#im watching ncuti dw

[variousqueerthings]

also ive gotta say one brilliant thing about 73 yards is how clearly it gives us Ruby! i think, up until then, i was seeing her a little at a distance (ha), you know, she's kind and witty and well-dressed and very aware, but that all felt like surface-stuff to an extent

and then 73 yards gives us "yeah and all of that helps her with her intense abandonment issues, she's so used to people leaving, she's practically come prepared for the fact" and i just... it all slotted into place

it works so so well with this 21st century cool and able young person speech and dress and awareness, because we do that, don't we, we're so encouraged all the time to keep ourselves up to date with all of this, to be so tuned in, and she's an expert, she's so charming and approachable and kind, but she's always so prepared for it to end that she'll keep an extra barrier there, for when the time (inevitably) comes that she's alone again

it is who she is, genuinely, but it kind of is a surface too, one that most people will eventually glance off, but not, hopefully, the doctor, who is nothing if not someone who burrows into peoples souls (affectionately)

I get you now Ruby Sunday and I hope this search you're on all ends up okay for you

[harbingermotel]

Hey yeah so I haven't watched an episode of Doctor Who in ten years and when y'all were talking about the gay kiss with Jonathan Groff I thought it was gonna be like oh, he flirts with the Doctor all episode and gives him a quick peck at the end

I watched Rogue last night. What the fuck. How could they do this to me

[majestic-kestrel]

[thebraxiatelcollection]

We're halfway through the new series of Doctor Who, and I'm really unsure of how I feel about it all.

Do I think Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson are brilliant? Absolutely.

But the actual stories?

I have so many mixed feelings. I just feel it tries too hard, and it doesn't reach it's full potential and I just have a lot of mixed feelings about the series and the 60th as a whole with the more I think about it.

[worrynoodle]

If you're upset that The Doctor is gay and Black.... how tf have you watched the show up until now??

Just saw someone on Instagram say "He's not the doctor"

Ummm? Yes he is?

[aenslem]

I was thinking about the entire new new who season and the final to understand what Im feeling about it, but the conclusion is I felt nothing, and it's disappointing, not the show, I mean I watched it and it was fine, but the fact that it did not make me feel things it supposed to make me feel, like you're killing kate stewart

and Im thinking about what I should make myself for a dinner, Im supposed to hold onto chair and stop breathing the moment she dies, I love her, and yet... Im making myself mac and cheese

[mummer]

the thing about donna is that her tragedy is so genuinely soul rending and miserable and well executed that i love it like it’s actually an extremely sadistic thing for a tv show to do, it makes no sense for them to do that in a genre family show and yet. So i like it. i like the balls of it. the problem is i know that with the new tennant specials theyre gonna fix it and address it. Well what if i dont want it to be fixed. what if i want to sit in my misery huh

[silvermarmoset]

your tags are SO true like it was one thing to bring tennant back pre-ncuti, since the whole point of that was quite transparently to increase viewership FOR ncuti, but to be like "actually tennant!doctor gets to go have his own life and ncuti is a totally different offshoot" is like ....... well.

i'm screaming a lot in the tags but i'm guessing you meant these ones?

#honestly. horrible horrible flex to set ncuti up across from the most beloved doctor from the start?#like i (and im guessing a lot of other people!) will /always/ be drawn to 10 and feel like he's our doctor#don't set ncuti up like that!! deny us dt and MAKE US LOOK AT HIM. this is so SO weird rtd wtf did you do

because yeah. it actually makes me a bit furious because leaving a spare doctor hanging around and sending Ncuti off as a double is just handing the perfect excuse to every bigot who wants to claim that Ncuti isn't the real doctor, the real doctor is back on earth in Donna Noble's garden. Why do that? Why make it easy for fans who want to drop the show now and pretend it's always the old way, forever?

i can think of reasons for doing it this way—like i'm 95% certain this was just a convoluted way to give Donna her happy ending—but none of the possible reasons i can think of justify going about it like this. I love Ten, and Tennant, I could watch him go on adventures forever, but the point should be I DON'T GET TO because because here's A WHOLE NEW WONDERFUL DOCTOR to go on adventures with! The whole constant point in Who is that change and death DO happen, and one of the joys is grieving the old while embracing the new!

But this episode doing this weird little pivot where you can die but still live, where a separate form of you can rest* so you can go on adventures....idk what moral RTD was aiming for here but it feels like he just shot his own next era in the foot for no particular reason beyond "we love Ten" (and we do but. come on)

*(what does that even mean?? canonically we know the doctor is restless and always running into trouble so what was the point of that?? it's confirmed he's going to mars on fun little trips!! this is the same man and you gave him a tardis and apparently there's no sacrifice at all?? what is this!! why!!)

[modernmutiny]

If I had a nickel for every time a TV show had an adorable alien named Meep who crash landed on earth and was hiding a terrible secret that had to do with much larger aliens it was in active space battle with, I'd have two nickels

[ncutii-gatwa]

cant believe im going to say this but the timeless child actually made more sense then what the hell happened last night

[variousqueerthings]

finally got the chance to catch up with doctor who -- it's 73 yards now, and tbh part of the reason i put it off is because i knew it was going to unnerve me

and yeah, it is. very unnerving

[morninkim]

The Giggle was a very fun episode and I enjoyed it a lot BUT [doctor who spoilers under cut]

[oceanwithinsblog]

just finished watching the giggle and ohmygawd has somebody said the waterworks opened ??? T____T

[nerdie-faerie]

Been avoiding tumblr since last night as working Saturdays means I keep missing doctor who but I'm finally gonna sit down and watch it

[toastsnaffler]

allons-y.......😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[2012throwback]

the new Doctor Who specials with David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Ncuti Gatwa were genuinely so joyful and healing I’m so happy and excited for the new season

i stopped watching DW because it felt like it had become so dark and moody and just layers of unhealed trauma on top of unhealed trauma. im so excited for Ncuti’s fun and loving energy to be in the show!!!