So often I’m thinking about the ask I once got that was something like “yeah some of the capaldi eps of dr who are good but some them are so bad it makes you wonder if Steven Moffat was personally trying to ruin Peter Capaldi’s life reputation and career” one of the most poignant and true pieces of media analysis I’ve ever read
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Found another tma listener in the wild and was hit by the experience of oh this person is not nearly as insane about it as I am, I was explaining my whole listening ritual and she was like yeah I stopped listening after season 2 cause I only liked the short stories style. Oh my god. No hate to her but oh my god.
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personally, I think danny and steve having trouble sleeping those first two weeks danny was crashing at steve's house has little to do with arbitrary reasons like infomercials or sounds of waves crashing but rather everything to do with sexual/romantic frustration
the one that comes from the tantalising intimacy of sharing the roof with your crush. seeing each other in their most vulnerable domestic moments, without work armour, in the wee hours of the night, sleep tousled and dishevelled.
the growing temptation keeps them up at night and tired and cranky during the day, they even start doing that thing where they fight about trivial stuff to cover up the issue they are really fighting about
which is the tension, it's in all their physicality, their looks, the things they are not saying to each other
the yearning is palpable, the want, you can sense it's been building up and up to the point of explosion, they are both exhausted by it
you can cut the tension with a knife. it almost seems like danny beacons steve with his eyes and steve looks like he very much wants to dive in
as usual work gets in the way, still, as much as they sometimes annoy and drive each other mad there's always so much warmth and affection in there. danny means it when he says he appreciates steve letting him stay despite all the stupid rules and steve doesn't want him to move out despite danny's refusal to stick to those rules.
danny doesn't end up staying because, obviously, it's too hard. living together but not being together. this attraction between them is still too raw, too new.
later seasons, after much more exposure to each other it's more of a simmer, background noise that you learn to ignore because it's just an inherent part of you, but in the beginning the pull was too strong to resist when they weren't used to wanting someone so much and being so close they seemed within reach but somehow untouchable.
'Put your pants on, we are going to work!'
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