Seeing A Lot Of "the Episode Was About Social Media And Suddenly Out Of Nowhere Turned Into A Commentary

Not the Fifteenth Doctor info-dumping like crazy, calling Gallifrey “posh,” listing the Rani and the Bishop but not the Master, and then immediately asking Ruby to fly with them

The Master listening from their golden tooth:

the amount of classic who bts anecdotes which consist of special effect nearly killing someone, one of the cast members deciding to commit to the world's most unhinged bit, or the companions' actors (mostly the women) complaining about nearly freezing to death are... concerning

forgot i made this maybe one of you will find it funny

that leela doesn't understand the phrase "chronic hysteresis" but does know what a time loop is implies to me that gallifreyan has scientific/non-scientific doublets somewhat akin to the latinate/germanic doublets in english. thus, leela knows damn well what the gallifreyan for time loop is, but romana using specific scientific vocabulary throws her off because it's not core vocabulary and she's simply never heard the term before

"Baby farm" this

"Population going sterile" or "going mad and banning kissing" that

LADS THIS IS HOW WE CAN BRING BACK THE LOOMS

The dw fandom is so vast and thr vibes are so different that modern who fans are like "top 10 theories about how the TIME WAR made Satan bible afraid" and wilderness years fans are sweating in a corner frantically trying to connect uncle winky's wonderland to faction paradox with red string on a giant conspiracy board

love this emerging genre of doctor who episode where you think it’s a surface level commentary on one topic (social media; ai), but then the rug gets pulled out from underneath you and it’s actually a more severe social commentary (racism; misogyny/incel culture), BUT THEN it’s actually a pretty adept illustration of how the first and second topics are part of the same problem (social media allows people to create echo chambers which reinforce racism and fear mongering to the point of denying their own lived reality; ai masks human biases as technological progress and exacerbates regressive movements like incel culture)

Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who: hehe, it's the guy that flirts with everyone!

Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood: isn't it ironic that the man who can't die is surrounded by death? isn't it funny that he runs away from the consequences just like the Doctor runs away from him? doesn't it kill you, Jack? doesn't it hurt?