I once again am BEGGING for Ruby to be a lesbian. Plz. I will sell my soul
oreo102 reblogged
Ruby could’ve been SO FUN. I love character’s whose importance comes not from themselves or their family but from the circumstances they find themselves in and the people they surround themselves with. Ruby being important and powerful because of the importance people put on her, because of how she met the doctor would’ve been interesting.
Making Ruby inherently entwined with Christmas because it’s the day she was born, because everyone says she is, making the music in her soul a famous Christmas song because everyone thinks that’s what it should be would’ve been interesting.
Ruby’s important coming from the doctor and her mom, and everyone else who has put that importance on her, would be interesting.
If they had worked that angle from the start. Don’t make her birth a mystery and if you do don’t hype it up so much, make her importance slowly gain traction throughout the story until she IS powerful and important, make something happen to make her so, make it happen because the doctor, this new face, so regretful of yaz not knowing anything about them(yes I found a way to work her into this) they infodump immediately, this new face that latches to the first person he sees, a blonde 19 year old, a 19 year old putting themselves in danger for others, vowing to change the past, to not hurt this one.
Make is happen because he begs the universe for the past to stop repeating and for once the universe allows it to. Let 15’s love and trauma influence how Ruby is perceived, let it influence the world around them to inflate her importance until it’s true. Let Ruby be in danger and for the doctor’s feelings, the regret and hurt and love and hope, influence the universe enough for Ruby to BECOME what everyone is saying she is.
Make the reveal at the half point of the season. Reveal ruby’s birth mom is not anyone special, reveal that she was just a normal woman(girl? How old was she?) at the half point. Have Ruby grapple with that, have her grapple with the fact that her mom was normal and she isn’t, for whatever reason, she is more. She has a Christmas song in her soul, she was clumsy and unlucky due to goblins, coincidences surround her (seriously they shoulda stuck with that, I know why they didn’t but it would’ve been more interesting), it snows whenever her birth is mentioned, she survives what shouldn’t be possible.
Make her have to confront that despite having nothing special, she IS, and have it get more and more distressing for her as it goes on, have her question if her birth mom is truly what she seems, have her question why she is held up with so much importance, why the song in her soul is so powerful.
And then in the finale, have suketk(??) threaten her, have 15 panic, have Ruby panic, have whoever else is there panic. Then show Ruby doing something a human shouldn’t be able to- make it snow without her birth mother mentioned, have Christmas music faintly playing.
“How could a song have so much power? And power like him. The oldest one.”
Make sutetk unable to touch her, make her immune to him somehow. Immune to the death god, immune to what he can do- not immune to dying, she’s not immortal, but HE can’t kill her.
Use all the stupid mystery mongering bullshit as a final act, of sorts. Her importance and power doesnt come from her birth family, or mother, or her upbringing, it comes from the doctor- comes from the importance he has put in her, comes from him begging the universe for something to be different.
Let her power and importance in the universe come from herself- she jumps on a floating ladder because goblins took the baby, she faces off with a music god because it’s the right thing to do, etc
Ruby could’ve been SO FUN. I love character’s whose importance comes not from themselves or their family but from the circumstances they find themselves in and the people they surround themselves with. Ruby being important and powerful because of the importance people put on her, because of how she met the doctor would’ve been interesting.
Making Ruby inherently entwined with Christmas because it’s the day she was born, because everyone says she is, making the music in her soul a famous Christmas song because everyone thinks that’s what it should be would’ve been interesting.
Ruby’s important coming from the doctor and her mom, and everyone else who has put that importance on her, would be interesting.
If they had worked that angle from the start. Don’t make her birth a mystery and if you do don’t hype it up so much, make her importance slowly gain traction throughout the story until she IS powerful and important, make something happen to make her so, make it happen because the doctor, this new face, so regretful of yaz not knowing anything about them(yes I found a way to work her into this) they infodump immediately, this new face that latches to the first person he sees, a blonde 19 year old, a 19 year old putting themselves in danger for others, vowing to change the past, to not hurt this one.
Make is happen because he begs the universe for the past to stop repeating and for once the universe allows it to. Let 15’s love and trauma influence how Ruby is perceived, let it influence the world around them to inflate her importance until it’s true. Let Ruby be in danger and for the doctor’s feelings, the regret and hurt and love and hope, influence the universe enough for Ruby to BECOME what everyone is saying she is.
I joke a lot that I could write better than whatever series I think is shit at that moment in time (most commonly Throne Of Glass and Harry Potter) and a lot of times it is a joke but I’m 100% serious in saying I could write 15 a better story.
I could write Ruby a better mystery, I could write 15 a more compelling story with better villains, I could write their relationship more complex, I could do it better.
A) the way ruby’s mystery is handled is probably the worst case of writing I have ever seen. It’s absolutely terrible. Thats not how you write a compelling mystery nor arc nor reveal
B) THE DUMBEST THING RTD COULD DO WAS PROVE ME RIGHT. I WILL NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT THIS. I WAS FUCKING RIGHT!! NEVER LET ME BE RIGHT ABOUT STUPID SHIT
Srsly tho, as much joy as the reveal that Ruby is a Normal Guy brought me, it was the worst ending they could’ve given that mystery and I am only happy because I hated/hate the mystery plot and am a bitch
Damn. This episode is actually good and entertaining and the message is like actually pretty good and clear. I don’t even mind the mystery around Ruby this episode because it’s not a focal point, it’s mentioned yea but it’s not like- held up as super important to this, it’s not the plot.
Fuck this is interesting, damn it. I genuinely give shows like 3 episodes to peak my interest but of course Dr who does THIS after smth like THE DEVILS CORD
Swore I was gonna stop watching the newest season but my mom is watching it and I’m in here so
RUBY IS SO PRETTY???? She needs to be a lesbian, let her be gay, I need her to be gay, I will sign my life away to this show, I will watch it for the rest of the time it’s on air if only this woman is lesbian.
She is so cool and lovely and like my favorite character in this and just- I love her. I need her to be gay. Let her be gay and happy and get a gf, I beg, it’s pride month it’d be homophobic not to make her gay (I’m joking)
Also: damn episode 4 is actually kinda fun… damn.
Anonymous asked:
Not really an ask but a mutual complaint. I don't get why because 14 settled down and 15 is "healed" that we're supposed to be OK that they got to find love and happiness easily but 13 didn't.
We’re supposed to be okay with it because no one likes 13. The majority of the fandom either won’t give her a chance because of bad faith criticism or are the ones making it. I had someone tell me before I even started watching her, after I mentioned that if I were to watch Dr who, it’d be her, tell me that I wouldn’t like her because the writing was atrocious(it’s not).
#doctor who#new who#13th doctor#thirteenth doctor#yasmin khan#thasmin#yazmin khan#yaz khan#15th doctor#yaz x thirteen#yaz x 13#13 x yaz#thirteen x yaz#14th doctor#donna noble#ruby sunday#rant post#let yaz punch 15#let yaz punch someone#let yaz punch 14#13 deserves a happy ending#the doctor#dont get me started on 15 and rogue
Ruby is so cool and if they would just drop the mystery around her parentage and tell us id love her 100x more.
She’s inherently connected to Christmas and there’s a hidden Xmas song in her soul? Sick as hell. It randomly snows when her parentage gets brought up? Fucking cool. We don’t know why any of that is the case? My gods just kill me
Also she shoulda been the one to find the lost chord bc it’s just cool
Ya know… I’m enjoying 15’s series less than 13’s by a large margin. The characters are stronger (I love 13’s era but the characterizations are a bit weak) but the plots are so much more hit or miss.
Church on Ruby road? My darling, literally the funnest of the 3 I’ve seen
Space babies? Not the worse, it’s personally not my favorite but I like it well enough- the infodumping bit is annoying
The devils cord? I love the characters, they’re fun and interesting but the plot? It’s… boring. Oh, another world ending threat, another big bad who wants to end the universe. Like the toy maker and the bedazzled skulls (I don’t remember their names, sue me)… having a world ending villian every 3 episodes is boring.
Honestly the only reason I’m still giving it a chance is because of how much I love the characters- Ruby and 15 are brilliant, and the side characters are just as fun. Everything else is hit or miss
At least with 13 I had fun watching all of them but the first dalek special. Like- I’m trying to keep an open mind but so far… if this is what the rest of Dr who is like, I’m glad I didn’t bother.
There’s a weird amount of potty humor in the space babies episode. In one hand it makes sense because ya know- babies and potty humor go hand in hand but on the other a lot of it was just “ok… that is definitely a joke.” Like- the space station moving by farting, or Ruby getting covered in snot, it’s just… not my cup of tea.
It feels kinda out of place, as well, with the fact that the episode gets semi-heavy around the middle but at the end is using potty humor. 15 cackling when Ruby gets covered in snot was hilarious though, that’s bestie behavior and I appreciate it
I love Ruby, so much, she is amazing, but the mystery mongering around her parentage is making me so done with the show and I’ve watched two (2) episodes. It doesn’t help that I saw an absolutely ridiculous theory on it but like- gods I want her to just be a Normal Guy. I want all the insane fan theories to be wrong, I want her to be A Guy
See I think yaz and ruby meeting would be beautifully chaotic.
Yaz would show her a picture of 13 and Ruby would contemplate every single decision that lead her to having a crush on her bestie’s old body (fight me, Ruby would think 13 is hot)
Ruby would casually mention something about the doctor’s past (smth tame) and yaz would stare in barely disguised jealousy
By the end of it they’re besties and Ruby has convinced yaz to meet 15
I really love 15 and Ruby, like really really love ‘em, but every new thing I see of the new season either makes me much more excited to eventually watch it (I’m busy) or absolutely dread watching it. Like- idk, I don’t really like angst that much and it seems much more angsty than 13’s era (at least the start) but it also seems equally (kinda) as fun?
What? I’m so normal about a character I’ve only seen once, why do you ask?
oreo102 reblogged
I have a lot of thoughts on episodes we shoulda gotten in 13’s era so ima reblog this everytime I think of a new one, but here’s a list of them so far
One focusing on yaz’s depression (I believe that yaz was depressed both bc of being bullied and having no friends and a chemical imbalance, maybe she runs out of meds at one point on the tardis and we see how 13 tries to help? Or it could be like through various flashbacks)
One about Ryan’s grief, both for grace and his mom- with bits about his relationship with his dad
One about Graham… idk what it could be but I like Graham and he should get an episode
One about Dan, again idk what but that man is criminally underdeveloped
One where River meets yaz and 13. It’d be so fun.
One where 13 and yaz get stuck somewhere together, preferably after both realize their feelings (altho having it before would be equally entertaining)
An episode with yaz’s sister as an important character
One where yaz gets taken by a villain and 13 becomes a tornado of fury to get her back
Like 10 more episodes with ONLY yaz and 13 as the main 2, like in the time period between graham/ryan and dan
13 and yaz going on a date, whether they know it’s a date or not
More episodes with Kate, her dynamic with 13 could be brilliant
Episode with the master and yaz having to work together. Idk about what but I wanna see it so bad- maybe 13 could be in danger and spy-master is like “if anyone is gonna be why she regenerates it’s gonna be me” and yaz begrudgingly accepts his help
Also an episode where yaz is allowed to commit violence against someone
I also think an episode where 13 has to deal with like just a normal sexist comment on earth would be interesting? (What comes from this experience would be 15 being scarily protective of Ruby whenever they’re walking together on earth)
Please I'm so so curious to hear your thoughts on 10/14
Ok so my thoughts on 10 are less than 14 so let’s start with him lol. I have not watched 10, so my hatred of him is more hatred by proxy of how the fandom treats him and proxy of 14, but I still do have a few specific thoughts and this will be long and definitely rambly
#doctor who#new who#13th doctor#thirteenth doctor#thasmin#15th doctor#my ramblings#14th doctor#fifteenth doctkr#yasmin khan#fourteenth doctor#10th doctor#tenth doctor#ruby sunday#donna noble#anti rtd#david tennant#obligatory I don’t hate him#just his characters#this is long#I’m not sorry for any of this