#doctor who 1x08

[holdthegirlboss]

watching doccy who for the first time

1x08 — father’s day

oh from the first 2 minutes alone i just know this episode is going to kill me

love that the doctor trusts rose’s judgement so much! he doesn’t try and sway rose out of seeing her dad, just takes a second to ask if she’s okay and then does it

honestly i don’t have much to say about this episode it made me too sad lol but it did make me think like,,, EVERY single person is so important no matter how ‘ordinary’ they are. love that the doctor even in his very slight disdain of humans still realises that

this might be my fav episode yet. so so emotional. loved it. will never be watching it again 💘 feel like this was kinda healing for me — for context i lost my sister 18 months ago. i always wonder what i’d do if i could go back, and i know i’d do the exact same thing rose did; try and save my sister. this episode said, in a way that actually doesn’t sound cliché - what’s done is done, there’s nothing you can do but try and keep going.

other than the whole,,, travelling through space thing i relate to rose so much. being 19, raised by a single mum on a council estate with not much going for me. rose makes me feel like i can do anything. i didn’t think i’d connect with her as much as i have, but i love her with all my heart and i love her relationship with the doctor

[shelma32entertainment]

Doctor Who | 1X08 / 14X08 | Empire Of Death | COMMENTARY

[thingsasbarcodes]

Doctor Who 1x08 - 'Father's Day'

[timelordgifs]

Look, look, look. After all this time, it's still connected to the Time Window.

DOCTOR WHO Empire of Death

[braceletofteeth]

You're an angel without wings, Dr. Seo

[once-upon-a-time-and-space]

Thank you.

Doctor Who: Empire of Death

[raethereptile]

I haven't seen this take yet on here so allow me to be the one to say it:

Saw a suspicious but handsome stranger, and was instantly down to fuck

Used music to annoy and flirt with his capter

Tried to seduce himself out of captivity/death

Sang to seduce

Made a scene as a distraction and was as dramatic as possible (again with seduction)

The Doctor is a Bard

I will accept no notes

[felicitykings]

I've had all these extra hours. No one else in the world has ever had that. // And you came all that way to see us.

DOCTOR WHO: "Father's Day" (2005) | THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES: "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith" (2008)

[angelic37]

PETE’S WORLD | Lot of cabinets to put up

[screencapshd]

DOCTOR: The past is another country. 1987's just the Isle of Wight.

[chungledownbeamcannon]

OK but I loved this.

[shelma32entertainment]

Doctor Who | 1X08 / 14X08 | Empire Of Death | REACTION

[torisprlng]

WONKA (2023) || DOCTOR WHO: 1X08

[timelordgifs]

Don't be sorry. Don't be sorry at all. Your life is out there now.

DOCTOR WHO Empire of Death

[rosetylerdefenderoftheearths]

On Pete Tyler's trope file on TV.tropes.org, one of the tropes says this:

Parents Know Their Children: A recurring theme is that no matter the circumstance, be it visiting him in the past barely a year after her birth or in a Parallel Universe where she was never even born, Pete will always feel a strong trusting connection toward Rose. He figures out who she is in the past just before sacrificing himself to save the timeline.

Peter Alan Tyler. My dad. The most wonderful man in the world. 

[ghost-bison]

Doctor Who: 1x08 The Satan Pit (2006) / 60th anniversary special 2/3 Wild Blue Yonder (2023)

I frankly love that parallel. One scene taken out of each of the two RTD eras.

First there's the colour palettes. You can see that they're polar opposites. RTD era1 was warm all the time as talked about in this post (which I love dearly, I keep referencing it in my posts), and then we have RTD era2, which has a more modern-looking, colder palette for science fiction.

But it's also a directing choice for the mood I think, cause on the one hand, we have Rose who, we all know, would even give up on seeing her mum again if it meant she got to spend the rest of her life with the Doctor (quite like Donna back in series 4 actually, who was very prompt to say she was going to travel with Ten forever). On the other hand we have Donna in 2023 who's now got a daughter and a husband and who hadn't even planned on doing a trip with the Doctor in the first place, let alone at the edge of the universe. I mean, they were just supposed to go see Wilfred! On one side we have Ten who's slowly recovering from the trauma of the Time War and falling in love for the first time in a while and re-learning that he deserves to be loved, too. On the other side we have Fourteen who, just as Donna put it, is "staggering", and as Fifteen said, is "running on fumes". He's got FOUR regenerations worth of trauma on Ten who was already struggling as it was with one (since the Time War I mean. Maybe two if we count Nine, cause who knows what he's been through between his regeneration and meeting Rose). Fourteen went through losing Rose, Donna, Amy, Rory, River, Clara, Bill, and he went through Pandorica, billions of years imprisoned by the Time Lords in his own personal hell, finding out about the Timeless Child, etc... and now, on top of everything, he's got to deal face to face with the guilt of what he did to Donna as she's been given back to him. Anyway, it's dark, when you think about it. No wonder the colours are so much colder in Wild Blue Yonder.

Then there's the music. In The Satan Pit, the soundtrack, The Impossible Planet, has a mystical quality to it. It's slightly creepy (I mean, it IS an episode about Satan), but it's mostly mysterious. Ten and Rose are only 500 years away from home. But in Wild Blue Yonder, Fourteen and Donna are 100 TRILLION YEARS away from home. The soundtrack from that scene, The Edge of Creation, isn't just mysterious, it's eerie and ethereal and perfectly encompasses what it would feel like to stand somewhere so impossibly alien it has become supernatural (if you can't tell I am obsessed with that track and episode lmao).

I love the contrast between Rose and Donna and the questions they ask. Rose's question is cute, she's like "I've seen it in films, is that it?", it stems from a place of curiosity, like she doesn't really realize the deep shit that they're in. She's just a kid. Whereas Donna's question, it stems from a place of dread: "Where's the light?". It almost has a "The Licked Hand" quality to it (if you don't know that story: the girl is scared, she puts her hand under the bed, her dog licks it. She goes into the bathroom, finds her dog dead in the tub, and written in its blood are the words 'humans can lick too').

Then, finally, there's the order in which things have been done: in The Satan Pit, Rose remarks they're "a long way from home". Ten takes a long look at her, and seeing that she seems a bit scared, he explains to her how long it would take to get home. In Wild Blue Yonder, Fourteen first explains to Donna how long it would take to get home, and only THEN, he takes a long look at her, and finally Donna says "that's my family, over there". It parallels Rose's sentence in the sense that they both talk about home and how far away it is, but they use different words for it with a different meaning behind. Donna is more specific on what she'll be returning to when it's over (her family), whereas Rose, who isn't as grounded as her, just says "home" (which, for her, probably just means the place she grew up). I also love the contrast between Rose's "a long way" and Donna's "over there". The first implies foreign, the second implies close enough to see. What's interesting about this bit is Donna is further away from home than Rose is, geographically speaking. But for Rose, Home is actually the Doctor, just him, so she has no problem saying she's "a long way from home" since she doesn't mean it in the same way Donna would. So for Donna, when she says "over there", it's because the Home she's talking about is closer to her heart, and she's probably trying to reassure herself that she'll see her family again (I used to do something like that when I was in primary school, I'd travel all the way back to my house in my head to kiss my parents on the cheek because I was so homesick).

So that's that I guess