#ncuti gatwa

[paintdoktahwho]

spacism?

[gh0sthoodie]

Happy pride month maybe I’ll start watching Doctor Who again

[dwgif]

Doctor Who Dot and Bubble

[stevenrogered]

I don’t care what you think. Okay? You can say whatever you want. You can think…absolutely anything. I will do anything…if you just allow me to save your lives. 

[scottishmushroom]

Every Doctor Who fan after watching Dot and Bubble:

[doctor-who-dvd]

"Hold on, I've seen her before"

"Yeah she's like- she's the face of the ambulance on Kastarion 3."

"No no no, I've seen her somewhere else"

GUYS THEY'RE FIGURING IT OUT THEY'RE BECOMING AWARE OF HER

[quantumshade]

“why does 15 cry in every episode” because ncuti gatwa is the most beautiful crier in the whole wide world. do you go to art museums and complain about them using the color blue

[thefiresofpompeii]

antiGRAV? it’s antimav doctor, everyone knows this, you claim to be a tech whiz and yet

[asshatproductions]

I personally don’t understand how people are getting “phone bad” from the new Doctor Who episode when privileged socialites created a colony to preserve their status and race, and technology to keep them constantly connected to each other and separated from anything else outside of them just so they can preserve prejudiced values…

[olympain]

It is our God-given duty to maintain the standards of Finetime.

[ayo-edebiri]

DOCTOR WHO (2005 - ) I 14.05

[carricfisher]

Doctor Who Dot and Bubble

[davidtennan-t]

Before watching Dot and Bubble: ew those slugs are not it

After watching Dot and Bubble: my queens, my slimy allies, my heroes, my ride or dies, my good time boys

[ordinaryschmuck]

The Doctor experiencing racism, firsthand, for the first time in their life...Oh, man, I gotta go through this.

First, I love that he doesn't realize what's wrong at first. He just figures that the rich twats are being twats. No big deal, The Doctor dealt with twats before, he can handle them once more. So he tries, he tries using every ounce of logic to convince them that going with him will be for the best. But they refuse anyway because they're uncomfortable with someone like him and his wild story about a blue box that's bigger on the inside.

Yet he doesn't care. The Doctor still wants to help these people, even if they don't trust him. It speaks volumes of the kind of good person that The Doctor is, no matter the face. They will always help someone--EVERYONE--because to them, no life in the universe isn't worth saving. He makes this clear in his desperation to make them STOP their crazy plan to become pilgrims and let him take them to a new, safer planet. Except that they still refuse, and he's stunned. He can't understand how they can be so insane to not accept his help.

And then it hits. He finally gets the reason why they don't want his help. It's all because of this one, vile concept that still managed to persist for decades, centuries, GENERATIONS on a distant planet. Despite the time and the distance, racism still persisted and The Doctor was too blind to notice the signs. The fact that there was no other person of color in that bubble or how often Lindy was annoyed and disgusted with The Doctor specifically while being more lenient toward Ruby. She blocked The Doctor immediately, but was willing to hear Ruby out despite how clearly aggravated she became with her. It was all there, and none of us noticed, not even The Doctor because...they're not used to thinking that way. They're used to people trusting their face and listening to them because they've always remembered being White and never once considered that someone could be prejudiced towards them.

All of this comes to The Doctor all at once...and it is so ridiculous that all he can do is laugh. The sheer utter lunacy that racism existed and he just now realized HE could experience it is insane. It's insane that this is something he never thought of. It's insane that this is STILL something he has to think of. And that laughter soon turns to anger because he HATES that it's still a thing he has to think of. He hates that he couldn't safe what's left of a civilization because of something that should have been outdated LONG ago.

The Doctor finally experienced racism first hand, and it broke both of his hearts because of it.

[stevenrogered]

DOCTOR WHO | "Dot and Bubble"

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Can they put Ncuti Gatwa in some elaborate Gallifreyan robes please? I would like to see it. Gallifreyan robes with all the drip. I don't even care if it makes sense in the context of the show. I would like to see it.