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So, in an effort to continue my reign as Queen of Overthing Everything I Love, here's two more things I've noticed while rewatching Church on Ruby Road...again.
1) How The Doctor words his telling of the story of Ruby being found. His narration of the story goes like this:
"Once upon a time, late on Christmas Eve, a stranger came to the church on Ruby Road.
"She carried in her arms the most precious gift of all: A newborn child. A baby girl.
"Just before midnight, she left her daughter on the steps of the church.
"The child was taken in, and they named her Ruby after the place where she was found.
"As for the mother, she was never seen again. No one ever knew her name...
"Until that night a time traveler came to call. A traveler known as The Doctor."
Now, certain parts of that feel like artistic liberties for the sake of the story/fairytale vibe. (Ex. "...on the steps of the church" as we watch Ruby be placed on the ground in front of the door, no steps insight.)
I've already made a post about why I think the woman being Ruby's mother is likely one of those artistic liberties, but that's not what this is about.
This time, I'm caught up on the "No one ever knew her name UNTIL..."
The only ways to take the whole last part of his story is that when The Doctor arrives during that scene, are a) he knows her name in that moment, or b) somehow his arrival causes an unnamed but relevant someone else to know her name.
And while, that alone wouldn't be enough to warrant this post, it did feel intentional. Especially considering that by the end of the episode, as far as we can tell, there's no known reason/opportunity for The Doctor to have learned her identity yet.
Which leads me to my next point.
2) I can't help but wonder if we're intentionally being misled. Because the scene we're shown at the beginning during The Doctor's story is not the same as what we see in the end of the episode when The Doctor goes back to rescue Ruby from the goblins.
And I can prove it.
It's shot as if it's the same scene twice, and we're clearly meant to think we've just caught up to what we saw at the start of the episode.
Pardon my poor quality photos (idk how to get screen shots from either iplayer or disney+) but look:
These are from the start of the episode. Note: the tears actively running down his cheeks.
BUT!
These are from the "same" moment but at the end of the episode. Note: watery eyes, but no active tears spilling over.
Now I understand enough about the filming process to know there can absolutely be minor inconsistencies between shots as the various takes are edited together to create the final product. But why bother to edit and use different, identically framed shots that are supposed to be of the same moment, but don't line up? Especially when it's a closeup of a single person?
It just seems intentional to me. Especially when you consider my first point in tandem with it.
I think what we hear/see at the beginning isn't what we see in the episode. Maybe it happens later after Ruby and The Doctor figure out the identity of the woman/Ruby's mother.
Thoughts?
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Even if I didn’t have a solid plan, in the back of my head, I always assumed I’d kill myself.
Now I’m an adult and people my age have their lives in order and I’m stuck here, confused, because I never planned to be alive and I’m so far behind.
I feel like I’ll never catch up.
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in recognition of World Down Syndrome Day on March 21
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I feel like we do the War Doctor a disservice by calling him War Doctor.
I mean, his whole thing is that, in no incarnation (himself included) does he want to be called Doctor, or even consider himself The Doctor in this incarnation.
So instead of War Doctor, why don't we call him The Medic? He can't be The Doctor because he's taken an active role in combat. But he is still a healer and everything he does is trying to help save people within the context of the fighting.
So I propose: He's not The Doctor of War. He's The Medic.
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So lemme get this straight:
Millennials/Gen Z are killing multiple [Insert Random Luxury Here] industries.
But Israel isn't killing any innocents, Palestinian people are just dying.
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I once heard someone describe Tom Hanks as "The type of actor you love to watch think." And I think that's spot on.
I've also gotten back into Doctor Who, thanks to the 60th anniversary specials, and it finally clicked why everyone loves the 10th/14th Doctor(s) so much:
If Tom Hanks is an actor we love to watch think...
David Tennant is an actor we love to watch feel.
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A friend of mine told me about a post they saw once that went something like:
You've heard of The Doctor and The Master, now get ready for The Bachelor.
So we decided that The Bachelor/ette is also a Time Lord who, like The Doctor, also has a thing for Earth/Humanity, but like The Master, is more interested in the #Drama. So each season is a new Regeneration.
We also decided that The Bachelor/ette has a counterpart called The Rose (not either of our/The Doctor's Roses) like The Doctor has The Master. But instead of going through friends to enemies to lovers phases, they're the universe's ultimate toxic couple.
And each season is basically their foreplay game of cat-and-mouse where The Bachelor/ette announces their return, and The Rose becomes one of the contestants, hidden among the crowd. The Bachelor/ette has to pick out The Rose among the thorns and at the end, they go on a honeymoon/date that inevitably ends in an impassioned double murder, and the cycle repeats.
#doctor who#dw#the doctor#the master#theyre not evil#theyre just#exhibitionist timelord bdsm rolplayers
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Hello smarter, more knowledgeable Whovians than I!
I have a question, because I can't tell if it's a reference to Classic Who or any of the Big Finish productions, or the books or what. But I also don't want to give RTD any satisfaction by adding to the Google search stats...
But is Zingo a thing somewhere in Doctor Who lore already? I feel like I'm missing out on an inside joke but I'm too embarrassed to ask.
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Donna: So you have all of time and space and you stay with the guy who looks like a wet kitten?
Rose: Yeah… You know, he was all alone in my old jobs basement when I found him, I couldn’t just leave him there.
Donna: Did you take him to the vet before taking him home?
Doctor: 🧍🏻
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I just rewatched The Day of the Doctor, and something clicked a bit more than it had before, regarding The Moment. And I honestly can't tell if this was the point all along and I just didn't make the connection because I was too caught up in the references and having Billie back on Doctor Who, or if this is just my new headcanon.
(Obvs, spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the 50th or finished Rose's episodes)
So, what do we know about The Moment?
-It's also called The Galaxy Eater
-It was invented by 'The Ancients of Gallifrey'
-The Time Lords are so scared of the thing that of all of the Forbidden Weapons locked away in the Omega Arsenal, it's the only one they've avoided deploying until now.
-The reason the Time Lords are so scared of it is because, according to legend, it was so powerful of a weapon that it developed a conscience.
-Not that it became conscious. That its AI woke up one day with strong enough moral compass to get angry at them for wanting to use it.
But I think it wasn't thanks to the Time Lords that it developed a conscience. I think it was very literally Rose as the Bad Wolf during Parting of the Ways.
Why?
Well, when we first meet said AI, it's taken the form of Rose as Bad Wolf (duh). Which gets played off as a bit of a timey-wimey joke, claiming it picked that look to appeal to The Doctor and just got the timeline wrong.
But now I'm thinking it's more than that, cause let's be real. If we're dealing with an AI smart enough to design its appearance to appeal to someone's preferences, it can make excuses for the same reason.
It doesn't know or care who Rose Tyler is. But even before it names itself Bad Wolf (which it has a VERY strong reaction to, for a weapon that has nothing to do with Earth or Humans, and wants nothing to do with the Time War or the Daleks) it still shows a propensity for Wolf imagery, telling The Doctor the noise outside was "just a wolf".
It also didn't do a copy of Rose, despite saying it chose "this face AND form" for the Doctor. Which I'd think it would have if it was truly just pulling an image from The Doctor's future memory (Billie having aged 7 yrs since we last saw her aside, because so had David and that clearly wasn't an issue to redesign his look around). Instead it wore its clothes and hair styled in a way that Rose would never have worn.
But it sure does appeal to the same aspects of The Doctor's character that Rose brought out in 'em. And laughs about The Doctor's comment that he could kiss her ("Oh, Bad Wolf Girl! I could kiss you!" "Yup! You will..") despite not knowing for sure who or when Rose Tyler was to The Doctor less than an hour ago.
So I suggest that when Rose absorbed the time vortex and was doing her 'gotta literally reshape matter and reality to protect My Doctor' thing, that included inserting her/Bad Wolf's consciousness into The Moment, way back when.
Like she did when she brought Jack back to life but had no control over how much life she shoved into him. Or how when she scattered the words Bad Wolf across spacetime as a trail of breadcrumbs, she also unknowingly named that beach in the parallel universe's Norway, Bad Wolf Bay.
"I bring life!" Sure did, and then some.
"I take the words. I scatter them across space and time." No kidding.
"The Time War Ends!" I mean, come on. Why would that be any less unintentionally accurate than the rest of her actions?
The Doctor says in Utopia that if a Time Lord had done what Rose did, they'd become a vengeful god. (Side note, when The Master finds out the Doctor had pulled the final trigger, he even says, "You must've been like God!") But he argues Rose's humanity having fueled her actions is what stopped her from succumbing to the same fate. Not that she didn't have the power of a God in that moment.
If I'm right, though. With the reality breaking power that Rose as Bad Wolf definitely had, and that The Moment is suggested to have; I think Rose literally rewrote the end of the Time War by putting her consciousness in The Moment. Fixed points don't matter when you're literally the Time Vortex channeled through a lovestruck teenage brain.
I think that until Rose went all supernova, The Doctor *had* used the Doomsday (hah) Weapon to stop the war. But as Bad Wolf, while she was seeing all realities at all times, she saw a way to "protect [him] from the False God (aka. him)" via inserting herself into said weapon.
It's not that he just didn't remember because crossing timelines. It's that he *had* done it until Rose went glowstick goddess on him.
Final bit of evidence? There's no reason for The Moment's trigger to have looked like that in the end. It doesn't even look like any other piece of Time Lord tech, that I know of.
But we already know that less than a day after Parting of the Ways, Rose will watch The 10th Doctor get really excited about a Big Red Button.
She went the extra mile and made the button shaped like a Rose. It even has petals.
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First playthrough I found myself up in arms because the irl kitten matched what I'd assumed were exaggerated proportions for exaggerated cuteness too well and I wasn't prepared.
Second playthrough I was #pissed that the human wouldn't let it stay!
Flooflers
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"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."
"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
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Fondly remembering the time that a cat owner casually entered their calico Maine Coon in a cat fancier’s competition and the judges lost their minds because the cat was 1) male and 2) able to bear children
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“In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“
LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy
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Love & Monsters is such a strange episode, aside from the obvious.
(SPOILERS AHEAD)
Like, it was their first "double banking" episode, so we barely see The Doctor and Rose at all.
The format is intended to be formated as if it's a vlog.
The baddie of the episode was designed by a kid, and played by a comedian. And it shows.
The love interest is played by the same actress who played Moaning Myrtle. And it has the most WTF-did-I-just-see "happy" ending of any DW episode I can think of.
And that's pretty much exactly how I remembered it.
SO IMAGINE MY SHOCK WHEN I REWATCHED IT AND ITS F*CKING DARK AS ANYTHING!
Like, one of the women in the group is there b/c her daughter got into drugs and disappeared, so she comes to the area to search for her.
The protagonist is fascinated by The Doctor because The Doctor was the only part he remembered from the most traumatic night of his childhood (the night his mother was killed in front of him by what sounds like the Vashta Narada (before they were given that name).
We get a very honest snapshot of the toll Rose traveling with The Doctor takes on Jackie.
And The Doctor and Rose don't even really save the day. Instead, it's saved by the sacrifices of not the usual 1 or two individuals, but 4 victims, who have been rather brutally killed, but retained a level of consciousness.
I mean, come on. Love & Monsters having a higher named character death count (and being an arguably darker episode) than Impossible Planet/Satan Pit is NOT the take I was prepared to have today.
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#doctor who#dw#the doctor#donna noble#martha jones#captain jack harkness#rose tyler#9th doctor#10th doctor
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I'm 30. My mother is 59. Her Kindergarten Class was the first grade in the school district (One of the more liberal and progressive school districts in NC, which is barely even considered The South) to be entirely desegregated for her whole school career.
She was born 3 weeks before the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.
For Doctor Who fans, as we wrap up 60th anniversary celebrations and are excitedly awaiting our first season with Ncuti's doctor, the first black Doctor, remember.
It first aired in 1963. The year PRIOR to said Civil Rights Act being signed into law in America.
Anybody alive today who is 60 or older, is older than The Civil Rights Act, and therefore, if born in America at least, was born into a legally segregated world.
Apollo 13 landed on the moon only 5 years after Segregation legally ended.
History might be vast, but it's not as far away as you think.
#black history month#african american history#celebrating black history#civil rights#black lives matter#our history#doctor who#apollo 13
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