#the beast below

[notyoujamie]

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #modern who #my gif #** #*dw #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #world war three #new earth #the beast below #mummy on the orient express #the haunting of villa diodati #parallelmw

[bellamysgriffin]

What are you doing? The worst thing I'll ever do. I'm going to pass a massive electrical charge through the Star Whale's brain. Should knock out all its higher functions, leave it a vegetable. The ship will still fly, but the whale won't feel it.

#dwedit #amypondedit #eleventhdoctoredit #doctorwhoedit #moffatedit #dailydw #dwgif #dwedits #timelordgifs #usergiu #* #i really loved this ep <3 #doctor who #moffat #eleventh doctor #the beast below

[khruschevshoe]

You know what really gets me about Eleven’s run? Is that it starts off with an amazing thesis statement in the Beast Below which I think sums up the Doctor as a character more than any other line ever has. "What if you were really old, and really kind, and the last of your kind?...All of that pain and misery and loneliness, and it just made it kind."

Yes, sometimes the Doctor needs to be reminded of that fact, as when Amy has Liz 10 hit the abdication button, but the Doctor is kind. He is the man that cheered that "just this once, everyone lives" and was a "coward not killer anyday" and flung away a gun and even after the Time Lord Victorious arc, died to save a single man from dying from radiation. The Doctor and his companions bring out the worst in each other, yes, but they also bring out the best.

And then comes along The Girl Who Waited and the God Complex, which are just an extension of Let's Kill Hitler and eventually Angels Take Manhattan, which are all about how the Doctor takes people as companions because he needs someone to worship him, that he can't bear to see them age and would rather see them young and beautiful, that he is vain, that he is cruel, that he is a god, and I get that interpretation but at the end of the day, the Doctor has never been about vanity or worship or needing someone to keep him in check.

Because yes, companions have reminded him the importance of being kind as part of what is "necessary." The importance of having hope. But it's just that: a reminder. The Doctor is unlike the Master and unlike the rest of the Time Lords because he is compassionate. Because he hates to see children cry. Because he is a coward who is nonetheless brave enough to keep caring, over and over again, no matter how many people die in front of him, no matter how many times he loses those he loves, because the Doctor is a love story as much as it is a ghost story at the end of the day.

And it kills me that the main themes/character arcs of Eleven’s era boil down the Doctor to someone who is not that. Someone who, as the Power of Three ending/Angels Take Manhattan imply, had to have the Ponds to keep him in check. That he could not let them go, could not respect them and their choices like Ten did with Martha. That an entire religion formed itself, kidnapping a child and making her into an assassin, just to stop him from ruining the universe, because he is a god more than a man. That he is a god just like the minotaur, feeding off of people's faith in him, taking children and companions so that he can be nourished, so that he can feel important.

Because even at the Doctor's worst in the Time Lord Victorious Arc, it has never been about worship. It was about grief and loss and love and compassion, because the Doctor has two hearts because he has too much love to fill just one, because that is the kind of person that the Doctor is.

All of that pain and misery and loneliness, and it just made him kind.

#eleventh doctor #angels take manhattan #god complex #the power of three #amy pond #meta #tenth doctor #ninth doctor #doctor who #Doctor Who has always been my franchise of choice because it is about KINDNESS #this is a ghost story and it is a love story #about a lonely man (or woman) who loves too much that they are always condemned to pick up more ghosts #and they carry those ghosts forever #but being haunted makes them kind #the fear keeps them kind #river song #the beast below #you know i think the beast below might be the best amy & eleven episode there is

[nowritingonthewall]

"All that pain and misery and loneliness and it just made it kind." Poe Dameron & Marc Spector

#oscar isaac #poe dameron #marc spector #star wars #moon knight #moonknightedit #starwarsedit #doctor who #the beast below #chrissie gifs #flashing gif #I love them so so so much 🥺🥺🥺

[comicaloverachiever]

We are in space! Whoo!

Doctor Who | The Beast Below

#doctor who #dwedit #doctorwhoedit #karen gillan #matt smith #amy pond #eleventh doctor #eleven x amy #the beast below #dw #doctor who edit #picspam #my edit

[lokisprettygirl]

Very old and very kind. And the very, very last.

#the eleventh doctor #doctor who #the beast below #matt smith

[boxedwinedean]

[Voting As Fire Extinguisher]+[The Beast Below]

#poetry #amy pond #eleventh doctor #the beast below #doctor who #dw

[legok9]

Doctor Who + Space Whales

PROSE: The Song of the Space Whale (1995) (Based on an unmade episode)

WC: TARDIS Cam No.6 (2002)

TV: Meat (2008)

TV: The Beast Below (2010)

AUDIO: The Song of Megaptera (2010) (Based on an unmade episode)

COMIC: Untitled (2014)

COMIC: Epilogopolis (2016)

COMIC: Old Friends (2018)

Magic: The Gathering (2023)

#doctor who #space whales #star whale #the beast below #magic the gathering #mtg #universes beyond #universes beyond doctor who #torchwood #dw comics #doctor who comics #doctor who plus

[somethingbrightly]

the pitch for "kill the moon" must have been "what if we made "the beast below" but it was bad?"

#doctor who #new who #kill the moon #the beast below #somethingbrightly

[witchofthemidlands]

meat should have been a pre warning that the rest of this season was going to be nothing but ✨pain✨ everything about this final scene with the creature is devastating & owen saying that he's sorry because of what he has had to do to that poor thing is honestly one of the top saddest moments of this show in my opinion & the whole thing, all of it just makes me think about the beast below in which eleven nearly did the same thing to the star whale as both creatures are shown screaming in agony due to the acts of humans & when rewatching meat i just kept thinking about what eleven says. “i murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as i can & then I find a new name, because I won't be the doctor any more.”

#the acting in this scene oh my GOD #burn gormans acting in this scene 😭😩🤯 #his fantastic acting in the show has led me to watch some strange films ill tell you #owen harper #i love everyone on the team equally but i do have a soft spot for owen #meat #the beast below #torchwood #doctor who #whoniverse

[angry-pole]

Doctor Who - S5xE2 - (The Beast Below) ~ Original Air Date: April 10, 2010

#Doctor Who #DWEdit #The Beast Below #Eleventh Doctor #Amy Pond #Liz X #Matt Smith #Karen Gillan #Sophie Okonedo #New Who

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

#doctor who #steven moffat #rtd2 #the eleventh doctor #any pond #Rory Williams river song #the eleventh hour #the beast below #the time of the angels #flesh and stone #the pandorica opens #the big bang

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: April 10…

The Doctor takes Amy on her first adventure, without a change of clothes first, to Britain far in the future however, he soon finds something amiss on board the vessel where citizens appear to fear “the smiling” fellows hiding in the booths. “The Beast Below” premiered on this day, 14 Years Ago.

#Day in Fandom History #14 Years Ago #Doctor Who #Series 5 #Episode 2 #The Beast Below #TV and Film

[khruschevshoe]

The Haunting of Amy Pond

Amy Pond, Doctor Who | aletterinthenameofsanity, there are lessons in life no one should have to learn (pretty little things wilt away)

(In which I read @aletterinthenameofsanity's Amy Pond character study and I just had to pull out my favorite lines and put them to images from the show because the imagery kicked me in the nuts.)

#doctor who #aletterinthenameofsanity #fanfic #fic rec #amy pond #oh my god did this fic rewire my brain #my edits #ao3 #eleventh doctor #the beast below #angels take manhattan #flesh and stone #the eleventh hour #the almost people #a good man goes to war #let's kill hitler #river song #the tragedy of amy pond #everyone please go read this fic #i'm having fun reading her au but god did this fic stab me in the ribs #the big bang

[thingsasbarcodes]

Doctor Who 5x02 - The Beast Below

#doctor who #newwho #the beast below #eleventh doctor #amy pond #star whale #smilers

[nortism]

doctor who liveblog pt 26

s5 ep2 the beast below

- i miss the old opening credits i won’t lie

- i do not believe the uk will still be together by the 29th century

- since when did the doctor not get involved in the places he’s visiting? you are a liar!!

- i knew it

- scotland getting their own ship sounds about right

- uh oh they’re going to hell

- she’s the queen?!

- yayay star whale

- fucking winston churchill

- uh oh there’s a crack

s5 ep3 victory of the daleks

- quite excited for another wwii episode though it will be impossible to beat the masterpiece that is the empty child/ the doctor dances

- oh they are trying to team up with the daleks uh oh

- this is going to be interesting considered the ways in which the daleks have previously been used as nazi allegories

- not the dalek with the union jack

- they gotta stop cutting the dalek pov, it really takes away the seriousness from a scene

- that’s a big ass spanner

- this has gotta be the lamest fight scene i’ve ever seen

- wow who could have seen that coming

- i could go for a jammy dodger

- wow daleks in new exciting colours

- “master race” they’re really leaning into the nazi allegory

- uh oh dalek civil war

- cracks again

- that was alright but it mostly made me wanna rewatch the empty child

#norton’s liveblogs doctor who #doctor who #doctor who liveblog #doctor who s5 #doctor who series 5 #dw #new who #11th doctor #eleventh doctor #amy pond #the beast below #victory of the daleks