#Boom Town

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the brief time when Mickey and Jack overlap in the tardis team is honestly one of my favorite ever (even though Mickey is not techincally part of the team yet. they could have been so great :(

[itsatorchwoodthing]

it’s more like goof, in this scene in particular

[tvgirl4ever]

dream blunt rotation

[felicitywilds]

nine is just so besotted with rose he cant even pretend to be annoyed at her for more than a second. she struggles to pronounce raxacoricofallapatorius and at first hes like “🙄🙄🙄” and shes like “no hang on!” and then as she starts getting the hang of it his attitude pivots so quickly. he breaks out into the dopiest smile and she jumps into his arms and they hug and he swings her around and they’re so giddy and he’s so proud of her for such a tiny, silly reason. made for each other behavior.

[summertimenoir]

Hedy Lamarr in as Karen Vanmeer in Boom Town (1940)

[khruschevshoe]

How Behind-the Scenes Issues Affected the Writing of Doctor Who (Both Good and Bad)

Doctor Who is such a fascinating show to look at from a Watsonian v. Doylist perspective. Like, entirely just from an episode writing point of view:

Twice Upon A Time feels so slow and meandering and even boring in places because Chris Chibnall didn't want to start his run as showrunner and Steven Moffat didn't want the show to lose the coveted Christmas timeslot (ironic, I know) so he bumped the Twelfth Doctor's regeneration from the end of The Doctor Falls (where it makes sense) to the end of the Christmas special

Boom Town (my beloved) only exists because originally there was going to be an episode in its spot explaining that Rose had been molded to be the Doctor's perfect companion (by the Doctor, gross) and the writer didn't have the time to commit to the show

The ending of Last Christmas feels like one inside-a-dream too many because originally Jenna Coleman was questioning whether she was going to leave the show or not and the ending was rewritten after the first readthrough when she decided she wanted to stay for another season

The first five episodes of Season 7 feel like each one takes place in a different genre because that's literally how Steven Moffat pitched it to the writers; for example, A Town Called Mercy was literally pitched as "Doctor Who does a Western"

Not so much a weird one but one I find cool: Eleven's first words and Thirteen's first words were literally written by Moffat and Chibnall respectively, as they were brought in to write the first words of the first Doctors of their runs so as to make it cohesive

The reason why Fourteen isn't wearing Thirteen's clothes when he regenerates is because Jodie Whittaker is much shorter than David Tennant and Russell T. Davies didn't want it to look like he was making fun of the genderfluidity of the Doctor (still think he made the wrong decision, but eh)

Wilfred Mott isn't in the Runaway Bride and Donna's father isn't in Partners in Crime because the actor who played Donna's father, Howard Attfield, died after filming several scenes for Partners In Crime, leading to the character of "Stan Mott" from Voyage of the Damned being written into Partners In Crime as Donna's grandfather

Astrid Peth doesn't die in the original drafts of Voyage of the Damned, but Russell T. Davies wrote what is generally considered one of the most emotional deaths in Doctor Who just because he wanted Kylie Minogue to be able to focus on her music career

Originally Oxygen was written as a prequel to Mummy on the Orient Express, where a corporate representative appeared on a monitor. Said representative was fired for his fumbling of the station and would later live on as the company computer, Gus

During Season 11, Chris Chibnall had to do some major rewrites for many of the one-off episodes, therefore The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos ended up being a first draft that made it to screen. He later admitted it was his least favorite episode of the series

And this is only a fraction of what I found in terms of major behind-the-scenes writing reasons. Though I am still totally willing to critique the product that made it to our screens, finding out the reasons behind some of the more badly written episodes of the show really made me feel sympathy for every showrunner of the show as well as appreciate a lot of the good episodes that ended up here despite the short production schedule/unexpected problems (once again, Boom Town my beloved AND everyone's favorite companion Wilfred Mott only exist because of unforseen problems). Absolutely bonkers, isn't it?

[mauve-and-dangerous]

Rose Tyler, my absolute beloved. I'm sorry it took me twenty years to meet you.

Rose was getting it now— she did get to choose her part in the story. Out here, unmoored in space and time and so very far from home, nobody knew her. She would no longer be haunted by the person she had been: that Tyler girl, the sum of her upbringing and her losses and her mistakes. Now she was free to be just Rose, and assert her truest self across the galaxy. So what if she couldn't be the genius who solves the mystery, or the hero who saves the world? She wasn't the main character, and that was how she liked it. 

Because Rose Tyler had decided: she was gonna be the galaxy's best fuckin' friend. 

early-ish excerpt from my fic-in-progress, the Solarium Effect

[stephadoo]

Every Doctor Who Story → Boom Town

“From what I've seen, your funny little happy go lucky little life leaves devastation in its wake. Always moving on because you dare not look back. Playing with so many peoples lives, you might as well be a god.”

[chaosducks]

I miss this crack pot team of lesbians. I need them back, like desperately.

[soulless-angel25]

so y'all know that one thing that goes: "Problem? Not my problem, that's just not my problem."

you know that right? yeah that's 9 in boom town when blon/margaret tells him that taking her home means taking her to her death

he fucking says: Not my problem.

[chodoyodes]

Boom Town had the best outfits

[witchofthemidlands]

"Cardiff, early 21st century. Safest place in the universe." - Ninth Doctor ‘Boom Town’

For @kirstyth

[playa-pariah]

A bunch of slitheens I drew for a university project :P so silly

[tvgirl4ever]

[eccleston]

DOCTOR WHO | Boom Town

We’ll stop by and pop her in the hatchery. Margaret the Slitheen can live her life again.

[radiantrookie]

Boom Town and Redstonia the Block by Block Concept Trailer