#they all live ofc because we don't bury the gays here

[soliadiaz]

i'm living in a delusion where we get buddie canon in 8b and then in s9 ep11 it's buddie wedding at the dispatch center or whatever

[mediawhorefics]

thoughts on doctor who!! echoes of previous companions always gets me good, like billie piper as The Moment

oh i have SO much to say about doctor who rip here's an incoherent rant/list of opinions !!

i'm an rtd-era supremacist so i'm DYING with excitement over his return!!! also this 14 news ??? HELLO?????????? SO SO SO EXCITED!!!!

my first doctor was 10 and he has remained my fav through and through. tho ofc i love them all in different ways. (fun fact my beta is the one who introduced me to dw back in the day)

my top three companions are donna (MY GIRL !!!!)/rose/the ponds

yes, i am in love with karen gillan and would like a spare hand in marriage ma'am

my greatest dw heartbreak is the fact that peter capaldi is one of my favourite actors and was probably the greatest ambassador for the show and i absolutely LOATHE the writing for his era.

steven moffat IS my nemesis and i hate what he did with the show. this man should have never been a showrunner. he's good with limits and boundaries and standalone.

full offence, i hate clara with a burning passion, no shade to the actress she's very talented, but everything about that character rubs me the wrong way. from the ~born to save the doctor bullshit to the has no life outside the doctor until moffat randomly decided to half-ass giving her a career to the badly written attempts at her having feelings for 11... truly, i despite this storyline so fucking much. again ship what you like but i don't get doctor/clara AT ALL. it makes me angry just thinking about it now. and she was there for SO long UGH.

my favourite series are s4 & s5 (yes i hate moffat i love s5, its complicated). also s2 because ROMANCE!!!!!

i hate moffat writing women for obvs reasons but i do love river song. highkey as much as i love matt & alex together NOTHING beats 12/river because peter capaldi said i'm playing a whole time lord in LOVE in that one episode they had together and my fucking HEART y'all. i know i have an unhealthy crush on peter capaldi but his face when he looks at her <333 it's almost as good as ten & rose's in love and utterly devoted to each other faces.

doctor/river still don't hold a candle to 10/rose obvs that shit was it. she was IT. rip to 16 yo me watching doomsday for the first time that shit fundamentally changed me as a person. where's that deancas/tenrose comparison post ?? cut me open and that's what you'll see.

i miss rtd era side characters SO much they were SO lived in and memorable and REAL and they made the show. we lost soooo much of doctor who's heart when he left.

its cringe but i ADORE torchwood despite all of its flaws. ianto jones was one of the very first bi-adjacent characters i ever connected with and he is SO dear to me. rip to my boy it's disgusting what rtd & co did to him :((( baby's first bury your gays, i was 17 and i still haven't recovered. thank god for big finish and all the quality torchwood content they produce.

speaking of big finish... if you're a who fan who hasn't tried to expended universe, i cannot recommend the 8th doctor audios enough. he is FANTASTIC and actually one of my favourite doctors. paul mcgann is INCREDIBLE in the role and it's criminal we only have the movie and that tiny one-shot for the 50th anniversary.

@ RTD JUSTICE FOR EIGHT IN THE 60TH SPECIAL

10/donna are the best tardis team end of. that tennant/tate chemistry??? CHEF'S KISS. @ rtd fix her. @ rtd bring her back. i am no longer asking !!!!

christopher eccleston is CRIMINALLY underrated. 9 deserves SO much love. i adore him. thanks @ big finish for bringing him back to me.

matt smith was the best at playing ancient. i still don't know how he did that thing with his eyes where he looked 1000 yo but wow.

cybermen are incredibly boring and i really dislike most of their eps. i'll take 50 dalek stories over cybermen ones idc.

we never should have seen the weeping angels after blink. they've lost more and more of their appeal the more their mythology has been expended on.

i still don't understand the whole silence cult vs silence species thing and at this point, i'm too afraid to ask.

some of us witnessing the andrew garfield renaissance remember frank and his 1930s fruitiness from 2007 is all i'm gonna say.

[skrunksthatwunk]

that's true, and pretty good context!! "bad" mightve been too harsh for how i view him. i guess perhaps it's less that he himself was bad rep and more that he contributes to an overall trend of villains being more likely to be mentally ill and DID specifically being used as a sort of twist/gimmick (i.e. psycho) within them.

while explained, his plurality is a choice i feel largely comes out of nowhere for the sake of shaking up the final fight (effectively giving sensui a couple power boosts), because his other identities aren't present (to my memory) in other interactions preceding this, and we never really learn about at least three of them. they kinda mostly amounted to new fighting styles/abilities (kazuya's gun arm, shinobu's sacred energy), with the other identities (other than naru, briefly) left completely untouched. it reads as a little gimmicky to me. at the very least it's a loss of potential, though focusing a lot of time to fleshing out the identities and their dynamics, triggers, etc might have been too time consuming and distracted from the main plot.

(i would argue it's a topic worth exploring deeply if you introduce it in the first place due to its complex and often misunderstood nature (esp at the time), but that's just me. plus, i expect some of this suddenness may come from the pressures and spontaneity of the manga's serialized release format (though i haven't read the it so his depiction there isn't something i can speak on), but my point about discretion still stands in that case, i think. you pick up a cracked egg, you've gotta set it down gently. you pick a loaded/demonized topic, you've got to treat it with care, especially if you're an outsider. togashi didn't have to give sensui DID, after all. so to whip it out near the end for a power up or a cool scene ties its worth and presence to theatrics, the spectacle of DID (the different voices and powers, the silent and ominous switches, the tragic backstory, etc) to some extent, which feels gimmicky and somewhat voyeuristic imo, even if it was more accurate or flattering than what was normal for the time. but again, a lot of that's me trying to explain a kneejerk reaction on my part as someone without DID, so that's limited anyway).

sensui has important nuance, but to the lay audience, he's still a scary DID guy we're supposed to beat up, and some people are only going to take that away, even more so given the ill-informed climate of the time/setting. that doesn't negate the nuance ofc, but i don't think that effect should be completely ignored either, if the context is to be taken into account.

good rep overall as we understand it today vs good rep for the time is different, and an important distinction i didn't make in the first one. i think there's room for both the original and retrospective views here.

(a weird comparison I'm more familiar with might be "bury your gays" victims in 20th century lit/film. some of that rep was important and groundbreaking for the time, but nowadays we know we can do better, and that the tropes that formed out of those limited representations can be harmful. queer characters deserve to survive and live happily, and characters with DID deserve to be more than villains and cool power-ups. in sensui's case, it's largely a trope done well, but it still contributes to a pre and post-existing pile of bs for said people).

basically i agree that sensui was unusually good DID rep for the time, but i think he still falls into some of the negative trends we've seen in DID rep across the years

so sensui was bad DID rep but i will say that at least it wasnt the DID that made him a bad guy. it was a (human, in character) trauma response and there wasnt any like,, evil alter behind everything. like nah thats not the problem the whole system is down to end humanity. group project