#that is not a character flaw no matter how much you detest watching jodie out there acting the opposite of mothery on screen

[ssaalexblake]

i also Love how it’s literally not even subtext that 13 thought the master was looking down on her in the timeless children, she quite literally SAYS to him she believes he thinks he’s better than her now ( You think that makes me lesser? page 64) and people are still like ‘she saw he has a self esteem/hatred issue because of these revelations and rubbed it in his face to be a big horrible meanie!!!’ and no. That is just flat out wrong, that is not a different reading of subtext that i disagree with, it is literally a reading in direct opposition to what is said blatantly on screen and it is literally contradicted by the episode. Not just in the same episode, but in the same LINE as the bit you have a problem with. 

She makes herself big, props herself up, not because she’s trying to take advantage of his self loathing breakdown, but because she thinks he hates Her. She doesn’t think he hates himself!!!! She thinks he hates her and she is defending herself from that. She has not a shred of a clue that she just scored one hell of a hit on him here. And frankly? if she was Trying to hurt him she’d have been absolutely visibly gleeful and openly maliciously pleased to have scored a hit on him here and she was not.  

So can we play a new game where we watch the whole scene, next time??? I am so tired. ‘The doctor is shitty’ is a take that’s very true, but just because the doctor’s an asshole, it doesn’t make the master a tragically misunderstood blorbo. 

And not for nothing, in this scene, she Accidentally hurt his feelings and all the while he’s busy trying to traumatize her just enough that she’ll commit suicide and take him with her. There is no valid way to swing this where she’s the worst person in the room here, and nor is she obligated to be nice to the guy who has spent the whole season deliberately mentally torturing her.

Again. So Tired.