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Thinking about doctor who and contorting myself into shapes unknown to science

The 'ingredients you can pronounce means it's healthy' line implies a world in which the kind of nutrition a person requires scales with their biology education and grasp of phonics. Which isn't true, of course, but sure would imply some interesting worldbuilding if it were

the-evil-skull

I'm sorry the mere concept of Romana writing a THESIS on the Doctor and cataloguing his favorite species has me in hysterics. I need to study these two.

henstomper

we seriously need to do more to let people know about the dangers of sisy hypno i watched just one video and im still pushing this damn rock

gotyouanyway

wahh

woundsodomy

So scary to like a mutual's post because what if they remember they hate me and then shoot me with a gun

iphigenesis

in a way john watson is a fantasy (what if you had this brilliant enigmatic friend and what if he liked you in particular and what if he offered you the excitement of youth and adventures and a way out of boring society life and all without having to actually give up your status as a gentleman so you could have the best of both worlds) and in a way sherlock holmes is a fantasy (what if someone never got tired of you despite your various strange habits and mood swings and instead of simply tolerating you they genuinely liked you and what if you didn’t have to live alone forever and what if you never had to give up doing the things you love) and of course there’s the most fantastical part of it all (what if you could afford london housing prices)

stopmyhearts

ROMANA: Do you wish to leave Gallifrey?

[Heartbeat]

LEELA: Yes.

[Silence]

ROMANA: Then so be it.

Listen. Do you know what Romana's quote here is. Because I have spent a lot of time going through all her audios up to this point yesterday. And. The only other times she says 'So be it'. Is with a knife to her throat. Metaphorically or literally. It's what she says when someone threatens to kill her. It's that calm determination when she's standing her ground and the only ways out she can see are success or death. When she doesn't care to live otherwise. Do you see it.

rattoroni

“packmate” is a very good word to describe how i feel about some people. like we’re more than friends in my eyes but it’s not romantic you’re just. my person and im #keeping you. because you’re in my pack. wags my tail

measured-robshearfan

Do they-- do they even know who Leela is? Have they even watched The Face of Evil?

measured-robshearfan

You know how in The Robots of Death there is a character with robophobia, “unreasoning dread of robots” caused by their being life-like yet completely lifeless, with a humanoid likeness but devoid of any humanoid body language? And how that character IS NOT LEELA?

Remember how, in The Invisible Enemy, Leela literally met a virus? And also K9, a literal robot machine dog, with whom she's stayed ever since?

Where is all this spiritualism coming from? The there's a spirit in/behind everything? The disdain for science, the “herbs vs technology” talk?

Why is Leela now reclaiming some spiritual/religious teachings from a wise woman when the reason she meets the Doctor in the first place is her rejection of the Sevateem's religion?