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Imagine there's an apocalypse going on and you're completely lost. You're stumbling, don't know what to do, and have found yourself on the verge of death. One move and you're done for... you stand there, whimpering and feeling stupid... and then you hear a voice calling out to you. You turn your head, slowly filled with a new found hope... And then you see him. Your saviour.
It's markiplier.
That's what happened in Dot and Bubble
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Also the whole "mummy went to the sky" "I'm so happy for her she's so lucky" while holding back tears reminds me SO much of (my experience at least) US christianity like. "they're in a better place they're with god now how wonderful" in the face of loss and grief. her home world is gone and her mummy is gone but "they're in a better place" so she must say the "correct" thing that they're so lucky etc
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GUYS
@jayhartwinsterling are you seeing this
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Remember Father's Day, where he nearly kicks Rose out the TARDIS for abusing time travel for her own ends? And the episode with the guy with the hole in his head who he does kick out because he uses time travel to learn the lottery numbers? That was a massive betrayal. He's already said he's not willing to go back to when she was left; I can see her not accepting that.
Is anyone else worried about Ricky September as a Doctor analogue? Like, he fulfils the Doctor's narrative role when the Doctor can't be there. He knows about the service hatch to safety, check. He offers a guiding hand to Lindy, check. He's clever, he reads, he understands the history of the colony, check.
His homeworld is destroyed. Check.
He knows and hides a terrible truth about his companion's mother. Check?
His companion betrays him.
(To be 100% clear! Ruby is very very very different from Lindy and if she were to do the same thing that would feel wildly ooc! But in general, this feels like it might be RTD laying the groundwork for a massive betrayal arc.)
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Is anyone else worried about Ricky September as a Doctor analogue? Like, he fulfils the Doctor's narrative role when the Doctor can't be there. He knows about the service hatch to safety, check. He offers a guiding hand to Lindy, check. He's clever, he reads, he understands the history of the colony, check.
His homeworld is destroyed. Check.
He knows and hides a terrible truth about his companion's mother. Check?
His companion betrays him.
(To be 100% clear! Ruby is very very very different from Lindy and if she were to do the same thing that would feel wildly ooc! But in general, this feels like it might be RTD laying the groundwork for a massive betrayal arc.)
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one thing dot and bubble accomplishes really well is lulling you into a false sense of security regarding lindy. you think as you’re watching, yeah, she’s irritating and petty and bitchy and awkward and clumsy and incompetent, but that’s not her fault, that’s just the way she was raised, she doesn’t know anything different, and surely we’re supposed to side with her, she’s sally sparrow, she’s elton, she’s leading a doctor-lite, so of course by the end she’ll “learn the error of her ways” and “change for the better” taking an example from the doctor. we’ve seen this before. we’ll grow to love her, her funny phrases and odd expressions, she’ll be iconic yet…
and then the ball drops. ricky is betrayed and killed in cold blood. this is woman self-centred to the point of no return. a heart of stone.
we spent the whole time following the POV of a monster, waiting for the narrative to give her a happy ending. jesus christ
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I like how they used the slightly washed-out lighting and pastel colors to constantly emphasize how extremely pale and blue-eyed the Finetimers were. Long before I realized racism was part of the plot, I kept noticing how very white they all were. That was such a skillful use of cinematography to reinforce a theme without belaboring it in the dialogue.
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Oh wait, I just realized - Susan Twist's character's daughter is called Lindy. As in lindy hop, the dance. Just like twist, the dance. I don't know if that's deliberate, either way, fun!
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Oh, and Plaza 55. Like Orphan 55. Which turned out to be Earth. This place is a Gallifrey mirror. Humans and Time Lords same species confirmed??? *i am eaten by slug*
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I don’t think you have to necessarily use Missy, though it’s a good way of getting around the black Doctor issue there. I would kind of love it to be lampshaded a bit though:
15: “Of course. We meet again Mast-”
The Master: *holds up a finger, shaking his head* “See, now you’ve gone and made it weird.”
15: “I’VE made it weird?! You’re the one who named yourself that!”
The Master: “That was different - iconic, powerful, sexy. You’ve ruined its vibe. Vibe ruined. Doctor Vibe Ruiner. Oh I suppose we could just go back to-”
15: “Not in public.”
The Master: “No?”
15: “No.”
The Master: “Ugh, no-one knows how to pronounce it anyway.”
Ruby: “I’m sorry, who is this?”
The Master: “That’s what we’re trying to workshop Rubles, keep up.”
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It is our God-given duty to maintain the standards of Finetime.
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would love your opinion of the newest episode of DW, if you get the chance.
HAHAHAHA YES I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS
Alright okay so
I only have one complaint, which is that that wasn't a faerie ring. You could still have the shamble, no problem, but it should have been over the top of an actual faerie ring, which should be a mushroom (or, at a push, stone) circle. Not some cotton that would blow clean off the cliff edge in three minutes.
HOWEVER
This is the first time I've seen Doctor Who do a time travel story using, not Doctor Who time travel lore and rules, but Welsh faerie rules. (First time I've seen anything do it, in fact.) In Welsh myth, people who enter faerie rings or get entranced by the music become suspended in time, out of sync with the real world. They think they danced for a night, but when they return it's been 100 years, and they crumble to dust as soon as they eat/drink/step on land/etc.
In this case, this is what I think happened to Ruby. She spent that time in Annwfn, seeing what would happen if the binding on the ring was broken. When she 'dies', she returns to the spot and lasts long enough to give her younger self the warning, then crumbles to dust.
But, a time travelling Ruby is not the woman who follows her throughout the episode. That, in fact, is a gwyll.
The gwyllion were hag faeries, usually of mountain tops (though Pembrokeshire's liminal cliffs are 100% from Welsh mythology - it was said that if you found a faerie ring on one but only put one foot in, you could see the faerie islands in the sea. And that faeries used to visit the human markets in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. So while gwyllion are unusual there, it's not an impossible relocation.) They were malicious and sometimes vicious faeries who delighted in making people lose their way, could strike an uncontrollable and ungodly terror into travellers, and who feature in more that one myth as an old woman that someone tried to approach, but they always appeared at the same distance away, impossible to catch up.
CAN YOU SEE THE PARALLELS
And the best part!! Is that this is why she defeats UNIT!!!
Kate tells Ruby that her agents have necklaces of silver and salt to keep out the supernatural, but that's just generic fairytale shit. That doesn't work on gwyllion. Salt drawn in a line would provide a barrier, but the UNIT soldiers aren't trying to trap or block the gwyll; they're trying to capture her. What works, very specifically, is a knife. Iron or steel for preference of course, but it needs to be a knife.
But UNIT has no Welsh employees and the soldiers have guns, not knives. And so they all become entranced.
(This is also what I think the gwyll 'says' to everyone to turn them against Ruby. She doesn't say anything - she sings.)
This is also the first time I've ever encountered any mainstream media doing Welsh faeries and understanding the tone to strike, which is 'unknowable, unstoppable and fucking terrifying'. I think I've only ever read it in Catharine Fisher books, and she's a Welsh author so... yeah, obviously. But I basically vibrated with delight and excitement for the entire episode.
Oh my god, hang on, Roger ap Gwilliam! Okay, I have two theories about him.
My weaker theory and the one I don't like is the kind of boring and obvious one, which is that he is himself not human. A lot of Welsh folklore features the devil, and I get that vibe from his role in the story. But, I'm not keen, because I can't see the link to the gwyll.
But my strongest theory, and the one I have chosen to believe, is that he's a human who made a deal with the Fae for power, and then reneged. There's a Metric Fuckton of stories about humans fucking up Fae gifts in some way, and the punishment is usually something ironic but always results in the loss of the gift. It could be a faerie harp that makes everyone dance, and the Fae tell the giftee not to abuse it, but they cruelly force everyone to dance so long and so hard that the faerie returns, takes back the harp, and then takes the human's ability to ever make music again, so example (by taking fingers or eyes or tongues as well, often.)
So I think Mad Jack strikes a bargain for power - but, then tries to abuse that power (nuclear war). But part of the bargain is that the Fae cannot approach him directly ever again. In the real world, they therefore tempt him into the faerie ring and bind his soul there, problem solved - until the Doctor accidentally lets him out, and gets his own soul stuck. Ruby, therefore, becomes the instrument through which they manage to take that power away once again - and then, her final Fae gift for her service is that they use the temporal anomaly of the faerie ring to send her back, at the end of her life, and give her a second chance. This time, with Mad Jack's soul left bound in Annwfn.
The fun part is, RTD is a writer who understands the power of not explaining everything and leaving some things up to the viewer's imagination, so none of this is ever going to be explained lol. But yeah, that is a gwyll. The moment she appeared, I said out loud "Oh holy fuck, gwyllion." That was a gwyll.
As a final observation, I loved seeing Siân Phillips, and I choose to believe they filmed those scenes in a pub because they could only get Siân if they agreed to just come to her local. The woman is a queen.
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Ruby Sunday’s magical time-space shenanigans so far:
Harassed by unlucky goblins who were out to ruin her life specifically.
Went to a space station that she recognises as an American pro-life allegory. Got snotted on.
First Time Travel. Went to see the Beatles. But they were shit.
First Alien Planet. Held dead man smelted into a tube and temporarily died.
Went to Wales. It got worse. Well actually it was fine just a bit damp, but for some reason she feels upset and deeply depressed when she thinks about it. That might just be Wales for you.
First Colony Planet. Should have tipped her off. The future still has social media, battery life, class issues, and just straight up motherfucking racism. Discovered how little she could care about people going to their deaths.
She’s gonna be the first companion to ask to go home just cus the universe has in practice proven itself to be profoundly disappointing.
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Wait, actually the Master misunderstanding Doctor Who Is A TV Show and thinking he’s in a book would be great. Last time we see Dhawan!Master he’s a storyteller, written loads of books about the Doctor’s life, River parallels Melody Malone etc. there’s a very bookish element there.
So you have the Master come in and he’s like…actively narrating himself.
And everyone in-universe thinks he’s crazy, and we the audience think it’s funny cus he’s got the wrong medium.
But.
He hasn’t. Because there will be a novelisation of the episode. And the times we’ve ever got anything from the Master’s POV or following him, it’s nearly always in book form not the TV show itself. His life is novel-based.
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Only Doctor Who could take me on the emotional journey whiplash of seeing a man titled "Dr Pee" to watching an entire group of people engage in a suicide mission because they are terminally racist
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