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Mark White's Speculation Spectrum

@speculationspectrum / speculationspectrum.tumblr.com

Born in 1992. ENFP. I like Arctic Monkeys, Doctor Who, Arsenal, chocolate labradors, hot chocolate, proper Italian pizzas, Damon Albarn, cinnamon, train journeys, Flight of the Conchords, Mesut Özil, deer, Chinese, quokkas, Instagram, Emilia Clarke, Peep Show, Ikea, Kanye West, Nando's, Simon Amstell, Sherlock, Ricky Gervais, a good sneeze, London, playing piano, Photoshop, Haim, squirrels, the Australian accent, David Beckham's right foot, David Beckham's left foot for that matter, Bowie, sitcoms, the Olympics, Natlie Dormer, Disaronno, mozzarella, poetry, Spain, incense, Lucozade and Idris Elba. If you like any of these things we should be friends.
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I’m so mad because this worked

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Last time I did one of these work gave me a free iPad so go on then

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He gets some stick but Steven Moffat gave us

- two multi-Doctor episodes

- the first multi-Master episode

- the Weeping Angels

- a female Master

- an openly gay, 21st Century companion

- more female writers and female directors

- the first episode since 2005 to be written by a writer from the classic series (The Eaters of the Light, Rona Munro)

- proof that Time Lords can change ethnicity with the General in Hell Bent

- consistently fantastic episodes in every series of Doctor Who from 2005 to present, as widely considered by fans, and IMDB, who rank his stories as by far the best of the modern series

- companions who got married and didn't see that as an excuse to leave the TARDIS

- companions who realised there would be a life after the Doctor

- the return of Gallifrey for any writer to now explore

- same with Skaro

- knowing nods to every single Doctor throughout his headwritership

- basically the fans represented in the show in the form of Osgood

- a minisode involving David Tennant fanboying over Peter Davison

- Paul McGann's return to the show after a 17-year wait

- canonisation of all of the Eighth Doctor's audio companions

- the Brigadier's daughter becoming a recurring character in the show

- a new regeneration cycle which was hinted by Rassilon to be longer than 13 lives long

- one of the greatest and most beloved British sci-fi actors in John Hurt, playing the Doctor

- one of the greatest and most beloved British television writers in Richard Curtis writing the Doctor

- the return of classic designs of Daleks and Cybermen in series 7 and 10 respectively

- Davros and the Master finally meeting after over half a century of never doing so

- the long-awaited return of the Zygons

- Tom Baker returning to Doctor Who basically with the hint that he was playing the last incarnation of the Doctor, so you know, we're always leading up to Tom Baker.

It's not always been good. It's not always been fun. But thanks Moff for all you did. Thanks for all the great stuff crammed into the last twelve years you worked on Doctor Who. The show is in a greater place than it ever has been, and the Doctor's future owes you just a little for that.

#doctor who#steven moffat
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I redesigned my blog

That means shit to you, because you're reading this on a phone. If you're a person from the far future, 2017 is a weird point in our history where we have computers still, but people don't replace them when they break after uni because they don't really need them anymore.

You're missing out if you can't see the neon colours anyway, whatever

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Semi hiatus (again)

Indefinite. Maybe. RIP for now this blog. 2013ish to 2016ish with a few things blogged in 2017 too

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