Doctor Who 6x07 | A Good Man Goes to War

Baby River + her worried parents

Doctor Who Series 6 Episode 8 - Let's Kill Hitler

"Describe the entire show in one 2-second clip"

Man of Fashion!

is it really a doctor who episode if it doesn't have unsettling cgi body horror and confusing doppelgangers?

truly dw's biggest strength is that you can pick and choose whatever you want from it. you can start from the beginning and enjoy it. you can pick a random episode and enjoy it. you can start from season 8 or 4 or 11 and enjoy it. you can start from mid-classic who and enjoy it. you can even try and watch it in chronological order based on which era of history the episode takes place in

I think I would hate the Melody Pond storyline less if it had any actual lingering emotional weight. It's a twist created entirely for shock value. Amy and Rory lose their baby mid season 6 and then have fun hijinks with the Doctor for the rest of the season like Demon's Run never happened. How do they continue on after something like that? Why do we never see them grieve outside of that one episode? They lost their baby. And no, finding out their baby is River doesn't change the fact that they don't get to raise her. Finding out she was actually their best friend growing up (which might have had more weight, if we'd met said best friend earlier than Let's Kill Hitler) doesn't change the fact that, again they did not get to raise their daughter as their daughter. And they lost her because of the Doctor. Because the Silence wanted to destroy him, because their daughter had been irrevocably changed by the TARDIS which made her the perfect weapon. Even if it wasn't technically the Doctor's fault...how do they continue to travel with him after that? How does that not IRREVOCABLY change their relationship? Why were there no consequences? Why, in the grand scheme of things, did this reveal Not Matter?

And the thing is, in season 6 we see the Doctor repeatedly fail Amy and Rory in ASTOUNDING ways (Amy's kidnapping and Demon's Run, but also in the Girl Who Waited, when he essentially kills older Amy (and makes Rory complicit in her death)) until he, ultimately, decides to leave them in the God Complex for their own safety. But he left them. Why weren't they the ones who left, after the devastating loss of their daughter? How could Rory possibly continue to travel with the Doctor after he had to listen to a version of his wife die because of a mistake the Doctor made?

If there's no lingering emotional stakes, then why should I care about anything that happens? If there's no real consequences, what does it matter how anything resolves? Amy and Rory lose their baby, but it's alright! She's River! And they go on traveling with the Doctor like nothing bad ever happened! It's all fine! And it's all empty.

My bespoke psychopath.

Eleven and River Song in Let’s Kill Hitler

in case you haven't recently watched the doctor who episode "let's kill hitler" (s6e8) it is imperative to me that you know that

1. hitler is in the episode for all of two minutes, and has no more screen time past the 16th minute of the episode

2. they do not, in fact, kill hitler

3. they actually, in fact, save hitler from assassination

4. none of this is relevant to any of the rest of the episode

plot twist couch theory isn’s over and next season eddie kicks natalia out of buck’s apartment and confesses his love and then they go to eddie’s house and fall asleep on the couch together (i am delusional)

The Doctor & River | Doctor Who 6x08

taking a break from hating on chris chibnall and whatever is going on in the star beast to say matt smith deserved better. he genuinely did such a good job with the utter garbage half of his run was (looking at you season 6) he deserved to have some really fun and insane writing like he got in amys choice and the god complex and a town called mercy all the time why didn't they just let him go really insane constantly why does steven moffat hate me specifically why did that man (matt) look off camera in a way that put thousands of years on his face how did he do that

obsessed with Doctor Who just, like, randomly pulling out the best effect they've ever done for this short bit 217 episodes in

the disappointment on Zoe's face!

Shout out to the younger 900 year old who just rocked up saw his friends and rolled with river greeting him with "this is so cold even for you you bitch"

Btw a lesson I have learned from almost 10 years of fandom is that if being exposed to something like a show or character or episode, immediately gives you a strong negative reaction, it is almost always a you problem

By that i mean, the thing may not be to your liking, it may genuinely not be the best idk, but that strong emotional reaction is almost always because of some sort of bias or association, and not genuinely because this random character is worth raising your blood pressure over