The third Doctor and the brigadier’s relationship while the Doctor is in exile is such a fantastic inversion of the Doctor-companion dynamic. Like they’re friends and have a mutual professional respect for each other, but then there’s the unspoken reality that the Doctor is completely dependent on the brig for his status/ability to live on earth unmolested. Multiple government officials try to dig up who the doctor is and find he has zero identification and the brig always stops them by taking personal responsibility for him.
It’s utterly compelling then when they have different goals or approaches to a problem. The doctor frequently visibly holds himself back from going completely off on the Brigadier when he disagrees because the Doctor knows if he alienates him he’s completely fucking screwed. And the writing manages to do this without the brig coming off like a threat or an antagonist. More that he and the doctor disagree on priorities and end up being minor obstacles to each other despite both wanting the best possible outcome. The tension is amazing and so much better than modern!UNIT where everyone seems to fall at the doctor’s feet begging for deliverance like he’s jesus christ
I'm the doctor. I'm a time lord. I'm from the planet transexual in the galaxy of transylvania in the constellation of kasterborous. I'm nine hundred and three years old and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives
once i saw an argument break out in a gay bar over whether scar from the lion king is gay or bisexual so never let your romanticized view of Offline tell you that argument wouldn't happen in a real life gay bar. It Could.
Been bouncing back and forth between the Aubreyad and the Hornblower books based on which audiobook is currently available at my library and while Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are wildly different characters on a lot of fronts I think the funniest is Aubrey being deeply in love with music and playing the violin while Hornblower being so tone deaf he legitimately did not recognize the English national anthem when it was played.
god i love the part of the leroux novel when erik “have i really committed murders?” phantomopera is like “christine if you marry me i would be as gentle as a lamb………….” while the daroga and raoul are being microwaved and there’s a mountain of gunpowder beneath their feet ready to explode and kill them all if she says no