#episode: the name of the doctor

[go-to-the-mirror]

in listing all the shitty things the doctor has done, why didn't they list the fact he KILLED ALL OF HIS OWN PEOPLE

[ocean-returns]

You couldn't do a straightforward Human Nature plot set in the 12th Doctor era bc if 12 got fobwatched Clara would immediately steal his identity. Missy would also steal his identity. Absolutely insane Doctorfication possibilities.

Also, 12's forgotten memories canonically manifest as songs AND he's faceblind, so he wouldn't even have a dramatic dream journal full of half-remembered portraits, he'd just be hanging out in his university office shredding guitar solos while Bill (who he just met) is like "Wow, sick riff Professor Smith!" and he's like "Thanks, it's called I Dreamt I Rode a Dinosaur."

[goatsandgangsters]

on the one hand, it feels genuinely insane speculating on plot points based on an actor's actual IRL name because television does not work that way! logically I know this!

but on the other hand. when doctor who casts an actor named SUSAN TWIST in recurring roles every single episode of a season that: 1. broke the fourth-wall multiple times, 2. had an episode about coincidences, 3. did weirdly long musical number about "there's always a twist at the end," and 4. discussed susan by name and emphasizes the doctor's identity as a parent way more than usual

I start feeling insane and believing that fourth-wall-breaking, throwing-all-established-tv-logic-out-the-window, extremely meta actor-name plot twists are possible

[possessedpasm]

Losing my fucking mind

[tomwambsgays]

a scandal. an outrage. a plot twist.

[foolishlyzephyrus]

i feel like it’s so integral to have at least one “at home” episode for every companion. so much character to be revealed in the premise of aliens interfering with everyday life once they are back on earth

[buildoblivion]

no but the way how ‘Rogue’ is so Cinderella coded - the ball??? the hidden/secret identity??? a dance that makes the world disappear??? ‘find me’ he says before vanishing into the night - leaving just one, tiny token for his partner to cherish?????? I am going insane????

[huntressofartemis001]

i have a history exam tomorrow on the world war two but i dont need to study bc i know everything about the london blitz (a nazi bomb fell in a church and kickstarted a romantic night for an angel and a demon) (a little kid was looking for his mummy while a blonde girl and an immortal dude met a 51st century guy for the first time) (an exterminator alien race took over and tried to control london while becoming ‘pure’ again)

[bingqiv]

the doctor wanting to “write a diary in drums”

the master:

[davidtennan-t]

All eight episode titles for the new series of Doctor Who 🔹➕❤️❤️

[go-to-the-mirror]

i'm watching the parting of the ways and like, i'm sorry, this is so much better than the name of the doctor

[lucky-clover-gazette]

this will always be my russell t davies finale big bad letter/wordplay reveal

[idkaguyorsomething]

Sometimes the Doctor will just ask a person if they want to travel with them. More often than you’d think this is not the case. ¡Reblog and explain your pick in the tags!

[snufk1nn]

Giving McCoy a piece of action

[quietwingsinthesky]

like it feels obvious on doctor who. the show who’s main gimmick is that the guy running around goes only by a title they gave themself and whose identity revolves around a dialogue with that title, constructing it, interrogating it, redefining it, endlessly as a part of their journey. it feels obvious to say that you absolutely cannot on this show give something an incredibly symbolic name and then Not say anything about that.

so why does kerblam spend the latter half of its runtime emphasizing The Foundation, right. the foundation is where power gets stored when it goes out everywhere else. the foundation is where workers are being killed and melted down into goop. the foundation is so old that the original plans of the building on paper are needed to understand it. The System is in The Foundation before it is anywhere else.

and then that. doesn’t matter. we aren’t going to use this to say anything. in fact, we’re going to assert that the system is so Fine, Actually that filling the foundational level of it with ten million bombs doesn’t even do any lasting damage to it. and hey, hey. remember when the system decided that the Correct option was to kill an innocent person uninvolved in all of this because she happened to be someone that charlie liked. remember when it lured her down into the foundational level to fucking murder her. yeah, that was justified of it actually, the blood on its hands is worth the point it was making.

how do you build the perfect set-up for the most obvious critique: Space Amazon Is Built On Bad Foundations That Lead It To Hurting The Workers And Customers In The Long Run. and then stumble ass backwards into uhhhhhh no actually it was this one guy. with bombs. and also his bombs are so ineffective and meaningless that blowing them up in the center of the facility did Nothing. he is both an unimaginable threat and also powerless. please take our doctor who episode about how good space amazon is very seriously.

[expelliarmus]