#fourth watcher

[life-winners-liveblog]

So which watcher made the life games.

👁️Uh... One made the decision.to start them...also created this void and chose the partecipants, Two came up with the core mechanics...y'know, 3 lives, red is hostile, small border, greens can't kill... I made up the uh...twists I guess? The random amount of lives, the soulbound, the time thing, the tasks...Except the boogey, that was entirely One's idea.👁️

[giddyaunt425]

ANOTHER

[buzzfeedunsolvable]

No hate to Steven or anything and a lot of the flack he's gotten in the yt comments is unwarranted, but one thing I think is interesting is how on Watcher he was painted as a business-guru type and yet he was like... a chemical engineering major. Like so was I for most of college and you know what we never learned? How to run a business

[corallapis]

DOCTOR: He'd see me dead tomorrow. MASTER: Gladly, Doctor. [looking to the Valeyard] But I'm not prepared to countenance a rival.

[foralltheshaniacs]

the watcher boys are just like taylor swift:

left their old company to do what they were already doing under their old name and remake their old content but Different and Better

releasing important content on july 7 2023

have you ever seen them in the same room? that’s what i thought

[trashworldblog]

shout out to the hotdaga!

[theminecraftbee]

Martyn sits on the edge of a stage. He’s poked himself out between the closed curtains, their weight pressing against his shoulders, so that he can reach the outside again and stare out.

The lights in the theater are off. Someone’s here, though.

Martyn nods and then, as loudly and obnoxiously as possible, drinks out of a can of soda. “We’ve still got a few more weeks, right?” he says cheerfully. “You don’t gotta sit here waiting. Uh, shoot. What was the thing Tango said? Go home? It’s done? What are you doing here? I think I did that wrong, it’s a reference…”

The things sitting in the back of the theater say nothing. Martyn gestures with his soda can at them. “Hey, you try remembering your movie references when you weren’t even the one who made ‘em! It’s harder than it looks, you know.”

Many eyes slowly blink across the members of the audience who have never left. Martyn leans back. He lets the curtains dig into his shoulders. They’re heavy, is the thing. The curtain, when it’s closed between the stage and audience, it’s heavy. He’s not meant to be hanging out of it.

He’s not meant to know it’s there either. Typically, characters in a stage play don’t know they’re being Watched.

Some of them do, though.

Sometimes, the audience is even the one who fucks that up for them. Funny, that.

He sips obnoxiously from his can of soda again. “You know, staring at me won’t make it happen faster. I’m not even the one who sets, you know…” He waves his hands around. “I just show up where I’m told! Hang out! Kill people! Die.”

If he’s bitter about that—and he’s not in the business of lying to himself, so sure, he’s bitter about that—he doesn’t let it show.

“I’m not even supposed to be out here. I’m supposed to be backstage,” he says. “Take what you can get, yeah? If you start talking to the characters, you don’t get to complain when they come out here and taunt you for Watching when there isn’t a bloody life game to Watch.”

The things in the back of the theater say nothing. Martyn tries to drink from his can of soda again, but it’s out. He crushes it between his hands and throws it out into the crowd in a moment of rash defiance. It’s not really fair, though—he doesn’t mind half the audience, really. One of the nice ones might be in the seat that’s slightly sticky now. Bit rude of him.

Of course, he can’t get off the stage to fix it. That’s not how this works. Just because they felt the need to make it so Martyn could move the curtains—

He sighs.

“One of you want to go out to the vending machines and get me another? There’s nothing backstage, you know. Nothing back there at all.”

Something moves.

“Thanks,” he mutters. “Thanks. Few more weeks to go, right? Few more weeks to go.”

[cyberjack]

[hellsw0rth]

Bad Wolf/The Doctor’s theme in the style of Logopolis for the Watcher.

[life-winners-liveblog]

....okay now I DO mean watchers

👁️Thanks, been a lot shorter then I expected for me to be given control👁️

[doctorwhogirlie]

Doctor Who - The Watcher

Favourite Episode: Logopolis

Home Planet: Gallifrey

Scary Factor: 5/10

My Personal Rating: It's more creepy than scary, but yes it gives me the creeps and I can't look at it for too long

(Please don't take these too seriously, it's just a bit of fun)

[talkingbl]

Thai BLs for the BL Newb

Everybody's making lists of Thai BLs they'd recommend to a person who has never watched one before and I'm not exempt.

For me, I'd want to know a little more about the person I'm recommending to, because that could change my list significantly. But, for just a general audience, I'd recommend BLs based on the following criteria:

High production value is a must. This includes good sound quality and original sound tracks. None of that royalty-free mess that runs rampant in the lower-tier companies.

Good-to-strong acting is also a must. No matter how good the story is going to get, people will drop Ep. 1 if the acting seems questionable.

Novel story. I chose "novel" rather than "complex" or subjective adjectives like "good" because 1) everyone's taste is different and 2) complex doesn't always mean better.

Consistent but not predictable pacing/storytelling. Even once a viewer is hooked, it is still easy to lose them/leave a bad taste in their mouth if the story doesn't maintain the momentum.

With these criteria in mind, I'd recommend the following Thai BLs--

Recommendations

Love of Siam (2007). The Love of Siam is one of the most engaging coming of age stories I have ever watched. It is gorgeously filmed and very much gives film festival, critically acclaimed, indie hit that is very suited to a global palette. It's not soap-y like most BLs tend to be and features 3/4 of my essential elements. While the story is not so novel in the sense that you've never seen a plot like it before, it is one of the best executed pieces of Thai media I have seen, and that eclipses the want for a "novel" or unique story.

And though some like to argue over whether it can be classified as a BL, I feel like if we can say shows like SKAM and Love Class have "BL storylines", then we can classify a story about two boys exploring their sexuality and love for one another as containing a BOYS LOVE element.

I Told Sunset About You (2020). This is like if The Love of Siam were a late 2010s-accurate series instead of a film. It has the exact same positives of The Love of Siam, but has even more experimental mise en scene and directing. It has a strong international appeal because of its distinctly non-soap-y (and consequently more cinematic) approach. I think folks who aren't used to the lakorn style can easily dive into this one.

Not Me (2021). Not Me is like a 2.5/4. It no doubt has a novel story and consistent storytelling, but there are noticeable gaps between the best actors in the show and the worst. Plus, the production value can be very inconsistent in that it reuses shots, the audio isn't always perfect, and sometimes you feel like you can see the effects instead of not noticing them.

Honorable Mentions

Moonlight Chicken (2023). This is another one with a more arthouse aesthetic. However, there are moments where the acting is questionable and the production value can be better. It also suffers from the fact that not every storyline is equally as consistent. Still, it is an incredibly strong showing from GMMTV, that I'd recommend to folks who are looking for a more grounded adult-centered story than the aforementioned recommendations.

Manner of Death (2020). This is another novel story with decent acting and high production value. I wouldn't recommend it off-rip because the story is a little confusing, and the acting quality isn't super consistent, but it does have the appeal of many series that seem to reach international audiences these days.

[abyssonance]

[maruubnbox]

I was watching ClassicWho the other day and like why didn’t they carry out The Watcher to NuWho?? They’re such a interesting concept and it just seems like They’re forgotten. Like, a mysterious version of yourself from the future to make sure your fourth regeneration regenerates into the fifth one ? When did The Doctor become this dressed all-white powdery person?? It’s literally never talked about.

I have a theory that The Watcher was actually always there, just hidden in the background of scenes, In a crowd of people, in the mountains, behind a door, who knows; But just a idea.

Petition to get The Watcher in s14

[limelocked]

How does 14 react on the fact that the hermits has time traveled many times? janky redstone (Grian's tine machine) and evo shenanigans.

considering 10 and 15 i think 14 would have an entire mental argument about (1) if it IS time travel what with versions not necessarily meaning time but also it being the closest possible measure of forward progress in an otherwise stagnant world and (2) what kind of jank ass time hopping it is because for sure its not His dearly beloved beautiful too good for this trash ass world time travel tardis we love you harkening back to jack using a time space hopper to the doctors sports car and also the absolute offense taken when ruby calls the goblins time travelers

in relation to evo i think the doctor generally in most of their incarnations would be very interested in the watchers over the time travel due to the implication that the watchers and the audience are some kind of semi extra dimensional creatures which the hermits and evo people are Aware Of and for some reason Choose to Cater To

[lornrocks]

Is it just me or does Steven always leave early during Too Many Spirits? Does he have a long commute or something?