#aliens of London

[torchwoodsoho]

tosh and nine and pig

[figtreegif]

Wardrobe // Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) // Doctor Who Seasons 1-2 & 4 (2005-2006, 2008) + specials

[mylifeiscomics]

No but actually how traumatic for Jackie Tyler to experience what she experienced. The things that probably went through her mind that year Rose was missing.

Shop dummies nearly kill her, she gets a weird call from her daughter who doesn���t say anything and hangs up, then another weird call the next day where Rose is acting strange… she probably thought about those phone calls 1000 times trying to remember if there was any hint to where her daughter was.

The effort she put into finding her is clear based on the posters all over the table a YEAR after her disappearance. She never gave up on her.

I’d lose my shit way harder than she did when she slapped the Doctor. She was so right for that.

[foolishlyzephyrus]

i feel like it’s so integral to have at least one “at home” episode for every companion. so much character to be revealed in the premise of aliens interfering with everyday life once they are back on earth

[whatsfourteenupto]

Started from the bottom (fighting farting aliens) now we’re here (saving space babies with a giant fart).

[gcballet]

Doctor Who S1 (2005) as Penguin Classics

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[wren-was-here]

watching Aliens of London knowing that ✨Dr. Sato✨ was in fact not a doctor at all and had no idea what she was doing makes it so much funnier

because like, the doctor thinks she knows a lot about medicine but nothing about aliens when really she deals with aliens daily but has little to no idea what a pig’s brain is actually supposed to look like

also just the fact that she found the doctor before jack did. like i know that version of the doctor couldn’t’ve helped him because he hadn’t met jack yet but still it’s funny

ianto was also at the very least in the same building as the doctor at one point (canary wharf), and that version of the doctor absolutely did know what was wrong with jack, which means that two of his employees encountered the doctor before jack did

gwen didn’t meet him until after exit wounds, but her family still came into contact with him before jack did

it also means that the only torchwood employee that didn’t meet the doctor was owen and that makes me sad

[6-and-7]

Doctor Whooves in Aliens of London/World War Three! Bonus, I’ve hidden one reference to every TV Ninth Doctor story in this image – how many can you spot? (Answers below the cut)

Rose - Eye of London, upper center The End of the World - Plant cutting, left mantlepiece The Unquiet Dead - Gaslamps, upper corners Aliens of London/World War Three - Background, but also red emergency briefcase Dalek - Dalek behind the alcohol pitcher, lower left The Long Game - 500 on the paperwork Father's Day - Vase, right mantlepiece The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances - Gasmask, lower right Boom Town - Glass of wine, left of gasmask Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways - Bad Wolf on the paperwork

[brisingr-sword]

rose was right when she called the doctor gay in aliens of london but it wasn’t because he was bitching about being slapped

[casasupernovas]

the doctor can never seem to avoid the missing year thing can they?

[nkp1981]

Rose Tyler's mobile phone

[kirstyth]

I’m rewatching Aliens of London, and all I can think about is how rough it’d have been for Owen to have to have the day Tosh had that day all while supremely hungover. Just imagine him with the worst hangover imaginable, trying not to vomit while chasing an augmented pig down a hallway, and tell me it doesn’t make you laugh.

[minorheroics]

"doctor who has gone woke! and gay!" yeaah uh this is the first five minutes of s1ep4

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

"Ask me anything" huh? Can I ask you to rant about stuff you love about Doctor Who for a handful of paragraphs, with the additional requirement that you cannot use correct grammar NOR can your statements be fully coherent?

Doctor Who is like 50% fun nonsense and I think commentaries on it should reflect that. No elaborate and precise statements, just pure joy unhindered by foolish concepts such as "making perfect sense".

I was waiting until I was close to going to bed to answer this because this really needs my half-asleep brain to answer properly. (Or improperly, in this case.) Now, onto as grammatically improperly as I can make this (hopefully I pulled this off. like to think I did!):

you know what i love about doctor who? i love that this show covers every single genre in the universe. that it is horror and comedy and historical fiction and sci fi and alternate history and dystopian and myths and steampunk and biopunk and murder mystery and western and fairytale because genre doesn't apply, because the doctor is a mad man in a box telling the story, except that they're not, the doctor's not the one telling the story, because this is really a story about the companions of the doctor, the people who are reflections of them, the people who become the doctor, the people who were doctors all along, the people who were kind and brave and traumatized and curious and above all, wanted to see the stars, because this is a story about the stars, about the grand expanse of space and time, about everything that ever was and ever will be, but the thing is, the mechanics of the show and how seasons are shot and that no actor can ever stay young forever, because the show is made with real people, everyone has to move on, and that's the beauty of it, isn't it? that people have to move on.

writers and actors always have to move on but with doctor who, because some genius (affectionate) in the 60s decided that regeneration would get to be a mechanic in the show we get to have an eternal canon, we get to have renewal, we get to have companions reflect back on the doctor in an infinite number of batshit insane and unhinged ways, we get to see hope and grief and a bottomless fall and an infinite rise because the doctor cannot die even though everyone around them can BUT ALSO because this show is about travelling, about running, about having the entirety of everything that has ever existed or will exist or can't exist or might exist at our fingertips.

as a result you can have episodes like midnight and partners in crime in the same season and no one will bat an eye, you can have the farting calcium invasion-of-the-body-snatchers be the monsters that propel two of the best character pieces i've ever seen in my entire life, you can have capitalism critiques involving fish poop under the thames, you can have them visit the greatest people that will ever live and the worst, you can have them inspire artists and scientists before they die and that's just as important as the aliens or saving the world, you see, because at the end of the day doctor who is about love, it's about the small moments as well as the big saves, it's about wilfred staring at the stars and amy demanding her imaginary friend show up to her wedding and harriet jones worrying about her mother and about danny admiring the fact that a student said please and about ryan and graham learning to ride a bike together and about jackie being the last person that mickey said goodbye to in journey's end, it's about love and character development and charles dickens and vincent van gogh getting to smile and laugh before they die, it's about the love, you see?

doctor who is about running as far and as fast as you can because even though you're more afraid than anyone who has ever existed you have to see them all, you have to love them all, because you have so much love you can't contain it in one heart, that's why you have two hearts, because you love so much, too much, and you will never find peace, you will never find an ending, but right here, right now, you can have this. and that will never be enough, it can't be enough, but it still matters.

because the love was there.

[crazihope]

Guys, I'm shocked. I watched the new season 3 of Heartstopper. And there they are. It seems to me that Heartstopper already consists of 90 % of Doctor Who, and I like it 😁

And the fact that Charlie and Nick were just sitting and watching Doctor Who, I have no words at all 😂

[kyriefae]

I don't see people using The Lazarus Experiment from Series 3 as a routine means of identifying Doctor Who as being "past it's prime".

Even commentary regarding the farting aliens that wear human skin suits has been at a relative low.

There were also two episodes where James Corden played the key companion role. People didn't like it but rarely mention those episodes anymore.

Then there was the episode about the moon being an egg. Another one about sleep dust from our eyes taking over a space station cuz capitalism...

There was also that one that became a soapbox about making choices to fix the planet or else the surviving humans would become monstrous mutations trapped outside of planet terraforming resorts that dish out space coupons.

Almost like Doctor Who routinely puts out these silly, not-so-award winning scripts or stories and routinely receives mediocre ratings or fan reception as a result. ...but people still keep watching it and people still love it.

Space Babies is not different; in fact it's a delightful episode with beautiful messages attached to it.

CGI baby mouths or not...I just want to put a stamp on the *cow's excrement* (NAN-E filter approved).

Edit: In case it's not abundantly clear I thoroughly enjoy when Who is either bad or heavily perceived as being bad. It's never like "omg they put the lead actor's character into a coma and wrote them off the show I wonder what's happening behind the scenes" it's always like "this week we're going to introduce a new creature into the lore" and people get mad or "this week we're going to bring back a known creature from the lore* and people get bored or *what if we brought back one of the farting aliens and make her story kinda sorta sad but still funny* then people's heads explode.