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As some of you may know, this blog is a side blog. I love it dearly, but my main has become stressful for me to run. So, I have made a new account purely to focus on Doctor Who and this blog will be going on hiatus. I would love for you to join me on my new blog!
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I Know What The Midnight Entity Was...
Ok so I had an epiphany the other night and I’m pretty much 100% certain I know what the mysterious creature in Midnight was. But first off, let’s review what we know about the Midnight entity.
It was able to survive at least in some form on the surface of the planet where the x-tonic radiation vaporized any living thing in split seconds.
It communicated by repeating what the people in the transport were saying, first with a lag-time, then instantaneously.
It was able to inhabit the body of a human.
It was able to take over the mind of the Doctor.
There was something about the transport that it was drawn to, but it had never attacked a transport previously.
So that’s what we know, and it’s not much to go on. But there is one significant other entity in the Doctor Who canon who exhibits all these traits. Ready for it?
The Midnight Entity is a Tardis.
If a Tardis were somehow to crash onto the surface of Midnight, one could assume that the x-tonic radiation would effect it in the same way as it would any other living creature, vaporizing it instantly. However, the interior of the ship exists on a different dimension than the exterior so we can safely assume that only the exterior would be destroyed, while the interior was preserved. Without a physical exterior however, a Tardis would loose the ability to materialize in another location, essentially trapping it both on, and equally not on the planet.
Aside from It’s human form in “The Doctor’s Wife” we never hear the Tardis speak directly. However, this is not completely true, in another sense we nearly always are hearing the Tardis speak… through the translation matrix. Translation, a Tardis’ main form of communication, is in essence, simply listening to what someone says and repeating it after them. Typically this is done in another language, however, if the Doctor’s Tardis was already translating instantly we wouldn’t hear this, instead it would just sound like an echo. As the Midnight Entity, superseded the link of the Doctor’s Tardis, we would lose the echo first of the other passengers, then of the Doctor. Once the mental link to the Doctor is fully established the translation would become instantaneous, however since the entity is still inhabiting a physical body it would be physically voicing the words as well.
In the Doctor’s Wife, we see that it is possible for a Tardis to inhabit the body of a human.
We know that a Timelord has a mental link that enables him to pilot a Tardis. However, a Tardis is an incredibly powerful entity and one would assume that were it’s motivations malicious, or were it particularly desperate, the same link could be taken advantage of to enable a Tardis to essentially “pilot” a Timelord. In fact, it’s hard to imagine any creature besides a Tardis, having that sort of power.
So under the circumstances I’ve described, a trapped, and damaged Tardis would need two things to escape the Midnight planet. Firstly, it would need an external hull that could withstand the x-tonic radiation. This it found in the transport ship itself. However, there would have been no point in attacking any previous transports until it found the second thing it needed to escape, a Timelord to pilot it. In this light all the creatures actions make sense. The first thing it does is remove the driver’s cabin, because it needs to sever the shuttle controls in order to replace them with itself. Secondly, it finds a way to get it’s consciousness inside the cabin, it does this by taking over Sky’s body. Next it forges a mental link with the Timelord, this process is complicated by the fact that he is already linked to another Tardis. Once that is done, the entity would need to get the Timelord out of the transport and into it’s own interior. I believe that while the exterior of the entity Tardis was lost, there would still be a non-physical portal of some sort to the interior. This would be the shadow the Mechanic sees on the surface of the planet. The if the entity could convince the crew to throw the Doctor out of the transport, then it could line it’s portal up with the door so that they were essentially throwing him into the ship’s interior. Once that was done, then the final step would have been to take on the outer hull of the transport and dematerialize out of there. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite work out that way.
Anyway, so there you have it. The Midnight Entity is a Tardis.
well that’s a terrifying thought
congratulations tumblr user whatwecanfic, you’ve managed to make the Midnight episode even scarier than it already was
Happy Steven Moffat appreciation day!
‘Heroes are important. History books tell us who we used to be, documentaries tell us who we are now, but heroes tell us who we want to be and a lot of our heroes depress me. But you know when they made this particular hero (The Doctor), they didn’t give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. And not a tank or warship or X-wing fighter. They gave him a call box from which you can call for help. And they didn’t give him a superpower or pointy ears or a heat ray. They gave him an extra heart. They give him two hearts and that’s an extraordinary thing because I don’t think there will ever be a time when we don’t need a hero like the Doctor.’
a collection of not all my tenrose art but a lot of it
since it seems to be so popular with you guys
You know where we should send White Supremacists? On a wonderful educational trip to a nice little planet called Skaro.
Just saying.
I figured there was truth in the rumours, but I’m so sad to hear it’s been pretty much confirmed that Murray Gold will no longer be composing for Doctor Who. In my opinion, he has written some of the best scores out there. I have thoroughly enjoyed everything he has written for Doctor Who, and I can only hope that the Series 9 and 10 soundtracks will eventually be released so we can continue to appreciate and love his amazing music.
Thank you, Murray Gold, for contributing such such an instrumental (no pun intended) element to 10 series of this show.
i saw this today and it fucking broke my heart. i have had a lot of things to say about New Who and how it was so magical for me, how recent writing has made it stray away from the Space Fairytale it’s meant to be, but through it ALL, whether I liked it or not, Murray’s scores were what made me sob anyway. This is really REALLY sad.
tbh nothing is weirder to me than manly grimdark dudebro lord of the rings bc it’s just??? the epitome of light and love to me???? no narrative embodies hope and gentleness and healing like lotr does why must you insist on talking to me about badass aragorn vs. useless frodo. that’s not the point brad
I feel like this is also why so many of the post-LOTR Tolkien ripoffs are so terrible! It’s people pulling from Tolkien when they fundamentally don’t understand what makes Tolkien work. You get all these stories written by people who don’t think Frodo was worthy of his plotline and so they give it to their Aragorn expy instead, and it’s dull and boring and totally lacks the themes and the heart that make LOTR an important, enduring story.
#lord of the rings is about beauty and love and good and hope and gentleness in the face of overwhelming sadness and darkness#less about the battlefields and more about frodo and Sam holding hands through Shelob’s lair#and Galadriel’s star-glass in the darkness of mordor#overwhelmingly the point is beauty and love#even though those things are tinged in sadness#the reason I can never get into any other fantasy stories is because they focus on the battles and the hardship#and not about the beauty and the love and the sadness#‘I will not say do not weep for not all tears are an evil’ (tags from @greyacedipperpines)
when Aragorn shows up in Gondor no one cares who he is until he gets to the Houses of Healing, because the proof of true kingship is not being able to fight real good, it’s having “the hands of a healer”
so Aragorn calls his friends back from the darkness with little more than a gentle touch and a loving voice (and some plants, but it’s pretty clear that the plants alone aren’t enough) and that’s when the rumors spread through Gondor that the King has returned because the love of a king has this great power
like… that’s the big moment. washing his friends’ wounds and telling them they’re going to be okay. this is not macho! it’s not badass! I mean… in a way it’s actually really fucking badass that someone can get stabbed by a knife made of evil and Aragorn doesn’t even have to raise his voice when he says “not today,” but it’s not, like, standard fantasy badass.
Tolkien lived through a war. War is not entertaining and epic, it’s horrifying and terrible. That’s why all the climatic moments of LOTR aren’t battles, but decisions of love: Sam going back for Frodo, Bilbo giving Bard the Arkenstone, Aragorn healing Merry and Eowyn…
Where modern fantasy falls short is they think a war setting is the key to Tolkien’s success, so they describe warrior-man and the gorey, rapey, traumatizing things he does/sees (looking at u, SOIAF). But it’s not about fighting the war, it’s about living through it and loving despite it. Bilbo Baggins slept through his battles, Frodo and Sam (arguably, the main heroes) never fought or killed, a woman & hobbit defeated the witch-king out of love for their lord, not for power or fame. LOTR isn’t a story of war bc Tolkien had already seen that, it’s the story of hope.
River: I like your trousers.
Eleven: Thanks. They were 50% off.
River: I’d like them 100% off.
Eleven: The shop can’t just give away clothes for free.
River: That’s not what I-
Eleven: That’s a terrible way to run a business, River.
the fact that people dont consider game of thrones as “cringey” of a show as doctor who or sherlock is literally just because of how many men are obsessed with it. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
The Doctor and Clara - Same man, different face.
Bill Potts Appreciation Day
“Pearl has been an absolutely magnificent new contribution to the show. She stepped into this juggernaut that we have and brought us a real living character in Bill Potts, who has her feet on the ground, and her heart in the stars”. - Peter Capaldi
just so y'all are aware! Thirteen’s coat is pale blue, not beige!
DESTROY ME PLEASE
Bringing this back to brighten up an otherwise grey Tuesday.
Would you be willing to write a drabble where Clara visits Missy in the vault without the Doctor's knowledge? I'd like to see them a bit flirty, but feel free to take it any direction you want. Thanks!
“I was wondering when you’d pop by,” Missy purred, leaning back against the piano and eyeing the new arrival to the vault with a smirk. “Hello, puppy.”
“Oh, like you’re not pleased to see me,” Clara shot back, but her tone was fond. “Aren’t you bored in here?”
“Oh, it’s not so bad. I’ve got my music and I’ve got Thete and sometimes I’ve got the baldy one or the hopeless lesbian, so I keep myself entertained. It’d be much more interesting if there was the odd spot of homicide to engage in, but you can’t win them all, I suppose.”
“I thought you were in here to be cured of your homicidal tendencies.”
“Let a bad girl have her indulgences, dearie,” Missy licked her lips. “And yes, you do count as one of those.”
“Murdering me might be difficult,” Clara said coolly. “Given the immortality thing.”
“It wasn’t murder I had in mind.”
Sorry it took me so long to reblog this, but I was the one who sent the request. It was perfect! Thank you so much!!!!
Rose and thirteen accidentally misplacing each other's clothes and not realising. Until one of the companions calls them by the wrong name.
Oh this would definitely happen - on more than one occasion! For sure!
Imagine the Doctor considering it a compliment being called by Rose’s name :’)
But imagine that the companion calls Rose by her last name and it takes the Doctor a while to realize that anything is wrong because Tyler is the Doctor’s name too.
