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

antiGRAV? it’s antimav doctor, everyone knows this, you claim to be a tech whiz and yet

I think it was frankly brilliant that the first time we see 15 experience racism when time traveling is in the future and not in the past. It would have been so easy to have that happen in 'The Devil's Chord' or 'Rogue' and you know what? It would have been perfectly good, but it does sort of subconsciously reinforce the idea that racism is a thing of the past.

When... No, racism is still very much present, still normalized in different ways, and still fighting to regress society back to "the old ways". One of the richest men of the world turned one of the biggest social media platforms into a racist echo-chamber that not only allows but outright encourages the most racist rhetoric to be spoken.

It's not something The 15th Doctor or we as an audience can escape by simply going back to the present or escaping into the future, but a reality we are forced to face.

this week the doctor and ruby try not to punch a rich bitch for forty five minutes

the doctor’s frustrated scream at the end of dot and bubble was packed with SO MUCH EMOTION. ncuti gatwa you will be the death of me

for some reason i havent seen anybody talk about this but. 15 has cried in almost every episode so far and my feelings on it started out kind of mixed but i actually kind of really like it. i dont like seeing him cry, obviously, i like that he is expressing his emotions so freely. like, this is the most open and expressive i think we've ever seen the doctor and its kind of really nice to see them allowing themselves to feel things in the moment and express their feelings in the moment, even if the expression is silent tears that have to be contained bc he IS standing on a bomb that will destroy half of a planet if he moves even a little. i love less-emotionally-repressed doctor

I don't know if anybody said this yet, but it's so refreshing to see a bond between The Doctor and his companion that reads as equal.

Yes, the 10 and Donna had a special friendship and she could read him to filth. And 11 and the Ponds were family.

But there was always a very present sense of the Doctor being more

And when I see Ruby and 15 vibing and crushing on the same type of guy and using the same lingo and just getting each other? And so far 15 seems to want to involve Ruby in things very much.

Idk I love it

"I don't care what you think. And you can say whatever you want. You can think absolutely anything. I will do anything if you just allow me to save your lives."

The Doctor will try to save everyone they can. They don't care if they are hated, as long as people just let them help. I mean, the Doctor even repeatedly gives the Daleks chances to turn back, even after the Daleks took everything from them—everything except their capacity for love. No loss of life is acceptable, and he will always try to prevent it however he can. Killing has consistently been the Doctor's absolute last resort, because to him, no one deserves to die.

The Doctor displays so much empathy and care in Dot and Bubble, and it's just amazing. This is the hero we sometimes need in our stories, one who tries to save as many people as he can because cruel and evil or not, they are all still people. In previous episodes I've remarked on how he talks like the Doctor, moves like the Doctor, thinks like the Doctor, but here? He shows that he loves like the Doctor.

This is the Doctor. This is the Doctor.

Doctor Who is so so funny, episode opens with a bunch of white influencers in social media bubbles and you're like "what is this lame ass shit" and then it turns out they're all racist colonizers and are being systematically slaughtered by AI generated slugs, 10/10

I can't stop thinking about how phenomenal Ncuti's acting has been in Boom and Dot And Bubble. I wasn't too sure from The Giggle that 15's vibe might be a bit too hip, but the emotions that man portrayed from episodes where he stood still the entire time and where he only appeared in person at the end. That man can ACT, that man IS The Doctor. He embodies the emotional intelligence and ancient wisdom and childlike wonder of The Doctor through and through. Pair that with the first thing Millie filmed as Ruby being a solo companion episode in 73 Yards and how well she did with that. Opening the series with Space Babies has not done justice to how spectacular the last 3 episodes have been. Space Babies was fun, but the elevation of Boom, 73 Yards, and Dot And Bubble has blown it out the park and made Space Babies look like literal child's play.

JUST WHO ARE YOUUUUU

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

While the memes worshiping Ricky September are funny and harmless, being realistic... Yeah, he was definitely the most racist one of the bunch.

Like, he read finetime's history? The history of the pioneers who "tamed" the "undiscovered" wild woods? And was clearly fascinated by it? Plus, knowing how much he took the lead when he was with Lindy, he would have 100% postulated for leader given the chance.

He's not a heroic figure, he is a colonialist charismatic leader in the making.

And oddly, all of this might make him one of the most realistic and well-written side characters in Doctor Who.

A sympathetic, brave, down to earth, and altruist person. As long as you're acceptable to his own standards. I very much doubt the ending of the episode would have played differently had he survived.

If I had a nickel for every time the Doctor or Ruby stepped on something they shouldn't have and caused chaos, I'd have three nickels.....which is about enough to buy half a Freddo.

Doctor Who Season 1 Memes (6/?): Dot and Bubble pt 2

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