Harrow the Ninth predictions:

Gideon comes back in a body, travels back in time, meets the Emperor, gets a note wrote about her, and maybe meets her mom.

Her mom is someone we've met.

Crux is dead by chapter 4, possibly offscreen.

We meet "John", who is, I wanna say, Gideon's father?

Iantne manages to not die, infuriating me.

Silas leaves behind a Blink-esque tape detailing several major plot twists, and in it, manages to call exactly every single person who views it, while they are doing so, a massive twat, because Silas Is A Giant Git Who Is Right About Everything should be a universal constant.

Judith, or Marta, not 100% on who might have lived, manages to screw everyone over before dying for good.

The emperor makes very very clear that he could not possibly be beaten by less than four Lictors together.

We meet every other living Lictor in the present day.

Re; the head-sharing, a Piccolo joke is made. It will be shockingly subtle.

Someone will say "none houses with left grief". It will be The Worst.

We actually get Harrow's perspective on her parents' suicide. It is undercut after both die by a single, incredibly funny line.

The book ends on a cliffhanger with the opening of the Locked Tomb.

Dreirbe or however you spell it is revealed to be Pluto.

Edit: John is the Emperor, apparently, and has an Ayn Rand name. Oddly, not a spoiler, despite the obvious pun potential of "Who Is John Gaius". Not ruling out the idea of hin as father, actually; or, considering the roads I've gone down before, mother.

I’m thinking about writing a Sally Sparrow/Tenth Doctor fanfic, so naturally I went and rewatched “Blink” tonight for the millionth time to get some inspo, and you know what kills me?

All the little details we don’t get. All the little stories that played out without us seeing.

Kathy getting zapped back to 1920’s Hull, directly in front of the cow farmer who will become not only her first friend in the strange new town she now has to call home, but also eventually her husband. When Kathy awakes in the night with her heart pounding and tears streaming down her cheeks, and simply chokes out “the angels…I dreamt about the angels again”, his arms are always there to comfort her. The dreams slowly subside over time as she adjusts to her new life, and soon there are other, more important things to worry about. Some good, like the birth of their children, and some bad, like the war. But Kathy survives and lives a full life, as do her husband and children, and with every picture she continually insists upon taking—one every time they have enough money to afford it—she thinks of her friend Sally Sparrow.

There’s also poor, lovely Billy Shipton, transported back to 1969 London—probably by the same Angel that sent the Doctor and Martha there. He’s just as unmoored as Kathy is, but—as strange as this Doctor guy seems to be—Billy finds himself liking him in a weird way. He makes a point to become Billy’s first friend in 1969, and he and his friend Martha help get Billy not only a place to live, but also a job working in publishing (even though Billy can’t figure out how the Doctor possibly managed to forge those papers that spoke to his “extensive expertise” in the field, or why he is so insistent upon splicing several videos of him talking in jargon into a bunch of completely unrelated DVDs once Billy moves into video production). Martha sets Billy up with a pretty girl named Sally who always comes into the shop where she works, and a few months later, the Doctor attends their wedding. Billy tries to find him afterwards at the reception to say thank you, but he’s already gone, leaving behind only a simple envelope inscribed “for the bride and groom”. It contains a pound note hefty enough to get Billy and his new wife off to a good start in their marriage, and simple card inscribed with a wedding blessing, written in a script and language neither of them can read.

The next time Billy does see the Doctor is many years later, when he’s old and grey, lying bedridden in a nursing home. Billy had never truly believed the Doctor’s claims of being an alien, but when he sees the same skinny, dark-haired young man walking across the room towards him—looking exactly as he had in 1969—he can’t help but cry in the midst of his wonder. The man who calls himself the Doctor is still a mystery, but as he pulls up a chair next to Billy’s bed and takes the latter’s outstretched hand, he’s as kind as he always was. He offers his condolences when Billy tells him of the passing of his wife, and smiles at the photos Billy shows him of his children, carefully dodging Billy’s question of whether or not he ended up having children of his own. But then he grows silent and his gaze grows sad as he looks out the window at the storm clouds brewing in the sky. “I’m sorry, Billy, I’m afraid I didn’t just come here to visit,” he says, and his voice is laced with a guilt and sorrow so deep that it sounds centuries old. “It’s time.” For a second Billy thinks he sounds close to crying for some reason, so he puts his wrinkled hand on the Doctor’s shoulder gently. “It’s okay.” he insists, giving him a soft smile. “This means I’ll finally get to see her again.”

It took me sixteen years but I’ve just realised that in Dr Who: Blink,

a) the Weeping Angel at the start of the episode could easily have gone with the old reliable method of sneaking up on Sally and sending her back in time, but instead chooses to try braining her with a rock. (???)

b) why would Sally and Larry meet up back at the creepy abandoned house where several people have already vanished without a trace (and which is likely a base for the strange statues that appear to be following Sally) as opposed to meeting up somewhere with lots of witnesses, like a pub?

c) why is a long abandoned house still attached to the National Grid so that there's still electricity in the cellar?

d) Larry is likely short for Laurence. Laurence Nightingale.

Laurence Nightingale.

blink is an absolutely insane episode of tv because the two protagonists of the show have fewer than 10 minutes of screentime and the entire story is about a nosy 21yo whom we have never seen before in our lives and her best friend’s weird brother, but it fucking slaps to the point that is critically viewed as one of the objectively best episodes of all television. do you have any idea how much this shouldn’t work

ah finally we're on vacation and all we gonna do is just chilling and go on funny silly little excursion

no really what could possibly go wrong? it's totally safe here! they gave me complimentary peanuts Donna!

Listen, gotta dash. Things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard.

there's very few lines in media that have hit me as hard as these

doctor who 3.10 — "blink"

"It was raining when we met." "It's the same rain."

remake of x

This one aged well 😁 Happy Halloween! 🧡

Don’t blink 👀

-A

bravo

Tenth Doctor | Blink

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

Blink

Synopsis

In an abandoned house, the Weeping Angels wait. The only hope to stop them is a young woman named Sally Sparrow and her friend Larry Nightingale. The only catch: the Weeping Angels can move in the blink of an eye. To defeat the ruthless enemy — with only a half of a conversation from the Tenth Doctor as help — the one rule is this: don't turn your back, don't look away and don't blink!

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

City of Death

Synopsis

While taking in the sights of Paris in 1979, the Fourth Doctor and Romana sense that someone is tampering with time. Who is the mysterious Count Scarlioni? Why does he seem to have counterparts scattered through time? And just how many copies of the Mona Lisa did Leonardo da Vinci paint?

Propaganda

even if your not a classic who fan, you have seen moments from this, “wonderful butler, he’s so violent”, “youre a beautiful woman, probably”, “if you wanted an omelette I’d expect to find a pile of broken crockery, a cooker in flames, and an unconscious chef”. The location shooting, iconic, the music, iconic, the plot, so iconic I was once watching something (non doctor who) that referenced it as a fake historical event. Dare I say duggan is the greatest side character of all time. Romana’s outfit, the design of scaroth, the implication time lords can fly. it’s not my favourite overall, but its damn near close, it deserves AT LEAST the semi finals, AT LEAST. If you’ve not seen it or any classic who, go watch it, its so good, one of the best of the era. Also, how could I forget, the most watched episode on broadcast out of all of doctor who, including new who. (yes it was because itv was off the air due to strikes, but im glad its this episode that holds the record) (anonymous)