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oodlyenough · 8 months

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I may regret dipping a toe in Doctor Who discourse but … do you have a hot take on Blink? Can we still be friends if I like Blink?

Also, what is your favorite episode? (Apologies if you answered any of this recently and I missed it.)

Hahaha Blink definitely doesn't top the list of episodes I dislike most, it's actually the first episode of the show I ever saw and clearly I liked it enough to watch more. There's some things that irk me (like the "women gradually pestered into loving a man" thing), but most of the things that annoy me the most aren't really in Blink itself, but in Moffat tending to revisit those ideas over and over again in his own seasons. Like I think the Weeping Angels, in Blink, are pretty cool, and so is the time loop idea. By the end of Moffat's run I was sick to death of time loops, and I think the Angels got a lot less cool every time they reappeared, eventually devolved into total meaninglessness. Why am I being asked to believe the *Statue of Liberty* can move across town without anyone seeing it lfhkghlkf...

Also imo an episode that doesn't really do anything emotionally for its major characters being so often heralded "the best episode ever" just agitates me, lol.

For my favourite episode, I usually say the Waters of Mars. By that point I'd been underwhelmed by the other 2009 specials and was expecting another mostly-pointless piece to lead up to the big finale and then that ep blew me away lol. I think the tension is really well done, you get some really great acting from both the Doctor and the guest stars especially Adelaide, the exploration of 'fixed point' was built up to well with previous fixed point episodes like Pompeii, and the ending was sooo chilling and surprising to me. It also felt like fulfilling an arc for Ten that they'd been setting up all along, wrt his capacity for playing god and how that could go deeply wrong. People often criticize Ten and/or that era for deifying the Doctor but I feel like the show itself couldn't be clearer about what a bad thing it is when that happens, and WOM shows that perfectly.

Runners up: I love Midnight and I love Turn Left, for similar reasons. I think they're both good character explorations of the Tenth Doctor as well as the importance of the companion in tempering him, humanizing him, etc. (And Turn Left for Donna and Rose specifically as well.) All three of those episodes are RTD at his best imo.

#themirokai #you've got questions we've got answers #doctor who

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cipher-fresh · 2 months

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Hey, I am watching Doctor Who for the first time and I have reached Twelves last episode. One of my favorite Doctors so far for sure, and I'm procrastinating watching the final ep because I dont it to end but also because I have only heard bad stuff about Thirteen's seasons :/

What are your (spoiler free) thoughts on Thirteen?

putting this under a readmore because I hate reading chibnall salt if i'm not seeking it out specifically. i do have a lot of positive things to say though. no spoilers 👍

the 13th Doctor era frustrates me immensely because while it is not nearly as bad as the "anti-woke" crowd makes it out to be, but also nor is it as actually turbo-progressive as dudebros complain about. I like the Thirteenth Doctor, but I think moreso the idea of her or the way she is in fanon than canon. Like, the era has like, 80% great stuff, that then aren't brought to their full potential or have frustrating misfires or missed opportunities. Not that the other eras don't have the same, but I think it's compounded by the fact I don't like the companions as much. I can be entertained by an episode that has a nonsensical or boring plot if I'm enjoying the character interactions, but, for example, Ryan Sinclair is not much more expressive than a cardboard cutout. And that's frustrating! (And also, not Tosin Cole's fault.) I want him to have more personality and a life and character! I'm even writing a fic for that, right now.

(Applying criticism to only the 13th doctor era is misogynistic. Acting like RTD or Moffat were perfect but the Chibnall era sucks uniquely is stupid. Every era has problems in its own way.)

(Chibnall's also done stuff like hiring the first writers of color on the show, having a significant amount of female writers and like, I don't know, cast a woman as the Doctor or something. Big if true. /j)

For 13 specifically, I love the way Jodie plays her, I think the way she plays with gender in the narrative is fun, I love that 13 is flawed and an intelligent inventor and looking for fun in the world, that she's funny and awkward and sincere.

I sort of fell out of love with her (or stopped being starry-eyed about her) after series 12. I had been certain that the majority of the era's criticism was just disguised misogyny, but I came to a point where I was constantly thinking "This doesn't make sense" or "that's a horrible rhetorical move." or "What a big missed opportunity!" And I hate sounding like the dudebros who say "Not my doctor!!" or who think Chris Chibnall is the source of the world's problems. There's also a lot of things that were external factors in the era that were downgrades, like the decreased episode count and having to film with pandemic restrictions for series 13.

I do think the 13th Doctor era is a net positive, and there are some really fun and high-quality episodes like Demons of the Punjab and Eve of the Daleks, but this era frustrates me beyond belief. the 13th Doctor era is one of the few places where I prefer fanon to canon. Believe me, that does not happen often.

#updates from cipher #tried to keep it as spoiler free if i could. this also really makes me want to work on my ryan fic again

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sallysellsseashellssundays · 11 months

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Father’s Day-DW Confidential

I’m so glad I started watching these, this is the one I was looking forward to the most for series 1 b/c of how much I love this episode. Honestly I’d quote the entire thing just because of how good it was, but here’s three of my favorites...

“We spent a few episodes sort of showing how good a companion Rose is, so having done that it’s time in episode 8 to push that to its extreme and say ‘actually sometimes she gets it wrong’, but she gets it wrong, when Rose gets it wrong it’s under extraordinary circumstances.” -RTD (showrunner)

“The wound in time it’s not entirely Rose’s fault it’s a two-way street, the Doctor cares a great deal about her so he’s vulnerable to her suggestions and her input and never imagined that she’d do something like this.” -Paul Cornell (writer ep 8)

“With Rose, by now he should have learned his lesson and just done nice things with his companion, just taken her for a nice meal or something, rather than meddling around in her own past ‘cause it never ends well.” -Clayton Hickman (DWM Editor)

(I hope I got those right, I still have a difficult time with the accents!)

I’ve always been of the opinion that Rose had a very realistic emotional response and it was nice to see so many of the people involved discussing it in that same manner.

It was interesting to see how Nine’s response was characterized as being alien in not fully understanding why it would be a powerful moment for Rose, but at the same time family being something that he was yearning for. Plus all the clips of Classic Who interspersed with those statements made it even more interesting.

As always one of the most fascinating parts was seeing how they made the effects, especially the part where they showed an actor pretending to be attacked by Reapers!

One of the things that stood out to me near the end was Shaun discussing how Pete one ‘ordinary man’ saved the world and how nobody really realized it, which seemed to me to be almost word for word what Rose said about Gwyneth. It’s honestly one of my favorite things about the RTD era this continued pattern of one single person being able to make a difference :)

#doctor who #dw confidential #my ramblings #father's day #my love for this episode grows every day #the music they played when they were showing how much of useless person pete was made me laugh haha #an unsung hero in the end though #dw ramblings

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shkspr · 3 years

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hi. on your post where you may or may not have ended on 'moffat is either your angel or your devil' did you have maybe an elaboration on that somewhere that i could possibly hear about. i'm very much a capaldi era stan and i've never tried to defend the matt smith era even though it had delightful moments sometimes so i wonder where that puts me. i'd love to hear your perspective on moffat as a person with your political perspective. -nicole

hi ok sorry i took so long to respond to this but i dont think you know how LOADED this question is for me but i am so happy to elaborate on that for you. first a few grains of salt to flavor your understanding of the whole situation: a. im unfairly biased against moffat bc im a davies stan and a tennant stan; b. i still very much enjoy and appreciate moffat era who for many reasons; and c. i hate moffat on a personal level far more than i could ever hate his work.

the thing is that its all always gonna be a bit mixed up bc i have to say a bunch of seemingly contradictory things in a row. for instance, a few moffat episodes are some of my absolute favorites of the rtd era, AND the show went way downhill when moffat took over, AND the really good episodes he wrote during the rtd era contained the seeds of his destruction.

like i made that post about the empty child/the doctor dances and it holds true for blink and thats about it bc the girl in the fireplace and silence in the library/forest of the dead are good but not nearly on the same level, and despite the fact that i like them at least nominally, they are also great examples of everything i hate about moffat and how he approached dw as a whole.

basically. doctor who is about people. there are many things about moffats tenure as showrunner that i think are a step up from rtd era who! actual gay people, for one! but i think that can likely be attributed mostly to an evolving Society as opposed to something inherent to him and his work, seeing as rtd is literally gay, and the existence of queer characters in moffats work doesnt mean the existence of good queer characters (ill give him bill but thats it!)

i have a few Primary Grievances with moffat and how he ran dw. all of them are things that got better with capaldi, but didnt go away. they are as follows:

moffat projects his own god complex onto the doctor

rtd era who had a doctor with a god complex. you cant ever be the doctor and not have a god complex. the problem with moffats era specifically is that the god complex was constant and unrepentant and was seen as a fundamental personality trait of the doctor rather than a demon he has to fight. he has the Momence where you feel bad for him, the Momence where he shows his humility or whatever and youre reminded that he doesnt want to be the lonely god, but those are just. moments. in a story where the doctor thinks hes the main character. rtd era doctor was aware that he wasnt the main character. he had to be an authority sometimes and he had to be the loner and he had to be sad about it, but he ultimately understood that he was expendable in a narrative sense.

this is how you get lines like “were the thin fat gay married anglican marines, why would we need names as well?” from the same show that gave you the gut punch moment at the end of midnight when they realize that nobody asked the hostess for her name. and on the one hand, thats a small sticking point, but on the other hand, its just one small example of the simple disregard that moffat has for humanity.

incidentally, this is a huge part of why sherlock sucked so bad: moffats main characters are special bc theyre so much bigger and better than all the normal people, and thats his downfall as a showrunner. he thinks that his audience wants fucking sheldon cooper when what they want is people.

like, ok. think of how many fantastic rtd era eps are based in the scenario “what if the doctor wasnt there? what if he was just out of commission for a bit?” and how those eps are the heart of the show!! bc theyre about people being people!! the thing is that all of the rtd era companions would have died for the doctor but he understood and the story understood that it wasnt about him.

this is like. nine sending rose home to save her life and sacrifice his own vs clara literally metaphysically entwining her existence w the doctor. ten also sending rose with her family to save her life vs river being raised from infancy to be obsessed w the doctor and then falling in love w him. martha leaving bc she values herself enough to make that decision vs amy being treated like a piece of meat.

and this is simultaneously a great callback to when i said that moffats episodes during the rtd era sometimes had the same problems as his show running (bc girl in the fireplace reeks of this), and a great segue into the next grievance.

moffat hates women

he hates women so fucking much. g-d, does steven moffat ever hate women. holy shit, he hates women. especially normal human women who prioritize their normal human lives on an equal or higher level than the doctor. moffat hated rose bc she wasnt special by his standards. the empty child/the doctor dances is the nicest he ever treated her, and she really didnt do much in those eps beyond a fuck ton of flirting.

girl in the fireplace is another shining example of this. youve got rose (who once again has another man to keep her busy, bc moffat doesnt think shes good enough for the doctor) sidelined for no reason only to be saved by the doctor at the last second or whatever. and then youve got reinette, who is pretty and powerful and special!

its just. moffat thinks that the doctor is as shallow and selfish as he is. thats why he thinks the doctor would stay in one place with reinette and not with rose. bc moffat is shallow and sees himself in the doctor and doesnt think he should have to settle for someone boring and normal.

not to mention rose met the doctor as an adult and chose to stay with him whereas reinette is. hm. introduced to the doctor as a child and grows up obsessed with him.

does that sound familiar? it should! bc it is also true of amy and river. and all of them are treated as viable romantic pairings. bc the only women who deserve the doctor are the ones whose entire existence revolves around him. which includes clara as well.

genuinely i think that at least on some level, not even necessarily consciously, that bill was a lesbian in part bc capaldi was too old to appeal to mainstream shippers. like twelve/clara is still a thing but not as universally appealing as eleven/clara but i am just spitballing. but i think they weighed the pros and cons of appealing to the woke crowd over the het shippers and found that gay companion was more profitable. anyway the point is to segue into the next point, which is that moffat hates permanent consequences.

moffat hates permanent consequences

steven moffat does not know how to kill a character. honestly it feels like hes doing it on purpose after a certain point, like he knows he has this habit and hes trying to riff on it to meme his own shit, but it doesnt work. it isnt funny and it isnt harmless, its bad writing.

the end of the doctor dances is so poignant and so meaningful and so fucking good bc its just this once! everybody lives, just this once! and then he does p much the same thing in forest of the dead - this one i could forgive, bc i do think that preserving those peoples consciousnesses did something for the doctor as a character, it wasnt completely meaningless. but everything after that kinda was.

rory died so many times its like. get a hobby lol. amy died at least once iirc but it was all a dream or something. clara died and was erased from the doctors memory. river was in prison and also died. bill? died. all of them sugarcoated or undone or ignored by the narrative to the point of having effectively no impact on the story. the point of a major character death is that its supposed to have a point. and you could argue that a piece of art could be making a point with a pointless death, ie. to put perspective on it and remind you that bad shit just happens, but with moffat the underlying message is always “i can do whatever i want, nothing is permanent or has lasting impact ever.”

basically, with moffat, tragedy exists to be undone. and this was a really brilliant, really wonderful thing in the doctor dances specifically bc it was the doctor clearly having seen his fair share of tragedy that couldnt be helped, now looking on his One Win with pride and delight bc he doesnt get wins like this! and then moffat proceeded to give him the same win over and over and over and over. nobody is ever dead. nobody is ever unable to be saved. and if they are, really truly dead and/or gone, then thats okay bc moffat has decided that [insert mitigating factor here]*

*the mitigating factor is usually some sort of computerized database of souls.

i can hear the moffat stans falling over themselves to remind me that amy and rory definitely died, and they did - after a long and happy life together, they died of old age. i dont consider that a character death any more than any other character choosing to permanently leave the tardis.

and its not just character deaths either, its like, everything. the destruction of gallifrey? never mind lol! character development? scrapped! the same episode four times? lets give it a fifth try and hope nobody notices. bc he doesnt know how to not make the doctor either an omnipotent savior or a self-pitying failure.

it is in nature of doctor who, i believe, for the doctor to win most of the time. like, it wouldnt be a very good show if he didnt win most of the time. but it also wouldnt be a very good show if he won all of the time. my point is that moffats doctor wins too often, and when he doesnt win, it feels empty and hollow rather than genuinely humbling, and you know hes not gonna grow from it pretty much at all.

so like. again, i like all of doctor who i enjoy all of it very much. i just think that steven moffat is a bad show runner and a decent writer at times. and it is frustrating. and im not here to convince or convert anyone im just living my truth. thank you for listening.

#sorry if this is repetitive or makes no sense or if i got some details of the show wrong #i simply couldnt be bothered to put too much effort into this post #lest it become a research paper and take me several weeks to answer #anyway thats all my opinions #dw #ok to rb

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that-homoerotic-blouse · 2 years

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hi! for the ask game—3, 30, 31, 45, 72, 81/82??

3. First DW episode you ever saw?

Already answered here :)

30. Who did you not used to like, but really like now?

Ironically enough, I used to have mixed feelings about Rose, can you believe it? I guess it took me a while to get used to her looks, her voice and performance style, but initially she didn’t quite convince me. I think even my own internalised misogyny played a part in that, because for such a long time (like most people who consume mainstream media) I'd had shoved down this message that blonde women who dress in a feminine way can only be dumb, shallow, annoying, bratty and are ultimately there to be hated at. However, everything changed when I saw her full character arc, and basically considered her actions and development throughout her seasons. Not only that, but I think Rose’s character was great for me in the sense that she forced me to examine and deconstruct my notions about strong female characters. Now she is my precious communist angel and I’d take a bullet for her ^^

31. Favourite episode ever?

My favorite episode is apocalyptic lesbianism :)

Seriously tho, I think it’s a brillant ep of its own accord, but I also believe part of its appeal is how self-referential it is, and the fact that it makes you nostalgic about things that already happened in the show itself, so it’s kind of like a ‘I contain multitudes’ episode

45. Favourite series opening?

HELP very confused here! I thought this question meant favorite series opener, as in episode, but it could also mean opening as in intro and opening titles? No hold on I see there’s already another question for that ssdkdbkhscbdk (please don’t mind me) okay I’m not entire sure if there’s a right answer but either way I’m gonna say Partners in Crime because of the shared braincell

72. Favourite piece of Murray Gold music?

I KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO ASK THIS SSJSDBSF *kisses you on the forehead*

It’s always so difficult (and tragic!), having to single out just one piece because Murray’s score is always so beautiful, but because there’s a really dreamy quality to season 5′s soundtrack I’m gonna say Madman with a Box ^^

(RTD era soundtrack is still amazing and makes me cry tho)

81. Time period you’d want to go with the Doctor? / 82. Planet/place you’d want to go with the Doctor?

Oh my! This is an interesting question... so many feelings: on the one hand, I’ve always been a sucker for the victorian era, but on the other taking into account the rampant misogyny / racism / homophobia of the time, it all becomes a little less appealing :/ If I get philosophical tho, part of me would like to go back anywhere anywhen, just to check for myself that certain historical events really happened and how they happened (sometimes I get too much into a ‘history is written by the winners’ mood). But another part of me would like to go further back, to the Neolithic or even the Cretaceous, and see how different nature was and also DINOSAURS

(bonus for 82: if I’m allowed to get all scifi, I’d probably ask the Doctor to take me to a planet where gravity was so light it allowed human-sized creatures to fly heheh)

#woah! so many!#thank you!#lovely as always auroralomens #^^#ask #ask me anything!#dw ask game

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morewyckedthanyou · 3 years

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Thanks for the ask @mercurialkitty! It's been a while since I watched DW - but I'll do my best answering. 😊 I'm answering based on New Who... I have watched some original Doctor Who... but not much.

the first character i ever fell in love with:

Must've been Tennant's Doctor. I really, really liked Nine but with Ten it was instant love.

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not:

I can't really think of any character I stopped liking.

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not:

Idk, maybe Ten/Rose? I actually prefer Nine/Rose more these days.

my ultimate favorite character™:

Donna Noble. She's amazing in every way.

prettiest character:

Rose is really pretty. Perhaps not exactly my "style" but pretty nevertheless.

my most hated character:

River Song. She only served one purpose in the show and her whole personality was built around it. :/

my OTP:

Ten/Simm!Master 🙈

my NOTP:

I remember Eleven/Amy used to be a thing. Nope.

favorite episode:

It's been so long since I last watched DW but Planet of the Ood was a real good one if I remember correctly... And even though I don't really care about the Eleventh Doctor much, Vincent and The Doctor is a good ep I think. It made me cry.

saddest death:

Does Ten "dying" before regenerating count? If so then that. It also marked the end of the RTD era of Doctor Who so it's fitting. 😢

favorite season:

Season 4, because of Donna.

least favorite season:

I actually stopped watching during season 6 so... season 6. It all got too confusing for me at that point and I didn't care enough about the characters to try and stay focused for them.

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate:

Amy Pond probably. Didn't really care for her.

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave:

Simm!Master

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave:

Donna didn't deserve what happened to her. Enough said.

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship:

See my OTP, that'll answer this question nicely. 😂

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship:

Didn't Martha and Mickey end up becoming a couple..? I thought it was pretty cute and fitting.

#sorry if this was a bit... meh #i have indeed only watched seasons 1-5 of new who and part of season 6 #and some random episodes with whittaker!doctor which i did enjoy #but i don't have enough knowledge of the new companions to have any opinions of them #also idk but some of these might be considered ''hot takes'' and might upset people?#but let's hope not #mercurialkitty #answer #fandom asks

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doctorhoe · 5 years

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rating all the nuwho kisses (part 1: rtd era)

1. Rose and Mickey

a peg...on the lips.... it is cute on first sight but in retrospect it's just very bittersweet. probs noel and billie for managing to really make it look like a kiss between two people who have been dating for a long while. 4/10 it makes me sad

2. Rose and Jack

i love this kiss because while it's not romantic it still shows how much these two love and care for one another. they are still my official brotp of season 1 and you can’t take this away from me. 10/10 i,too, would let captain jack kiss me

3. Jack and Nine

can you believe that the first doctor/companion kiss in the revival was between two men?? and how it was full of mutual love and respect?? how it showed that jack loves all genders fully and equally?? 15/10 the way nine leans into the kiss makes me soft

4. Rose and Nine

this kiss redefined the meaning of love. just... everything here: ‘I think u need a doctor', the tender look in nine's eyes, how long we have been waiting for this moment. it is all so SOFT. this is by far my favorite dr.who kiss of all time. 1000/10 the final act of the time war was LOVE

5. Rose and Mickey - round 2

i'm sorry I thought u kids broke up..? seriously, rose, why keep leading him on?? this whole thing raises so many red flags, especially when he says I love you and she just responds with 'goodbye' (just wait till doomsday, rose, then you’ll know what that feels like *sobs*). like rose herself said in season 1: he deserves better!!! 0/10 they should have cut that out

6. Cassandra/Rose and Ten

ok ok. is it a good romantic kiss? no. does it make any sense? no. but is it a valuable tenrose moment? also no. BUT billie piper did us all a solid and we WILL be thankful for all eternity. 9/10 the fact that we didn't get a full shot of their bodies is homophobic

7. Reinette and Ten

i almost forgot this kiss because i usually just ignore that this episode exists. i hate everything about this but I don't have the energy nor the time to go on a rant. -5/10 good thing sexual assault charges weren't a thing in prerevolutionary france...

8. Jackie and Ten

Jackie could literally murder someone and I'd forgive her so I will also forgive her for kissing Ten despite him telling her not to (ok, now that i think about it: it’s kinda yikes-y) this is just comic relief and I needed that to get through the episode... 5/10 I can't believe this is how the two parter that destroyed my life started

9. Martha and Ten

even though tenmartha stan I have mixed feelings about this one as it is the start to a canonically very unhealthy relationship but also an amazing character arc about taking care of oneself and letting go of people that hurt us, even if we love them. I also like how the music swells so we as an audience can understand what Martha is feeling at this very moment. 7/10 'genetic transfer' my ass

10. Martha and Riley

i... almost forgot about this one lol. all i can really say here is gO GET IT MARTHA! 5/10 a sweet kiss of gratitude while the guy who should be grateful keeps you in the friendzone and compares you to their ex at the same time.

11. Joan and John

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DI

-100/10 this is what my sleep paralysis demon looks like

12. Astrid and Ten

cool, i guess? gotta be honest i don’t care for this ep. but what makes me mad is that he just spend an entire season friendzoning martha just to go off and do this? fuck you, doctor. 4/10 did David kiss the air for this one?

13. Donna and Ten

like literally every interaction between donna and ten this, too, is pure comedy gold and i’m impressed that they managed to have a kiss between the two that so completely fits their whole dynamic. 10/10 harveywallbanger (one word) is still iconic to this day.

14. Rose and Ten(too)

i used to like this kiss better before t*rning of the t*de kinda ruined it for me. but you know what? i am so happy rose and a part of the doctor got their happy ending. shut up i am just a sucker for tenrose kisses and there aren’t enough of them. let me have this. 8/10 alexa play kissed by a rose

15. Lady Christina and Ten

so... unpopular opinion (?) but i really liked this ep. and i didn’t have anything against that kiss either. i wouldn’t have cared either way. i enjoyed the flirting throughout the ep because ten is just having a mental breakdown 24/7 at this point and it’s nice that she distracts him for a while. fun fact: she is the first brunette to ever kiss the tenth doctor and also the last. 6/10 moffat stole the whole ‘i hate u’ thing from this ep

#dw #doctor who #rose tyler #mickey smith #jack harkness #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #martha jones #joan redfern #donna noble #tenrose #ninerose #tenpetals #timepetals #doctor x rose #tenmartha #tendonna #nine x jack

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labyrinth-archive · 4 years

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hi!! felt like sharing: im autistic and dr who is a MASSIVEmspecial interest but i havent actually watched the show in months and months. i only really rewatch claras seasons, usually 8 & 9 (or sometimes donna) n i started trying to watch season 8 earlier today and within ten minutes i had gotten so excited that my heart rate spiked (i have heart issues) and i had to stop n happy/excited stim frantically like four times. basically, i love dr who so much that i cant watch without freaking out

Hi, it’s nice to meet someone who loves DW/Clara so much too. :) Your cardiogram would definitely prove you’re a fan! I hope you got to finish your episode...I’m thinking it might’ve been Deep Breath if you were marathoning? That’s my favorite s8 ep, actually. I probably rewatch Donna’s episodes the most out of the RTD era too - the TARDIS needed to be bigger on the inside to contain the sheer amount of chaotic energy her and Ten had together.

#asks

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flying-elliska · 4 years

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Oh gosh Ellie I didn’t realise you were watched doctor who? To me it’s sitting in the living room aged 10 every Saturday night, and I still comfort watch it to this day (today included aha!) anyway do you have a fave pairing, and fave ep? Also side note but I’m Ellie too, but from the uk, and I’m really curious how you pronounce your name lol and whether it’s short for anything. Have a nice evening!

Oh hiii Ellie from the UK 🤗🤗🤗 nice to hear from you !

I honestly haven't watched Doctor Who in a while, I really want to see Thirteen's run at some point, but you know, my hyperfocus on Skam France honestly doesn't make me want to get involved with any new stuff lmao.

I was really really into it years ago, but I actually stopped watching during the middle of Eleven's run because I really disliked what Moffat was doing as a showrunner. I hated how it started to be so focused on the Doctor as this all powerful larger than life extraordinary creature, it felt like an ego trip that was all buildup and never any pay off. Instead of like, developing real plot and the psychology of companions.

In terms of favorites I think I have a particular fondness for Nine and his vibe, and Rose remains my fave companion (also quite liked Martha). I adore Jack Harkness too (he made me realize I was bisexual!) My fave episodes have to be the ones with that weird kid in the gas mask (the Empty Child I think?). And the one with Van Gogh was incredible, too. I also loved the one where they're stuck on an impossible planet. Honestly so many of the RTD era episodes were mindblowing (and some really bad). This is kind of making me miss the show. Never really watched any old Who, I tried and it was so slow 😂 It sounds like a lovely thing to grow up with! I just loved this wacky wild swing from one genre to the next, it's so fun. What are your favorites ?

Ah and Ellie is short for Eleonore. It's pronounced the American way I guess, easier in an expat context - I switched nicknames when I moved to Amsterdam seven years ago and now everyone calls me that.

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I definitely would count Human Nature/Family of Blood! I was thinking of clarifying that but didn't want to impose one my favorites with her in it, haha. She is so resourceful in it, and it was a interesting story.

Some of the best episodes the show has ever done imo!! I like series 3, but the rest just aren't on that level at ALL lol.

In general I think s3 has a problem where it slumps in the middle pretty bad. I mean, I still enjoy it more than... uh... mostly everything in other eras of the show, but yeah there's that rough patch. The thing with RTD's writing though is the characters and my investment in them and their development is generally strong enough to carry me through even something like Daleks in Manhattan.

42 meanwhile is my least fave ep.... Chibnall... Lmao

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sinchronicity · 7 years

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TAG GAME: DOCTOR WHO EDITION

tagged by @brilliantfantasticgeronimo thank u camila!! my personal dw fandom renaissance means i’m actually excited to talk about dw again lol

The Rules are simple - answer the questions, then tag other Whovians to get to know each other better/find new people to follow, message, etc. If there are any questions you don’t have an answer for, feel free to skip it!

Doctor you started with: Technically One, which gives me some nice fandom cred, lol. I only watched one serial of his tho, and the Doctor I first saw significantly was actually Eleven, because once I finished watching Being Human on demand on my parent’s TV (ah, high school....) I noticed it also had Doctor Who series five and watched that.

Favorite Doctor: This is such a difficult question for me rn negl!! I’ve always answered Ten, or Nine & Ten tied, and seeing as I like how their season were written and their characters developed, that’ll probably never change. But I also love Eight, and he really encapsulates a lot of what I think of the Doctor as a person, plus listening to BF audios/reading the EDAs kept me in DW fandom for a while even when I wasn’t enjoying the show at all. So......Eight&Nine&Ten? lmao

Favorite Companion: I’ve yet to meet a companion I haven’t liked, but Rose Tyler has my heart. She’s one of my absolute favorite characters ever tbh. Martha and Donna would be next, and maybe even Bill...? Genuinely love all NuWho companions tho tbh, and a lot of the Classic ones I’ve seen.

Favorite Episode: God, idk that either. Maybe Turn Left?

DW OTP: Doctor/Rose!! I ship quite a few Doctor/companion pairs, I enjoy Doctor/Master, but Rose/Doctor is my favorite by virtue of Rose being my favorite, and because I can see them in an actual relationship thanks to Tentoo.

Favorite line/quote: A thing about RTD era dialogue is that it’s not often very quote-y, and I like that quality as it means the dialogue is often quite naturalistic. (Also it’s been several years since I’ve watched any of these eps and can’t remember good quotes, lol). I do really love Rose’s “a better life” speech to Jackie and Mickey in Parting of the Ways though,, makes me cry evrytiem

“But it was, it was a better life. I don't mean all the travelling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. (...) You don't just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I just can't--”

Favorite Character that isn’t the Doctor or a companion: At this exact moment it’s probably the Master because I do like them & my sister and I have been watching a lot of serials with Delgado!Master and he’s hilarious and fantastic. There are also many side/one-off characters from NuWho that I love!

BrOTP: How could I not say the Doctor & Donna tbh

Favorite DW fic (if you have one): I have read so many good Doctor Who fics and also cannot remember a single one of them rn, lol.

Favorite DW fanart/blog (if you have one): The majority of people I followed for DW back in the day have mostly stopped posting it lol RIP. For fanart, I do always enjoy seeing @johannesviii‘s lovely work!

If you could pick anyone to be the next Doctor, who would it be? (Why, if you feel like explaining): I honestly want it to be someone I don’t know! I agree with the commentators that say the right step forward for the show is an actor of color, though. Pls not a a white cis woman lol

If you could pick anyone to be the next companion who would it be? (Why?): Like with the Doctor, I wanna be surprised!!

Favorite fan theory: I can’t think of any one in particular off the top of my head, but I actually really enjoy a lot of the more creative Gallifrey headcanons, about their biology, the caste systems, etc (yes, even the ones about looms). I’m just a sci fi nerd at heart and that stuff’s fun tbh, although I prefer the actual canon to focus on the Doctor wrt his companions & Earth.

Tagging: I honestly don’t know who’s still watching haha...@mazikeen-belloc you’ve been watching this season, right? and hmm @marley-manson @tragicyouthwasgoingdownonme @gemofsphene if u guys still care about dw at all LOL

#this is quite long whoops #doctor who adventures with tumblr user flamingbentley #no pressure to do it if i tagged u lmao #i scrolled my whole dash on saturday and saw like three posts abt the finale so its a bit. quiet here ha

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I was wondering - you've mentioned before that your blog isn't Moffat friendly, and I've seen a lot of DW fans that haven't liked him much. What are some examples of him writing sexist episodes/badly developed characters? Or do you have other issues with him? Sorry, I'm just curious as to how you feel (I'm just starting season 6 now, but I couldn't tell why he's so hated, although I wasn't really looking out for it)

*deep breath* Oh boy it’s been a LONG time since someone gave me permission to go on a Moffat rant.

I’m sure it goes without saying that this is going to be extremely anti Moffat. Avert your eyes.

There are a lot of reasons I don’t like Moffat, tbh. I’m going to start with the simplest one – you could drive a truck through some of the plot holes in his episodes. The most obvious one is The Angels Take Manhattan. Okay, fine. The Doctor couldn’t go back to that specific date to save Rory and Amy. Fine. Go to the day after. Or the day after that. Instead of, you know, leaving them trapped in the past.

“But Sam, they needed to leave!”

They’re are at least five ways it would have been better to write them off without leaving the question of “why can’t the Doctor just go to New Jersey and pay for them to take a taxi to him?”

Next – Moffat’s episodes are all flash, no substance. They are undeniably pretty – he reaps the benefits of four seasons of excellent writing and got a bigger budget than RTD in return. But the writing is shallow af and is almost impossible to get emotionally invested in. His Doctors are selfish children who mistake being rude assholes for being “edgy,” and his “emotional” scenes fall flat.

“But Sam he won awards for his writing!”

Yeah, well. Donald Trump is president. People make bad choices sometimes.

Now on to his sexism. I did a huge post about this a while back, which I’ll link at the end of this, but the tl;dr version is:

Moffat’s women have almost no character. I mean, okay, okay, okay, Clara was bossy, River was “strong,” Amy was sassy, whatever. But it’s so two-dimensional. When the characters were written by other people they were fantastic – one of my favorite Moffat-era eps is Vincent and the Doctor. Amy was fantastic in it. The writing was fantastic. Everything about it was fantastic. I cried. Unashamedly.

But the way Moffat set the characters up…they had no lives outside the Doctor. They weren’t characters, and their entire lives revolved around the Doctor.

“But Sam the show is called Doctor Who! What’s wrong with their lives revolving around him? RTD’s companions’ lives did too. And besides they did have lives!”

Rose, Martha, and Donna, all had characters outside of the Doctor. They had families, jobs (okay, Rose didn’t because the Doctor blew it up and Donna didn’t because life sucked but at one time they had jobs!). They had friends, and families, they had pasts that were completely separate from the Doctor.

Amy – met the Doctor when she was…I’m not quite sure tbh. Six? Seven? Young. Spent the rest of her life obsessed with him, to the point where it actually effected her quality of life (four therapists in ten (or so) years is a lot).

Clara – The impossible girl, born to save the Doctor. Her entire existence was solely for saving the Doctor.

River – *pause*; *deep breath* I will never stop being angry about the potential River had that was wasted. She was literally raised to be obsessed with and eventually kill the Doctor. She translated that obsession into “loving” him, and tied herself to him in a different way. She literally said once that she lived for the times when she could see the Doctor. That’s not normal. That’s not healthy. And don’t even get me started on their sham of a “marriage” (HIDE YOUR DAMAGE IS NOT THE SIGN OF A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP RIVER).

*grits teeth*; *moves on*

Moffat himself is a grade-A dick, which makes it pretty hard to watch his shows anyways. He’s been quoted as saying bisexuals are too busy having sex to watch his shows, that all bi people are just waiting for someone to make them straight, that asexuals are “boring” to write, he has literally insulted his wife before while she was pregnant (wondering when she would get back to her normal size), he renamed the Master as Missy because apparently Master is strictly a masculine term (never mind the sexual connotations that go with the term Mistress), the list goes on and on and on and on and on.

He queerbaits like nobody’s business – a perfect example being having Clara twice mention a relationship with a girl (once calling it “a phase”) but never showing it on screen, or having River reference relationships with girls but again never showing it on screen. And I know there’s a common misconception going around that Moffat created Jack Harkness so he can’t be homophobic, but…no, he didn’t create Jack. And yes, he is homophobic. He’s proven that multiple times.

And that’s about all I have time for right now. I’ll link some of my other rants below for you to peruse. If you enjoy his Doctor Who, that’s perfectly fine, and I am under no misconceptions that I’m going to change your mind. These are just my opinions.

My anti Moffat Tag (to see things I’ve reblogged and agreed with or added to)

Lack of emotional impact in Moffat writing

My BIG Moffat rant

#My apologies for taking so long nonners #I had work and this kind of rant takes time lol #anyways #anti moffat #Sam Answers #Nonners #Thanks Dearie!

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