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actually there were 0 time travellers on the Titanic, because the time cops have an entire outpost to safeguard that one particular point in history. every rookie spends a least a month on Titanic duty and they all complain bitterly about it since it is, essentially, the time travel equivalent of being the guard who has to stop tourists from licking the Liberty Bell.

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moisturize me

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damn my boy stole nardole’s coat

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Every now and again I think of this Sarah tweet and just stare into the middle distance.

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if rtd wasn’t a coward he would have cut to the opening credits right at the moment when Old Ruby’s heart monitor flatlined, and then clifftops 2: electric boogaloo would have been the only part of the episode that wasn’t the cold open

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The Doctor took the Doctor Who theme song with him into the circle smh

It's gone It's vanished When will my husband return from war

ANYWAY

What happened to the intro song? Normally, I would expect to see it after the scene where the Doctor disappeared, but that didn't happen. It's like the Doctor disappeared and took the intro with him.

Could this tie in to the TV show theory?

Did they leave it out for the sole purpose of putting us on edge? Something didn't feel right, and the lack of intro contributed to that feeling of wrongness.

There are so many unanswered questions from this episode, and we will probably never get any answers.

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Stephen Moffatt really writes the best doctor who

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“Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,” said he, “but it’s the common lot this morning. Mrs Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”

Sherlock Holmes to Dr. John Watson, The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Putting this beside ACD’s love of the word ‘ejaculated’ for my favourite unfortunately aged words/phrases

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I left with way more questions than I think I’ve ever had from any Doctor Who episode, ever.

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One minute into 73 Yards, and the Doctor has already stepped on something again and disappeared.

GOOD SIR YOU NEED TO START WATCHING WHERE YOU ARE STEPPING. FIRST A LAND MINE AND NOW THIS. IF YOU KEEP THIS UP, IT'LL BE THE CAUSE OF YOUR NEXT REGENERATION.

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THAT WAS FUCKIGN AMAZING

i'm leaving the typo there, don't care

aaaaa

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happy birthday sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As your present, I Drew that guy you really hate again

Thank you for making such fire books

Don’t kill me this is a shitpost

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The Doctor being able to to hear non-diegetic music explains why Eleven always fixed his bowtie so dramatically. Motherfucker could always hear 'I am the Doctor' blasting and acted accordingly.

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it feels like this season, doctor who is dealing with the fundamental rules changing. it was strictly sci-fi, you could always logic your way out of any problem with technobabble and a clever plan.

but it feels like so much of the plot is wrapped around poking at the medium of being a television show, of being a story. we have multiple characters looking at the viewers, we have the maestro playing the theme tune, we have such clear parallels to season 1 (2005) that it feels like a universal coincidence. like the whoniverse itself is recognizing its a medium and playing with its tropes.

the genre is changing too - we are leaning more and more into fantasy, rules like you would see in stories about fae, not sci-fi. musical numbers out of nowhere that no one seems to question, with rain inside and musical sidewalks. the vocabulary of rope and power in coincidences. hell, even the way that time travel works is changing! suddenly stepping on a butterfly (specifically a trope in scifi that has been mocked/debunked previously) has consequences. the doctor swiping away the translation circuit's effects with the wave of a hand and breathing life back into a creature without breaking a sweat.

not to mention the way that space babies foreshadows to a universe that creates a story with all the ingredients it knows are supposed to be there (re: bogeyman - there's supposed to be a villain so it made one)

something IS going on. there is a bigger player - bigger than tecteun, bigger than the toymaker. could it be rtd just having a grand ole time using canon as is playground? maybe. but i hope it's something cool.

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If you watch Doctor Who on Disney+, it gives you a 'skip intro' button, and if anything shows that Disney does not understand the appeal of Doctor Who, it's that. Who skips the Doctor Who intro. It's the least skippable intro in television history. It never even occurred to me to do that.

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I love that song. It's about Bonnie Prince Charlie. I know, it's sweet. Let's go. It's sweet, and it's sad. And it's about soldiers fighting. But it's sad, like a lullaby, and that's right, isn't it? Songs about soldiers should be sad, don't you think?