#dw thoughts

[boiling-kettle]

Humans have evolved to see more shades of green than any other colour, because Earth is very green, and it was useful for survival.

Gallifrey is very red, so it must mean Gallifreyans are freakishly good at distinguishing shades of red.

Imagine. Doctor being like, "Hm, that's [alien species] blood. That's who we are looking for". And the companion looks at them like 🤨 huh?

Master and Doctor are the only ones in the room noticing that the signal on the screen is flashing. Because the signal is so weak, to others the radar is just plainly red.

I've ran out of ideas for now, but there's a lot of possibilities for smth interesting.

[davros-reboots-gallifrey]

Judging by the Dr Who 2026 Handbook cover, unearthly child Poppy was supposed to be a young incarnation of Susan Foreman. But then Disney and Ncuti had enough of the show, and RTD had to rewrite Poppy Chandra entirely. Phew!

So can we still appreciate the Poppy arc if we imagine the Susan intention was never a thing? Yes and this is how: Belinda met her child, Poppy, a year or more before she should have due to the Wish World. We met Belinda before she had Poppy. She was always going to give birth to Poppy in the show's future, on or off screen, with Ritchie Akingnbola as the father.

The only danger to her destiny was meeting 15 as by the time Wish-Poppy vanishes, she's ready to go on more adventures. If that happened, the one true Poppy would never exist. Only one could ever exist in Belinda's entire life/timeline at one time, no variants allowed. Even if the Doctor placed her back on Earth immediately, the damage to destiny was done. Ultimately, the Doctor's sacrifice brought Poppy, a 2-year-old, forward by 2 years.

Alternatively, his last scene with the Chandras took place in 2027, not 2025. The timeline got elastic to accommodate Poppy's existence and establish the canon timeline 15 died for! This all fits in with the RTD2 era theme of things happening out of order: bigeneration, 14's therapy, 13's cameo, Poppy's cameo in Story & the Engine etc etc

[howthebestwaslost-blog]

Do you think this will be a theme…

[fablesaesops]

thinking thoughts abt this episode. imo modern unit is more focused on science than military presence (don't fully remember when they said that, but ik they did), but they still exist as a militaristic entity. I think this duality is why the episode came across so clumsily. depending on how you interpret UNIT in relation to the real world, the message of the EP is completely different; if you see it as a military organization without any oversight or restrictions, then this episode seems to be vilifying people who question the government. but if you see unit is primarily a scientific organization, then the episode is about those who deny what is right in front of them and live in echo chambers based on fear and hatred. imo, the latter is what was intended, but both are valid interpretations based on what we've been given. ultimately I think this episode's commentary was just a bit poorly executed, but they meant well.

[babiebom]

Doctor who spoilers AGAIN!

Tw: infertility, genocide

I wonder who was right when talking about Timelord fertility after the whatever thing went off.

Simply because the Rani and the Doctor used different words to describe it. The Rani said sterile which means that they can’t have kids at all like there is a zero percent chance of them being able to produce offspring. The Doctor, however said infertile, which sometimes people get confused with sterile, but they don’t mean the same thing. Being infertile means that you can still produce offspring but without a great chance. So someone who is infertile might never have children or might have them given their chances are a non zero number. For example my mother is technically infertile, and getting and staying pregnant is difficult for her but she was still somehow able to have both me and my younger sister.

So is it the writers not knowing the difference, or do they know and are making it so there’s a chance the Doctor/time lords can produce offspring in the future? I’m super confused and am probably reading too far into the words used, but genuinely it has me wondering what was meant. ALSO i feel like it’s a topic that should be explored more thoroughly, like it’s a subject that is a source of pain for the Doctor like the death of their people and their role in it, being alone, being unable to freely express their emotions and feelings towards people…it’s one more thing that gives the Doctor trauma that they should explore. And hopefully not in a shallow way. They somewhat touched on it at the end of the episode with him talking to Poppy, and I almost cried but like I hope it is talked about more especially when so many people are infertile and struggling with it. It needs to be more awareness around the topic that shows understanding and empathy rather than just using it to give the Doctor more trauma.

[cgb-zach]

You know what could work? Billie Piper Valeyard. That would be wild. Can you imagine the Doctor's dark side taking the form of a companion? Especially one that has such a close connection to this era?

[fan-of-chaos]

"Or sometimes we can hide ourselves away"

"I'm always hiding myself away."

HMMMMMMMMM

[crazyhickofftheirrocker]

Very weird realisation I just had; what if Rose Tyler was always the Doctor and happened to have been a bi-generate that passed through a chameleon arch?

Same enough that Nine and Ten were drawn in but different enough that they didn't realise. Plus they had no knowledge of bi-generation back then.

Bit of an echo of fifteen saying i love you to thirteen to have sixteen saying i love you to ten