#for most New Who episodes

[felicitywilds]

"im always alright" says the man in possession the deepest, most profound sense of sadness anyone could ever conceive

#doctor who #MORE COMING IN A REBLOG #dw #nuwho #tenth doctor #the girl in the fireplace #like. hes a new man #but hes. the same man. #but nothing else is the same. #do you see the problem here #dws version of im always angry #by me #i have more Thoughts on episodes before that bc the sarah jane one is SO GOOD #now that im done Pondering nine for the most part #but ill get to those later bc i aint done with this #dont skip nine #the worst part? #he says this Several Times

[murcielagatito]

my favanine pieces hehehe

#in chronological order #this is how seasons one ans two went right? #the most important avanine episodes in all existence #WHOS READY FOR A NEW AP TONITEEEE #not me bc i wont watch it till tomorro :( #mi arte #avanine #abbott elementary #step class #candy zombies #holiday hookah

[angelsdean]

seeing a post that gets some things right (interesting complex john thoughts) but other parts dead wrong (bad dean takes) has me like *eye twitch*

#reducing a complicated plot to dean hates all monsters and thinks every monster needs to be killed is um. first of all not even canon #do i need to bring out all the posts abt dean's monster ethics and how he thinks a monster is someone who hurts / kills innocent ppl #and that definition includes humans who do monstrous things too (a theme explored in multiple episodes in s1 !!!!) #but anyways. no he did not think jack should be killed bc he was ~not human~ he thought jack was a Dangerous supernatural being #since ya know. he Was. literally thee most powerful being after god / amara. and they had no idea what he might do. he was not their Baby #or their Kid yet. he was a stranger. a strange new supernatural being that they might have to stop. #s12 finale literally leaves off on a cliffhanger positioning jack to potentially be the new 'Big Bad' #so he's a stranger AND the son of lucifer (they had no idea how that would affect jack yet) AND he seemingly brainwashed cas and kelly #bc remember cas was all about Free Will and Choice and Fuck Heaven / Paradise / Peace #and then suddenly he's going against his core beliefs talking abt paradise on earth and jack needing to fulfill his Destiny like ??? #i'd be sus af too if i were dean #dean had no reason to trust jack right off the bat. 'oh but he should've trusted him bc cas did' ok and cas is dead now so ?? #then there's the soulless jack stuff which is a whole other complicated beast. and dean was not the only one trying to stop jack then eithe #but anyways. no you cannot reduce dean's complex feelings abt jack to simply 'lol dean hates monsters and wants them all dead' #he doesn't. half his family and friends are literally monsters. anyways. #vic.txt

[bardinthezone]

I cannot express in words how exhausting Moffat's who is so far

Like his women are 1 dimensional, the doctor is weirdly aggressive and thoughtless and not in a well-written or engaging way, the quips are fucking exhausting and don't get me started on the goddamn plot mess. I literally just watched it and I still don't get Demon's Run. Like who is Madame Kovarian, who are the Silence, why are they so obsessed with killing the Doctor, where did the significance of Demon's Run come from, why should we care about any of this? And past that, how did Mel get away from the Silence? How did she end up growing up alongside Amy and Rory? Moffat doesn't slow down and allow us to slow down and process anything, which means all this shit he's throwing at us just feels hollow and unearned. He's got some cool ideas that could be really enjoyable if they were slower paced and better explained. The Doctor being weirdly aggressive and self-important would be interesting if it weren't portrayed as him just being a genius action hero. Amy being dismissive of/talking down to/insulting Rory would be more tolerable if it wasn't played for laughs most of the time. Hell, River secretly growing up alongside the Ponds could've been really cool if it was better explained, better foreshadowed, and not just crammed into "two episodes containing at least half a season's worth of content." So many of these ideas have a lot of potential and ZERO payoff.

I wanted to make a tier list of every RTD and Moffat episode but tbh I don't think I'll make it past Angels Take Manhattan. I just can't do that to myself. I can make it to Angels and then I need a very long break

#I know I'm beating a daed hrose but jaysus christ it's just so badddddddddd #Most of RTD's era is S-B tier #While most of Moffat's era is C-F tier #I can count the number of A-B moffat-run episodes on one hand #and I don't think I can name think ANY S tier moffat-run episodes #ironically enough #all 6 of the RTD-era episodes that moffat wrote are at least A tier (and prolly more than half are S tier) #the man can write a really good doctor who episode!! #but he can't write a doctor who season for shit #doctor who #new who #nuwho #the doctor #10th doctor #11th doctor #steven moffat

[kuruk]

oh my god I know like it sounds weird to say this when it's just avatar but the original show has aang go back to the southern air temple to show katara and sokka his home only to find evidence of the genocide of his people and the loss of his loved ones and it's quiet until you see his grief and his rage but you just see the aftermath a hundred years later and the netflix adaptation makes it feel like they wanted it to be a cool action movie with an epic scene showing the fighting and running of the airbenders like that side by side with aang running away and it's like ??? okay it's "darker" congratulations I can see that's what the goal is based on the differences in firebending and early on screen deaths go and focus on every bit of violence for the audience's lazy sadistic pleasure instead of any of the characters personal narratives especially the women that can all be taken right out + the discovery of different places all over the world in the earth kingdom and outside of it. put everything in omashu so they don't get to meet people and see the diversity of the world and each town and SEE what life is like for them under war and have these experiences with all these people build up to something bigger at the end

#changing the order of when the audience discovers new information in favor of a more linear storytelling was a bad idea #it came off as so bizarre like adding in these types of scenes so that it's just cooler and more intense #when the original show had 20 min long episodes 20 episodes per book not much time was needed. but so much was missed in the live action? #because they had to add and drag out things like this that just feel wrong #and it's not very good every event in the live action felt very smushed together like no scene stood out no contrast just the same level #of flatness all around you dont even get a chance to really feel anything about what happens on screen #when everything happens so surface level and without much real emotion it just happens so something can happen after that and so it can end #it felt like watching a bad movie everything that gave the cartoon any meaning was taken away #adding in that weird airbenders genocide scene towards the beginning but leaving out katara's inspiration of haru and those earthbenders #was it not cool enough did it take too much away from sokka's romance plotlines #one of the most important book 1 katara episodes #it felt like the natla script was written by people who are writing from memory based on what they watched 10 years ago

[warren-keplers-funk-band]

hi who let any of 4x14 "survivors" be okay

bc i'm not

okay, that is

#YOU ACT LIKE YOU'RE EXPENDABLE #BUT YOU'RE WRONG #who let them do this #i just want words #also sidenote: #ana flores is the most useless fucking character rn #she's just #there #anyway new favourite episode #because i'm a sucker for that sweet whump #get whumped bitch #eddie diaz #evan buckley #evan buck buckley #actually on the topic of evan buckley eddie really first named him huh #buddie #911

[yoodokjas]

realizing that the random-keysmash usernames of korean fans are not... random keysmashes but keyboard play was not in my 2023 bingo

when i made the connection that rlaehrwk is just word play for kim dokja (김독자) i was never the same

#orv #rla ehrwk my most beloved squid #altho in the new side stories he appears as rlaehrwk99 and i still have no idea what that number stands for #the number of orv episodes? the % which kimcom was able to bring back? who knows

[alicentes]

FTWDs final season could have been so much better if it was revealed that Troy was running padre and controlling madison (as revenge) this whole time. He knew enough about nick and Alicia to make madison think padre knew who and where they were this whole time. And here are some other reasons how this storyline would make sense and be more interesting:

- Troy has a military background so him taking over and running a military base makes more sense than two teenagers building it up by themselves because all the adults died.

- taking and training up children to be solidiers also would make a little sense because of his own fucked up upbringing and the idea he has of the type of people who were made for this world. He would have probably had the same idea as shrike, that the kids stood a better chance at padre than with their “weak” parents. The mother of his child dying for being a good person and not getting to raise their daughter (who would not be named after his abuser) could have also played into this idea of the kids being separated from their good parents.

- shrikes radiation cure experiments: Troy ran walker bite experiments before, just to see how people would turn. So it would also make sense if the work we see shrike doing was something he approved of or an idea he himself came up with. As for shrike, it would make sense that she turned out this way if she’d spent years being mentored by someone like troy otto instead of becoming evil and stealing children just because her dad died.

- the scene where madison smashes the glass to expose “padre” would have been such a good and shocking reveal if it was Troy. Imagine Madison finding out that Troy is not only alive but had been the one running this the whole time!

There’s also a lot of other things I would have done differently for the other characters too and I would have liked Madison to have a little villain era and do some really fucked up shit as she tries to take down Troy and padre. How dark would Madison go? Would she survive with her humanity still intact?

I know I’m just talking into the void here because no one care about this shitshow but I just hate it when shows have a plot that could have been good, maybe even great but then completely miss the mark and fans come with better theories and ideas with minimal effort and thought.

#somewhere dave erickson is screaming (and relieved that at least frank dillane stayed away from the show lmao) #fear the walking dead #ftwd #madison clark #troy otto #i also would have had s7a focus on strand vs alicia but v differently with only alicia’s ending staying the same pretty much #then 7b would have been wrapping things up with morgans family and actually seeing the group being taken by padre before having a time jump #then season 8 would have been the much better padre/troy/madison arc #the way these writers reaally do not know how to write for troy and madison #it’s like they tried doing what they thought DE wouldve done with them but couldn’t decide if they wanted them to be villains or be redeemed #anyway i will always mourn the arcs we were meant to have in season 4 #madison becoming the villain vs nick and alicia and whatever was planned for troy #troy was only killed off bc dave didn’t trust the new showrunners with him and he couldnt save the OGs by killing them too lmao #but i am glad alicia is alive and we got to see daniel sharmans acting bc most of the cast were only giving about 20% atp #but who can blame them? the writing got to new levels of bad in s7/8 and their personalities were changing every few episodes #actually to be fair they did the best with what they were given they just seemed done #i only tuned in to alicias episodes in s7 so my opinion on the rest of it is from what ive read bc i just could not get through it #so my opinion on the characters full arcs in s7 may be wrong

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

current favorite thing about Psych: Shawn and his on-again off-again unofficial sometimes boyfriend Despereaux

#watching the art theft episode and man #shawn is just so bbg around despereaux its hysterical #ok psych reboot ft. things id change #uhhh id make it canon that shawn and despereaux fucked thanks for coming to my ted talk- #despereaux does Anything and shawn is all sparkly eyes amazed heart emoticons- #no no ok ok this is the dynamic in my head #yeah they fucked but despereaux was soooo over it once they parted ways #but shawn is like. That clingy guy after a one night stand who thinks that Had Something #yk? am i making sense? its almost 5 am i wanted to be asleep two hours ago #absolutely unprompted #LMAO DESPEREAUX JUST FAKED GETTING BLOWN UPPPPP #shawn is Devastated lmaoooooo #i love how they're all like 'spencer im sorry for your loss' LIKKEEEEEE cmon this shit writes itself #OMGGGG LMAO DESPEREAUX LEFT SHAWN MOST OF HIS STUFF IN THE WILL READINGGGGGG #'shawn was despereaux's only Male friend' okkkkkk ok ok ok #LMAOOO SHAWN IS DOING THE MANIC 'hes not dead!!!' THEORY THNGGGGGG #yes bby follow that hunch. be insane over this. get that art thief dick #'death by diabetes. i kid! he exploded' NEW FAVORITE QUOTE woody you are an Icon #nooo bs this is literally the fruitiest shawn has ever been and he has been Fruity on this show #cary elwes has chemistry with Everyone i stg #'i am giving this speech To Him' (shawn about the eulogy) mannnnnn MANNNNNNN #SHAWN IS DELUSIONAL <3 I LOVE THIS EPISODE ITS EVERYTHING #his. his first name is pierre. LMAO #SHAWN IS HAVING A PUBLIC BREAKDOWNNNNNNN #sorry sorry i love this show. its so stupid its great

[ravenpureforever]

Akk: I am responsible for the curse!

Ayan: I am Teacher Dika’s nephew and you drove him to suicide!

Teacher Chadok: I was in love with your uncle and we were engaged and I watched him commit suicide in front of me!

Thua: I have been manipulating everything from behind the scenes in a desperate bid to expose the truth so all this can finally end!

Kan and Wat:

#those two really just watched the most buckwild dramatic reveals happen in front of them huh #like imagine being Kan and Wat in that scene #imagine learning that your bestie was commitint crimes on the behest of your teacher who apparently had a gay romance with another teacher #and that teacher you thought betrayed actually killed himself and is the new kids uncle #and your bestie and the new kid are in love and dating #and meanwhile the head of your class has also been commiting crimes for his idea of justice #like how do you live with that in the span of like an hour #episode 11 is absolutely insane #I’m still not over it #the eclipse #the eclipse the series #kanthua #akkayan #the eclipse akk #the eclipse wat #the eclipse chadok #the eclipse ayan #the eclipse kan #the eclipse thua #the eclipse episode 11 #thai bl

[citrispace]

Just watched the last episode, I’m going to miss them so much.

Everyone, let’s go and catch Pokemon...! ❤️

#digital art #pokemon #anipoke #ash ketchum #pikachu #embarrassingly spent like half the last episode just. bawling #whos that pokemon... its PIKACHU........ as i disintegrate #i still need to finish watching journeys actually LMAO...... i never finished it #but its the most fun ive had with pokemon in a long time. i hope the new series is fun

[adventure-showdown]

I am still planning on posting matches today, however it may not be achievable just because of how long it takes and I wasn't able to sort any of it last night like I typically would

if I can't manage it I'll hopefully do a double set of matches at some point to get back on schedule

#I just have quite a bit I need to do today #I'm home for the weekend for my grandads' birthdays #so yesterday was train journeying after which I was beat #doing birthday stuff for them this morning #and then this afternoon I've promised to get a could 12 yearolds who've only seen (most of) series 1 #caught up for the episode tonight #plus I'm exec on my unis doctor who society #and Im in charge of our social media and just agreed to post stuff reminding and clarifying about our screening of the new episode tonight #plus I want to watch the episode obviously #plus don't want to post it to late in the evening #because it'll push the other days later and later

[the-false-prophets-song]

one thing i don't get is when people equate skipping nine to skipping classic who.

saying stuff like "but I skipped all of classic who so why do you have a problem with me skipping nine?" or "it's a bit of a double standard that everyone cares if you skip nine but nobody scares if you skip classic"

there is a big difference between series 1 and classic who

Series 1 is, other than having nine instead of ten, the exact same as all of ten's era. Series 1 was written very intentionally as somewhere you can start the show; it was written with the aim of getting new viewers into the show since it was seen as an ancient relic.

Classic who is extremely different to nuwho. Not in any way that makes it inherently inferior or superior, just different. Television in the 1960s has a lot less in common with television in the 2000s than the latter has in common with modern television. Watching classic who requires you to be familiar with the format of old television.

The average person on the street wouldn't want to watch hundreds of slow-paced black and white episodes that are often missing so are animated or a telesnap reconstruction. Whereas, the average person on the street would probably watch a television show from the 2000s.

Classic who is an amazing part of the show but it's firstly not required viewing to watch nuwho (unlike series 1 is) and secondly is a completely different format to nuwho (unlike series 1)

Series 2 opens with the expectation that you have seen series 1 but you probably haven't seen classic who. You should decide the order to watch the show in accordingly.

#doctor who #classic who #nu who #new who #nuwho #dw series 1 #doctor who series 1 #dw #In my personal opinion it's probably best to watch nuwho first then move onto classic who #and unless you're a huge nerd like me don't start classic who at the 1960s episodes #because the whole missing episodes shebang is a whole lot of stuff you have to know about and navigate #that I think most newer viewers would find too confusing and overwhelming

[billpottsismygf]

I've been stewing a little over the last few days about the news regarding the Doctor Who airing times and, although there's been a lot of discourse and probably everything has been said already, I just need to get my rant out there anyway.

For the uninitiated or the unsure, the brief rundown is that new episodes will drop online at the same time worldwide before the BBC 1 broadcast. This will be Fridays 7pm US time (EST I think) and Saturdays midnight in the UK. There will also be the usual Saturday evening broadcast on BBC 1, 18 or 19 hours later. Also, the premiere (10th/11th May) will drop the first two episodes of the series at once.

Simultaneous broadcast is pretty cool, and I believe the 60th specials dropped at the same time as the UK evening broadcast, giving an afternoon time for the US. That's great, but it's really messing with me that this new system completely shafts the UK in terms of viewing times. I'm not saying that only the UK has passionate fans, but I am saying that the UK is where Doctor Who is a cultural institution more so than anywhere else in the world, and seeing it prioritise the US is incredibly frustrating.

Moving to the specific fallout, there's the part of me that is upset on my own behalf, as my autistic self is really struggling with the notion that to watch the show ASAP I will now have to do so at midnight (on a Friday night too!). Since I was 9 in 2005, I have only twice gone to bed with a new episode unwatched. Occasionally that has been at stupid times in the early morning because I've been doing things for Saturday night, but generally I have watched the broadcast as much as possible, and often with other people as a community event. As a child it was always with my dad; as an adult it's often with friends!

Ultimately, though, I'll be fine. I'll watch by myself on iplayer at midnight because I am an adult who can make these choices, even if I'm sad that I probably won't get to have the viewing parties I had started to have with friends in recent years. (Though, who knows, we all have weird sleep schedules. Maybe midnight viewing parties are still on the cards.)

However, for all the kids out there I am so incredibly annoyed. I can't imagine if any of the iconic episodes from my childhood had aired the night before and I'd been unable to stay up for them. Blink? The Stolen Earth? Doomsday? I don't wish to overstate the matter, but I truly believe Doctor Who has remained such a cultural institution precisely because of its status as a family show. People are raised on it and then raise their kids on it and so on.

What are kids going to do now? Some might be allowed to stay up for the midnight release, though not many, especially for that double release which will end at like 1:30am. Others might watch it when they get up, but likely without the community aspect of the whole family sitting down for it. Still others might wait for the Saturday evening broadcast, having to dodge spoilers from other kids and adults as they go about whatever Saturday activities they have.

Regarding spoilers, I've seen some snarky comments saying 'just avoid social media lol', but firstly that's quite difficult in this day and age, and secondly it's not just social media. For one, there are all the tabloids that will plaster any new details across the front page, but also I can vividly remember talking about the brand new Doctor Who episodes at school, and how big an aspect that was of the community excitement. My teacher even did an impression of a weeping angel the week Blink aired, moving closer with a scary face when I looked away for a moment. Sure, there won't be school on a Saturday, but plenty of kids will be doing activities with other kids (dance classes, football, drama clubs etc.). What will happen when some kids have been allowed to watch the new episode and others haven't?

It may seem trivial to some, but I don't think it is. Where's the event aspect of it? Where's the community? Sure, I'm biased as an autistic Brit who grew up with the show and doesn't like change, but this new model seems designed to dilute both the excitement and importance of a new Doctor Who episode on a cultural level.

#doctor who #whew it feels good to finally type up all my thoughts and feelings #I've got over some of the initial autism 'oh no friday night midnight on iplayer arrghhhhh that's not how you watch doctor who' #but I'm still feeling a greater frustration with this decision and how much it will alter the culture around doctor who #which is not just contained to hardcore fans #but to more casual fans and most importantly families and kids across the whole country #mine #dw #dwmine #there's also how late I'll be able to stay online having thoughts and buzzing about New Episode #but again #my sleep schedule is fucked anyway so I'm not the one with the biggest problem

[crystalleoi]

5C

#inanimate insanity #ii mephone5 #ii mephone5c #my art #listen man. these two (+ 5S) are like inherently connected in my mind. even though they've never met canonically #created by a man who does not truly care about them or their well-being and only values them bc they are still new and useful to him #& died trying to kill their predecessor. but their efforts wouldn't have mattered anyway because they would've been replaced in like a year #did they know they would be replaced? did they just have to live with the knowledge that they would one day no longer matter to cobs? #these tags r only tangentially related to the artwork. i'm losing it i fear #anyway a headcanon that's actually kinda related to this art: #i imagine that cobs gave more preferential treatment to 5S because he had more advanced tech nd stuff #and 5C developed like a weird relationship w her self-esteem where she (like the other mephones) kind of has an inflated ego #she readily compliments herself (literally called herself “the most colorful beauty in existence”) #(partially bc she's kinda compensating for not getting as much praise from cobs as 5S) #(i also think she tends to seek validation from others (e.g. “i'm made of plastic. neat huh?”) because of that) #but she doesn't talk up how advanced her tech is because it's from Last Year #you don't understand how long this headcanon has been microwaving in my mind. it's been YEARS. i've never unleashed it until now #it's probably stupid but WHATEVER MAN. i'll overanalyze these phones as much as i want #this is what happens when your favorite characters show up in like 1 episode and die. you go insane

[dykepaldi]

having a somewhat selfish response to the moffat returning news lmao id basically already accepted that this show has gone to the dogs now but at least there’ll be an episode with writing that i personally enjoy

#my brain being its most impressionable during moffats run of dr who means im just conditioned to like his shit now #his convoluted bullshit and his female characters appeal to me whether they should or not #obviously its v possible his episode will suck but i feel like he wouldnt come back if he didnt put his whole moffatussy (SORRY) into it #so it might still suck but in the way that he thinks he’s written a masterpiece. which i will enjoy either way. #but yeah imagine if they hired new writers wouldnt that be crazy #dw #mine #(sorry if u’ve seen these tags change like 5 times lol i kept having more thoughts)