#the crimson horror

[the-force-awakens]

Oh, haven't you heard, love? There's trouble at mill.

[doctorwhogirlie]

Doctor Who - The Crimson Horror

[doverstar]

right now my favorite Clara Oswald moment is after The Crimson Horror where the Doctor tells her casually that she's the boss and she plays it cool until she gets home and then her strong independent facade finally falls off and she's so tickled that he called her that. like. it makes her day. she can't get over it. give me more of that Clara

[sundry-whovengerslocked]

things we Don't Really Talk About in the Doctor Who fandom (although we really should):

this Scooby-Doo scene, mainly because it takes place in the same episode as this:

and this:

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this interspecies couple:

and their children:

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this creepy lady and her leech:

and how she turned The Doctor into this:

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those few episodes with this kid who was sort-of-not-really a companion:

and The Doctor was essentially on the future space version of Big Brother:

and this was the bad guy:

also Scotty was in it:

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these awful dolls that came to life and turned other people into dolls:

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that time The Doctor and team saw this message on the surface of Mars:

only to discover Victorian soldiers there:

and the baddass Empress Martian:

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that time everyone got sucked into the tv:

and promptly lost their faces:

and The Doctor went all Mary Poppins on a misogynist:

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my least favorite, the first time Mark Gatiss appeared:

and turned into this:

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and my most favorite, that time there was a (presumably) cis pregnant man:

and when asked if it was a girl or a boy, said that both male and female people of his species could get pregnant - and that men gave birth to boys, and women gave birth to girls.

and the bad guy of the episode was Just A Little Guy who ate everything:

(including a bomb. and not only did it survive, it was finally sated!)

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these are out of order but there are definitely more. and the point is, like... Doctor Who is weird. it always has been. this isn't even counting Classic Who, as I haven't watched much of it.

and I think we should talk about the underrated episodes more. because they have some really poignant moments:

and also...

it's just fucking hilarious, dude

(evil vampire lady drinking life force through a straw)

[dandelionjack]

eleven 'murderkilling is perfectly fine, i can even be sarcastic about it, as long as the dirty work isn't done by me' doctor. the 'rules' he swears by are great. once saw him described incredibly aptly as a card-carrying hypocrite. oh but of course gun violence is evil and must be avoided at all costs unless it's to be committed by his Specially Selected Shoot People Sidekick Squad. that's what the paternoster gang are for. and river song

(just so we're all on the same page here this is a PRO VIOLENCE post. some villains are beyond negotiation. you can't reason with a eugenicist cultist that plans to plunge the earth into a sticky-sweet inferno starting with her daughter)

[nortism]

doctor who liveblog pt 38

s7 ep9 cold war

- uh oh mystery thing in the ice

- bye bye tardus

- OMG HES GOT NO HEAD

- HES GONE

- DONT NEGOTIATE WITH THE MARTIAN?!

- boo sing with him clara

- also just sort of an episode of doctor who, like idk it was kinda boring

s7 ep 10 hide

- i love an old timey computer

- great fit from 70s lady

- oh yay ghost

- it’s the 1970s, they could just use a torch but i guess the candles are more atmospheric

- oh we’re travelling through the history of a specific place hell yeah

- uh oh ghost

- uh oh mystery monster

- oh no he’s trapped

- uhhh two claras??

- ohh monster love story

s7 ep11 journey to the centre of the tardis

- immediately im hyped about this

- aww the tardis looks so tiny

- aww the space baby crib

- i wanna go to the tardis library

- very convenient leaving out the book called history of the time war

- i am not loving the tardis creatures

- this is what happens when u hire professional thieves for a manhunt

- the tardis fucking hates clara my god

- oh maybe it doesn’t

- they love having multiple claras in every episode

- this is a fucked up sibling relationship

- omg it’s a person

- CLARA?!

- i’m so lost

- rip the brothers

- oh the boys are alive again that’s nice. i hope they tell him he’s not actually a robot

s7 ep13 the crimson horror

- yay victorian murder mystery

- the 1890s and no gigot sleeves, tragic

- ew

- JENNY AND VASTRA WOOOO

- no way he didn’t notice she was a lizard woman

- no jenny don’t go in the mysterious glowing room!!

- oh no they zombified the doctor

- uh oh mysterious vat of goo

- dezombified doctor

- now why would he kiss her…

- yes then jenny

- OH MY FUCKING GOD

- good for ada

- i hope ada joins the alien detective agency

[lady-phasma]

You're the boss.

The Crimson Horror

[goldyapper]

Hot take: The crimson Horror should have been a doctor-lite story. The paternoster gang should have only found the dr at least 3/4 into the story

[master-missysversion]

Yk overall all I like The Crimson Horror as an episode but genuienly what was Gatiss on when he wrote the doctor and jenny stuff

[thingsasbarcodes]

Doctor Who 7x11 - The Crimson Horror

[doctorwhogirlie]

[beansmakesthings]

We do not give enough attention to Ada Gillyflower. I get that there's a lot of one off side characters in Doctor Who that are great for one episode and then are never heard from again (or only come back like once very minorly like Liz 10), but Ada's story is such a particular tragedy that has injustices so infuriating and heartbreaking, and yet comes to a hopeful and powerful resolution. It's just really stuck with me ever since I first watched The Crimson Horror.

I hope Ada found peace and got to live a happy life. She deserves it.

[jennyandvastraflint]

The Crimson Horror turns ten today. Feel old yet? 😂

[doctorwhobracket]

[dandelionjack]

I'm glad you're liking 11 being so violent and unforgiving, I remember when the crimson horror aired, people were like ":( but he could've tried talking her out of it..." no no he shouldn't and couldn't have

having every single one-off villain in your show be redeemable is what turns it into steven universe (not derogatory, but childish). doctor who is dangerously close to that sometimes ofc, being as it is about the power of words to save as many lives as possible and all that, and don't get me wrong, it definitely should stay that way, because some shows are gritty and violent and it's not supposed to be one of them (thank god) but all the same it does hit ever that little bit harder when bargaining and persuasion don't work because they wouldn't work irl. not everybody deserves redemption. ms gillyflower was straight up fascist, not even subtextually, textually ('preserving' the fittest and strongest, an 'army of supermodels'. eugenics not as an allegory, but actual fucking eugenics.) it is always a moral imperative to let fascists die. they bring it upon themselves

let's not forget 'no second chances. i'm that sort of man.'