#(with chibnall)

[unnamedmedicalprofessional]

The handling of Gallifrey in new who is genuinely the funniest thing ever. The Doctor is given this huge tragic backstory about being the last of his kind and spends seven seasons mourning the loss of his beloved home. Than he triumphiantly manages to save Gallifrey as this huge moment to celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who. Hype about The Doctor's eventual return to Gallifrey builds up for two years. Than he gets back to Gallifrey and both The Doctor and Steven Moffat decided "Wait a minute this place fucking sucks actually. Clara is cooler than all you motherfuckers put together" and then two seasons later Chibnall blows it up again offscreen. Only on Doctor Who.

[froof-of-the-loof]

Chris Chibnall: Okay we're gonna make the doctor gay but we've gotta be quiet about it. Subtle. Stolen glances. Quiet sapphic undertones.

RTD: 🌈❤️👬🧡🥰💛💏💚it says "your hot"💋💙🏳️‍🌈💜🫶💅👯‍♂️👨‍❤️‍👨

[ancientfrozenglaciershark]

The 13th Doctor was so private, she totally didn’t tell her friends her age for probably months. They totally thought she was just a normal aged alien until she slipped up one day and casually said something like “I haven’t had a cheese ball in 400 years”

[icklewolfiekins]

you ever learn something you wish you didn't? I, for example, just learned that between 2008 and 2015 not a single episode of Doctor Who aired that was written by a woman. Between The Sontaran Stratagem, a story with David Tennant as the Doctor, and The Woman Who Lived, a Peter Capaldi story, not a single episode was written by a woman.

[fanonical]

all steven moffat episode titles be like "The Impossible Of The Doctor"

all chris chibnall episode titles be like "The Timaeus Event PART 3: Proliferation of the [classic who monster]"

all RTD episode titles be like "grass"

[olympain]

Happy Lunar New Year!

[spoutin-doggerel]

Chibnall's Doctor Who is really funny to me because it feels like a very conservative person's attempt at writing a progressive show. Like "Episode about giant Amazon company except the corporation was the good guy all along and the villian is the striking workers" "Episode about Rosa Parks except it cheapens her activism by portraying it as a spur of the moment coincidence" "The Doctor refering to a formerly enslaved species that he fought to save as "conditioned to serve". Maybe just don't write a show like Doctor Who.

[bellamysgriffin]

favorite doctor who quotes: 65/?

[thedoctor-and-donna]

I have decided that Thirteens run is one of my favorites purely because of how the show runners treat The Doctor.

Hear me out!

With Thirteen, they actually started embracing the “this character is NOT human” aspect. The other Doctors did a little bit but not near the amount of Thirteen

Thirteen with talk to her Tardis, knowing the companions can’t hear the ship talk back

Thirteen will eat dirt and sniff people and lick stuff because that’s how Time Lords work. It’s how they use all their senses to figure stuff out

Thirteen makes mentions of her past bodies all of the time. Not just because they’re male bodies, but because of how different each body is to the others

Thirteen uses her telepathy SO MUCH MORE. One of my favorite things about The Doctor is their telepathy. The fact that this run actually uses it instead of just forgetting about it warms my heart so much

They show that The Doctor is not a human so much more during Thirteen’s run than the others. It’s something that, to me, is missing a lot in this show.

Yes, The Doctor looks human to us, but they are not and never will be human. The other Doctors lean into the “I look and act human” bit so much it’s easy to forget they are not human

Thirteen’s run doesn’t do this. They don’t let you forget that The Doctor isn’t human, they remind you all the time

This is why I love Thirteen’s run so much

[robiniswriting]

the thirteenth doctor’s regeneration does not get the credit it deserves. despite knowing that she’s losing herself, she doesn’t run from it like ten or twelve. she doesn’t hide the terrifying truth of what will happen and how exactly she might change from the companion she loves like nine or eleven. she doesn’t remain in the TARDIS, her true home and safe haven, where everything is familiar, like all the rest choose to do, despite knowing their regeneration energy will likely damage their beloved ship.

instead, she holds off just long enough to have ice cream with the woman she loves. to give her companion a goodbye, a real goodbye, something none of the doctors before her had managed to do for any of the others that came before. she finds a cliff with a stunning yet unfamiliar sunset, and faces the end of her story — her new beginning, the unknown — with a quip and smile.

in the end, I think she was truly the bravest of them all.

[headcanonsandmore]

I'm sorry; I hate to be a party-pooper but WHY wasn't Yaz mentioned? Virtually every significant romantic relationship was mentioned at some point, except the one the Doctor literally had three episodes ago!

[gryffindraws]

i really did enjoy the 13th doctor HOWEVER, if i could change anything (other than chibnall's flmisy political messaging) i wouldve made yaz a social worker in training. it literally made no sense to make her a cop, especially when she was constantly comparing herself to the doctor, who is literally the opposite of a cop in every way. and if she had to start off as a cop, she should have resigned and pursued social work or something similar that matched her backstory as a trouble teen AND the doctor's pacifist ideology. the idea that she felt a renewed interest in becoming a cop was sp dumb. why the fuck did he make the doctor's companion a cop when they fucking hateeee people of authority. wwtdd? not be a fucking cop

[kitmarlowe]

"It’s really important, I think, in any era of Doctor Who, for the Doctor to have an emotional journey, to have an arc and go on a voyage of discovery through their time on the show. I always knew this was going to be the arc for Jodie’s Doctor."

CHRIS CHIBNALL ON THE TIMELESS CHILD

[unnamedmedicalprofessional]

"Doctor Who is a good show". "Doctor Who is a bad show". Wrong. Doctor Who is a chaotic neutral show.

[notvictorhugo]

You guys remember how Twelve's last adventure, involving letting Missy and Bill try their hand in a fairly chill place, on their own, with no help, barely supervised, to see if they'd learnt from him, ended with his student's death, Missy's betrayal, and his own regeneration in an impossibly bad, unwinnable situation?

And how Thirteen ended up being extremely hands-on with a let-me-do-it-you-guys-just-tag-along approach?

Cuz I do, constantly

[vroomvroomwee]

Doctor Who started off with terrible CGI but with stunning writing and as it progressed the two switched places. The CGI might be phenomenal but the writing is a dumpster fire.

I think that's partly why everyone is so excited for the 60th special. You've got the CGI and the writing this time now that RTD is back.