My Favourite Thing From The New Episodes Is The Lore They're Building Around Gods (or Those From Outside

i don't think the tardis has any kind of in-built dematerialisation mechanism for dangerous situations. i think she just has the philosophy of if it sucks hit da bricks and is so so scared all the time. so she leaves <3

Interesting that the Doctor says his adopted family is the reason he uses a title. Except thats not quite true is it?

Sure they are stuffy aristocrats who love ranks and titles but Tecteun, Rassilon, Borusa, Romana, Pandad, Andred, Rodan, Darkel, Flavia, and practically every other non-renegade timelord (and even some renegades like Drax) still use regular (if not human) names.

But you know who does often use titles? THE GODS. Those from before or beyond the universe's constraints. The Toymaker, The Guardians, The Maestro, The Trickster, The The Beast, The One Who Waits, The Gods of Ragnarok, The Entity, etc. Even those with 'names' often have descriptive ones like Time or Swarm.

Is it really the Doctor's adopted family that made them identify with titles? Or is it perhaps traces of their 'birth family' peaking through?

More than anything I just want to know if RTD is going anywhere with this. Did he just need a quick way to get new audiences on board with calling the main character the Doctor? Or does it mean something.

Young Theta Sigma hearing non diegetic music and thinking huh this would go HARD on a perigosto stick

YES. Yes YES YES YES I watched Doctor Who all throughout my childhood and I was never able to explain why I DEEPLY DISTRUSTED and hated River until very, very recently.

TELL MY WHY NOBODY else seemed to have an issue with the BLATANT and CONSTANT sexual harassment. The Doctor was so obviously, visibly uncomfortable??? And she couldn't just. Stop???

Also, say what you want about tough love and whatever tsundere bullshit you think was going on but genuinely, hot take, I don't think constantly disrespecting your spouse is a good thing.

"what's your hot doctor who take?" "i like david tennant and i think river song was BAD"

Space Babies / The Final Chapter / Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible / Cold Fusion

So, you know how we all thought that that energy thing was definitely the Timeless Child for a sec?

What if it was?

Not in the way that it IS the Timeless Child, but what if what we were seeing it as, was what The Doctor was seeing it as, is The Timeless Child?

Supposedly, the energy had a shield on it that makes you see something you are hardwired to want to protect. What if The Doctor was seeing themself there, because they are subconsciously struggling with both their own grief at their past, and their constant battle to protect themself from the grief of the present? Isn’t the one thing The Doctor does best protecting themself, from aliens or heartbreak?

Idk. I’m just being sappy. Chibnall’s a shit writer, but I can find angst potential in anything, and I will make it into my own poetry.

i suspect certain elements of doctor who are definitely a different (read: baffling) experience if you're not british

"average doctor has no fear of what killed their previous incarnation" factoid actualy just statistical error. average doctor is terrified of what killed their previous incarnation. Fours Georg, who lives in rocks & is scared shitless of heights, the thing that will kill him, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

if earth has more oxygen in its atmosphere than gallifrey does and ginger has the same effects on time lords as alcohol does on humans, then the doctor is absolutely crossfaded on air and ginger in the android invasion