#The Haunting of Villa Diodati

[burningvelvet]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “laudanum-dosed wine at the villa diodati on lake geneva in 1816” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever i don’t feel shit

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw mary shelley and claire clairmont talking about reanimation and vampires with lord byron

my buddy percy pacing: dr. john polidori is plotting against us and my wifes nipples have been replaced by eyeballs

[evviejo]

thirteen's era appreciation: 368/?

[oreo102]

I truly can’t express how funny it is to me that 13 just- shows zero interest in anyone other than yaz. She glares at graham’s hand in s11 ep3, she turns Byron away at literally every chance, she doesn’t even seem interested in redeeming the master this time, it’s genuinely hilarious to me

[sentientsky]

jodie whittaker has her hands buried up to the wrist in my chest and she's pulling my ventricles apart <3

[sing-a-songofsix-pence]

rewatching 13 at the moment and bc i watched her series first there's so many little references i missed the first time. like GOD.

today's was the mary shelley episode where the doctor goes to face the lone cyberman by herself and she says she can't lose anyone else to cybermen again.

and it's just one word but you can SEE when it clicks for her companions even though she hasn't noticed she said it. yaz's face when she realises what she means by again.

13 really is the Repression Doctor but goddamn i will eat that shit up

[doctorwhogirlie]

Doctor Who - The Haunting of Villa Diodati

[dandelionjack]

actually actually… buckle in for some more unnecessarily detailed baseless speculation*. because it’s fun and there’s still 2 weeks to go (*stop accusing me of TJLCery i’m going to cry)

so, since rogue is the pre-finale episode… as a pattern those tend to begin in the manner of your average doccy who story, but finish with a devastating plot twist denouement to segue into the two-parter at the end. best examples of this are utopia and (gotta hand it to s12 here) the haunting of villa diodati. “it’s a celebrity historical! byron and the shelleys are here! oh and oops… what’s that? that’s the sound of the doctor making a fatal mistake that will inevitably lead her to the narrative climax…”

now what i’m getting at is. what if we’ve all been looking in the wrong place and rogue, not TLORS, is the episode by the end of which the doctor figures out that they’re stuck inside a TV show that’s been remixing old stories from their former adventures? “bridgerton! regency era! jane austen! flirting! ballgowns! dancing! oh and oops… what’s that? that’s the sound of doctor making a tragic discovery that will inevitably lead him to the narrative climax…”

here’s how this ties in to the popular “jonathan groff = recast harkness” theory. now, i USED to be an ardent proponent of it, but i no longer believe he’s actually playing pre-TEC/TDD captain jack, or any era captain jack at all, really. what he is playing, or so i gather apropos of crumbs and wisps of information, is a remarkably harkness-like character. just alike enough to make us (and the doctor!!) wonder: am i getting deja vu?? has rtd devolved into a hack who’s been reusing his old ideas and hoping we won’t notice?

no. look at the sneaky incorporation of The Doctor Dances’ title in the DWM paragraph above. he’s hoping we do.

it’s been pretty much confirmed by ~inside sources~ (read: leaks on reddit from ages ago) that groff’s playing either a time agent or former time agent — judging by the description above, it’s “former time agent turned bounty hunter”. charming, handsome rizzlord fella from the future (what’s that blaster in this hand? could it be from the villengard factories?), adept at blending in with a british historical period despite sounding noticeably american, actively involved in the social life of that historical era, morally grey and antagonistic towards the doctor at first, yet strangely alluring… sexual tension heavily implied… we’re supposed to feel like we’ve seen all this before. this man is a Not-Harkness.

change the doctor’s life forever is the key sentence here. as the doctor realises how remarkably similar groff-“rogue” is to jack when he first met him, and how the circumstances of their meeting almost rhyme too, he’ll notice some more odd things.

he’ll notice. he’ll notice how ruby looks like clara, waited for him while she aged like amy did, called her mum from a future space station looking down through a panoramic window at a planet like rose had, how their relationship is a best friendship/sibling-esque like with donna … he’ll notice how many of their adventures together seem to retread steps already walked. and then the puzzle will click into shape and it will “change the doctor’s life forever”: he’ll discover that this is a puppet show and go searching for whoever’s pulling the strings.

Not-Harkness “Rogue” Groff is the catalyst. the final straw.

or maybe not. maybe this is complete waffle i pulled out of my arse. only time will tell

[notyoujamie]

[tonsillessscum]

Thasmin || Doctor Who 12x08 - The Haunting of Villa Diodati

[13thdoctorposts]

Watching the Doctor Who Series 12 Closer Looks with Jodie bringing up the Doctor losing Bill, can’t believe people claimed she knew nothing about what happened previously on Doctor Who just making up bad faith arguments to slander such a good person actually makes someone a really shit person. She frustrated by the way people treated Jodie so unfairly with ‘facts’ that only existed in their own heads.

From the Haunting of Villa Diodati

[annbourbon]

This is Lord Byron. And it's all his fault.

He is the reason we have sparkling vampires now:

But also and partially (about 50% lolol) the reason behind Ada Lovelace.

Please feel free to add, correct or reblog if you want♡

Credits to its owners.

[unnamedmedicalprofessional]

It's pretty ironic in the Haunting Of Villa Diodati when the Thirteenth Doctor chooses to save Percy Bysse Shelly even if it dooms humanity because Shelly created great works that will last forever, even though Shelly's most famous work is "Ozymandias" a poem about how thinking your great works will last forever is foolish hubris.

[evviejo]

requested by anonymous >> thirteen running her hand through her hair

[justahumblememefarmer]

Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 2 - Matchup 9

Episode Summaries under the cut:

14: The Haunting of Villa Diodati - Season 12, Episode 8: The Doctor, Yaz, Graham, and Ryan go to visit Mary Shelly on the night she got the idea for Frankenstein. The Doctor notices that Percy Shelley should be there, but is missing. They notice that the villa seems to be haunted as strange things begin to happen. A figure appears, which seems to be a partially converted Cyberman, which Captain Jack had previously warned the Doctor's companions about.

The Cyberman is looking for the Cyberium, which holds all the knowledge of the Cybermen. The Doctor finds that Percy has become the host of the Cyberium and was hiding, while defense mechanisms mixed with his mental projections caused the strange disturbances. The Doctor takes over as the new host, but the Cyberman threatens to bring a ship to destroy the world if the Doctor does not give it to her. She gives it over, and the Cyberman leaves to rebuild the Cyber-armies. The Doctor and her crew take off to stop it.

142: Into the Dalek - Season 8, Episode 2: The Doctor brings Clara to a space station in the future where they are treating a "good" Dalek, who has seen the error of the Daleks ways and seeks to destroy all other Daleks. In order to treat it, the Doctor, Clara, and some soldiers must shrink down and enter the Dalek's casing, where they fight off Dalek antibodies. The Doctor and Clara are still getting used to the Doctor's newest incarnation and his lack of empathy and morality at some points. They find what is wrong with the Dalek, a radiation leak causing the Dalek's change in morality.

They accidentally fix it, restoring the Dalek to it's former self and it begins to attack the crew of the space station. They manage to restore some of the Dalek's good memories and the Doctor creates a psychic link with it, giving it visions of the beauty of the universe, but also all of the Doctor's battles against the Daleks. The Dalek stops attacking the crew, and all those inside it are restored to their original size. The Dalek leaves, vowing to bring about the destruction of all Daleks.

(Beat #115: The Vanquishers in Round 1)

[redeemed-wren]

Alright, Bad Writing aside, Thirteen isn't a bad Doctor her raging about cyberman and 'I will not lose anyone else to that' with almost-tears in her eyes convinced me

[youcallyourselfafilmcritic]

Rogue is the first episode of Doctor Who to not have any writing credit from someone who was once a head writer of this show since The Haunting of Villa Diodati-which aired February 16th 2020