#tillthenexttimedoctor

[abossycontrolfreak]

Listen...

@tillthenexttimedoctor replied: Hmm, maybe "Listen". Might be interesting to look at it in retrospect, as a point where The Impossible Girl has ended and Doctor figure Clara is only slowly beginning.

I haven’t watched Listen for a long time, so the specifics are going to be vague, but you’re right that it is an important transition point for Clara’s arc - it’s the first real challenge to her trying to live two lives. People often cite The Caretaker as the big clash between Clara’s Doctor-life and Earth-life, and it’s obviously a big theme in Series 8, featuring heavily in Kill the Moon and In the Forest of the Night. But I feel like Listen is really where that starts. It’s the first time we see Clara really engaged in Earth-life, where she seems to be trying to build something.  We’ve seen her jobs and friends and family before, but they are all things she’s been happy to drop for an adventure with the Doctor. And then... Danny. Danny who makes Clara want more, want something as special as she gets with the Doctor right here on Earth. He’s a loveable dork who doesn’t let her walk over him, or in other words: exactly her type. 

But of course, the Doctor is there too, with his high stakes adventure and intriguing mystery, and Clara starts to feel the tension. She’s having to choose, now, between two things she desperately wants. And that is when she starts to be the Doctor, isn’t it? The Impossible Girl is a storybook heroine who has it all, who saves the day with a big heroic act, the star of the show. But she’s not someone who needs to face reality, because that’s the point of The Impossible Girl for Clara - she’s an escape. She’s the hero Clara dreamed of being back when her mum was still alive.  But being the Doctor, that’s trickier. That’s hard choices and impossible decisions and a responsibility - a duty of care - to look out for those around you. Clara’s put in the position of knowing awkwardly more about Danny than she has any right to, and she has to navigate that. She’s having to deal with the same moral and ethical complexities that the Doctor does every day, an idea that only grows over the course of her arc.  To mirror this new challenge for Clara, we have Danny who also has had to grapple with the moral complexities of what he had to do. He’s further along in his journey than Clara, but he also doesn’t have her ambition. He’s after the simple life - a good job helping students, a partner who he loves and who loves him back, and finally a bit of peace though. Clara though... what Clara wants is going to mean increasing challenges, increasing situations where there’s no easy answer (or maybe no right answer at all). And she’s going to have to embrace that as a fundamental part of the life she yearns for. (Spoiler: she does)

[nobleriver]

I was tagged by @doctortomyriver a loooong time ago, but I never saw it til now because I was on hiatus. But it’s too much fun to pass up because I love the questions lol

Out of curiosity I’ll tag @benoitblanc @thebadtimewolf (love reading your tags btw) @beingshakespeare @autisticwho and @wibblyowzah

Tag Game: Doctor Who Edition

The rules are simple - answer the questions, then tag other Whovians to get to know each other better/find new people to follow, message, etc. If there are any questions you don’t have an answer for, feel free to skip them!

Doctor you started with: Nine. Ten. Eleven. Long story, but I watched all of them in same month or two. 11 was airing once a week. 10 and Martha were marathoning. And a friend gave me the Series 1 boxset which I devoured in a day because 9′s her favorite doctor. It was such fun to experience Who that way. Would do it again. I got them all at once.

Favourite Doctor: The Doctor

Favourite companion: None

Favourite episode: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. The Girl in the Fireplace. School Reunion. 

LOVE LOVE LOVE Sarah Jane and Moffat wrote a classic when he did The Girl in the Fireplace. Those two eps are why I love S2 so much. I can literally quote from each of these episodes:

“Are you alright?” “I’m always alright.” “Say it.” “Goodbye...MY SARAH JANE!” 😭😭😭😭😭😭 She’ll always be important to him! HELPPP! And of course, “Stay with me. C’mon! You and me, one last run!” That’s the title quote on my blog!

DW OTP: Doctorriver

Favourite line/quote: “Stay with me! You can do it! Stay with me! Come on! You and me, one last run!” - 10 to River 

ALKHSFASJHKFJHSLJFALJF I’M A PUDDLE ON THE FLOOR.

Favourite character that isn’t the Doctor or a companion: River Song. She’s my favorite period. She pulls me back to the show again and again.

BrOTP: 10 and Martha. If found family counts, Doctor x The 3 Ponds and River x TARDIS

Favourite DW fic (if you have one): None. Just started last year. Haven’t read enough. I am writing one though. And if we count Big Finish as official fic, then, The Tenth Doctor and River Song. It’s insane how good that is.

Favourite DW fanart/blog (if you have one): Currently @expelliarmus and @tenriver 

But special shoutout to 3 of the greatest colorist I've ever seen @borntosavethedoctor @doctorwhoblog (aka @amywiliams ) and @tillthenexttimedoctor The way they color remains an inspiration. 

If you could pick anyone to be the next Doctor, who would it be? (Why, if you feel like explaining.): This question is outdated because I received this before the new Doctor was announced. Now, we have two new Doctors lined up to go, and I’m excited for both of them!

So I think I’ll change the question to 

Who are you most excited to see in the next series? The Duchess! She’s screaming female Time Lady and I’m curious, curious, curious.

[borntosavethedoctor]

Amelia Pond. Like a name in a fairy tale.

[gwil-lee]

Steven Moffat Appreciation Day 2018

[sweetswed-blog]

[sad--gittarius]

And we keep living anyway We rise and we fall And we break And we make our mistakes

[magnumrevolver]

“I know her name was Clara. I know we traveled together. I know that there was an Ice Warrior on a submarine and a mummy on the Orient Express. I know we sat together in the Cloisters and she told me something very important.”

[clara-is-brave]

tillthenexttimedoctor replied to your post “[[MOR] Its really hilarious that Clara as a character has no...”

It's just so unnecessary? The same goes for Rose and River as well - all three of them take on such iconic roles that it's ridiculous to think you need to pull other characters down to prop them up. "Better/more important than so-and-so" is not even in the top 100 reasons of why Clara Oswald is amazing.

Exactly. They are all amazing in their own rights and are important to the show’s narrative, so I just fail to see why one has to be put down to make another appear better. I just wish all of us fans can either get along or stay in each other’s lanes when it comes to them because all of this propping up and tearing down does nothing to help celebrate and show love for these characters. Thats just wishful thinking, it seems. 

[onaperduamedee]

"People like that, corporations like that, they have all the money, they have all the power and they use it to make people like you go away. Right now, you’re suffering under an enormous weight. We provide... Leverage."

Leverage is a pulp revenge fantasy where hitter, hacker, grifter, thief and mastermind join forces to con the rich and help the nobodies. If you like shows like "The A-team" and films like "The Sting" or "Ocean's Eleven", come and have a look. It's fast-paced, fun, feel-good, cheesy and very much "fight the power".

I will be streaming the S1 Leverage finale episodes, The First David Job (1.12) & The Second David Job (1.13), at my rabb.it room on Thursday 22 at 08:00 p.m. CET.

Check Trello for your local time.

Everyone welcome!

@lilywilde @missmarthanightingale

Thank you for coming! If you are interested, know that I stream two episodes each Thursday at 8p.m. CET.

[astudyinimagination]

Favorite Doctor Who characters (1/?): Clara Oswald

The most important leaf in human history! It's full of stories. Full of history. And full of a future that never got lived. Days that should've been that never were... Passed on to me. This leaf isn't just the past, it's a whole future that never happened. There are billions and millions of unlived days for every day that we live; an infinity! All the days that never came! And these are all my mum's.

For @tillthenexttimedoctor, for whom I promised to do this literally a year ago.

The timing also happily coincides with Moffat Appreciation Day. Thank you so much, Steven, for giving us some truly amazing female characters—especially Clara Oswald. She has meant so much to me.

[abossycontrolfreak]

tillthenexttimedoctor replied to your post: While we're vaguely on that topic, do you have any...

Now I wonder what else her pupils end up sharing on social media. ‘Today our English teacher implied she has kissed Jane Austen’ is probably the least of it.

Someone (*cough*Tania*cough*) has a blog called todaymyenglishteachersaid. It starts off as comedy but ends up as a conspiracy blog trying to work out what the hell is going on with Miss Oswald who says she kissed Jane Austen and gets called out of class by the President and has no clue about pop culture at all.

The prevailing theory is that she’s an alien. 

[scriptscribbles]

Friendly reminder that River Song exists because Moffat tried to come up with especially rude episode acronyms and ended up with "A River Song Ending".

God. Bless.

[alphacentauriiswatchingyou-blog]

Russell T Davies on Steven Moffat

We do not know how lucky we are.

When asked to consider Steven’s finest moments, I was overwhelmed by images. Heores and villains. Battles and beauty. Monsters and children. Then I realised that I’d only got as far as 20 minutes into The Empty Child -round about the joke about Marxism and West End musicals - and had to sit down for a cup of tea.

I think, as fans, we can focus on the detail - Mondasian Cybermen! - at the risk of missing the bigger picture. That picture being, in Steven’s case, that we’ve just seen one of the greatest sci-fi body-horror thriller action-adventure romances (plus comedy) of our entire lives, beamed on to our TVs for less than 10p, written by a world-class master of his craft who’s now so in command of his talent, he’s riffing on ephemera from 1966 and turning it into gold, whisky, sex, whatever turns you on best. We truly do not know how lucky we are to have a man of this calibre writing our favourite show.

Since leaving Doctor Who, I’m approached, now and then, by strangers who remember my withered husk from Doctor Who Confidential. There’s a glint in their eye as they say, “What d’you think of it now?” An awful lot of those people are dying for me to trash it. I think, genuinely, they’re trying to achieve an intimacy. I think, nastily, they want me to say something bad so they can take it online and have some strange sort of fun. And when I say, “I love it!” they often think I’m lying.

I love it. I love every episode the man’s written. I love the other episodes he’s rewritten and I think few people know how many that is. I love the detail, I love the scale, I love the people, I love the jokes. I love the fact that Steven himself is quite down on The Beast Below. The whole of the UK on a spaceship? The whole of the UK is a spaceship? I’d retire there and then, complete. Nope, for him, it just wasn’t good enough.

I love the man, in truth, I love his mind, I love his standards, I love his rigour, his darkness, his kindness, his ambition, his love of TV. I love the man who wrote the very last line of Coupling, which shows what a lovely human being he is.

I love his women. Consider, in bad fiction, which is most fiction, how women’s roles, which have suffered so many years of neglect that they can be summarised as ‘women’s roles’, fall into the same old categories. They are reduced to the Mother, the Wife, the Daughter, the Bride. Agents of sex and childbirth, nothing more.

But then look at what Steven does with those categories. The Bride stands tall at her reception - literally in her wedding dress - and summons the Doctor back itno existence with an Old Maid’s rhyme. When the Bride has a Daughter, it’s a vital part of a galaxy-spanning revenge. The Daughter then becomes the Wife, a woman of such swagger and joy and tenderness, the Time Lord finally falls in love. We’re not done yet. A lesser category pops up, the Dominatrix, complete with eye-patch, but don’t worry, the Bride who’s the Mother of the Daughter who’s the Wife kills her stone dead! Then a lesbian travels the universe and everyone adores her. And nestling at the heart of the show is Doctor Who’s very own problem category, the Companion, a title inherently subordinate to the Man. Until Clara comes along! Companion to every single moment in the Doctor’s life. A woman so strong that in her first appearance, and her last, Death itself cannot stop her. A decade before Wonder Woman, Steven started weaving his own vast female mythology across the stars, in a funny old children’s show on Saturday teatimes.

I could mansplain all day, but the other thing I love in Steven’s writing is the complexity. I’ve heard some tiny, distant rumours that some people might have a problem with that. But I think it’s the very thing that will ensure Doctor Who’s logevity. You see, in the old days, us older fans fell in love with this show because it was porous. It had gaps. It was cheap, it was rushed, it was lovely and brave and unapologetic, using three walls in Lime Grove to create an entire Dalek invasion of Earth. All those gaps allowed us in. We imagined the offstage armies. We embraced the wobbles and bumps. If Sutekh had a secret hand on his cushion, we hooted, or invented a reason why (Clara!). But we either imagined it better, or saw how good it was underneath. Which is exactly like falling in love.

Now, the modern show has a lot more money. You can see those armies centre-stage. Gallifrey is so gorgeous, it has a spare city. Cyber-fleets can explode behind Rory’s head as a throwaway joke. And sometimes, a lossy show allows the mind the slide off. But Steven has created a brand-new porous surface. He invites us into the plots. He gives us stories which vault and somersault and double-back and trick and trap and treat. It’s not so much porous, it’s more like a great big spinning double helix and we’re clinging on, spinning for our lives, and yelling with joy. Yes, it’s complicated, but that’s wonderful. It will keep people thinking about the show forever.

Okay, my favourite moment? It’s my favourite joke. A Good Man Goes to War. Rory approaches River Song in the Storm Cage, and she says she’s been on a date with the Doctor, to the frost fair in 1814. “He got Stevie Wonder to sing for me underneath London Bridge.” And for a second, there’s that lovely shiver as you anticipae the punchline. “Don’t tell him.”

That’s a small momnt from a man who’s created empires. But a favourite joke is a beautiful thing. I just looked up the line and it turns out, I’ve long since paraphrased it, but that’s even better - like I said, Steven makes us part of the text, and now I own it! The point is, I think of that line every few days. Literally, a couple of times a week, every week. Every now and then, when I’m washing up or watching TV, or walking into town, or whatever, it pops into my head. “Don’t tell him.” And I laugh. I laugh, every single time. It’s been making me laugh for six years and it will make me laugh for the rest of my life. Very few people can write a line capable of that.

We have been so lucky.

[borntosavethedoctor]

I’m the Doctor. Doctor Oswald. But you can call me Clara.

[gwil-lee]

Twice Upon a Time | Doctor Who Specials

You wait a moment, Doctor. Let's get it right. I've got a few things to say to you. Basic stuff first. Never be cruel, never be cowardly, and never, ever eat pears! Remember, hate is always foolish. and love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. Oh, and you mustn't tell anyone your name. No one would understand it, anyway. Except children. Children can hear it sometimes. If their hearts are in the right place, and the stars are too, children can hear your name. But nobody else. Nobody else, ever. Laugh hard, run fast, be kind. Doctor, I let you go.

[sweetswed-blog]

The new intro.