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DOCTOR WHO MEME → episodes [11/15]

8.09 FLATLINE - “I was you today. I was the Doctor. And, apparently, I was quite good at it.” “You heard that, did you?” “Yeah, but the power was going off so I suppose you were delirious. You didn’t know what you were saying.” “Yes.”

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TAISSA TURNER Yellowjackets 🐝 3x01 "It Girl"

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SHAUNA SHIPMAN & NATALIE SCATORCCIO Yellowjackets, 'A Normal Boring Life'

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Anisa Harris as ROBIN Yellowjackets ● Season 3

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YELLOWJACKETS 1.10 | 3.09

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Doctor Who S1.E2 "The End of The World"

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It makes me so mad how excited I was for Belinda. To see a companion who didn't buy into the hype and the mystique that often surrounds The Doctor, who didn't see him as this infallible hero but as this flawed and potentially dangerous man, who never fell in line or at his feet but stood in front and asserted herself as an equal, who isn't in the TARDIS by choice and has a life of her own as a single woman in a high-pressured job that she still wants to get back to despite the time travel and the adventure, because she too gets to save lives every day even back on Earth and she doesn't need a Time Lord to do that - it was so incredibly refreshing.

And the issue is, while Belinda continued to call the shots for at least the first five episodes of the series, they dropped the ball with her characterisation as early as the second episode. For her to be so critical of The Doctor at the end of episode one, and so immediately perceptive of his ability to endanger those around him for the sake of his own pursuit of adventure, and yet for her to already abandon that notion and trust him entirely by the end of the next episode, to the extent that by the end of the series she is completely unfazed when on several occasions her instincts were proven to be correct, is not only a massive change in characterisation, but also a colossal waste of such a compelling premise.

And then for her character to be reduced not only to being the mother of The Doctor's child, but ultimately completely rewritten so that they were brought together so that she could be Poppy's mother - and choose to leave on that premise also - is so unbelievably insulting and disappointing. Varada is wonderful. Belinda is wonderful. The dynamic between the actors and the characters is one of my favourites in a long time.

Belinda and Varada aren't the only ones who deserve better after this series (I could write entire essays about Ruby and Fifteen), but I really thought we were onto something and while Belinda will always have a place in my heart, I'm just gutted the series and the character ended on this note.

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Varada Sethu as BELINDA CHANDRA in Doctor Who (Season 15)

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Ten years since Hell Bent, where the companion is elevated to equal mythic status with the Doctor as she flies off into the stars in an infinite magic box, we get to see how far the companion role has come in The Reality War as the companion is literally shut inside a box for the whole episode and given the most sexist ending to a companion in the modern era. Fuck me.

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O’ captain,

My captain

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"In a time of slavery and deep suffering, the slaves who broke their chains and escaped would return to try to free others. Slaves were not allowed to carry paper. They were always stopped and searched. But the women were very clever. They could make their hair into many shapes and patterns. And in one style, hair could be braided to the scalp, bending and curling like roads or paths. So the women would weave maps into their hair and pass it on - mothers to daughters, slave to slave, plantation to plantation.

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Doctor Who (2023) | Ruby Sunday + collecting mums (2.04 Lucky Day)

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NCUTI GATWA poses with the new Doctor Who x Barbie Doll

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Doctor Who The Well | Midnight

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This is how the scene went, right?

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And I will sing. I will do the singing.

DOCTOR WHO | 2.03: THE WELL

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We’ve returned from the time winds to share a brief project update. Fear not, we still plan on releasing in the coming months, we’ve just needed to push things back a little.⏳