#Rassilon

[buildoblivion]

[fanonical]

no, it's simple. when you're on gallifrey, you have to put 'of rassilon' after every noun, or they kill you with lasers

[polaritydisturbed]

Obsessed with this hate piece on Rassilon I found on Reddit today.

[doctorwhoisadhd]

we should start doing the gandalf big naturals meme but with rassilon

[being-of-rain]

I am dreading RTD doing some form of ridiculous retcon with Susan. If he does, then chances are I'll do the same thing as when Marc Platt revealed that she was the granddaughter of the Other and when Eric Saward revealed that she was a descendant of Rassilon. Which is to say, ignore- wait a second, did Rassilon and the Other fuck or

[heimeldat]

One of the alternate Gallifreys was ruled by a tyrant called Darth Rassilon. He was a most formidable foe, but a knife cut his flesh as easily as any other man's.

[georgiacooked]

Bringing back this series of Big Finish Gallifrey series stickers I designed, because they haven't seen daylight in a while.

[daughterofheartshaven]

Something I find really interesting in both Doctor Who and its expanded universe is how the character of Rassilon is handled over time. When the character is first introduced in comic story The Tides of Time and then shown onscreen in The Five Doctors, he is seen as a benevolent figure, if a harsh one. Then during the 90s, there start to be seeds that Rassilon might be a bit more malicious then he's been presented as so far in the books, but as far as I can tell, its just that - some small hints. He's still presented as a mostly acting in the interest in Good, but his actions are presented as pretty sketchy. (These hints show up in The Virgin New Adventures and the Doctor Who Magazine Comics, and I'm pretty sure also the Eighth Doctor Adventures as well, but I haven't read those). Then, in 2002, the Big Finish audio story Zagreus presents Rassilon as tyrannical xenophobic power-grabber, explaining the benevolence as a façade. It's a pretty big departure from how he's been presented prior, although the writers of Zagreus do a good job of making it feel in-line enough with everything that's been presented prior.

And then that is Rassilon's characterization pretty much from then on. In the expanded universe and tv proper both. I've never seen such a complete reversal of characterization happen so gradually or naturally.

[tinkerbitch69]

I’ll never get over how funny it is that when the time lords were faced with the biggest crisis they’d ever encountered they were essentially just like “yo, Rameses II? Welcome back to the world of the living. Look…we’re really in it now. Think you could fix all our problems for us? 🥺”

[gracefelldownaflightofstairs]

I should be allowed to fight Rassilon in a Walmart parking lot

[stradakiev]

Just learned that humans are the descendants of rassilon or some shit bc he spread his seed across the universe from a goddamn post debating if the master is a cannibal for eating that dude.

wtf I love doctor who

[fanonical]

when time lords are kids, they make them look into the untempered schism and maybe go mad from it

and i tell you

the amount of restraint it took for the high council to not call that fucking thing the hole of rassilon is impressive

[randomnessoffiction]

I love how in New Who, every single showrunner enjoys taking the piss out of Rassilon. RTD showed him as nothing more than a tin point tyrant with one hell of a god complex. Moffat turned him into such a pathetic old man that even his own army turned on him. Chibnall went even further by revealing his entire legacy to be nothing but a lie -Tectuen did all the work. And finally the Rani wants Omega’s help to create a new Gallifrey not Rassilon.

[mndvx]

The Doctor does not blame Gallifrey for the horrors of the Time War. He just blames you. DOCTOR WHO — Hell Bent (S09E12) directed by Rachel Talalay | written by Steven Moffat ››› Peter Capaldi as The Doctor ››› Donald Sumpter as Rassilon

[maggie-d]

Remember the founders of Time Lord Society?

This is them now. Feel old yet?

[kronos-lungbarrow-oakdown]

Okay, a fact we all need to get straight is that Time Lords are walking around saying "Thanks, Omega" (meaning the same of "Thanks God") without knowing what ABO is. Oh, the blessings of being an alien.