#bad wolf

[princess-pine-cone]

This was approximately seven toilet paper rolls five hours ago

Progress pics below the cut!

[pizzacade]

Here are the segments from the I, TARDIS book that tell her perspective of the times when she was commanded by The Doctor to take a companion home, leaving him alone with The TARDIS in Rose's case, deliberately allowing the Bad Wolf Entity to be created, because she didn't want to be abandoned.

I fucking love in fics when the Doctor gets hurt and the Tardis has to help his companion (mostly in romantic contexts, but others too). 9 or 10 gets hurt and Rose and the Tardis communicate via their bad wolf connection so that Rose can help him? Absolutely, gimme 20 of em. 11 or 12 has a really bad day or smtn and Clara has to try to help him, and asks the Tardis for help? Fuck yes gimme that hurt comfort. Literally any version of the Master choosing to save the Doctor and help them instead of hurting them, and spending the entire time playfully bickering with the Tardis? 100% that is my shit. 13 getting knocked tf out and Yaz cluelessly begging the Tardis for help on how to care for a stupid time lord? Fuck yes. Give me more of the Tardis telepathically communicating with companions to help the Doctor when they're hurt. I eat that shit up every single time.

[osinthewhite]

It's sometimes hard to comprehend what an important character Rose Tyler is in nuwho

She was there when they revived the show, after she disappeared she's mentioned all over season 3, she came back in season 4, you get reminded of her multiple times in season 6 and 7, she was there for the 50th anniversary, she was mentioned in the 60th anniversary, there are so many comparisons between her and Ruby that I've lost cout.

Imagine having that BIG of a chokehold on the narrative. Queen

[ghost-bison]

1x12 episode of doctor who "bad wolf" is such an interesting episode, i just realized. not just because it's fun and fast-paced or because there's suspense, but also because, think of the actual plot of the episode.

the human race of 200 000 years into our future is forced to take part in games that were already in session in the 21st century.

we have big brother - a reality show which has the same name as the oppressive force that dictates your life and watches everything you're doing, violating your privacy, drawn from a dystopian book written to criticize this exact kind of behaviour. and what did capitalism do with it? a reality show. where people stand behind a screen, stalking on and dissecting your life. the participants are forced into reshaping their personality into what the audience (society) wants it to be. if they lose this game, they lose society's approval and that means they lose their sense of self. which ironically is what 1984 by george orwell criticizes.

then we have the weakest link - interesting choice yet again, because it's not the only television game show out there right? but that's the one they chose because its name tells you all you need to know: your ability (or lack thereof) to answer questions about specific topics, oftentime topics that aren't necessarily academic or even interesting (who cares about what year katy perry released her debut album or how many children this actor has, honestly?) to measure your intelligence. richard feynman said "never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a phd and still be an idiot". people who take part in tv game shows aren't chosen because they're geniuses, simply because it is not designed to be understood or played by a genius: it's made to entertain regular people and make them feel good about themselves, so that they don't try to be smart. it normalizes bullying and prevents you from using critical thinking by making you believe trivia equals intelligence, and if you don't have it, then you are, literally, the weakest link.

finally, we have what not to wear: a reality show where contestants (mostly women) are selected by people they know - as in, friends or family who call them out for their unfashionable dressing style, which is already fucked up as it is - and are videotaped and followed around for two weeks as they go from store to store to get a makeover. their taste is exposed by the camera crew, exposing them to bullying and more generally to criticism from anyone watching the show.

the episode explores those games 200 000 years in the future, where people are selected against their will, and moreover, the stakes of the games are now their own life. you lose, you die. Life is now nothing more than a bet, or russian roulette. which is... kind of how life works, actually: a game of pretense, you never know when it could stop. it's mostly not up to you, your only options are to give up and die, or go on and pray for it to work out. and if you don't fit into the mold, it just takes the decision away from you because life is unliveable when you don't fit in.

there are a few interesting ties between this episode and 1x07 the long game (and when you think about it, even the title was a clue as to what would come next), and it's not just the fact that they're both set on satellite 5, with 1x12 happening 100 years after: it's the consequences of the doctor's actions, and adam mitchell.

so in 1x07, the doctor thwarted the editor's and the jagrafess' plan and put an end to the hidden dictatorship. which was very similar to the one in 1x12, wasn't it? rewarding people who play along so they won't question the system.

there is, however, the additional touch of terror in 1x12 which, in 1x07, is only revealed to those who try and go against it, like poor suki who got turned into an icicle soon as she got to floor 500.

upon returning to satellite 5, just 100 years into the future, the doctor finds out that what he did actually put a halt to humanity's evolution, as the radio signals stopped emitting and humanity found itself isolated from the rest of the universe, but this time with no one to lead them. the reason being this: the doctor never stays.

the doctor is, himself, without command. but what differentiates him from the humans, though, is that... well... he is not human. isolation was imposed on him after he lost his entire species, the only ones who could truly understand him.

and while he travels with a human at his side, he is always very careful of whom he chooses to share his lifestyle with: the doctor doesn't abide by the rules, but neither does jack. and rose, although not as openly rebellious as the other two, questions those rules. what's more, she's curious and has a deep need for more than her regular life. but there is no hidden motive behind that curiosity, she is doing it for herself.

which leads us to adam mitchell, the wannabe companion of 1x07: technically a genius, adam manages to hop onboard the tardis after the doctor realizes that, maybe, adam is just like himself. a belief that is quickly debunked in the outcome of the episode, after adam prioritizes capital over his growing relationship with rose and hers and the doctor’s trust, risking breaking fixed points in time just to make money and gain fame and recognition, something the doctor is fundamentally against.

adam is academically smart, but what is it if not fatally dangerous when it is not met with common sense? I think it’s why the doctor left him with the chip in his head. he said it: adam would have to lead a very quiet life in order not to end up getting dissected. it’s not just a petty punishment or consequence for his actions, as i used to think it was, but a security, because adam’s intelligence is corrupted by modern day society and without retrains, it could have devastating consequences.

thus, the doctor calls himself the doctor because he wants to help people, yet he doesn’t have a degree to “earn” that title. it just means healer, and that's what he tries to be. as we learned in series 6, he is probably the reason this word even exists in the first place.

in 3x01 smith and jones, martha refuses to call him doctor as, for her, you need to earn that title. this probably influenced his decision to bring her along, not just because she met his criteria for a companion, but to prove her wrong and broaden her mind.

he wants to make her understand that theory isn't enough to become something so important. he understands that true intelligence comes from experience and what you choose to remember from said experience, like wisdom and compassion. he isn’t much into theory, because he learns by being curious: what makes people tick, what they like and don’t like, and in the process, he learns about himself, who he wants and doesn’t want around him.

in 1x12, the doctor knows the disintegrator bim won't be used on him because he is not afraid of difference; he is profoundly aware of his own difference, and therefore, he isn't compatible with the game.

rose laughs and ridicules the game; she doesn't see the point, as, contrary to other team players, especially rodrick, she's not driven my money or the need for approval, as the doctor taught her what life lived to its fullest looks like behind all the pretense and make-believe.

the doctor, rose and jack are to themselves a pretty cool representation of what society should be about

[itsatorchwoodthing]

ok, if someone told me “you’re worth fighting for” before kissing me and going to war for me i would also bring him back from the death permanently

[alexsshittyworld]

No one:

Rose Tyler dragging the Doctor back to her mom’s house every time her roots started showing again:

[doverstar]

there's such a massive history with doctor who and it hit me lately that the sensation of seeing that the companions and doctors you watched in real-time have become the past is a sensation every fan has felt for 60 years. at some point people missed jon pertwee and could remember watching him recently, even though tom baker was on tv as the doctor now and they liked him too. and nowadays we miss rose tyler and martha jones and amy pond and clara oswald and donna noble and tennant and smith and capaldi like those people missed baker when davison took the stage. like people missed ace and wondered if the show would ever come back, and then got excited and still felt it wasn't quite the same when eccleston was announced. like. it feels so recent, like just yesterday rose saw the tardis for the first time, but that was twenty years ago. feels like the doctor just made the speech in 'the rings of akhaten' and that was a decade ago. clara is gone, amy is gone. peter capaldi went from gray to white. and the show is going on and children will think of ncuti gatwa and millie gibson and huge white tardis corridors when they think of doctor who in the future. to them, david tennant is already what tom baker is to us. this story has a huge legacy. when you're watching doctor who, it ironically begins to feel like you're making history just by watching it.

[shiveringfrogspawn]

has this been done?

edit: thanks to everyone in the tags for your input :) it actually wasn’t disney this time (oops, my bad), a daily mail article was the main one pushing the claim and a few others too i think. clickbaity journalism sucks and always remember to check your facts x

[chaoticrosesimp]

The empire of the wolf commited so many crimes , specially to my Rose.

Someone pay me to fix them all , please BBC Give me your money.

[mothmags]

A Rose Tyler to celebrate me replacing my 10yo iPad

DW Portraits Masterpost

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[zazrichor]

B A D W O L F

[ymnfilter]

everytime the doctor gets out of a pinch, everytime he somehow survives, everytime he somehow meets the right person at the right time who says just the right thing and helps him save the day, all I can think about is bad wolf and rose tyler and how all that one ordinary nineteen year old girl wanted, was for the man she loved to be safe and so she saw everything thing that ever was and everything that ever could be and rearranged time itself so that he would always survive and now he's still out there, having lost her a millennia ago, but still safe somehow because that's how she wanted it to be.

[penseesduncookie]

Ten and Rose 💖

[sentientsky]

This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

mutual devotion my beloved

[twixted-spoon]

Bad Wolf.