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hes so me

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

this time he died. because of reasons

Moisturize me

aint no WAYYY THEY JUST TRIED TO SAY THAT. not even "the doctor's" but doctor who's in general 💀💀 so now that they have a disney contract every single gay thing (which they've had for fucking decades) is gonna be a huge big huge first gay thing ever!!1!1!1!! event??? like yeah there's a very specific significance to it i get it but what the fuck do you mean😭 jamie pull up the files

they got technology for building custom-made stars to use as an unlimited energy source AND it comes in the form of a semi-sentient box?? like the hand of omega??? you know what that means. thats right baby series 14 full feature-length Lungbarrow adaptation

I’ve been collecting out-of-context crops of official dr who social media posts like Pokémon. Here’s what I’ve got so far they’re my most annoying reaction images

Doctor Who (2024) / Doctor Who (2015)

the doctor was SUCH a funny little cunt this episode. canonically just landing in stranger's homes or hotels to steal milk. buying his own fan merch. critiquing vintage lesbian sexts. bullying the shit out of the north star. emotionally domming trev and then not even noticing he died. yelling "just live in the moment!" at someone who was freaking out about having only seconds left to live. not even offering his poor gf a ride in the tardis. "when the doctor's in the room it's Mansplain Central" at least he's self-aware lmfao

FUCK THOSCHEI WHERE MY GOTHRUSA BITCHES AT TO APPRECIATE THESE MESSY FRUITS

is donna properly aware that the doctor doesn't always regenerate into david tennant or

DOCTOR WHO (2023 - ) I Joy to the World

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

I'm watching the edited version of the War Games (it's on BBC4 right now and my parents wanted to see it), so, have some thoughts.

I'm normally a bit iffy on colourisation but this is genuinely very well done. The titles are gorgeous.

Squishing it into 90 mins makes the opening very zippy. The pace feels a shade too quick if anything.

It also gets a bit weird when the cliffhanger is turned into continuous action.

This is despite the fact that they only cut about 10 mins of episode one.

They drink a lot of tea in the War Games but it comes across as even more when you cut out of the non-tea-drinking bits.

OK, there's some very fun editing around the redcoat and Buckingham remembering the mist coming down. (Dare I say possibly an improvement on the original?)

But then it goes back to feeling too zippy, but least because episode 3 is brutally cut. Very little of it left.

Gah, I'm trying to like this, because it's clearly been lovingly made and the colourisation is genuinely superb, but the grinding relentlessness of the War Games has been replaced by rattling through the plot at a frenzied pace and it's not really working for me.

Ooh, Murray Gold's Master theme has been added over the War Chief's appearance. Not sure how I feel about that, but it's certainly an interesting choice.

They've dealt with the cliffhanger issue at the end of episode 4 by taking it out entirely.

The little added CGI bits are not hugely successful - they look oddly plasticky. Which is a bit disappointing, because have I mentioned how good the colourisation is?

It's taken my dad until the episode six cliffhanger to note the place where the original cliffhanger was.

(My mum has given up because she doesn't like how much fighting there is. Not sure if the original edit would have been any better on that score.)

Episodes 6 and 7 are so thoroughly chopped up that it's tricky to trace the original storyline. It's neatly done but it's not really the War Games any more.

More of the Master's theme when the War Chief admits to knowing the Doctor.

My dad comments that this bit seems like it was inspired by the Prisoner (which he also watched when it first aired).

It feels a bit weird when it switches from Murray Gold to 1960s incidental music.

This really centres the War Chief et al over the rest of the storyline.

"Complete loyalty and devotion" - oh, Jamie. This loses a lot of character beats in favour of the Time Lord-centric storyline, but not all of them.

Oof, their last desperate attempt to escape is still just as grim and desperate in the edit. Like there's still part of me wondering if they might somehow get away this time.

There are new Who-style images of Gallifrey on the view screen.

"Is the next episode The Trial of a Time Lord?" asks my dad, who has seen all of Doctor Who, but mostly not very recently.

The middle bit of episode 10 is cut, which means that I can watch the ending without crying for once.

Lots of establishing shots of Gallifrey.

The too old/too young/too thin shows a series of New Who Doctors. Not entirely sure how I feel about that choice either.

And it ends with the Doctor regenerating in the TARDIS - again, New Who style - before the date ticks back and forth erratically between 1970 and 1980, a joke that will appeal to a small number of people that includes me, and finally the very opening scene of Spearhead from Space.

I think if you accept the premise that a 90-min version of the War Games could be done, it's about as good as it could be. A few of the choices make it pretty clear that this is primarily for a New Who audience - particularly that it becomes a very Time Lord-centric story - not really for existing fans of the War Games.

Still, I wasn't expecting to love the colourisation as much as I did, and it made me wish I could watch a colourised version of all 10 episodes.

middle aged lady on my bus just called someone's partner "your whimsical idiot boyfriend" over the phone . with sincere frustration might I add

the mark of the rani (1985)

i really enjoy reading the doctor as an experiment in queer masculinity. he very often appears to be conventionally masculine on first appearances - but so often he subverts that. he can be violent, but he's against killing; he strives for peace, and remains a hero. he espouses kindness, compassion, acceptance - he's a scientist, not a military man. he keeps an open mind, and encourages understanding, even for that which most people think of as disgusting. he sees a dying insect, monstrous to human eyes, lethal to human bodies, and considers it beautiful. he dresses in a traditionally masculine manner, and yet his clothes are almost always a strange mix of styles, or several decades out of date. he's deeply rooted in victorian/edwardian fashion, which often just has the effect of turning him into a gay magician. he's often a towering, six-foot-plus, deep-voiced Authority Figure, and yet he is so gentle. sometimes he's queer in that he loves men, and kisses men, as someone adjacent to masculinity (true of practically all of his incarnations from eight onwards); sometimes he's queer in that he loves everyone, regardless of gender; sometimes he's queer in that he doesn't love anyone, and is an aromantic or asexual figure; sometimes he's queer in that he's detached from human or time lord understandings of gender; sometimes he's queer as in queer, as in weird. he's flamboyant. he's eccentric. he's your gay uncle. he can regenerate into bodies which humans are quick to identify as female, but throughout it all he seems to carry some vague inner sense of identifying with masculinity, but rejecting it in its conventional form. the doctor is queer, yes, capable of expressing himself in a whole array of ways, but more than that, he's queer and masculine. and i love that.

I find it funny how whenever I go into panic mode™, the automatic reaction of my friends is just to put doctor who images in front of me. Anyway, that's how I ended up staring at this for 2 hours in my English lesson today:

And did it actually work to distract me? Yes (I am very predictable)

forgot i made this maybe one of you will find it funny

​sorry the doctor pinwheeling between ‘ace -> not ace -> ace again’ between regenerations will never not be funny to me.

I know I've talked about this before, but I love the idea of the doctor and the master regenerating together in mysterious circumstances, and having the audience be kept in the dark about which one's which for an episode or three

the amount of classic who bts anecdotes which consist of special effect nearly killing someone, one of the cast members deciding to commit to the world's most unhinged bit, or the companions' actors (mostly the women) complaining about nearly freezing to death are... concerning

average doctor who poll: who would be the greatest serial killer? innocent classic who companion or well-known nuwho side character who happens to own a knife? every single reblog is #innocent classic who companion literally #becomes a serial killer in their spinoff series I Am Become A Serial Killer #which clearly none of you have read or you wouldn't be voting nuwho. nuwho side character is winning by a 68% margin

"why would they lie?" in the timeless children was such a ridiculous line of dialogue... the first thing the time lords ever do on screen is put the doctor on trial and then execute him and wipe his friends' minds against their and his will. there's an entire series called trial of a time lord where the time lords suck for a series straight. it's not like this is only in classic who or anything, either; in the end of time they're trying to destroy all of reality and in heaven sent they torture the doctor for 4.5 billion years. there's a whole spinoff set on gallifrey which is mostly dedicated to time lords being racist, their horrible political system with its democratic functions like deus ex suicida, and grinding up its character in the imperialist war machine then spitting them back out as infinitely worse people. there's a whole department on gallifrey dedicated to sneaky illegal bullshit and a whole device dedicated to wiping people, including actual children, from time so thoroughly that they never existed. i think, perhaps, the time lords might be bad people maybe

the Doctor has a really really thick Cadon accent and they occasionally slip into Cadon-dialect Gallifreyan and everyone gets really confused because even if Lungbarrow is a disgraced House it’s still a highbrow oldblood dynasty and millenia of good breeding has somehow given way to this half-feral little creature who can talk the most flexiloquent politician into a corner and yet does so in the Gallifreyan equivalent of a Gloucestershire farmer’s drawl???

if i was like an average guy on galifrey and every day i put on my stupid little hat and my scholars robes and got on the Time bus to go to my minimum wage particle accelerator engineering job and i got the telepathic presidential alert that doctor frankenberry and count chocula were once again contesting the fate of our planet to drag out their divorce proceeding. probably i would also be a little high strung

that leela doesn't understand the phrase "chronic hysteresis" but does know what a time loop is implies to me that gallifreyan has scientific/non-scientific doublets somewhat akin to the latinate/germanic doublets in english. thus, leela knows damn well what the gallifreyan for time loop is, but romana using specific scientific vocabulary throws her off because it's not core vocabulary and she's simply never heard the term before

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"