I’m Just Going To Leave This Here

Can we take a second to appreciate that from John and Paul’s point of view they wondered off through their recording studio, found a piano with some funny looking notes floating above it, played a little tune a whim, gave each other a gay little side glance before the piano flew away into the next room followed by intense screaming and then their entire reality turned into a musical and they received no explanation for any of it?

Tho to be fair it was the 60s, they were probably high as a kite and were used to this kind of thing by now

Does the whole 'bigeneration' thing as an introduction for Ncuti Gatwa make anyone else feel icky? Because I definitely feel like they did Gatwa dirty with a botched transition between regenerations because people are getting a liiiiiiittle too nostalgic with the whole RTD/Tennant thing.

Tennant is a brilliant actor, and I'm not trying to downplay everything he's done for the show, but by leaving Tennant alive, they robbed Gatwa of an introduction that shows respect to his iteration of his character, instead leaving him to be the Random New Person while The Real Doctor is yet to come into the completion of his arc.

It's just a disappointing diversion from giving Gatwa's Doctor the focus and development he deserves.

"average doctor has no fear of what killed their previous incarnation" factoid actualy just statistical error. average doctor is terrified of what killed their previous incarnation. Fours Georg, who lives in rocks & is scared shitless of heights, the thing that will kill him, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

I liked this a lot

imagine youre going to your job as an actor and your roommate's mysterious brother shows up to play your (thirsty) archenemy

if earth has more oxygen in its atmosphere than gallifrey does and ginger has the same effects on time lords as alcohol does on humans, then the doctor is absolutely crossfaded on air and ginger in the android invasion

Space Babies / The Final Chapter / Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible / Cold Fusion

So, you know how we all thought that that energy thing was definitely the Timeless Child for a sec?

What if it was?

Not in the way that it IS the Timeless Child, but what if what we were seeing it as, was what The Doctor was seeing it as, is The Timeless Child?

Supposedly, the energy had a shield on it that makes you see something you are hardwired to want to protect. What if The Doctor was seeing themself there, because they are subconsciously struggling with both their own grief at their past, and their constant battle to protect themself from the grief of the present? Isn’t the one thing The Doctor does best protecting themself, from aliens or heartbreak?

Idk. I’m just being sappy. Chibnall’s a shit writer, but I can find angst potential in anything, and I will make it into my own poetry.

Anyways. I'm glad we've moved past the "heavy handed allegory for racism between two different sentient species where they are all best friends in the end" episodes and into the "racism is so deeply engrained into society that in the absence of active anti-racist deconstruction people would go to any length to avoid confronting their biases and changing their worldview"