LadyArtemisia

i will never get over the fact that, canonically, time lord babies are known as time tots

the one who… Waites?????

Seems a bit obvious but it could also just be obvious for us as the audience and the mystery is for the characters.

Oh! So serving cunt and leaving is a family tradition!

Very good point

the silliest thing about the closing musical number in The Devil's Chord is that it's called "There's Always a Twist at the End" because like... no there's not. not usually. it's fairly uncommon that there's a twist at the end. 15-20% of the doctor's adventures, maybe, have a twist at the end. i think there are as many episodes that end with the characters agreeing to go get chips as there are that end with a Twist, in the sense that the Doctor is describing it here. just my take. thank you.

Guys, I was really drunk last night and the episode felt like a fucking fever dream and I assumed it was the alcohol

I just rewatched it and totally had forgotten that Zac DM’d K2’s death

“Im gonna need everyone to perform a fucking psychic lobotomy on yourself and just move out of the space we were just in”

Unfortunately Brennan I cannot and I did have to pause the episode to do a lap and scream for a minute.

Blimey

i was so worried that *that* moment wasn't going to live up to the hype but i'll just say IT ABSOLUTLEY DID.

The way Brennan was just like “nope. The clone I’m about to kill Cannot be pregnant. Not allowed.” Real shit honestly

British Kristen raises a new interesting answer in the ‘would you fuck your clone’ debate that I can’t believe we’ve overlooked, namely “I would but she’s straight”

people have probably pointed this out but like.

Blimey

Blind Me

Is INCREDIBLY apropos for an invocation of a goddess of mystery and the unknown.

Like upsettingly so.

I’m just going to keep thinking about it, like.

Of all isms for Beardsley to use, they picked “god blind me”.

Not god’s hooks, not Christ kill me (Crikey), etc.

Blind me.

To a goddess of night, shadow, and mystery.

Meta Fantasy High headcanon that K2 was a PC in a Zac Oyama campaign for their entire (short) life and that’s why he DMed her final moments

Just had the realization that TWICE now has The Master been used by a villain to antagonize 15..

First The Toymaker with the ACTUAL Master (in tooth form)

And now Maestro with the Saxon theme

Cursory verdicts on the two premiere eps:

Space Babies: Aside from one wholly unnecessary political line of dialogue I thought this was decent. Yeah, the entire premise with talking babies is silly and it can be hard to look past that, but Doctor Who has a way of making you care about things that should sound completely stupid, so I was still on board. I thought the Doctor and Ruby both had good material, individually and together. There were definitely aspects that were an obvious rehashing of The End of the World, but if this is supposed to be a starting point for the show for some people then I get why.

The Devil’s Chord: Very much not a fan of the Maestro character generally but thankfully it didn’t make the rest of it any less entertaining imo. There was some good fun and some interesting drama. Ncuti and Millie are both very good at selling intense emotion as well as joy. Most importantly, THE SUSAN REFERENCE!!! Hearing him talk about living in Totter’s Lane with her at that moment in time made me nearly tear up, thinking about One and Susan just existing right out there, so close by and at the start of it all. (Idk if they should already be there, I believe Susan said that ‘these past 5 months’ were the happiest of her life, unless she’s referring to how long she’s been at Coal Hill if they have a very early start to the school year, but oh well). Am I crazy for thinking this may be an early tease for her returning? She’s been brought up before but never in this capacity of the Doctor wondering what may have happened to her. It feels like it could lead to seeing what did happen to her in the time since, and I just remembered that a heavily cloaked figure roughly Carole’s height was once spotted on set being rushed into a vehicle before anyone could see anything — could it be…? 👀 Now I’m thinking maybe “the one who waits” could use her as a hostage to manipulate and torture the Doctor.

Also, love the cameos from June Hudson and Murray Gold, and THIS perfect shoutout:

Bit giant to still call an Easter egg but if you don’t happen to know the one single line of dialogue it’s from then it means absolutely nothing. I was very very happy to see that.

🎶 There's always a twist in the end!

This is adorable! Thank you for sharing

Just had an argument about Maestro’s pronouns with someone on Facebook (I know, I know, but it has good Doctor Who groups) who can’t seem to grasp the concept that being kind is better than being right.

Like, non-binary people are real, but I knew I wasn’t going to convince them of that. So I went for a different tactic: Shakespeare did it, and besides, don’t you want to be a nice person?

But it was still shocking that the idea of “hey, whether you think you’re just humoring someone or not, it’s kind to do something effortless that makes them feel happy and avoid hurting them!” is just…utterly incomprehensible to him.

Uh, it’s kind of a…core message of Doctor Who to be kind?