Whoosh Whoosh

Torchwood rules, it’s like “Hey kids, did you like the funny bisexual man from Doctor Who? How’d you like to see him have passionate gay sex with his secretary and also murder a child?”

And uh. Poured in concrete and shit.

“Doctor Mew?”

An aquarelle painting of the Sixth Doctor (Big Finish edition) along with all of his other televised selves — as cats! Includes the Valeyard and the War Doctor. Please click for high-res.

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really appreciate early 2000s big finish for going 'what if this beloved fourth doctor companion just like, sucked as a person?' this post is NOT about leela, who has done nothing wrong except killing people until they died.

war never changes

pov you’re on tumblr for halloween:

people who don’t have boops on, I respect your peace but also picture me standing outside your blog scratching the door like a cat wanting to be let in

thoschei draft script moments my beloved

I’m having such a Michelle Gomez brainrot lately hehe

Doctor Who solved the death of the author debate by never having one author, having no canon, and all of the authors are already trying to kill each other for you. Don’t like a particular writer’s interpretation? Great grab some popcorn and watch as 30 acclaimed science fiction writers go Julius Cesar on them over the span of 20 years.

On top of that most of the current writers grew up on the show and are fans, so it creates a story that feels completely untethered from any one person’s perspective. It's a universe in the hands of the audience.

op, elaborate??

It would be my pleasure.

in the 1996 TV movie starring Paul McGann as the 8th doctor, a lot of the character and world was sort of reimagined as a way to gain a new audience. There hadn't been an episode of Doctor Who in 7 years and the series was becoming a bit of a nostalgic blank slate.

Bit of a tangent - but this was maybe the hardest pivot we have seen into a more American market. It had a mostly American cast, an American setting, and an American film star play the master. Apparently there were even rumors of an American actor being cast as the doctor but I think there would have been riots if such an iconic British show was so blatantly plastered over.

Anyways, back to the half human. During a dinner party in the movie the doctor pulls another party goer aside and whispers to them that he's half human on his mother's side. There is also a scene where the master is poking around the doctor's tardis and pulls up some scans of the doctor and realizes that he has a human retinal structure and that the doctor is half human. I think if one of these events happened people would have tried to write it off as a throw away line, but having one of them be an admission from the doctor and the other be a discovery from the master made that hard to do.

Lots of writers hated this, to the point where there have been in universe jabs at it such as in The Forgotten comic claiming that the 8th doctor faked the scans to trick the master. Russell T Davies has dismissed this idea in and out of universe a lot and put out the idea that every regeneration can adopt different species' biology and the doctor just happened to be half human at the time. (Which honestly makes no sense to me when time lords have always been their own unique species). He once said in a big finish interview that "I don't like the half-human thing, he certainly isn't half-human, but it's less interesting to say it simply doesn't count. I always wanted to put in a line where someone says to the Doctor, 'Are you human?' and the Doctor says, 'No, but I was once in 1999. It was a 24-hour bunk'".

there are a lot more writers that hate this idea and honestly I am struggling to think of more examples but it's something that if you keep an eye out for and go through old show runner interviews with in mind it comes up pretty frequently. Some also really like it, Steven Moffat liked to play with it especially with the 12 doctor in I think season 9 when Me suggests that he might be half human.

Honestly the whole timeless child thing feels like a repeat of this mixed with the wilderness years also trying to make looms canon and the doctor being a human who escaped the 42nd century war to go back in time. The doctor's origin gets re-written every few decades and everyone gets very upset and dismisses it or loves it and has to defend it with their life.

If anyone would be interested in a sort of fun playing around with this phenomenon I would recommend the eighth doctor adventure book Unnatural History, where a 5th dimensional being who hates contradictions tries to re-write the doctor's biology so only one origin is true. Sometimes when I see grumpy men on reddit say the show is broken and chibnail ruined it and wawa this makes no sense I am like ah yes. Just like Griffin.

so ok yeah fine i watched gravity falls again and read the book of bill

some people were just born to play the doctor, like joanna lumley, richard e. grant, and lalla ward

god damn it. how could i have forgotten: timothy chalamet

Don’t you mean Salyvester McCoy?