it’s all a bit doctor who, but you get the gist

[ she/they whovian with a moderate to big obsession with koschei and gallifreyan history ]

[the-evil-skull]

"Why would they lie?" Why. Would. They. Lie? Why would the time lords lie? Why would the time lords lie. Girl every Time Lord loomed after the anchoring of the thread can't truth, all they know is charge they matrix, forsake the primitive temptations of the flesh, torture the Doctor, execute the Doctor, abuse the Doctor, eat hot chip and LIE.

[mndvx]

Chris Eccleston on that shit let him talk!!!!

[graceashcroft-archive-deactivat]

other fandoms when their show loses any of its budget: we're fucked, it's all over.

Doctor Who fans when the show loses most of its budget:

[doctor-thedoctor]

i don’t follow a whole lot of pop culture news channels so i find out a lot of it through osmosis. is disney dropping doctor whov

[dw-opinions-you-wont-like]

Here's a simple writing fix for Belinda: never make her like the doctor. Take that distrust and fear that was established in the first episode and just continually make it worse.

First it would make her character more believable, since during the episodes we saw the doctor didn't exactly prove himself as being the wonderful man who will protect her. In the well she was shot and almost died because he failed, in story and the engine he didn't warn her to not come to the barbershop and was glad she came to be in danger with him, and in interstellar song contest she saw him needlessly torture a guy.

It would also create a lot of chances for interesting conflict - they could've had her meeting Ruby who has full faith in the doctor and have them argue about it.

Finally you can use this to improve the finale - her being married to the doctor would have been a scarier and darker experience and make her ratting the doctor out make a lot more sense. Also, you could have her being the one to remember Poppy and finally snap at the doctor - blow up at him for how he wasn't able to keep her safe this entire time and now he can't even save her daughter. Have that be his motivation for sacrificing himself. Then it wouldn't come off as just for Poppy, a copy of a real person they met who wasn't even real before, but for Belinda, to make it up to her for all the pain he's caused. It would also give Belinda agency in that choice of becoming a mother.

Then her arc could end with her seeing the doctor's sacrifice and realizing he's a good guy who tries his best, even if sometimes his best isn't enough. She would finally forgive him and he would regenerate satisfied and grateful for Belinda and the lessons she's taught him.

[cyberbottoms]

the "reality war" was an elaborate scheme by the doctor and the rani to make Kate think timelords are sterile so the third doctor couldn't possibly have impregnated the brigadier

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

"sometimes I think we're all your children" Kate you only think that because he fucked your dad your experiences are not universal

[heresmyfiddlestick]

call it cope, call it denial, i am sleeping in clown shoes and white makeup until we get new episodes. the reality war is ongoing. Billie Piper has been very carefully not announced as the Doctor, and there's simply too much other weirdness going on

[thedoctorisgroovy]

AND ANOTHER THING

Why is it that in every alternate timeline/reality everyone is mean to Ruby?

Not just Carla (which we all know she's ready to abandon her any minute) but in this finale two parter, The Doctor was so rude to her?? On multiple occasions? Belinda was nasty to her for no reason too.

I just find it weird that my litmus test for "is this real" is "are people nice to Ruby"

[doctor-thedoctor]

season finale so bad i have started rewatching moffat era

[doctor-thedoctor]

i got canon looms but at what cost

[doctor-thedoctor]

i’ve been informed that the episode said the sterility was recent. i’ve managed to miss that. so no looms after all :( didn’t think the episode would get worse still

[doctorhomo]

stupid use of omega, INSANE underuse of the rani, not enough mel, not a single plot thread tied up properly, random changing of belinda’s past with NO EXPLANATION………………

[doctor-thedoctor]

maybe i’m just emotional over the reality war but if no references to the original RTD era get made in doctor who for the next ten years it would still be too soon

[newborn-phoenix]

I think the only scene about poppy that I liked was when Doctor and Belinda were folding her jacket over and over. It was actually interesting to see how a wish was slowly fading away. And it was maybe even a little bit sad (I still don't really care about her but anyway). And seeing confusion and horror on Ruby's face was also interesting. I think whole Poppy deal should have just ended there

[doctor-thedoctor]

so ncuti gatwa had two eight-episode seasons.

16 episodes, two of which were doctor-lite.

which means, not counting christmas specials, ncuti gatwa had 14 episodes which centered on him as the doctor.

we used to get 10-13 episodes per series.

by any other doctor’s standards, fifteen only had one series.

no wonder his run feels so short.

[yesokayiknow]

also shitposting aside it should've been a horror movie. belinda chandra should've looked down at that child and known she would've died for her. she would've killed for her. and known also that those aren't her feelings. this isn't her child. fifteen wanted this dream so badly that he rewrote belinda's whole life. this ending isn't just a tragedy for the doctor

[leikeliscomet]

STOP IT!! I have never in my life yelled at a Doctor Who showrunner like this! Russell I was rooting for you we was all rooting for you! How dare youuuu!