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adventure-showdown · 5 months

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What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 3 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

The Daemons

Synopsis

The Master, posing as a rural vicar, summons a cloven-hoofed demon-like creature named Azal in a church crypt. Seeking to gain the ancient titan's demonic power, he gathers a cult and then corrupts or controls the residents of Devil's End to bow to his will. Dark elemental forces begin to disturb the village on the eve of May Day: unexplained murders, a stone gargoyle come to life, and a nigh-impenetrable infernal energy dome. With the Master fully prepared to destroy the Earth, the Doctor and UNIT — aided by a benevolent practitioner of witchcraft — battle the wicked rites of a secret science wielded by an alien from another world.

Propaganda

what is the most important quality of a good doctor who story, to have a strong plot, something to say, something new to try. all of these are positives, yes, but sometimes the best doctor who stories are just fun. sometimes they feature the master pretending to be the leader of a satanic cult pretending to be an anglican priest, remote control bessie, an alien who's basically the devil, a living gargoyle, a witch, and the doctor escaping being tied to a maypole by pretending to be a wizard. truly, this is the heights of doctor who, it is beyond fun to watch, i love it so much. If that’s not enough, then surely the fact that this has THE ‘the brigs an alcoholic and mike yates is gay’ moment (anonymous)

An Unearthly Child

Synopsis

Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, two humble teachers during 1963, are surprised by a bright student named Susan Foreman. Confused by the contradictions in Susan's knowledge, Barbara had decided to visit her home, only to learn that the address on record is a junkyard. She and Ian decide to wait at the location until Susan or her grandfather show up. There, they discover a junkyard inhabited by her grandfather, simply known as "the Doctor", and he doesn't want them lurking about.

When the teachers refuse to leave, they discover that an ordinary police box is actually bigger on the inside. The Doctor decides they know too much about his and Susan's otherworldly origins and takes them on a journey across space and time in his TARDIS, the place he and Susan now call home.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

#round 3 #the daemons number one who story of all time baby #it has its all #the master pretneds to be the leader of a satanic cult pretending to be an anglican vicar #the village is called devils end #theres a white witch #the doctor gets tied to a maypole #he pretends to be a wizard #bessie is remote controlled #the devil is defeated by the power of platonic love #bok my guy bok shitty living gargoyle #the brigs and alcoholic and mike yates is gay #unit are at their absolute best #its so fun to watch #also its set on may day #name a better piece of television

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crowleycrawley · 4 years

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OKAY Y’ALL

buckle up cause this is gonna be a LONG POST!!! tma meta about the avatars and being CONNECTED in the apocalypse under the cut!!! SPOILERS FOR MAG 163-166 AHEAD

okay SO. first up, we have the tower. so the tower obviously is in London, watching every single person’s suffering, and in that tower is ELIAS himself (ngl it’s totally lord of the rings vibes...). so this tower sees all, and that means (as Not-Sasha says) it’s painful for things that don’t want to be seen, and the fact that things in the BURIED even know its there even if they can’t see it is just. VERY interesting, because why would the eye want to know all that? and furthermore, if jon is technically connected to the eye, and he can reach down into the buried, pick out individual people, and tell their stories then why can’t he see melanie and georgie?? for melanie it’s very likely cause of her non tether to the beholding, but for georgie?? she isn’t even technically an avatar, so he should have no problem seeing her, but he CAN’T. wack...

moving on!! so the first place they get to once they leave the cabin is the SLAUGHTER. the slaughter is very messed up here!! but first and foremost i would like to direct your attention to jon calling the slaughter victims “meat”. it’s VERY similar to the flesh, and he even goes so far as to call what they’re walking into a meat grinder. the meat grinder was the entire salesa statement (mag 115) which was ABSOLUTELY flesh!! PLUS that statement even starts out with salesa talking about a slaughter artifact he sold to the institute (which isn’t really related but Y’ALL they’re just so connected)!! plus. helicopter?? falling from a HEIGHT??? vast!!!??? okay NEXT connection we have “scorched earth” which is ABSOLUTELY desolation. like this whole battlefield situation?? completely desolation!! everything is on fire, chaos, that’s what that entity covets. and NEXT in that same statement we have the BURIED!! where the mud drags charlie down so the barbed wire wraps around him!! folks we are getting SO MANY ENTITIES!!! and then we are back to the flesh again, between ishaan “contorting himself to fit” and the “pig faced enemies” that’s directly flesh related!! plus!! plus!!! in the tank he’s basically BURNING!!! FOLKS THE DESOLATION IS BACK!!!!! and then!!!!! the field hospital!!!!!! “piles of festering gauze” like excuse me as if this all wasn’t bad enough Y’ALL GOT CORRUPTION TOO!!! yikes!!!!!! then we have MORE flesh with that weird creepy doctor dude who has way too many limbs AND we have a bit of lonely with hasana!! no one listens to her, everyone thinks she’s invisible basically, and she got no idea what she doin!! THEN we have corruption again with that gas stuff!!! it sounds almost EXACTLY like mag 157 (where dekker goes to the town in Germany and hmm. amhearst....) also LAST point i didn’t specify it anywhere in particular but the enemy is super hunt like!! with the whole ‘the enemy are monsters and are coming for me’ mentality!!

OKAY NEXT EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

first up we have FLESH!!! “far from the din and compacted flesh of the city” like oof!!! then we got the MAYPOLE with the “mildewed strips of colored cloth hanging limply from it like shreds of ragged skin” like!!!!!!!! LIKE!!!!!!!!!! y’all!! firstly the COLORS are very much reminiscent of the stranger with the circus (cause bright colors!! celebration!!) and obvs the ragged skin is pretty flesh oriented i think... moving on to the BASE of the flag pole it’s “ashen and charred” like hello!!! desolation WHO!!! next up still on desolation is the burning of the corruption like damn... still on desolation baby!! THEN we have the whole bones thing which like BACK TO FLESH!! and then EXCUSE ME STRANGER EVERYWHERE like these masks!! the coats!!! who knows who’s under that!!!!! and then of course we got just a DASH of spiral with the whole inspection thing, like oof!!! especially w/ the whole “those who are unblemished suffer most” like. oof. the whole ‘you have to be infected because there’s no way you’re just an outsider coming here seeking refuge’ is so spiral!! that little DASH of madness, that little smidge of ‘there’s no way they’re not infected’ that’s just SO spiral!! then we have both slaughter AND desolation rolled into one with the “purifying fire” and the brutal murder of innocents!! like big yikes!!! plus then we have MORE stranger with the whole questioning when you got there and how deep your roots go thing, which is another big oof and plus!!! the only real difference between full on stranger and this place is that the residents think they know each other and will stand together instead of fighting like the people on the merry go round! and then. THEN. we got the maypole watching everyone. sound FAMILIAR Y’ALL!! the BEHOLDING makes a special appearance!!! then we got MORE spiral with the whole “the deception is pitiable, and yet deep down every villager knows the mold has marked them deeper than any of the others, and carries it as their most secret shame” line like DAMN!!! that’s literally the spiral bc the spiral is 100% dealing with deception!! and then we are BACK to flesh with the whole razor deal (which was a big oof like ew) and the whole idea that there’s an end to the corruption!! after that we have the whole witch hunt for mrs kim which is very HUNT centric!!! and then just to round it all out we have MORE corruption (obvs) with MORE flesh when the bones get hit and jillian explodes!!

STATEMENT ENDS.

NEXT EPISODE!!! okay this one was sort of brutal to try to decipher because wow!! lots of words and very little punctuation, but here we go!!! so first up we have the faces, which is obvs very stranger, but we also have “all the tattered stolen souls who sense of me is swollen and distended into nothing” which sounds actually very much corruption!! THEN we have the MUSIC and the DANCING!!! so the music is VERY much like the slaughter ritual on the boat (mag 105) and the dancing is also JUST like that, so on the whole so far this looks very tied to slaughter!! then we dive into “eggshell thin reality” which is SUPER spiral like doubting reality, thinking you’re going crazy, etc. then this whole next part is VERY hunt with the whole chase and all, and the tiring of the chase and the stealing of the faces!!! plus the merry go round itself honestly screams spiral i mean between not being able to get off at the same spot twice and the whole “curling path [...] twisted, wound, and spinning”.... SPIRAL..... then there’s a dash of vast with leaping off the ride, and another smidge of slaughter with the blood on your hands. THEN we have the whole description about wanting to be a “who”, which is SUPER similar to what michael talked about with the whole identity thing, which either says something about the spiral or says something about him!!! then there is MORE corruption with “The rotten, ragged rush of fetid fingernails that dig and push and reach around the edges of your face” and WOW what a vibe check.... oof. then there’s some flesh with the animal skin comparison, and a DASH of what looks like end in there with the dream references!! and to top it all off we’ve got a DASH more hunt at the end with the faceless things back on the chase!!

AND NOW we have the whole not-sasha conversation!! this whole thing was a VIBE tbh and honestly like!!!! go off!!!!!! but this is one of the first times it becomes clear jon can sense just about ANYTHING which getting back to the original point is kinda weird because he can sense this crazy avatar THING but not (note, only TWO) of his friends?? weird... then we have the whole “she can’t touch us” argument, and the fact that not-sasha is so pissed about being nobody but being seen!!! like THAT is important and it’s probably going to be EXTRA important for the lonely, bc how can you be lonely if you know you’re being watched?? wouldn’t that technically mess up the whole idea of being ALONE??? and then of course the way the ceaseless watcher SMITES not-sasha like wOAH who knew it could do THAT??? wack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OKAY WORM TIME. so being perfectly honest here when i first read the episode title i really thought it was about jane prentiss again and i got so excited... so that’s the FIRST connection is WORMS and corruption like yes worms burrow n stuff but they are literally the first monster in the series that is actually a serious threat!!! WORM!!! okay next up we have WEB with sam’s whole lamenting the fact that he doesn’t have choices like wow!!! web has arrived at last!!!!!!! then we YET AGAIN have a dash of flesh tossed in with the whole arms and legs thing and the contortions!!! yikes!! then the beholding is out there vibing again and reminding him “he had eyes”, and there’s a LITTLE bit of vast with all this talking about the sky n stuff (but not super important cause the vast is sorta the opposite of the buried)... then there’s a bit of light mentioned (desolation making a comeback!) and the dark and cold is there too (wooo dark arrives)!!! there’s also a LOT of lonely in this episode because everyone has their own tunnel (until sam meets richard) which is very interesting bc honestly that seems like a lot of tunnels and sorta begs the question just how many people there are there?? then there’s MORE darkness and the whole thing about the fear of never seeing the pinprick of light again which honestly seems like lonely again (losing hope and losing the gaze of the eye), but then there’s some SOLID slaughter action going on when richard and sam meet!! THEN lastly, rounding the episode off, there’s a dash of corruption with richard’s mouldering body and a smidge of flesh as sam has to contort himself to see the light again.

and then!!! last quick mention!!!!! annabelle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why can’t jon see her???? this is more like. web don’t want him to, or maybe the BEHOLDING doesn’t want him to, but why not??? all very strange..........

anyway tysm for reading!!

#the magnus archives #tma #tma meta #tma spoilers #i am not tagging all these characters #tma entities #did i actually just write almost 2000 words on this?? yes. yes i did

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