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#Doctor Who #…I did not notice the Magpie Electricals on Starship UK #(but I did catch the one in Monk-controlled London) #bandwidth issues I suppose #now I know #neat #The Lie of the Land
Doctor Who
…they just completely dropped the whole thing.
The arc is over, without Extremis ever affecting anything.
Perfectly good mindfuck wasted.
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#I’m not saying I even necessarily *like* mindfucks #(it really depends) #but dammit I know a lead-up to a mindfuck plot when I see one #and you can’t just do that and then *not deliver* #you can’t just have the characters ignore the single largest threat to their plan #and have them be *right* to ignore it #*headdesk* #Doctor Who #dw spoilers #The Lie of the Land #oh look an original post #negativity tw #reactionblogging
Also, please tell me I’m not the only person whose reaction to the next-time-on trailer was “what these people need is some key lime pie”.
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#…I’m the only one aren’t I #goddammit #Hidden Almanac #Doctor Who #high context jokes #The Pyramid at the End of the World #The Lie of the Land #dw spoilers #(although tbh it’s only a spoiler if you’re familiar with the Fathers arc of the Hidden Almanac) #(which you’re probably not) #(but just in case) #oh look an original post #reactionblogging
New DW episode tonight.
Place your bets on whether the Resistance will realise the need for frequent shadow-testing.
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#after last week’s stupidity my hopes are not high #in their defence it’s currently not clear if the Resistance even has access to enough background knowledge to figure this out #the Doctor’s alpha-timeline self #–and therefore all of his forks from that point on– #know about shadow-testing #but it’s not clear if he’s told anyone else #(I’m thinking the answer re: the Resistance is either ”no” or ”they find out partway through the episode”) #(and that the regeneration scene that’s going around in gifsets takes place in a shadow-world) #(leaning toward ”find out partway through” on the grounds that) #(IIRC) #(none of the characters have made *any* use of the information from the Extremis recording yet) #(all of their dealings with the Monks would have gone the same way if they’d never heard of them before) #(so I’m hoping the writers will realise they haven’t actually fired that proverbial rifle yet) #((but they might not because on the surface it *looks* fired already)) #((just in ways that didn’t actually affect the plot)) #tag rambles #Doctor Who #negativity tw #oh look an original post #reactionblogging #(sort of) #The Pyramid at the End of the World #The Lie of the Land #dw spoilers #(…I just realised I forgot to spoiler-tag my reaction post last week) #(oops) #(too late now I suppose)
(probably qualifies as a sequel to this post)
(I might be missing something here, but I’m pretty sure this is at the very least mostly correct:)
Every problem Team TARDIS is currently facing can be traced back, directly or indirectly (sometimes both), to failure to bring their own spacesuits. To assuming that clean, breathable air would be available when they had zero reason to think that (in the case of Chasm Forge) or less than zero reason to think that (in the case of an apocalyptically-fatal-biohazard lab with a known internal breach).
I think they’re teaching a very valuable lesson here: remember, kids, protective gear is not a joke, wear your fucking hazard suits, just fucking do it already.
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#this post brought to you by #a person who wears surgical masks while on airplanes and when going outside during high-pollen times #(works too) #(only partially in the case of the airplane) #(but buying myself a few days’ delay by contracting the passenger’s cold indirectly through my family was very valuable) #(I needed those few days and was very glad to get them) #hazard gear: fuck yeah #oh look an original post #reactionblogging #Doctor Who #everyone in this episode was incredibly stupid but we can learn from their mistakes #(there were other things wrong with this episode too) #(including lessons they tried to teach that you absolutely *should not* learn) #((like ”consent is only consent if you’re doing it for stupid shortsighted reasons”)) #(but I’m focusing on this problem right now) #negativity tw #illness tw #tag rambles
A more detailed look at the Doctor Who episode “The Bells of Saint John” reveals that the opening sequence has given away clues about web sites, sports and music that the visual designer who created the sequence enjoys.
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#interesting #I don’t tend to watch videos normally but this was worth it #Doctor Who
(I don’t know how you feel about Doctor Who, but the colours are gorgeous.)
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#Doctor Who #fanart #pretty things
The really weird thing about Doctor Who is how the TARDIS is simultaneously
1) The most powerful entity in the series by far, basically a divine being, beautiful and awesome in both the new and old senses of the word
2) A shitty pile of kludges that’s permanently about to fall apart
“the” (singular) really weird thing about Doctor Who???
You come into my house, you bitch about my perfectly standard and acceptable figure of speech, and you don’t even capitalize the first letter of your sentence when you do it? Away with thee, half-assed pedant!
… Doctor Who is really fuckin weird.
It’s been awhile since a new one came out, I miss it
Good news–there’s a Christmas special coming out soon, and then the new series (complete with new companion!) at the start of 2017. And in the meantime, there’s that new spinoff Class, which I hear good things about.
I have heard literally nothing about Class until a minute ago. What is it about?
Okay so I haven’t actually watched it, because my activation energy for watching TV is crazy high, but it’s about the students at Coal Hill school dealing with normal teenager shit and also monsters from various parts of spacetime, who keep ending up there because the Doctor has gone to the school so many times that it’s some kind of temporal wheel-rut. There are only two episodes out so far, with more every week. First one was prom and shadow people, second one was dragons.
Hmmmm. The problem is that Doctor Who works much better as a social show (at this point in my life), and I don’t know anyone in the bay who watches it. Followers? You know anyone?
Not in the Bay, but I have seen Class. It’s been okay so far; it’s hard to tell how good a show’s going to be from its first two episodes. Pretty gore-y, though, so be warned.
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#ClassDW #(following @doctorwho’s lead on how to avoid name collisions when tagging this show) #Doctor Who #reply via reblog #poor Ram has gotten *more* than enough blood spurted on his face for one lifetime
#probably the best explanation of a device in the tv history
This is literally my fourth or fifth time reblogging this.
It’s still hillarious.
One of my favorite lines
I kinda feel like the writers wrote this line specifically to drive the kind of fans who want to figure out how sci-fi tech would theoretically work crazy. They’re like “nope! We’re not going to give you any techno babble to tear apart or investigate or mull over to tell us how we’re doing it wrong, or how it compares in effectiveness to similar tech in other franchises.”
I also feel like this is one of those times when the TARDIS’s translation circuit just gave up. Like the ‘physics physics physics’ scene, where he is imparting secrets of the universe and the TARDIS is like THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR THIS IN ENGLISH DOCTOR FORGET IT.
OH MY she TOTALLY edits his speech. I be he actually swears a lot but the TARDIS is like THERE ARE CHILDREN
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Voiceover on Doctor Who “next time on” preview: Don’t watch this. You can never un-see it.
Me: Okay. *closes eyes*
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#what kind of fool do you take me for #unlike those poor Zygons I have not had all relevant knowledge erased and I *can* learn from experience #and it has *never* been worthwhile to look at something I had been told to look away from #if you are very lucky looking is neither bad nor good #usually it is some level of psychologically damaging #also next week’s episode’s title is #Sleep No More #I do not like that title #that is a fucking ominous title #fuck you and your horror bullshit #(look) #(I fully believe that ‘Blink’ has a lot of objective merit) #(but I think I’m a worse person for having seen it) #(and I do not want to do that to myself again) #(horror is so utterly not for me) #(causing myself often-permanent psychological damage for fun is not something I can compute) #I *might* read Chakoteya’s transcript when it comes out #but I will try to learn from my past mistakes #and not watch it #Doctor Who #tag rambles #dw spoilers #infohazards #oh look an original post
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