Looking Forward To This Special

The Doctor - Not Strong Enough

average doctor who poll: who would be the greatest serial killer? innocent classic who companion or well-known nuwho side character who happens to own a knife? every single reblog is #innocent classic who companion literally #becomes a serial killer in their spinoff series I Am Become A Serial Killer #which clearly none of you have read or you wouldn't be voting nuwho. nuwho side character is winning by a 68% margin

The best thing about old doctor whos is they are all just random uncles that the press drags out of retirement so they can give iconic takes like this

there's something about the fourth and seven doctors. perceived as the most alien, the most mysterious, on some level distant from other, more human incarnations... and yet i don't really see it. perhaps it's the antics that connect them. this is a philosopher with the soul of a clown, a byronic hero operating off cartoon logic. a mystery with a heart of gold. this is the doctor at his most fall-flat-on-my-face, the doctor at his most whimsical and silly. and yet he's witty. he's kind. it's not a kindness that often shows, but it's a kindness that undergirds everything he thinks and does. he's not very good at being bad! he can do convoluted plans all he likes, but they fall apart the moment his friends are in danger. he could destroy the daleks for good. in fact, he would. but there's always a spanner in the works. this is the doctor at his most middle aged. i love it.

So close LibreOffice! The word I was looking for was arsenal.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Interesting that the Doctor says his adopted family is the reason he uses a title. Except thats not quite true is it?

Sure they are stuffy aristocrats who love ranks and titles but Tecteun, Rassilon, Borusa, Romana, Pandad, Andred, Rodan, Darkel, Flavia, and practically every other non-renegade timelord (and even some renegades like Drax) still use regular (if not human) names.

But you know who does often use titles? THE GODS. Those from before or beyond the universe's constraints. The Toymaker, The Guardians, The Maestro, The Trickster, The The Beast, The One Who Waits, The Gods of Ragnarok, The Entity, etc. Even those with 'names' often have descriptive ones like Time or Swarm.

Is it really the Doctor's adopted family that made them identify with titles? Or is it perhaps traces of their 'birth family' peaking through?

More than anything I just want to know if RTD is going anywhere with this. Did he just need a quick way to get new audiences on board with calling the main character the Doctor? Or does it mean something.

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)

the Doctor has a really really thick Cadon accent and they occasionally slip into Cadon-dialect Gallifreyan and everyone gets really confused because even if Lungbarrow is a disgraced House it’s still a highbrow oldblood dynasty and millenia of good breeding has somehow given way to this half-feral little creature who can talk the most flexiloquent politician into a corner and yet does so in the Gallifreyan equivalent of a Gloucestershire farmer’s drawl???