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DOCTOR WHO (2005) 1502 - Lux

"Save it for later, Belinda. Right now, we are busy." "How can you say that?"

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“No, no, it’s this way.”

The Chase - season 02 - 1965

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“Hello. I’m the Doctor. Basically, run.”

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Like a penguin with his ass on fire (3 of 3): series 10

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will never shut up about the doctor's relationship to and distance from humanity but i think four is actually at his least human/furthest from humanity in his first few series because he's trying to define himself in contrast to the third doctor and therefore necessarily in opposition to humanity and a sedentary life on earth. now basing your identity on what you are not is a recipe for disaster but it does result in him coming across as alien, precisely because he's still travelling with contemporary humans who know who he was and are inevitably tied to earth. from leela onwards he's ironically more human or at least more steeped in twentieth century humanity because leela and romana and adric don't know fuck about twentieth century earth so he's the weird earth-fetishising taboo anglophile who acts as an ambassador for humanity. the less he is surrounded by humans, the more human he becomes.

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Between plain irritation with acting like the Master could be just seamlessly reintroduced and if you don't agree then you must hate the character on the one hand, and the fact that RTD is quite obviously itching to write them again, even has a guy mourning his dead wife with Ten's line from TSOD, I think what needs to be addressed is the poetics and tonality.

Like, Fifteen clearly is upset about destruction of Gallifrey and does think of Time Lords as their people, in fact he's wearing the most Gallifreyan cultural elements on himself out of all regenerations. At the same time, RTD doesn't seem as hung up on them as a personal axis universi as the writing was keen on being recently, so I don't think the Master's eventual return will follow that path. Like, on the one hand they can't be reintroduced in a purely hostile way, because then the dynamic would be fully negative, yet at the same time it shouldn't be another "the Master only wants to be friends again". They have to be reestablished as a character with their independent selfish agenda, yet not focused solely on hating the Doctor.

I don't think any "x is actually the Master" plotline would work, just because you don't go out of your way to insert a tooth side plot in a story that has nothing to do with them, only to later use it only as a flashback after the revelation of another plot device of a chameleon arch (like, the storytelling awareness that you do in fact have to establish aspects of the lore that are relevant to the story at hand seems to be back on the menu, so you'd have to one, establish who the Master is and two, how the chameleon arch works there just aren't enough episodes) and also RTD seems to really like the idea of Time Lords sniffing each other like cats in heat. Total reset and comeback of baby Master also seems, one, like a cop out, two, also superfluous to the tooth, so for all that Belinda only having abstract "Mum and Dad", and a break up from when she was a teenager is off for RTD, I don't think this is going anywhere either.

So I think the obvious plotline for when you want to reintroduce a genius villain with a situationship with the protagonist after a major fuck up is "there's totally only one person that can help now", I mean, Belinda specifically connecting there being no other Time Lords with no one coming to help seems to nudge in this direction. Like, think Loki in the Dark World, right? Reluctant cooperation is what Thoschei Casablanca actually is! Except, the Doctor straight up doesn't know about the tooth. So we have to look to mysterious hand suddenly appearing on UNIT HQ's terrace. Still don't know who that is, the following scenario would work if this is Kate, though the tonality would be different, but for now I'm going to let my imagination loose and go with "mrs Flood is actually the daedric prince of television in the Pantheon (you get it, right? Flood, as in waves, so if the god of light controls cinema, then waves are what makes television, also mrs Flood is an anagram of, uuuh, old forms, as in old forms of communication, she popped up out of nowhere as she seems to do, and had red nails because she knows it's red fingernails that pick up the Master), and while not exactly good, she's impersonally invested in the Doctor going on as what feeds her and also ships thoschei". Ok, so with that.

I think the neatest way to get the Master back in is the penultimate episode having the Doctor taken away, perhaps trapped in another daedric realm by, ugh, Cath Palug, the monstrous cat of Welsh folklore and arthuriana. And Belinda, and Ruby, and probably some UNIT memebers (this is why Kate would work too), are all moping because, well maybe the Earth was saved but the Doctor had to sacrifice himself, and someone goes "If there was anything could be done to bring him back…", and suddenly mrs Flood is in the frame, giving the audience a jumpscare asking "Would you do it? Hmmm? What… would you? Hmmm? What would any of you be willing to do? Hmmm? Would you sail to the ends of the universe, and beyond, to fetch back clever Doctor and his precious TARDIS?", and everyone is like "Aye.", and then she goes "Alright. But if you're goin' brave the weird, and haunted shores, in the chaos outside of the universes, then… you will need a captain who knows those waters." AAAND SHE PULLS OUT THE TOOTH AND IT SAYS "So tell me, what's become of my ship?"

Roll credits.

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Happy 3rd birthday to this pic.

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average classic who serial: oh hey a bunch of people just died horrifically. Anyway

average steven serial: The Guilt Is Killing Me

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Trip of a Lifetime | 20th Anniversary of the 'Doctor Who' trailer, first released on 15th March 2005

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Well, I mean, you did say that you took your degree in Glasgow in 1888. It does seem an awful long time from now, 2070 or whatever it is.

DOCTOR WHO ↳ The Moonbase (1967)

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yahoo answers i made this real cartoon guy laugh when he told me not am i goign to die

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okay doctor diva

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guyssss… lowkey…… i wish we got belinda being wary of the doctor for a little bit longer….. i know there’s a time restraint for development considering how short seasons are now, but she went from calling him dangerous and being concerned about his intentions to being like “oh my god yes i trust you!” in one adventure where she learns about him literally killing gods 😭

like gahhhh i think it would’ve been nice if she went on her first real adventure with the doctor and stayed a bit more wary of him during it while slowly warming up to him, so by the time he asks if she trusts him she could be like “i think… maybe i do” instead of jumping straight to “yes i do!” y’know what i mean??

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doctor who ain’t a tv show but the doctor knows what the episodes are?

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You're a man who knows what he wants, Lord Master. And takes it. You want the crystal? I am going to possess it.

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Doctor Who 15.02 Lux

my first DW gifs but I absolutely had to gif the moment I fell head over heels in love with Belinda