#liz shaw

[brainless-tin-box]

season 7 doctor who..... save me season 7 doctor who

[vendimeyers]

Liz has to commit a feminism every episode or the entire creative team will have an attack

[roseofithaca]

No you don't get it!

Kate Stewart is looking after Wilf!

She ain't just setting him up in a cosy cottage with a garden and care staff - she's giving him access to top secret UNIT history! He's getting all the dirt on the Doctor, Liz, Jo, Benton etc from the 70s/80s! He's getting to see all the alien artifacts collected over the years! Kate is going round there for tea and a chat every Sunday, sharing stories her dad used to tell her and updating him on what the Doctor is up to and Wilf's eyes are sparkling every time while trying not to cry because he can't have these chats with his granddaughter.

[sarahwatchesthings]

Some of my personal favorite out-of-context classic Doctor Who caps from my collection.

[devilofwinterborne]

Liz Shaw -> Doctor Who and the Silurians

[cassandralottie]

never ask a woman her age a man his salary or a unit era companion what year they're from

[idkaguyorsomething]

the convoluted doctor who lore gets extra funny when you realize that, at two separate points in the past, two different companions to two different doctors ended up running into rasputin but both came to the conclusion that he was a pretty nice and normal guy. which, depending on how you interpret the power of the doctor, is either a nice subversion of a lot of tropes of stories used in pre-soviet russia, or side-splittingly hilarious as you start imagining the master getting roped into various adventures with different versions of the doctor that he can’t fuck with yet or else he’ll destroy the timeline, forcing him to play nice with the humans as part of his 4D Time Chess Master Disguise Plan #3852

[headcanonsandmore]

Doctor Who companions summarised in ten words or less (classic edition)

Susan Foreman: Gallifreyan teenager abandoned on post-apocolyptic earth because love.

Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright: Married schoolteachers educate grumpy alien about morality.

Vicki Pallister: New granddaughter acquired!

Steven Taylor: Future Blue Peter presenter enjoys double act with adoptive sisters.

Katarina: She's lovely- oh, wait, now she's dead.

Sara Kingdom: She's cool- oh, wait, now she's dead.

Dodo Chaplet: Northerner loses accent due to BBC classism, more at ten.

Ben Jackson and Polly Wright: Opposites attract couple near-immediately overshadowed by new companion.

Jamie McCrimmon: Himbo highlander as gay as sixties television will allow.

Victoria Waterfield: Nineteenth century teenager has worst week of her life.

Zoe Heriot: Master martial artist knows one (1) throw.

Liz Shaw: Scientist is too competent for this nonsense.

Jo Grant: Cinnimon roll has no self-preservation instinct.

Sarah-Jane Smith: Feminist journalist surrounded by idiotic military men.

Harry Sullivan: Otherwise-sensible medical professional becomes world's biggest imbecile.

Leela of the Sevateem: Knife lady kicks ass, takes names.

K9: Robotic dog malfunctions for ninety minutes.

Romana: Sheltered Gallifreyan has surprisingly good fashion.

Adric: Math kid go boom!

Tegan Jovanka and Nyssa Of Traken: Hypercompetent space girlfriends have unintentional homoerotic subtext.

Vislor Turlough: Universes most incompetent assassin accidentally becomes friends with intended target.

Kamelion: BBC producer gets tricked into buying cursed prop.

Peri Brown: Dubiously-accented botanist struggles with sexism and BBC wardrobe department.

Mel Bush: Health nut weaponises volume of scream.

Ace McShane: Awesome butch bisexual pyromaniac hits things with baseball bat.

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

Sometimes when I rewatch "Inferno," I have a brief moment where I really wish the Doctor would reconsider when he insists that he cannot take any of the parallel-world people with him - even though I understand his reasons for not doing so, it just seems so heartless, like he doesn't really care.

Then, in "The Mind of Evil," we see that the Doctor was so shaken by what happened to the parallel world in "Inferno" that such an event became one of his greatest fears.

And I realize yet again that the Doctor, while pragmatic, ALWAYS cares.

[lukedom]

Celebrating the new classic Season 7 box set 🙂

[pizzacade]

Genuinely the best part of the I, TARDIS book was the many nicknames she gave The Doctor's companions!

[brainless-tin-box]

The TARDIS wiki is full of ultimately unsurprising tidbits of information

[natequarter]

liz shaw is maybe one of the best characters in doctor who. she turns up for one series, is clever, antagonises the brigadier, then leaves. later on she gets resurrected for a janky 90s spinoff where louise jameson plays her girlfriend. she never travels in the tardis. she doesn't even know for certain that the tardis works. for all she knows, the doctor could just be an especially weird human. what more could you possibly want

[elizabethshaw]

[lizshaw]

[demigodofhoolemere]

“The female companions in the classic series never did anything but scream and twist their ankles”