“Let Me Be Brave”

Sideblog for Doctor Who content, I follow from @fireplacevibes. I am a 12th Doctor stan first, and a person second.

[lizardsfromspace]

Russell T Davies having the Doctor regenerate into Billie Piper hoping this would resurrect interest in the show, only for the twist to be mocked to hell and back by everyone & make both fans and the general public turn on it even harder

[lizardsfromspace]

Well you see, Jodie Whittaker regenerated into a new Doctor who happened to look like David Tennant who then split by mitosis into himself and Ncuti Gatwa. Gatwa then left the show and the original plan was to leave his regeneration open ended but instead they rewrote it last minute, reshooting half the finale in order to facilitate his regeneration into Billie Piper, who was intended to be another temp Doctor for a special or two, which RTD committed to despite the likelihood another writer would have to reckon with that. To do this they not only cut out the original story arc, but scenes featuring Carole Ann Ford as Susan, which given she is 85 & the show is now on hiatus means her reappearance will likely go unresolved forever. This masterful RTD gambit secured Doctor Who a long term hiatus and his termination

[penny-anna]

i have to say tho i am feeling more sympathetic towards RTD than most people seem to be. calling in Billie Piper was, by his own admission, a desperate hail mary to avoid the show looking like it had no future. i would imagine the lack of a script is bcos he was never u know paid to write one rather than bcos he simply didn't bother. man doesn't work for free and he has other projects on the go.

i can see why he opted not to come up with a formal plan for the special until he got confirmation that he was definitely going to be writing it. & i do get why from a PR perspective he opted to act like everything was OK rather than publicly be like 'we have no plan'. i don't think he's the real villain of this story.

[penny-anna]

i have to say tho i am feeling more sympathetic towards RTD than most people seem to be. calling in Billie Piper was, by his own admission, a desperate hail mary to avoid the show looking like it had no future. i would imagine the lack of a script is bcos he was never u know paid to write one rather than bcos he simply didn't bother. man doesn't work for free and he has other projects on the go.

i can see why he opted not to come up with a formal plan for the special until he got confirmation that he was definitely going to be writing it. & i do get why from a PR perspective he opted to act like everything was OK rather than publicly be like 'we have no plan'. i don't think he's the real villain of this story.

[auberigines]

doctor who cancelled and people swore up and down that chibnall destroyed the show and rtd would fix it…..i have to laugh

[lizardsfromspace]

Russell T Davies having the Doctor regenerate into Billie Piper hoping this would resurrect interest in the show, only for the twist to be mocked to hell and back by everyone & make both fans and the general public turn on it even harder

[weremustelidae]

for christmas we're deleting the entire show. tally ho you teaboo shits

[tinkerbitch69]

Doctor who showrunners be like “writing a good story to secure the show’s continued existence? That pales in comparison to my strategy. Stuntcasting Billie piper” and then not even secure the show’s continued existence.

[raspberrydee]

truly so embarrassing to admit that he never even wrote a christmas special… regardless of whether that’s true or not, how is that supposed to come across as anything other than disingenuous????teasing and announcing a special that you now claim you didn’t even work on???? 💀

[breastforce]

[squidbroom]

two step plan to improve doctor who

set up dogshit cliffhanger

leave

[dwgif]

Doctor Who Kill the Moon (8.07) | In the Forest of the Night (8.10)

[penny-anna]

my feeling with regards to the billie piper cliffhanger was like 'well it's stupid but i suppose if this is what it takes to secure the show's ongoing existence it will be worth it'. consequently i now feel comfortable saying: that was simply fucking stupid wasn't it

[verticalplane]

twojamie sketch to combat my artblock

[mobydyke]

listen I was never super invested in 11 or river song or most of those plotlines but ...... thematically they kinda went off with the whole "two timelines moving in opposite directions" thing like. she's been dead since the beginning. every moment I have with you is stolen. the pain of falling in love with someone, and knowing that every time you see them, they know you a little less. the clock is ticking and you know how it ends. she has been haunting this narrative since season 4. the first time is the last time. time moves in a circle but can only be experienced in a straight line. all tragedies are familiar.

[aenslem]

Call me by my name. Master. DOCTOR WHO | Spyfall part II

[sawxix]

funniest possible singular sentence in the english language has already been conceived n it's the first line of the tardis wiki article on "sex"

[sawxix]

the past tense implying sex has since been eradicated. the six (6) different synonyms all with 1-3 linked sources. those extensive citations juxtaposed with the extremely vague given definition of "an action performed by two or more people" . it's so fucking good. I could never put together a sentence this funny even if you gave me a full paid year off 2 do it

[aenslem]

Ascension of the Cybermen | Revolution of the Daleks