#tzim-sha

[evviejo]

thirteen's era appreciation: 379/?

#dwedit #timelordgifs #chibnalldaily #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #graham o'brien #tzim-sha #bradley walsh #samuel oatley #13seraappreciation #my gifs #graham* #the battle of ranskoor av kolos

[cryptid-called-ash]

Out of context poet and warrior meme

#doctor who #the poet and the warrior #thirteenth doctor #the captain #lylyon of gallifrey #oc x canon #i beat up canon lore and stole was i liked #tzim-sha

[rudolphsb9]

I hope Sam Oatley knows that even if everyone else hates all that Chibnall's Who stands for, he absolutely killed it as Tzim-Sha and deserves all the awards

#doctor who #tzim-sha #sam oatley

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

if yaz hadnt said anything and just let her walk away at the end of 11x1, how long do you think it would have taken 13 to find a new outfit?

#i bet. never? #not never but like. a long time #she IS still wearing the burned battlefield clothes she died in #like mentally thats where shes at until at Least villa diodati right? thats when she says it out loud #it's just the new outfit is sort of the pretense right? #faking it till you make it #and she does sorta make it. arguably. maybe. depends #but if yaz had felt nothing for her. like if the doctor had said im just tryna help people and yaz was like cool that doesnt resonate At Al #and had let her walk away #to find her tardis alone #i think it would have taken a long time before she changed out of those clothes #which maybe in some ways would be better bc time to process time to grieve etc #on the other hand with the way she was with tzim sha she mightve just gone alllllll wrong #completely inside out #like being the doctor For Them is the only thing that keeps her grounded in timeless children #imagine timeless children where shes still wearing the clothes of the last confrontation #the master is restaging the whole cyberman death join me thing and Shes Still In Those Clothes #losingm y mind a little abt it #dont know if she'd have done it then. but i do think they'd have got a very cathartic fight out of it

[master-missysversion]

I really want to know what happened to Albar and Angstroms family, I hope they were okay in the end

#I know it leaves it open for later but it's a shame they concluded the arc with tzim sha but never really went back to the stenza as a whole #doctor who #dw rewatch #13th doctor #Angstrom

[gay-impressionist]

doctor who chibnall era this chibnall era that

you know what this era gave us? awesome looking monsters

i mean??? the Cybermasters? Swarm and azure? Tzim-Sha? The Pting? 💯💯💯

#i'm in awe of thr cybermasters everytime i see them #dw #chibnall era #(this doesn't mean i'm a chibnall stan by any means but simply that not everything is negative)

[justahumblememefarmer]

Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 1 - Matchup 16

Episode Summaries under the cut

124: The Lazarus Experiment - Season 3, Episode 6: The Doctor brings Martha back home after the one trip that he offered her. She turns the tv on to see her sister on the news with an elderly man, Professor Lazarus, who claims he will "change what it means to be human" which intrigues the Doctor. They attend a gala that Martha's sister planned where Lazarus will reveal his invention. Martha's family is there and her mother questions her relationship with the Doctor.

Lazarus steps into his machine and activates it, but the machine begins to malfunction until the Doctor intervenes. When he pulls the plug, Lazarus steps out, no longer an old man, and has successfully reduced his age. When Lazarus takes a woman to his office alone, he changes into a monster and lunges at her. He returns to the party and invites Martha's sister upstairs. The Doctor and Martha discover the body left behind and go to the roof where Lazarus and Martha's sister are. Lazarus turns into a monster yet again and attacks and chases them back down to the party.

The Doctor and Martha manage to use his machine to create a shockwave, appearing to kill him. While Martha and the Doctor check on her family, Lazarus kills two paramedics and retreats to a nearby cathedral. Martha uses herself as bait while Lazarus chases her, while the doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to amplify the sound of the cathedral's organs, causing Lazarus to fall from the top of the cathedral and finally die, transforming back into his elderly self.

The Doctor offers for Martha to travel with him permanently, to which she agrees.

133: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos - Season 11, Episode 10: The Doctor, Yaz, Graham, and Ryan detect a planet with several distress signals coming from it. They land and find that Tzim-Sha, the alien that killed Grace, Ryan's grandmother and Graham's wife. After their initial meeting he was transported to this planet, where he was mistaken as the god of the Ux species, who have intense powers of creation. He convinced them to build the temple as a machine to steal entire planets, compressing them to a small, hand-held size for his trophy room.

Ryan and Graham work to free the crews of the ships that had been sending distress signals, while the Doctor and Yaz manage to convince the Ux that Tzim-Sha is not their god. They help the Doctor return all of their planets to their original location. While Tzim-Sha escapes he runs into Graham, who wants revenge for his killing of Grace. He ultimately decides to shoot Tzim-Sha in the foot, and traps him in one of his own trophy cases, where he will be held in permanent suspended animation.

The Doctor takes the Ux to one of the remaining ships, telling them to explore the universe, and takes off with her crew in the TARDIS.

#doctor who #ultimate doctor who poll #my post #polls #10th doctor #martha jones #13th doctor #yasmin khan #ryan sinclair #graham o'brien #david tennant #freema agyeman #jodie whittaker #mandip gill #tosin cole #bradley walsh #the lazarus experiment #the battle of ranskoor av kolos

[cipher-fresh]

The very first scene of the 13th Doctor era is Ryan’s little YouTube video about his grandma, and then he checks Twitter for any sign of aliens in Sheffield later on after the Doctor passes out. He takes a picture of the transport chamber for Tzim-Sha. I would have liked to see him be a social media-savvy teen be a bigger part of his personality. Maybe he documents all the planets they go to in little vlogs, and being able to see footage from previous planets they’ve been to helps them solve a mystery at the end of the season

#doctor who #updates from cipher #rewatching the woman who fell to earth for a better grasp on his personality for a fic #he’s a bit impulsive but quite smart and perceptive- he asks intelligent questions and can go with the flow #he’s willing to believe the doctor is an alien pretty fast #he feels a bit aimless in life because he’s working a job he doesn’t like for the money

[rachelbethhines]

Speed-running Doctor Who - 13th Doctor and the Fugitive Doctor

A quick and dirty guide for those who want to get into the show, but don't want to watch everything from the beginning.

For Those Who Just Wanna Get An Idea of the Era

Kerblam! - S37E7

A good outing for the 'Fam', everyone has something to do and the plot is typical of the era. Politically aware, but perhaps not as left leaning as people would like. Features striking but understated design and has call backs to past stories with out being too continuity heavy

Plot Important Episodes

Entrances, Exits, Enemies, Lore Drops, and Character Development

The Woman Who Fell to Earth - S37E1 (first story to feature the 13th Doctor. Introduces Gram, his grandson Ryan, and Yaz. Also features the recurring villain Tzim-Sha, who becomes Gram's nemesis after he murders his wife Grace)

The Ghost Monument - S37E2 (the Doctor goes on a quest to get her Tardis back and the Fam have their first off-Earth adventure)

Arachnids in the UK - S37E4 ( we meet Yaz's family and are introduced to Robertson, a minor reoccurring antagonist)

Demons of the Punjab - S37E6 (character development for Yaz)

It Takes You Away - S37E9 (character development for Gram and Ryan)

The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos - S37E10 (Gram plans to kill his wife's murder, Tzim-Sha)

Resolution - 2019 New Years Special (Ryan dead beat dad turns up after years of being gone, oh and the Daleks are back)

Spyfall - S38E1&E2 (meet the Dhawan Master, oh and Gallifrey is destroyed again after just getting it back 🙄)

Fugitive of the Judoon - S38E5 (The start of the Fugitive Doctor arc, the return of Captain Jack, and foreshadowing for the season finale)

Can You Hear Me? - S38E7 (character development for everyone and the return of the Eternals)

The Haunting of Villa Diodati - S38E8 (introduces the Lone Cyberman and leads directly into the season finale)

Ascension of the Cybermen/The Timeless Children - S38E9&E10 (ending of the Lone Cyberman arc and introduces the controversial Timeless Child theory into the lore)

Revolution of the Daleks - 2021 New Years Special (Jack break the Doctor out of prison, Robertson joins forces with the Daleks, and it's Ryan's last episode)

The Halloween Apocalypse - S39E1 (start of the Flux arc and we're introduced to Dan, Karvanista, Vinder, Claire, Dan's girlfriend Diane, and the show's newest villains Swarm and Azure, who want to destroy the universe)

War of the Sontarans - S39E2 (The Sontarans have used the Flux disaster to alter time and conquer Earth, we also meet Vinder's wife Bel)

Once, Upon Time - S39E3 (The 13th Doctor regains some of her missing memories and we see how the Fugitive Doctor first defeated Swarm and Azure while working for the Division)

Village of the Angels - S39E4 (we find out what happened to Claire and meet Professor Jericho, the Doctor is captured by the Division)

Survivors of the Flux - S39E5 (the Doctor finally meets the leader of the Division, Tecteun; one of the founders of Time Lord society along side Rassilon and Omega. Tecteun claims to be the Doctor's adopted parent and the inventor of reintegration but the Doctor doesn't remember them. Tecteun is then killed off before the Doctor can discover the truth, meanwhile the Sontarans are still messing with time and working to undermine UNIT in the future)

The Vanquishers - S39E6 (The end of the Flux arc, Swarm and Azure are defeated, the Sontarans are overthrown with the help of UNIT, Karvanista is the sole survivor of his people and leaves the Doctor, blaming her for his misfortune, Vinder and Bel are reunited, Jericho dies, and Claire is returned to her proper place in time, and the Doctor decides that she doesn't want to know about her past anymore)

Eve of the Daleks - 2022 New Years Special (we get are first overt confirmation that Yaz is in love with the Doctor)

Legend of the Sea Devils - 2022 Easter Special (Yaz finally confesses her feelings for the Doctor, who returns them but says she's not interested in starting another romantic relationship and they agree to remain friends)

The Power of the Doctor - The BBC's Centenary Special (sixth multidoctor story, the return of Gram, Ace, Tegan, Kate/UNIT, and Vinder, Dan and Yaz both leave the Tardis, last episode thus far for both the Dhawan Master and Fugitive Doctor, and the 13th Doctor regenerates)

Personal Favorite and Least Favorite Stories

Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa

Favorite for 13: Rosa - S37E3

Favorite for Fugitive: Power of the Doctor - The BBC's Centenary Special

Least Favorite for 13th: Orphan 55 - S38E3

Least Favorite for Fugitive: Ascension of the Cybermen/The Timeless Children - S38E9&E10

(disclaimer: no spin-offs or extended universe stuff was considered when making this list)

#doctor who #nuwho #new who #thirteenth doctor #fugitive doctor #jo martin #Jodie Whittaker #gram #ryan #yaz #dan #vinder #master #timeless child #actually Survivors of Flux is my least favorite part of the Fugitive doctor arc #but she's technically not in it

[paternostergays]

okay i thought i was done talking abt the parallels of the woman who fell to earth and tpotd. but i am not!!

FUCK okay okay. so obviously grace was in so many ways similar to the doctor. she cares for people, she insists in following the doctor despite graham thinking she's crazy, she's a nurse... and it's her insistence in helping others that gets her killed. she's still trying to attack the cable creature when the doctor has saved the day. the problem is gone, tzim sha has been teleported off somewhere, but there's still one little thing that could kill her. and it does. she dies surrounded by friends - she's the only one out of the whole group who knows every single person from before they met that night.

meanwhile, in tpotd, the doctor had saved the day. there was nothing more to be done. she was simply talking to her old friend when he lashed out and shot her. yaz takes her back to the tardis where she is surrounded by friends that all have one thing in common - her.

but in tpotd, yaz is the doctor. she carries the doctor into the TARDIS, she is the one who takes everyone back to the right place, she is the one who looks after the TARDIS, and like the doctor, she is stranded on earth afterwards.

with the respective meetings of friends (grace's funeral, the companion support group) it is not the doctor or yaz who organises them either time. it is graham. graham has always been and will always be the one who brings people together. both times graham is the one who helps people by allowing them to grieve, and the doctor and yaz are on the outside of the circle (the doctor hanging at the back of the funeral Vs yaz staying almost completely silent, only saying something when directly asked and lying about it. because the doctor lies).

#doctor who #corvus rambles #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #the power of the doctor #graham o'brien #grace o'brien #the woman who fell to earth

[evviejo]

doctor who, series 11, episode 10 - the battle of ranskoor av kolos december 9th, 2018

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #the battle of ranskoor av kolos #the doctor #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #graham o'brien #ryan sinclair #yasmin khan #tzim-sha #13s era episode poster gifsets #jodie whittaker #bradley walsh #tosin cole #mandip gill #samuel oatley #my gifs #thirteen* #graham* #ryan* #yaz*

[kendrixtermina]

Another Thing Chibnall can't do right: Audience Surrogates

I'm going to start this last rant with one illustrative question: Why isn't Ryan Sinclair popular?

He is consistently considered the blandest out of a cast of terribly bland, flavorless characters, but why?

Cause let's look at a purely 'theoretical' description of his character: He's a warehouse worker who experienced dicrimination & frustrating shit because of his disability & racism, he has a messy complicated family situation that he's salty about, he likes videogames, experimental music and making youtube videos.

On paper, he sounds like Mr. Relatable Millenial. Why didn't ppl eat his character up? Cause it's not like there isn't an appetite for it, ppl had been clamoring for black main characters, disabled peeps, more working class protags, what have you. There's demand.

Now I generally consider 'Relatable' a a false god & I'm the first to get angry when someone argues all characters need to be 'relatable everymen'. RTD loved that trope a lot & then ppl got mad when Moffat wasn't RTD and loudly proclaimed that no real person would relate to Moffat's characters (I guess I don't exist then...), it always pisses me off when ppl claim their experiences are universal or that they will only care about characters who are similar to them as if experiencing the PoVs of other wasn't the point of storytelling.

So the issue is NOT that I think all characters need to be Relatable Everymen. The issue is that Chibnall tried to write one & failed spectacularly.

I wanna argue that the reason for this is that he doesn't know who the audience is, and that he treats the supposed audience with mockery & condescension.... though really, most of all, he's simply out of touch with it. To make an audience surrogate type character & have it land, you need to correctly understand the audience.

Notice what tone is present when something from pop culture is referenced - for example, when Tzim Sha's victim is listening to affirmations on his headphones, its looking to be mocking ppl who do that.

Ryan shows more emotion about things being deleted from his phone than his life being threatened, landing on an alien planet or finding a desolate future earth. "Haha millenials obsessed with phones!" ...who is that joke FOR? What feelings is it likely to evoke towards Ryan?

'Climate Change Bad' is treated like it would be a totally new idea to Yaz & Ryan, who are supposed to be part of a generation that grew up with climate anxiety all their lives as a reason to be cynical

The Doctor needs to lecture them about who Nicola Tesla is, they're treated as having no clue... even though there's, like, a car brand named for him & loads of tumblr posts.

Likewise, Ryan needs to be lectured by everyone about who Rosa Parks was

etc. etc.

The same refrain all over again: Young people are dumb, young people are silly, we wrote these characters as dumb & silly because that's what we think YOU GUYS are like.

Does anybody LIKE being called dumb & silly? Are people likely to like the character used to represent their dumbness & sillyness?

I get the need to maybe exposition things for young viewers, but that can probably be contrived in some way without making the characters you're supposed to like seem dumb. With the Nikola Tesla thing, for example, how about having Graham have no idea who he is? I don't mean make him ignorant, but genuinely interested to learn.

By contrast, let's look at some other 'relatable youngster' characters & how they're treated:

Rose Tyler very much evokes a typical mid 2000s mainstream pop culture, with her bleach blonde hair & bleached flared jeans etc. You can easily imagine that she probably dyed her hair to copy Britney spears, Kylie Minogue or Christina Aguilera, like a lot of girls back then. She effectively winds up in one of the fantasy romance stories that were popular back then. She gets what's kind of a wish fulfillment story of finding out she has the potential to be badass & make a difference after being treated as a fuckup.

Courtney Woods is a rebellious teen considered difficult by her parents/teachers & labelled a 'disruptive influence'. When she introduces herself as such, the Doctor instantly likes her & respects her rebel cred. She is treated as having great intuition & being unintimidated by effective authority figures such as Clara... and that's cool & an opportunity for Clara to learn. Likewise, when he off-handedly says something that hurts her feelings, it is not played as an an 'oversensitive teen' joke but rather Clara makes the Doctor apologize & make it up to her. We are also told that despite struggling with a rigid environment at school, she becomes succesful later in life because of that same strong personality.

Rose Noble is sort of the typical image of gen Y, complete with colorful hair & pronouns. She is really into arts & crafts, makes those 'creepy cute' plushies that she sells online, but in her IRL surroundings she experiences bullying. You can easily imagine her having an AO3 or a crafts-themed tiktok. She is in one of those 'found family wholesome hurt/comfort' stories that are popular nowadays & has the protective mom many teens wish they had.

To summarize:

Their experiences are validated & affirmed, not mocked

pop culture references are used to characterize them & connect them to the audience

From the framing it's clear that we're supposed to like these characters and that they're awesome. That doesn't mean that they don't have flaws or insecurities (indeed those are a big part of what make them relatable) but they're the kind of insecurities someone in their life situation would have. (Rose T. is a tad jealous cause she worries about her love interest finding someone more impressive, Courtney doesn't show insecurity but responds by acting out, but has a thing about being unimportant/not special, Rose N. feels alienated from her peers & out of place)

the stories they get cater to wish fullfillment, which is possible due to knowledge of what these groups of people like

It would have taken a half hour google search for Chibnall to find out what the wishes & dreams of someone like Ryan would look like. IDK, find some blog posts by warehouse workers, ppl with dyspraxia, millenials etc.

One thing that's been pointed out for example is that we never really see WHY Ryan wants to learn to ride a bike. If it's just to please his parental figures, wouldn't a better arc be that they realize he doesn't need to be able to do that just to prove he can and appear "normal", rather than 'look he concentrated & climbed a ladder after all!' Like many actual disabled ppl say they're annoyed about 'shaking off the disability' type stories.

Or, he could relate to getting the chance to adventure as an escape from his lowkey dystopian frustrating life where he deals with many unfair things, or latch onto the Doctor as a mentor after losing his parental figures, or maybe worry that someone who struggles with some physical activities isn't a fit for adventuring but then realize that he can contribute in other ways like asking good questions & thinking. (especially when Yaz is a better fit for the action scenes as someone who presumably had police training)

You could have an interesting unique team dynamic this way:

Yaz could be the competent, badass one, but believing in order & authority tends to just follow/ hero worship the doctor eventually leading into the bit where she develops a crush on her, Graham is the caution/common sense similar to Rory or Donna, maybe looking to protect the younger protags but also gradually having his horizons broadened, and Ryan could get to be the heart & emotional core of the group & the one who questions the Doctor more due to being more jaded from his shitty life while also wanting to escape from it...

Like. If you gave the same list of character traits to a more competent writer, you could've ended up with such complex, dynamic & interesting characters that ppl would have been all over.

#doctor who #chibnall critical #chibnal crit #anti chibnall #ryan sinclair

[rudolphsb9]

I'm contemplating the process of dropping the apostrophe.

#t'zim-sha #tzim-sha #also i am formally ditching that one tag #refer to my post on deadnaming

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

her messages on violence keep being really fucking mixed

#i love how she flips between criticising someone for choosing violence at all to criticising them for not doing it WELL #i feel like she does it relatively often #'what youre gonna shoot us? do you even know how?' #'i hate wars. what do you mean you dont have weapons??' #'oh a couple thousand people died? kind of a pathetic body count dont you think?' #like ghkfjghjkhg #thats not even tomention what she does with tzim sha in the first ep like #it's the opposite side of the coin of how she keeps complimenting people for being bad in clever ways #'well you shouldnt be doing this thing but you ARE doing it well i'lll give you that' #& 'if youre gonna do this thing then at least have some skill jfc' #makes perfect sense that thats the worldview she'd walk out of the doctor falls with but it doesnt stop being funny

[kristenreviewsmedia]

The Women Who Fell Earth (Series 11, episode 1) by Chris Chibnall

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Show: Doctor Who Episode: The Women Who Fell Earth (Series 11 episode 1) Writer:  Chris Chibnall Rating: 4.5

Chibnall, C. (Writer). (2018). The Woman Who Fell to Earth (Series 11, Episode 1). Doctor Who. BBC One. "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" is the debut episode of the Thirteenth and first female Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker. The episode starts with Ryan Sinclair creating a YouTube video recounting a recent event where he reflects on attempting to ride bicycles with his grandmother, Grace, and her husband, Graham. He talks about the greatest women he has ever known. Ryan struggles with dyspraxia and keeps falling off the bike. Frustrated, he throws the bike into a forest, leading him to discover glowing golden lines in the air and an alien pod. Yasmin Khan, a police officer, gets involved in the investigation after she gets a report to respond to Ryan's call about what he has seen. Yasmin and Ryan reconnect, knowing each other from their school days. The Doctor who comes falling down to earth after her TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension In Space) knocks her out, it crashes through the roof of a train where Grace and Graham are and intervenes when a tentacle creature attacks the passengers.

The Doctor is still in the regeneration process and is the central figure guiding the group in understanding the alien threat. Once they accept that aliens are real, they embark on a quest to find the missing pod. During this time, they encounter bio-mechanical creatures and a tooth-collecting alien named Tzim-Sha. During this time, the Doctor builds herself a new sonic screwdriver tool to perform tasks like unlocking doors. The sonic screwdriver’s other abilities are to emit sonic waves, allowing it to manipulate electronic devices, analyze substances, and perform other functions. Tension starts to escalate, and as civilians are starting to be killed by Tzim-Shaw, tragedy strikes, with Grace sacrificing herself to help save others. Viewers learned that the YouTube video was about his Gram. The episode concludes with the Doctor picking out her new outfit, building a machine to find her now missing TARDIS, and then accidentally teleporting herself and her newfound companions into deep space. If you want to watch Doctor Who but do not want to go back and watch from 1963 or 2005, when it started up for a new generation, then Jodie Whittaker's Doctor is the perfect place to start. The TARDIS team and the writers are getting a fresh start with this series. This is also the first time the Doctor has been a woman in over 55 years of the show running, so as one can picture, it sparked a lot of controversy. This role has been dominated by white men for the past 55 years, so when Jodie came, a lot of sexism started coming out from some fans, while others were happy that it was a step towards inclusivity and representation for all future doctors. Jodie Whittaker coming in as the first female doctor is a step for more female fans to come on and see themselves in the doctor and portrayed as a strong woman and not as the damsel in distress. Representation matters, especially with those characters who can change into someone else.

#TV show review #13th doctor #Jodie Whittaker #doctor who #Youtube

[master-missysversion]

When I go to sleep I tend to get a bunch of anxiety so I've been using affirmations to convince my dumb brain everything is fine and i can go to sleep

But since watching TWWFTE again I keep adding on "somebody out there wants me" because the scene with Karl saying that as one of his affirmations right after the reveal that he's being hunted by Tzim Sha makes me laugh every time

#doctor who #the woman who fell to earth #13th doctor #series 11 #karl #twwfte