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Really getting into Doctor Who and I have this overwhelming urge to redesign The Toymaker’s original design-
#cuz you know#it was really bad#like#really bad#and I’m no Da Vinci but I'm sure I can make something up#like I’m thinking of him dawning robes made out of stars and planets if that makes any sense#you know because he's called The CELESTIAL Toymaker#you’d think space could be included in his wardrobe a bit#does that make sense#I haven't been able to think of anything else BUT that since I’ve watched the special#doctor who#doctor who the giggle#the giggle#the toymaker#the celestial toymaker#celestial toymaker#doctor who 60th anniversary
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Question: Who does The Toymaker fear?
The Doctor cast a line of salt at the edge of universe. He played a game with the Not-Things.
He looked at the most terrifying version of himself, this Not-Doctor, and he played a game to buy time for him and Donna. It almost cost Donna her life.
The Doctor almost lost that game and the Toymaker witnessed it because when the Doctor chose to play that game at the edge of the universe, the Toymaker blurred the lines between reality and mythology.
Doing so allowed him to turn God into a jack-in-the-box.
He "turned the guardians of time and space into voodoo dolls."
He won a game against the Master and placed him inside of a gold tooth in his mouth.
And then he took the Doctor's timeline, turned it into a jigsaw puzzle and caused the Doctor to have an existential crisis. Just so he could make him as weak as possible. Having the Master as his prisoner made it so much easier for him to hit every single one of the Doctor's weaknesses. He fractured the Doctor's already broken heart maliciously. He took pleasure in shooting the Doctor with the galvanic beam when the Doctor was at his lowest point, turning him into someone the Toymaker no longer feared.
The Toymaker's very existence in this reality is what allowed the Doctor to bi-generate. The Doctor was accepted at the lowest point in time for him, before he even began to regenerate, and the Doctor cleverly figured out how to split himself in half so he could finally take a break. All things are possible when you allow mythology to crossover with reality.
He hit the Doctor with the galvanic beam as a game like the line of salt at the edge of the universe. The Doctor cast that line of salt across from a Not-Doctor version of himself to buy some time, which is exactly what the Toymaker did when he shot the Doctor.
He actually fixed the Doctor and lost to the Doctor again. Best two out of three.
That is the act of a celestial who fears his opponent.
But there was one thing not even the Toymaker would play games with. He saw it hiding and he ran as far away as he could. You could hear the fear in his voice when he talked about it, but he still refused to tell the Doctor who it was because it was someone else's game.
So who is the one being in the universe he refuses to play games with?
The Meep briefly spoke of the boss before being taken as prisoner, knowing the boss will be pleased to hear about another creature with two hearts called The Doctor.
Is the boss the one who caused all of Meep-kind to go mad?
Who is the Doctor about to go up against that even the Toymaker fears?
(Side note: My religiously traumatized ass enjoyed hearing the Toymaker say he turned God into a jack-in-the-box. That's for a whole separate post though.)
#doctor who spoilers#doctor who#the toymaker#the doctor#fourteenth doctor#fifteenth doctor#david tennant#ncuti gatwa#neil patrick harris#religious trauma
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My thoughts on and impressions of the latest Doctor Who specials and Power of the Doctor
So I finally watched everything so I've thought I could write it down here in case someone would like to read it and... whatever.
So let's get into it, shall we?
I watched the Power of the Doctor as the last one (actually just now finished watching it) and I'm really glad I did it but I'll write about it at the end as well (or should I make a separate post?), so first the so-called anniversary specials.
First of all, I wasn't happy about that thing with David Tennant (i.e. regenerating into David Tennant). Not that I'd think something like "this couldn't happen" or something like that (honestly with everything that did happen in Doctor Who so far, there's basically nothing that couldn't happen. It's just things that some people would like more and some less), it's just... not fair? Also it feels more like a special episode for Red Nose and not a regular one(s).
Anyway, I still watched it (partly because of the fact that the Doctor became Disney princess and I happen to have Disney+ so I could watch Doctor Who as easily as snap of the fingers.) and I enjoyed it more than I expected. No, no excitement, no hopping in joy, but still generally enjoyed watching.
However there still were things that bugged me like:
-despite the Doctor looking like Tenth Doctor, everyone suddenly magically knew that it's regeneration after Thirteen. How??
-Donna said she forgot again everything that she knew from that TimeLord part in her, but she (and Rose as well) knew that the Doctor was a woman before. How? (by the way this whole thing that the part of Time Lord that was in Donna (and then Rose) all the years was still in connection with the Doctor somehow so it "knew" what was happening to the Doctor... eh. Doesn't sound right to me either, sorry).
-moving to second special and Donna's shouting when Tardis abandoned them on the spaceship. (this is something I already complained about in a short post before) She remembered travelling with the Doctor, so she knew what could go wrong (everything) and how often (basically everytime), yet she insisted she would like to go in the Tardis and do the short trip and when something went wrong she immediately went crazy, shouting and demanding she has to go back home. Seriously, Donna? %/
- I mentioned earlier that regenerating Thirteen back into Tenth Doctor (sorry, he's just the same, he's not Fourteenth to me. It would make somewhat sense if he looked the same (except age obviously) but acted differently.) felt unfair to me and even more when he didn't regenerate but divided himself (and the Tardis), like... eh, no, not fair.
Which brings us to the special with Celestial Toymaker. I was looking forward to it and curious because Celestial Toymaker is one of my favourite classic who stories so I was curious how he'd be in NuWho. I liked him (though I didn't quite get why he had that sort of a German accent??) and rather enjoyed the episode. Except for that "regeneration" thing at the end of course as I already said.
Anyway the biggest complaint I would have about the specials is that for me they didn't feel like anniversary specials. Moreover 70th anniversary. Not even one of them.
Now probably a few words to the Christmas special and first look at the new Doctor. He seems good (like... good for the Doctor. As the Doctor. Doctor-y.) and I think I'll enjoy watching his episodes.
As for Ruby... I'm not sure. She somehow seems very similar to other previous Doctor Who companions like Rose (Tyler) or Clara. You know, like... yes, it's a different actor and looks more or less different but somehow doesn't differ that much. I didn't think of it when watching, but when thought of it now I think I figured out why I wasn't excited about her. It's not that I didn't like her, I just... don't care about her. But we'll see when we see her (them both) in more episodes I guess? Probably.
And now I finally got to Thirteenth's regeneration story - Power of the Doctor. I finally gained courage today to watch it (because I love Thirteen, I don't want to see her go, right?) and I'm really, really glad that I watched it after all the specials, because this - to me - felt much more like an anniversary special than all the Tenant specials together. I didn't like to see Thirteen go but otherwise, I LOVED it. Of course I knew there's gonna be Ace and Tegan but didn't know how much. And I didn't avoid spoilers so I caught there's gonna be more "old familiar faces" but didn't search for the details and also partly forgot about it. So seeing the previous old Doctors made me smile (and drop a tear), seeing Tegan and Ace in action was so brilliant, and that therapeutic session at the end? Top-notch. Can we have a spin-off out of this?
However that anniversary feeling wasn't because of seeing all the old familiar faces, but how it was put in the story and how it all was done and just... it was great and wonderful and I really really loved it.
And that's probably all I wanted to say. If you read the whole thing, congratulations and you're welcome to leave a comment... no? OK, never mind. Good night! (it's 22.27 here)
#doctor who#doctor who specials#fourteenth doctor#fifteenth doctor#thirteenth doctor#power of the doctor#long post#doctor who christmas special#the star beast#church on ruby road#wild blue yonder#the giggle#text post
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My thoughts on the new episodes:
- love the info dumping right off the bat therapy really did wonders for 15
- “Most of the universe is knackered, babes” ok 1) 15, i love you so much, and 2) why do I get the feeling that the reason most of it is knackered is because of you, bestie?
- “Why did I run?” That’s what you do babe. It’s like your whole thing. please don’t ask dumb questions
- ruby reminds me so much of rose and it is 1000% because of the way that Space Babies parallels End of the World so hard
- Ok so getting the feeling that it’s less “the therapy worked wonders” and more “we’re pretending that it worked wonders” because a lot of this conversation is feeling like 15 is masking his true feelings
- space babies crack me up, the cgi to move their mouths was weird and the babies themselves looked so confused to be there at all times it was great
- Ngl him scaring them more than once and then laughing a little feels very on brand for the doctor
- Ruby continues to confuse me, who are you Ruby Sunday, I want answers. very excited to see where this story arc is going
- QUEEN CHARLOTTE????
- societal parallels punching me in the face I love it this show is so back
- Ok saying you’re an ugly bug is a lot less effective when you’re Ncuti Gatwa and your past incarnations have always been attractive
- Eric the perpetually confused looking baby I love you
- this monster is very much reminding me of the sleep-sand monsters from that one twelveclara episode, sleep no more
- 15 babes I swear to god throwing yourself into open airlocks because you’re relating too hard to the monster of the week better not become your thing
- love him telling ruby “no going to meet your mom” immediately like babes does not want a repeat of the Father’s Day disaster with rose
- THE SCAN OF RUBY??? some things truly never fucking change
- ngl i feel like playing the banned chord that invites the devil in is a Bad Idea
- MR TIMOTHY DRAKE??? THEY REALLY NAMED THIS MAN TIMOTHY DRAKE AND CALLED HIM A GENIUS AND THEN KILLED HIM I CANNOT
- the maestro is terrifying. why are they making eye contact with me I don’t like that
- oh wow the first time the theme song has ever made me uncomfortable
- I love that 15 looks physically pained by the music that’s being played
- the notes that Paul says and the theme that plays? Reminds me of the piano notes at the end of the Doctor’s theme from way back in series 1 with Nine, sounds very similar
- oh Ruby you sweet summer child you haven’t been traveling long enough to recognize that tone
- here’s a thought: do you think maybe the Doctor is one of these celestial pantheon beings? That they would have been like the Toymaker and the Maestro if they hadn’t been abandoned in this universe?
- I’m really starting to hate 14 for inviting the Toymaker into the universe again. He just had to invoke superstition at the edge of the universe.
- ah yes the age old tradition of breaking the TARDIS
- the doctor hearing non-diegetic music has many implications I refuse to think about right now
- RTD never fails to have unsettling villains
- so Ruby seems to be the new impossible girl, which is appropriate because she looks so much like Clara
- also WHO WAS THERE I JUST WANT TO KNOW
- “the one who waits is almost here” what does that mean. we’ve met the embodiment of play and now music, who else are we going to meet?
- musical number at the end feels so Disney
- also did anyone else notice that the Harbinger kid was back at the end? Does anyone else think that’s going to come up again?
I love that we’re diving into and learning more about the Toymaker and his whole pantheon of celestial beings but do you know what this would be an absolutely perfect point to reintroduce?
THE SATAN PIT AND ALL OF THE QUESTIONS IT DID NOT ANSWER
I’m gonna link the post where I rant about it here but please someone say they agree with me
#the satan pit#it makes me insane#doctor who#frequently losing my mind over this episode#and you know what#the most recent episode of doctor who would have been a perfect place to call back to it#the devil’s chord#the maestro#the toymaker#the beast#THEY ALL FIT TOGETHER INTO THE SAME CATEGORY#AND I WILL NEVER STOP BRINGJNG THIS UP#RTD I AM IN YOUR HIUSE J AM IN YOUR WALLS#all in all#i love this season so much#I love the 180 in tone from space babies to devils chord#I love 15
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'With “The Giggle” finally hitting Disney+, the three David Tennant-centric Doctor Who specials have come to a close, with surprising and spoilerific results. We’ve known for ages that Neil Patrick Harris was playing a new incarnation of a 1966 1st Doctor villain, The Celestial Toymaker, but until now, nobody knew how that was going to play out. And of course, there’s the whole question of the 14th Doctor’s surprising regeneration. With deep dives into recent lore, the return of Mel (Bonnie Langford) from the 6th and 7th Doctor eras, “The Giggle” will give fans plenty to talk about for a very long time to come.
But, squeezed into all of this was one very telling line from the 14th Doctor, a kind of revelation we’ve heard before, but that truly helps to contextualize the more contemporary Doctors as being very different from the 1st Doctor, William Hartnell, for one crucial reason. Just because the 1st Doctor appears to be a literal grandfather, that version of our eponymous Time Lord is among the youngest, and least-wise of all our Doctor Who incarnations...
As Donna and the Doctor are trying to escape the domain of the Toymaker, the Doctor vaguely recaps the events of “The Celestial Toymaker.” As the Doctor explains, he allowed the TARDIS to slip into a “hollow beneath the under-universe,” which brought him in contact with the Toymaker. Interestingly, in the context of the original serial, this wasn’t the Doctor’s first meeting with the Toymaker; and that vague origin has never been outright depicted on screen. But, the more interesting revelation here is the way the Doctor talks about the events of “The Celestial Toymaker.”
“When I was young I was so sure of myself, I made a terrible mistake,” the Doctor says. Now, if you didn’t know he was talking about a William Hartnell-centric adventure, your mind might call up a vague younger version of the Doctor, perhaps even one of those secret “Timeless Children,” versions. But that’s not at all what the Doctor means here. He means Susan’s Grandfather, the 1st Doctor, the grumpy, gruff stick-in-the-mud. And the idea that gets reinforced here is fairly simple: The elderly Doctor was, in fact, the youngest and most immature version of all the primary incarnations we’ve seen.
Meanwhile, the more conventionally youthful Doctors — including the incoming Ncuti Gatwa — are considerably older than the Hartnell Doctor, meaning, they’re infinitely wiser and less immature. Part of this comes from more experience, but it also comes from the fact that the newer Doctors are, for lack of a better term, simply more Doctor-ish. Over the years, the Doctor has become more of themselves through a variety of critical points.
In “The Giggle,” the 14th Doctor mentions that he is “a billion years old,” which is significantly older than he was back when Donna first met him in “The Runaway Bride,” at a time which the Doctor usually cited his age as somewhere in the 903 range. Is the 14th Doctor counting all the time the 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) spent in the confession dial? Are we also adding in all the missing years from the time of the Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin), and other “Timeless Child” or “Brain of Morbius” Doctors who have had their pasts erased?
In a way, whether they’re a few thousand years older than the Hartnell Doctor, or a few billion, it hardly matters. The newer Doctors are simply much older and smarter than the older ones. Just because William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton might seem like senior citizens compared to Jodie Whittaker or Ncuti Gatwa, the reality is those classic Doctors are the young punks. Those are the Doctors who made the mistakes and messed up space and time, and various galaxies. In this way, the story of the new incarnations of Doctor Who isn’t about a Time Lord’s constant quest to look young. Instead, it’s all about undoing our preconceived notions of what a responsible hero should look like, and realizing the one that looks the most like a revered elder, is also the person who was likely the most reckless.'
#William Hartnell#Patrick Troughton#David Tennant#Catherine Tate#Donna Noble#The Giggle#Ncuti Gatwa#Jodie Whittaker#Timeless Child#Fugitive Doctor#Neil Patrick Harris#The Toymaker#Melanie Bush#Bonnie Langford#Peter Capaldi#Doctor Who#60th Anniversary
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Idea: The Celestial Toymaker has other "celestial" siblings that are also art/performance related. These are all my own thoughts, so... do what you want with it!
I'll explain more under the cut (WARNINGS for possible blood/gore)
So my idea is that the Toymaker has like 5 siblings that are all different artsy careers
The eldest sibling I call The Poet or The Writer (if we stick to the -er ending with all the names). They keep every thing alive by writing in their version of the Book of Life. They write poetry, short stories, or other forms of prose about whatever they want to keep alive. If The Poet deems you unworthy of living, they will erase your poem. I imagine it being like a literal eraser goes through the person's body, leaving whatever hasn't been erased falling below what's gone. I feel like they wouldn't have much of a domain like the Toymaker, but more of a small, cluttered work space. I imagine them being very reserved, cold, and shy compared to the Toymaker. They have the most responsibility out of the family because of the book, so they're very much no-nonsense and prefer to be alone.
The second eldest I call The Artist or The Painter. They're a lot more chaotic than The Poet, but they still are absorbed by their work. I imagine they have a large studio with every color of paint always available to them. They see visions of different points in time: whether that's key moments in a planet's history or even the death of the universe. Their burden is to create, and so they do. Because of this burden, they have been driven to madness. Their paintings are wild and chaotic, normally having no central focus and being very cryptic. However, The Artist's earlier works were very straightforward, emulating Expressionism-style paintings. Eventually, their visions became too wild and confusing, so their paintings reflected that. Now, The Artist is very irritable and neurotic. If you so happen to cross their path, you're most likely not going to make it out alive. They will see you as a threat to their art, and probably use your blood for paint.
The middle child I call The Musician or The Composer. They don't have a role, unlike the older siblings, and act very similarly to the Toymaker. Their domain is a concert hall, of course, with a little puppet orchestra and audience. Obviously, they create music. Sometimes they give their arrangements to their siblings, but most of the time The Composer is adding onto their "unfinished symphony". This symphony, unfortunately, will remain unfinished until the end of time itself. So, The Composer has resorted to stealing real musicians outside of their domain to add to their orchestra. They are searching for a person who could end their symphony. I feel like The Composer would be very nice at first, they would try to compliment your achievements or other pleasantries. But like the Toymaker, when the mask comes off, The Composer is ruthless and resentful. They will stop at nothing until you join the band.
The second youngest child, to me, is the Toymaker or The Actor. We already know what he's like so I'm not going to spend my time explaining it :)
The youngest child I call the Designer or the Architect, mostly because their work is electronic (like a graphic designer). I imagine they don't spend a lot of time in their domain and spend it pretending to be human with the Toymaker and the Composer. Then what would their domain be? Well I imagine it to be a child's bedroom! They're the youngest of course so why wouldn't it be a child's bedroom. it has a small, chunky computer at a desk where they used to do their work. Now, the Designer spend their time adding life to our world. They can design some pretty nice things, like buildings, clothes, even plants or animals. I feel like they would be the least evil out of the five, since they're the youngest, they haven't discovered their "purpose" yet. The most evil thing they've considered doing is trapping some billionaires in a computer, but that's about it.
If you made it this far down the list, thanks for reading! Feel free to comment with your ideas or opinions about this!
#doctor who#the toymaker#once again these are all my personal thoughts#so take it with a grain of salt#but I had to get this idea out there#long post#crab’s blabbering
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Engaging with the One Piece fandom has led me to realize that people don't generally like Thriller Bark even though it's one of my favorite arcs.
The aesthetics
The concept of the Strawhats getting lost in their world's version of the Bermuda Triangle and winding up on the doorstep of one of the Shichibukai who is now targeting them. It's a setup that's basically the perfect self-contained adventure.
Gecko Moria himself is a great villain who sets up Kaidou as this devastating, demoralizing threat looming in the background until that finally comes to fruition in Wano.
Moria's zombie army contains more call-forwards such as the legendary samurai Shimotsuki Ryuma, who also becomes relevant in Wano. Zoro defeating Ryuma is how he obtains Shusui, arguably his most iconic sword. I'm also pretty sure Oars is going to be relevant very soon when the Strawhats inevitably to go Elbaf. And there was Captain John, a member of the Rocks Pirates whose treasure map is what convinces Buggy to help Luffy's jailbreak from Impel Down.
A lot of minor zombies are memorable too, like Tararan the giant spider monkey. It's also been implied Hippo Gentleman is a subtle reference to Wapol becoming a toymaking mogul after his defeat, as all of the Wild Zombies are based on toys Perona owns.
The Kage Kage no Mi is cracked. The sheer creativity it took for Moria to use a shadow-manipulating power to raise an army of not even just zombies but Frankensteinian supersoldiers. Because it turns out shadows function as auxiliary souls and can be placed into new hosts to breathe life into them and it doesn't matter if those hosts are alive, dead, or biologically impossible abominations that are literally stitched together. That's not even all Moria does with it either, since his own shadow is basically a second him that functions like a logia user. He can switch places with his shadow at any point, allowing him to functionally teleport. He can put his shadow into your shadow and control you. He can absorb his entire stockpile of stolen souls and turn into a kaijuu. He can just plain stab you with a shadow. Plus, as a kicker, the mere act of Moria taking your shadow means you will die in the sun like a vampire.
Dr. Hogback is another great villain. The sheer depravity it takes to steal the corpse of a woman who rejected you and reanimate her as a servant who you physically abuse. Chopper used to idolize this man.
Perona is best girl
Sanji laying into Absalom for eating the fruit he wanted to eat is yet another call-forward to Wano; Sanji's Raid Suit, Stealth Black.
Luffy asks no less than three undead creatures to join his crew. One of them actually says yes, and Brook remains an invaluable member of the Strawhat Pirates.
You know what? Just Brook himself.
Robin's outfit
Usopp's outfit
Nightmare Luffy, which is a powerup Luffy liked so much that he modeled Gear Fourth after it.
Another of Usopp's lies turned into an accidental truth, as there was a cerberus.
"NOTHING HAPPENED."
"I'M ALREADY NEGATIVE!"
"AN OLD MAN WITH A WOUND!?"
Lola turned out to be one of Big Mom's children and is actually the first Charlotte to appear in the series. She is also the first person to actually tell us what a vivre card is.
This is the first time we actually get to know Bartholomew Kuma after his introduction which was a glorified cameo. He shows up out of nowhere (literally) and what news does he bring? Blackbeard has become a Shichibukai, having bribed the World Government for the position by capturing Ace.
Between the above point and Sabaody Archipelago introducing us to the Celestial Dragons and ending with the Strawhats getting absolutely destroyed, you could argue that Thriller Bark was the last relatively low-stakes and "fun" arc.
Zombie dance party
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WELL-
When I called him a celestial toymaker I wasn’t being literal, but, uh… I guess this makes sense. Usually, creative gods turn dolls or clay figurines into living beings, not the other way around, but I suppose they’d have that power as well.
”Now what part do I get to play?”
This is a really weird situation, because King and The Collector are both game masters in this situation. You know, if both game masters were also players and one of them had the power to accidentally blow up the house you’re all in if he gets mad that he’s losing.
Oh, and this whole situation is kinda giving me Steven Universe: The Movie vibes, when Spinel got reset and imprinted on Steven. Do you guys think Spinel and The Collector would get along? They both have cosmic clown vibes.
Glad to see Eda and Raine are okay as well. All things considered, Eda’s taking the whole ”losing an arm and It’s The End of The World As We Know It” thing relatively fine.
As they look up toward The Collector and King hanging in the sky, a rendition of Raine’s Rhapsody/Eda’s Requiem starts playing and it is so beautiful.
We~ell, looks like Eda going Harpy Mode made Raine go from Raine Whispers, to Careless Whisper.
”I like my women like I like my energy drinks; monster.”
-Raine Whispers
It would not surprise me if (provided they survive this) Raine’s next album would feature a cover of Bobby Pickett’s Monster Mash. Call it ”The Monster Smash.”
I-I’m sorry, I’ll stop now.
It goes by pretty fast, but it looks like The Collector has pulled a Starro the Conqueror and sent out a bunch of starfish to mind control people. So, uh… that’s not great.
Kikimora’s alive too I guess. Who knows, she might be important later.
What I like about this one picture is that while the other Hexside teachers are defending themselves and their students, it looks like Principal Bump is just booking it in the background. He’s laying his legs on his back and hotfooting it out of there. Honestly? Same.
Oh, right… the Owlbeast has Collector-related trauma. Thanks for reminding me, I had forgotten to add that to my list of things I hope gets explained.
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okay so my thoughts about all of this 14th/15th doctor stuff.
a part of me is a little confused because i thought it had been confirmed yonks ago that jodie was going to regenerate into the david again. but when the first set photos came out it was clear that this must be a different version of the tenth incarnation. different outfit and all that. and with the villain being the 'celestial toymaker' someone is clearly messing with maybe timelines and the doctor themselves? donna, wilf, her mother sylvia and a mysterious daughter named rose are confirmed to be in the story.
all i know is that it had also been confirmed that there would be three episodes.
but i want to address the wailing from fans that more recent doctors haven't returned due to the the apparent idea that russell can't bear to have multiple doctors.
i don't know how many times christopher eccleston needs to say that he doesn't want to come back to the show. i also don't know how many times peter capaldi has to say that he doesn't like multi doctor stories. matt is a wild card because on the one hand he said he is waiting for a call but on the other is very clearly booked and busy.
and i think everyone forgets that ncuti has also been very busy. he was a last minute decision so the schedule moves accordingly. he doesn't even start filming until two weeks time.
and at the end of the day - the episodes are not out yet. and we have a hell of a wait. yelling about 14 not regenerating into 13's clothes? considering she shouldn't be regenerating into him in the first place have you considered that that's probably the least of what is concerning here? 😂
i just think everyone needs to relax, especially as we have known all of this was going to happen for some time now. and stop sending hate to the actors.
and another thing - ncuti is going to have his time to shine. it's coming and you know it's coming. he's going to ger a full season, his own specials and many more. he just, you know, needs to film it first.
that's all.
#doctor who#rtd2#ncuti gatwa#david tennant#catherine tate#power of the doctor#jodie whittaker#13th doctor#14th doctor#15th doctor#dw#tenth doctor#celestial toymaker#i also dont care for neil patrick harris ao that's my biggest beef personally#never gelled with him
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Hi. I finally have a reliable way of watching classic who, so I'm trying out to work out a good approach. A long while ago, I put together a list of stories suggested by different people about good "definitive" stories for each Doctor. But I've been following you for a while now and you seem to have a pretty good understanding of Classic Who. So I thought I'd ask, whether you had any suggestions?
Hi sorry I’m just getting to you now! Awesome you’re getting into Classic Who, it reminds me that I need to get back into it… I’m not really an expert on Classic Who and I lost my Classic Who to watch because my old laptop died. This’ll teach me, honestly, to put notes on a cloud based note taking program rather than just the one living on the computer.
Here’s the list and some of my favorites. It’s not complete, so fairwarning! Also Classic Who goes by stories ranging from 4 episodes each to a whopping 12 episode.
First Doctor
An Unearthly Child (The first story where two teachers spy at a student’s home out of concern and in return the First Doctor kidnaps them and then strands them on prehistoric Earth where the Doctor tries to kill a caveman with a rock).
The Daleks - Second story where the Doctor lands them on Skaro, meets the Daleks for the first time. Skaro was a war ravaged, post-nuclear winter world where two kinds of races lived the Kaled and Thals.
The Edge of Destruction - The TARDIS almost kills the crew, the crew acts weird and Barbara Wright gives the Doctor one hell of a talking to, and the Doctor starts to shape up.
Marco Polo - I haven’t seen this!
Keys of Marinus - I haven’t seen this either
The Aztecs - Fabulous Barbara Wright where she shows how amazing she is. She’s allowed to be both right, wrong, and righteous. But also.. it’s Aztecs as portrayed by a 1960s show. Also, the Doctor accidentally gets engaged. Not the last time!
The Sensorites - The Time Team meats a psychic alien race.
The Planet of Giants - (sorry I haven’t seen this)
The Dalek Invasion of Earth - An awesome, post-apocalyptic London in the far future where the Daleks enslave Earth. Barbara is awesome and Susan makes her goodbye, and the Doctor leaves Susan with only ONE shoe.
The Rescue - Vicki, the new companion arrives. Something about the confrontation here between One and the threat reminds me of Thirteen.
The Romans - A really fun episode. A really fun and shippy episode for Barbara and Ian. Also… really traumatic! Also the Doctor may or may not have inspired the burning of Rome.
The Web Planet - I have to be honest I couldn’t finish this episode.
The Crusade
The Space Museum - Haven’t watched yet.
The Chase - A silly episode where the gang gets chased through time and space by a bunch of Daleks. Barbara and Ian leaves, and Steven the astronaut stumbles into the TARDIS
The Time Meddler - The first time another Time Lord (not yet called a Time Lord) is on the show. The Doctor and The Meddling Monk have fun chess shenanigans.
Galaxy 4
Mission to the Unknown - Prequel to the epic The Dalek’s Masterplan. Recently graduate students recreated this. The only episode on Doctor Who without the Doctor or the TARDIS.
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The Mythmakers - Through audiobook in Audible. Vicki stays behind, and the Doctor, uh, might have help start the sacking of Troy.
The Dalek Masterplan - Real epic where we see how sly Daleks can be, with a huge array of characters. Again, I experienced this as an audiobook so I don’t know what this looks.
The Massacre at St Bartholomew’s Eve, The Ark, The Celestial Toymaker (yes the one namechecked recently). I haven’t seen these episodes yet!
The Gunfighters - A really fun episode where the Doctor, Steven, and Dodo ( a new Companion) in the Old West.
The War Machines - The Doctor comes back to 60s London where a sentient computer tries to takeover the world through hypnosis. Dodo leaves and two new companions, Ben and Polly arrive.
Unfortunately that’s the only First Doctor episodes I’ve watched
Second Doctor
The Tomb of the Cybermen - Supposedly the iconic episode. And where the Second Doctor has a really fantastic inspirational talk about keeping the people we love in our hearts. Unfortunately, probelmatic about race, and the first of the many times a black person dies in a Cyberman episode. It’s unfortunate because they already have so few black characters on the show but they almost always die when a Cyberman is around.
The Enemy of the World - The Second Doctor looks like a Dictator and there are shenanigans. Also there is an awesome woman character.
The Dominators - Fun episode with adorable robots.
The War Games - The EPIC ten episode last story for the Second Doctor. And the first time we all meet the other Time Lords and realize quickly they’re assholes of the highest order. And every subsequent appearance will only reinforce that.
Third Doctor
Spearhead from Space - The Third Doctor’s first adventure, and the first colored Doctor Who! We meet Doctor Liz Shaw and the rest of the UNIT team. The Brig is also reintroduced! (Um he was in an episode I hadn’t seen from Second Doctor era).
Dr Who and the Silurians - Really good episode and the ending, omg.
Ambassadors of Death - Also good but a bit bloated I think
Inferno - THE BEST. AND I MEAN THE BEST. The first official alternate universe episode and the Third Doctor struggles to save Earth. Also, unfortunately Dr. Liz Shaw’s last episode :(.
Season 2, Third Doctor
Terror of the Autons - The Master’s first appearance! And a weirdly floating Time Lord. Jo Grant appears!
The Mind of Evil - The Master tries to disrupt a peace conference with mind control, Jo Grant is awesome, and we find out the Master’s main fear is the Doctor laughing at him and proving he is more superior than the Master.
The Claws of Axos - Aliens come to Earth and try to scam Earth, the Master is behind it… and is in trouble too.
I hope that’s enough for the moment?
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5 Moments when Doctor Who SUCKED
Imagine, if you will for a moment, that you are a brand new Doctor Who fan. You don’t even know to call yourself a Whovian yet. You get on a few facebook groups, see a few YouTube videos and discover, much to your dismay, that Doctor Who is, in fact, ruined now. Woe is you who set path down a trail leading toward mediocrity, and eventually utter devastation. I ask you to picture yourself in this manner because I want you to realise that only a person new to Doctor Who would believe such drivel. Everyone else saying this seems to have rose tinted glasses. The rest of us all know that Doctor Who is a show that sometimes requires forgiveness.
Am I saying Doctor Who is a bad show? Not hardly. Much like pizza, Doctor Who is still pretty good, even when it sucks. I would venture to say that one of the things I love most about Doctor Who is how campy and silly it can be at times. Why is it then that so many people are turning their backs on a show that’s filled their lives with so much joy? I’m really trying to avoid the "because sexism," argument. But I can’t help but feel like if you were to switch the Doctor to a male, nobody would be calling the show "ruined." Furthermore, how do you even ruin something that has gone through so many changes throughout the years? Oh right, it’s the Doctor Who fandom. Where the only language allowed is hyperbolic.
Perhaps these fake geeks are mad because making the Doctor a woman takes away their ability to call her a Mary Sue. Especially when you consider the same character once burst out of a golden birdcage and floated to the ground in a wave of Jesus energy. That might mean they’d have to retroactively apply the title to every incarnation. Could the Doctor ever escape the distinction? Unnaturally talented, charismatic, good at everything he does, brilliantly smart. Or is it that these attributes only belong to men? We can believe Tom Baker’s Doctor is capable of walking into a burning furnace to save K9, but hell no, a woman can’t be the Doctor.
You have to face it, Doctor Who has had some terrible moments. Yet we continue to tune in because we forgive it. We forgive when Doctor Who is bad because of the moments when Doctor Who is wonderful. Which I know is how you would describe an abusive partner, but I’m gonna let it slide for a television series. Especially this series. Because unlike that dickhead who never texts you back, Doctor Who can change. If you don’t believe me, please peruse this list of five instances when Doctor Who was terrible.
1. The John Nathan-Turner era
My God, how could I not start with this? While there is no denying there are some wonderful moments in JNT's Doctor Who, it's easily my least favourite era of Doctor Who. And as much as I personally love Colin Baker, his Doctor got the lion's share of poor scripts and erroneous costume choices. Never has a man more game for a role, been dealt such a bad hand.
Introducing a Doctor that was cowardly, and even violent toward his companion, was seen as a bridge too far. While I understand the desire to try something new with the character, this wasn't the way to go about it. While the show begins to pick up around the end of McCoy's tenure, it's evident that this is more the influence of studio notes and the hard work of script editor Andrew Cartmel. I can't think of anyone less suited for the job of showrunner.
It seems that for a good nine years, Doctor Who had a madman at the helm, and not in that cute Matt Smith way. Dressing in flamboyant Hawaiian shirts, Nathan-Turner brought that same brash sensibility to the program. From Six's garish costume, to question mark lapels, to Mel's entire timeline, it's a big fat mess with him sitting in the middle. Add to all of this, the allegations of him being a predatory creep toward young male fans, and it's a surprise the show ever survived. Oh wait, it didn't.
2. Racism
Ok, maybe I should have started with this. While Doctor Who has taken efforts to address its racist past, it still happened. They drop a racist slur in "The Celestial Toymaker." Even the term "celestial," is used to mean "Chinese," in describing the titular character played by the very white Michael Gough, fully clad in Oriental silks. This tradition follows into "The Talons of Weng-Chiang," when Li H'sen Chang was played by John Bennett.
It's an uncomfortable miracle that they didn't allow Patrick Troughton to play the role of the Second Doctor in brownface. Not to say his era escaped the odd bit of racism. While Toberman in "Tomb of the Cybermen," gets a few heroic moments, he also gets none of the lines. Cast as mute manservant, we learn nothing about the inner workings of a black man who died so that white people may live.
Later, the show used characters like Ace to talk about racism. She shows disgust with a "No Coloureds," sign hanging in the boarding house she's staying in. When the evil Morgaine had her under mind control, it was calling her friend Ling Tai "yellow," and "slant-eyed," that she was able to snap out of it. Real Ace would never say such things. But even with that groundwork laid, the new series still struggles. From the Doctor being weirdly dismissive toward black people, to it taking nearly 50 years for the first black TV companion, Doctor Who is still grappling with its race issues. Yet you all kept watching.
3. Ace gets molested
This one is a bit of a lesser known infraction as it takes place in the books after the show had already been cancelled. Kicking off the Virgin Media "New Adventures," is 1991's "Timewyrm: Genesys," by John Peel. In it, the Doctor and Ace travel to ancient Mesopotamia, where they meet King Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh wastes no time going full blown creep, groping Ace and pawing at her like he was Joe Biden.
The Doctor's reaction to this is to tell Ace to just go with it, and that it's part of the culture. While I agree that, yes, Gilgamesh may not be the sophisticated modern man that hugs a bro and supports equal pay, the Doctor's reaction is some straight up bullshit. If you're going to go there, maybe try saying something with it other than "Women are men's property." This could have been a great opportunity for the Doctor to puff up and use Gilgamesh's own primitive mindset against him. "How dare you touch my woman!" the very tiny Doctor could say to the very tall man. It would have been a funny visual, mixed with the Doctor utilising male privilege in a way that helps his companion.
This is really an objection I have against most of John Peel's work. He writes women in that "she boobed boobily," manner. Much to my dismay, Peel is one of the sole writers of the Dalek books, so any time you want to enjoy a tale involving our enemies from Skaro, you have to also partake in his brand of women. I'm talking women being described as buxom babes with shoulder length blonde hair, voices like baby goddesses, and legs up to their neck. While on the other hand, we get men described as having a hat and probably some other features. I may be embellishing, but seriously, John Peel, your women suck. Yet it still spawned a rather large book series.
4. Minuet in Hell
Doctor Who has never been known to nail accents. Tegan is vaguely Australian. And Peri must have moved around a lot due to the fact that nothing about her American accent sounds like a regional dialect. That doesn't mean that Robert Jezek's Foghorn Leghorn meets the KFC Colonel performance as " Brigham Elisha Dashwood III," is any less painful. But bad accents aside, the biggest demon in this Big Finish audio is one of Doctor Who's oldest enemies- sexism!
While I understand that Charlotte Pollard may be a fan favourite among many Big Finish listeners, her character will forever be tainted for me, and it's all due to this story. In it, Charlotte, or Charley, gets literally human trafficked. They kidnap her, force her to wear lingerie in a very creepy and misguided attempt to add some sexiness to the story and force her to wait on rich businessmen at a casino.
Now, allow me to clarify, it's not the human trafficking that taints her in my eyes. People who get trafficked are victims, obviously. What bothers me is that neither Gary Russell or Alan W Lear thought to give her a single line of dialogue where she protests. She doesn't even complain a little. Sure, the Doctor often gains intel by getting captured, but this is ridiculous. Add this to the weird disjointed story, and "Minuet in Hell," easily serves as one of the lowest points in not just Big Finish history, but Doctor Who as a whole.
5. Sexism
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It makes the most sense that this is the last one on the list. Because let's be honest, it's a huge problem in the fandom. A lot of early Doctor Who audios and books smack of moments when it feels as though the writers never considered the existence of female fans. Women are often utilised as a means to make the Doctor look better, and for the baddies to look scarier. Mind you, it's not always been a pantheon of swooners and screamers. We got the occasional Sarah Jane, Leela, and Ace.
Even the strong women are long-suffering. Liz Shaw (and her real-life actress Caroline John) left the role of companion over sexism. Beginning her time on Doctor Who as UNIT's top scientific advisor, she was demoted to assistant, holding beakers for the male Doctor who stole her job. The Fourth Doctor acted similarly when telling Romana her qualifications had nothing on real life experience. The same excuse has been used for decades to keep educated women out of the workforce. "Come back when you've got some experience, sweetheart."
While Rose Tyler was a refreshingly real character with a family and life of her own, it doesn't mean that she wasn't horribly mismanaged. In "The Stolen Earth," we see a darker, more serious version of her character. The Rose we used to know is now fully devoted toward one mission and one mission only- getting her man back. It's as though her personality disappears and is fully dependent on having the Doctor in her life. She rises to greatness so that she might bask in his once more. Maybe it's romantic, but maybe it's bad writing.
If you were to ask me who my favourite Doctor Who writers are, I'd have to say Robert Holmes is up there, and he wrote "Talons of Weng-Chiang," a serial full of yellowface. I'd also say Russell T Davies, who wrote the aforementioned "Stolen Earth," and also saw it in his wisdom to turn Shirley Henderson's "Ursula," into a blowjob dispensing garden brick. Or even Steven Moffat who believes the Statue of Liberty could sneak around New York, undetected, and that nobody notices his predilection toward dominatrix women in stiletto heels.
In my review for "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos," I quipped that Chris Chibnall had not yet written a truly great episode of Doctor Who. However, since "Resolution," I can no longer say such a thing. I may even go as far as to say it's one of the best Dalek episodes ever. It would seem then that, given enough time, he could become a great showrunner. And it seems that given enough time, any writer, yourself included, could one day write the latest "worst episode ever."
Every new era has had its stumbles. Not every Doctor gets it correct 100% of the time. Capaldi decided he was the kind of Doctor to exit through the window, a trait we never saw again. The Fifth Doctor decided to sleep his way through his first adventure. The Eighth Doctor was "human on his mother's side." And Ten took so long to regenerate that I'm beginning to think it was old age, and not radiation that did him in. If you can look at all of these stupid, stupid moments and still say you love Doctor Who, then maybe, just maybe, you can get over a bit of spotty writing, like you always have. Or is it still the female Doctor thing? Oh...
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When did he start calling himself “The Doctor”?
Who pros Phillip Culley and @willbrooks1989 were pondering old classic Who scripts which alternate between identifying the speaker as “DOCTOR” or “DOCTOR WHO.” During the discussion, Phillip asked an intriguing question:
Thinking about it, when does he first call himself The Doctor, rather than a companion introducing him as such?
Tracking down references is my version of solving crossword puzzles, but this was a toughie. Summary of results:
At first he only identifies himself as a scientist, evading specifics. Either companions introduce him, or others see them calling him “Doctor” and follow suit. (It originated with Ian, btw.)
Eventually— and the first time he does so is to Cameca in The Aztecs— he’ll cautiously say, “they call me the Doctor.” But he still doesn’t do it very often, and only in response to queries.
Just as rarely, he’ll refer to himself jokingly in third person “your old friend the Doctor” or something of that sort to Barbara (Reign of Terror) or Victoria (Enemy of the World). He’s quoting their nickname for him when reminding them of their friendship.
Starting with The Dalek Invasion of Earth, the First Doctor begins correcting strangers if they call him Doc, Mister, Professor, or anything else. He tells them “I prefer Doctor” or simply cuts them off with “Doctor.”
Starting with The Celestial Toymaker, he’ll say “This is the Doctor” (third person!) under very specific circumstances: when he’s using a long-distance communication device to identify himself to someone who knows him. He’s letting them know this is the person you call the Doctor when they can’t see him.
Starting with The Gunfighters, he’ll occasionally invent an alias (”Doctor Caligari, Doctor Wer, Doctor John Smith”) on the spur of the moment when a stranger demands a name.
Right after regenerating, the Second Doctor refers to the Doctor as if he’s somebody else, the first instance of post-regeneration amnesia (it wears off quickly).
In The Seeds of Doom and Enemy of the World, he calls himself the Doctor (to Victoria: “you wouldn’t hit your old friend the Doctor, would you?”) in order to correct someone’s misidentification of him (see #4).
From Season 9 onwards (The Mutants, Carnival of Monsters, Invasion of the Dinosaurs) he FINALLY starts introducing himself to random strangers, unprompted: “I’m the Doctor.” It’s a subtle distinction: “I AM X” rather than “I am known as X.”
Leading to the newly-regenerated Fourth Doctor telling Harry, “You may be a doctor, but I am the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.” It’s no longer simply a label, alias or handle, but an expression of his core identity. It’s become how he thinks of himself as a person: THE DOCTOR.
He owes Chatterton a great deal of thanks for coming up with the nickname. ;)
Okay. Under the cut are relevant excerpts tracing the gradual evolution from “What’s that boy Chesterfield calling me?” to “Helllo, I’m the Doctor!”
Method: I fed Chrissie’s Doctor Who Transcripts into Scrivener so I could search them using RegEx (a way of specifying complex searches). I came up with this mess:
^DOCTOR[A-Za-z0-9:;.,’\?\! ]+[Dd]octor.+
Translated into plain English: “Look for any line that begins with DOCTOR, followed by some stuff, then the word "Doctor” (upper or lower case), and then keep going until you hit a line break.”
The results looked like this:
And then I tabbed through them manually looking for clues.
Unearthly Child
IAN: Just open the doors, Doctor Foreman.
DOCTOR: Eh? Doctor who? What's he talking about?
The first of many gratuitous “Doctor” “…who?” fourth wall jokes, which I won’t belabor.
BARBARA: Oh, look, I don't understand it any more than you do. The inside of the ship, suddenly finding ourselves here. Even some of the things Doctor Foreman says
IAN: That's not his name. Who is he? Doctor who? Perhaps if we knew his name we might have a clue to all this.
It’s Ian who starts using “Doctor” to address him (“Doctor, will you lead?”) apparently because he doesn’t know what else to call him.
DOCTOR: One minute ago we were trying desperately to get away from these savages.
IAN: All right, now we're helping them. You're a doctor, do something.
DOCTOR: I'm not a doctor of medicine.
Right from the start, the Doctor starts having to correct the confusion his alias tends to create.
The Aztecs
CAMECA: You are a healer?
DOCTOR: No, no, they call me the Doctor. I am a scientist, an engineer. I'm a builder of things.
Fittingly, Cameca is the first person to hear him call himself “Doctor,” even obliquely. But it doesn’t happen again for a long time.
Reign of Terror
BARBARA: Oh, Doctor, I thought we were never going to see you again.
DOCTOR: You should know by now, young lady, that you can't get rid of the old Doctor as easily as that.
Right at the end of Season 1, he borrows the term from Barbara to refer to himself in third person. It’s an isolated case, however, and possibly a slip on the part of the writers.
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
TYLER: I'll say one thing, Doc. Life's never dull with you around.
DOCTOR: Thank you, but don't call me Doc, I prefer Doctor. Do you mind?
He’s not saying that’s his name, but he’s got decided ideas about what NOT to call him. Right, Professor?
The Myth Makers
KATARINA: Yes, great god.
DOCTOR: His name is Steven. And remember Katarina, you must call me Doctor.
KATARINA: Oh, as you wish Doc.
DOCTOR: I'm not a Doc. I am not a god.
NOT YOU TOO KATARINA. He’s settled on the alias by season 3. But he’s still not using it as an introduction, only as a correction. In fact, nearly all pre-Pertwee instances of the Doctor saying “Doctor” happen because he’s clarifying, correcting or heading off someone else’s misidentification of him.
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve
DODO: Wait a minute, if this isn't a police box, what is it? And who are you?
DOCTOR: Well, my dear, I'm a doctor of science, and this machine is for travelling through time and relative dimensions in space. Now you
DODO: Come again?
He’s still not introducing himself as the Doctor, although he now prefers to be called Doctor rather than something else when people address him.
The Celestial Toymaker
(Watching the monitor alone, the Doctor finds a communication switch.)
DOCTOR: Dodo? Steven? This is the Doctor.
Starting near the end of Season 3, the Doctor will occasionally say “this is the Doctor” to somebody who already knows him when communicating long distance, especially when there’s some risk of mistaken identity.
The Gunfighters
DOCTOR: Allow me, sir, to introduce Miss Dodo Dupont, wizard of the ivory keys, and er Steven Regret, tenor. And lastly sir, your humble servant Doctor Caligari.
MASTERSON: Doctor Who?
DOCTOR: Yes, quite right.
More fourth wall breakage with a side helping of John Smith. First alias, I think!
STEVEN: Doctor!
DOCTOR: No, not Doctor at the moment, dear boy. I am Deputy-Sheriff of Tombstone.
Still treating it as one of his aliases rather than as his core identity.
The Savages
DOCTOR: In the meantime, young man, I wonder if you'd mind trying to find my young people for me. Steven and Dodo. Tell them the Doctor sent you.
Once again using the term for long-distance communication to identify himself to friends I.e. “this is from that guy you call the Doctor.”
Power of the Daleks
DOCTOR: Ah! The Crusades, from Saladin. The Doctor was a great collector, wasn't he?
POLLY: But you're the Doctor.
DOCTOR: Oh, I don't look like him.
[…]
BEN: Of course, the real Doctor was always going on about the Daleks.
POLLY: Real Doctor?
DOCTOR: Real Doctor?* Oh, you mean the real Doctor.
Right after regener— er, renewal, it takes a few minutes for the Doctor’s memory to clear. But then he’s a little scamp and won’t admit it once he remembers, baffling Ben (Polly is not fooled). To add to Ben’s confusion, the Doctor assumes the identity of a dead man in order to investigate his murder.
*The transcripts are incredibly meticulous, but sometimes (like any Doctor Who fan) they capitalise ‘Doctor’ when the line is really about some other doctor. So I think this punctuation should be: “Real doctor? Oh, you mean the real Doctor.”
The Highlanders
DOCTOR: A gentleman at last. Doctor von Wer, at your service.
SERGEANT: Doctor who?
DOCTOR: (sotto) That's what I said.
Again with the fourth wall breakage, this time pretending he’s a German.
The Moonbase
DOCTOR: Won't you introduce us first? I am a Doctor.
HOBSON: A Doctor? You're arrived just in time. We need your help.
Another place where I think the transcript’s capitalised out of habit, but he’s just saying “I am a doctor.” But I excerpt it in case you disagree and want to consider this the first bona-fide “I am [the] Doctor.”
The Faceless Ones
COMMANDANT [OC]: I said I wished to speak to the Doctor, otherwise the next will be Captain Blade.
BLADE: Doctor, the microphone.
DOCTOR: Are you quite all right, my dear.
PINTO: Yes, I think so.
DOCTOR: Good. Commandant, this is the Doctor speaking.
The Doctor might’ve said “Here I am,” but any ambiguity or doubt might’ve gotten Captain Blade killed, so he answers explicitly. Again, he does this over the radio, not face to face, since voices are harder to recognise.
Evil of the Daleks
OMEGA: Alpha.
ALPHA: Beta.
BETA: Omega.
DOCTOR: Yes, yes, yes. Now, this is Jamie and I am Doctor. We are friends.
OMEGA: Friends, friends.
ALPHA: Jamie, Doctor.
He’s reprogramming Daleks, and finally comes right out and says it! Even so, he’s helping them with labels— “I am the person they call Doctor” — rather than using it to express who he is as a person, if that makes any sense? Although Phillip Culley argues that this is from an early era of Who when the show’s creators were toying with the idea of Doctor as his first name and Who as his surname.
The Ice Warriors
VARGA [on monitor]: Identify yourself.
DOCTOR: Me? I'm a scientist. I've come to talk with you.
He still identifies himself as a scientist, even though he answers to the alias “Doctor.”
Enemy of the World
DOCTOR: Oh, Victoria, don't hit me! You wouldn't hit your old friend the Doctor, would you? I wouldn't leave you in the tender mercy of Salamander.
He’ll say it to fend off Victoria when she’s about to thwack him! Third person, though.
The Invasion
DOCTOR: Right. We must stop them. Brigadier, Brigadier, this is the Doctor. Can you still hear me.
Once again, the Doctor identifies himself over radio to someone who already calls him “Doctor.”
The Seeds of Doom
ELDRED: You still haven't told me who you are and what you're doing here.
DOCTOR: Well.
ELDRED: That's the main-door alarm! What's going on?
RADNOR: *enters* Professor Daniel Eldred. Well, well, well.
ELDRED: Radnor. Come to see how your spies are getting on?
RADNOR: I'm sorry? I don't think we've met. My name's Radnor. This is Miss Kelly.
DOCTOR: Oh, how do you do. This is Zoe, and Jamie, and I'm the Doctor.
ZOE: Hello.
JAMIE: Hello.
ELDRED: Oh, Radnor, don't pretend that you don't know them.
There. He finally just said it. Once again trying to correct a case of mistaken identity, and it was like pulling teeth (“Well…”) but there it is.
The War Games
LÜCKE: For the last time, what is your name?
DOCTOR: Why don't you just call me Doctor?
LÜCKE: That is not a name. I want your full name.
DOCTOR: Oh, very well. Doctor John Smith.
He still doesn’t go to “I am the Doctor” unless he absolutely must. (Is that the first instance of John Smith? *checks* No, Jamie originally came up with the name, reading it off the brand name of a gadget in Wheel in Space!)
Spearhead from Space
BRIGADIER: Not yet. I must arrange for a full set of papers first. By the way, I've just realised. I don't even know your name.
DOCTOR: Smith. Doctor John Smith.
Inferno
DOCTOR: My name? You ask me my name after all the years that you and I… Well now, wait a minute. Yes, I think I'm beginning to see what's happened here. Might I suggest you just call me ‘Doctor’?
BRIGADE LEADER: Doctor. Doctor what?
DOCTOR: Smith. Doctor John Smith.
The alias has stuck. He uses it from time to time in a pinch.
Terror of the Autons
DOCTOR: Jo, wake up. Wake up, Jo. This is the Doctor. You're amongst friends.
Again, when people who know him can’t see him (or are too dazed to recognise him), he’ll identify himself, using the name they call him by.
The Mutants
DOCTOR: So, you must be Ky. How do you do? I'm the Doctor. That's the idea. Now then, where's Miss Grant?
It’s debatable, but I feel like this really is the first time he just casually introduces himself as the Doctor, not to correct somebody calling him something else, not to identify his voice to someone who can’t see him, not to resolve a case of mistaken identity, not in jocular third person with a friend— but simply and voluntarily introducing himself as the Doctor when he meets a stranger. All the way out in Season 9!
Carnival of Monsters
VORG: Allow me to introduce myself. I am the great Vorg! And this beautiful young lady is Shirna, my assistant.
DOCTOR: Delighted, Miss Shirna. I am the Doctor.
This is the next time he does it. (Season 10) Also in Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
He still likes to be mysterious about himself, sometimes resorting to “John Smith” when he’s being sneaky, but he now thinks of himself as The Doctor. It’s become his core identity rather than just a label used when vagueness won’t suffice.
Robot
DOCTOR: Not fit? I'm the Doctor.
HARRY: No, Doctor, I'm the doctor and I say that you're not fit.
DOCTOR: You may be a doctor, but I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.
P.S. While my memory’s fuzzy, I’m pretty sure that the Meddling Monk and a few other adversaries knew him as the Doctor — how? — before he started calling himself that routinely on TV. But that’s a whole other can of worms, and this post is already too long.
#meta meta meta#dr who#who is the doctor#the name of the doctor#can you tell I used to be active in the Tolkien fandom#and that I come from a humanities research background
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The Cure To Wild Sleeptime Dreams Freestyle Story by Stella Carrier
The Cure To Wild Sleeptime Dreams Freestyle Story by Stella CarrierStart time 208 amCompletion time 241 amThe Cure To Wild Sleeptime Dreams Freestyle Story by Stella CarrierQuick 8 minute storyI Stella Carrier Humbly Call Upon What I Imagine To Be The Influence of Benevolent Spirits From the Heavenly Realms, my higher self, and my celestial spirit ally team for creativity in both my writings and all other areas of my life both present and future. I also welcome any and all forms of spiritual assistance and divine intervention in all areas of my life both present and future.Affirmations
I am creating heaven on earth.
I am learning to be in the right place at the right time at all times.
I am learning to live all areas of my life in alignment with my divine life purpose for both the present and future
My psychic/intuitive abilities, creativity/imaginative abilities, and my ability to tap into my wisdom are expanding each and every day.
I am in the process of manifesting and ensuring a bright future for myself
I see through various situations with great wisdom and clarity with discernment as to what information to go by
I am in the process of simultaneously sharpening both my logic decision making and the imagination helpful to think outside the box for solutions in various areas of my life.
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I love and honor everything I create.
My life is full of miracles.
I am free to do those things that bring me joy.
My soul guides me on my path.
I ask for and receive a seed of inspiration to bring me answers and solutions. I now know what to do.
Once I make a decision, all the forces in the universe are mobilized to bring about my highest good.
I ask my higher self and soul to show me answers and solutions.
My sixth chakra is awakening. I see through the eyes of my soul.
My mind is tuned to the higher planes of reality.
I have wonderful, supportive friends.
The year is 2600 and Daisy Marshall is traveling to three different planets today courtesy of the travel service that was opened across various parts of the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, various parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America and other countries by the year 2559. Each of the planets are similar to one of the worlds featured in the Star Wars Last Jedi film except all of the employees are at least 18 years old, voluntarily there, and many of them work for 5 years to collect an amount of money to live on for at least the next 55 years. Choices are carefully made by the employees across different planets (including earth and 89 other planets) which world to reside on as a minimum working commitment of at least 7 years is required.
Four weeks in earth time Daisy Marshall traveled from Switzerland to a nearby planet that took an hour of earth traveling time that was inhabited by men and women who do dual work of creating cartoons and work across various food industries. Two weeks ago, Daisy Marshall traveled to a world that is said to be inhabited by men women and children who resided in the civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria many years ago and many of them secretly migrated to this world right before both Atlantis and Lemuria went into the sea. Many of the inhabitants also model many of their places after 2000s cartoons just with the difference that many of the homes are castles and each citizen is automatically assigned a job by the time they are 19 years old. The caveat is that they are allowed to cross train only after agreeing to do a series of volunteering work pertaining to food services, lodging, and transportation for at least the next 10 years around their work schedule. The world that Daisy Marshall is headed to tomorrow for the next week as part of her job to study different worlds for cooking in both her job and schooling require her to go to a planet similar to earth except filled with theme parks and colleges in each part of the world. This world was only discovered 10 years ago for certain reasons pertaining to all of the natural born residents of that world being psychic and only wanting to make this world available to other civilizations such as earth once they saw more peace prevailing on earth.
Daisy Marshall gets into a large city like airplane that carries over 7800 people to this particular planet in 45 minutes earth time. The trip only costs her 27 dollars in today’s money and she looks over the itinerary for this trip as she also has to collect information for the food job that she does making food for many writers and toymakers who work with employees who build miniature cars, houses, miniature business buildings etc. These trips are good outlets for her to collect data for her job as writing has also helped her make a lot of money and she secretly uses controversial stories for financial gain. However, these trips provide Daisy Marshall a healthy outlet as the karmic outcome of her partaking in writing nearly every day has left her with some very sensual sleeptime dreams which seem innocent enough until some of the characters from some of her dreams unexpectedly pop up even when she tries to travel years into the future. Last night, one of Daisy Marshall’s male spirit guides explained to her that he tried to petition a celestial board of karmic lords to change the frequency of her sensual dreams but they explained to him that the frequency of such sensual dreams is only going to change into the wisdom dreams she is seeking once she bravely makes a change to her external environment. These dreams are innocent enough but Daisy Marshall is subjected to seeing other people in various sexual acts that make even her blush because it is like some astral spirits are positioning her inside people’s homes and living areas which cause her to see some of these people differently that she has to see in waking life. Daisy Marshal tried to reason with her spirit guide named Eddie Jay that right timing would have to line up with such advice for consideration of other people around her. Daisy Marshall’s male spirit guide Eddie Jay explained; Yes I Know, I am giving you this advice knowing that you have to stay where you are for right now because both of those sensual sleeptime dreams you are having in high frequency and my advice to you to continue your writing despite this is to help resolve your karma where you committed suicide over 1800 years ago in modern day Switzerland only a month before you were to be rescued from a life or prostitution to be both a psychic and a female cook for the royal court which would have also gave you the privilege to learn both reading and writing to fulfill your life purpose as a storyteller. Daisy Marshall’s spirit guide Eddie Jay then explained I must avoid telling you further both to protect even the characters who frequently pop up in your dreams but to also protect your life purpose of your sleeptime traveling and writing.
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Despite the controversy surrounding Matt Lauer I do prefer to stay neutral in commenting on these stories too publicly. Regarding this story of Addie Collins having consensual sex with Matt Lauer I do believe her and have sympathy for Collins in the sense that Matt Lauer let it slip out to someone else that they had sex instead of keeping it secret. However, Addie Collins should have just said no comment or exercised her right to plead the fifth amendment when National Enquirer contacted her to confirm if her and Matt Lauer met up secretly to have sex. I am far from a person to judge anyone who has forbidden sexual affairs. However, in the case of controversial sex affairs that are consensual, due to even a woman such as myself being aware of the double standard even if a man slips out to other people that they had sex with you, it is important as a woman to keep it secret even if others want you to kiss and tell to corroborate if you did have forbidden sex with a man that slipped up to other people about their sexual encounters. Please understand that I am not slut-shaming Addie Collins for having sex with Matt Lauer but I am implying that she could have just kept the sexual affair/sexual fling meetups that she had with Matt Lauer a secret and avoided going public. I am happy for Addie Collins that she still went on to have a successful career and money life in addition to a satisfying love life. However, Addie Collins had sex with Matt Lauer being aware of what she was getting herself into and she would be better off long term not going public with any other men that she has taboo andor forbidden sexual encounters with yes even if the men themselves brag about it to others (in other words she is better off keeping it secret if she has any other consensual forbidden andor sexual affairs in the present andor future). It may be a double standard but it is important for a woman to be the one to be secretive and keeping any taboo andor controversial sexual affairs/casual sex meetups a secret even if a woman has sex with a much more professionally andor financially successful man who may brag to others about his sex escapades/sex encounters. As for Matt Lauer if it is true that he let the cat out of the bag to someone else that he banged/had sex with Addie Collins then there is a chance that he may have slipped up in telling of his other sex conquests to maybe other men andor women that he thought would keep what he said secret. My point; This story involving Addie Collins makes it obvious that Matt Lauer probably could have kept his high craving for taboo sexual affairs secret if he himself would have resisted the urge to brag about the women he had sex with to other people. Memo to other men who love to have sex with countless other women; it is actually sexier to keep forbidden andor taboo sexual encounters secret even if other people tempt you to share your sexual encounters. For women tempted to also spill details of forbidden sexual encounters-due to the double standard, even if the forbidden encounter involved someone highly successful or powerful, carry the encounter(encounters) to your grave/your death even when others speculate about your past, present andor future sex life-let time and the power of both your words, intent, and deeds redeem you. Any day that you are allowed to be alive is another chance to turn over a new life and redeem yourself.
Inside Matt Lauer’s Secret Relationship With a ‘Today’ Production Assistant (EXCLUSIVE)By
Ramin Setoodeh
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http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/matt-lauer-today-secret-relationship-production-assistant-1202641040/I really wish that Addie Zinone had a high number of non-judgmental people in her life to explain that she needs to forgive Matt Lauer if it is true that he ghosted her when she attempted to contact him about tabloids approaching her to verify if she was one of his mistresses. Additionally, Addie Zinone, for the sake of her present and future professional reputation needs to avoid discussing this story on a public level any further. It is clear from how she keeps publicly rehashing this story that she might have became in love with Matt Lauer while he was clearly just in lust with her despite the multiple times that they met up to secretly bang each other. Additionally someone close to Addie Zinone needs to tell her that constantly bringing this story up in public is only making it seem like she is still secretly romantically andor sexually pining for Matt Lauer whether she realizes it or not. Additionally, from other recent articles pertaining to Addie Zinone she is fortunate to be married to a man who loves her. For the sake and consideration of her husband she needs to avoid rehashing her secret sexual trysts with Matt Lauer and be more thoughtful and heart centered on how her current husband might feel if she truly wants to protect/safeguard/preserve her marriage. Last, but not least Addie Zinone’s public tale also proves one thing: No, I am not going to get on a moral high horse and judge Addie Zinone for sexually succumbing to Matt Lauer’s charisma andor charm. However, what I will say is that it is important for any woman to understand, regardless of what the man says in well-meaning intent, that if you meet andor hookup with a man from the work environment that you are going to have to be emotionally prepared for the fact/possibility that you are going to be far from the only woman in his line of sexual conquests (this obviously goes for work environments both inside and outside of Hollywood California). It actually surprises me that there are some mature women(women 25 years old and older), highly intelligent, andor professionally accomplished women who should know better who somehow think that they are going to be one of the only few women to be on a man’s sexual conquest target list (when it comes to men regardless of professional level who they have sex with that they met from work). I am far from a Matt Lauer fan but technically he did not sexually take advantage of Addie Zinone because in Addie Zinone’s own words she was voluntarily on her way out of not just the job but the New York area altogether as even a Variety article has her quoting in her own words she was relocating from New York to West Virginia after accepting a job offer in West Virginia. To Addie Zinone’s credit, she at least illustrated why a woman must be very careful about public disclosing a consensual sexual affair especially when the hookup was taboo to begin with (with Matt being married). However, as I have written earlier, Addie Zinone needs to be cautious about publicly sharing her story in the future for the sake of her current husband even if he was already supportive of her publicly disclosing. Additionally, to prove that she is over Matt Lauer romantically speaking she needs to avoid talking about the affair publicly and maybe just disclose with a trusted therapist, a non-judgmental friend completely outside of her current job andor even a psychic but nobody else outside of those people. I am writing this not to shame andor slut shame Addie Zinone but rather I am emphasizing she needs to refrain from speaking about her sexual meetups with Matt Lauer to avoid coming across as a lovestruck woman who is only trying to get back at Matt Lauer for her realizing that she was merely one out of several women who Matt Lauer successfully seduced into having sex with him. Yes I get that Addie Zinone was supposedly trying to take control of disclosing herself before being outed. However, she could have just exercised her right to plead the fifth or simply say no comment if she would have been outed and approached by mainstream media reporters/outlets. Again I am not trying to slut shame Addie Zinone but I hope that she uses what happened with her and Matt Lauer to avoid publicly disclosing any future illicit affairs she has if she ever has a taboo hookup again especially a workplace related sexual meetup (past and/or future). Regardless of what other well-meaning people may think, it is fine to keep one’s taboo sexual history a secret even if you may risk being outed if it means that you carrying some sexual secrets to your death/your grave means that you are protecting the well-being andor livelihood of others in addition to yourself. I only say this because maybe Addie Zinone’s current employer is wonderful to her despite her public disclosures but there may be time left for Addie Zinone to slam andor shut the Pandora’s Box of other taboo sexual history secrets (past andor future taboo sexual hookups) in case she finds herself needing to look for other employment within 5 to 8 years or less.
New Details Revealed About Addie Zinone — The Woman Who Claims She Had An Affair With Matt Lauer (And Has The Texts To Prove It)
Sarah Gangraw,YourTango Sat, Dec 16 2:28 AM EST
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/details-revealed-addie-zinone-woman-072850663.html
How Matt Lauer seduced a Today PA into dressing room 'hostage-style' sex sessions when she asked for career advice and later sabotaged her future in media· Addie Zinone was a 24-year-old PA at Today fresh out of college when she began to have a sexual relationship with Matt Lauer she writes in an essay for Variety· It began after she asked him for career advice and he took her to lunch, then asked her to meet him in the dressing room at work for sex· The relationship ended weeks later with Lauer asking Zinone to meet him for sex one last time in a bathroom at a convention center in California during the DNC by Chris Spargo
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considered sexy hotels
This place the Santorini Cave Hotel featured in this Robb Report article looks like a scenic place to vacation.
This Santorini Cave Hotel Has the Sexiest Bedroom in the World
The Iconic Santorini is an extraordinary luxury boutique carved into the island’s volcanic caldera.
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Some of the hotels pictured in this Robb Report article connected to the late Marilyn Monroe that would also make perfect settings for freestyle stories andor places I would love to visit; The Beverly Hills Hotel, The Hollywood Roosevelet, Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Imperial Hotel Tokyo, Hotel Del Coronado, Hotel Bel-Air
Marilyn Slept Here: 10 Luxury Hotels Where Marilyn Monroe Checked In
Inside the 10 luxury hotels where Marilyn Monroe lived, loved, filmed, and even fought…
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ROBIN CHERRY
ON MAY 6, 2017· http://robbreport.com/travel/destinations/slideshow/marilyn-slept-here-10-luxury-hotels-where-marilyn-monroe-checked
These are beautiful pictures of hotel pictures in Ibiza Spain.
Say Hello to the New Ibiza
Meet the softer side of this hard-partying Balearic isle.
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JESSICA BENAVIDES CANEPA
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Bob's Discount Furniture website link from the Daily Mail UK website
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All these places in this Daily Mail UK picture are beautiful. However, I had to especially keep and save this article because it features an article on Vienna Austria. My amazing husband Rusty Ridler of 14 years come January 22 2018 is part Austrian from his mother and maternal grandmothers side as well as from his father's side.
From Christmas markets in Vienna to floating markets in Vietnam: National Geographic reveals the ultimate places to visit for a winter getaway· National Geographic Traveler has revealed their top nine places to visit for the ultimate winter getaway · �� Among the destinations to make the list are the Christmas markets of Vienna and the tundra of the Antarctic· Sunnier climes include the floating markets of Vietnam, the island of Belize and the beaches of the Caribbean By
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Idea from the Star Wars Last Jedi filmA Fiction Story With Powerful Writing Encouragement ParablesDue to the circumstances of being confused for a paid professional reviewer,I preface this review of this kindlebook of I Am A Writer; A Story About Finding Your Inner Author (The Mentor Code Series-How To Be A Writer Book 1) by C.G. Cooper by making it crystal clear that I am an Amateur online reviewer with a passion for writing who has been an Amazon customer since the early 2000s (when I was stationed in Yokosuka Japan through the military) and my first online reviewer as an Amateur Amazon reviewer was on June 15 2018 for Madonna’s Hard Candy cd(when I was residing in Norfolk Virginia also through the military). With that out of the way, I obtained this encouraging guide that is I Am A Writer; A Story About Finding Your Inner Author by C.G. Cooper with the good fortune of knowing that even my husband is supportive of me holding a full-time job and writing part time. Some of the encouraging ideas in this fictional kindlebook that is I Am A Writer by C.G. Cooper; how one of the characters meets a mentor who teaches her various ideas for writing and reading,one of the characters in the story being encouraged in partnership with other writers, a website to actually engage with other writers, the plot point of one of the characters even meeting up with the “Coffeehouse Crew” at least three times a week for writing mentorship, and more. I confess that I am in the process of working on the powerful encouragement to write something everyday (7 times a week) as sometimes even with my passion for writing I sometimes write just 4 to 5 times a week. However, just this reminder alone in this encouraging kindlebook makes me reconsider trying again to at least aim for 5 to 6 times a week.Disney EatingI preface this review of the kindlebook of Walt Disney World Dining Guide 2018 by Andrea McGann Keech and Bob McLain by making it clear that I am an Amatuer online reviewer with a writing passion who has been an Amazon customer since the early 2000s and an Amatuer online reviewer since June 15 2008. With that out of the way the following are some of the fascinating details in this kindlebook that is the Walt Disney World Dining Guide 2018 by Andrea McGann and Bob McLain; there are currently at least 25 Disney Resort Hotels, 4 Major Theme Parks, at least 150 different places to eat within Walt Disney World, What the Disney Dining Plan Does For You, Tables in Wonderland, advance dining reservations, quick service counter service meals, unique themed meals, fine signature meals, trades, pizza delivery service, character meals, Disney signature restaurants such as California Grill at Disney’s Contemporary Resort and Le Cellier Steakhouse at the Canada Pavilion at Epcot, three Disney Dining plans, free Disney dining plans,and much more.Directory of Some Disney DrinksEven as an Amateur online review who has drinked only occasionally in the past something compelled me to obtain this kindlebook that is Drinking At Disney; A Tipsy Travel Guide To Walt Disney’s Bars, Lounges, & Glow Cubes by Rhiannon and Daniel Miller. Some of the details in this kindlebook that is Drinking At Disney by Rhiannon and Daniel Miller; various drinks listed such as Raspberry Ginger Mojito, Rye Manhattan drink listed, sidecar noir drink listed, Captain’s Mai Tai drink ingredients listed, ingredients listed for both a magical star cocktail and banana spiced rum martini, chapter 3 various drinks sold within the Magic Kingdom park, chapter 4 drinks sold at the Epcot park, some of the drinks offered at the countries featured within Epcot such as drinks offered within the Norway cart (Aquavit glacier shot), and more.
Personal Website Ideas
I confess that even as an Amateur online reviewer blessed with a food services job that pays me abundantly for what I do I recently realized the challenging way that I must learn about reputation building via online tools. This is due to recent circumstances that gave me important clues that my passion for prolific writing was indirectly paving the way for me to be confused for a paid online critic rather than an Amateur online reviewer. Please understand that I see the good in being a paid online critic, it is just that I am only illustrating why I realize that I must work on building my own online reputation regardless of whether I originally set out to do so beforehand. Some of the helpful tidbits in this kindlebook that is Online Reputation Management; The 28 Day Challenge; Get Your Personal Brand in Shape by Ryan Erskine;building a personal website (something I need to have implemented by June 1 2018 or sooner), the anatomy of a friendly biography in a certain format as recommended by the author, optimizing social media profiles and putting locations on each of them,info on blog posts, publishing a backstory, and much more.
Memorable FilmMy husband and I fortunately had the chance to watch the previous two Star Wars films in theaters (Star Wars the Force Awakens in December 2015 and Rogue One Star Wars Story in December 2016). As a result it was an easy decision for my husband and I to watch Star Wars The Last Jedi this past weekend. There are a multiple number of compelling plot points that it is challenging for me to pinpoint the most exciting moments. This Star Wars Last Jedi film features a number of multiple actors and actresses who contributed; Daisy Ridler (Rey), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), John Boyega (Finn),Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron), Carrie Fisher (Leia Organa), Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico),Laura Dern (Vice Admiral Holdo), Benicio Del Toro (DJ), Andy Serkis (Snoke), and many more actors/actresses. The film was done in a way to make me actually have a little sympathy for Rey’s character foil Kylo Ren because of the back history involving Rey’s character foil and Luke Skywalker. I understand that all three characters were just portraying their roles scripted for them in a brilliant fashion. It is just that I found myself surprised at being able to easily see and understand why all three of those characters did some of the things that they did in the film(because of the way that the plots were created in Star Wars Last Jedi).I must refrain from saying too much more out of consideration for others looking at this review who want to see the film. Yet, I must admit and share that I also enjoyed the world-building with multiple characters weaved in that were brought to life when the characters of Finn and Rose Tico had to go to a well constructed/well maintained world/environment because of a do or die situation.The Power of Reputation BuildingThis film Top Secret Affair stars Kirk Douglas as Melville Goodwin and Susan Hayward as Dorothy Peale. Melville Goodwin obtained and worked hard by merit to get a job position with the Joint Atomic International Commission. However, Dorothy Peale wanted a friend of her father’s to get the job and so she originally sets out to use her own career position and professionally power to see to it that Goodwin’s reputation needs a dramatic makeover by the time she gets down with him. However, Peale’s plans change after she gets to know him and with how good Goodwin treats Peale considering the circumstances. This film actually gave me an idea to investigate the area of reputation even more. However, my only caveat about this film was that Peale’s treatment of Goodwin hinged on how he treated her at first. In this fiction yet brilliant film the way things worked out in this movie made sense given the time period and the career positions of Goodwin and Peale. However, this is still independent from the fact that in real-life a person (male or female) must strive to resist the urge to get back at someone even when the opportunity(opportunities) presents (present)itself (themselves) and even if it would take a miracle for the person you are tempted to get back at/get revenge on would even consider being a platonic friend. Aside from that caveat, this Top Secret Affair film was worth it to watch and shows a different acting light to Kirk Douglas’s military role in this film. If you liked Kirk Douglas’s portrayal in the Seven Days in May film you might also like this Top Secret Affair film.Curiosity Influenced MeI admit that I was curious to check out this Great Chefs of Austria film both to get an idea of how cooking traditions are done in other parts of the world and to get a glimpse into the culture of Austria even if from the 1980s as my husband is part Austrian. I admit that I only watched episode one of Great Chefs Austria Season One titled Chef Manfred Buchinger-Restaurant Hotel Inter-Continental Vier Jahreszeiten yet I plan to watch the remaining episodes of Great Chefs Austria by January 16 2018 or sooner. Some of the highlights just from episode one; a deep fried strawberries recipe and various pictures of the dishes that are about to be cooked, some video footage of some of the locals strolling by the hotel, and more.
A Well Compiled Music CollectionThis Amazon music playlist that is Now That’s What I Call Music, Vol. 55 has a medley of exquisite songs from various genres. I confess that some of my guilty pleasure songs that I enjoy from the Amazon music playlist of Now That’s What I Call Music Vol. 55 are; Talking Body by Tove Lo, Style by Taylor Swift, Summer by Maroon 5, Love Me Like You Do by Ellie Goulding,Worth It by Fifth Harmony feat. Kid Ink, Want to Want Me by Jason Derulo,and Hey Mama by David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj Bebe Rexha Afrojack. However, there are also more exciting songs on the Amazon music playlist of Now That’s What I Call Music 55 such as;Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix Radio Edit) by Omi,Lean On by Major Lazer feat. MO and DJ Snake, Fun by Pitbull feat. Chris Brown, You Know You Like It by DJ Snake and AlunaGeorge,Chains by Nick Jonas, Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran, and more.
NOW That's What I Call Music, Vol. 551 hr 15 mins, 21 songsCurated by NOW That’s What I Call Music US
Self Control Laura BraniganA Unique 80s Love SongI confess that I actually purchased the mp3 song of Self Control by Laura Branigan through Amazon back on October 22, 2011. I consider Laura Branigan’s vocals to be a gorgeous complement to a very complex love song. Even the music video plays with the meaning of this song because she is influenced by some unexplained energy to act the way she does in what appears to be set in her sleeptime dream. I first heard this unique pop song around the time I was 8 years old via local radio. I am guessing that this song Self Control by Laura Branigan probably means to be indirectly influenced to act totally different from being completely reserved just from a particular person coming around you.MagicMeaningful 80s Love SongThis song Magic by the Cars appears to be a brilliant 80s love song about the singer mentioning someone that he has a romantic hold over, almost as if the person is romantically enchanted by them. However, on a positive note, the song also seems to be a romantic story about two people who create spiritually powerful circumstances(in a beneficial way) when they are around each other (just guessing from the magic metaphor used in the song).The Love of My LifeA One of A Kind Type of Romantic Love Musical Message?I actually first heard this song The Love of My Life by Santana feat. the Dave Matthews Band & Carter Beauford when I was around 19 years old (yes I am showing my age). This song is more on the contemporary music genre side yet is both a meaningful and positive song about a singer referencing someone who has made a major impact on him romantically speaking. The singing and the music harmonize perfectly well together in the Love of My Life.Fallin into YouA Blissful Love Song I First Heard in My Early 20sI admit that I actually first heard this cheery love song that is Falling Into You by Celine Dion around 2001/2002 from a various artists collection when I was stationed on Yokosuka Japan. The lyrics to this song are very happy and healing. The singer weaves a powerful music story of being very much in romantic love yet it is the type of romantic love that makes her feel good. The singing is superb and Celine Dion’s rendition of Falling Into You Contains colorful metaphors pertaining to passionate love. Obviously, Falling Into You by Celine Dion is a fantastic song to add to a Happy Love Playlist.Due to previous circumstances of me being confused for a professional paid reviewer, I must preface this yelp review by emphasizing that I am an online Amateur reviewer with a writing passion who understands why others may do the paid review route yet I am fortunate in being able to easily pay for many of the things I review out of my pocket because my household is just my husband and I with the blessing of both of us having good paying jobs. With that preface out of the way, I also admit that My husband and I ate at this Five Guys location in Hyattsville Maryland less than 9 hours ago after watching Star Wars the Last Jedi as this Five Guys location is close by a movie theater. My husband and I fortunately received our food within 10 minutes of us ordering and we both were satisfied with our food. My husband ordered and ate a little bacon cheeseburger with bacon mustard lettuce and tomatoes with cream soda while I ordered and ate a little bacon cheeseburger with bacon grilled onions grilled mushrooms with a vanilla rootbeer. Additionally, both my husband and I ate and shared an order of the regular size Cajun fries (even a regular size can feed two people with healthy appetites). My husband and I have at times been fortunate in being able to eat at this Hyattsville Maryland location of Five Guys since 2010. Plus we were both previously familiar with Five Guys as we both use to also eat at Five Guys during part of 2009 and 2010 when we were both residing in Orlando Florida (less than a couple of miles from the University of Central Florida campus).
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I was a butler and estate manager for billionaires — here are 7 surprising insights I learned from the inside
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Time is a CEO's most valuable resource — here are all the people the .01% hire to keep their households running smoothlyBy Tanza Loudenback
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The world's richest people are flocking to these 17 citiesBy Tanza Loudenback
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Meet the 20 celebrities who made the most money last year — a combined total of $1.7 billionBy Tanza Loudenback
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Meet the 11 richest millennials in America, who have a combined fortune of $127 billionBy Tanza Loudenback
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I saw my sweetheart husband Rusty Ridler less than 8 minutes ago check out a daily meal article of the 13 most fattening foods on earth. I confess that some of the foods in this Daily Meal article that I find too delicious to give up permanently are fondue, ice cream, and sausages. For instance, each time I go to the Costco food court in the Wheaton mall to order food it is challenging for me to pass up ordering an Italian sausage with one of their hot dogs.What Are the Most Fattening Foods on Earth?Jul 9, 2016 | 12:27 pmBy
Dan Myers
Editor
Eat enough of these and you’ll definitely see your waistline expand
https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/what-are-most-fattening-foods-earth
My interest in the Harry Potter and the Fantastic Beast films compels me to share this Daily Meal article.Have a Magical Holiday With 'Christmas in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter'Dec 11, 2017 | 12:08 pmBy
Shaena Engle
New entertainment and holiday-inspired food provide a festive atmosphere at Hogwarts Castle
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from my facebook friend Robert Grant (we became facebook friends in 2012 and I have known him since around the time I was 17 years old, he is a nice guy)
Creative People Literally See the World Differently, Mind-Blowing Research Shows
Exceptionally creative people and your average Joe see different things when they look around. By Jessica Stillman
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Doctor Who has been on and off the air for nearly 54 years, and part of the key to the show’s longevity is that the baton of its lead character can be passed from actor to actor, from the First Doctor, William Hartnell, all the way to the upcoming 13th Doctor, Jodie Whittaker. But Doctor Who goes far beyond recasting—changing the lead character is a fundamental part of the show itself.
Recasting a lead actor to continue a popular character is not a unique concept—just look at James Bond. But in 1966, Doctor Who’s creative team built the change directly into the fabric of the show itself, a power that allows the character to escape death by completely transforming their body, both in physical form (including gender, as we know now) and in terms of personality. In doing so, Doctor Who has created a strange new legacy for itself over the 51 years since William Hartnell’s final story, “The Tenth Planet,” aired.
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But the casting of Doctor Who’s next star has its own story, too. Over the years the announcement of who would play the next incarnation of the Doctor has evolved into a growing pageantry, especially after the show’s return to screens in 2005. Here’s the weird, complicated history of how Doctor Who has announced the new leads over the years, from its tragic origins to the global event it’s become today.
1966: Renewal
In 1966, the producers of Doctor Who found themselves in a troubling situation. While the show itself was hitting new heights in popularity, its lead actor, William Hartnell, was suffering from a variety of health problems, which led to clashes with the production staff. This led producer John Wiles to plan a radical move for the series: replace the ailing Hartnell with a new actor.
Initially, there was going to be little explanation for the change. Wiles planned to have a new Doctor appear during “The Celestial Toymaker,” a story which opened with the Doctor being turned invisible by the titular being. When the Doctor returned to tangibility, Wiles wanted him to return with an entirely new actor, too, as if the Doctor had been altered in his absence. The BBC vetoed the idea—and Wiles left while the story’s production was in process—but Hartnell’s deterioration meant his replacement was still inevitable.
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Just months later, Hartnell reached an amicable agreement with new producer Innes Lloyd to exit the show, and Doctor Who’s script editor Gerry Davis decided to write Hartnell’s exit into the fiction of the series. He used the Doctor’s alien race, the Time Lords, to explain that he could continually change himself into a younger man when his body was dying out, a process originally dubbed as a “Renewal.” Patrick Troughton was picked to replace Hartnell, and the fateful changeover occurred in October 1966 during “The Tenth Planet.” The sequence, originally modeled after the effects of an LSD trip, saw an ailing First Doctor collapse on the floor of the TARDIS, his face hazily transforming into that of a new, younger man. Doctor Who’s survival was ensured, not just for the immediate future, but for decades to come.
1970-1974: Defying Expectations
Going into the 1970s, Doctor Who faced more issues behind the scenes, after Troughton expressed his desire to leave the show. That, plus spiraling set costs for the show’s constantly-changing locations, led to the decision to set the next season of the show entirely on Earth, giving the new Doctor a regular supporting cast in the form of paramilitary organization UNIT, and a new mission to defend the Earth from regular alien occurrences. Script editor Derrick Sherwin, acting as co-producer on the show, eventually chose Jon Pertwee to replace Troughton—hoping the actor, known for his comic performances, would continue to develop the bumbling jokester persona Troughton had brought to the role. Naturally, as nothing rarely goes as planned on Doctor Who, Pertwee went the exact opposite direction, wanting to cement himself as a more serious action hero.
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After Pertwee’s exit from the show, producers initially were looking for an older, more Hartnell-esque actor to replace him. Instead, they settled on Tom Baker, then the youngest actor to play the role. Baker’s introduction would largely cement the canon of “Regeneration” in Doctor Who, a term which was used for the first time to describe the process in Baker’s first appearance in “Planet of the Spiders,” along with the revelation that it was a biological process inherent to Time Lords (although Troughton’s Doctor had described it as something performed by the TARDIS). During Baker’s first appearance, the Fourth Doctor also established that the now-traditional period of erratic behavior post-regeneration was a common side effect of the Doctor’s renewal—facts that pretty much still exist in the show as we know it today.
1981-1987: Troubled Times
A Daily Star report discussing Baker’s comments about a female Doctor in 1981. Via Twitter
Baker’s departure, after serving a record-holding seven seasons as the Doctor, is really the first time that a Doctor’s departure caused a major media stir for the show—something new producer Jonathan Nathan-Turner, hungry for attention while the show suffered ailing ratings at the turn of the ‘80s, was more than happy to stoke. It wasn’t all because of Baker’s exit, though; some of it was because of an argument we in 2017 are all too familiar with, after the actor cheekily told press that a woman could be the one to replace him. Nathan-Turner had no plans to actually cast a woman—Peter Davison had been chosen pretty quickly, although he was not the first choice—but the producer let the story run rampant in the hope it would drum up new interest in the show.
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Davison’s replacement, Colin Baker, marked the first time a Doctor who had previously appeared in the show (Colin had played Time Lord Commander Maxil in the 1983 story “Arc of Infinity”) returned for the lead role, something that would be repeated with Peter Capaldi’s casting in 2014. But while Baker’s arrival on Doctor Who was amicable, his exit was anything but.
Baker’s time on the show as the Fifth Doctor was marred by production hiatuses and growing discontent at the show’s darker content, as well as the decision to skew his portrayal of the Doctor to a much colder, self-centered character. Baker was ultimately fired by the BBC 1's controller, Michael Grade, who despised Doctor Who to the point that he wanted the show canceled. His exit was so fraught that the actor was not even allowed back to film his regeneration sequence. This lead to the infamous moment in “Time and the Rani” where his replacement, Sylvester McCoy, made his debut as the Sixth Doctor lying face down in an incredibly unconvincing Colin Baker wig, which you can see here:
1989-1996: The Wilderness Years
When Doctor Who was put on hiatus in 1989, McCoy’s stint as the Time Lord came to a bizarrely muted end. The series ended as the Doctor and current companion Ace wandered off into the sunset, contemplating adventures fans would never get to see. Work had already begun on a 27th season of Doctor Who when it was suspended, but the series’ cancelation meant that there were no real plans to replace McCoy’s Doctor as the “final” incarnation of the timeline.
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The mid-‘90s saw several attempts to resurrect the show, including a proposed American reboot pitched by Universal TV. That eventually laid the groundwork for a standalone TV movie in 1996, which was intended to act as a backdoor pilot of a complete Doctor Who relaunch for American audiences. During script work by incoming writer Matthew Jacobs, however, it was decided to scrap the idea of a complete overhaul of Doctor Who’s continuity and instead frame the movie as a continuation of the TV show, which meant bringing Sylvester McCoy back for a brief return so he could “regenerate” into the Doctor’s next incarnation.
Paul McGann was the production’s first and only choice for the role of the Eighth Doctor, despite initial hesitation from both Fox, which co-produced the movie, and McGann himself, who was unsure if he could commit to the possibility of a TV series after the movie. They needn’t have worried; the TV movie—simply titled Doctor Who—flopped in America, despite solid ratings in the UK, and future Who plans were scrapped. McGann remained an official Doctor, but the series was doomed to lie dormant for nearly a decade.
2005: The Return
Doctor Who’s return to TV after years away was announced without a cast in place. While the British press went on to speculate all sorts of weird potential Doctors for the new series (names like comedians Eddie Izzard and Ken Dodd were bandied about), the BBC intended to root Doctor Who in a modern and self-serious tone, and unveiled Christopher Eccleston—then best known for his role as Jesus Christ in The Second Coming—as the new Doctor in 2004. Russell T Davies, the show’s new executive producer, later confirmed that Eccleston’s Doctor would officially be the Ninth incarnation of the character, retconning a previous incarnation played by Richard E. Grant for a web animation series called Scream of the Shalka, released to mark the show’s 40th anniversary in 2003.
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The initial casting for the show’s return was pretty standard, but Eccleston’s exit was much more controversial. The actor’s departure from the show came just days after Doctor Who’s triumphant return in 2005, thanks to newspaper leaks that led to the BBC rushing out a statement to confirm the actor’s exit. Even that was a disaster, given that the BBC then got in trouble for fabricating comments from Eccleston to use in its statement, which claimed he left the show to avoid being typecast, leading to the BBC apologizing again.
None of that even speaks to the fan reaction to the news—which was surprisingly livid, considering Doctor Who had a long history of recasting the Doctor at that point. Alarmed to have lost the Ninth Doctor mere episodes into his run, fans took to the internet to share their fury, which became so heated, popular Who forum Outpost Gallifrey (now shut down and rebuilt by former moderators as Gallifrey Base, and often seen by British media as the best gauge of fan opinion) shuttered for several days to avoid toxicity from developing any further.
Less than a month after Doctor Who returned to screens, David Tennant was announced as the Tenth Doctor, news which was unveiled in as simple a manner as his predecessor: a press release. No fabricated statements were needed.
2009-2017: The Event
Although Davies had brought Doctor Who back in 2005, the act of casting a new Time Lord only truly evolved into a grand spectacle under the auspices of now-departing showrunner Steven Moffat. After Tennant, gone were the days when a simple press release or a newspaper article sufficed to announce a new Doctor Who lead. Suddenly, casting announcements turned into major events, requiring ever-increasing amounts of secrecy and pageantry.
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Matt Smith’s casting announcement came in the midst of an episode of Doctor Who Confidential—the behind-the-scenes sister show that had accompanied the series since its return in 2005—that was broadcast just days into 2009, two months after Tennant had announced his exit while accepting an award for the show. The setup featured a series of talking heads, including Tennant, discussing the history of regenerations on the show, the mystery identity of the new Doctor held a secret by participants, until all of a sudden a long-haired, lanky young man suddenly appeared on TV with the chyron “Matt Smith—The Eleventh Doctor:”
Peter Capaldi’s unveiling went one step further into complete absurdity with 2014's Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor, an actual live broadcast on the BBC, complete with random celebrity interviews to fill time up and a public audience, who welcomed a rather overwhelmed-looking Capaldi to the world with a laser show:
Thankfully, our latest casting change was a bit more subdued. Like Smith and Capaldi’s debuts before her, the announcement that Jodie Whittaker would be the next Doctor was a TV event, but instead of the BBC making a live announcement and trotting out the new Doctor to a screaming crowd, Whittaker made her debut as the Doctor in a short clip set within the show itself. It unveiled the first woman to officially play the character in the show’s history, and was aired after the BBC’s coverage of the Men’s Wimbledon final, as well as released online for international audiences.
In a way, it’s appropriate that one of the most groundbreaking casting announcements for Doctor Who since the first decision to recast the lead role was made all the way back in 1966 is so unique to all the others which came before it. Here’s to a future full of many more Doctors and their accompanying reveals—may they both be equally varied.
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