#DWM lore

[ink-and-dagger]

Remember in Drink With Me Chapter 9 when they get hammered and Silco smiles at Astrid?

Yeah. That’s the one.

🖤

[intuitive-revelations]

I'm not really a DoctorRose shipper, but here's a very unlikely but still technically possible thought:

If, per The Legend of Ruby Sunday, Susan really is the daughter of a future child of the Doctor...

...and her original name really is "Arkytior", ie. the Gallifreyan equivalent of "Rose"...

...there's an argument to be made that, like Rose Temple-Noble (ironically, herself arguably a relative of the Doctor in a roundabout way, via the metacrisis), Susan might have been originally named after Rose Tyler.

[thirteens-pocket-watch]

I've decided to compile all the small pieces of information about future episodes that RTD has given in his Letter from the Showrunner segments in DWM. I've only included things that can tell us something about the episode, so stuff like Bad Wolf investigating if using a certain title is permitted hasn't been included here. I've included the issue each point was given in and I will obviously update after future issues

(Last updated 25.04.25)

Upcoming Episodes

Series 15/Season 2

The Well

- RTD mentions that Ncuti Gatwa is rehearsing with a Special Guest Star for their 13th episode. I assumed he was referring to his 13th episode with Gatwa and didn't count the anniversary specials (597)

- RTD says "Brrr. I'm just saying...brrr. Scary!" (609)

- This episode contains a "killer reveal" (615)

Lucky Day

- RTD calls it "a brand new slant on a Doctor Who story" (609)

The Story and the Engine

- There is a "unique and terrifying shop" in this episode (613)

The Interstellar Song Contest

- RTD says "But wait till you see Sabine, and Cora and Kid". I personally can't tell if these are characters, actors or something else (609)

- In terms of avoiding spoilers, RTD claimed this episode to be "even worse" than 7 (615)

Wish World

- RTD mentions a text message from Verada Sethu and says "(my reaction to Season 2, episode 7, Sc. 48 as her character faces... oh, you'll see!). I'd just said, what great rushes" (605)

- It is the first part of a two part finale (609)

- It contains "a brilliant guest star and revelations galore" (609)

- The episode contains the following words: violets, owl, threshold, poppy, slip, Chinese and Persephone (611)

- RTD said to "take care" regarding spoilers for this episode (615)

The Reality War

- The header for Scene 10 is INT. CUTAWAY, METAL DOOR 2 (611)

- RTD also says "wait till you find out what's behind that metal door! Not to mention Doors 1 and 3. Scream!" (611)

- The finale contains a "mysterious Palace" (613)

Extra

- An unspecified episode contains the words radiation, moth and skiffle (597)

- The sets include a hotel, a chamber and a hospital (597)

- More sets are listed, including the UNIT OPs room, the Sundays' flat, "a set so real we could rent it out as its actual self" and an "absolute labyrinth of a set" (potentially an actual labyrinth based on a previous comment from director Makalla McPherson) (601)

- RTD confirmed that the 2025 season will not contain an episode celebrating 20 years of New Who (602)

- On the 8th March 2024, RTD claimed they were "shooting a scene that will live forever in Doctor Who history" (602)

- The "climax" of season 2 contains the words tinderbox, Croydon and threshold (603)

- RTD says "oh, I wish you could see that guest star" about the aforementioned episode (603)

- A "great guest star" is once more alluded to when RTD brings up Phil Collinson doing ADR with them in July (607)

- The director that the above mentioned ADR is being recorded for is Amanda Brotchie (607)

- RTD mentions a "particular shot of London (...) for FX work" and and "important drone shoot in a major city, thousands of miles away" for s2 (607)

- A weapon from the Ninth Doctor era returns during the season (611)

- RTD continues to tease about guest stars, claiming we will see some in a Season 2 teaser trailer over Christmas (611)

- One guest star has apparently dropped some clues that no one has picked up on yet (611)

- RTD says "Tables don't do that" with no context beyond "Four words-a-puzzling" (611)

- The Time Hotel foyer set was transformed into a wartime hospital in the North Zone (613)

- The last shot of the trailer is "just one shot in the middle of the most astonishing sequence" (613)

- The season as a whole is described as "bigger and madder and darker, taking wilder swings than ever" (613)

- RTD also gives this list of things present in Season 2: "monsters and friends and old faces and legacy and lore and myth and pantheons and beasts and quarries and spaceships and cameos and robots and rebels and shocks and songs and lasers and Mrs Flood." (613)

- There will be "new Time Lord facts, new things about Gallifrey" (615)

- This list of things about the new season is given: "The truth about Noctis Inknid. Our long history with the Orisha. Dugga Doo! The occupant of the Vault." ... "the finale rears into sight, with the Dispossessed, the Seekers, a very surprising novel, and the terrifying mysteries of the Bone Palace." (616)

The War Between the Land and the Sea

- A fin went missing during filming. Whether this is a prop, part of a costume or something else isn't specified (611)

- The set that RTD claims is "the heart of the show" is the biggest set for this era of the Whoniverse so far and had 200 extras in it at one point (613)

Previous Episodes

2023 Specials

The Star Beast

- Contains the words westerly, pelican and dreams (584)

- Page seven contains the line "Oh, Nerys and her big mouth!" (585)

- The reconstructed opening scene made from fan recordings of filming contains lines that were cut from the final version of the episode (595)

Wild Blue Yonder

- Contains the words wild, Southampton, vegetable, Flux, bean and starlight (585)

Extra

- RTD refers to a "terrifying scene with Sue" and two celebrity historical figures in the upcoming specials (596)

- None of the specials will air on the 1st, 17th or 23rd of November (596)

Series 14/Season 1

Space Babies

- Contains the words roar, Glastonbury and conquistador (589)

- The title was said aloud in Star Trek: Picard 3 (590/591)

- Scene 11 is headed as INT. CONTROL ROOM and the stage directions say "THE DOCTOR and RUBY walk in to find a cool, sleek, metal CONTROL ROOM, full of CONSOLES" (598)

The Devil's Chord

- Scene 10 is set INT. CANTEEN. DAY (585)

- Contains the words Liverpool, legions and non-diagetic (586)

- The title of the episode was revealed (598)

73 Yards

- Had the line "I once went to the top of the Shard" cut from the script (589)

Rogue

- Page 10 contains the line "I am ruined" and it is said by a character named Emily (598)

- When talking about watching the final mix of this episode, RTD threw in the quote "Live vivisection!" (602)

The Legend of Ruby Sunday

- First line of the script is INT. COFFEE BAR, USA - DAY, 1947 (584)

- RTD said he recomends midnight viewing for this episode because "it's shocking, frankly, and there might be screaming!" (603)

Empire of Death

- Contains the words kingdom, gold and Tigella (592)

- There is a crucial scene, designated 27B, in an unspecified episode with an as-yet unannounced guest star (593)

- The aforementioned scene contains the debris of a fallen statue with an 8 foot tall head as part of the set (593)

- The last scene to be filmed for series 14 was a scene in the TARDIS in the "middle bit of the finale" (whether this is episode 7 or 8 is not specified) and the Doctor slides to the ground at some point during the scene (594)

- Contains the words terror, dust, pizza, Einstein, death and opera (598)

- One of the above words is also in the title (598)

Extra

- An unspecified episode had the word "sixpence" in the title before the plot about said sixpence was cut (591)

- RTD says the following about the upcoming season: "Will we ever see Mondo Caroon? Where exactly is Bertie Lester? And how many people does it take to fly an asteroid hopper?" (603)

Series 15/2

The Robot Revolution

- An unspecified episode contains the words garden, firmament and diploma (592)

- Scene One features none of the regular cast (600)

- RTD says "Belinda Chandra arrives in the Doctor's world with a massive SLAM!" (609)

- An acronym for its title is TRR (611)

- There's a set called the Robo-chamber where Belinda Chandra faces some "shocking revelations" (613)

Lux

- The episode features a guest star who's been in the show before but in a different role (600)

- There is a guest star playing a character named Reginald Pye (609)

- One of the season's characters is "a complex beast". They are referred to as RAD as a shorthand (611)

- The cartoon man seen in the trailer is voiced by "an old friend of the show", presumably the previously appearing guest star that has been teased prior (613)

- "There's a detail in this year's Ep 2 Credits (and kept out of Billings) that's a really lovely thing" (614)

[retphienix]

On DQM: Caravan Hearts-

I will say, I still don't fully grasp why so many interlocking design decisions and the Caravan as a whole were done the way they were from the start of the game because they made the first couple hours of gameplay GLACIAL, PAINFULLY BORING, AND JUST PLAIN BAD.

For the first 2-3 hours:

Caravan rations slow you down and make you backtrack and limit your exploration a lot

You are limited to 1 monster (in lore because of the caravan, so that sucks)

They nerfed slimes from prior entries so instead of learning Firebal at level 4 (DWM) which makes you feel like you're "in the game" similar to when Charmander learns Ember- you can finally start playing and you have an option against groups of enemies instead of just attacking normally- instead of that- slime learns Sap at like level 8. Not only is that WAY MORE GRINDING before you're allowed to do something that isn't a normal attack- it's a debuff that will be borderline useless to you at the start of the game where firebal would be fantastic.

Basically, the first couple hours of gameplay are auto-attacking nonstop and keeping your eyes glued to the rations bar. That's not fun. Why is it like that.

Then you have to wait a touch more to get a second monster, then you have to wait quite a bit longer to get your third, they really drip feed for no reason at the start of Caravan Heart and it does the game a disservice as that is undeniably the worst period of the game in my opinion.

[verloonati]

- Tyssa truthers

- VNA girlies (can't be shut up about gallifrey lore and lungbarrow)

-torchwood fans who only fuck with the three first seasons (usually janto truthers)

-torchwood fans who defend miracle day

- Sarah Jane enjoyers

- people who thinks the sixth doctor's TV era was good actually

-people who don't fuck with TV six doctor but huge Big finish's sixth doctor fans

- the humble DWM comic reader

- Actors and writers who are actually in the show or write for it in some capacity.

more doctor who niches i have noticed

people who think that season one was the best / ninerose enjoyers / Don't Skip Nine !! people (honestly so real)

people who started watching in the early 2010s as a kid/teenager & got Attached to eleven

(related to above) people who make aesthetic gif edits of amy pond

people who think clara is an awful manipulative liar who sucks & is bad (she's their favourite character) (often twelveclara people also)

TWISSY ENJOYERS (me)

second doctor / jamie mccrimmon fans primarily

eighth doctor adventure enjoyers (often adults)

(related to the first one) people who got bored partway through eleven & had no prior attachment to david tennant often seem to like nine the most

people who have a deep emotional connection to at least three characters played by david tennant

people who will die on any hill defending thirteen's era (often thasmin truthers also) (though a lot of thasmin people see the Problems with the era theres a subset of people who think chibnall did Nothing Wrong)

people who will die on any hill defending steven moffats writing and every day this pains them (usually have really good analysis) (they can see the problems but can also see the really good parts & how the two are inextricable)

people who think fourteen shouldn't have happened

people who like the tenth doctor in a really intellectual way (usually not tenrose people)

TENSIMM PEOPLE.

people who really like turlough

people who got really really excited whenever susan is mentioned

[phaedo]

was it rose tyler day for a reason or just because she deserves love? also i did take psychic damage from ur theme when i went on ur blog to write this ask. that's not a bad thing i just thought u should know.

oh it's her birthday. also you're welcome

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of Army of Ghosts/Doomsday (Part 15)  

Excerpts from Benjamin Cook’s article in DWM #372

How would Russell [T Davies, writer & showrunner] say Daleks and Cybermen differ, in terms of dialogue and driving force?

"It came out as a right old bitch-fest," he laughs.  "I really loved it.   Fan lore had said how difficult they'd be to write, and I was dreading it. But honestly, once I'd started, I had to keep trimming back, cos I would've had them talking for 20 minutes.  The difference is very clear: the Daleks, for all their talk of no emotions, are boiling with hate. They're so selfish and angry. Cybermen are cooler and more dispassionate. If they see a good idea, they'll use it, cos that's logical. That's why the Cybermen suggest joining forces, cos that makes sense, and that's why the Daleks reject it, cos they're just vile. Those poor Cybermen!  Sorry, boys.  Daleks are supreme."

Link to [ part one ] of the Army of Ghosts/Doomsday Behind-the-scenes posts or click the #whoBtsDoom tag, or the full episode list [ here ]

[doctornolonger]

Halloween Apocalypse canonwelding first impressions:

Karvanista working for or with the Division is clearly a reference to Wardog and the Special Executive working for the Time Lords in Alan Moore's DWM comics

Multiple people have compared Swarm’s appearance to a Cenobite from Hellraiser, and given how connected he clearly is with Gallifrey lore: Eremites confirmed

I really thought Swarm was going to be an acronym (Sontarans, Weeping Angels, Ravagers… Master?) but I’m not mad

I haven't revisited my old retired "every Doctor goes through a hypertime echo of the Time War" theory in a long time, but Flux is definitely a hypertime echo of the Time War.

[daughterofheartshaven]

So my take on it is that most of the information we get in The Daleks has decayed a bit - The Thals are working off of incomplete information and while they have regained something resembling a society by this point, so much knowledge was lost following the events of Genesis of the Daleks.

In more detail:

I personally think the Thals we see in The Daleks and afterwords are more or less descended from the Mutos from Genesis - which included both the Thals and the Kaleds. The reasons they identify as Thals now is that more Thals survived Genesis then Kaleds, so the surviving Kaleds adapted into Thal culture.

The concept of Thals as warriors and Dals as philosophers might be accurate to before the Thousand Year War. Or it might be an invention of the survivors as they try to piece together their past.

Since the Thals are descended from the Mutos, their population has had to recover from the mutations of that time - that is what is meant by "full circle mutation". The Thals were never squiddy guys. Meanwhile the Daleks had their mutations accelerated by Darvos into an entirely different species.

The Dals were a separate group from the Kaleds and Thals who were wiped out before the Thousand Year War ended (they weren't the only one, btw - the Tharons also suffered this fate). The word "Dalek" was actually a Dal word that was a combination of "Dal" (the Dal word for man) with the modifier "ek" (which in the Dal language meant "to be godlike"). So, in Dal, "Dalek" means "men who have become gods", which Davros took a shining to.

Since the Dals existed and the Thals lost as much information as they did, when they learned about the Daleks, they assumed the Daleks were descended from the Dals and not the Kaleds. Given that the Dals lasted very nearly to the end of the Thousand Year War (Davros met what was probably the last one as a child), and "Dalek" is a Dal word, this makes sense. This implies that initially the Dals were just a third equally powerful front in the War, but that doesn't change anything else we know.

My info about the Dals comes partially from the recent short story The Last of the Dals, one of the better stories in the collection Origin Stories, but mostly from the Big Finish miniseries I, Davros, which I cannot recommended enough.

Oh and by the way, I know that the recent Destination: Skaro short contradicts a bunch of what I just said, so: that wasn't set on actual Skaro, that was set on the fictional dreamscape Skaro created by the Dalek Dome, and the Doctor was aware of that but also knew from previous experience that making that known to anyone was a Really Bad Idea, so he played along long enough to get out of there.

And if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, the Dalek Dome is the setting of Liberation of the Daleks, the DWM comic story set between The Power of the Doctor and Destination: Skaro. But yeah RTD can drag the I, Davros lore out of my cold dead hands.

Every time I see something early on in who that contradicts later establishes lore, I wonder what @daughterofheartshaven thinks of it

[motherwasapapafucker]

Any thoughts on DWM’s run with the 8th Doctor?

Genuinely wonderful run of stories and, imo, the real high point for DWMs comic strip, even with the 2000ad overlap of earlier eras. There's a tendency to write the comic strip off as cheap, disposable nothing but frankly anyone doing that's a right tit. There's an energy and wholehearted embracing of the Eighth Doctor from the onset that nether the audios or books quite manage to capture, and fuck me if it doesn't commit to building its own lore out of the magazines history. Highly recommend them basically, Glorious Dead is the GOAT Master story.

[ink-and-dagger]

Inky, if Astrid and Silco were in a modern AU, what names would they have saved each other under in their contacts?

Silco's phone: Astrid's name, no embellishments, contact photo a 10/10 stunner

Astrid's phone: Silly nickname of the moment (changes every so often), heart + crown emoji, contact photo is a photo she managed to take of Silco mid-sneeze one time

[legok9]

The Incomplete Death’s Head #5 (1993)

A unique piece of Doctor Who lore from the Death’s Head/Doctor Who crossover:

Lore from DWM comics stories is outlined.

Images of the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Doctors are labeled as the first, second, and third aliases known to Hob’s archive. The Fourth Doctor is pictured as a possible alias.

The archive incorrectly records that the Doctor and Frobisher embezzled Intra-Venus, Inc. of 750,000 mazumas. The total was actually 250,000 mazumas.

Keepsake, Frobisher, John and Gillian Who, Ace, Ian Chesterton, Liz Shaw, Sarah Jane Smith, Peri Brown, Leela, Miss Young, Sharon Davies, and Death's Head are listed as the Doctor's allies and "known confederates." How often do you see these characters mentioned in the same sentence?

IDH 01 + IDH 04 + IDH 05 + DWM 001 - 200 + DWCC 01 - 09 refer to issues of The Incomplete Death’s Head, Doctor Who Magazine, and Doctor Who Classic Comics.

[rassilon-imprimatur]

In the 1986 “Make Your Own Adventure With Doctor Who” novel The Garden of Evil, we are gifted a very interesting taste of Gallifreyan lore. The novel presents the Prydonian academy as part of the “academic mountain city” of Prydos, during a time where Gallifrey is harboring refugees from a great famine. However, (in a deliciously fucked up “much to unpack” way) Gallifrey is (perhaps expectantly) treating the refugees like absolute shit, the so-called “Riff City” kept outside the Pyrdonian Academy walls and kept under violent and cruel observation of the snake-like Malians. 

The view of Gallifrey in this book is an utterly fascinating and eccentric take on the planet, closer in spirit and energy (if not literally) to the more colorful and mythic Gallifrey of DWM comic strips than anything seen on television, which is especially funny given that is’s written by Classic Who veteran David Martin. But it provides delicious canon-welding food for a Wilderness and EU slut like myself. 

The assertions of the novel are pretty clear. The famed Prydonian Academy exists within a gorgeous and wealthy city named Prydos, built on a great mound like a medieval city (though I imagine something more like Mont St Michel). While placing the Prydonian Academy in its own titular city contradicts the likes of Timewyrm: Revelation and Lucifer Rising, which work together to place the Prydonian Academy on the mysterious Mount Cadon, The Garden of Evil’s assertion that each chapter has its own academy works tremendously well with Faction Paradox lore regarding the Six Chapters being Six Ruling Houses (which aligns with Lungbarrow’s assertion that a “House Prydon” exists). 

Plus, given the already tangled lore of Mount Cadon and its other names and transtemporal identities provided by Ian Potter’s masterpiece The Three Paths, it’s not difficult at all to work The Garden of Evil’s Prydos in, I think. Yet another perception of the area, perhaps, or more simply at the base? 

And is House Prydon an isolated annex of the Academy, of the City of Prydos, or does it exist in the same transtemporal space, only accessible in angles and corners by its loomed childrene? 

(And somewhat related, I sketched up some Malians on a whim!)

[armageddon-generation]

The Big Moffat Rewrite: Series 7

Following on from my Series 5 and my Series 6 rewrites

XMAS SPECIAL The Snowmen

The Bells of Saint John

The Rings of Akhaten

Cold War

A Town Called Mercy

The Slow Invasion

Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Asylum of the Cybermen

Nightmare in Silver

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

Hide

Supremacy of the Daleks

Extermination of the Daleks

The Name of the Doctor

The Snowmen

·         11 is still a recluse in Victorian London, but because in my Series 6 he left the Ponds instead of losing them, it’s because he’s convinced he’ll screw up if he travels again. After wiping himself from history he’s lying low, not helping because he’s convinced he’ll make things worse

·         (also he’s totally wallowing in self-pity because of his self-imposed exile from the Ponds)

·         Clara re-convinces him he can make positive change, drags him out of his self-absorption, shows him something new

 CLARA’s CHARACTER

·         Clara gets all of series 7. Moffat originally wanted The Time of the Doctor to be a whole series, so we can fit some of that stuff about the Silence and Trenzalore in here.

·         GIVE CLARA A FUCKING ARC – the Doctor takes an ordinary girl who he thinks is special, and accidentally makes her special

·         Most people seem to prefer Victorian! Clara to her in S7B anyway, so she becomes that flirty, authoritative character by the finale

·         The pieces were already there – her being scared in Cold War compared to her taking charge in Nightmare in Silver, but make it explicit – the Doctor realises he is changing Clara and turning her into the person he met in Victorian London and the Cyberman Asylum

·         This sets up her arcs and relationship with 12 – he brings out the liar in her, forces her to become cold and calculating. This is now already happening with 11

The Rings of Akhaten

·         Introduce Trisha Lem, the head of the Church of the Silence, here. The best part of this episode is The Speech, but we could easily say that the Silence is presiding over the Long Song ceremony to appease the Old God, taking the place of those creatures hunting the little girl. 

·         (I imagine the Church pre-Trenzalore as a kind of Shadow Proclamation for religion - presiding over and safeguarding the religious traditions of species across the universe)

·         This way Trisha and the Silence’s role as confessionals doesn’t come out of nowhere in The Time of the Doctor

·         11 and Trisha’s relationship being so flirty confuses me - as the head of the Church, 11 must associate her with all the pain the Silence caused River and the Ponds. Instead, he acts really flirty but Clara notices he’s faking it – a reflection of their own relationship?

·         Trisha doesn’t understand why 11 is being elusive.

A Town Called Mercy

·         Use this story’s framework – a Western where 11 is forced to protect war criminal – and insert River

·         Partly bc River and Clara interacting seems super interesting

·         River is angry at 11 for ‘replacing’ the Ponds. I also think she’d be competitive with Clara? As she’s scattered all over the Doctor’s timestream, Clara is the only person who really could compete with her

·         As an archaeologist expert on the Doctor River knows about Clara, but can’t tell 11 exactly what she is

·         Also 11 agreeing with River’s more violent methodology is really interesting and shows how they can feed into each other’s dark sides – think River’s line from The Angels Take Manhattan – “One psychopath per TARDIS, don’t you think?”

The Slow Invasion

·         A version of The Power of Three told from the perspective of the Alice character who replaced Craig in S5/6. 11 pops in and out of her life with different versions of Clara

·         It’s revealed that 11 has tried to travel with different versions of Clara before, tracking her down all across the universe, but she always, always dies. Our Clara doesn’t know.

·         Alice is deeply critical of what 11 is doing. She acts almost as his therapist; he comes over for tea and talks to her about what’s going on.

·         Instead of the cubes being alien exterminators, this is a plot buy the Great Intelligence (series 7′s big bad) inspired by the Skith from DWM comic The First and Superman villain Brainiac – i.e. the Intelligence is collecting all information it can about a thing, and then destroys it to stop that knowledge becoming commonplace and therefore losing its value. Specifically, the Intelligence is also investigating Clara (because she keeps appearing across its timeline). The Intelligence’s fascination is a dark parallel to 11’s

·         Alice asks 11 what happened to the Ponds, and he reveals they still think he’s dead. Alice tells 11 to go see them (the ending scenes of The Doctor, the Widow and The Wardrobe). She also tells him to start treating Clara like a real person, not a human question mark

·         11 takes Clara to meet them. River is also there, having dinner. The episode closes with them reconnecting

Pond Life

·         After The Slow Invasion launch this minisode series about life post-11, with River barging in instead of the Doctor

Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

·         Tie the TARDIS disliking Clara into the series arc – it’s because the TARDIS knows Clara is an anomaly scattered through the Doctor’s timestream. Have a scene in Journey To the Centre of the TARDIS where 11 argues with the TARDIS about it – “Do you know what she is? You do, don’t you? I miss the time when you could talk and just tell me.”

·         The TARDIS went to the end of the universe to throw Jack Harkness off, and 11 abandoned Future!Amy in The Girl Who Waited because the TARDIS hates paradoxes – this is the same kind of thing, just make it clear by the finale (Clara even jumps into the time stream INSIDE the TARDIS)

·         Clara remembers the events of the episode so she can be be active in the investigation of who she is, (also fixing how the episode undoes the three brothers’ arcs, but still insists they grew as people at the end)

          This represents 11 opening up to her and trusting her more

Asylum of the Daleks (retitled Asylum of the Cybermen)

         Roll Nightmare in Silver and Asylum into a 2-parter, because the best part of Nightmare is Mister Clever. Both episodes even have the same ‘someone’s about to destroy the planet’ ticking time bomb.

         The army fighting the Cybermen kidnap 11 to get him to destroy the Asylum with a bunch of expendable grunts they can afford to lose to a suicide mission.·         Clara meeting/interacting with another version of herself is really interesting, so we keep converted Oswin saving them·

         Changing it to Asylum of the Cybermen makes more sense thematically

        All those people, including Oswin, being converted – the Asylum’s security system is its conversion machinery – attackers become part of the security system. Instead of a nano-cloud, use the tiny upgraded Cybermats·

         It would also be scarier (a haunted hospital a la World Enough and Time- botched cybermen > insane Daleks) and would add an interesting layer to Cyberman lore instead of making the Daleks look weak. It can also use old models to explain the Cybermen’s multiple backstories, touched on in The Doctor Falls (”everywhere there’s people, there’s cybermen,” 12 says)·

         The ‘subtracting love’ thing makes more sense with cybermen too – instead of Amy and Rory, focus on Clara holding onto her connection with 11 – emphasising their genuine, emotion-based bond over ‘flirty quirky plot device’·

         This renewed focus on the Cybermen is good because the last full-on Cyberman story was in Series 2 (in The Next Doctor they’re just kind of in the background), and Moffat is much better at writing the body-horror of the Cybermen than he is writing the Daleks.

Nightmare in Silver

·         11 deliberately lets himself be ‘infected’ by the asylum’s nanocloud and begins conversion in attempt to save the converted Oswin’s mind.

·         Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the origin of Handles, the Cyberman head from The Time of The Doctor: the remains of Oswin’s cyber-converted mind downloaded into a head.

·         11 uses Mr Clever to get information about her - i.e. that she just appeared one day as a fully-formed person without any family. This sets up the other Claras being time remnants. 

·         It also lets Mr Clever play more psychological games with 11 and Clara – Mr Clever reveals 11 is scared of Clara, putting more strain on Clara having to hold on to her emotional attatchments

·         The Cybermen are actively trying to get out. This way we dig into their primary drive – survival at all costs,

·         What happens when a Cyberman’s emotional inhibitor is broken, but they don’t die? Driven insane and desperate, and fiercely intelligent.

·         I like the idea of the Cybermen like the Xenomorph in Alien; blending in with thoier broken down, mechanical environment, plugging into it and using to separate and play games with the soldiers.

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

·         Replace The Crimson Horror with a version of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship with the Paternoster Gang replacing Brian, the Ponds, Nefertiti and that hunter bloke

·         I just really need to see Vastra interacting with her culture OK? Seeing her be taken back to her childhood, opening up to Jenny about it. Her anger, realising what the villain Solomon has done to her people. Use this conflict to call back to and explain how she met the Doctor, how he stopped her slaughtering humans before.

·         Clara and 11 go to the Paternoster Gang for help investigating her other selves

·         Clara researches and finds her past selves, not only in Victorian London but also throughout the 60s and 70s, when she’s helping the past Doctors – finding this research is how the kids find out she’s a time traveller

·         This is how THE DOCTOR REALISES HE’S SEEN HER MANY TIMES BEFORE, setting up The Name of the Doctor’s out-of-nowhere, un-guessable resolution.

·         Dark!11 again. Matt saoid they would’ve explored a ‘meaneer’ version if he’d stayed on for series 8. Clara is the perfect way to bring that out as they lie and manipulate each other for their own ends.

DALEK CIVIL WAR STORY

·         Progenitor Daleks vs the regular Time War model. Display how the Progenitor Daleks are different - each of them having a different weapon/role etc. The crux of the story is that the Progenitor Daleks are better at fighting the Doctor and come close to killing him, but the other Daleks value their ‘purity’ and survival more

·         Maximum Dark!11

The Name of the Doctor

·         When 11 rescues Clara she is changed – she retains bits and pieces of her time remnants’ experiences, it’s at once traumatising and exhilarating

The Time of the Doctor

·         Whereas The End of Time felt stretched-out (135 minutes) this felt really rushed. Make it 2 parts.

·         We see the set-up of Trenzalore and the Church of Silence in the first.

·         The second part is the long siege of Trenzalore – we need to see 11 age fighting these monsters, taking his turn being left behind, the tragedy of him slowly losing his memory, focusing on his character

·         We can also flesh out the citizens of Trenzalore and Christmas so their safety is important to us

·         Let’s see Madame Kovarian and her splinter cell break off from the main Church of Silence and leave to try and kill the Doctor – make her a supporting character

·         Then have Trisha Lem explicitly talk to the Doctor about how Kovarian blowing up the TARDIS caused the cracks in the universe in the first place, allowing the Time Lords to get their message out. Instead of a montage, have this be the moment that unites the Doctor and the Silence – they are both fighting to make up for their mistakes and the problems they caused

·         We see the many races surrounding Trenzalore form the alliance from The Pandorica Opens

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Just an observation:  DWM Darkiplier, his movements are very tight/ridged and minimal, but fidgets with his suit almost constantly Vs HWM Darkiplier who seems more comfortable and fluid with his movements.  The Character Evolution with Markiplier’s Darkiplier is phenomenal to me.  Let’s look back at “Damien” the cinematic short Mark was able to produce; which was the mind palace between Damien and Celine- isolated, quiet, nothing changes and it’s all about survival. Celine is the survivalist, she’s hard hearted and feels she has to protect her brother with the authoritave fierceness of a bear 24/7 and leaves Damien out of the loop, who affords to be a bit softer and diplomatic because of it.  SPOILERS if you haven’t somehow seen “Damien” yet, but:  At the end of it, Damien more or less accepts Actor Mark’s assigned role towards him and practically steps into “The Villain” shoes. I’m musing with the thought that the Darkiplier we meet in “Date With Markiplier” is the Celine half, because she’s stern and ridged when she is irritated or angry. DWM Darkiplier seemed easily angered and needed to control the viewer however possible, which was something she was talented with according to fan speculation. She would also not be used to suits, in theory, and likely worry about a fit that seems too small. She’s not used to the body just yet and has been too impatient in her revenge scheme; the temper, the ill fitting suit, just appearing with no real plan aside from willing things into her favor. By the time “A Heist With Markiplier,” comes around, Damien has assumed control and knows how to wear himself in a way. He finds a suit that fits him better, he’s able to relax a bit now that he FINALLY has a sense of independence. He lets go of the prim and proper too, judging by the body language. Mayor Damien seemed rather casual with the viewer during “Who Killed Markiplier,” depending on a sense of familiarity to provide a sympathetic link. In HWM Darkiplier is almost cat like with his mannerisms, how he is so cold yet casual at the same time. The Damien half has had the time to observe and be quiet in his own little corner of the Lore, just as he had time in the vanishing winter forest prison he was in.  

Darkiplier's Hands redux. you're welcome once again.

(remake of THIS gifset because I made it like 2 years ago when I was still relatively new to making gifs)

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Masterlist

I’ve actually received a few people interested in my current list of podcasts so I’m writing them all down (also it’ll be helpful in case my podcast app decides to crash and wipe my library for the fourth time)

I just want to preface this by saying I’m probably still missing a few that I haven’t been able to remember. Also there’s a few on here that have finished, a few I’ve stopped listening to and am waiting to see if I’ll go back to, and a few that I haven’t gotten around to listening to yet.

1. 2 Dope Queens 2. 36 Questions 3. A New Winter 4. A Scottish Podcast 5. Action Science Theatre 6. Active Radioactive Radio 7. The Adventure Zone 8. The Adventures of Mechabetty 9. The After Disaster Broadcast 10. Alba Salix, Royal Physician 11. The Alexandra Archives 12. Alice isn’t Dead 13. All in the Mind 14. And that’s why we Drink 15. Anything Ghost 16. Archive 81 17. Ark City 18. Ars Paradoxica 19. Astonishing Legends 20. Athiest Apocalypse 21. Attention Hellmart Shoppers 22. Audio Diary of a Superhero 23. Audio Drama Production 24. Audio Verse Awards 25. Augustine 26. Aural Traditions: Anthology 27. Aural Traditions: Crosswired 28. Beast of Bardon College 29. Bedtime Stories 30. Beef and Dairy Network 31. Big Data 32. Bizarre States 33. The Black Tapes 34. The Blood Crow Stories 35. Boone Shepard 36. The Box 37. The Bridge 38. The Bright Sessions 39. Bronzeville 40. The Bunker 41. Bunker Buddies 42. Busy Gamer Nation presents I Love Bees 43. The Call of Cthulhu Mysteries 44. Carpe DM 45. Celestial Blood 46. The Cleansed 47. Code: Severe 48. Coffee Break Chinese 49. Conversations with People who Hate Me 50. Cool Games 51. Cop Doctors 52. Corpse Club 53. Creepy 54. Critical Hit 55. Critical Role 56. Crossing Wires 57. The Cryptid Keeper 58. Cthulhu and Friends 59. Cults 60. D&D is for Nerds 61. The Dark Tome 62. Darkest Night 63. Dead Oaks 64. Dead Ringers 65. Dead Serious 66. Deadly Manners 67. Dear Hank + John 68. Deck the Halls 69. The Deep Vault 70. Defence Learning Portal 71. Detective 72. Diana’s Monster 73. Diary of a Mad Man 74. Dinosaur Park 75. Discovery 76. The Discovery Adventures 77. Don’t Worry; It’s Only the End of the World 78. Dopple Avenue Hurt 79. The Drift and Ramble 80. Drywater 81. DWM presents Unwritten 82. The Earth Collective 83. Easy Japanese 84. Edict Zero 85. The Elysium Project 86. Empty 87. End of All Hope 88. EOS 10 89. Fables Radio 90. The Faculty of Horror 91. Fall of the House of Sunshine 92. The Family Tree 93. The Far Meridian 94. Fictional 95. Field Craft Survival 96. Flash Forward 97. Focused AF 98. Freed 99. Friends at the Table 100. Gallowtree Radio 101. Geek by Night 102. Generation Why 103. The Ghost Radio Project 104. Ghosts in the Burbs 105. Girl in Space 106. The Good Friends of Jackson Elias 107. Good Morning Zahera Ward 108. The Gray Area 109. Greater Boston 110. Hackable? 111. The Harry Strange Radio Drama 112. Haunted Places 113. The Haven Chronicles 114. Hayward Sanitarium 115. Heaven’s Gate 116. Hector vs the Future 117. Hello from the Magic Tavern 118. Help Me 119. Henderson + Havner 120. Herbarium Podcasts 121. History of Alchemy 122. The History of Rome 123. Hollywood and Crime 124. Homecoming 125. Horror City 126. How to do Everything 127. How we Roll 128. Hunt the Truth 129. Hush 130. I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats 131. Illusionoid 132. Immunities 133. In Darkness Vast 134. The Infinite 135. The Infinite Bad 136. The Infinite Now 137. Inkwyrm 138. Inner Sanctum 139. Inside the Exorcist 140. Inside the NYPD 141. International Waters 142. It Makes A Sound 143. Jim Robbie and the Wanderers 144. Join the Party 145. Junction 146. Kakos Industries 147. Kevin’s Cryptids 148. King Falls AM 149. The Kingery 150. Knifepoint Horror 151. Knights of the Night 152. Knite Coffee! 153. Lake Clarity 154. The Last Podcast on the Left 155. The Late Night Driving Show 156. LEARN 157. The Lesbian Romantic 158. Lesser Gods 159. The Leviathan 160. Liberty 161. LifeAfter 162. The Lift 163. Limetown 164. Lore 165. The Lost Cat 166. The Lovecraft Covenant 167. Lucyd 168. Mabel 169. Magic Lessons 170. The Magnus Archives 171. Mars Corp 172. Marsfall 173. The McElroy Brothers will be in Trolls 2 174. The Meat Blockade 175. The Mental Illness Happy Hour 176. Misadventure by Death 177. Miskatonic University 178. Mission to Zyxx 179. Modern Audio Drama 180. Mollyville 181. The Moonlit Road 182. My Brother, My Brother, and Me 183. My Brother, My Brother, and Me: Fantasy Football League 184. My Favourite Murder 185. Mysterious Universe 186. The Mythology Podcast 187. Myths and Legends 188. Neon Nights 189. The Night Blogger 190. Night Time 191. No Extra Words 192. No Such Thing as a Fish 193. The No Sleep Podcast 194. Oak Podcast 195. The Orbiting Human Circus (of the air) 196. Organism 197. The Orphans 198. The Orpheus Protocol 199. Ostium 200. The Other Stories 201. Otherverse 202. Our Fair City 203. Paralyzed 204. Passage 205. The Penumbra Podcast 206. Pleasure Town 207. Plumbing the Death Star 208. Podcast Detected 209. The Podcast Method 210. Podcasts Collected 211. Point Mystic 212. Poplar Cove 213. Powder Burns 214. Public Domain Universe 215. Purrcast 216. Qwerpline 217. Rabbits 218. Radiation World 219. Radio Demons 220. Ray Gunn + Starburst 221. Real Ghost Stories Online 222. Return Home 223. Rex Rivetter: Private Eye 224. Rippercast 225. The Rogues Gallery 226. Rose Drive 227. Rover Red 228. Ruby: The Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe 229. Rusty Quill Gaming 230. S-Town 231. Sable 232. Saffron and Peri 233. Sage + Savant 234. Sawbones 235. Sayer 236. Scared? 237. Secret Cabinet 238. Seminar 239. Serial 240. Serial Killers 241. The Shadowvane Podcast 242. Shattered Worlds RPG 243. Shut up a Second 244. Sirenicide 245. Small Town Horror 246. Snap Judgements Presents: Spooked 247. SOFREP Radio 248. Someone Knows Something 249. Space 250. Space Log 251. Spines 252. Spire 253. Spirits 254. Star Talk 255. Station to Station 256. Stay Talkingish 257. Steal the Stars 258. The Strange Case of Starship Iris 259. Strange 260. Strangers in Space 261. Stuff to Blow your Mind 262. Stuff you Should Know 263. Subject: Found 264. Subvercity Transmit 265. Supervillian Corner 266. Synesthesia Theatre 267. Taking Care of Paul 278. Tales of Nowhere 269. Tales of THATTOWN 270. Tanis 271. Terms 272. Theatre for the Mind 273. The Theatre of Tomorrow 274. The Thrilling Adventure Hour 275. Timelapse 276. Tokyo Hotel 277. Tribulation 278. True Crime Garage 279. The Tunnels 280. Twelve Chimes it’s Midnight 281. Uncanny County 282. Uncanny Japan 283. Under Pressure 284. Undiscovered 285. Unexplained 286. Unsolved Murders 287. Urban Chicken Podcast 288. Urban Decay 289. Victoriocity 290. We’re Alive 291. We’re Alive: Lockdown 292. We’re so Bad at Adventuring 293. Weird Work 294. Welcome to Night Vale 295. What the Cluck 296. What’s the Frequency 297. The White Vault 298. The Wicked Library 299. Wisecracks: The Squanch 300. Within the Wires 301. Wolf 359 302. Wooden Overcoats 303. The Writers Panel 304. You Are Here 305. Zoolaplex And a couple of podcasts that haven’t come out yet: 306. The Big Loop 307. Tarnum