#bill and heather

[reachingforthevoid]

Doctor Who: World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls

I rewatched this serial on 25 September 2023.

We begin with the TARDIS arriving in a snowstorm. The Doctor’s regenerating and not wanting to.  We crash into the opening credits and reverse a bit. Time travel, eh. There’s a lot of stuff about temporal differences, used to a good effect.

We really begin on a giant spaceship. The Doctor, Nardole and Bill, plus Missy, are responding to a distress call. There’s a ginormous black hole that the ship is trying to escape from.

Heh. I love Missy, and she works well with Bill as they discuss the Doctor’s real name.

Then a man in blue arrives and in a panic hunts for the human. It’s Bill. The man in blue shoots her…

We really begin back at the university with the Doctor and Bill discussing the Doctor’s attempt to rehabilitate the Master/Missy. They discuss Time Lord gender… about time, too. Bill confesses her fear of Missy. A well-placed fear. And then we get two Masters…

On board the ship, strange people take Bill’s body away. They sound familiar…Bill wakes up in a weirdly old-fashioned hospital. She’s got something in her chest. World Enough and Time makes Cybermen truly horrific for the first time in the show’s history. There are a few near misses in the past, but this story distils it all into true horror. It’s because at their heart are humans, in this case Bill Potts.

Smutty ending for Bill with Heather the Pilot saying she can fly anything, even a differently living Bill Potts. That little kiss is rather lovely, though. Be still my lesbian heart…

Observation: there are cycles of repetition in the seasons from 2006, like the two show runners up to this point try out ideas, and redo them to better effect, and redo them to better effect. Like what happened to Danny Pink, cyber-soldier, happens again to Bill Potts… (Why are they the Black characters, though?) What happens to Clara living such a long, long time with Ashildr in the moment before she dies and Bill getting a second chance with Heather… Yeah, I'd probably watch that series, too.

Cue the longest regeneration story to date as we loop back to the beginning of World Enough and Time… and the Doctor quotes himself quoting himself as the first Doctor stumbles across the twelfth… What's a bit of recursion between friends?

[destinyawaitsno1]

This took way longer than I planned because two jobs and all but I needed to make the joke soooo bad when no one else had as a theatre nerd

[wackpedion]

CHAOS IS GREAT! CHAOS IS WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS DARLING!

if you squint real hard billford is baaaaasically jdronica <- liar

(alt +closeup below)

I am a giaaant Heathers 1989 nerd and when this redraw idea came to me i knew I haaaad to do it... this shot in particular gives me so many thoughts. "Our love is God", a powerful bold statement, the way that JD is up on high ground while backlit by blue light, portraying him as a sort of idol or savior to Veronica as he extends a hand down to her. I love this scene and I thought it would be so interesting to apply it to Billford

[bizzerk]

HEATHERS WHO???

Holy shit, Heather's x Gravity Falls crossover?!?!?!?!

That is insane

(Shout out to @chaosaroundyourmind for the lovely idea. Ily pookie)

[ghostatrandom]

Thanks everyone who followed me for the GF stuff now you will suffer the realization I had a few weeks back

[classichorrorblog]

Night Of The Living Dead (1990) - Directed by Tom Savini

[rodent--quinn-queen--posts]

So I've seen a few people associate the billford ship with the song Meant To Be Yours from heathers and while I completely agree with you why stop there with the heathers songs might I also suggest in no particular order

I say no

Yo girl

Our love is God (but I feel like that one only works for AUs)

And the reprise of Dead Girl Walking

I mean come on people feel the potential especially with I say no like I'm not crazy right these fit right???

[draculasdaughterrr]

⭒ ⋆ 📀 random movie blinkies ⋆ฺ࿐⭐️ ࣪⁎˚

[pizzacade]

The Twice Upon a Time novelization reveals what Bill did with Heather after the events of The Doctor Falls, revealing they explored the universe until deciding to spend the rest of their lives on Earth.

[reachingforthevoid]

Doctor Who: The Pilot

I rewatched this story on 20 September 2023. It’s the first of the 2017 season. 

We begin with Nardole showing Bill Potts into a university office which has an out of order police box and pictures of Susan Foreman and River Song. The Doctor enters to ask Bill why she goes to his lectures. In her roundabout answers she reveals she’s gay and working class. The Doctor is drawn to her intelligence, which is keen and fun. Of course, Dr Who being Dr Who, there are mysteries aplenty, especially to do with a puddle. Bill meets Heather and shenanigans ensue, with a spot of scary stuff. Bill confides in the Doctor, who immediately acts…

Bill’s first entrance in the TARDIS is wonderful. It’s amazing to me just how many different ways there have been to introduce people to the impossibility.

Fun fact with names: William (Bill) Hartnell’s wife was Heather. Sweet.

Huge welcome to the fabulous Pearl Mackie as Bill.

[bleadingheartart]

It’s me sixer the triangle speaking to you inside your brain! Leave the twink we don’t need him…

This has been stuck in my head for weeks lol it’s very rough but enjoy

[dwgif]

DOCTOR WHO S10E01 The Pilot

[esqueletosgays]

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990)

Director: Tom Savini Cinematography: Frank Prinzi

[bunnygibson]

Tozer

[lucianinsanity-only-art]

More of this AU, now with more Triangles

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[ctownis]

The queen bich is dead!!