#and go immediately to cybermen | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

oreo102 · 1 month

Text

Yaz is cool as fuck and people don’t appreciate her enough, a very long ramble

TLDR because this is so long: yaz is really cool and a compelling character and not enough people talk about how good of a character she is, both with and without the doctor, enough

In the first episode we learn as soon as we meet her that yaz wants to help people. She is tired of getting parking disputes and wants something more serious, and after meeting the doctor immediately starts helping her even if she isn’t supposed to be, and later it’s implied (I don’t think it was ever confirmed?) that she originally became a cop because one helped her when she had ran away/was suicidal, maybe?

Throughout season 11 we see her be the most empathetic/caring (episode 3 with the racism Ryan specially was facing, episode 6 with her grandma’s first husband, episode 7 with dan from kerblam, 8 with the kid who’s grandma was killed for “being a witch”, 9 with the blind kid), and is also very loyal almost immediately (“more of the universe.. more time with you!” “No. I’m with you, whatever happens” and more I’m forgetting)

She also has a very similar sense of justice to the doctor, practically immediately and comes to share her view on a lot of topics (she was hesitant to take the gun in TPOTD, she wrote wwtdd(which is adorable btw) on her palm, she defended Tesla, stands up to the master, once again more I’m forgetting probably)- hell, when seperated from the doctor without instructions/for a long time she takes 13s place as leader

Circling back to loyalty: she spent 10 months obsessively trying to find the doctor, she slept in the second tardis, she probably (I think it’s implied?) neglected her own health, social life, and job (if she still had one at this point) just to obsessively try and figure out how that tardis worked, to figure out how to get back to the doctor

And that was after she walked into a portal to an alien planet, not caring about danger because it’s what the doctor would do if it were one of them (she was already half way there by the time Graham finished asking who was going first, walking quickly and had a very determined look on her face. I really do believe if it had come down to facing the master or cybermen she would’ve to ensure 13s safety), which btw, is one of my favorite scenes in the show

And then s13. Gods I think I could talk about yaz in season 13 and those last 3 specials for days. A) Dan is more her companion than docs, let’s be very clear- they spent 3 years trapped in an unfamiliar time together with yaz acting as the leader (see above about her taking on the Doctor’s role when the doctor isn’t there to)

She handles 13’s outbursts and venom astonishingly well through the whole series but esp in s13, when she is double guessing her identity and even more unwilling to share than before, like it’s downright elegant that yaz is able to ignore 13s jabs sometimes, cuz personally I would’ve thrown hands. Although she doesn’t let the doctor walk over her, she doesn’t just accept the bullshit, she argues with the doctor quite a bit (telling her she is fully at fault for the situation at the beginning of s13 ep 1, telling her to stop leaving them all the time, shoving her when she shows back up after the 10 months)

As mentioned before the “what would the doctor do” being written on her hand is a really good touch and it does well to show just how much yaz looks up to 13 and how much she loves her (a very much amount, like infinitely)

This is getting very long so I’ll try to wrap it up somewhat quickly. Anyway, I really love yaz’s coming out scene (although I detest Dan outing her), it feels very natural and is filled with a lot of great emotions that we don’t see her have very much- like, she cries! Yaz, while shown having emotions, isn’t shown sad very often (which considering she was depressed as a younger teen and might still be, could just be her repressing those emotions) and is shown as scared much less, it’s nice to see those emotions on display

Speaking of emotions on display: “stop leaving us” is one of my favorite scenes/lines. Getting to see just how anxious yaz gets when the doc leaves, just how much she hates being separated from her, is a really nice insight to how she thinks- the doctor has already left her twice before (neither times were her fault, though) so who’s to say it won’t happen again? Easier to stay by 13 than to be crushed by her disappearing without warning

(Also side note but after that the two don’t separate much/if at all, showing that the doc did genuinely listen to her)

I’ve heard people say that they didn’t enjoy Legend of the sea devils that much but personally I love it- both because holy shit they’re so gay, but also because it again demonstrates that yaz is genuinely so smart and capable and there’s really no wonder 13 fell for her so hard (because she did. 13 fell so hard) I also like that this episode shows that the two play off each other and trust each other a lot, even if they aren’t always in sync

And finally onto the power of the doctor! Yaz’s best episode by far and my favorite of the entire series!

Yaz. Is. So. Fucking. Amazing. In this episode. She really shines so much which is saying a lot because she usually shines anyway. She looks so ready to punch the master if only he’d give her a reason, ready to shoot him (maybe not fatally… maybe) if he threatens the doctors or her own safety

She openly defies him, she leaves him stranded on a planet and if not for the plan she might’ve never came back for him, she flies the tardis! All on her own! We can assume that the doctor helped teach her but how much of that knowledge is from those 10 months? (I like to think that the first time yaz helped fly it was completely by accident)

Do the doctor holograms share knowledge? Cuz if not, that implies that she figured out it can change interface on her own and used it in their/her plan.

She saves the doctor! Multiple times! Runs out towards a fucking laser to make sure she’s safe (another favorite scene), she flies everyone home while the doc rests and recovers, she is just so cool in this episode!!

And honestly, I hate her ending. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fantastic that she survived, really truly fantastic, if they had killed yaz I’d have balled my eyes out and sworn doctor who off for a second time, but her ending? No.

I do not think she should’ve stayed with the doc, I believe she loved (romantically, she’d love every doctor platonically but) 13 only, she’d be traveling the stars with 14 or 15 but I think over time she would’ve slid into that grief, that the doctor is still there but hers isn’t. But just having to go back to normal life? Go back to her family and job and life? That’s bullshit

Graham and Ryan got the psychic papers, yaz could’ve too (which btw that’d make a fun spin off I think), or she could’ve gotten the doctors coat (which would’ve been the cutest thing ever), or even her sonic! (Least likely) but- nothing? Nothing? No!!

She and 13 should be allowed to be immortal space wives together (with river, maybe) and nothing bad should ever happen to them

#doctor who #new who #13th doctor #thasmin #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #yazmin khan #outing yaz is bs #she’s underrated #this is so much longer than I meant for it to be #jodie whittaker #mandip gill #she’s great #she is so cool

68 notes · View notes

atopfourthwall · 5 months

Note

I'm thinking of watching classic Doctor Who and I wanted your opinion. Do you think it best to watch from the first Doctor and deal with the missing episodes or should I start with the third Doctor?

That is... a difficult question to answer. Part of the problem is that any fresh start with any Doctor comes with a lot of baggage or issues. First and second - so many stories missing. Third - the UNIT era is pretty different from a lot of Who, and honestly Spearhead from Space is a bit dry partially because for some reason they chose to record the whole thing on film so it LOOKS different from the rest of the Third Doctor's era (plus it takes a bit for the Doctor to get into the action since he's freshly regenerated and they pace stuff differently for the serials) Fourth - While the most solid era, his first story is basically the conclusion to the UNIT adventures (even though the Third Doctor had resumed going around adventuring before then) and consequently a lot of characters if you're not familiar with it. Five - Continues on IMMEDIATELY after Logopolis and continues some things from there. Six - The Twin Dilemma is absolute shit and will make you hate the Doctor right out of the starting gate and not want to watch more. Seven - Fairly okay start, but it's the final classic Who Doctor and it features a previously-established villain. Your tolerance for black and white plus missing stories may vary, though first and second are not BAD starts, especially since with the first Doctor you can also see just how much the show has changed and the character developed, plus the very first Dalek and Cybermen stories. With the second Doctor, he's got a great starting episode that's lost, but reconstructions and animations exist and you get to see the development of the Cybermen into more what you'd be familiar with in New Who.

69 notes · View notes

tiggymalvern · 4 months

Text

Doctor Who Tennant Specials

I'm playing catch up with the latest Who, now that there's going to be a gap again. I watched The Star Beast and wow - it was the first Who that actually made me have feelings in years. Welcome back Russell T Davies! Thank the lord for that! Then Wild Blue Yonder immediately did it again, with the Doctor telling 'Donna' about the trauma of his back-story, and then asking her later if she remembers any of that, because he desperately needs someone to talk to. But she doesn't. The Power of the Doctor was such a Chris Chibnall episode. Let's throw everything in there! Let's have the Cybermen, and the Daleks, and the Master! It'll be amazing! And what actually happens is there's too much going on the whole time; everybody spends the ep yelling and running away and jumping off buildings and blowing things up and the impact that should have been there with the return of Ace and Tegan just wasn't. The only moment that had any emotion was the very end, with Dan's gathering of ex-companions and especially seeing Ian there. So Russell T Davies comes back to write a bottle story with nobody but The Doctor and Donna and shows exactly how powerful writing can be when the characters have time to talk.

#doctor who #fourteenth doctor #donna noble #russell t davies #chris chibnall #writing #spoilers #dw spoilers #one minor spoiler

36 notes · View notes

variousqueerthings · 7 months

Text

some things about s2 doctor who confidential + david tennant's video diary

mvp of season 2 goes to nicholas briggs for voicing all the daleks and cybermen (as he did in s1 and continued until today -- also judoon, jagrafess, zygons, nestene consciousness, ice warriors)

also at this point need to shout out to everyone who got stuffed inside a robot suit -- first actually to the guy who played the ann-droid back in s1, but my goodness did the cybermen do a lot of fun background choreography work to become uniform, led by a very small delightful movement teacher

david tennant fangirling over elizabeth sladen. david tennant fangirling over anthony head. david tennant fangirling over K9. david tennant fangirli-

goooosh the whole bits about the last couple of episodes -- the emotions everyone's going through, especially with regards to billie piper of course. quite happy they cut almost immediately post-filming the goodbye scene, because I heard she wasn't doing too great for a bit, and yeah, that performance was Intense. would have liked to have heard some final words on her part on the experience of doctor who, but that's me wanting more billie

last actual filmed episode was satan pit and the last two scenes filmed was the doctor and rose reuniting in the TARDIS and then "who are you?" "oh... the stuff of legends." -- followed by "that's a wrap" and billie and david immediately hugging each other very very hard :(((

ofc I also heard the rtd let her know early on that she was coming back for s4

very sweet to see the david tennant video diary for season 2 and him being a tad nervous about how people will feel about his portrayal -- flash forward 17 years and....

julie gardner talking about first meeting to develop torchwood, and how she right off the bat went, "right, the things we need to establish is how much violence and nudity we're going to do" because it was totally untrod ground until now

#doctor who #dw #doctor who season 2 #billie piper #julie gardner #nicholas briggs #rtd #david tennant

28 notes · View notes

ssaalexblake · 1 year

Note

I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on the Ghost Monument. I know some people feel the stakes aren’t high enough, and that maybe if the racers were pitted against each other more it could be a more ‘interesting’ episode I guess, but I find the dynamics of the 2 guest cast to be interesting because they aren’t enemies, they’re not friends either but there’s not a desire to kill each other, because they are their out of necessity and to me that’s more then just being there out of ego or a prize. That surrounded by the history of the Stenza on the planet, it’s fascinating and one where I don’t think I’m fully across yet, so would be interested in hearing your thoughts.

Honestly, I was mostly just shocked that people thought this episode was bad? It wouldn't make my favourites list but there's literally nothing wrong with it either in plot or the execution of it imo. I enjoy it in a rewatch! It builds important dynamics and sets up important arcs. The foundation for the main characters are more firmly set.

Also, like, whatever peoples feelings on the stakes in this episode, it should be noted that The Ghost Monument as an episode has a dark twin. Its name is Ascension of the Cybermen. Narratively they function as a pair and the second one is supposed to be a lot darker with more stakes that shows the development of the characters, so you can't really do that if the first one is absolutely Go Go Go GO high stakes all the whole way through? The tonal difference belays the seriousness of the second episode. The contrast shows to demonstrate both how far the fam have come in AotC and how far 13 has fallen from TGM.

Not to say the sitch they're in in TGM isn't serious, it is, but this is not super stressful to the doctor, she's not, till the very end, scared she can't return them home or that they'll die (well. anymore than the doctor apparently normally is. The monologue in Once, Upon Time was fabulous but very sad). The fam are mostly just following 13's lead to get through this all figuring it's their best chance. In the second episode, they show their own initiative. In effect TGM is their training wheel episode that allows them to survive when the stakes get high.

The links between 11x01 & 2 and 12x09 & 10 give me Life. Such brilliant arching plot threads. Great bookends to Ryan and Graham's time on the show.

And really? This is a personal opinion, but disaster apocalyptic scenarios (which this is applicable to even if our group aren't natives of the place) where everybody lives in hell but just fight and try and kill each other as well as the environment trying to off them are just Bad. And belays an absolutely twisted view of us as a species. I feel like them all banding together when it gets tough and forming a community, if a very terse one where not everybody gets along, is actually an accurate portrayal of people in general. Even whatshisface Enzo or whatever joined the group he hated for safety because he was a lousy person, yeah, but he was Not stupid. I cannot stand grimdark crap like those zombie shows where people just kill each other en masse in their warring factions or whatever like the whole of human history isn't us forming societies and working together.

But speaking of whatever his name is, I feel like his contributions to the dialogue of the episode played an important part in delivering the themes they were going for, so making them fight instead would just have damaged the episode's core aims.

Mr 'I love my mum she taught me people are awful and selfish and horrible by breaking my trust and allowing me to get badly injured' is, congrats, the first person in this era to talk about his terrible mother whom 13 Immediately says sucks (gee i wonder why they did that. he even got hurt because he fell and his mum didn't save him). This is also the first time the cycle of abuse is mentioned because uh, the loser in the mother of the year competition did it specifically so it'd perpetuate itself in her son. This is the episode the timeless child is first mentioned. Considering the cornerstone of the arc is that this child in the end Broke that chain of abuse I do not consider this a coincidence. I'd bet him and his mother would think that Tecteun made that child Strong by what they did to them. 13 did Not like this man and she wouldn't, he's a dark mirror but also the victim of a really shitty mother.

There are other things i take note of in this episode. It's the first time out of post regeneration weirdness we see 13 really hit her stride. It's the first time we see her eschew pacifism as Her Thing despite the fact that she's already demonstrated her willingness to use violence with a few bombs the ep previous. Contextual morality. Reoccurring theme. It Wasn't a good idea to use violence in the situation she was in in TGM. Still doesn't make her a pacifist though bc lol, the bomb thing. So it's Kind of the first blatant portrayal of 13's private actions contrasting ones witnessed by the fam which are used to make her look better in their eyes. This will continue all season.

The stenza are now explicitly portrayed as violent colonizers as opposed to weird guys with the universe's most messed up election system. The lady is going through a race from hell is here to buy her loved ones out of the hell of their society. It's the first time the theme Properly pops up in the era. The first of many times. 13 continues to be a support to Ryan here, deepening their relationship. She's dad-ing him. She's not mad, she's disappointed! (she's also mad). She's also supportive of him.

I also think that 13 totally running out of ideas and thinking they're all gonna die at the end when the others disappear and the tardis does Not appear sets up something interesting. The fam, the ones who have been sceptical about her ability to save them this ep but still figure her as their best chance Immediately bolster her confidence and try and prop her up. They continue with the 'you've got this doc, we have faith in you!!' for a while after that, i assume they think she needs the morale boost? But I think it just leaves her with this terrifying pressure in the end?

She tries to let them know later on that this travelling is Dangerous and that they could get hurt but i think they have kind of started to buy into their own hype about her by then and aren't as worried as they should be. They think tim shaw is the worst of the worst the whole of s11 and 13 doesn't barely deign to acknowledge him bc he's so beneath her. So by the time the real bad guys pop out of the woodwork that Actually scare her the fam are overconfident in her ability to save them, which in turn eventually leaves them in the AOTC situation where they have to save themselves because she Cannot save them herself. She gave them an out before then and they didn't take it because they were not worried. I think the journey to that overconfidence starts right here.

I guess if i had to gripe it'd be that the scene where the two racers decide to take the prize together was Way too easy and more of a footnote in the story? There wasn't really another way this was going to end, but still. That seemed a little weakly done to me. I'd like a little bit more time devoted to it because it's not like i can't think of a few different scenarios to get here, it's just they'd have taken more screen time. In the end, I think that the episode had more important plot threads to go into so they just rushed it a bit. Maybe that's where people wanted more conflict? I don't want more conflict as much as a deeper discussion. They Didn't have a gripe with each other beyond that they were competing against each other and wanted to win and it didn't seem to occur to them that they could just share. But also, i've not watched this for a while. Maybe i'm misremembering, but i remember it feeling short to me.

idk, in the end it reminds me, weirdly, of Jurassic park where they're working their way across the park to the guest centre when all the dinos are escaped. Yes they're in danger and at times it's severe, but they have time to talk and bond and work together using their own skills as a group. The stakes Are high, there be monsters out to kill them and they want to go home, but it's also not 100% dire at all times. It hits the same mood for me.

This episode wasn't grim but it wasn't trying to be either so i guess if you Like grim it'd be a disappointment, but it did what it wanted to pretty well with setting stuff up and having a reasonable compelling episode plot.

Also... It's Super pretty. The bright sun. Glorious.

#13stardisposts #dw shit #dw meta #kind of #i mostly just talked #i like this ep and i'm mostly just surprised people object to it so much???

56 notes · View notes

man049 · 4 months

Text

Happy christmas everybody! Today marks the 10th anniversary since The 11th Doctor regenerated into The 12th Doctor. So I felt obligated to make a compilation of some of my favorite Capaldi moments to celebrate that.

He appearing in The Day Of The Doctor 1 month before his introduction.

He calling Clara an egomaniac.

He telling Clara she doesn't see him.

He trying to resonate with Rusty.

Rusty telling him he is a good Dalek.

He asking Clara if he's a good man.

All of his banter and fights with Robin Hood, which leads to him getting shut up by Clara.

He being so desperate in trying to prove Robin Hood isn't real that he speculates the villain created his own enemy.

His theories about what the creature from Listen could be

He picking up the phone and suddenly appearing somewhere else alongside Clara.

He figuring out that they aren't in a heist but a rescue mission.

His discussion with Clara at the beginning of The Caretaker.

He interrupting Clara's class to explain that what she is teaching is wrong.

(I know this one is disliked but) him abandoning Clara so she can decide the fate of the creature in Kill The Moon.

He wanting to talk to Clara about the planets during their last hurrah.

"Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose".

All his bickering with Clara during Flatline.

He avoiding getting run over by a train while crawling from inside the tiny Tardis only to later make a little dance to celebrate.

He trying to communicate with the 2d monsters but giving up to defeat them because he is the man that stops the monsters.

He explaining that the superpower of humanity is forgetting.

"Do you really think that I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?".

"Clara, I'm terribly sorry but I'm exactly what you deserve".

That entire scene of him and Clara in Dark Waters if I'm being real.

"I am... AN IDIOT" followed by him thanking and kissing Missy.

Almost anything in Last Christmas.

Him fighting vikings while playing electric guitar while riding a tank.

He noticing Clara in between the crowd and immediately starting to play Pretty Woman and flirting with her.

He taking over Davros chair because he believes Clara is dead.

He deciding to give Davros regeneration energy.

He trying and failing to explain to Clara his duty of care.

Believing he has to die and being totally chill about it while Clara is in total dread.

Admitting that he is rewriting history for the main objective of saving Clara.

Trying to trick the vikings with a yo-yo.

He realizing the message of his face and saving Lady Me.

Discussing with those two zygorns in the kids playground.

The zygorn speech obviously.

The entire ending of Face The Raven.

Pretty much everything in Heaven Sent and Hell Bent.

He finally getting his turn of entering The Tardis "for the first time".

The entire ending of The Husbands Of River Song.

Trying to erase Bill's mind only to get called out by her and getting tormented by the photos of River and Susan.

He celebrating christmas with Bill and going back in time to take photos of her mom as a christmas present for her.

His handshake with Nardole when Bill finally says that it's bigger on the inside than the outside.

"Nobody is from space. I'm from a planet like everybody else".

Explaining to Bill why he is so unphased by horrible deaths happening in front of his eyes.

He getting cornered in Knock Knock and solving the conflict by solving the villain's relationship with his mother.

Starting a domino effect that would lead to a revolution that would cause the destruction of capitalism.

He saving Missy from being executed and scaring of the executioners.

Reading the veritas.

Calling The Doctor.

His propagandist pro-monk broadcast.

"Hidden amongst 7 billion there's someone like you".

All of his scenes with Missy tbh.

He eating with Bill while they sit on a bench as he explains why he cares about Missy so much.

The Doctor Falls speech of course.

His final stand against the Cybermen.

He finally remembering Clara.

"Doctor, I let you go".

These are just some of my favorite moments but I didn't want to name every single one because I didn't want to be here all day so these are just the ones that came to my mind.

#12th doctor #twelfth doctor #peter capaldi

15 notes · View notes

ariminiria · 3 months

Text

every time, the cybermen and the daleks and whatever else are always like "let's not kill the Doctor, let's keep him alive. he's defeated us so many times before that we hate him so much, it would be more satifying to make him watch our evil plan go down first. then we can kill him"

then he stops them because they didn't kill him immediately and he got to hear their whole plan and had time to think of how to stop it

and yet they turn around and do it again. they do this literally every single time

11 notes · View notes

13docwriting · 5 months

Text

So I'll start with the fact that I am, indeed, a fan of Chibnall's era. I am an even bigger fan of the 13th Doctor. I'll also start with the fact that I quite literally grew up with RTD's writing and loved Ten with all my heart. But now I am an adult and some of RTD's writing has left me a bit scared. Here's my "live streaming" review on The Star Beast. SPOILERS BELOW!

I'm going in order of how I processed things, so it's gonna be chaotic. My first essay is this: You know why this post is so long? It's because we're not livestreaming things anymore. I'm not immediately with other fans in real time, typing out our little posts. I'm quite literally doing this at my leisure. I'll miss watching DW live. Now then, in order! 1. The music? Ten out of ten. I have always loved Gold's compositions and he did not let us down. And this opinion is only being generated from the new(er) theme song. Which leads me to...

2. Look at the B U D G E T. Even the opening credits has a budget that you can just FEEL. Those stars/galaxies? Very nice... And then I have to chuckle over the low level lighting / 2000s era effects of David Tennant's full profile voiceover of Donna and his story.

3. Him taking the boxes, seeing Donna's face, and slowly putting the boxes back is an RTD special and I LOVE that kind of comedy. It just makes me chuckle. And then him having a full blown panic over hearing Donna shout "Rose!" which... 4. Having these little call back moments feels rather bitter since we're calling this a reboot of the show. UNLESS the reboot is when Nucti starts up? But the fact that I'm confused just shows how bitter I should be. Again, my Chibnall love is showing. I don't believe in yet another reboot for DW, but that's a marketing thing over anything else... I hope. 5. I'm glad the 2000s Rose/Doctor shipping era lives strong through the name Rose. I know those fans are going to be happy and they deserve it. 6. NOW... Donna having a family. Okay. I'll have a separate post but... Does anyone else think that Donna having a husband just doesn't fit for her? Especially with her memories erased? Idk, I just never envisioned Donna getting married after the whole Lance thing. BUT I'm glad she's happy and the husband seems so nice. 7. Donna giving up that lottery money? Also strange considering she lost her memories. The first time we meet Donna we get this feeling that she's a bit shallow, which makes sense because she has to develop as a character. That was her character development so here KEEPING the money would have made more sense here. Which...

8. Rose. That's all. She's great!

9. Hey, can't help but notice, but when did the 14th Doctor have time to make a new screwdriver, huh? What gives? AND - AND there's not a single hint of 13's sonic on there. HMM. What the heck!

10. FORGOT SOMETHING. Whatever the line was "that says mistress" "Oh, catch up, will you?" I don't know how to take in this scene quite yet, but it's making me pause. It felt... Off kilter. Maybe cause I love 13 so much, I don't know. There's always callbacks to other faces when the Doctor first regenerations, but this felt... Wrong? Also, TEE HEE my mind went to Missy IMMEDIATELY and I love that little connection my fic writing brain is going wild.

11. WHY DOES UNIT HAVE SO MUCH MONEY???? Look at this uniforms, holy cow! I almost don't like it? Like, they're an underground agency. WE JUST SAW THEM GET DESTROYED BY CYBERMEN IN THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR. Are we just ignore that entire episode or...?

12. Donna not being able to keep a job? Yeah, THAT one I believe haha.

13. "I will burn down the world for you, darling" says Donna Noble to her transgender kid. WHICH IS AMAZING, WHICH MADE ME SMILE SO WIDE I WAS HAVING A PARTY IN MY BRAIN. There's my Donna! 14. "Gramps used to talk about flying saucers" oh god my heart. I teared up a little, not going to lie. Wilf, I think about you every single day. You made the Doctor the person he is today.

15. MEEP IS SO CUTE. OH WOW. I know "evil" is coming but SO CUTE RIGHT NOW.

16. To go from some excellent animatronics from the Meep to whatever those alien, fly things are was HILARIOUS. What, we'd run out of money for those costume's? Were they meant to look like a typical RTD alien back in the 2000s? How does that work?

17. WHAT THE ACTUAL FLYING FUCK WAS THE SONIC DOING. Wait, did Disney give the sonic some magical powers? Why are we suddenly writing in the air? How are we getting readouts of the ship from the sonic like that? Could it do that before? Why would we not do that before? I'm dying that's so funny.

18. Shirley seems cool!!! I hope we get more of her! And I love the nod to PROPER representation. Chibs did a good job of that as well. Edit: REAL representation! Good on RTD. The scene with the stairs and she says "don't make me the problem"... I am not a wheelchair user but I do hope that was properly done. 19. "I absolutely love her [Donna]" LOOK AT 14 HAVING FEELINGS! Aww, I hope 15 follows through with the feelings! 11, 12, and 13 have been so locked up, so scared to love... Having a Doctor that's ready to loudly embrace their love for things would be such a good character development. (My fear would be RTD ripping that away in the most tragic way possible, but that's a future problem I suppose).

20. I'm at the scene where Rose is talking to the Meep in the shed, and just, again, THE MUSIC. We did have some good musical moments in 13's era but, even I have to admit, nothing as pretty as this. It really is something, round of applause once again.

21. LISTEN. L I S T E N. I don't condone slapping the Doctor. I don't. In fact, it's wrong. It's very wrong. And you can't slap 13, can you? So slapping 14 shouldn't make sense. It's the definition of sexist. It's just not something you should do. BUT. B U T. Jackie's "stitch this, mate" is always in my head and now THIS "here we go again" after Sylvia gives the Doctor a good slap... I laughed, okay? It was funny! But really, in the good year of 2023, there shouldn't be comedy like that. That joke should have died. BUT I LAUGHED. So I'm to blame as well.

22. "Never mind about the ferret from mars." I LOVE the mars callback from Donna, thank you very much.

23. Kate looking after Wilf damn near brought tears to my eyes. Kate, you are the real hero of the DW universe. Thank you.

24. This is... This is gonna be another post. But. Okay. So. The whole "you're assuming he as a pronoun". Right. Okay. I know groups of people that talk like that. Both online and in person. Personal life spoiler, I work(ed) in musical theater. I've seen it all. I, personally, do not like this whole... "Let's be really obvious about it" thing. And also highly believe in someone else first telling me, when it fits, what their pronouns are. Having someone pull the defensive "YOU ASSUMED" crap doesn't work because humans don't think like that. It's a whole other rant, but yeah. This felt forced and I hate when shows do that. Representation is important but FORCING that representation doesn't help.

25. what's the. what's the sonic doing. what. how'd it. we got lines in the air. we got unbelievable shield. we. he waved it like a wand and now. what the. how'd. (Yo, not me head cannoning that this is 13 banging around in 14's head demanding that they have a better way to protect their friends. Love it). I WILL HAVE A LOT MORE THOUGHTS ON THIS.

26. DW has money now. That will continue to blow my mind.

27. "This is a sonic screwdriver and if it's good at one thing, it's resonating concrete". Oh yeah, Doctor? I'd like to bring forth you, never once, being able to do it. Not once! (And now it's good at creating magical shields and complex, alien holograms, but that's point #25)

28. Where'd in hell's name did he get that wig and how soon can Donna throw it out a window?

29. MEEP YOU - YOU UTTER AHOLE. Man, it was SO CUTE

30. O k a y. I take back, holy crap what point am I on? I take back point #7. So there's some of the Doctor left in her, eh? That's why! I dig that. I really, really dig that. Sorry for being a downer, that was my mistake.

31. I too can come up with technobabble bullcrap that means nothing. I sometimes think that's RTD's biggest failing, his incessant need to over describe things. EDIT. JEEZ, a good five minutes later as we're STILL talking gibberish.

32. Hey, I see you "glass wall between Donna and the Doctor" and raise you "glass wall between Wilf and the Doctor". OW. I demand emotional compensation!

33. Listen, I just got over 13 keeping every. single. emotion inside of her. She never raised her voice, she never really cried, she never had a chance to just scream and yell and be angry at the universe. The fact that there's 14 RIGHT HERE, screaming, because to save Donna, he has to lose her YET AGAIN. Just angry and devastated and grieving... It's a stunning scene, it's a scene that makes sense, but my 13 loving little heart says that this is 13's moment to be angry and it was taken from her.

34. Also, ha, I know Disney bought DW, but did we just "Winter Soldier" Donna Noble. We gave her trigger words to keep her memories at bay? Really?

35. "Hold on a minute," said in Ten's/Fourteenth's voice... Was that.. Was that ELVEN'S theme music while Donna was being, well, Time Lady Donna? Because that was... That was GOLDEN. How amazing is that? What a great idea!

36. You MONSTER, RTD, making Fourteen hold Donna the same way he held the Master? What the hell is that about?

37. The.. The nonbinary, but binary. I... It's... Something! Okay, I'll get there. I'll have a post about it. Maybe. But. Yeah, it's something!

38. DOES UNIT HAVE AVENGERS *cough* sorry it's been a while for Marvel me *cough* STARK TOWER. WAS THAT STARK TOWER? Damn, Disney, you really did bring us back to superwholock Avenger's "Clint in the vents" era, huh?

39. "It's a shame you're not a woman anymore, because she would have understood... Something a male presenting Time Lord will never understand." You can't... You can't do the whole "nonbinary" thing and that just immediately point out gender like that. What. The defeats the entire purpose. The whole point you're trying to make is that gender DOESN'T matter, and yet... And the Doctor has always, always been nonbinary. I refer to the Doctor as "they" when speaking as a collective whole, and many of us have done that. I use pronouns when talking about specific Doctors because humans have always used pronouns. Again, 11 and 13 have made mention that gender has NEVER mattered to them. I just... You can't be poking a bear and then expecting the bear to not to come after you if you've changed the poking object from a stick to a teaser.

40. I gotta laugh that Rose and Donna had the most peaceful "regeneration" we've ever seen. Somewhere in there, a Doctor or two is screaming lol.

41. Oh... The TARDIS is ugly. DON'T HIT ME. STOP HITTING ME. I MEAN It. Not, for real though, Oh my god, what. Why. The colors. Or lack of colors, really. What the fuck. Where's the... Where's the personality? Where's the sass? I've loved every single TARDIS change but THIS... This is a hard one to swallow.

42. The TARDIS having an shit fit over Donna spilling coffee on her is WONDERFUL. That's so funny to me. With everything she's been through with 13, that was just the best way for her to get her revenge! All in all, strange episode, yeah? I mean, what WAS that plot? It was really more of setup for the next episode, and double really meant to reunite ten and Donna, which was well done, but also... Why? It just felt a bit all over the place but very much cushioned by nostalgia. I'm done now. My fingers HURT. As always, and as I say in all my fics, I'm here if you want to chat. Reblog this, PM me, tag me in stuff!

#dw spoilers #dw #doctor who #david tennant #donna noble #dw 60th #doctor who spoilers #dw specials #the doctor #fourteenth doctor #the star beast #DW the star beast

15 notes · View notes

chartmyfixations · 5 months

Text

cris watches dr. who: s02e05 - "Rise of the Cybermen"

"But we're surrendering! Listen to me, we surrender!"

Cybermen! I know these! They are infamous! *strikes through on list*

I have to confess, the inside of the Tardis is one of the ugliest sets they have

Parallel universes! It took them a while to get to that with all their time travelling shenanigans, I admire the restraint. I grew up with the X-Men, so one measley parallel universe doesn't faze me

Even fancy, Rose's mum is a menace

The people with the EarPods look kind of commonplace in 2023, what with airpods everywhere

That villain chews a lot of scenery, he's like a sixties bond villain. Dude, if Dr. Evil thinks you're being too much, you should really take it down a notch

I too would Google myself in an alternate reality. Like, immediately

*squints eyes* The whole bit with Mickey's grandma - he's going to stay here, right? All the temptations of a parallel universe are equally applicable to him

Free upgrades? Yeah, that would work on at least two thirds of the population

Sooo... did the psychic paper also whip up Rose's maid outfit?

If you wanna know what's going on, work in the kitchen. That's some Terry Pratchett wisdom right there

The Doctor surrenders?!!! Damn, this is srz bzns

Delete - oh, so this show is just really fond of robotics with catchphrases that are synonyms for 'remove'

5 out of 8 TARDES. Lot of set-up, little pay-off -- and I'm not sure the threat of the Cybermen feels as potent as it should without the nostalgia glasses

#cris watches #cris watches dr who #doctor who #dr who #rose tyler #billie piper #the tenth doctor #tenth doctor #10th doctor #david tennant #5 out of 8 tardes #rise of the cybermen #s02e05 #mickey smith #jackie tyler

10 notes · View notes

thewanderingace · 3 months

Text

I have finally watched The Flux!!

God it took me ages to get through Thirteen's episodes. Some were good but overall I was bored a lot so it took me ages to get through season 11 and 12. But I just watched the last episode of the Flux tonight and now I'm going to randomly share my disconnected thoughts about it on this post.

Okay so overall I think I enjoyed this season! Which surprised me. I was so prepared to hate it after all the hate for the Flux I've seen on Tumblr or be super bored like I am with a lot of Chibnall's episodes but while it isn't my favorite thing I do think it was 13's best season. I didn't think I'd enjoy the Flux if I'm honest. Everything I read about it sounded dumb or confusing and yeah I'm still a bit confused by some stuff that was just not addressed but this isn't the first time the whole universe (or massive parts of it) have been wiped out so it's not exactly a new concept for the Doctor. But the connection with her and her past is new and I'm intrigued by it if I'm honest. And it gave Jodie some great stuff to work with. She was so good in this season. Way better than the previous two seasons just because she had a lot more to work with writing wise.

The individual plots for each episode are really good and kept my attention. I've loved the plot of the Sontarans waging war through time, the Lupari and their species bond with humanity, the whole thing with the Mouri, Swarm and Azure were cool villains, the star crossed lovers Vinder and Bel trying to find each other, the Weeping Angels taking a whole village, Dan and Yaz living 3 years in the early 1900s and doing Indiana Jones type of stuff. I even enjoyed the Division and the Flux plot.

Now while I overall liked all that, I still feel unsatisfied because there were a lot of potentially great stories but they were all crammed together into 6 episodes and none of them had time to be fleshed out properly and some of them didn't connect well and trying to follow it all was SO HARD. There's so much going on and so many seemingly unrelated plots happening all at once that it's so hard to keep track of. And I'm watching all these episodes back to back immediately after one another. I can't even imagine trying to keep up when this aired one a week. I'd be lost. I think this would have been amazing if they had gotten a full season and didn't have to cram it all into just 6 episodes. (this is why I'm worried about the new season coming which is only gonna have 8 episodes. DW needs more than 8 episodes)

I adore Dan by the way. I loved him from his first scene and every second after has just been lovely. He's super sweet and I love his accent and that he's apparently so selfless that he'd rather give all his food to others than have any for himself. He's taking all this alien stuff so well too. He just got kidnapped by a giant dog and hasn't had a moments break since but he's cool. I like him best out of all of 13's companions so far. Too bad he barely had any episodes. That's a shame. Looking forward to watching these last 3 episodes with him though.

Vinder and Bel? I LOVE THEM BOTH!!!!! Talk about star crossed lovers! I'd watch a whole show just about those two.

Dan and Yaz living for three years in the early 1900s?? I WANT TO LEARN MORE!!!! How did they get out of the village that was surrounded by space? Why was it surrounded by space? Dan as the stowaway is hilarious and has to sleep under the bed in the ship XD.

Chibnall throwing every recurring species he can think of was nuts but in a fun way. Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen, Ood, Weeping Angels, etc.

Kinda lame that Tecteun was just taken out so easily. I wanted the Doctor to do it in a very Doctor way. Like what 10 did to the Family of Blood ya know?

And that's all I got for now. 3 more episodes to go for 13's run!

#doctor who #the flux #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #stephs stuff #mod post

4 notes · View notes

jennyandvastraflint · 1 year

Note

Osgood/Kate for the ship ask game?🧡 Explain it to me like i'm five years old

Ask and I shall provide! The ship is Kate and Osgood from Doctor Who!! 🥰

1. What made you ship it?

I kinda always shipped it, possibly to do with the blonde/brunette thing you have in loads of ships. (SwanQueen, J/7, Thasmin come to mind) And for some reason little queer me just assumed they were together.

I actively started shipping it when listening to the audios. I think particularly Retrieval in the fourth boxset, and the Cyber Reality ones. Let's just say Kate being the only person to evoke really emotional reactions in Osgood and Kate saying "I can fight Cybermen, Daleks. But fighting Osgood!" did something to me. (this only gets more as the audios progress, in one later on Osgood saves Kate's life and tells her they're not going to let her die)

Also, on a slightly different note: Kate and Osgood are Janeway and Seven in a different font, there are sooo many parallels. (at some point part of a collective/hive mind, hallucinations of Kate/Janeway, them constantly saving each other, etc.)

2. What are your favourite things about the ship?

How much they trust each other but still are their own people, but also how complex their relationship can be. With Kate being professionally Osgood's superior.

They are both incredibly smart but can lose sight of things, so they have each other to stay rooted in their task.

Osgood's impeccable sense of fashion (and Kate's Christmas sweaters, one of which is mentioned in "The Wintertime Paradox" and reads "Oh Chemis-tree" XD)

You can toss evil alternate universe Osgoods at Kate, but she'll be able to tell HER Osgood apart in a heartbeat. That reads to me as knowing each other very well.

Oh, did I MENTION Kate immediately calling Osgood after she was nearly blown up. That really stirred my brain! (Still a shame we didn't get Osgood in PotD, but I'm headcanoning Kate got Osgood to safety far away. Cybermen and the Master don't end well for Osgood like. EVER.)

In short, there's many little and many big things I adore about the two of them. (also for instance how Kate reminds Osgood of the inhaler XD V cute and I know darn sure I'd need such reminders)

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Well, I personally headcanon both of them as asexual. Yes I know Kate has two children, but asexuality is a spectrum, and I like projecting.

Additionally, Kate is sapphic (obviously) and I'm tending more towards lesbian Kate? Her marriage with her ex-husband was, in my understanding, very much she didn't want to marry him and filed a divorce after having kids. It is reading as CompHet to me, but I am open to different interpretations. It's never been stated anywhere.

Also: enby they/she Osgood who is arospec and autistic, and has OCD (that one is canon). Is a huge part of that projecting? Possibly, but Osgood reads as very much autistic. I can repost a blog post that goes into that a bit if I find it. The aromantic hc is based on Osgood saying something along the lines of "My life's pretty full as it is with work and friends. I've never really felt like I was missing something, but if a relationship were to happen, and I had the time and the connection was right, I wouldn't say No." and as that's pretty much how I feel about it...

Oh! Kate is also autistic! XD I love me an autism/autism couple. I wrote her as stimming to regulate emotions a few times, she has a very steong sense of justice, and I could go on. But it's also just a vibe for me. (almost all the characters I write I write or headcanon as autistic XD)

Essentially, my shipping them doesn't really include sexual stuff, and little super romantic stuff, but is instead (in my writing) an exploration of a somewhat queerplatonic relationship and a relationship essentially transgressing what is understood as "relationship" in a broad view. Intimacy and closeness doesn't equal romantic attraction, and it's something I want to show since popular media fails to provide ANY aro rep (and very, VERY little ace rep that is often very stereotypical or token-esque). So, I hope to bring diversity into that all while exploring their relationship in a multi-facetted view.

I hope this explanation was satisfactory!! Thank you so much for your ask :3

#doctor who #kate lethbridge stewart #petronella osgood #kate x osgood #osgood x kate #osgate #lesbian #asexual #asexual headcanons #aromantic #aromantic headcanon #nonbinary #nonbinary headcanons #ship ask game

15 notes · View notes

lady-murderess · 1 year

Text

I was supposed to be brainstorming a sequel to Cat Ears and Curses, but I got distracted and completely inspired to mix these two shows together:

I have so many ideas for this crossover. I'm already working on my notes as I'm typing this and I have pages and pages worth - and that's just for this one fic only. I'm channeling my younger self as there I was in 2004-2010 completely obsessed with Doctor Who, and I'm living for it. So with all these notes, I know exactly where I want to take this already. And I'm not going to lie, with this I'm also channeling the "golden area of new who", aka the Russel T. Davis era. How could I not? That era was just so rich in character development, events and lore.

It's of course going to be Wednesday as the next generation of the Doctor (16th) and Tyler shall be her companion. There will be parallels between 10 and Rose because I am wanting this to be a slow burn Wyler fic. Over time Tyler will change her and soften her up as Rose did with the Doctor.

So, given Wednesday shall be a timelord, she will be an adult, and so will Tyler. It just makes it easier to be able to take the story where I want it to go, and anyway, since when would you really see the doctor as a teenager in the show? It wouldn't make much sense.

I have decided how they're going to meet, I just need to finalise which villain I am going to use. So far I'm thinking of The Family of Blood, or at least something like them. But even then, I'm not one hundred percent sure.

I've made the decision that if I do go with an old foe, then I've immediately ruled out the Cybermen and the Daleks as they're always coming back throughout the seasons. And as much as I love them, the two are overused and after 10's era, I've never liked the way they've been handled.

So, yeah. There's that!

#wednesday netflix #doctor who #crossover #lady murderess #LM: fics

7 notes · View notes

thathalloweengal · 6 months

Text

The Power of Yaz (A Thasmin short story)

Getting your house in order should have, in theory at least, been a lot easier after over a dozen regenerations, but it never ever was. The Doctor had just spent an hour meditating and sealing away the darkest aspects of her mind, so hopefully they couldn't influence her next incarnation. She made their mental prison cell look like the White Rabbit Bar on Legion, just so she could try her hand at some 'A Time Lord Victorious, a Dream Lord, and a Valeyard walk into a bar jokes, but despite herself, she couldn't find any of them very funny.

Earlier, she uploaded her thirteenth diary into the Library database, she didn't have the hearts to face River but she hoped that her late wife would get a kick out of reading through her adventures with Graham, Ryan, Dan, and of course, Yaz.

In truth, the Doctor was afraid of seeing River because of just how she felt about Yaz. Not because she was feeling unfaithful or anything, she and River were never monogamous, but instead because the Doctor knew exactly what Melody Pond would tell her. She'd order her to do the one thing the Doctor could never do. The one thing in the universe the Doctor's hearts ached for.

But Earth was safe, her friends were fine. The Daleks were dust, the Cybermen devastated, the Master was gone, for the time being at least. The Doctor should be happy, ecstatic for the conclusion of a life well lived, so why was it that all she could feel was sorrow? The sorrow of a love she wasn't brave enough to act upon. Looking into Yaz's eyes and telling her that she needed to do this on her own was by far the stupidest thing she had said in this life. She needed her Yaz here, with her, telling her everything would be alright. That regeneration was just like a plaster, that they'd pull it off together and then just keep traveling through eternity forever, like nothing had even happened.

The Doctor's hands wouldn't stop pulsing with regeneration energy. Oh well, it was time to pull off the plaster alone.

"I think one of the best things about being us..." announced a familiar Scottish brogue "is that when it comes to the big moments, we're never truly alone"

Out of thin air appeared a person with untamed silver hair and big bushy eyebrows, wearing a punk t-shirt, a hoodie, and a guitar strapped to his back. He looked like such a rockstar.

"Doctor!" Our blonde time traveler gasped

"Doctor" Her immediate predecessor confirmed with a toothy grin

This wasn't right at all, don't get her wrong she was glad to see him but these kinds of meetings between the same person could cause all sorts of disastrous paradoxes, unless... Of course, her brain was dying. Our blonde Doctor was remembering, hallucinating the Scotsman, the person who made such an impact on her life since before she was even created. She remembered sitting in his veins as he talked her through life as the Doctor. Never be cruel, never be cowardly, he told her... Hate is always foolish... He was her absolute favourite. The wisest and the wildest Doctor of recent centuries.

"I'm not on the Edge anymore, am I?" Our blonde Doctor worried, she didn't want to be back there, a moment away from falling into that nothingness

"No" The Scot reassured her "You're going to be moving forward, the Edge is only for echoes, the plan is for you to join the other fourteen or so of us Doctors as we become a part of the next one"

"... I suppose all I have to do is let go"

"You don't have to do it by yourself... Not this time...I came here so you wouldn't have to"

"You drew the short straw?" The blonde Doctor teased to hide her nervousness

"Not at all, I've been following your work... Bit of a fan actually, I really couldn't have done it better myself, well... apart from that Kerblam business, I feel like I could've done that a bit better... But still, you did wonderfully, you brought hope, compassion, and best of all kindness to a universe that really, really tries its best to harsh all of our vibes... Thumbs up to you, Doctor"

And indeed he did put both of his thumbs up to her, while maintaining a pretty wide distance. Still not a hugger.

"Thank you" was all the blonde Doctor could think to say, she was flattered but unused to accepting compliments, especially from herself

"I'm very welcome" he smiled

She couldn't help but frown at him. This Scottish Doctor, her fav, reminded her that things had to move on. He didn't know Yaz, he had to wait until he was her to meet the fam. In a week, or a month, or even a year from now it would be the same for her. She'd end up meeting someone new, someone who'd make the universe feel like it was uncharted again, like all of the stars that died millions of years ago were reborn, renewed, reimagined... She'd forget about Yaz for a while, put her to the back of her mind so she could lose herself, her pain, her suffering, in those new adventures.

She didn't want to forget about Yaz, she didn't want new adventures without her... She just needed Yaz... Her Yaz. She wasn't ready to say goodbye. Oh Other Hell, now she was crying.

The Scottish Doctor wiped her tears away.

"Take my hand" he said, softly "It's time to go"

She didn't want to... She couldn't, not without seeing Yaz, at least one more time.

"I can't"

"You must... We must... We have to go on"

"No, not without her"

"You can see her again, after you change"

"Not with these eyes I can't"

"The eyes don't matter!" the Scot argued "The mind behind them does"

The blonde Doctor sighed, her head spinning as she finally accepted "I can't do this..."

"Finally!" exclaimed a new but also most certainly old voice "You got there in the end, I never doubted you"

The voice belonged to another Doctor, the one that came before the Scot, the raggedy man in tweed, proudly wearing a bowtie and a fez.

"Oh no, not you" complained the Scottish Doctor "Look I'm trying to secure the future of all of our existences, could you, maybe, just be a pal and go play hide and seek with the Silence for a bit"

"Rude" the bowtied man chastised "And no, because I'm actually filling an important role myself"

"Sheriff of nonsense? Fez police?"

"Well now that you mention it, neither of you are wearing fezes, which is rather disappointing, but no... I'm here to appeal to our current self's heart"

"Which one? Unless you've miscalculated she does have two"

"The centre of her love for her companion" clarified the raggedy man while rolling his eyes

"Hold on..." The blonde Doctor interrupted "You're giving me a splitting headache, hallucination or no, I never really got used to the whole multi Doctor crisis thingy"

"See" the Scot argued "You're giving her a headache, clear off"

"Oh you'd like that wouldn't you, changed your tune since you were in the driver's seat, eh Doctor? What happened to the man who nearly ended his regeneration cycle at the South Pole?"

"I grew up, I know what's at stake... She needs to do the same"

This clearly outraged the raggedy man, whose youthful face turned a bright red "You really want her to abandon her love! Her Yaz! To just keep moving on forever, never looking back!"

"Funny you saying that, you little twit" the Scot snapped "As I recall you were the one who never took River to Darillium, never even saw her again after Manhattan!"

The raggedy Doctor went quiet for a few moments, fury and sadness battling each other in his eyes, before admitting "It's not that I didn't want to, of course I did, I love River more than I ever thought I could love a person... but I just couldn't forgive myself for Amy and Rory... I started to wish that the Angel had taken us all in the end... We could've had so much more time together but... I was afraid, I was so scared of watching them grow old... I held us back, River and me... I selfishly took those days away from us, and I could never bring myself to face her afterward"

"You would've had to watch them die" the Scot said, coldly

"And that sounds horrible, it does, but in those final moments I could've given them comfort, closure... It would've hurt so, very much but we would've been together... And..." he took a deep breath "Believe it or not, my complete cowardice turned me into you! A Doctor, who would break the web of time itself just to save the life of his best friend! A Doctor that would take an entire planet out of its natural solar system just to extend the definition of a day on Darillium! So tell me, please, because I really have to know, what right have you got to tell our future self that she can't hold back her regeneration to spend more time with her Yaz!"

"She's fatally wounded, you grandstanding numpty, she wouldn't make it another hour in her current body"

"Oh yeah" the Raggedy Numpty laughed "How long did you hold back your regeneration? Back when you were all stroppy and 'Never again!' Eh?"

"... A few weeks, maybe, but I wasn't as badly injured as she is"

"You were worse! Your body physically died at one point, still don't know how we were brought back..."

"I don't want her to give up like I did!" The Scot revealed, at last

"She won't... I promise, Doctor... She is more hopeful than both of us put together, you just have to believe in her"

"... What do you propose?"

"If we teamed up, you and I..." the Raggedy man pleaded "And we held back the regeneration energy with her, she could live for months, maybe even a few years... Love is always wise, that's what you told her before we brought her into this world, Love is always wise"

"She... She could have decades if we bring Sand Shoes in on this" admitted the Scot

"I could text 'Dr. Fantastic' to help too"

"Warry and the illegitimate son of Lord Byron would help in a hearts beat... They love this sappy stuff"

"So..." The Blonde Doctor interrupted, having already inputted the coordinates for Park Hill, Sheffield, ten minutes ago "We doin' this or what?" she smirked

O-O-O-O-O-O-O

Yasmin Khan held her baby niece Aalin in her arms for the very first time. She had only been born eight hours ago and yet she was positively bursting with energy, she hadn't even settled down for a tiny nap. Sonia and Ryan were the exact opposite of their daughter, they looked absolutely shattered but incredibly thankful for Yaz's mum, dad, and Nani for being there for them, helping to bring the baby home, and making sure they were all fed and given as much rest as possible.

Graham was in the guest room, at that very moment, snoring his head off after being up with the two new parents for thirty hours straight of panic attacks and cries of 'Oh my days'... Sonia wasn't a picnic for Graham either, she 'accidentally' gave him a black eye while he was trying to reassure her. The midwife claimed it was a nervous reflex but Yaz wasn't so sure.

Aalin cried, Yaz soothed her. It had been over a year since the Doctor had left her back on Earth, Yaz still didn't feel right about that, she really wanted to stay with her best friend, be there for them, learn how to properly take care of her, but that was taken out of her hands. At least she was there to help the next Doctor get through his regeneration sickness. Heh, she still remembered the day he showed up on her doorstep, all bouncy and highly strung, scratching his stubble, his hair soaked in fever sweat, just muttering away to himself about sixty years not being long enough and crying about the secret Werewolf Kings of Sweden. He coughed up golden particles of regeneration energy and then passed out in her parents' bed room. After getting her dad to help her carry this new Doctor into the guest room, Yaz made sure that he had plenty of water, and lots of blankets. He was so cold to the touch and he shook terribly with seizures, she held him through the worst of them. She couldn't call for an ambulance, and U.N.I.T. hadn't recovered since the Master's 'Become the Doctor' plan. So Yaz was on her own, caring for her old but new Doctor, and she was good at it. His fever settled and he was starting to ask for food. Yaz was in the middle of making him fish fingers and custard of all things when he snuck out the window and ran back to the TARDIS.

Yaz worried that it was too soon, that he was running away from her at the cost of his own health. She may have been right. One month later, she met the Doctor after that one, a very stylish young black man, who was full of apologies and loneliness. They went hiking together and camped out underneath the stars, just talking about life, regeneration, old adventures, new ones too, Werewolf Kings of Sweden, Silurians partying in Atlantis. It felt so right, that night, it felt like she had her best friend back.

Yaz never heard from him again afterward. He was busy, of course he was. He was the Doctor, the man who stops the monsters, and the universe was full of those. She understood that, and hey, it wasn't like Yaz was just waiting for him to pick her up. Yaz was only back in Sheffield for Aalin's birth, she had moved to Cardiff in June to sign up with Torchwood down there. The new team headed up by Gwen Cooper and Alice Carter was still finding its feet and they were off to a rough start. The Rift in time and space running through the city had long been sealed but left unchecked for over a decade, its corpse drew in an almost infinite number of even more volatile wormholes to other times, planets and even universes, these wormholes needed to be investigated, the aliens on the other side negotiated with, sometimes fought, and then the wormholes had to be collapsed. It was exhausting work, and the hours were awful but it was vital for the future of humanity, and for their first steps into the big wide universe.

But more important than all of that, there was baby Aalin, gurgling softly to herself in Yaz's lap, blowing bubbles and smiling brightly, bringing Yaz back to the present. Yaz had a life, an actual life on Earth with friends and family, so why couldn't she stop dreaming about a blonde heartache that was no longer in the universe.

"Earth to Yaz?" Ryan teased, before gently observing "It's easy to get lost in her eyes, isn't it?"

Yaz played with her niece's tiny little fingers, her eyes were wide with joy and fascination "Yeah..." Yaz appreciated "They're lovely"

"I believe she gets her eyes from my side of the family" Yaz's Nani chimed in

"Mummy" Najia Khan chided "They're the exact same shade as Ryan's"

"Nonsense, Beti, they're amber just like my Daadaas"

"I thought you said you never met either of your grandfathers" Hakim, Yaz's dad, puzzled

"That's beside the point" Nani Umbreen bristled "I heard all of the stories about him, growing up"

"Stories of amber eyes" Sonia rolled her own "Anyways, her eyes are dark brown, just like her dad's" she leaned into Ryan, delivering a soft kiss to his temple

Yaz couldn't really get used to this. Inane conversations about the eyes of a baby, whose eye colour probably wouldn't even be permanent for months to come. Ugh, she felt like such a downer on this wonderful occasion. She felt so alone. Looking around at her smiling family, her mother had her father, true loves, together and celebrating the birth of their first granddaughter. There was Ryan and Sonia, new loves, over the moon with this adorable little life they brought into the world together. Her Nani kept putting her hands into her pockets to caress the two photos she carried of her lost loves. Even Graham would have Ace to spend this moment with later. Yaz didn't even have a photo of her special person to keep her company at this sweet time. Her special person was exploring infinity without her, fighting SniperBots, or back in time, saving Marie Antoinette from blood thirsty revolutionaries.

Yaz handed baby Aalin back to her Nani, who looked absolutely delighted to get to hold her little, energetic great grandchild again. Yaz needed some fresh air but knew it would be rude to just get up and leave right now. So instead, she let her mind drift to a more peaceful place, as her family yammered on about tiny details.

Yaz let herself daydream about another universe, one where the Master never existed, one where she traveled with her Doctor for a lot longer and never truly left. A place her mind retreated to often, where she felt entirely safe and loved. A place where the ancient alien let herself fall in love with a human from Sheffield, and they made each other happy. Yaz constantly dreamed these dreams about the Doctor, her blonde Doctor. It was her favorite part of any day, whether she was daydreaming while eating her lunch on Ianto's bench outside the tourist information office facade, or night dreaming with her cat, Loaf, curled up next to her.

Yaz loved exploring what could have been, through the lens of her own mind's eye. She and the Doctor, a life so unlike her own right now. Endless traveling, a loving marriage, three adopted Timely Children. Her and the Doctor growing old with each other, watching their kids grow up and become a new generation of time travelers. She knew it was sad, but it was also incredibly comforting. She didn't want to forget about that mad woman that fell from the stars... That mad woman who almost fell for her... If the most Yaz could have with her now was an imaginary world inside her head, she'd take it, she'd take it in a heartbeat. It kept her Doctor's memory alive and kept Yaz sane.

BING BONG

The doorbell stirred Yaz from her reverie.

"I'll get it!" her father announced

"It better not be another conspiracy theory baby grow" her mother warned

"Don't worry, Habibi, this one has an adorable little plushie spy glass along with it"

Yaz's father went silent when he opened the door, the grin on his face fading fast.

"I, uh..." he glanced anxiously over at Yaz "Look, this isn't a good time" a note of warning aimed at the person in front of him

Yaz's dad never warned anybody. Was someone hassling him? Yaz immediately jumped up at that thought and strode over to the door, ready to deal with whoever it was on the other side, but froze immediately when she saw that the visitor had an impossible face.

"Hi Yaz!" the Doctor, her blonde Doctor smiled "Could I come in for a cuppa or..."

The Doctor's eyes landed on Ryan and Aalin.

"Oh my word, Is that a baby?" the Doctor cooed

Yaz could only nod at the ridiculous question. How was this possible? Her Doctor regenerated, she had met the Doctors that came after her's. Was this Doctor a hologram? Like the one the TARDIS had made? Or maybe even a robot duplicate? She reached out instinctively to touch the Doctor's hand. Flesh, real flesh, warm flesh. The Doctor smiled at her, sending Yaz's stomach into a flip.

"I'm back"

"You're back" Yaz gasped as she embraced the other woman and sobbed into her coat.

"Glad you're alive, Doctor" Ryan smiled

"Well I'm not!" Najia Khan scowled "You have a lot to answer for, young lady, Yaz was beside herself for months, and then you send around those two Doctor friends of yours, Spikey and the Mustache instead of just talking to her yourself!"

Yaz glared daggers at her mother, getting her to stop revealing future knowledge for the moment at least. The Doctor looked so confused.

"Is this the girl that broke your heart, Bheti?" Nani Umbreen asked Yaz

"No, Nani" Yaz tried

"I did" the Doctor admitted, solemnly "I was foolish and cowardly, and I'd understand if Yaz never wanted to see me again"

"Do you love her?"

"Yes"

Yaz felt like she could fall over. The Doctor loved her? She had admitted that she had feelings for her during the whole Sea Devil situation but she was so afraid of falling in love with someone she would outlive. This couldn't be real. Had Yaz fallen asleep? Was she dreaming again? Or was this yet another Master plan to try and catch her off guard. Maybe this Doctor was a clone sent to trap her and hurt her family. Damn it all, this was a conspiracy, one big manipulation that couldn't possibly be reality... Could it?

"Nani, Mum, Dad... Would it be alright if I stepped out for a bit?"

"Take your time, Bheti" her Nani reassured

Ryan was laughing and singing "I knew it, I knew it" in a terrible sing-song voice. Sonia hit him with a pillow because the baby had started crying.

"Need some back up, sis?" Sonia shot a glance at Yaz

"Sonia Sinclair, don't you dare"

In the corridor outside, the Doctor was going on and on about how the TARDIS would only let her land on this date, no sooner because of some major possibility of paradox. Yaz wasn't really listening, she was steps ahead of the Doctor, putting distance between them and her family. Assuming that this Doctor was real was dangerous, and the hope that it gave her was even more so.

"Yaz..." the Doctor whimpered, coming to a halt

Yaz turned to face her, tears in her eyes, she just couldn't stop them.

"I am so sorry" the Doctor reached out for Yaz's hands, and after a moment of hesitation, Yaz let her hold them

"Don't be daft" Yaz deflected, putting on a brave face "It's only been a year, I've been great"

"I haven't" the Doctor confessed "...Though it's only been about ninety minutes for me"

"Lucky" A tear escaped Yaz's eyes, before she finally asked a very important question "So you're still dying?"

The Doctor nodded "But thanks to some friends of mine, not for a long while yet"

"How long?" Yaz dared

"I dunno... I don't want to know anymore... But what I do know, what I'm absolutely sure of now, is that I don't want to be without you... My wonderful Yaz"

"You're not afraid of time running out?"

"Terrified, really, I don't think I'll ever not be... But back when I felt myself burning away and becoming the Master... I died, Yaz, properly died, and my biggest regret in the darkness before I was found, was all those times I had pushed you away... I made myself promise that when I came back, I'd be better, braver... I'd kiss you and ask you to never leave"

"I definitely would've remembered that" Yaz traced a police box onto the back of one of the Doctor's hands "What went wrong?"

"I got scared, and then..." the Doctor held up her still glowing hand as a reminder "I got really scared... And I did what I always do when I'm scared"

"You ran"

"I ran... from my love for you, and I am so sorry Yaz but I do love you, I love you so much and you deserve way better"

Yaz pulled the Doctor over to a wall and snogged her, fiercely. She ran her fingers through the blonde's hair, the Doctor wrapped her arms around Yaz's waist and Yaz pressed firmly up against her, just to make completely sure that this Doctor wasn't a robot. Nope definitely not a robot, too soft, too warm, two hearts to beat against her own lone one. A clone, maybe? The Doctor tasted like the universe. A trillion different amazing sensations excited Yaz's taste buds. Clones couldn't taste like this, could they?

"Nah..." came a voice inside Yaz's mind "Clones taste predominantly like Fnargberry ice cream"

The Doctor's voice was inside Yaz's head.

"Is this too much?" the Doctor worried "I was trying for intimate and... well this is how I was taught to be close to someone"

"More" Yaz begged, needing to feel her Doctor even closer

"Contact" The Doctor grinned, and Yaz fell head first into her best friend's soul

Yaz could see everything. Every single moment of the Doctor's long and contradictory life, from Gallifrey to Sheffield. Every joyful moment, every terrible one. No more. No more secrets between them. Complete and beautiful trust. Yaz knew the name the Time Lords gave the Doctor, she knew about the Timeless Child, and the fob watch buried deep inside the TARDIS. Moreover she knew the exact moment the Doctor fell in love with her, wow that was earlier than she thought.

It was like they were completing each other, there was no Doctor anymore, no Yaz, just an entity made out of pure love.

Near by, someone cleared their throat. Painfully, the Doctor and Yaz separated, their minds reeled in shock and their bodies followed suit, practically jumping away from each other.

Umbreen smiled, she looked embarrassed but satisfied as Yaz placed her hand back inside the Doctor's own, she craved her Doctor's touch, she found that she needed it even more so after that incredible experience.

"I am glad that you two have made it up" Umbreen failed at holding back a smirk "Now Yaz, and I'm sorry, young lady, what was your name?"

"Oh, um" the Doctor stumbled, searching for an alias "Smith, Jane Smith, Sarah Jane Smith, Doctor Sarah Jane Smith"

"I'll just call you 'Doctor'... Now come inside for some cake, meet baby Aalin, she has my grandfather's eyes"

"I'd love to... Wait Aalin? That means Graceful"

"Ryan and Sonia felt that it would be a nice tribute to his nan" Yaz explained, sliding her arm around the Doctor's waist and never wanting to let go of her Timeless Lady ever again

"Well then, Yaz, Umbreen, let's go meet little Aalin Sinclair-Khan"

"Ah only my oldest friends call me Umbreen, dear"

"Well not to brag but I did officiate your wedding"

O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O

Lying next to Yasmin Khan in bed was pure bliss. They had an absolutely brilliant day together, enjoying their time with Yaz's family, catching up with Ryan and the cute little baby that had his eyes, waking Graham up with her best Dalek impression 'GRAY-HAM-OH-BRY-AN! YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF THE DALEKS!'

The Doctor or Sarah as she was going by now, didn't know just how long she could keep going. Her hands had stopped glowing and she could feel all of her other selves trying their best to keep her together. She supposed that maybe if she didn't receive any further injury, she might have as long as sixty years to spend with Yaz.

Cuddling up next to her love, the Doctor found herself ecstatic to go the long way around. They had another few days in Sheffield together then they'd travel all the way down to Cardiff. The Doctor couldn't wait to see the next generation of Torchwood Wales. Gwen Cooper, Bill Potts, Bill's wife Heather. The Doctor could finally reunite with the two versions of Sam Jones that she resurrected during Big Bang Two.

Yaz has a lovely big flat overlooking the Bay, a nice cozy bed, so she says, enough custard creams to last a lifetime, and even a little kitty cat called Loaf. To the Doctor, that all sounded wonderful, but the thing she was most looking forward to was all the time she would be spending with her Yaz. Who knows what adventures were still waiting for the both of them: Breakfast with the Prince of Wales at the Prince of Wales pub on St. Mary's Street, lunch on the Senedd steps with the elusive owner of Wildthyme's Holiday Inc, dinner on chippy lane with her Torchwood team. Her future, old, new friends.

This wasn't retirement of course, her and Yaz would still travel in the TARDIS, but maybe they could stick local for a bit. Defend the Earth, hang out with the Fam, love each other with no interuptions.

BEEP BEEP BEEP

The Doctor's sonic screwdriver was receiving some sort of distress call. Other Hell... It looked like the Doctor and Yaz were back on the clock again.

The Doctor activated the screwdriver and a small hologram of a raven haired teenager wearing a striped black and white jumper leapt forth from it.

"Susan?" the Doctor gasped

The girl in the hologram was her granddaughter, Susan. It had been so long since the Doctor had seen her, she had searched the war torn nations of the twenty second century and the battlefields of the Last Great Time War, only finding echoes and ghosts, but this Susan wasn't the Susan of the War. This was Susan back when they had first started traveling together.

"I'm sorry!" Susan cried "I linked into the Ship's telepathic circuitry hoping to try and find family, but... I don't know you, do I?"

"Oh no, no, no" the Doctor tried to imitate an old man's voice "You're right on the money, dear child, right on the money"

"Grandfather!"

The Doctor almost twinkled at that exclamation but tried to stay focused "What's wrong, Susan?"

"Grandfather... The... Version of you here, with me, my Doctor, the original" she rambled "He's stressing me out with all of his warnings and protocols and secrecy, I'm not allowed to make friends, I'm pretty sure we have the Hand of Omega on the Ship and he says if we're found we'll be put on trial and have our timelines reversed so neither of us will have existed in the first place... Magister Koschei and Uncle Braxiatel tried to help us but they were attacked before we left, I think they might be dead... I just want to scream... I know he, I mean you left home to save me from the Time Lords but I'm just so frightened, all of the time"

The Doctor had no idea that Susan hurt this much, that she had made Susan's time on the TARDIS so difficult with all of her worries about them being found by their own people. She was just a child, she shouldn't have to live in fear.

"Tell you what, how would you like a stress free month away from old man Scrooge"

"... Would that even be possible? Wouldn't that break the laws of time? You're always saying how we can't change history, not one line, and especially not our own"

"No worries, the laws of time are a little bit more flexible nowadays, and anyway I can always return you to the exact moment you left"

"You've learned how to pilot the Ship?" Susan marveled

"Two thousand years later, I'd say I'm pretty decent at flying her, when she lets me" the Doctor gave a goofy grin "I'll lock onto your signal and be there in a jiffy, alright?"

"Thank you... For understanding, Grandfather"

"You could call me Grandmother, if you like" the Doctor suggested

"I would like that!" Susan beamed "See you soon, Grandmother"

Even as the hologram shut off, the Doctor couldn't wipe the smile off of her face. She was going to spend time with her Granddaughter again! Her little family was slowly taking shape, Yaz, Susan, and soon, Loaf the Cat, Loaf Khan? Loaf Smith-Khan? This was hands down the best day ever! Yaz was going to adore Susan and all of her space memes.

Thinking of Yaz, the Doctor leaned into her love's back, and whispered into her ear.

"Yaz, there's someone I really want you to meet"

"Mmmm" Yaz blinked awake and turned toward the Doctor, a sleepy but content smile on her lips

"Good morning, sleepy head"

"I think it's still night" Yaz yawned

"Two AM doesn't count as morning? That's a bit rubbish, who made that a rule?"

"Ed Sheeran" Yaz wiped the sleep from her eyes "Who are we going to meet at Two AM?"

"Well, to her it's Nineteen Sixty Three, so well before Sheeran"

Yaz lazily kissed along the Doctor's jawline.

"An old friend?"

"Sort of, I mean she is my son's little girl but he was a bit of a bad egg and she ended up traveling with me for ages, so yeah I'd say we were friends"

Yaz's eyebrows raised so far up her head that they disappeared into her long and loose hair. She took a few moments to process, yawned, stretched, and then replied "Yeah, that makes sense"

"Wait, you're not gonna ask any questions" the Doctor was almost offended, she had set that up perfectly for at least seven thousand questions. She loved questions. Zero points to Yaz. No that didn't sit right, well maybe a thousand points for being so Yazzy but still.

"Oh I've got tons" Yaz reassured her while going in for a proper kiss "In fact I think I'll spend my entire life asking them, that okay with you?"

The Doctor beamed, bringing her forehead to rest momentarily against Yaz's own. The Doctor took the time to mentally thank the universe for creating someone as amazing as her girlfriend, she thanked her other selves for giving them this chance, and then finally, slowly, she brought Yaz's lips to hers, savoring every single moment of their love.

"Sounds brilliant"

#Doctor Who #Thasmin #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #Yaz Khan #yaz x thirteen #Twelfth Doctor #Eleventh Doctor

3 notes · View notes

brilliantfantasticgeronimo · 2 years

Text

the power of the doctor

c+p my livetweets

first note: no one but maybe Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis has gotten the cybermen quite right... sure it's fun to have villains boasting, but cybermen (or ~cybermasters) are scary bc they're not supposed to do That (that being any emotion at all)

do appreciate the continuity of bringing back the ~hybrids~ (tm)... .

still holding out hope that there will be fallout/consequences to the last universe reset / Armageddon and the doctor's "solution" there (1% of hope)

can't tell if Too Dark Scene or Crappy Bandwith T_TACE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HIDE YOUR WIFE HIDE YOUR PROFESSORS

SHE'S HEEEEEREMOUTH-ON-LEGS-WALLABY-QUEEN SHUT UP NO ONE TLAK TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

im gonna go ahead and say this makes canon one of my favorite short eu stories - https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Girls%27_Night_In_(short_story)

"it's only been 3 decades for me" rip all the timelord-ace lore lol (in this continuity at least)dan slow down crazy it's only been 10 minutes

lmao i died @ the house still not being there xD

for future analysis: message about the comforts of modernity / technology doing away with regional cultures / identities?

i love my contact-lensed hypnotic trash son

yaz: is yours, isn't it? (...) yours from another time? me, immediately, without breathing: VALEYARD?????? RANI!!!?!?!?!

i love this nonesense:

u know what would go great with that new UNIT building.. . .. a UNIT. . .. spin off

“are you ready for this?” “no! ””me neither!” me neither!!!!!!!

graphic design is my passion

im screaming chibnall is actually Getting It Right TOT

i love how this is proving the widely held fandom wisdom(tm) that 13 would not get away with her bs if she had been traveling with tegan and / or donna lol

one day it WILL be the valeyard / the rani and then You Will All See

and that was the day 23.342.340.923 university collage professor thoschei AUs were born and then launched into space

im enjoying this a lot but i do have to give the critique that the emotional grounding of 13's and yaz's arcs feels very thin (as individuals and as a pair) and hasn't been the focus 20 minutes in, better hurry up @ show

I waited 2 years for this omg ot3 dynamicsssss

HE'S IN T H E S T A I R S I REPEAT. HE'S IN **THE** STAIRS!!!!

gotta love a petty in-character reference

"oh, and ace! or should I say dorothy?" (...) "last time I saw you, you were half-cat" epic burns all around in this sunday night

the cameraperson doing those close af angles in the thasmin bit... i see you cameraperson

waiting for a twist because we've done the One Good Dalek thing like 3 times in new who asdfg

i think Dhawan's master is forever gonna be my favorite master by far. the guys simply had no bad scenes ever.

ooo, i liked this moment

CHIBNALL: RECONCILE A L L THE MYTHOLOGY!!!!!!

the master in the doctor’s body... i have read that fic

fear you got beaten to the punch there, m8

me walking to the local convention w/ my first cosplay

chibnall: can i copy your homework? rtd: yes but change it a little

but,,, my spin off....,,, ):

the noise i just made omg

(screaming this was in the results when i went to re-check the meme's text sdlkjfdlksjf)

chibnall: can i copy your homework? moffat: yes but change it a little

we started the era with a funeral, and ended with support group for grief. bookend storytelling!

(though lol not to brag mates but the 10-era crew has probably have cycled thru a dozen whatsapp - facebook - zoom calls and discord groups by the time this is happening)

CHIBNALL IM GOING TO LET YOU FINISH BUT-

OK overall takes...

im gonna need time to digest lol yes, lots of very clever things, cool lore, and thematic bookends (esp, re: the fam, unit, cycles, optimism, and the master), some Right choices for classic characters BUT a lot of wasted potential for the current ones (thasmin, 13, yaz, honestly even dan! what a flimsy goodbye...).

i also think this finale fits well the rest of the era, a lot of excellent set ups for fic writers + fandom to elevate, esp in regards to character stuff and new interpretations of old themes (regeneration as identity, emigration metaphors, companion grief, etc). im always gonna be thankful for this lesson in the 13th era: art is what the interpreter of the art brings to it. a lot of people didn’t bring a lot to this era (for valid reasons, sometimes just for misogyny/racist ones) so they didn’t get a lot, but those who worked their way thru the subtle stuff and even “added-in” stuff, got a great, if imperfect work w/ a lot of nuances, and def things never before done in dw (one of the major wins: making the doctor mysterious again, and making them a refugee / vulnerable rather than “president of the universe” he’d come to be in 10 season of new who). stray points (things i wasnt as satisfied with) 1- im not sure thirteen learned a lot? i think the reason the master's final point in his arc hit and landed so well, while thirteen's didn't as much (for me) is that it all kind of circled around with not really a "lesson" being learned. we really pulled back the layers of the master's narcissism and obsession with the doctor, and followed it all the way through its origins in jealousy and self-hatred. meanwhile the doctor's optimist, happy-go-lucky facade-that-falls that the fandom did such excellent meta about... never quite hit it in the end with the show. EVEN when the setup was so clearly there SO MANY TIMES: giving yaz a gun, comitting triple genocide on the daleks/cybermen/sontarans, the tim shaw of it all... etc. 2- related to the point of 13 not growing: in the end she and yaz didn't commit to anything (quite the opposite, they stuck to the denial from the warriors ep, which i thought would be Turned Around here...), the special instead of calling out the older doctors, validated them for abandoning the companions (when tbh i think the True Thing, even if it hurt, would be for 13 to have outright said to ace and tegan [and yaz, even!] "im sorry, i wish i could have given you what you needed, but i couldnt. and probably never will") Let me stress it tho: i did really like the yaz/13, 5/tegan, ace/7 resolutions in isolation, they got those dynamics Right in a lot of ways (the 7/ace thing about the Cost you pay for “doing the right thing” , the doctor/tegan being like That but rlly only bc they care sm about each other (aaa) thing, and even with the yaz/doctor thing i can see the logic of them always being so positive + supportive, of doing all they can to “stay together”) but looking at it as a whole, in the context of "doctor who as one long running story", this felt a bit like a regression for the doctor, and by extension for ace, tegan and yaz. 3- i think there was also just not enough time to let the story breath. or rather, there WAS time but also a lot of nonsense taking that time (like the dalek trairo or the whole train thing i was SO EXCITED thinking it would be a kid from the doctor’s mysterious origins but nope, it was just a diversion to get to Squiggles.... even vinder whom i rlly enjoyed ... idk i have to question how Necessary it was to have a whole thing about him breaking his ship then repairing his ship... etc. ) . the scene at the veeery end where 13 and yaz eat ice cream was like the first time chibnall slowed the peace *enough* to let the emotions land (and also the only moment i actually started crying asdfg).there were so many more companion / doctor companion interactions to be had, but bc of all the Stuff (tm) there wasn't time to rlly exploit (not having the companions in Somber Silence around the doctor, waiting for her to wake up for days, was almost a writting crime of negligence). but then again, that's been chibnall the whole way through lol he ain't no Aguinaldo Silva and that's fine. "understated emotions" is just not my thing.

#livetweeting is so much work #i think i'll just stick to my text files in the future #dw #spoilers #dw spoilers #the power of the doctor

16 notes · View notes