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Doctor Who fan. Queen of Media Analysis. Fifteen fan, Fourteen defender. 21y/o. The universe generally fails to be a fairy tale. But that's where we come in.
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I think Twelve's insistence that he looks young is my favorite running gag in the entire show.
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I love how "one night on darillium is 24 years" is the most blatant ass-pull in Doctor Who history but no one cares because it's an outstanding ass-pull
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Hell Bent does not undo Clara's ending in Face the Raven; it completes her arc further.
A thread 🧵
#DoctorWho
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RTD era companions: the most important woman in the universe, the Doctor's one true love, the woman who walked the earth
Moffat era companions: the girl who waited, the lone centurion, the hybrid
Chibnall era companions: Barry, 63
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Exactly like The Runaway Bride is so much funnier when you're consciously aware of the fact that the Doctor had his goodbye to the love of his life cut short like five minutes before all this happens
series finales into xmas special is so crazy to me like, i was literally crying and now it’s christmas
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I'm not one to say "media literacy is dead" but I swear if I hear one person say "Oh wait she was racist? Yeah I didn't get that at all, the episode didn't communicate it" I will start nuclear warfare
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Y'know what, just retweeting this isn't enough
All kinds of parental support of trans kids is important to depict on TV, but hearing a mother refer to her kid by her preferred gendered words even when referring to them pre-coming-out is super important to me
RTD loves us <3
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This Tardis interior will still never be beaten.
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This lack of aging is suspicious.
Someone should check Jenna Coleman's pulse.
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I think the only acceptable form of digitally altering old media is if Disney+ went back through every Doctor Who episode prior to Asylum of the Daleks and added a hidden Jenna Coleman in a different outfit in the background, and also a Susan Twist in every episode post-Pyramids.
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This Tumblr post always annoys me because I can think of so many episodes that immediately break this idea.
The Girl in the Fireplace? The Eleventh Hour, Amy's Choice, and half the episodes from Series 5? Any episode where they don't state the year? HELL FUCKING BENT???
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Honestly the only thing about this that peeves me is that the 60th is lumped in with the Gatwa era when it's so clearly intended as a wrap-up to Series 1-13
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I will admit, I was watching like seven major characters die in the first five minutes thinking "There's literally no chance this doesn't get undone later."
The difference between me and DWtwt is that I think that's okay. That is sometimes fine in storytelling.
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Doctor/Clara is such a weird ship let's be real
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Fun fact: Peter Capaldi and Matt Smith appeared in three consecutive episodes together.
Day of the Doctor (Capaldi cameo)
Time of the Doctor (Regeneration)
and Deep Breath (phone call scene)
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For Mel, for the next few years, the Doctor is going to be BOTH a stay-at-home boyfriend AND a work boyfriend. And we love that for her.
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World Enough and Time 🤝 Wild Blue Yonder
Peak horror episodes with mysterious vague titles that don't relate whatsoever to the episode and just sound cool
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This has gotta be the shortest amount of time between fatal injury and regeneration since the classic era.
I'm so glad the Doctor isn't taking a half hour break anymore. They get hit by a giant fucking laser then BOOM regeneration.
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Hot take: the plot of the Matt Smith era is actually incredibly easy to understand, some people just don't pay attention
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RTD episodes: "But Doctor, that planet is 400 lightyears away exactly!"
DW audience: ok
RTD interviews: "Yeah when I wrote that line it was very non-literal. The planet wasn't meant to actually be 400 lightyears away. Not sure how that got misinterpreted."
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I've seen people say, of this line delivery:
"He says this just like Nine."
"He says it just like Ten would."
"The delivery is so much like Eleven."
"This is how Twelve would say it."
"This delivery is so Thirteen-coded."
Guys... I think that's just how the Doctor talks.
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Erm, Rose actually isn't a good starting point because the Doctor says "Look at the ears" but the new audience won't know what regeneration is so they'll be confused as to why he's saying that and they'll shit themselves /s
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Already tired of this "new Tardis interior isn't autism friendly" discourse. I'm autistic and I LOVE bright, well-lit spaces
Not to mention the Doctor's immediate reaction is the most autistic thing I've ever seen
/lh
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What the fuck was the Doctor doing between these two moments. Supposedly War is 800 in DotD and Nine is 900 in Series 1.
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I'm not saying one's better than the other but I definitely greatly prefer one of these
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If you say "David Tennant shouldn't have been the Fourteenth Doctor" then I don't trust you.
Because that means you think this scene shouldn't exist.
And that's evil. That's an evil opinion to have.
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The shot looks beautiful but... isn't that the ring signifying marriage to River? Why would the marriage to River transfer from Eleven to Twelve, but not from Twelve to Thirteen?
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Bill PottsㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤBill Potts when lesbian
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤvisibility week ends
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"If Moffat wrote for Thirteen he'd make sexist jokes" if he wrote a Thirteen episode there'd be like TWO sexist jokes and the episode would still end up being one of the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time. There's a trade-off, you must understand this.
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If y'all are mad at this you better be mad at Moffat too.
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Y'all saw THIS and immediately identified it as the Toymaker from The Celestial Toymaker (1966) and y'all were somehow right about that.
So if you insist the Meddling Monk is in the new trailer... I'm just gonna believe you guys. You apparently know what you're talking about.
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Thirteen/Spy is the best Doctor/Master ship because it marks the only time in the show's history when both the Doctor AND the Master are hot.
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I hope the Doctor keeps this hammer.
Even if it doesn't have Rules-of-Play powers anymore, I just want Gatwa's Doctor to have a big hammer. He'd make good use of it.
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Honestly a Series 8 / Series 10 Twelve multi-Doctor story would work. Twelve has the most development of any Doctor and these feel MORE like two distinct characters than, say, Ten and Eleven do at times.
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I'm sorry but none of the Season 1 outfits we've seen so far come CLOSE to being as good as the Ruby Road fit.
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The Tenth Doctor written by Steven Moffat >>> the Tenth Doctor written by anyone else.
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Do you think this prevents new viewers from understanding Series 1?
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Lindy blocking the Doctor immediately and not Ruby is a perfectly-done detail because they build in a reason you *think* it's happening. The Doctor shows up and says "You're in danger, I want to help you," whereas Ruby uses the "system check" pretense, essentially tricking Lindy.
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Hot take: the line SHOULD have been "Nice to say how skibidi-skeet you." Ruby Sunday is Gen Z, her sense of humor is most likely 19 layers of irony deep and somewhere in there the skibidi toilet meme has embedded itself in her brain.
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If the Doctor's like "Oh shit, this person's related to the Toymaker? Last time I defeated the Toymaker it took a lot out of me and I'm not sure I can do that again"
and new audiences are like "I've never seen the Toymaker so I don't understand the threat here"
That's on them.
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So unfair to Matt Smith that people are gonna say he's not REALLY the Doctor because David Tennant (the most popular) gets to keep being the Doctor. He's not really getting a fair chance because Tennant's Doctor is still out there somewhere.
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What if I said this was a perfectly written episode? What then?
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Kind of underappreciated that Russell provided not only a jump-on point for completely new fans who've never seen an episode before, AND a jump-back-on point for the very real demographic of fans who fell off during the Moffat era and want something familiar to come back to.
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How do people not love Hell Bent? I don't understand the criticisms of the episode at all.
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She objectively did have a hard time, though. She almost died in all three episodes.
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"We're just gonna keep calling it Series 14, we're not calling it Season 1" oh yeah? What happened to calling this guy the Fourteenth Doctor?
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She would NOT have taken that first pic
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Send me any Doctor Who promotional image, any one, from any era, and I'll give it a rating
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Personally I don't think having a dogshit finale retroactively ruins all the great individual stories that came earlier in the season. That's just me though.
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Alternate universe where this line was in the trailer for The Giggle and we all think "Oh man, I wonder who the Doctor is telling to get out of his Tardis" and it's the Doctor
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I will generally defend the lack of presence of companion's families as a stylistic difference between Moffat and RTD. *Generally.*
But the ONE character you shouldn't ignore the parents of is the one for whom you base an arc around their parents being un-erased from existence.
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Slightly less hot take, it doesn't matter if this shot is good. It's not part of the "main" episode and it isn't trying to be a spectacle. Comparing it to a shot from the Chibnall era that IS meant to be a spectacle is a completely unfair comparison.
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Personally I don't think the "Thirteen's sonic is a vibrator" jokes were SOLELY because Thirteen is a woman. The main reason is, unlike all the other sonics, it's got a curved handle.
I've heard the exact same jokes about Count Dooku's lightsaber so it's not a gender thing.
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I love that there's drama in Deep Breath about the Doctor's appearance as an old man making it harder for Clara to see him as her boyfriend and highlighting the problems that were always there in their relationship
But half of you still wanna fuck Peter Capaldi
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Maybe this wasn't the best title/thumbnail combo mate
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Me being scolded for calling the Doctor a "man" is quite funny because Nine, Ten, Eleven, and Twelve are all referred to as men in their first episodes.
None of them seem to take issue with it. Only Twitter does. Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?
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I can't stress how much David absolutely killed it as Fourteen. He's gotta be one of my favorites.
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Steven Moffat introduced her several episodes early and the first thing he did was give her a male love interest. I think he's trying to make Dwtwt explode
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I've seen a bunch of folks claim "Bigeneration is unfair to Ncuti's Doctor!" or "Ncuti didn't get a fair introduction" or "This is going to lead to so many people saying Ncuti's not REALLY the Doctor."
But I have seen NOTHING but love for Fifteen.
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I cannot fathom Series 5 being too woke for somebody
I don't usually like giving attention to these comments, but we're going back further!!
Usually I see 1963-2017, but bold to go back to 2010
I suggest 'RIP Doctor Who 1963-1963'
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SOME Giggle/60th haters need to stop thinking that the 60th was just a ploy to get David Tennant back and realize that there's actually a story behind it that makes sense for an anniversary that just so happens to warrant a Tennant comeback
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I'm gonna ask this question in its own thread.
Why should DT's second incarnation not be numbered Fourteen? Give me a valid reason why Fourteen being numbered as he is is a bad thing.
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You can see, then, why I don't buy into the idea that "Hell Bent undid Clara's death" or "Face the Raven was a better ending."
In FtR, she died as a result of her character growth.
But the arc wasn't complete until Hell Bent. It was an extremely natural evolution.
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Every major Doctor Who revival character and their corresponding pride flag.
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@citrusass
And then the second time he appeared it took her a while to realize it was the same guy because she thought they just "looked similar"
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@SuiLovesBridges
First time this popped up on my timeline I thought "oh, Idk who this angry lesbian is but she's probably a musician or something that the OP finds 'iconic' or 'slaying'" and I did not recognize Matt fucking Smith
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Jackie Tyler: "What are your intentions with my daughter?"
The Doctor:
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Do you think the "Empire of Death needed to be 15 minutes longer" crowd would've been happy if the episode was 15 minutes longer?
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@2weeterChillYT
If flirting with yourself makes you bi then no one has ever been heterosexual in the history of humanity
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Y'know it seems like a statement on Fifteen that his Tardis has a jukebox and Fourteen's doesn't, but if you think about it, in order for that jukebox to be there at the moment of bi-Tardis-ing, Fourteen must put it there at some point.
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Shoutout to the Smith-era logo for not just being the words "Doctor Who" written out in a different font. It's by far the best.
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I can't tell if Missy is ACTUALLY my favorite Master or if that's just the byproduct of her appearing in three times as many episodes as the other two modern ones.
She was deeply interwoven throughout Twelve's era whereas the other two were just kinda there.
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The Doctor knows what she is going to become, too, because he gives her the exact advice he tries to follow.
Not-so-coincidentally the same advice he later gives to his next incarnation in his final speech.
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Clara's arc is very clearly about one thing: becoming more and more like the Doctor.
She's already quite a bit like him when they first meet, certainly in Asylum of the Daleks but also in Series 7b. Her sense of risk and self-sacrifice are elements that only grow from then on.
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Today I learned all British people have a strict curfew of 9pm by which point they are legally required to be in bed in their jammies with Z's coming out of them going "honk... mimimimimi... honk... mimimimimi..."
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Where it was going was the Raven.
Clara explicitly dies because she became too much like the Doctor. That is something that is almost impossible to miss, but some of you have still somehow managed it.
This is a completely natural end to the arc.
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Back to Clara, in the end, what is she given?
A Tardis, a companion, and functional immortality. She completed her character growth of becoming the Doctor. Growth that included fatal self-sacrifice. There could not be a more fitting conclusion.
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In Series 8, we are beaten over the head with this. I'd say it's too obvious but a lot of people still miss that this is the point of her arc. She literally pretends to be the Doctor twice.
This, among other reasons, is why I don't mind Clara being so focused on in Series 8.
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@BarbaraYetaxa
Yeah it's funny how bad of a disguise a phone box would be if the Doctor somehow travelled into our world
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@KongsTardis
The best possible interpretation of this episode is that the Doctor understood all of the social cues perfectly and he was just fucking with Clara on purpose
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The Doctor's actions in this finale - chief among them being his attempt to save Clara - are meant to be irrational. They're meant to be criticized, we're meant to not be on his side. Even Clara isn't at first.
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The name "the Doctor" is a promise, a promise that this man tries to keep.
In extending that promise to Clara, she is becoming the Doctor as well. Not in the sense that she's becoming similar to him, but that she is as much the Doctor as he is, and in the same way.
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I think RTD, Steven Moffat, and Chris Chibnall should all appear as a cameo in The Giggle wherein they are all sitting at a coffee shop and have a building land on them a la The Wizard of Oz
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Donna has a near-death RIGHT as an imposter is sneaking into the Tardis, which would explain Catherine's presence in The Giggle.
Ruby has a near-death RIGHT as they introduce the actor who plays the next companion.
This era is doing evil things to us.
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So do trans characters have to be flawless, or...?
Imo lines like this make the mother/child dynamic substantially more realistic and believable.
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@SaucePub
I see it as even more somber. What he was doing was effectively suicide, and in that speech he was passionately begging for it. And it didn't work.
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He nearly ripped the universe apart to save her, and he still failed. His failure here represented by her lack of pulse and the tattoo on her neck.
Nothing short of preventing Clara from ever dying would be good enough for the Doctor. That's why he fails. He cannot accept death.
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@PoorlyAgedWho
*when she is under the influence of the Toymaker that makes everyone conservative
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That's not to say other companions aren't put in situations where they have to act like the Doctor.
But with Clara, it happened often enough and with increasing enough intensity that it was clearly going somewhere.
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