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natural history museum in london 🖤✨ i miss the uk so much it’s actually ridiculous 🙃
foreshadowing/references to The Silence throughout S5
this episode got me feelin like
Me, after the latest episode of Doctor Who:
…. new idea, the time lords just slapped a massive ass perception filter over the whole planet to look like that so if either of those morons ever came back bringing destruction with them they’d think ‘oh somebody else already did it’ and leave
“Never be cruel, never be cowardly. Hate is always foolish, and love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind. Doctor… I let you go.”
Thus says the Twelfth Doctor, moments before he regenerates. He’s leaving a legacy, a set of instructions, for the next Doctor. These are the things he finds most important. The things he wants, above all else, for his next incarnation to take to heart. (Hearts?) Kindness, laughter, love. These are the things the Doctor should have. This is what the Doctor should aspire to be. Never be cruel, never be cowardly.
And then the Thirteenth Doctor comes along and ignores it.
I think Series 11 was a great setup for this, if I’m going to be honest. I didn’t like Series 11 that much, because I thought it was boring, especially for character work. The Doctor is too bland, too cheerful, too boringly nice. There was nothing all that special about her character, nor her companions.
But now that we have Spyfall, and a great start to Series 12, I’m finding this setup of boring, nice, cheerful, optimistic, naive Doctor to be almost necessary. Perhaps we didn’t need a full season of it, but it makes great potential for character dynamics, especially now that Chibnall is clearly focusing on that a bit more.
Thirteen is ignoring her last incarnation, or, at the very least, only paying attention to a few parts. She’s always trying to be nice, for example. And no one can accuse her of being cowardly. But what about the kindness? What about never being cruel?
From the start, Thirteen has kept an odd distance between herself and her companions. As Yaz says at the end of Spyfall, “You know everything about us, and we know nothing about you.” She’s trying to take what her previous self has said to heart (hearts?) and is doing that by trying to completely start over. She takes them to places where no one has ever heard of the Doctor, where there are no monsters from her past or skeletons in her closet. She doesn’t tell them where she’s from, and rarely makes any reference to things in her past. Forget, “What is the Doctor’s name,” this is more, “The Doctor hasn’t even told us the name of the planet she’s from,” which is something her past selves have all been very open about.
I think Thirteen’s thought process here is that she has too much baggage. She’s done so many bad things, been responsible for some of the worst crimes in all of time and space. She’ll scare her companions off if she’s open about her past. It’ll clue them into the fact that she can make mistakes, big ones. That they can get hurt. She doesn’t fully trust her companions, but she expects them to trust her. When the Dalek shows up in Resolution, she uses manipulation tactics to get them to approve of her murdering the Dalek in cold blood, and almost murdering Ryan’s dad in the process.
This is all a great setup for the return of the Master. The Master will not hesitate to expose the Doctor’s dirty past to her companions, and he almost succeeds in doing so in part one, with Graham. He and the Doctor are more similar than the Doctor would ever admit, with both doing horrible things, manipulating people, committing genocide. The difference between the two is that the Master revels in this. He loves it. The Doctor hides behind excuses and makes every effort to be good.
The big thing here, though, is that Thirteen has a lot of hidden darkness. She’s been turning to manipulation and secrecy in order to keep up a facade of being the nice, good Doctor. All of her big confrontation scenes have been her and the villain, alone. In those scenes, she has goaded, taunted, and threatened. She isn’t kind.
That’s why I’m okay with the Paris confrontation in part two, despite the very very sketchy racial things in that scene. The Doctor is confronting her oldest nemesis. She’s cornered. She’s desperate. She doesn’t have anyone to impress. And she’s going to ignore the never be cruel. She’s going to ignore the never fail to be kind. She isn’t any better than the Master, and you could make the argument that she’s worse, because the Master at least is open about the fact that he does terrible things. The Doctor is cruel. She’s ignoring those aspirations, those promises. This is who Thirteen is, even if she’ll never let the fam see it.
The Doctor is losing her sense of self. She’s already been cruel, incredibly so. She’s stolen the Master’s TARDIS, forcing him to somehow escape the Nazis (and she’s also clued them in to the fact that he’s a poc, which was totally unnecessary. This isn’t just thwarting the Master, this is personal. This is revenge. This is cruel.) She’s wiped the memories of the two women who helped her, against their will. There is nothing kind about any of this.
And she’s already starting to be cowardly. She’s still hiding things from her companions, lying about Gallifrey to Yaz, refusing to open up to them. She’s afraid. And I very much want to see what will happen with a scared Doctor and suspicious companions.
Hello. I’m the Doctor.
“Spyfall Part 2″- Initial Reaction
Before we start, I’d like you to imagine me standing on a balcony taking a drag from a cigarette and taking a swig of wine from the bottle (not that I smoke or drink wine) as if a long lost love has come back into my life, messed me about, and left again leaving me in pieces. That’s the picture of me I need you to have, because that is how I felt after Part 2.
I'm not too sure what to make of part 2. As a conclusion to part 1 it wasn't great as i feel like there was no real resolution to the alien threat storyline. It just...ended. I wrote this about TTC and it’s still relevent: “the episode just hurtled at great speed through the plot until it just ended. So much info was just thrown at me that I honestly couldn't take it all in, only for the plot to stop so that Yaz and Ryan could have another heart-to-heart. Humour beats were missed because the show just went at 100mph. I know it isn't easy but there must be a balancing point between having little character beats and stopping the plot altogether. I'm genuinely gutted about it because I really did like the premise and cast, but it just...fell apart.”
Splitting up the Doctor from the rest of the "fam" also hindered the episode tbh. I feel like I got to see some real personality coming from those 3, but if it's not in conjunction with the Doctor, then what's the point?
Them finally getting some sort of answer from the Doctor in regards to her origin was cathartic too, but felt like it was cut short. Of course they have more questions, but why can't they ask them? I'm reminded of Gridlock all the way back in season 3 where at the end Martha gets 10 to tell her all about Gallifrey. The Doctor barely knows her at this point but already treats her as an equal (well as much as the Doctor can). But 13 has known this crew for a while now, but still doesn't seem to trust -or hell really know- them. I'm hoping The Master comes back before the season ends so that we can get some pay off from his offer to Graham in part 1.
Speaking of the Master, the highlight for me was his interactions with the Doctor in Paris. There were hints of a great relationship there, which is why this pairing has succeeded so well.
Whilst the episode failed as a conclusion, it succeeded in building up an arc for the season (and beyond?). Bringing back the Timeless Child was again, cathartic for me, and i am interested to see where this goes (LOOMS PLEASE). What I am not a fan of is the apparent destruction of Gallifrey, which undoes above all else the amazing balancing act Moffat pulled off in the 50th in terms of keeping all of 9/10s character arcs in place but also bringing the place back. And now it's gone? WTF?!?!
(not that i believe that either the Master or the aliens or Gallifrey won't be back by seasons end, but here we are)
I have more thoughts, but i can't quite process them right now (memory wipes were not good; weird squeezing in of historical figures for...reasons?; leaving the non-white character in the hands of the Nazis was again not good). It was simultaneously awful and exciting. Sums up Chibnalls run so far.
The Timeless Child
I'll call this a theory because I do actually have one at the end, but it's not so much relating to the Timeless Child but the reason behind it and one possiblity who it could be? I'm gonna ramble a bit until it all pieces together since I'm really shocked at what happened to Gallifrey. Again.
Where to start...ah, okay. We'll start with the Master and his decision. The entirety of Spyfall was just to grab the Doctors attention in his own twisted way, but I also think he's trying to get her to click on to something bigger. DNA is connected in some way and I bet the Master was trying to hint at this vaguely enough hoping the Doctor would catch on...but realized later on it shouldn't be so easy. He said why would he tell her the lies he found out and make the reveal easier for her when clearly for him it wasn't? So...what has the Master found out? What lies have the Timelords kept? Whatever it is...it's been so powerful that the Master turned evil again.
All that process finally made just gone. WHY? Timelords have always been a sketchy race, we've already known this! WHAT has the master so disgusted by what they did that he committed genocide on his own people? This is the MASTER we are talking about! He's always been the villain and he's owned that for so many years...but now he sees his entire race as worse then who he's ever been and in his own anti-heroic way needed to stop them.
I've always been VERY interested in why the Gallifreyan's look like humans but they are aliens. Also why do they question the Doctors love for humanity? Rassilon really trampled on humanity's existence and got a lot of the Gallifreyan's doing the same before and they still look to humanity as a lower class than them. This is gonna touch on Timelord lore and why they look like humans, I can see it now! I'm thinking a bunch of things right now. All of them mind-boggling and spine-tingling...
Have Gallifreyan's really looked like humans all along or copied their appearance? Did the Timelords experiment on human children to start their race? This would mean they literally abducted kids from Earth...from families...is this possible? THAT'S DARK. Could the Doctor really be half-human but by means of another way? Was the Doctor born or created? LOOMS! They are breeding-engines manifested to carry on a race! 👀
Yes, I'm really out here saying I think the Gallifreyan's nabbed children from Earth to start their class of Timelords. The possibility of the Doctor existing could be because she was created but not actually born? We don't know much about how the Doctor came to be. Half-human was suggested throughout history but it wasn't confirmed. Assumed only by the thought her mom was human. But nothing has ever confirmed or denied any of this. It's been a mystery.
Which it would make so much sense why the Doctor feels so connected to humanity if she is in fact confirmed part human! I don't know who the Timeless Child could be...maybe the first to actually substain the experimenting? Just think about how dark this really is for a second... Imagine the kidnapping, experimenting, and rewritting DNA. The process to currupt their minds.
Imagine that this must've been a process as I'm sure not every human child would live from these experiments. Now imagine the Founding Father's not caring about humanity as deeply as the Doctor always does and continuing to finish assembling their new race.
This really will change history of the Doctor and open up new questions if true. If the Doctor wasn't created what if she and The Master were part of the many children who were stolen from Earth and currupted? Gallifrey of old where you are forced to become someone else. The real truth behind the Academy of becoming a Timelord....
“There’s a man called The Doctor. He lives on a cloud in the sky, and all he does, all day every day, is stop all the children in the world from ever having bad dreams.” Doctor Who - The Snowmen
The whole existence of our species built on the lie of the Timeless Child.
You are completely impossible! Not impossible. Just a bit unlikely.
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I have a ALOT to talk about from the newest episode but we shall start with "Ohhh" aka the Master. The entirety of this reveal had me FLAILING. It was so mind-blowing!
But where exactly does this Master place in the timeline? My guess is definitely before Missy! I personally think before Missy but after Simm, I think when they were 'dying' in Series 10 towards the end, Simm regenerated but Missy died. I want this to be true since Missy was finally redeemed or so we thought....I just hope we get to keep that since it was such a powerful storyline for her.
They did mention Missy had no recollection of how many times she regenerated before getting to herself and this Master is definitely up to toying with the Doctor a lot like Simms was. I could see this being the placement.
Now this quote "Everything you think you know is a lie" if you look at the Master while he says this, he's getting emotional just a teensy bit. Oh sure it's mostly because lack of oxygen on the plane but idk I think he's found out some pretty history changing stuff.
My main theory is that this 'Unknown' place is full of Looms. For those who don't know or have forgotten (because this really got my brain thinking back) Looms are a form of breeding-engines used by a few different species; Sontarians, Cybermen, and Timelords. New life created by base matter and biodata. This goes back to Rassilon era which we already knew we couldn't trust him...and if these are Looms, I think the Master has recovered something huge.
I also have a side theory if this Master doesn't care even a little bit about the Doctor (which even Simm Master did care but tried very hard to hide it) maybe this Master is from a different universe/earth? They already mentioned multiple Earth's in this episode!
What if he's made this universe that the Doctor thinks is real earth and has somehow covered it up enough to get her to believe it's been real. If this is the case he made this Earth, and tossed the Doctor into it while she's falling to 'Earth'. So nothing is real, not even the Fam. All this to toy with the Doctor. Filled with everything he knows the Doctor loves and is always her akele heel.
My mind is racing guys, I'll update with more as time goes on. I'm really excited and scared for this Series and setup! Definitely darker!
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