#the idiot's lantern

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Wardrobe // Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) // Doctor Who Seasons 1-2 & 4 (2005-2006, 2008) + specials

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Rose. Do you know her? Know her? She ...

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My Babies in the 50s 🩷

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Doctor Who S2 (2006) as Penguin Classics

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Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 1 - Matchup 14

Episode Summaries under the cut

109: The Idiot's Lantern - Season 2, Episode 7: The Doctor and Rose land in London shortly before the broadcast of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Rose notices that many houses have tv antennae's, when she thought they were relatively rare for the era. They investigate one household and discover that their grandmother has had her face stolen, leaving her completely blank. Men break into the house and take her away, which has been happening to several people in the neighborhood. The Doctor follows them, while Rose goes to the store that has been selling televisions for cheap to everybody. At the store, Rose confronts the shop owner, but then sees a woman speak to her from the tv, an electrical alien entity that lives in the tv and has been stealing faces. The Doctor finds where all the faceless people have been taken, and find the police are at a loss, but are trying to keep things quiet before the coronation. While investigating, they bring in Rose, who's face was also stolen. The Doctor confronts the shopowner and the electrical alien entity, who reveals that she seeks to devour enough mental energy to take physical form. It attacks the Doctor and moves itself to a portable television device that the shopowner takes to a broadcast station, where the alien plans to use the broadcast of the coronation to steal the faces and minds of everybody watching it on television. The Doctor manages to sabotage this, and trap the wire on a cassette tape, restoring everybody's faces to them.

148: War of the Sontarans - Season 13, Episode 2: The Doctor, Yaz, and Dan are transported back to the Crimean War in 1855, where they meet Mary Seacole. However, history has changed, and instead of fighting Russians, the British are fighting Sontarans. Yaz and Dan begin to drift in time. Dan goes back to 2021 England, while Yaz appears in an alien Temple where she meets Vinder.

In the temple, Yaz and Vinder learn they are on the planet Time and that the Mouri are the protectors of it, but two of them have been damaged. The Ravagers, Swarm and Azure, appear and begin attacking the temple's defenses, and destroy a third Mouri, while taking Yaz and Vinder hostage.

In 2021, Dan learns that he has been gone two days and that Sontarans have invaded the Earth. He finds their base of operations and sneaks on board, learning that they are planning to launch a time invasion at several points in the Earth's history.

The Doctor works with Mary Seacole and the British to defeat the Sontarans in the past. The Doctor sneaks aboard their ship and communicates with Dan in the future and learns the Sontarans plans. Dan is rescued by the lupari Karvanista from several Sontarans, who then destroys their fleet.

Their invasion of Crimea is undone as the future fleet never invaded there. The Doctor regains access to the TARDIS and picks up Dan, but the TARDIS is then hijacked and taken to the temple where Swarm and Azure hold Yaz hostage.

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Game Changer's Izzy Roland in the Doctor Who episode The Idiot's Lantern. Tune in next week to The Watch-A-Thon of Rassilon and listen to us talk about it.

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10th doctor // the idiot's lantern icons

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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)

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I love those Vespa three-wheelers

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THE DOCTOR DEFEATS GENDER ONCE AGAIN

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The Time Meddler The Doctor, Vicki, and new companion Steven Taylor arrive in Saxon Northumbria on the eve of the Viking and Norman invasions. It is 1066, a pivotal moment in British history. The hand of a mysterious Monk is at work in the nearby monastery, intending that history takes a different course.

The Idiot's Lantern It is 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II — but there is something hiding in the televisions of the British people. Something hungry…

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Behind the scenes of The Idiot’s Lantern (Part Fourteen) 

Excerpts from Jason Arnopp’s interviews in DWM #371

Mark Gatiss [writer]: After The Unquiet Dead, I was very aware that Faceless Gran was another scary old lady, but it just came from the 1950s family thing. I made Grandma a Granddad for one draft, but it’s just not the same. 

Dave [Houghton: Visual Effects]:  Our man Chris Petts built 3D models of the actors’ faces, then textured it with skin tones and subtleties. After being lit to fit the shot, it was compositied on top of the people’s faces. Ink crosses were drawn on their faces to help with movement-tracking on the computer

Mark:  Faceless Grandma is very frightening, although it’s hard to shake the image of Margaret John [who also appeared in the 1967 Doctor Who serial Fury from the Deep] with those little crosses on her face. While on set for this scene, I half expected the Doctor to turn around and say, “Who’s been at this poor old lady with a marker pen?!”  I especially liked the face still having wrinkles: horrible!

Link to [ Part One ] of this set, or click the #whoBtsIdiot tag for all parts - or the full Behind-the-Scenes episode list [ here ]

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Doctor who - S2E7 - The Idiot’s Lantern