March 8, 2020

Happy International Women’s Day!

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To celebrate the occasion, here’s some of my favourite ladies from fiction!

Row 1: Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Sephy Hadley (Noughts and Crosses), Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Rose Tico (Star Wars), Elsa (Frozen/Disney), Melissa Chartres (The Last Man on Earth)

Row 2: Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings/Middle Earth), Quinn Ergon (Final Space), The Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time), Jane Foster (Thor/MCU), Amy Santiago (Brooklyn 99)

Row 3: Brook Soso (Orange is the New Black), Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Erica Dundee (The Last Man on Earth), Kitty Winter (Sherlock Holmes), Rose Tyler (Doctor Who), Briony Tallis (Atonement)

Row 4: Meredith Quill (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Missandei (Game of Thrones), Rey (Star Wars), Donna Noble (Doctor Who), Carol Pilbasian (The Last Man on Earth), Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame/Disney)

Row 5: Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones), Ash Graven (Final Space), Tiana (The Princess and the Frog/Disney), Sophia Burset (Orange is the New Black), Misty (Pokemon), Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)

Row 6: Bill Potts (Doctor Who), Mary Brown (Paddington), Mako Mori (Pacific Rim), Gwen Stacy (Spider-Man), Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who), Ursula Ditkovich (Spider-Man)

Row 7: Yaz Khan (Doctor Who), Mary Jane Watson (Spider-Man), Marceline (Adventure Time), Michelle (10 Cloverfield Lane,), Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow/MCU), Mantis (Guardians of the Galaxy (MCU)

Row 8: Eponine Thenardier (Les Miserables), Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls), Sandra Kaluiokalani (Superstore), Padme Amidala (Star Wars), Martha Jones (Doctor Who), Jasmine (Aladdin/Disney)

Row 9: Beru Whitesun (Star Wars), Nakia (Black Panther/MCU), Diana (Wonder Woman), Chummy Browne (Call the Midwife), Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn 99), Leia Organa (Star Wars)

March 2, 2020

Everything that appeared in that one scene from The Timeless Children

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You know the one.

Honestly, whatever you think of the episode… WHAT A SCENE. Over five decades of Doctor Who history (Whostory?) packed into a few seconds. With the theme tune! I loved it to pieces.

So being me I’ve gone through it frame by frame to pick out everything that appeared. (This gets pretty long, as you may have expected, sorry)

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March 1, 2020

Okay, I guess IMDB was SORT OF right about Billie Piper being in the finale

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There’s Rose in the montage, for a split second!

(I’ve also spotted Martha, Bill, Donna and I think Sarah Jane in there. Maybe later I’ll go through the whole thing frame-by-frame, because I really loved that scene.)

March 1, 2020

Even more unhinged livetweeting of Doctor Who

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My GOD, that finale. I confess I didn’t understand or get all the callbacks to Classic Who (I’m a bad fan) but wow what a ride!

March 1, 2020

The Ones (Doctor) Who Walk Away From Omelas

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Hey! Less than 24 hours to go until the Doctor Who season finale! Time to throw out my final theory on Brendan’s identity, I guess.

I think… he’s the Timeless Child. But, more importantly, the Timeless Child itself is some sort of child sacrifice the rest of Gallifrey gave up, experimented upon, anything of that nature. When the Master speaks about it he sounds furious, like he’s talking about an atrocity. (And this is the guy who, you know, has committed several.)

They lied to us… the founding fathers of Gallifrey. Everything we were told was a lie. We are not who we think, you or I. The whole existence of our species… built on the lie of the timeless child.

So think The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, the famous short story about a nation which is only prosperous because a small child is kept in a state of misery. (The episode The Beast Below has elements of this too, so…) Maybe Gallifrey’s the same, a whole world built on someone’s else’s pain. My favourite theory I’ve heard so far regarding this is that Brendan is linked in some way to regeneration, or perhaps is even the reason Time Lords regenerate.

Who knows, maybe I’m wrong! Maybe Brendan is the Lone Cyberman in a previous life or is some other version of the Doctor even, he could be anything at this point. But you know, we heard about the Timeless Child, here’s a incredibly mysterious character we first meet as a child…

Bonus round: “Brendan” apparently means “Prince” or “King.” Appropriate for a buncha people who call themselves Time Lords, right?

February 25, 2020

David Tennant’s Son Ty Hopes To Continue The Family Tradition Of Playing The Doctor — The Illuminerdi

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David Tennant’s son Ty hopes to become the third person in his family to portray the legendary character of The Doctor on BBC’s Doctor Who.
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In my brain: “Third…?

…oh wait, of course, duh.”

February 24, 2020

Doctor Who speculation going round on social media

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This popped up not long after Ascension of the Cybermen aired:

Honestly it’s probably nothing (I don’t even remember that stone thingy in the trailer) but still, an interesting thing for more observant fans than me to have noticed.

The other thing is this, from IMDB (you wanna be looking at the third person down):

and I do not believe it for a second.

February 23, 2020

Doctor Who, This Raises More Questions Than Answers

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So! Um (spoilers)

No Jack, no Ruth Doctor, only a quick bit of the Master and Gallifrey at the end. I’m kinda curious about how well Chibnall etc are gonna pull this off. Also who/what the hell is Brandon?!? That was bizarre. Is he the Timeless Child? (If so I’m envisioning a kinda “Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” situation) Is he another previous Doctor? (I’m reminded of that Gallifrey-Ireland joke from ages back in the show) A Master? WHAT IS HE?

Also poor Graham, this episode could not have foreshadowed more heavily that he’s shortly due for a change in breathing arrangements.

February 22, 2020

Turns out Thirteen DID, however, meet Martha

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But it was in a comic! The Thirteen/Ten Weeping Angels story, I’m guessing. Which I have never seen in a shop and don’t know how to get! But look, semi-canonical interaction!

Edited to say: WAIT I found another page and this one’s even better:

February 22, 2020

I’m trying SO HARD to avoid Doctor Who spoilers but

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Oh man if that happened, it would make my year. Neither Karen or Arthur are filming anything right this minute as far as I know, so bring ’em in. And River too, so I can get the closure I never got with that whole storyline.

…heck, why stop there? Bring back Bill! Bring back Donna! Bring back Martha and Mickey! Have them all meet Thirteen and then Jack! Come on Chibnall. Do it for me.