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*all here is less every episode and more watch something with every doctor/enough to know all the actors in it

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from A Manual of Enlargement by James Tate

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When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

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Doctor Who | 'The Robot Revolution'

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ONE OF THA BEST TO DO IT!!!!

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I love the idea that the 15th Doctor is one of the incarnations totally willing to manipulate his friends and companions, but he does it THROUGH laughs and smiles and charm, so much so that he barely even registers that that’s what he’s doing. Upbeat darkness.

Of course, “silly Doctor hiding a manipulative streak” is hardly new, but there’s a specific difference between, say, 7 using silliness to trick enemies but manipulating Ace more overtly, and 15 trying to manipulate Belinda, his potential new companion, USING his charm. It’s a (relatively) new angle on the Doctor’s manipulative behavior. I’m not gonna say it’s NEVER been done before (thousands of stories across several mediums over 60 years, I’m sure it’s cropped up), but this is the most overt example of the Doc using this specific manipulation tactic to my mind.

Belinda, having been the victim of a (clumsy) attempt at manipulation by Alan in the past, recognizes it right away and calls the Doc out, and he still doesn’t let the smile drop until he recognizes he isn’t gonna charm his way out of the situation.

And he KNOWS she’s right. But it almost makes him mad that she recognizes it too. You can see it on his face. He wants to argue back. But he knows she’s right, so he doesn’t.

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We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson // illustrated by Annie Hoffmeister // Folio Society 2023

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Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra in the 'The Robot Revolution'

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The thing w Turlough is that the doctor does seem to initially fall for his 'im a nice plucky schoolboy' act (he's emotionally vulnerable bcos his last teen boy companion exploded) but the audience knows Turlough's true nature from the getgo.

I think it would be fun to do a similar character arc but w the audience also locked out. Introduce like a nice & kind 21st century earth companion and then reveal down the line that they've been faking it to get aboard the TARDIS but the doctor is already in too deep to quit

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“Miracle on the Mountain” by Clarence Schmidt. Clarence Schmidt was locally and nationally renowned outsider artist -  an iconic pioneer of monumental environmental sculpture. His ongoing life’s work, the “Miracle on the Mountain,” was constructed of found objects and recycled materials between the years 1940-1972, which evolved on the back slope of Ohayo Mountain, in Woodstock NY.

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this is for throwing darts at while blindfolded

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Actually though saying "it was never us vs technology, just us vs the entitled guys in charge of the technology" is a good message and very on brand for Doctor Who

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It's malaise Monday!

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So is there just no chance of Doctor Who getting longer seasons because of the current TV landscape or is there something we could do like, say, beg or offer one of us up as a sacrifice

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on a bit of a “let leela be flawed please i’m begging” crusade rn sorry. i mean there’s a lot of nuance but still basically i think every time we get on romana or narvin’s case for political evils we must remember leela is their right hand arm. man. and she does it on purpose

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after doing the math of shitty teenage relationship age + 17 years later, belinda is prob around 32 (same age as varada sethu) and I could. literally cheer

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