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I love so much when Doctor Who pairs its best writing with the stupidest aliens they've got. Not even your average level of silly for a Doctor Who alien; the ones where they take their own low bar and go digging. Then plop the rotting fungi they excavated right in the middle of devastating character development and the rawest dialogue your 14-year-old self had ever heard. Peak television.

#yeah i've been comfort watching early-reboot doctor who again #this post brought to you by: the farting aliens two-parter #they're not topping any favourites charts #but i'd pitch them as some of the most underrated eps #presumably that's the fault of the farting aliens #but in terms of character development for rose and the doctor and rose #and rose's arc of processing the cost of being with the doctor #it's quietly some of my favourite stuff from s1 #and yeah the political commentary is never going to get wildly nuanced in a family show like this #but for challenging young folks to think about fundamental values and how we do (or often do not)apply them to people in power?#not half bad!#doctor who #oh ALSO character development for Micky and Rose's mum #like #in the first few episodes it's easy to view them as shallow #people who Rose cares about but are kind of a drag on her life #these are the eps where you really start to see it's more complex then that #and start getting attached to them on their own terms #which then raises the stakes of what rose does going forward much higher

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