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the unending cosmic horrors of the universe versus A Song
#that’s what rockabye the musical was about im pretty sure#also that one dr who episode#or prolly more than one#i need to either become music or have like multiple bodies to listen to more music or just be completely swallowed by music#i’m normal about music aren’t i#this isn’t even about a specific song it’s about many many many of them#i dunno cause like i think that music is kinda just life isn’t it#i’ve said this before but yknow the inherent rhythms of movement in life is like the basis for music#yesterday i had a conversation about how would we play the piano if we had four arms & hands#and the conclusion was that instruments would have developed in a completely different way! the basic rhythm of our collective selves#and the way that we would act beyond music in terms of just surviving would be entirrely different#there was something more about that but i forget.#anyway the broader statement here is that art is an inherent part of being a human being and we are all art and we are all human beings#and that’s incredible really. like in an even broader sense i am alive and you are alive and that’s art maybe in some way#i’m not quite sure what i’m saying these are just the thoughts i regularly rotate in my brain like everyone else#ok tumbles and esteemed guests (1-3 people realistically) i leave you with those ramblings#have a good evening or otherwise time#ezra’s real life rambles#ezra likes music
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obsessed w the doctor fully turning his back on clara after this statement (physically and emotionally cutting himself off) and, feeling unmoored, pulling the console lever to exert some kind of control over the situation. he then continues to put space between himself and clara only to spin around, having undone several jacket buttons, and specifically shows off the red lining interior—symbolic of his emotional vulnerability in this moment. he asks her what she thinks of him (as a person), disguising it as a question about the new outfit.
#ive had this one gathering dust in the drafts for months but the gifset i rbed earlier made me rmbr it#(also im doing a little s8 rewatch. as a treat)#this makes me fucking crazy every time i watch the episode. I need people to know#and i mean yes a part of this scene is to show off the new outfit but There's layers to it. as with everything to do w twelve and clara#and then right after this clara says she doesn’t think she knows him anymore#and peter capaldi delivers a facial expression so heartbroken it makes him look years younger. ykwim. he suddenly looks very fragile#anyway#dw#doctor who#clara oswald#twelfth doctor#twelveclara#12#clara#clara + dr#**
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i have officially found my least favorite 10th doctor take in the entire world. this post was specifically crafted in a lab to make me fuming fucking mad
#chibnall of all people did better than all three of these in ONE episode i hate all of you#i say all three. i do not know what that thing is in the bottom right corner if my eyes lay upon it i'll burst into flames.#i desperately don't want to gatekeep but i also know if you're a ten fan m*ffat is ABSOLUTELY not one of your fav writers for him lol#dr who#10 era
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Hello sorry I am being shy and anon but do you have any advice for someone who wants to get into Doctor Who again after briefly dabbling (and enjoying it very much) in like the early, early 2010s? I know this is mostly your art blog but you were the only person I could think of to ask you're like the Doctor Who authority of blogs I follow
Oh yeah of course! People can be really confusing about this so I'll try not to be.
So first, the majority of doctor who episodes are self contained stories that you could just watch and understand perfectly without any further context. even when there is some overarching context it's usually written in a way that's either pretty easy to glean and/or just doesn't impact your understanding of the story. 99% of the episodes don't even care if you know the premise and are just like "what if some people were on a spaceship and the devil was there? wouldn't that be fucked up or what??". Don't feel like you have to binge a 60 years long show to watch it. Some standalone episodes I think are fun if you (or anyone else) just want to check out one or two:
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances (A supposed-to-be-dead boy in a gas mask haunts a young woman in world war 2)
Blink (A woman gets wrapped up in a mystery involving statues that make people disappear. This one is especially good if you flat out know nothing about the show. Has some really great time travel stuff.)
A Christmas Carol (A christmas carol pastiche (of course) where the doctor tries to rewrite the past of a cruel man who's going to let a lot of people die. very sad and sweet. I love the "wintery planet with sky fish" setting of this one)
Vincent and the Doctor (The famous Vincent Van Gogh Episode™)
The Rings of Akhatan (A pretty lowkey little adventure story about an alien festival. has supreme autumn vibes)
Flatline (A species from a 2 dimensional world tries to break into our 3 dimensional one. really fun special effects)
Midnight (A tour bus breaks down on a diamond planet where nothing can survive. Something knocks at the door.)
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead (The Doctor and friend go to a library that covers an entire planet and finds that everyone has disappeared. Has a lot of really great, interesting concepts baked into it that I won't spoil)
It Takes You Away (A girl is left alone in a cabin in the woods when her dad disappears through the mirror. Has a famously goofy ending that I really love)
73 Yards (A character is steps on a fairy circle and is followed by an old woman who always stands exactly 73 yards away)
The Devil's Chord (This doesn't really have, you know, a plot, but it does have jinkx monsoon as an evil music god)
Boom (The doctor steps on a landmine on an alien planet and cannot move)
Wild Blue Yonder (A two hander where the Doctor and co are trapped on a dilapidated spaceship at the edge of the universe. really atmospheric with some fun/strange visuals.)
That being said, it does add a lot to watch it in order; there's a lot of plot twists, character dynamics, and general payoff you get if you marathon it. I would personally recommend starting with either the first episode of the 2005 show ("Rose") or the first episode of the 2010 season ("The Eleventh Hour") and just watching in order from there. I think you could also start with "The Snowmen", "The Pilot", or "The Woman Who Fell To Earth" if you wanted, but the first two (especially rose) are the better jumping on points.
some other little notes of advice I don't often see people mention:
it's stupid sometimes just roll with it
once in a while the show sort of "reboots" with different writers, actors, directors, and a new tone. it's much more like watching several small shows than one long show, so don't be too put off by the length!
IMPORTANT: pretty much all streaming services will separate holiday/anniversary specials from the show proper and you have to deliberately search them up on the same service to find them. It's really necessary to be aware of this because many of these specials are the first or last episodes for characters/whole eras of the show and are genuinely unskippable. I strongly recommend looking up a list of the episodes and checking it after finales just to make sure you don't skip anything on accident.
there's two spin offs (Torchwood, a more adult (read: gay sex) show about a mysterious agency that solves sci fi crimes, and the Sarah Jane Adventures, a pretty good monster of the week kids show) that ran concurrently with season 1-4. You don't have to watch them to understand anything happening in doctor who, but sometimes they cross over with the show in fun ways, Ex. the first season finale of Torchwood continues directly into season 3 of Doctor Who. My friend and I got a kick out of watching them at the same time so maybe you will too. (either way I recommend watching "Children of Earth", the torchwood miniseries, if you want to see a weird dark sci fi show about the government making contact with aliens. It's a bit like arrival (2016) if it was way nastier.)
alternatively, you can inject fast acting brain poison into yourself with this
anyways I hope this all reads as, you know, more approachable than the way dudes on quora recommend this show:
#I'm assuming you're asking about nuwho. if you're also asking about classic go watch the mccoy episodes most people get a kick out of those#storm warning isn't Great tm but 8th dr who seems to do something to the human psyche#also i've noticed skip lists like that quora looooove to recommend skipping the god complex which is insane to me. one of the best episodes
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Mourning day for thasmin shippers
#happy day to yaz’s strong arms tho 🥺#they make me go crazy#I wanna be carried like that by yaz#also happy anniversary to one of my fav 13 doctor episodes !!#potd is top tier episode !!#it has everything I need and more#except… no thasmin at the end :(((#gimme thasminnnn#they’re gfs and live together forever#I miss them sm#I mourn them everyday#my sillies#doctor who#dr who#dw#the doctor#13th doctor#thirteenth doctor#yaz khan#yasmin khan#thasmin#yaz x thirteen#yaz x 13#thirteen x yaz#13 x yaz#mandip gill#jodie whittaker
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by the way, what the fuck is up with DS9 ep The Begotten? The one with the changeling baby and Dr. Mora. Because, to me, it felt like the intended 'moral' of the episode was, "actually you should forgive your abusers if they're your parental figure because actually they just wanted what was best for you and therefore shouldn't be held responsible for Literally Torturing You when you were too young to know anything. And besides, how can you not forgive them when they're so sad about you being no-contact with them? Can't you see that they love you?? Aren't you being cruel for refusing to forgive them for their mistakes?"
Also, this all happened when our first introduction to Dr. Mora involved Odo literally dissociating and becoming violent because he was caused So Much Distress by the presence of the man who tortured him (which they also handled pretty poorly, imo). And then they want you to forgive him, and Odo to forgive him?
Excuse me??? That's fucked up??? I'm not crazy for reading it that way, am I?? Other people see this too??
Like, Mora abused Odo. Full stop. It wasn't even corporal punishment - which, may I remind you, unequivocally does not help kids, there have been STUDIES - it was. fuckin. tossing Odo into a Pain Machine in order to make him angry enough to leave or lash out. When Odo was too young and gooey to know or understand why he was in pain, just that he was. And then used him as entertainment for the Cardassian soldiers.
This is Not forgiveness territory. In no way does it make sense for Odo to forgive that man, and if he does, it should be framed as a horror story. It is a horror story.
They seem to paint the episode as some sort of feel-good flick?? The conclusion appears to be a ✧compromise✧ between Odo's and Mora's respective parenting philosophies, where Mora is like, 'I see, being Nice to children does help them, when used alongside Physical Pain', and Odo is like, 'I now forgive you for causing me Physical Pain when I was naught but goo because I, too, am causing pain to this. literal infant goo child. and I find it satisfying, or something. because abuse is fun i guess when it causes the goo to react'.
So, you're telling me that the resolution to this abusive parental relationship. Is by illustrating for us the cycle of abuse. And this is a good thing? Is that what I'm getting here?
What the fuck? No, really, what the FUCK. My first watch I spent the whole episode literally gritting my teeth I was so mad. There is not a single character who engenders more violent rage in me than Dr. Mora, entirely because of how DS9 handled that episode. Like holy hell. What the fuck.
#star trek: my favorite show with some of the Worst Fucking Episodes on the planet.#sometimes it does so great and sometimes it does. that.#like who thought this was a good idea. what happened. there's no way in hell i'm the only one who interprets it like this.#also nitpicky but I am not convinced that sisko would actually be That Uncaring about a baby. I know the baby is goo#but sisko is a baby guy. he loves babies. no way he's going to say 'yeah starfleet says you need results so please torture the child'#he'd be like 'omg! a baby! please take all the time you need and love and cherish it and we'll just wait for your data'#and then he'd tell starfleet to get bent#y'know?#also to be clear: i do know mora was under pressure from the cardassians. odo still doesn't owe him forgiveness#especially because if i remember right Mora never really Apologized. he was like 'i'm sorry you feel hurt'#and never 'i'm sorry. i hurt you.' there's a difference there. he never really acts as though he did anything wrong#star trek#star trek ds9#star trek deep space nine#deep space nine#ds9#odo#star trek odo#ds9 odo#dr. mora#the begotten#tw: abuse#tw: child abuse
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'time heist' starts with stuff like "oh yeah the bank of karabraxos, most secure bank ever, zero successful robberies ever" and then the episode continues and the bank has like 5 cameras in total and a lot of conveniently big vents. 0 sensors, 0 nothing, just a mind soup alien
#its literally filled with so many plot conveniences#i love#time heist#so much#i love the vibes#they are so well written i always feel symphathetic towards their situations#i love the characters#also saibra?? and clara???#i love women#one of my fav episodes ever#doctor who#dw#dr who#the doctor#12th doctor#clara oswald
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tbh i did see someone say the one who waits could be death, and i was like: ohh wait that makes sense…… would be cool for susan twist to be death! and it turns out that person was right?? wild
#oh also i didn’t know about sutekh’s existence before watching this episode#why?#because i watched new who first#classic who has around 600 episodes 😭#I AM WATCHING THEM NOW BTW IT WAS JUST TO GET NEW WHO OUT OF THE WAY FIRST#doctor who#dr who#susan twist#the one who waits#sutekh#new who#nuwho#the legend of ruby sunday#dw spoilers#spoilers#doctor who spoilers
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storing this here cause i'll forget otherwise. i designed a tattoo for my mom (or myself if she doesn't like it) of the creepy gas mask kid from dr who in the style of Banksy because we rewatched the episode today and we got to talking about what it might look like. i fucked it up a little cause the arm was supposed to be pointing (instead of holding a hand) but i had no idea how to achieve that + he's not facing the right way to be pointing + he's not nearly as menacing as i'd hoped but whatever. i kind of really like it even though i keep finding things wrong with it. would go hard on either of our forearms i think
tw for gas masks. i know that shit is creepy as fuck so be warned. it's a transparent image so uhhh rip if you got dark mode on. i do and it's great for the night but shit for this image in particular. oh well
#art#my art#tattoo ideas#the empty child#are you my mummy?#dr who fanart#dr who#i really like this episode. i tear up at the end#“just this once nobody dies” fucking gets me everytime#even though i can hardly sleep for a few days after. but that's okay#she also wants a tattoo of the tardis flying around except in a stylised way#and i also want to design that one but i have. no idea how#perhaps one day
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i like him a normal amount (lying)
#tycho.txt#starters#movieunleashers#zangoose#he is so insanely babygirl i love the him#blorbo who was featured in only one episode which was also non canon (my beloved)#unpopular opinion but idc. he should be as popular as jirachi and dr sylveon#i said what i said ‼️
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boom is the best doctor who since capaldi’s era and i’m not joking, we are SO fucking back
#we took the long way round but we got there#i don’t NOT like the specials and the first couple fifteen episodes but they’re…. iffy#and yeah I don’t like thirteen’s run sorry it’s not good#but YEAH this ep was… oh wow#so good#doctor who#dr who#dw#oh also for clarity this is coming from an rtd era lover. original rtd era is LEAGUES better than moffat’s era this isn’t bc I favour moffa#he just ate with this one I’m sorry 💔
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just had a horrible awful vision of a fake Dr who episode where a one-off character bled out faintly singing life on mars by David Bowie after having a 10 minute conversation with (???) imaginary companion about his dreams to open a shop selling 70s music.
#the episode took place in a “medical facility” which was actually a disguised alien zoo thing. think the menagerie from star trek tos#the “inmates” were guarded by a biotic gas cloud and sorted by level of rebellious tendencies shown#all members of group z (the most rebellious group) were proclaimed to be cured every month and sent out into the fog#it looked like they escaped. in reality the fog disintegrated them.#there were also “controllers” who spoke in a robotic monotone exclusively about the routine for the day#turned out they were actually psychic pylons capturing the negative energy released by the “patients”#and using it to keep the gas in place#long story short: one of the other one-off characters in group z used some kind of psychic amplifier on herself and destroyed#the controllers‚ but without the negative energy the gas turned out to actually be a gaseous creature that had been captured#by the owners of the human zoo (who died to its gas a long time ago)‚ it returned to its natural healing state#the person who bled to death singing LoM stayed dead#but the woman using the psychic amplifier who should've died was saved#bored speaks#dr who
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I can't go five minutes in DW fandom without people being just atrociously mean about things that I love with the blissful unawareness of majority mainstream opinion holders that the people they're being mean about are like. In the space with them. And this in a space full of ardent fans of arguably some of the most esoteric obscure side stuff that everyone else disdains or doesn't even know. And I'm having fun for the most part but also like. It's just exhausting, constantly goddamn exhausting.
#this is about moffat and eleven#in case that wasn't clear#megan whines into the empty abyss of cyberspace#i'm not gonna say that Lawrence Miles in particular doesn't have every reason to hate Moffat#or that as an EDA fan first and foremost I don't also side eye the fuck out of a lot of his early arc plots#but Moffat wrote *characters* in a way that no one before or since does#everyone droning on about rtd found family has nothing on 11 and 12 era character relationships#also yeah it is genuinely annoying and upsetting that people are STILL going on and on and on and on about ~bad vibes~ ~misogyny~ whatever#like that's just your opinion man#and I think certain fans would genuinely be shocked to actually acknowledge that some people just straight up disagree with them#and straight up have a different experience with that era of the show#and don't share the opinions that got so saturated with so little pushback that the arguments are by now parodies of themselves#like do you hate eleven's era because you formed that opinion yourself or do you hate eleven's run because hbomb made a video?#do you feel the way you feel because you came to that opinion or because others in fandom 'warned' you about moffat before you started?#also like ngl it just straight up hurts my feelings#it's mean! it's just really mean and I'm tired of getting my feelings hurt in situations that are meant to be fun!#I lived through this ten years ago when I'd watch Dr Who and then get on the internet to talk about it#and every post would be just endless bad faith nitpicking and tearing the episode apart#anyway gonna watch power of the daleks now and remind myself not to engage w nuwho fandom
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i saw a post saying boom was good bc it feels like it could be done with any doctor/companion duo and honestly that was one of the things i felt was wrong with it
#in a show with a title character that could be Literally Anyone and a companion sharing the lead that could be Literally Anyone#i value the little moments that set this duo apart from the rest. ESPECIALLY when it comes to returning writers like rtd/moff#fifteen and ruby felt a little too eleven/twelve and clara adjacent in boom. in both their dialogue and characterization#space babies also landed a little weird at first bc it lifted a bit from end of the world BUT the scenes that fifteen and ruby#had to themselves. like ruby getting covered in snot and fifteen laughing. or fifteen and ruby looking after the Space Babies#or fifteen going out of his way to save the monster bc that monster is the only one of its kind Just Like Him Fr#that stuff is so good and its also something we haven't seen from another nuwho doctor. the vulnerable bleeding-heart empathy#and a dynamic w a companion that is basically 'two troublemakers that just deeply love fun and adventure and getting into trouble together'#oh yeah and also the devil's chord was peak fiction because it touches on fifteen's renewed connection and love for humanity#and marries it to ruby being a musician and how music like any art is the expression of the human soul etc etc#WHAT MAKES A DOCTOR WHO STORY GOOD TO ME IS PARTLY HOW THE PREMISE TIES INTO THE DOCTOR AND COMPANION'S CHARACTERS#IT HAS TO FEEL LIKE IT WAS TAILOR MADE TO THEM. ELSE IT WONT LAND RIGHT TO ME#i hate the take that they should've saved wild blue yonder for a fifteen episode bc#the tension is hinged on how well the doctor/companion know each other. u have a level of it that u can ONLY get#with fourteen and donna who are two halves of a whole soul but have also spent much more time missing the other than knowing them#im not rewatching fifteen's eps rn until a week later when i can watch it w my qpp but#rn i still feel a stronger sense of fifteen and ruby's characters from all the rtd-written eps rather moffat#which like. i get that a lot of that is my personal dislike of moffat's writing style but still#dr who#15 era#dw spoilers
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you know what? i was just thinking and literally every episode with the trickster's brigade in it involves suicide somehow
whatever happened to sarah jane? (sja): andrea has to CHOOSE to die to go back on her deal with the trickster. you actually SEE her smile at sarah jane and then let go on purpose in order to fall to her death (this was a kids show)
turn left (doctor who): the right-donna has to kill herself in order to get past-donna to turn left instead of right — not only killing herself but meaning that she never existed in the first place
the temptation of sarah jane smith (sja): its quite literally basically like, yeah, sarah janes parents definitely crashed the car on purpose. and like, they never actually SAY it that obviously but they DO definitely CHOOSE to get in the car knowing they have to crash to set things right (again. this was a kids show)
the wedding of sarah jane smith (sja): again, peter dalton, like andrea, has to CHOOSE to go back on his deal with the trickster, probably the weakest example but like, he is still definitely CHOOSING to die instead of live
immortal sins (torchwood): this is actually somehow the ONLY one where the answer to "how do we beat the trickster" is NOT suicide, which is so wild considering that THIS is the gritty adult spinoff. no, the trickster they beat just fine. jack just decides to kill himself in order to (quite literally) ghost angelo with the most possible emotional torment
#sja#doctor who#torchwood#trickster's brigade#sarah jane adventures#ari opinion hour#not bonff#obsessed with the fact that the recurring villain from the KIDS SHOW spinoff is the one that involves suicide constantly#HOW. HOW. HOW IS IT THAT THE TORCHWOOD EPISODE IS THE ONLY ONE WHERE THE SOLUTION TO THE WHOLE THING ISNT THAT SOMEBODY HAS TO KILL THEMSEL#THATS FUCKING INSANE. THATS HILARIOUS#also: yet another reason why it makes truly SO much sense that i am obsessed with THIS relatively minor villain in particular#i <3 suicide in dr who
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I may be entirely biased but I do find the Neil Gaiman written episodes some of the most enjoyable in eleven’s run.
#I have extremely mixed feelings about this set of seasons#but one thing is for sure and that is Neil gaiman’s episodes are quite good#I also say biased because he’s one of my favorite authors of all time#but I think I should still be allowed to point this opinion out#doctor who#doctor who 2005#dr who#eleventh doctor#matt smitt#neil gaiman
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