#irl meta

[thewritingautisticat]

Actually I'm really tired of the take "Christians can watch anything/consume any media because we can find the Christian themes in it" or whatever. Because sometimes media is just bad. Yes, even media that isn't explicit or has actual demonic stuff can be bad. Sometimes shows have themes that are anti-Christian WITHOUT IT BEING OBVIOUSLY ANTI-CHRISTIAN. Everything has a worldview. Even "innocent" media like kids' books and shows are constantly pushing a worldview. The worldview might not necessarily be bad, but Christians out of all people should be checking the worldview of what they're consuming AND MAYBE MAKE THE CHOICE TO AVOID MEDIA THAT CONFLICTS WITH OUR CHRIST-CENTERED WORLDVIEW.

Just because you can find something good or true in a piece of media doesn't mean that it's not filling your mind and heart with things that aren't good. And like it or not, you will start to think about things in the mindset of the things you consume. If you're constantly watching things that have the worldview (for example) that "there's no such thing as sin and I should just accept every urge and flaw i have without needing to change" then it doesn't really matter that there's a great message in somewhere in there about sacrifice, you're still gonna start thinking that way.

So sometimes we need to make the choice to not watch/play/read whatever cool new thing is coming out. Sometimes we need to draw lines and say, "maybe a Christian shouldn't be watching this." And that's not legalistic or anything. That's just keeping your minds focused on things above, not things below. That's putting sanctification above self.

“All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable." —1 Corinthians 6:12

'Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." — Philippians 4:8

[rowanthestrange]

You know how we have seen a portal to the next universe, but there’s not been any narrative need for its existence yet? We’ve got the irl meta that Doctor Who would benefit from a temporary soft-reboot to feel like an acceptable jumping on point for new audiences.

We’ve also got our current theory where if Umbreen = Yaz she might end up with a fobwatch. Sub-option: meta suggesting broken which means the Doctor did take the old memories.

And there’s the other irl meta that Jodie says she’s done her regeneration scene, but it wasn’t with the next Doctor she regenerates into - who hadn’t even been cast yet. (Which makes sense cus it’s pretty obvious that Chibnall wrote all this envisioning that this might be the last of Doctor Who for a while, even if now this has turned out not to be the case.)

What if you chose to have her regenerate going through the portal? Going gold, and stepping through into a brave new world.

Leaving RTD to pick up his Doctor like Nine if he’d so choose, a Doctor in-progress. Sub-option: And the fact that the Doctor’s got a whole bunch of new memories wouldn’t matter so much, because ‘Fourteen’ might not even be ‘Fourteen’ at all - there’s an obvious time gap in which any number of things could’ve happened. In fact it would leave him free to do a past Doctor if he wanted, and that not have to be apparent until he chose to reveal it. RTD in particular was never a big fan of the ‘numbering’ system - I don’t believe any of the three are - and I can imagine he’d enjoying messing with fandom like that in some regard if he thought he could get away with it.

Or alternatively, depending on when RTD’s series is being filmed, it means he could simply leave the scene of the Doctor post-regeneration exiting the portal until the very moment it needs to be filmed to air, allowing for minimum spoiler risk so the new Doctor would not have to be announced beforehand, which even nowadays might still be a crowd drawer for the centenary.

[fangedmetadevil]

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