2007 Writer: Helen Raynor Director: James Strong

Doctor: 10th Companion: Martha Jones Main Villain in This Episode: Daleks

–

(Note: We're 3 series in and finally we have our first female writer. I have to say, Doctor Who up to this point has been very male-dominated, so it'll be interesting to see if this changes over time.)

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this pair of episodes. The story is okay, but I kind of sit here thinking, Daleks again? I don't really know why they had to be a part of it, and why people were being turned into pigs, of all things. I was also distracted throughout by over-the-top New York accents – I half expected someone to say, "HEY, I'M WALKING HERE!"

However, some positives of these episodes were the absolute star that is Andrew Garfield before The Amazing Spider-Man shot him to Hollywood fame, and the idea of the Daleks evolving into something more human which is then immediately squashed by the already-existing Daleks. It was interesting to explore, even if the "human Dalek" was horrifying with his weird tentacle face.

The second episode dived a little more into the whole "Martha can't replace Rose" thing, and Martha expressed her discomfort that she still feels like he won't see her the same way he saw Rose. Martha definitely has big shoes to fill, not just in the Doctor's life but in the eyes of the viewers too, because Rose left a big void behind that isn't easy to fill. However, as much as I empathise with Martha for that... she still annoys me with her constant shouting, lol.

–

⬅️ Previous episode: S3 E3: "Gridlock" ➡️ Next episode: S3 E6: "The Lazarus Experiment"

#doctor who #doctor who rewatch #10th doctor #martha jones #daleks #andrew garfield #helen raynor #james strong #series 3

[burntlikethesun]

been searching for this for years, the hidden easter egg commentary of David Tennant and Phil Collinson watching The Five Doctors!

#helen raynor is here too but she's a TERF now so... whatever #doctor who #david tennant

[man049]

I rewatched Daleks In Manhattan today and I feel dumb for just now realizing the crazy symbolism the story has by framing the empire state building as a symbol for how the rich exploit and look down on the working class only to reveal that the ones leading it's construction are the Daleks who are a living fascism allegory.

#what did Helen Raynor and Russel T Davies mean by this #doctor who #nuwho #dalek #daleks in manhattan

[scriptscribbles]

Quick Doctor Who women fact check

I know I replied to this shit a while back but I'm gonna make my own post to avoid giving it more notes.

It is factually true that Doctor Who did not have any women write between 2008 and 2015. It sucks.

This is not, however, solely a Moffat problem. It's an industry problem where women are underrepresented in genre media, including across Doctor Who.

So, numbers. In Russell T Davies' era, ONLY ONE WOMAN wrote for Doctor Who, Helen Raynor (lately a TERF who stands with Rowling and campaigns against trans kids going to the bathroom, too, before you decide to stan). She wrote four episodes, two part stories for the third and fourth series.

Moffat went around asking for women to write the show but has talked about having a hard time finding people who he wanted and were interested. When he did finally get Catherine Tregenna and Sarah Dollard in for the ninth series, he even mentioned Tregenna had been asked before, having "turned us down in the past, but I talked her into it with an idea she really liked." Dollard for her part ended up contributing two episodes for the ninth and tenth series, and was joined in the latter by Rona Munro, who became the only person to write both the classic and new series.

Chris Chibnall’s era of Doctor Who foregrounded giving a break to new talent unlike RTD and Moffat who tended to get established writers. That meant getting the first poc to write Who as well as seven women in Malorie Blackman, Joy Wilkinson, Nina Metivier, Charlene James, Maxine Alderton, and Ella Road. That said unlike Davies and Moffat he cowrote with most of them, with only three episodes in his run credited solely to women.

Directors fare better, with series 1 and 2 under Davies and series 6 and 7 under Moffat being the only series of Doctor Who not having episodes directed by women. Rachel Talalay of course deserves a special shout-out for being the definitive Moffat/Capaldi director and being the only woman to direct finales (for series 8, 9, and 10!) or Christmas specials for the series!

Hiring people from marginalized groups is always a struggle we can all do better on, especially in industries that are overwhelmingly dominated by white dudes. To put it on the shoulders of one man for failing when he put work in to fix that because Tumblr has a hate boner is deeply silly.

#doctor who #Steven Moffat #feminism #Russell t Davies #Chris Chibnall

[strawberry-whump]

@febuwhump altprompt #10 - last man standing | Doctor Who s03e04 - Daleks in Manhattan [deleted scene] / s04e16 - The Waters of Mars | @whumpbot-brian

s03e04 - Daleks in Manhattan: writ. Helen Raynor | dir. James Strong

s04e16 - The Waters of Mars: writ. Russell T. Davies & Phil Ford | dir. Graeme Harper

David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor | Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones | Lindsay Duncan as Adelaide Brooke

#febuwhump2024 #febuwhump2024day8 #febuwhump2024altprompt10 #doctor who #tenth doctor #daleks in manhattan #the waters of mars #fandom: doctor who #character: tenth doctor #character: the doctor #strawberry gifs #gifs #gif

[releasing-my-insanity]

My four favorite ACGAS 2020 writers (listed alphabetically by last name).

Lisa Holdsworth (Andante)

Karim Khan (Edward)

Debbie O'Malley (All's Fair, Many Happy Returns, The Last Man In)

Helen Raynor (Carpe Diem)

#All Creatures Great and Small #ACGAS 2020 #Mine #All four of them have done such an excellent job

[wizardysseus]

anyone who says only one era of dr who is misogynistic is selling something: by the numbers

series 1: 0 female writers or directors

series 2: 0 female writers or directors

series 3: 1 female writer (helen raynor, "daleks in manhattan/evolution of the daleks"), 1 female director (hettie macdonald, "blink")

series 4: 1 female writer (helen raynor again, "the sontaran stratagem/the poison sky"), 1 female director (alice troughton, "the doctor's daughter," "midnight")

no specials written or directed by women.

total: 1 female writer across 4 episodes, 2 female directors across 3 episodes, out of 4 seasons (60 episodes and specials)

series 5: 0 female writers, 1 female director (catherine morshead, "amy's choice," "the lodger")

series 6: 0 female writers or directors

series 7: 0 female writers or directors

series 8: 0 female writers, 2 female directors (sheree folkson, "in the forests of the night"; rachel talalay, "dark water/death in heaven")

series 9: 2 female writers (catherine tregenna, "the woman who lived"; sarah dollard, "face the raven"), 2 female directors (hettie macdonald, "the magician's apprentice/the witch's familiar", rachel talalay again, "heaven sent/hell bent")

series 10: 2 female writers (sarah dollard again, "thin ice"; rona munro, "eaters of light"), 1 female director (rachel talalay back at it again, "world enough and time/the doctor falls")

1 special directed by a woman ("twice upon a time," rachel talalay again).

total: 3 female writers across 4 episodes, 4 female directors across 12 episodes, out of 6 seasons (84 episodes and specials)

series 11: 2 female writers (malorie blackman, co-writing with chris chibnall on "rosa"; joy wilkinson, "the witchfinders"), 2 female directors (sallie aprahamian, "arachnids in the uk," "the witchfinders"; jennifer perrott, "the tsuranga conundrum," "kerblam!")

series 12: 3 female writers (nina metivier, "nikola tesla's night of terror"; charlene james, co-writing with chris chibnall on "can you hear me?"; maxine alderton, "the haunting of villa diodati"), 2 female directors (nida manzoor, "nikola tesla's night of terror," "fugitive of the judoon"; emma sullivan ("can you hear me?" "the haunting of villa diodati")

series 13: 1 female writer (maxine alderton again, co-writing with chris chibnall on "village of the angels"), 0 female directors

1 special co-written by a woman ("legend of the sea devils," ella road with chris chibnall). 2 specials directed by women ("eve of the daleks," annetta laufer; "legend of the sea devils," haolu wang).

total: 6 female writers or co-writers across 7 episodes, 6 female directors across 10 episodes, out of 3 seasons (31 episodes and specials)

i did all this basic math just so that i would know, for my own personal databanks, but since it's done i may as well post it. just some food for thought. chibnall's era is the only one where the numbers or percentages increase anything like significantly, and even so, i don't think anyone wins here.

if you were to run this for writers and directors of color, it would also very quickly become depressing.

[rattlinbog]

Books Read in 2022

January

The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit by Patricia Monaghan 

The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine 

February

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West by Catherine Fletcher

The Desolations of Devil’s Acre (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #6) by Ransom Riggs 

Eifelhelm by Michael Flynn 

The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer 

March

The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (reread)

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley

April

The Parted Earth by Anjani Enjeti 

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar 

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy 

The Last Blue by Isla Morley 

Lone Stars by Justin Deabler 

All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South by Ruth Coker Burns

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

May

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (reread)

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker 

LaRose by Louise Erdrich

A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York by Cindy Amrhein 

June

Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake and Deborah Herman

These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Dubois 

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 

A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske 

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

July

No Exit by Taylor Adams

The Wanderers by Meg Howrey 

A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes

Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

Calypso by David Sedaris

My Antonia by Willa Cather 

The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660-1700 by Elizabeth Howe

English Animals by Laura Kaye

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

August

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang 

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman (reread)

The Latecomers by Helen Klein Ross 

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

September

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Country Roots: The Origins of Country Music by Douglas B. Green

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream by Conor Dougherty

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (reread)

J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin

The Lost Ones by Anita Frank

October

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates

The Reddening by Adam Nevill

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

November

It Happened in the Smokies... A Mountaineer’s Memories of Happenings in the Smoky Mountains in Pre-Park Days by Gladys Trentham Russell

Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks 

Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres 

I Was Told There’d be Cake: Essays by Sloane Crosley

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

December

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (reread)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (reread)

Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

#books in 2022 #books #booklr #reading list #just finished moon of the crusted snow #i haven't even thought about which were my favorite books that i read this year yet

[stony-ao3-feed]

All You've Known

Read it on AO3

by weethreequarter

“I am having the worst day of my life,” Bucky declared without preamble.

“Even worse than the–”

“Even worse than the day I put the plane into the ice. Yeah. Ask me why.”

“Why?” Tony asked obediently. Who said he couldn’t be a team player?

“Because–and I cannot fucking believe I am saying this–SHIELD is goddamn HYDRA.”

Words: 4446, Chapters: 1/23, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of The Sunflower Verse

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Alexander Pierce, Brock Rumlow, Helen Cho (Marvel), Christina Raynor, Peter Parker, Michelle Jones, Ned Leeds, Flash Thompson, Nick Fury, Sam Wilson (Marvel)

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Kidnapping, Gunshot Wounds, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Miscommunication, Panic Attacks, Anxiety, emotions make people do dumb things, Marriage Counselling, Therapy, Steve Rogers-centric, Tony Stark-centric, Background Relationships, Relationship Problems, Established Relationship, Trauma, Politics, Paparazzi, Eventual Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending, BUT SERIOUSLY A LOT OF ANGST, Friendship, background Bucky Barnes/Matt Murdock, Background Peggy Carter/Daniel Sousa - Freeform, Weekly Updates, Tags may be added because my memory is terrible

Read it on AO3

#stony #fanfiction #ao3feed #superhusbands #stevetony

[casasupernovas]

Part 3!

Part 1 Here

Part 2 Here

So! The Daleks two parter. 'Daleks In Manhattan' an 'Evolution of the Daleks.' Once again, the Doctor takes Martha on another journey as a treat/make up for something/to say thanks/say sorry. Instead of the constriction of the low levels of New New York, Martha gets the 'Real New York'. Old Earth New York. Only it's New York from the 1930s Great Depression. The Doctor takes Martha from the slums to...the Great Depression. The jokes really write themselves here.

We get two examples of the Doctor giving Martha her dues, or asking for her intellect, but both are played off for laughs or are a bit wasted e.g. Martha getting the date to where the Tardis has travelled completely accurate, prompting the Doctor to respond "you're getting good at this" only for him to find out Martha just picked up a newspaper. (Still a clever thing to do). And in the tunnels, when he asked Martha for her medical opinion on the dalek brain - only for Martha to respond that she knows it's not human. Stating the obvious but she's not wrong!

Anyway, we get the first of two moments that address Martha's obvious growing affection for the Doctor - it's clearly more than a crush now, something I think was obvious in the way Martha looked at him when he talked about Gallifrey. Tallulah assumes they are together, because it's obvious that Martha is nuts about him, and Martha points out her feelings are not obvious to the Doctor. (Tallulah and Sally Sparrow are the only blonde women Martha is not negatively compared to this season.)

This is something that is prompted throughout the whole series, that the Doctor is blissfully unaware of her affections. 1913 however, puts this in a much odder, and trickier position honestly. But we'll get there when we get there. And a lot of the Doctor's cool treatment of Martha is attributed to him not knowing about her feelings, but he shouldn't need to know that just to be decent to her. The Doctor doesn't need to love her back. Just at least be nice. And I'm sure the lines are blurred between 'he's an alien' and how self aware he actually is regarding his treatment of her.

Anyway.

Tallulah's response to this is that Martha has to live in hope for that's what she does with Lazslo. And I'm pretty sure Martha does just this. I made another post about how Martha hopes one day the Doctor will return her feelings, she hopes for more with him because after every 'rejection' he always leave the door open. Take this two parter right now. The Doctor said only one trip but this is her third. And more literally, Martha is still wearing the same outfit. The poor girl can't ask to go home and change or have a damn shower probably because she doesn't want the Doctor to change his mind again. The Doctor can change from the brown suit in 'The Shakespeare Code' and 'Gridlock' to Blue in 1930s New York but Martha is stuck in her leather and jeans. The idea of the Doctor and Martha walking back to the Tardis in New New York, and the Doctor delcaring to take her on another trip, only to tell her to wait a second, and to waltz out in a fresh suit is making me scream with laughter. Now that I think, is an example of a unaware alien.

Onwards, we do see a bit of a repeat of 'Gridlock' - Martha gets kidnapped again, but this time not at the fault of the Doctor, but because she sees something suspicious. It's through this she gets aquainted with the Daleks and they scan her and affirm she has superior intelligence. The Doctor then uses this again to push her to ask for clarity from the Daleks. The second half draws on Martha's intelligence even more. This is the first of many nods to Martha definitely being the smartest companion the Tenth Doctor travelled with.

When the Daleks attack and the Doctor tries to sacrifice himself and ends up handing himself over, he gives her the physic paper before thanking her. Martha deduces that he wants her to work her way up, so she's smart, she questions Frank, the other person who was near the Daleks workshop, and realises the main plan has to be on the Empire State Building, the trio travel back into the building, aided by Martha getting the paper to say they are "two engineers and an architect." Perfect

Martha shows her smarts even further by then deducing the Daleks plans have to be hidden within the new rennovations. We literally see her laying out the plans on the floor, putting them side by side to find the major difference. Martha is clever, she's sharp, and it's a shame that the Doctor doesn't see her do this, but we can deduce that he knows she capable of doing something, which is why he gives her the physic paper.

Before this continues however, we get another conversation with Tallulah in regards to love, only Tallulah is a lot less optimistic now because of the state Lazslo has been reduced to. Martha's admission of how the Doctor's dismissal of her makes her feel is very honest and it's crazy to see how succinct and straight to the point Martha is, how clearly she sees the Doctor. It's very frustrating how people roll their eyes at this scene, because they think her having feelings for him is annoying but Martha's admission is heartbreaking and insightful, because she tells the audience what the Doctor's doing, or what it feels like he's doing. She says she knows after Rose, he has been by himself. She knows he is lonely. The same thing she transparently tells John Smith. But she then says - "he's not seeing me. he's just remembering." The Doctor is projecting memories onto Martha, not treating her as her own person. The Doctor is not treating her as a companion because he doesn't want to. Forget the whole ' the Doctor just wants a friend' thing. It is clearly not what he wants from this relationship. It's what he needs but not what he wants so dead that narrative now please. He wants someone to fill the silence, but it's purely selfish. He's not wrong for not wanting to be alone, mourning the loss of Rose. But he is wrong for essentially using Martha. Because she is a person. With her own feelings. She doesn't deserve to be treated as a window into something else. And we see the result of this in '42', the result of  Martha internalising these feelings he has towards her and her own feelings of being inferior, a novice.

Tallulah changes the subject to Lazslo and Martha confidently says he could get him away from the Daleks. She doesn't whine, just tries to reassure her even if it doesn't completely work, forgetting her feelings, as it's nothing compared to the girl who got her lover turned into half a pig.

Martha is then reunited with Doctor who swoops her into a hug. Then something happens. The Daleks take the elevator and he drops her, runs to the doors. This isn't the issue. It's what he says to her afterwards. "Never waste time on a hug!" Why this was necessary to say I will never know. It's a great example of the dynamic though. Big hug = reprimand. And an unfair and insensitive one. It's sad to see how Martha will literally latch onto crumbs of affection from him, and how these moments of genuine niceties are almost always followed with something negative. It's similarly to the previous story. "You've got me...I don't think so. Sorry." Only this time, he doesn't even say sorry.

We get another moment of brilliance with Martha combined with her human nature, kind and compassionate, as she uses Dalekanium to defeat the pig people but then immediately is devastated that she just took lives. She's a training Doctor after all, she's meant to save lives, not take them. They may be the 'enemy' but she still has compassion and guilt. Don't think she's a wuss though, because later in the theatre, when the Doctor orders her away she immediately snaps back with a defiant "well I'm not going" and "what are you then, some kind of Dalek?" She's quick with it and it's a pity we don't see a longer reaction from the Doctor on this, because obviously to him, it's a very loaded statement.

Fast forward to the end, when Martha chooses to respond with optimism, the Doctor responds with pessism. "Just proves it I suppose. There's someone for everyone."

The Doctor's response to this is a murmured..."maybe." Martha doesn't take this personally though, and if she does, she squashes her feelings down to make room to be a balm for the Doctor's, as she responds to this by saying she was sorry that the Daleks got away, swiftly changing the subject....

Next up: The Lazarus Experiment...

#doctor who #martha jones #david tennant #helen raynor #freema agyeman #series 3 #russell t davies #rtd era #rtd #daleks in manhattan #evolution of the daleks #tallulah #frank #lazslo #andrew garfield #daleks #dalek sec

[ao3feed-stony]

All You've Known

by weethreequarter

“I am having the worst day of my life,” Bucky declared without preamble.

“Even worse than the–”

“Even worse than the day I put the plane into the ice. Yeah. Ask me why.”

“Why?” Tony asked obediently. Who said he couldn’t be a team player?

“Because–and I cannot fucking believe I am saying this–SHIELD is goddamn HYDRA.”

Words: 4446, Chapters: 1/23, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of The Sunflower Verse

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Alexander Pierce, Brock Rumlow, Helen Cho (Marvel), Christina Raynor, Peter Parker, Michelle Jones, Ned Leeds, Flash Thompson, Nick Fury, Sam Wilson (Marvel)

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Kidnapping, Gunshot Wounds, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Miscommunication, Panic Attacks, Anxiety, emotions make people do dumb things, Marriage Counselling, Therapy, Steve Rogers-centric, Tony Stark-centric, Background Relationships, Relationship Problems, Established Relationship, Trauma, Politics, Paparazzi, Eventual Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending, BUT SERIOUSLY A LOT OF ANGST, Friendship, background Bucky Barnes/Matt Murdock, Background Peggy Carter/Daniel Sousa - Freeform, Weekly Updates, Tags may be added because my memory is terrible

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/40860339

#stony #steve rogers #tony stark #iron man #captain america #fan fiction #ao3 stony feed #stony fan

[casterwolflena]

The RTD Rewind: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky

So, stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but: Freema Agyeman appears in a two-part Doctor Who story featuring some villains from the show’s classic series period, written by Helen Raynor, and there’s a bad American accent. And credit where it’s due, while there was a lot about Raynor’s Dalek two-parter that sucked and isn’t her fault. There is some interesting stuff in there… not good stuff,…

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#The RTD Rewind

[chapwiththewingsthere]

i have no beef w the s3 dalek two parter so far?? i know helen raynor got absolutely hounded for it and tbh i don't think that's fair

however. why did human dalek sec's moist tentacles have to be so erect

#and other dreadful sentences #i haven't seen this episode in YEARS #the accents.......the green screen.......the andrew garfield............. #nw rewatch

[besidesitstoowarm]

"Daleks in Manhatten" thoughts

helen raynor also wrote "the sontaren strategem"/"the poison sky" some of my least favorite episodes in the history of new who. however she was also script editor for "midnight" and "silence in the library"/"forest of the dead" which are phenomenal stories, some of the best in the show's history, and i'll be kind and give her some editing credit despite the fact that those writers are geniuses and her own episodes suck chode. but i can't talk about those eps yet, so this chode it is

the accents this episode are ridiculous, but they're not WRONG per se so i can't get that mad. and i think the era is an interesting one, the glitz and glamor of old new york contrasted against the monstrous poverty of the time period. i mean the love story here is between a woman named TALLULAH and a man named LASZLO i don't even know what to do with that. i'm kind of doubting there was racial equality in the hoovervilles tbh. i know there were bigger fish to fry but never underestimate the american ability to blame every social ill on the nearest black person. and of course his name is solomon

"that there's gonna be the tallest building in the world. how come they can do that, but people starving in the streets of manhatten" now that's actual social commentary. why CAN they do that but not feed their people. the episode revolves around the exploitation of laborers, knowing you can get anything out of desperate people. literally sorting them into slaves and useful. and the slaves are pigs (recycled from "aliens of london" i wonder). "labor is cheap and that man can be replaced"

doctor does ask "martha? medical opinion?" when he finds the nasty brain in the sewer. he does respect her intellect, i do like that. andrew garfield is here, i did not recognize him but my bf did. i think it's funny how he's english but his two most recognizable roles are american (peter parker and that guy from "the social network") and then they put him in THE english show of all time and he's playing. an american. very on-brand. accent pretty good

so ofc there's daleks and they're acting up. "our purity has brought us to extinction! we must adapt to survive" which is a reasonable ideal in the melting pot of nyc. dalek sec. christ. doctor gets very upset about the daleks enduring "they survive, they always survive while i lose everything" not wrong!

i have to say, they're in the sewers and he reunites w martha and says "you can kiss me later. you too, frank, if you want" no one asked for that. gay bitch. and then we see dalek sec w his nasty penis tentacles. i hate this design so much it makes me nauseous, i don't know if i have actual beef w it from a story perspective or if i just hate to see it, visually. can't wait to watch an entire other episode looking at him directly

#Doctor Who #DW s3 #Daleks in Manhatten #besides its too rewatch