A human (probably) currently living in a pair of trousers in Western Europe | Openly bisexual despite (or due to, its hard to tell) being educated | Could be male, could be female, could be neither, could be a primordial being who doesn’t conform to your petty human gender roles, you’ll just have to guess | 18 | According to a website made by some TERF I’m a Hufflepuff | Autistic | Also has ADHD so don’t say anything even vaguely interesting or I’ll get distracted
Can someone pls tell me who the Ancient Greek god of adhd/neurodivergence? Asking for a friend
Srsly tho if they had gods for literally everything can the modern people practising Hellenism pls like assign modern things a god and make a convenient list (if it already exists pls send it my way).
Get an artist, and show them pictures of a trans person before they started socially transitioning, and then ask them to draw what they think the trans person looks like after everything.
Along the way they can get hints like “oh ye they’re actually currently in an emo phase so take that into account with the hair” or “they opted not to have top surgery”.
Alternatively one could do the same but vice versa I.E. “here’s a trans person, what do you think they looked like before everything”
I wanna see a dystopian novel à la 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 but told from the perspective of an ordinary person who’s not involved in the resistance in anyway.
Resistance events might take place around them, but it’d be interesting to point out just how well governmental regimes make one conform in a way that they’re comfortable with. They might subconsciously think that they aren’t living the best life but they don’t mind it too much.
It’s only after the resistance has won (or as the regime is losing control) that they understand how bad their life was.
Ok so if an animal did something you’d say it was natural and not animal made right? And humans are natural beings like we occurred naturally and are animals right? So how does one define something that’s natural vs man-made? Cause humans are naturally occurring creatures surely everything we do is within the bounds of nature so it’s all natural? Right? RIGHT‽
Here’s the real question, why do I think I’m trans?
Is it because I actually am?
Is it internalised misandry?
Is it because so much of the gay subculture I’ve been exposed to is focussed on AFABs that it doesn’t feel right to be bisexual and male?
Is it the chemicals in the water?
Is it because I know so many bi girls who are treated normally for hugging other girls and holding their hands when as a boy I’d get shunned and told to man up if I did that?
Is it because dicks are weird and mine just oughta like get in the bin?
As it turns out, The Doctor’s Wife is the first episode of New Who in which the companion was the only Earth related thing (that’s including human colonisers, parallel Earths, New Earths etc.)
Compare that to classic who where the second story was set on Skaro with Ian and Barbara being the only humans
Of course it was @neil-gaiman who figured out that might be a good idea
I find it weird that everyone says the UK is backwards for having a monarch but they ignore the fact that most of the countries that are considered the most progressive in the first world have a monarch.
Belgium, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Liechtenstein, Japan, Denmark, Sweden, and Luxembourg all either have Kings, Queens, Crown Princes, Emperors, or Grand Dukes.
A Comparison of RTD, Moffat, and Chibbers: Saving The Day
This is a repost of the one I did a few weeks ago but I’ve added Chibbers cause he deserves equal attention. I’m tempted to make this a series. Also yes I am slightly biased against Chibbers but I’ll try to be as fair as possible.
So for this analysis I’m going to compare when Chibbers, Moffat, and RTD save the day well and when they save it poorly. There are a few bits of criteria I need to explain.
First I will only be including main series, no Torchwood, no spin-offs, and no mini episodes.
Second, I have to define what makes a good and a bad ending (my examples will come from episodes written by neither of them):
Bad endings include when the sonic saves the day (see The Power Of Three) (there are exceptions, see below), when a character spouts some useless technobabble that doesn’t make any scientific sense/when it doesn’t make logical sense in general, when the Doctor invents/presents a machine/equipment that miraculously stops the baddy and is never referred to again (see Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS), and any other ending I deem to be bad (see The Vampires of Venice).
Because I’ve added Chibbers to the selection, I’m increasing the criteria for a bad ending, these include times when the Doctor goes completely against their established morals, this will mainly occur when they aren’t the head writer as when head writer they’re allowed to give the Doctor whatever damn morals they like.
Good endings include when the sonic activates a device that has been well established to save the day, when technobabble is used that actually makes some scientific sense, and just generally when the baddy is destroyed in what I deem to be a creative manner that makes sense with all the things that had been set up in that episode (see The Unquiet Dead).
There will also be cases where there isn’t really a day to be saved, however this happens more often with Moffat.
Let us begin (obviously there will be spoilers and I’ll try to update the list immediately after I watch the latest episode by them).
RTD:
Rose: Bad
What even is anti-plastic?! Like seriously, he’s faced the Autons loads of times and has never thought to use it any other time.
The End Of The World: Bad
The Doctor just goes up to the appearance of the repeated meme (ha meme) and rips its arm off. He then just summons Cassandra back by twisting a knob which apparently everyone can do if “you’re very clever like me”.
Aliens Of London/World War Three: Good
Just nuking them all was a bit dodgy but I’ll give it to him purely because it had been set up earlier in the episode and it is a genuine option that could have been taken.
The Long Game: Good
The heating issue was set up within 2 minutes of the episode starting. It’s always good to see the Doctor using his enemies strengths against them.
Boom Town: Good
Only just. It’s technology that hadn’t been showcased ever before and came out of nowhere, but I’m allowing purely because it was setting up The Parting Of The Ways.
Bad Wolf/The Parting Of The Ways: Good
See above. It was set up the story before so it works.
The Christmas Invasion: Bad
This was so close to being good. If RTD had just let the Sycorax leader be honourable then everything would have been fine. Instead he had to let him be dishonourable and then the Doctor threw the Satsuma at a random button that for no apparent reason caused a bit of floor to fall away.
New Earth: Bad
It only makes sense if you think about it for less than 10 seconds as just pouring every cure to every disease ever into a giant tub and then spraying said supercure onto them all, then having them hug each other to pass it on. That is suspending my disbelief just a bit too far.
Tooth And Claw: Good
Everything is set up in the episode so I’ll allow it but I fail to see how Prince Albert had the time to ensure that the diamond was cut perfectly.
Love And Monsters: Bad
It’s Love And Monsters. Need I say more?
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday: Good
It was very clearly set up throughout the episode.
The Runaway Bride: Bad
I don’t like how a few bombs can supposedly drain the entire Thames.
Smith And Jones: Good
All the events were well established
Gridlock: Good
It’s a fairly bland way to save the day, just opening the surface to all the drivers. But how else could he have done it?
Utopia/The Sound Of Drums/Last Of The Time Lords: Bad
As much as I like the idea that he tuned himself into the archangel network, he basically turned into Jesus. It is arguably the least convincing ending in modern Doctor Who history. (As has been pointed out by @ihavethatonatshirt , the destruction of the Paradox machine by Jack is well set up, which does improve the ending, however space Jesus annoys me too much)
Voyage Of The Damned: Bad
Why was he the next highest authority? If he’s the highest authority in the universe why didn’t they default to him in the first place? If not then why not default to Midshipman Frame? And if he’s somehow in between them then why? Also Astrid killed herself for no reason when she easily could have jumped out of the forklift.
Partners In Crime: Good
It works in the context of the episode, but I don’t see why they needed two of the necklace things.
Midnight: Good
It’s human nature, you can’t get more well set up than that.
Turn Left: Good
It works logically
The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End: Bad
Donna just spouts a load of technobabble whilst pressing buttons and then the Daleks are magically incapacitated.
The Next Doctor: Bad
Why do the infostamps sever Hartigan’s connection with the Cyberking? As far as I remember it ain’t explained.
Planet Of The Dead (co-written with noted transphobe Gareth Roberts): Good
A good couple scenes are dedicated on getting the anti-gravs set up.
The Waters Of Mars (co-written with Phil Ford): N/A
The day isn’t really saved cause everyone still dies anyway.
The End Of Time: Good
Using a gun to destroy a machine is much better than using the sonic to destroy it.
Summary for RTD:
Out of 24 stories written by him so far, I deem 13 to be good endings with 1 abstaining. That’s 58.3% of his episodes (56.5% if we don’t count any abstaining).
Moffat:
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances: Good
You’ll see this a lot with Moffat, he knows how to explain things without stupefying levels of technobabble. “Emailing the upgrade” is a perfect example of this.
The Girl In The Fireplace: Good
Some basic logic, the androids want to repair their ship, but they can’t return to it, they no longer have a function so they shut down.
Blink: Good
Always loved this one, getting the angels to look at each other, however they do look at each other sometimes earlier in the episode.
Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead: Bad
This is more of a problem with the setup of the episode, I don’t like that he can negotiate with the Vashta Nerada. I’d rather see them comprehensively beaten, but I guess it’s good for the scare factor that they can’t be escaped from.
The Eleventh Hour: Good
He convinced the best scientists all around the world to set every clock to 0 all in less than an hour. In the Doctor’s own words “Who da man!”
The Beast Below: Good
The crying child motif pretty much ended up saving the day (well for the star whale, life went on as normal for pretty much everyone else).
The Time Of Angels/Flesh And Stone: Good
The artificial gravity had briefly been set up earlier so I’ll allow it.
The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang: Good
Everything had been set up perfectly, the vortex manipulator, the Pandorica’s survival field thingy, the TARDIS exploding at every moment in history.
A Christmas Carol: Good
Literally the entire episode is the Doctor saving the day by convincing Kazran not to be a cock.
The Impossible Astronaut/Day Of The Moon: Good
The silence’s ability to influence people is their whole thing, so using it against them is a good Doctory thing to do.
A Good Man Goes To War: N/A
The day isn’t really saved, Melody is lost, but River shows up at the end so is all fine? I love the episode it’s just the day isn’t really truly saved (yes I know Amy was rescued but she still lost her baby).
Let’s Kill Hitler: N/A
There isn’t really a day to be saved. They all get out alive but no one is really saved other than maybe River but we all knew she was gonna live anyway.
The Wedding Of River Song: Good
Whilst opinion is divided on the episode, the ending still works. the Tesselecta was established in Let’s Kill Hitler, and the “touch River and time will move again” was established well in advance.
The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe: Bad
I don’t like how the lifeboat travels through the time vortex for no reason but to rescue the dad. It don’t make no sense and I don’t think it’s explained
Asylum Of The Daleks: Good
Oswin had access to the Dalek hive mind so of course she should be able to link into the controls and blow everything up.
The Angels Take Manhattan: Good
Paradoxes really do be something powerful, and they even acknowledge how nobody knows if it’d work so I’ll let it slide.
The Snowmen: Bad
Lots of people cry at Christmas, why are the Latimers anything special?
The Bells of Saint John: Good
The whole episode is about hacking so why shouldn’t the Doctor be able to hack the spoonheads
The Name Of The Doctor: Good
It was the story arc for the season pretty much, so of course it was explained well in advance.
The Day Of The Doctor: Good
Both the storing Gallifrey like a painting and the making everyone forget if they’re Human or Zygon works in the context of the episode.
The Time Of The Doctor: Bad
Since when were the Time Lords so easily negotiated with?
Deep Breath: Good
I like the dilemma over whether the half-face man was pushed or jumped.
Into The Dalek: Good
It’s set up well with this new Doctor’s persona of actually not being too nice of a guy (at first).
Listen: N/A
There isn’t a day to be saved. It’s just 45 minutes of the Doctor testing a hypothesis and I low-key love it.
Time Heist (co-written with Steven Thompson): Good
It works logically so I’ll allow it however it isn’t very well set up at all.
The Caretaker (co-written with noted shithead Gareth Roberts): Good
The machine to tell the Blitzer what to do was set up well in advance so I’ll allow it.
Dark Water/Death In Heaven: Good
The fact that Danny still cares even as a cyberman is set up fairly early on after his transformation.
Last Christmas: Good
He does use the sonic to wake up Clara but he convinces the others to wake up through talking so I’ll allow it.
The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar: Good
It’s set up well with that little scene from actually inside the sewers.
The Girl Who Died (co-written with Jamie Mathieson): Good
IDK why the Vikings would randomly keep electric eels but they’re set up well so I’ll ignore it.
The Zygon Inversion (co-written with Peter Harness): N/A
Not including this one as it’s only the second part and I’d argue the ending is most likely Harness’.
Heaven Sent/Hell Bent: N/A
Again there isn’t really a day to be saved, yes Heaven Sent really is amazing but it’s only the first part and, being completely honest, he dies several billion times before finally getting through the wall.
The Husbands Of River Song: N/A
Again there isn’t really a day to be saved here.
The Return Of Doctor Mysterio: Good
He gets Grant to catch the bomb which is good. But he does just sonic the gun out of Dr. Sim’s hand and says UNIT is on its way which just sort of wraps it up very quickly.
The Pilot: N/A
No day to be saved here.
Extremis: Good
You could technically call it the sonic saving the day, I consider it to be the Doctor emailing the Doctor to warn him of the future.
The Pyramid At The End Of The World: Good
The fire sanitising everything makes sense and it’s in character for Bill to love the Doctor enough to cure his blindness in return for the world
World Enough And Time/The Doctor Falls: Good
Yes it is the sonic just blowing the cybermen up, but it’s blowing them up with well established pipelines so I’ll allow it (also the story is amazing).
Twice Upon A Time: N/A
No day to be saved here. Just Doctors 1 and 12 getting angsty about regenerating.
Summary for Moffat:
Out of 39 stories written by him, I deemed 28 to be good with 7 abstaining. That’s 89.7% of his episodes (87.5% if we don’t count any abstaining).
Chibbers:
42: Bad
This would have been good if Chibbers explained how they managed to fly away without the sun particles which they were using as fuel.
Hungry Earth/Cold Blood: Good
The fumigation isn’t very well set up, being brought up five minutes before they actually use it, but it makes logical sense so I’ll allow it.
Dinosaurs On A Spaceship: Bad
An example of messing with morals, he just allows Solomon to get blown up even when he begs for mercy, he gave Davros mercy but not Solomon, he didn’t even offer Solomon a chance (the method of saving the day makes sense though)
The Power Of Three: Bad
I used it as an example earlier, he literally just sonics away the threat. Although I've since learned that a lot of the ending had to be cut cause the actor who played the baddie was a bitch to work with.
The Woman Who Fell To Earth: Good
The bomb transfer makes sense, however it isn’t set up well, and I don’t like how she tells Karl he had no right to kick Tzim-Sha off the crane even though she was threatening to blow him up.
The Ghost Monument: N/A
No day to be saved here, just looking for the TARDIS that’s all.
Rosa (co-written with Malorie Blackman): Good
Ryan zaps the space racist (spacist?) to the past with his own equipment, so it works, like I said, always good to see the baddies strengths used against them.
Arachnids In The UK: Good
It definitely works, however they don’t ensure that the spiders don’t escape and also I don’t see how locking a living creature in a room to starve to death is more humane.
The Tsuranga Conundrum: Good
It all makes logical sense so I’ll allow it.
The Battle Of Ranskoor Av Kolos: Good
The power of words really do be a thing that exist.
Resolution: Good
The Dalek did a mother-of-mine and got thrown into a supernova, which works.
Spyfall: Good
The virus works, and its nice when the Doctor turns the Master’s allies against him, although it’d be nice if Chibbers could set up the Doctor’s plan more than 5 minutes before it is executed.
Fugitive Of The Judoon (co-written with Vinay Patel): N/A
There isn’t really a day to be saved here, and I’m not sure how much of this episode was actually written by Chibbers anyway.
Praxeus (co-written with Pete McTighe): Good
They do a Poison Sky and spread the antidote worldwide through the jet stream, again I’m unsure how much was Chibbers and how much was McTighe.
Can You Hear Me? (co-written with Charlene James): Good
I don’t like how she was able to imprison literal gods, but hey ho, it was actually set up which makes a change so I’ll allow it.
Ascension Of The Cybermen/The Timeless Children: Bad
The death particle is suitably set up however I don’t like how easily the Doctor escapes from destroying Gallifrey herself, Ko Sharmus was a bit of Deus Ex Machina.
Revolution Of The Daleks: Good
The other TARDIS was set up the previous episode so I’ll allow it but I could’ve sworn it was said somewhere in Army Of Ghosts that even the TARDIS can’t go into the void.
The Halloween Apocalypse: Good
It's a bit confusing how the Flux, this supposedly all powerful thing that is going to destroy time and the whole universe and can stop for nothing, can be stopped by a few Lupari ships just with the throwaway line 'Our Survival Battalion was engineered and built to weather whatever the Flux can throw at us'. I've got no idea what that means, but it's well set up so I'll allow it.
War Of The Sontarans: Good
I like how Chibbers took the probic vent and took it to its logical extreme (although it leads to confusion as to why Strax didn't have to refuel every 27 hours). I didn't really like that tacked on bit at the end where The Doctor was suddenly given the moral high ground by the General.
Once Upon Time: Good
I mean the bootstrap paradox works which is why I’m saying it’s good but also like it’s never explained what the doctor is acc doing to jump between the time streams or how she put everyone there.
Village Of The Angels/Survivors Of The Flux/The Vanquishers: Good
I like the concept of using matter to slow down anti-matter (it's not a Chibbers story unless the ending is setup five mins beforehand) but the passenger swallowing the flux was ripped directly from Revolution Of The Daleks IMHO.
Eve Of The Daleks: Good
I'm not too sure why the time loop was set to end at midnight but I liked that they just blew the Daleks up, sometimes the simple solutions are the best. (Also cue the conspiracy theories on who Jeff is cause he just so happened to have all this random stuff kept there)
Legend Of The Sea Devils: Bad
Textbook technobabble, this sort of stuff makes me miss Moffat sometimes
The Power Of The Doctor: Bad
I honestly have no idea what was going on with those volcanoes and how they got turned into “modern art” or who that ctrl+c ctrl+v or the Controller from Bad Wolf was and how they helped save the day, I know they did something but I don’t understand (tbh I was a tad busy fangirling I need to rewatch it properly, also that was second only to 4 in terms of worst reasons to regenerate)
Summary for Chibbers:
Out of 24 stories written by him so far, I deemed 17 to be good with 2 abstaining. That’s 70.8% of his episodes (77.3% if we don’t count any abstaining).
Conclusions:
Moffat is the best at saving the day so far
Moffat liked telling stories where the day didn’t actually need to be saved
Chibbers is surprisingly good at saving the day creatively
Chibbers really liked giving the Doctor the moral high ground even though they didn’t deserve it
If I spent as much time on this as my coursework I’d probably pass
If you’re still reading this, you probably need to get a life
