[squigglegigs]

ive had this song stuck in my head since he showed up

[suzie-costello]

[aenslem]

Doctor, please tell me. Really, are you all right?

+bonus

[doctorfalls]

unpopular opinion i really really wish yaz was canonically older. i think she’s about 19 in canon but mandip is in her thirties?? i just think older companions r great and we deserve more of them

[doctoreh]

What if we 😏😙exchanged morse code 🤭 in Paris 👅🗼 in 1943 😎🤣 and had a telepathic conversation 🥰🤪🤩 (and we were both time lords ⏳😳😬😩)

[doctorfalls]

i actually cannot believe we’ll be getting gallifrey lore. a whole arc of it. like its only just setting in and i think i’m going into shock

[notyoujamie]

[doctorfalls]

the whole bit where the master made the doctor kneel and uhhhh call him by his name. repeatedly. i dont have words for it i just wanted to call it out

[doctorfalls]

im gonna out myself as one of those ppl who didn’t like that the day of the doctor revived gallifrey purely because i love doctor angst. so let me tell you i am SO happy about a few recent developments

[doctorhoe]

[not-all-the-prayers]

The Doctor + pantone palettes

[raktajiino]

It’s a rug… Haven’t got you anything. S’okay. It was cheap.

[melodypond-thewomanwhomarriedme]

sometimes i think about how we only had ONE episode with twelve/river and how for most of it she didn’t KNOW he was the doctor and how everything CLICKED as soon as she realised it was him and how IN LOVE they are for the rest of the episode and how we were ROBBED of more content for them and i CRY

[notyoujamie]

[thirddoctor]

Twelve & Missy + First/Last Words

I’m going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let’s have this out, you and me, once and for all.

[fangirlinglikeabus]

#I was just thinking about how that second gif is basically his answer to her question in the first one

[julielilac]

[sclfmastery]

This is so delicious (at least by the guidelines of writing a good, solid archvillain properly).  

He knows damned good and well the way she will react, and he knows why. He knows exactly how to establish rapport with her, how to then break that rapport by revealing that her greatest regret–their lost friendship–will always haunt her.  By demonstrating “all those things you enjoyed, all those things we did together, I was lying in wait all along to break your trust and stick you and your friends in an inescapably lethal situation. And then I removed you from the situation and made you watch as they hurtled to their death.”  

He turns around and shows a feigned face of innocent bewilderment to the Companions because he wants them to be as horrified by the revelation of who the Doctor really is, and what her real limitations are; he wants them to experience the horror and disillusionment he felt centuries and centuries ago.  This is more than mere mockery: it sends a message. It aims for COMRADES in the HATE for the Doctor. Everything he does, down to asking Yaz on the motorcycle “is this what traveling with the Doctor is like” and offering Graham a chance to peek into his files on the Doctor: that is him trying to get the Companions to acknowledge the monster (the “Oncoming Storm”) that he feels he’s known all along.  

This is up there with getting Twelve to nearly shoot Clara inside a Dalek armor, and befriending Bill for ten years only to hand her over to become a Cyberman who “waited for you.”  This is up there with making Ten an old man who had to bear witness to the future of humanity slaughtering itself.  

This is targeting the Doctor’s friends, the “replacements” for the Master whom the Doctor left behind–because they ran through those red grasses in Gallifrey so long ago, but the Doctor kept running, and the Master “never was a good sprinter”–and hurting them, and implying to both them, and the Doctor, “you can’t save everyone, because you will never save me, and you bring death  and ruin to those you care for, no matter how determinedly you may run from your past.” 

“Doctor, what did you bring here?”

“Gotcha, finally.”

“Everything you thought you knew is a lie.” 

Chibnall knows how to write the Master.  13/10.

[julielilac]