Imagine Youre Going To Your Job As An Actor And Your Roommate's Mysterious Brother Shows Up To Play Your

And with the Timeless Child. Regeneration energy is FROM The Doctor!!!

thinking abt @causalityparadoxes talking abt how this season is establishing the doctor as a god. how he literally breathed life into that butterfly, like how god breathed life into humanity. anyway,

regeneration is like if "died and came back wrong" was a normal and regular feature of a society

FUCK THOSCHEI WHERE MY GOTHRUSA BITCHES AT TO APPRECIATE THESE MESSY FRUITS

​sorry the doctor pinwheeling between ‘ace -> not ace -> ace again’ between regenerations will never not be funny to me.

with how often the bbc tried to cancel doctor who in the 80s, one might very well accuse them of being serial killers

it feels like this season, doctor who is dealing with the fundamental rules changing. it was strictly sci-fi, you could always logic your way out of any problem with technobabble and a clever plan.

but it feels like so much of the plot is wrapped around poking at the medium of being a television show, of being a story. we have multiple characters looking at the viewers, we have the maestro playing the theme tune, we have such clear parallels to season 1 (2005) that it feels like a universal coincidence. like the whoniverse itself is recognizing its a medium and playing with its tropes.

the genre is changing too - we are leaning more and more into fantasy, rules like you would see in stories about fae, not sci-fi. musical numbers out of nowhere that no one seems to question, with rain inside and musical sidewalks. the vocabulary of rope and power in coincidences. hell, even the way that time travel works is changing! suddenly stepping on a butterfly (specifically a trope in scifi that has been mocked/debunked previously) has consequences. the doctor swiping away the translation circuit's effects with the wave of a hand and breathing life back into a creature without breaking a sweat.

not to mention the way that space babies foreshadows to a universe that creates a story with all the ingredients it knows are supposed to be there (re: bogeyman - there's supposed to be a villain so it made one)

something IS going on. there is a bigger player - bigger than tecteun, bigger than the toymaker. could it be rtd just having a grand ole time using canon as is playground? maybe. but i hope it's something cool.

Favorite Thirteenth Doctor moment on Eve of the Daleks

Otherwise it resembled a forgotten shrine to some barely remembered god, buried in a lost holy place.

honestly kinda obsessed by this description of the tardis (which goes on to describe the console as looking like an altar)

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