gonna grow you a place safer than this

The master rolling up to unit and immediately launching into a roast session on everybody has got to be one of the highlights of the episode

Rewatching Resolution (again), I’m further convinced Chibnall’s bringing in UNIT in the coming series, maybe not in s12 but there will be a moment the Doctor will be in trouble and Kate Stewart will stride in like Big Damned Heroes. 

Especially since listening to the (very funny) telephone operator I realize she didn’t say UNIT was permanently shutdown but it was ‘suspended, pending review’. That’s like classic covert ops trope right there where the covert taskforce attempt to both do their jobs while justify their existence to a short sighted bureaucracy. 

This also has a bit of precedent in RL, since this isn’t just a Brexit reference, I think it’s also a NATO reference where Trump threatens to pull out from NATO. 

I 100% believe Kate Lethbridge Stewart is in Geneva right now fighting tooth and nail to keep UNIT relevant while covertly still running an underground Taskforce. 

UNIT audios would have so much fun with this, especially playing with this trope. 

(Also, I highly doubt Chibnall would bring up UNIT just the shutter it, I don’t know what happened to Torchwood post-COE but if I remember correctly save for the Doctor mentioning Jack and then the use of the Retcon drug in Face the Raven, it seems like it no longer operates in the main ‘verse. Spin-offs are such muddy waters for Doctor Who continuity.)

This also makes me wonder about MDZ Research, because again, I noticed Dalek!Lin didn’t get the weapons from the Black Archives but from MDZ Research. Mitch mentioned that MDZ Research has been collecting “non-terrestial weapons in the Black Market”. 

I feel buying alien weapons and showing the logo twice seems like foreshadowing. 

I wonder if that’ll be a relevant plot point in series 12, and I wonder if MDZ Research is the reason why UNIT lost its funding too? It would bring two storylines together if MDZ happens to be connected to whatever will happen in s12. 

(Also, what does MDZ stand for? Movellans, Dalek, Zygon??? I mean, if it is, it’s not the first time the Doctor’s enemies banded together to bring her down.)

I hope the Order of Custodians will also be a thing in s12 because they sound very interesting. I don’t think its a powerful or rich organization, I think it’s just a small group like the Knights in Buffy. 

The MDZ and Order of Custodians didn’t pan out (I think, I have to rewatch Revolution of the Daleks). 

BUT

FASTFORWARD TO 2021, DOCTOR WHO BTS

Christopher Chibnall in his flower print shirt: “UNIT in episode 5. I really, I was looking forward to bringing UNIT back, and we’d been planning this for a while, because you know the worst thing to happen to it is its been under threat and obviously has been closed since Resolution it was very deliberately so we could bring it back later on, and it would feel like what has happened to UNIT, and is the world safe without UNIT?’

Oh, I’m sorry, its not loud enough:

I’M GOING TO BE INSUFFERABLE, IN SU FFERA BLE ABOUT THIS.

I love the implication that the bargain bin Brax had to work to infiltrate UNIT, but, the other agency that predates them by close to a century that also focuses on the extra-terrestrial threats, Torchwood, is so dysfunctional that he didn’t even need to bother with them.

Lmaoooo

I don’t think I can convey how much Big Finish’s New UNIT series has let me down so hard in regards to Kate Stewart.

It started with the Moffat era where Moffat couldn’t find the right balance between Kate being her own character and a daughter of a legacy character. And then moving Kate away as the Chief Scientific Officer in practice to letting all science be only Osgood.

This followed on in Big Finish where she was 99% Daughter of the Brig. It’s like with Harriet Jones, every story.

Except in one BF story where Kate felt like Kate again. One story of how many?

So having this Kate back, Power of Three!Kate back? I loved it so much.

Yesss

Also, I am so glad that Chibnall is writing Kate Stewart again? He introduced the character into TV Who and he wrote her best IMO. Competent, confident, and compassionate.

She understood her father’s legacy but also she’s committed to being more than ‘the Brig’s daughter’. She’s a scientist first before she’s a gun toting commander, which she increasingly became under Moffat Who.

Also, she is brilliant which is often undermined and underused by Big Finish writers who does only see Kate as Brig 2. And not, Chief Scientist of UNIT. 

There can be two brilliant scientific women in UNIT, it’s not just Osgood. Kate is brilliant in a different scientific way.

Yes!!!

okay but the implication of this line

imagine you got kidnapped by a dog person and then ended up following around two random people - one of whom you're pretty sure is an alien - through time and space, and then you just live three years of your life in 1901

…The implications of that line while visually she’s playing Tomb Raider. *checks wiki* Torchwood was founded in 1879. And in 1899 a Torchwood branch had those powerful kinda scary lesbians. (It may have been a while since I watched but some things you don’t forget).

I mean…we got UNIT back. Ish. And I think we’d all prefer Yaz to be able to avoid at least some of the racism, sexism, homophobia, islamaphobia etc. and Torchwood did have a few branches.

The Doctor’s part of a secret sometimes immoral organisation. Therefore her mirror Yaz being part of one…just sayin. It works.

!!!!! And I'm pretty sure that Graham and Ryan would be at least tangentially involved with Torchwood following their departure. For Yaz to join in also would be .... quite neat. Though, they are still very high on "Doctor is the enemy No 1". Hey, though - Jack is also around, having lived through all this time. She could run into a familiar face one of these times.

Y’know….this could conceivably be a good setup for UNIT coming back in series 13

I’m sure that’s not gonna happen but could you imagine Kate going “yeah, the prime minister fucked up so badly they gave us our funding back”

Idc I just want to see the look on Kate “My-Dad-Knew-Everything-About-The-Doctor-I’ve-Read-His-Files” Stewart’s face when she meets Thirteen

Yes!!!

dr who story idea: the Doctor pays a visit to UNIT & finds that they’ve hired a new scientific advisor. The new scientific advisor could not more obviously be the Master in a flimsy disguise. No-one will believe the Doctor when they point this out.

The Doctor: Brigadier!! that’s the Master!

Delgado!Master, wearing a bad wig and smoking a pipe: no I’m not

Brigadier: don’t be absurd Doctor. The Master has completely different hair, and he never smoked a pipe. Now, apologise to Professor Masterson at once.

Delgado!Master: ;3

Lmfao beautiful

unit may have gotten shut down bc funding, but i refuse to believe for one single second that Kate Lethbridge Goddamn Stewart isn’t running an underground, shadow version of unit somewhere

FUCK YEAH

UNIT being shut down due to budget cuts is the most realistic thing to happen on doctor who

Yep lol

UNIT operations are suspended due to “financial disputes” from the UK’s “international partners”

Guys

UNIT operations are suspended due to Brexit

I’m screaming

@rowanthestrange this is the greatest chain of tags I’ve ever seen in my life, thank you

OMFG HGFDKFJGHFDKJGHBGJDKFJBHGFJD

modern unit au where instead of reciting nursery rhymes when the master tries to hypnotise her, jo recites vines

Jjdlsjdkdl

“Now look into my eyes, Ms. Grant… I am the Master, and you will-“

“I AM THE SAND GUARDIAN! GUARDIAN OF THE SAND!!”

“What? What are you-“

“POSEIDON QUIVERS BEFORE HIM!!”

To finish the vine Jo would then have to scream “FUCK OFF” at the top of her lungs while looking the Master directly in the eye, and that’s something I really want to see in canon now. @Big Finish.

Omg yes XD

River Song content for 2019 now includes:

The Diary of River Song 5 - River meets the Master The Eighth of March - River meets Leela Ravenous 3 - River meets Charley and Bliss (and Liv and Helen once again) UNIT - Incursions - River meets Kate and Osgood Legacy of Time - River meets Benny The Diary of River Song 6 (TDORS6 has been confirmed on twitter but release date is a guess, following from previous release dates of the series) - ???

IM SO EXCITED!!!!!