#harpsy.txt

[watchercore]

I ✨ do not care ✨ that the seasons 11-12 (and potentially 13) may have writing that doesn’t hit expectations, or that people (NMDs..) don’t like Chibs or Jodie, and I’m sick of going into the comments on doctorwhobbc’s posts.

I would not have gotten into Doctor Who if not for Jodie Whittaker and her Doctor being female.

I would not have considered watching it back in the day if not for Michelle Gomez and Missy, who is evil and hot female.

Alex Kingston in Silence in the Library made me realise oh shit, do I like girls?

I am literally trying custard cremes because of season 11/12 of Doctor Who. I have a poster on my wall for the first time since high school. I have something to look forward to when I wake up in the mornings — my tumblr feed, full of beautiful fanart, pics, and writing. I have a passion and something to look forward to. I am getting into the DW lore and I’m literally about to get a subscription to BritBox for Classic Who.

David Tennent was technically my first Doctor, I watched a fair few of the best MVP episodes when I was younger, but I will always be Team 13.

If not for Chibs and that “shitty writing” I probably wouldn’t be here.

She is definitely my Doctor <3

[watchercore]

So the Doctor can’t refuse a crying child, right?

i was just thinking like, in the witchfinders I’d have loved to see Willa being the one who was being ducked, instead of her grandma.

It would’ve had a bit more emotional weight and higher stakes for the Doctor and the companions rather than for the side character.

The Doctor only intervened after Willa started crying. But if it had been the girl chained up instead of the grandma, crying for help she wouldn’t have hesitated I reckon. The pain of that death would’ve been on the grandma, the Doctor, and the companions, if Willa had died instead of her grandma.

Then we’d have Mistress Savage having to confront a maternal figure about the death of a family member, and a very angry Doctor. Plus, creepy mud monster kids :)

Of course, there is an emotional weight to Willa’s grandma dying for everyone, but it didn’t hit me as hard. I’m assuming the grandma had accepted her death and she’d lived a life already. I didn’t feel connected to her character much at all or rather, I didn’t get a chance to.

Whereas, Willa was just starting out, and no parental figure wants to bury their child. They’d still have done their prayer thing, something that Willa’s grandma taught her and that would’ve hurt both the viewers and the character.

Genuinely one of my favourite episodes of all time though. Might rewrite it and condemn poor Willa to make the Doctor go feral—

Thoughts?

For science :)