#david tennant creepy characters

[unforgivablengk]

David Tennant in The Bill (Episode "Deadline", 1995) is wild... he's so creepy. It's on Britbox and YouTube. :)

[princeloww]

DAVID TENNANT ROLES STARTERPACK

(Different roles, where to find them and what they're like!!!) (+ more that I didn't go into included at the end)

*disclaimer: this is sort of UK orientated, 'cos I don't know any American streaming services or where stuff is available in other countries, so PLEASE comment other places you can watch things!!!!

- Takin' Over the Asylum (CAMPBELL BAIN)

Follows a DJ and a group of patients trying to keep a radio station going in a mental hospital. David plays one of the main characters, Campbell Bain, a mostly upbeat and energetic young boy with lots of enthusiasm and spirit. Some angst!

☆ YOUTUBE (free)

- Blackpool (PETER CARLISLE)

A body is found in an arcade run by Ripley Holden, and him and his entire family are pulled into the murder investigation surrounding it. DI Peter Carlisle is working on the case, and highly suspicious of Ripley. He's a pretty major character and has a romantic plot - as well as a few funny musical numbers. Includes sex scenes.

☆ UKTV PLAY (free in UK), AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

- Casanova (GIACOMO CASANOVA)

The (mostly sexual) adventures of Giacomo Casanova, a charming and fraudulent man who falls in love very quickly and very dramatically with a lot of people, all while essentially bullshitting through life and jumping on every opportunity to make money. Includes sex scenes but also angst, such as illness, injuries, some violence, and general suffering.

☆ MYFLIXERX.TO (free), AMAZON

- Recovery (ALAN HAMILTON)

A man and his family coping with the recovery and rehabilitation process after he (Alan, David Tennant) suffers from brain damage. Angsty. Lots of crying, suicide references, head injury stuff.

☆ YOUTUBE (free)

- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (BARTY CROUCH JR)

I recommend pirating this one so you're not supporting JK Rowling. DT plays Barty Crouch JR, an antagonist and the son of Barty Crouch. He's kind of a minor character, as he's not actually in a lot of scenes.

☆ Probably on most pirating sites (my go to is MYFLIXERX.TO)

- Learners (CHRISTOPHER ??)

Lighthearted movie about a woman trying to pass her driving test. David plays Chris, her driving instructor. He's a bit of a dork, very sweet and kind. Has a love plot, briefly fights a guy. No major angst.

☆ YOUTUBE (free)

- Hamlet (HAMLET)

Hamlet. Prince of Denmark wants vengeance after his father's death. I haven't actually watched this one yet but I assume it's got the same amount of angst and drama as Hamlet typically does.

☆ AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

- Single Father (DAVE TYLER)

After a fatal car accident, Dave Tyler (DT) is left to parent four children on his own. Still struggling through grief, Dave falls in love again and attempts to hide it. Has LOTS of crying, lots of kissing, sex scenes, DT being miserable and sobbing, etc.

☆ MYFLIXERX.TO (free)

- Rex Is Not Your Lawyer (REX ALEXANDER)

Unaired pilot. Only 40 minutes. Show wasn't picked up, but it is very good. Rex is a successful and skilled lawyer who is forced to stop practising when he starts having panic attacks every time he speaks in court. He decides instead to coach people who want to represent themselves. Lots of DT in very tight suits. American accent. Not MAJOR angst but he does has daddy issues and a panic disorder, so.

☆ YOUTUBE (free)

- Fright Night (PETER VINCENT)

A kid discovers that his neighbour is a vampire, and he seeks out a famous vampire slayer to help him. Peter Vincent (DT) does not live up to his name, and turns out to actually be sort of pathetic. No major angst, not a lot of clothes, no romance, but lots of eyeliner. He's very bisexual. Violence, vampire horror, creepy neighbour.

☆ DISNEY+, AMAZON PRIME

- The Decoy Bride (JAMES ARBER)

Celebrity Lara Tyler tries to get married to her author fiancé James Arber, but the paparazzi interrupts the wedding. Desperate to keep it private, she takes James to the island that he based his book on. Somehow, the paparazzi still find them, and they hire a decoy bride to pretend to be Lara. Romance, kissing, light hearted, minimal angst. David in a funny outfit. Fake dating trope?

☆ AMAZON PRIME

- Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger (Donald and Roderick Peterson)

Sequel to Nativity, but you don't need to watch the first one. Primary school teacher Donald Peterson (DT) is forced to take his class to Wales to participate in A Song For Christmas, a festive singing competition. Here he is put against his twin brother, who is a successful composer and with whom he has a strained relationship. Light angst - lots of daddy issues, but generally sweet.

☆ AMAZON, I think its on NOW TV???

- The Escape Artist (WILL BURTON)

A defence lawyer, Will Burton, gets a murderer off free, and very quickly grows to regret it, when his client comes after his family next. Lots of murder. Like three murders I think. Hot lawyer DT.

☆ AMAZON (I can't believe I forgot this one)

- What We Did On Our Holiday (DOUG MCLEOD)

A family go to Scotland for their grandfather's 70th birthday. Doug (DT) and his wife (Rosamund Pike) are getting a divorce, but are hiding it from the rest of the family. Movie is mostly focused on the kids and their grandad, but David has a few moments, and he's generally present throughout. Funny, slightly shocking at times, family film. No major angst. Character death.

☆ AMAZON PRIME

- Richard II (RICHARD II)

Shakespeare's Richard II. David plays the titular character, the extravagant, heartless and cold King of England, Richard II. We see his fall from grace as he is stripped of everything he owns and knows. Quite angsty. Long hair, androgynous David. Queer kiss scene (although they are cousins, soo...)

☆ you can find a link in a REDDIT comment if you search for it, AMAZON PRIME

- Broadchurch (ALEC HARDY)

An eleven-year-old boy is murdered in a small town, sending shock-waves through the community. Story follows both the family and communities response to the crime, as well as the investigation done by DI Alec Hardy (DT) and DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Coleman). Lots of angst from Alec. He is sick and hiding it. Injury, dizziness, panic attacks, that sort of thing - as well as a heart attack. He has a lot of trauma and daddy issues. Season three touches on topics of rape (warning).

- Mad To Be Normal (RD LIANG)

Biopic about RD Liang, a Scottish psychiatrist. Sex, misogyny, mental health topics, some self-harm (done by another character)

☆ AMAZON (sensing a pattern)

- Good Omens (CROWLEY)

An angel (Michael Sheen) and a demon work together to stop the end of the world. Queer romance (canon), some angst. Drama, comedy, LGBTQ+. David plays Crowley, the demon (who "sauntered vaguely downwards" rather than fell from heaven)

☆ AMAZON PRIME

- Staged (DAVID TENNANT)

A COVID lockdown comedy about David Tennant and Michael Sheen talking via Zoom during the lockdown. Actually quite sad at times? Mostly silly, though. Features Georgia Tennant and Anna Lundberg.

☆ BBC Iplayer (UK) (or VPN)

- Around The World in 80 Days (PHILEAS FOGG)

Phileas Fogg, a quiet and reserved man, decides to travel around the world in 80 days, after he receives an anonymous postcard calling him a coward. Cute found family, drama, angst (ex-lover stuff, internalised cowardice, illness, near death experience), some violence. There's a scene where Phileas gets flogged (whipped, essentially) quite violently, and it's somewhat graphic. Touches on themes of racism. Phileas is 100% neurodivergent.

☆ BBC Iplayer (UK) (or VPN)

- Inside Man (HARRY WATLING)

DT plays a vicar, Harry, who is involved in a murder after trying to protect his son - who was accused of having CP. Suicide themes, murder, self-harm - explores the idea that any person can murder, if they're pushed the right way. Includes topics to do with CP and pedophilia.

☆ NETFLIX, AMAZON

- Litvinenko (LITVINENKO)

Biopic about Alexander Litvinenko. A group of detectives investigate the poisoning of Litvinenko. David is bald in this show. (Scary)

☆ ITVX (UK) (or VPN)

- Doctor who (10TH AND 14TH DOCTORS)

Do I need to explain Doctor Who???? David Tennant plays the tenth and fourteenth regenerations of The Doctor, a Time Lord from outerspace. He travels around in the TARDIS with human companions.

☆ BBC Iplayer (UK)

I think I'm gonna leave it there, but there are a LOT that I have not touched on. This post is a very accurate and long list of everything on DT's filmography, so i recommend you check that out.

Other things I didn't mention (off the top of my head):

There She Goes, Bad Samaritan, Einstein and Eddington, Rab. C Nesbitt, Bright Young Things, LA Without a Map, Much Ado About Nothing, Duck Patrol, True Love, Gracepoint, Camping (US), Nan's Christmas Carol, Mary Queen of Scots, (You, Me and Him), Secret Smile, Deadwater Fell, Jessica Jones, Dramarama, Spies of Warsaw, AND A LOT MORE. (+ voice acting roles, and also his narrating work on Spy In The Wild (2017)

[dtmsrpfcringe]

the definitive dictionary and almanac of Tinhattery

hi, this will be a list of the main misogynistic accounts, definitions people have questions about, accounts you should follow and abbreviations— let’s gooo!! If you’re tagged in this I probably put you on the accounts to follow section. Adding a cut here because it’s long and gonna get longer

definitions!!!!

LCB- Used to stand for letscoffeebreak, she has since changed her username to dejadestalkearmeloser.

NGO- Nightgoodomens

Ingrav, Amy- Ingravinoveritas.

tardisrose- thetardisisblueandroseistoo

Tinhatters- A group of (mostly) tumblr users who think everything in these two relationships are fake and the women are abusive and the men want to run away.

Queeranoners- same as above, my favourite way to refer to them, coined by the amazing @theeminentlyimpractical

sheenbergs- Mix for Michael and Anna’s name

sheenbergnant- the amalgamation of the four bad bitches we love

sheenant- ship name for David and Michael. (Remember kids: shipping is cool but it’s fictional!!)

DT- David Tennant (Georgias husband)

MS- Michael Sheen (Anna’s boyfriend)

GT- Georgia Tennant

AL- Anna Lundberg

PR- public relations

GM- a…delegitimising way of referring to Georgia by refusing to use her last name. Instead use her maiden name. Note how they don’t refer to David as David McDonald

APAT- usually used by tinhatters (stands for Anna Plain And Tall) to refer to Anna Lundberg

PR (Tinhatter definition) - an omnipresent being forcing two rich white men who constantly champion human rights and lgbtq acceptance into a hetero relationship because they just are so oppressed and abused and not because they love their partners!

PR (actual definition) -the professional activities of an agency hired by a person, company, or other entity to shape, create, and manipulate that person/company’s public image. A public relations firm is often useful in helping a company manage its media reputation when a crisis happens, in order to attempt to minimize false information or slanderous statements which could damage reputations.

Shipping- Shipping (derived from the word relationship) is the desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters (in film, literature, television series, etc.), to be in a romanticrelationship. Shipping often takes the form of unofficial creative works, including fanfictionand fan art.

Shipping (Tinhat definition) - NO THEY HATE THEIR PARTNERS AND WANT TO FUCK EACH OTHER LOOK HE BLINKED IN HIS VICINITY THEIR PARTNERS ARE ABUSIVE I SWEAR

GREATEST HITS (posts that killed Tinhatters, feel free to submit your favourites in my inbox)

The breakdown of an anon

tassel jokes

backstreet cringe

Ingravinoveritas admitting it

Laurens amazing fuck off post that snowballed into half the fandom straight up saying fuck you to these people

HALL OF SHAME (Worst of tinhatters, again feel free to submit more)

• Taraiha’s rivals meltdown

NGO hates this fandom for…calling her out

it’s not a choice to be weird and creepy about people’s lives! (Again shipping is fine. This shit is not!!!)

it’s okay if you attack women just don’t criticise Michael Sheen (no idea what she was talking about with David) this same lady had another absolutely dog shit post I guess she removed?!

How dare women…have fun at their birthday parties?? (Part 1)

for a group constantly sexualizing David and Michaels every movement we can’t stand when a woman shows a little chest and has fun

Accounts you should follow!!!!:

@goodomenswarning - same purpose as this account, hilarious, an amazing friend

@badaziraphaletakes - calls out shitty takes in good omens as well, so much more level headed about toxicity than I am but I love talking shit with them. @thegeorgiatennantblog - best Georgia content

@fightingalgth8rs -bad bitches calling out extreme sexism

@phoen1xr0se - one of the best and I devour everything she posts

@davidtennantgenderenvy stands up for what’s right in the fandom, one of my idols and stuck up for me during a vulnerable time.

lmk more I need to add because I’m definitely missing some

THE REPEAT OFFENDERS (booo 🍅🍅):

Ingravinoveritas- one of the bigger ones, refuses to believe Georgia does anything nice for David, or that any of them actually like their partners. Can’t stop fetishizing gay male relationships to save her life. If David blinks he apparently wants to be bent over. Likes to pretend she’s not as bad as the others but has some of the wildest takes and said she felt threatened and scared for her life at someone making a Shakespearean reference. Professional victim

Nightgoodomens- a particularly nasty motherfucker. So toxic she’s quarantined. Misogynistic, ableist, um…yeah not much to say there except for the fact that apparently anything that David does that involves his wife means he’s forced into it. Would rather see them as abused puppies than accept they love their partners. Heavy on the homophobia and bi erasure since yes, fetishization isn’t allyship, it is homophobia. Everything is PR. She doesn’t know what PR means nor that David and Michael are not nearly important enough to have a 24/7 team controlling all social media and personal aspects of their lives. Neil gaiman apologist who blamed his sexual assault revelations on David’s support of trans people. Denies women flirting with each other and boils it to PR friendships??!?

Dejadestalkearmeloser- pretty much the same as nightgoodimens, flips shit when you call her out on it, I mean look at her pinned post about me and you’ll see. Also apparently I’m every account that doesn’t like her. Seems to have a problem with lesbians not liking her (wonder why lesbians don’t like the misogynistic people who only talk about the lgbtq community when it comes to fetishising mlm relationships)

Thetardisisbluesndroseistoo- flips shit at Georgia getting credit for anything, lost her shit on someone saying that Georgia has educated David on lgbtq allyship (he quite literally said himself that she does) later deleted posts when I called her out. Can’t stop laughing at that

invisibleicewands- really, really creepy about Anna, delving into her past and family to try and find…something. Body shaming. Mom shaming. The usual misogyny.

dtmsrpf- I guess a spoof on my name, belongs to one of the others on this list. The usual misogyny with a particular axe to grind against their looks and other things. Definitely a little salty.

georgiatennantunofficial (instagram)- extremely fucking gross. Body shaming and misogyny. Usual. You guys see a pattern yet?

[txttletale]

(Other than the really weird bit about "Male presenting Doctor") what were your thoughts about the specials?

pretty mixed bag, pretty messy, but good overall. i think they were very obviously a nostalgia trip for people around my age lol and it worked! i loved seeing tennant and tate back onscreen together, their chemistry hasn't aged a bit, and honestly just watching doctor who that wasn't written by chris chibnall was a breath of fresh air. they weren't boring, like seasons 11 and 12 were, and they didn't go too far off the other end into nonsense like flux did. characters want things again! the show can let itself just be silly! i was literally cheering out loud when donna and the doctor were just saying random scifi gobbledegook at each other for like a solid several minutes during the star beast.

the structure of the specials kind of baffles me. i love wild blue yonder--i think it's definitively the best of the specials as a standalone, it's absolutely fantastic, creepy and atmospheric and bringing things around to RTD's strength, which is well-written characters interacting with each other and letting good actors just act. but at the same time i dont understand why it exists? it feels like...idk. imagine if you watched the star wars original trilogy but instead of the empire strikes back the middle film was just a feature length film about luke and han surviving on an ice planet with no reference to anything that happens in the last film except the two characters' relationship. and then the next film was still return of the jedi, unchanged. it felt like that

i liked all the weird campy silliness of the star beast and the giggle, and they were both very fun! neil patrick harris gave a fantastic performance, there are a lot of very memorable sequences from the giggle, but it's very very all over the place. so many threads get kind of picked up and go nowhere. the toymaker's haunted house dimension goes nowhere. RTD's eyerolling social media commetnary goes nowhere (thank god tbh but yknow im illustrating something here). even the toymaker kind of goes nowhere, after ncuti gatwa shows up he's bascially an afterthought who loses by dropping a ball. obvious parallels to david tennant's first episode with that ball scene could be made, but just... aren't. it feels like load-bearing sectikons of the plot and themes were cut out to make room for a backdoor pilot for the stupid fucking UNIT spinoff

oh and it goes without saying i fucking hate all the UNIT wank in the star beast and the giggle. i hope space nine eleven 2 happens to their stupid fucking avengers tower i cannot stand kate stewart who is constantly a murderous bonehead (in the giggle alone she gets two pepole killed by not listening to the doctor and assuming that this teleporting godlike entity could be restrainted by Two Guys) who is both in and out of universe just a boring nepo baby with no merit of her own

um. i still dont know what happened with the regeneration. i think the implication is that when david tennant dies hell time travel back to become ncuti gatwa inside himself--at least the rehab dialogue seems to make that implication. but it's not really explained or explored? baffling. i do think that fourteen getting to settle down and live a peaceful life with his friends is cute.

oh yeah and the ask said other than that but goddd there was some good stuff in the star beast and honestly with the state of the UK media i will take any perspective on trans people that includes baseline human erespect but some of those lines made me cringe so bad. anyway overall i am cautiously optimistic for the future of the show--oh ncuti was fucking great did i mention that i instantly bnought him as the doctor he owned the scene, the moment he was there it was clear he was the protagonist, and i liked the church on ruby road well enough too--i am cautiously optimistic but i worry that a big UNIT-shaped tumor will devour huge chunks of it and it'll be annoying. also russel t davies is like 60 and i just dont want to hear what he has to say about twitter so im not looking forward to dot and bubble

[natequarter]

doctor who actors must be able to:

play a creepy android double

scream for help

provide stage directions and exposition for the doctor

play a random side character whose existence and resemblance to a main character poses bizarre and troubling questions

david tennant

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

sooo Wild Blue Yonder huh

Breaking news the doctor having gay thoughts I repeat the doctor having gay thoughts

I can’t even tell if the special effects were good or bad they were just CURSED in the best way

david Tennant continuing to do absolutely insane things with his limbs (the part where he crawls on all fours sped up was some exorcist level stuff)

oooh this episode had a bit of a rocky start but once it picked up SUCH great who, mysterious and mindboggling and dark and insanely suspenseful I was on the edge of my seat, harkened back to the feeling of some of my favorite episodes like Satan pit and silence in the library

such GREAT character study too the “humans can believe two completely contradictory things at the exact same time” bit was so good

David and Catherine kill it as creepy uncanny valley versions of themselves

Ugh PROPER tragic time lord content in this episode the sheer anguish radiating from David’s eyes

DAVID TENNANT LOSING IT SCENE

i literally thought I was about to watch Donna Noble my childhood hero get killed off before my very eyes I actually think I would have sobbed I have never been so relieved in my life

the way I screamed “TALK TO HER” during their final scene in the Tardis. Need them to have a proper heart to heart sometime in the last episode or I will be salty

“Are you okay” “I will be” “when” “a million years” Lauren found dead in a ditch

I apologize to everyone on my floor who almost definitely heard me scream when Wilf showed up

I have never been so nervous for an episode in my life as I am for the giggle

PS: if Russell makes David’s regeneration sad AGAIN I will hunt him down and kill him

[oodlyenough]

wild blue yonder thoughts

that ruled

i don't really have more thoughts than that lmao. it was basically what i was hoping for from this special: a slightly creepy scifi bottle episode full of david tennant and catherine tate. that is exactly what i got. hell yeah

for the record the INSTANT donna showed up in the blue water room w ten and said "I did what you said" i said "that doesn't sound like donna". nailed it. or catherine tate nailed it, as it were. literally only took a single line lol

i really liked the fake vs real dilemma in here. in some scenes i was right and in some i was wrong, which kept it fun and kept me on my toes.

fakedonna bringing up the flux and the timeless child fhlaksdfhldfhlg

the doctor CARING about the timeless child and the flux. lmao

loved the tie thing w fake ten. donna is so clever

i thought it was weird that in the salt reunion the doctor said "on our planet" -- thought it was a clue bc there is no "our" planet for those two characters ... but it wasn't? hm

isn't mrs bean funny bc of mr bean like ....... what am i missing there LOL

the body morphing CGI was so horrifying and offputting and goofy at the same time which i quite enjoyed.

thank u brave horse captain

the isaac newton stuff and the banter about him being hot cracked me up. "it was always under the surface" lmao

anyway i'm so glad we got a middle special that didn't get saddled with the big plot tasks of "reunion" or "regeneration" and just got to let these two characters (and two actors) go ham together. great stuff. loved it

[barbielore]

In 2019, Mattel released a Gold Label collectors edition doll in the likeness of the Thirteenth Doctor, portrayed on screen by Jodie Whittaker.

She came packaged with a tiny Sonic Screwdriver as well as tee-shirt, trench coat, cropped trousers and boots. I am advised that she also features her "signature suspenders" but I don't know nearly enough about Doctor Who, especially the Thirteenth Doctor, to know whether that was an important character detail.

Naturally, as soon as I saw this doll, I wanted to know if there were dolls made in the likeness of other iterations of the Doctor, but it appears that is not the case. That's a shame because it would be fun to see Barbies (or Kens, I suppose) in the likeness of David Tennant and some of the others.

Not entirely unpredictably, this Barbie was not well received by all audiences. An article in the Guardian was very critical of the collaboration; such quotes from fans in the linked article included "The Doctor had been a female less than 12 hours and they reduced her to a cliche plastic plaything" and "This doll’s hip/waist/bust ratio is more unbelievable than a 2,000-year-old alien with two hearts."

For my part, as someone who is not a fan of or knowledgeable about Doctor Who, I will steer clear of discussions about whether this was an appropriate tie-in - what I will say is that I think the celebrity likeness was pretty good. Many celebrity dolls end up looking kind of creepy, and this one doesn't have that problem!

[somebebop]

The Giggle/Good Omens parallels

Wow, just wow! Good Omens fans should watch the Giggle episode of Doctor Who - but not only to to see David Tennant's character finally get his happy ending. There are so many references to the plot, visual elements and ideas from Good Omens , I can't believe it!

To name a few.

Just look at this toyshop. The colors, the way it's organised, the whole esthetics. AND the creepy puppets.

And of course the toyshop is in Soho.

Dice and cards references.

"I gambled with God and made him a jack-in-the-box". Like this one? ⬇️

'We can be... a team, a group of the two of us celestial'

and the most important point! In the Giggle when the Doctor is desperate Donna encourages him with a something her father used to say: 'Dice don't know that the dice did last time'. And the the Doctor challenges the Toymaker to a game of 3 rounds. He won in the 1st, he lost in the 2nd and the 3rd is defining one. Which reminds me of the three seasons of Good Omens. And gives us all some hope, right?

in the end it's not just the Doctor who defeats the Toymaker. It's two very different versions of the Doctor which appeared when his personality kind of split. Now we all know that when Neil started the book Crowley and Aziraphale were one person, right?

[milehighmegs]

Bright Young Things

So... been working my way through as much of Mr. Sheen's screen performances as I can get my hands on, and 'Bright Young Things' was the latest installment.

I'm not entirely sure what it was about, though it was enjoyable, and deeply entertaining to see David Tennant be SO baby (it was made in 2003). Sadly, they never had a moment together. But when Michael was on the screen as flamboyantly, adorably arrogant Miles... that man needs to be locked up because he stole. EVERY. Scene.

I didn't calculate it, though I think he may have had a total of 15-20 minutes of screen time in this 2-hour film. But he absolutely devastated me with a less-than-two-minute monologue. Like, almost Final 15™ levels of heartbreak. Seriously, how has this guy never won a BAFTA??! I'm still wiping away tears.

Anyway, next up is 'Wilde,' followed by 'The Damned United.' I've already seen him:

As Nero in the one episode of that documentary on the fall of Rome (brilliant)

As Prince Andrew in 'A Very Royal Scandal' (amazing; he was so convincing I forgot at times I was watching Michael and saw only a scummy pedophile)

As Tony Blair in 'The Queen' (saw this years ago, loved it)

As the creepy priest in 'Kingdom of Heaven' (didn't know it at the time, he was barely recognizable)

As Lucian in 'Underworld' and 'Underworld: Rise of the Lycans' (both worth re-watching as it had been over a decade)

As Castur in 'Tron: Legacy' (my first time seeing this one; REALLY wish they'd done more with this character)

As Paul in 'Midnight In Paris' (will be re-watching; saw it many years ago and LOVED it)

The only thing I truly will not watch, for any reason (no, not even for MS), is 'Twilight.' Not happening.

Very much looking forward to some of his more "obscure" stuff (and I mean obscure for me, here in the States) and of course, Season 3 of 'Good Omens!"

if i wish hard enough it will come true if i wish hard enough it will come true if i wish hard enough it will come true...

[denimbex1986]

'In 2005, writer Russell T Davies accomplished the miraculous feat of bringing back Doctor Who from the dead. And now with “The Giggle”, the last in his three 60th anniversary specials, it feels as though he has done the same thing all over again.

It has been a long time since Doctor Who has felt this exciting, this funny, this rich, this camp, this smart, this scary, this, well, sublime. It is almost cruel to have been given so little of David Tennant and Catherine Tate – a dream TARDIS team deserving of a full series – but but Ncuti Gatwa’s charismatic new Doctor, who made his debut tonight, suggests the future is bright for the sci-fi series.

Forget the Doctors, however. The real star of tonight’s spectacular was the villain: Neil Patrick Harris’ delightfully devious Toymaker. The character first made an appearance as a playful enigma in the classic series, opposite William Hartnell’s First Doctor.

Here he was recast as an “elemental force” beyond the science of the universe, a maniacal trickster governed only by the rules of play. His big game was to plunge Earth into chaos by making every human believe that their own opinion is supreme. It was a mischievous idea, and a satirical swipe at the last few years of rent-a-gob culture war blowhards and terminally online conspiracy theorists.

It was joyous to watch an actor having such an obvious blast with a role as Harris played the Toymaker as an agent of chaos. There are few scenes in Doctor Who – indeed, in all television – as magnificent as the one in which Harris lip synced for his life around UNIT HQ to “Spice Up Your Life”. What a flamboyant explosion of colour and delirium!

And yet, the Toymaker was no clown. It is rare for a Doctor Who villain to feel so unsettlingly unbeatable: like a god among insects, as frightening as he is frivolous.

The scenes in the Toymaker’s toy shop, for instance, in which the Doctor and Donna were trapped in an infinite hallway of tricks and terrors, were deliciously creepy. Just take the unsettling moment in which the Doctor discovered the body of a man who has been turned into a marionette, or when Donna was ambushed by a gang of Tim Burton-esque stop-motion puppets.

These moments not only showed off Russell T Davies’ talent for elegantly marrying tones (jump scares one moment, ludicrously camp the next), but how lavish Doctor Who is under his stewardship. The scale is bigger, the CGI is expensive, the visual language sharper, more polished. This is Doctor Who with Disney+ money.

The episode’s last laugh, however, was its big surprise: having been wounded by the Toymaker, David Tennant’s Doctor not only regenerated into Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth incarnation, he “bi-regenerated”, meaning that both Doctors now get to co-exist with each other.

It’s a totally new concept for the programme – and a slightly garbled way for the show to have its cake and eat it too. David Tennant’s Doctor got the happy ending he deserves, settling down with the Noble family to live a relatively normal life. The tender and humane Tennant was marvellous in these scene and as nonsensical as it is, I’m glad the bi-regeneration leaves the door open for his return.

And then there is Gatwa, our new Doctor. While he arrived sans trousers, his characterisation already felt complete. The Toymaker resolution – in which he and the two Doctors played a high-stakes game of catch – might have fallen flat in comparison to the rest of the episode, but the sassy Gatwa was already such a commanding presence that it didn’t quite seem to matter. Every scene with him in it was a joy. Every line was a reaffirmation that he is the Doctor.

What a time for to be a Doctor Who fan. The programme has never felt quite so alive.'

[bigmilkymantatas]

Introduction time! (in character)

I am Sydney Sargent! Everyone's favorite camp nurse! Even Jedidiah isn't as favorited as me! You can tell me anything! I'm mandated to report some things but, I ain't no snitch, just between you and me)

(Out of character)

[Sydney he/him, I'm a minor and I'm taken so creepy mfs back off, my interests are Good Omens, DuckTales, Sally Face, FNAF, MLP, Will Wood, South Park, Demon Slayer, The promised Neverland, creepypasta, Death note, Minecraft, mitski, falloutboy, David Tennant, devilman crybaby, doki doki lit club, batim, Amanda the adventurer, Markiplier, DANTDM, haminations, theodd1sout, jacksepticeye, Mcsm, camp here and there, Penelope Scott, sharks, bears, rubber ducks, mean girls, Sweeny Todd, Smile Grove, and trains! :3. If I ever stop posting it's because the KOSA bill got passed and yk, I'm a teenager. I'm uncomfortable with anyone under fourteen or over nineteen on my page, so please respect that. You can learn more about KOSA from omarsbigsister on TikTok! If not, just go to badinternetbills.com and sign petitions and call/email your reps!]

when you die, you will rot

[princeloww]

I love love lovee the costuming in David Tennant's Casanova. First of all it's beautiful, second of all---

Bellino starts off pretending to be a boy to get into the city. She keeps up this act very well, and doesn't cave when Giac repeatedly insists that she's a girl. Once it gets out, Casanova vows to marry her and pours all his money into making her successful. He hosts the ball. Bellino expresses to him that she is still a performer. She isn't rich or noble, she's a performer in a costume. The entire show, really, is about performers; Casanova is faking it until he makes it, and constantly winning and losing; Henriette is faking it in order to secure a good life for her children, and putting stability above her own happiness; Bellino is pretending to be something she's not in order to get by.

At the ball, she tells him that she feels like she's just copying everybody else. She doesn't feel like herself. She is, essentially, dressing up like everybody else to fit in, and doesn't like it. Casanova fucks up her dress so that she looks unique and stands out.

Her dress is torn, revealing her thighs and stockings. It's a sort of edgier look, with a more risque and performative edge. She stands out. She is herself. She isn't one of the identical, noble women in matching frocks. That just isn't her.

The next time we see Bellino, in Paris, everybody is wearing their dresses like that. Their skirts are to their thighs, and brightly coloured stockings are very much visible. What was originally her "standing out" is now the norm - it is the current trend. This is also where we see the beginnings of Bellino's complete shift - and, to be quite frank, corruption. There is a brief moment between her and Casanova, while they're dancing, where she is Bellino. She is soft and caring and unabashedly herself --- but it's only brief. The soft, dim lighting becomes harsh as she rattles off her schedule and brushes him off.

She is no longer unique. Everybody around her has copied her, meaning that she is just a copycat again, in a sense. She is one of the crowd, one of an identical group. She, due to exposure to this new, vain lifestyle, has been corrupted and changed. We see the development and change of this character through (well, one, her demeanour and the shift in lighting/music/tone, but two) the costuming of the others around her.

It also suggests that she is a trendsetter, a potential consequence of her newfound fame and popularity.

The costuming is just so good. It really, in my opinion, shapes and tells a story of its own. The Bellino bit is really my favourite example. This is before she reaches what I consider to be her absolute worst, when she's in Naples (and in a weird creepy goth cult with drugs and incest). We are seeing that downfall. Maybe we saw the start of it, the night of the ball, but this is 100% part of it.

The costuming tells us that story, inside of a story, of a talented, unique (and let's be so honest: queer) person being shifted and changed by a vain and vapid society, the longer she spends inside of it, and does so expertly. I honestly love the fuck out of Casanova (2005)

[dtmsrpfcringe]

You are factually incorrect to start with. Michael and David have been friends for nearly 25 years. But, they have only been inseparable since Good Omens. You don’t even know the basics, so why don’t you go back to shipping your washed-up hairband?

Secondly, congratulations on missing a point the size of your own inflated ego. It’s irrelevant when Michael met David anyway, as is the air date of the Craig Ferguson show. Michael's opinion is what matters. He enjoys rpf and sees it as a compliment. So, he would not agree with you by default. Returning to Graham Norton, would someone disgusted by fans shipping him and David use the phrase "me and David Tennant having sex"? With a huge grin on his face no less. Wouldn't someone like that have said Aziraphale and Crowley to distinguish between character and actor like you keep squealing is so important? You shout down anything that doesn't fit what you want to hear, even if it comes from their own mouths, because you have a creepy obsession with the two women. They wouldn't be famous if they weren't in relationships with these men. Michael and David do not give a single fuck if people ship them. They fucking instigate the rumours themselves you absolute imbecile.

no. They havent. Michael himself said that they only really got close after their daughters were born. Working on something together doesn’t make you friends.

now let’s try to use our brains here, you have one I promise, it’s probably just small and hard to find. He uses his co-actors name to promote the goddamn show. If you just say Crowley people are like “okay and?” If you say David tennant people are like “oh holy shit that guy.” Maybe try not being a fucking moron. It’s not the fanfic that’s the issue babe, it’s you morons trying to make it real by being misogynistic to their partners and saying godawful shit!

oh I have a creepy obsession with the two women? I’m not the person that analyzes everything they do or say to try and fit my narrative that two male actors want to leave their families for each other. Also did you know that people close to each other can make jokes? Do I need to explain a joke to you? If I do, please let me know. I’m sorry for your loss, it’s very hard living without a brain. Like I said, if there’s anything I can do…

Edit: help I was trying to figure out what washed up hairband meant and I realized this anon meant Motley Crue. I don’t ship them. Anyways. Anencephaly is a serious and fatal condition, donate today to help this anon

[chartmyfixations]

cris watches dr. who: s02e01 - "New Earth"

"Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New York, which makes it New New New New New New… New New New New New New… New New New York."

Season 2, baby!

Lord, these two dorks and their Tardis

Cassandra?!?! Yay! She was one of my favourite villains last season. Vain and opportunistic are two of my favorite character traits

Rose has learned lessons: she's grabbing a weapon when somebody inexplicably knows her name

The cat nurses look really really good! Season 2 either got better make up artists or more budget, but I like it

The Face of Boe! I know he's going to be more significant at some point, but it's not this episode

Cassandra and her lackey Chip - what in the Dracula and Renfield is this

FREAKY FRIDAY EPISODE!

The Face of Boe is the last of his kind? That plucks the Dr's heart strings

Cassandra-as-Rose immediately seizes the opportunity to make out with the Doctor. (To be fair, I would also make out with David Tennant)

Cassandra's mugging as Rose is hilarious. She's in a bouncy house!

Cassandra hopping from body to body is hilarious. My favourite bit is that her immediate response to taking over any body is a disdainful little comment about said body ("Chavtastic", indeed)

What in the macgyver

The last Doctor was a lot... angrier. This one feels geekier, flightier

This new Doctor does look good wet

Yay, the Doctor kept my favourite trait: I like how the Dr can take pity on anyone who needs it

And the ending, where Cassandra-as-Chip tells her younger self she's beautiful, puts a nice, emotionally resonant bow on the whole episode. A+

Bye, Cassandra. You were a great antagonist

8 out of 8 Tardes. Cool setting and two warring plots - creepy hospital and Cassandra's revenge - that are married beautifully. Solid season starter.

[secret-diary-of-an-fa]

Doctor Who: 73 Yards Review. Short Version: WHAT?

So, this review’s late because there’s not a lot to actually say about 73 Yards. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad episode, per se, but it definitely had a certain filler-y quality to it. The Doctor steps on a witchy string thing and vanishes because of supernatural nonsense, leaving Ruby to deal with a creepy woman in black who’s always exactly 73 yards away from her: a sort of manifestation bound to her at a set distance. Other people can approach the woman, but if they speak to her, she tells them something and they run away in terror, after which point they refuse to even speak to Ruby again, meaning she can’t get any useful information on the spectre or entity or whatever-the-fuck-she-is. And, to be honest, it’s all pretty effective and spooky: a good premise for a horror story that works well for as long as its happening. The problem is that there’s very little substance under the hood.

Oh, there’s some chaff about a psychotic Prime Minister planning to start a nuclear war, which Ruby has to fix by positioning herself 73 yards from the fellow so her mysterious stalker will appear besides him and terrify him into resigning from office. I’m not even sure that counts as a spoiler because it just kinda happens and then the episode continues to putter along, following the course of Ruby’s life as she tries to live without the Doctor and with her creepy shadow. Almost as though none of it mattered even slightly.

At the end of the episode, we finally get an explanation for the woman in black. See, it turns out it was Ruby herself all along! That is to say, when Ruby’s an old woman and on her death bed, the entity touches her and she becomes the entity, sent back in time to the moment she first appeared- or rather, just a few seconds earlier- so she can fix the timeline and stop the Doctor stepping on the witchy thing. As explanations go, it’s very Who-ish: a riff on classic sci-fi tropes with a twist. But, er, it doesn’t seem to match with what we know about the Mysterious Woman (fuck it, I’m just going to start using capitals for the sake of clarity, even if they were, in no sense, earned). I mean, why would Ruby’s older self scare away everyone Ruby knows and loves, alienating her and preventing her from living her life with any kind of support network? Also, how? I mean, Ruby’s old as balls by the end of this decade-spanning episode, but she’s not an eldritch, Lovecraftian horror. Sure, she’s probably seen some shit, but she doesn’t know any deep, dark cosmic secrets that would send everyone around her running for the hills. She’s just a nice old lady whose come in stuck in time, Slaughterhouse 5-stylee. The explanation we’re ultimately given therefore feels like it’s for a completely different set of events to the ones we saw. I’d have been fine with the Mysterious Woman being left completely unexplained, like the thing in the David Tennant episode Midnight (in which the best we get is vague theories and reckons from the tormented characters), and I’d have been equally fine with a full, satisfying explanation. This ‘explanation that doesn’t make sense’ thing… yeah, I’m not pleased. It feels like an attempt to resolve the episode while deliberately laying down a mystery at the same time, but it’s a slapdash way of doing it; an ill-fated compromise between true unknowability and a real resolution. I wasn’t a fan.

Another minor complaint: what does this episode have against the Welsh? When Ruby first realises she’s being stalked by the Mysterious Woman, she flees to a little Welsh pub and the locals use it as a chance to mock her relentlessly. They act like their steeped in the supernatural and don’t know about banking apps (for some reason), and then accuse Ruby of racism when she takes them at face value and believes them. They refuse to take the fact she has a potentially dangerous stalker seriously and diminish the validity of her dread at every turn, offering no help whatsoever. Later, the evil Prime Minister is also from Wales. Er, what? Why is every Welsh person in this episode an irredeemable cunt? I’ve been to Wales. Broadly speaking, the people are pretty nice, if a natz more sarcastic than the UK average. I don’t get what 73 Yards’ damage is.

So yeah: that’s the episode. A spooky story undermined by its own explanation and inexplicable anti-Welsh racism. Go figure. On the plus side, the upcoming instalment promises a scathing critique of social media and giant slugs, so that ought to be good for a laugh.

EDIT: someone just replied to point out that Russel T. Davies is, himself, Welsh. For those of you who don't read the comments, I figured I'd add this edit-y bit. I mean, I don't know if it contextualises the show's weirdly hostile portrayal of Wales or just makes it more baffling, but it seems like important information for an unbiased reviewer to provide and an informed reader to have. So there ya go. RTD is Welsh and this episode, written by RTD, portrays the Welsh as unreasonable nutters. Make of that what you will.