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Last minute Who predictions

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Twitter is ablaze in speculation about what the Big Thing in this episode is gonna be. Man I haven’t been this excited about a DW episode in ages! So here’s my guesses for returning character:

AMY! Based on that picture I reblogged a few ago. Who knows if it’s even legit? But that’s the one I want the most.

MARTHA! The Judoon are back for this episode and they debuted alongside Martha, so I figure it’s a reasonable guess.

JACK! A lot of people seem to think it might be Jack. I dunno why, but hey! Maybe it’s him.

RIVER! Well, she’s connected to Amy and there’s still that photo to take into consideration… and I really want Thirteen to meet her, and I think lots of other people do too.

Man! This is even more intense than The Masked Singer.

WAIT WHAT (Doctor Who spoilers ahead)

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For the past couple days the official Doctor Who social media accounts have been insisting that something HUGE!! is going to happen this week, and I kinda wrote them off (Orphan 55 was hyped up as something HUGE!! too I think) but then I saw this tweet:

Maybe that blue house looks familiar-

So, uh. IS IT AMY. Amy returning to the show (with Rory in tow) would make my year. It’s probably not Amy, I’m getting my hopes up. Karen Gillan’s off in Hollywood being famous. That photo might not even be real. PLEASE BE AMY.

Tom Baker (Doctor Who) watching the transmission of his first episode with children at Cell Barnes Hospital, Hertfordshire, UK (1974). Tom is 86 today — Making Histolines

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Tom Baker (Doctor Who) watching the transmission of his first episode with children at Cell Barnes Hospital, Hertfordshire, UK (1974). Tom is 86 today || https://ift.tt/2NEwSOs ShrunkenFreddo

Tom Baker (Doctor Who) watching the transmission of his first episode with children at Cell Barnes Hospital, Hertfordshire, UK (1974). Tom is 86 today — Making Histolines

Happy birthday, Tom Baker!

Bradley Walsh: “Doctor Who is a Lifelong Ambition For Me” — The Doctor Who Companion

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Bradley Walsh has made it very clear how much he’s always loved Doctor Who, and he’s described his role as Graham O’Brien, the Thirteenth Doctor’s companion, as a “lifelong ambition” – and further shows his fan credentials by mentioning Roy Castle! Whatever you think of the programme under showrunner, Chris Chibnall, it’s heart-warming to know […]

Bradley Walsh: “Doctor Who is a Lifelong Ambition For Me” — The Doctor Who Companion

I love Bradley. I always thought he was just an average actor (albeit an extremely likeable one) but he really blew it outta the park as Graham. You can tell how much he loves the show. Unfortunately I also suspect Graham might not make it to the end of the series, so, boo.

What I thought Orphan 55 was gonna be vs what it actually was

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I have no qualms about tonight’s Doctor Who being a big ol’ “you idiots are fucking up the planet” anvil-drop. Honestly, none. Some anvils need to be dropped. But oh, all through the damn episode I was convinced, this whole thing is the Doctor’s hallucination! Because right at the beginning they were dealing with a thing that causes hallucinations, and then suddenly bam, chaos and death and people with weird motivations all over the place.

I was so convinced. And I’m honestly annoyed that they didn’t go down that route, because it would have made so much sense character-wise (of course the Doctor would be hallucinating about a destroyed Earth, did you see what happened last episode?), easily explain away the various plot holes (why doesn’t the TARDIS translate Russian?) and handwave why the little boy played by Roger from His Dark Materials was totally fine at the end. And the exact same message could have been gotten across, the Doctor still could have delivered her “If humans don’t shape up this exact thing will happen” speech.

All the pieces were there! I was positive that would happen! Gah, this episode was such an exercise in wasted potential.

Doctor Who: Spyfall part one + THAT TWIST

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I haven’t really written much about Doctor Who for ages and I dunno why, I think just… I still appreciate it very much but it doesn’t quite grab me as much as it used to? That’s not a bad thing, fandom naturally has ups and downs. But hey, THAT TWIST! I was gawping at the screen. Doctor Who NEVER manages to keep things like that a secret! And now this new season seems like it’ll boost things up a notch plot-wise. I miss the big, ridiculous season-long arcs, even when they made no sense.

(are you ready for the THAT TWIST?)

Sacha Dhawan is playing not some random agent but The Master, and this is extra pleasing to me because we’ve seen him before in An Adventure In Space And Time, playing Waris Hussain. (This now makes him the second person from AAISAT to play a Time Lord in the main show, after David Bradley.) So yeah, really happy to see that! And so mad I didn’t put the clues to his identity together in the episode because there were loads of them.

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