For as silly as Russel T Davies Doctor Who could get…
There is still more dignity in it than having an American Diner fly around as a Tardis.
Also important lessons like “people die” and “don’t rely on the doctor all the time”
I sometimes wonder if people who prefer the Russell T Davies era ever actually watched it.
Wow a Moffat Stan choosing style over substance what a surprise.
“It’s not Shiny and Pretty so it’s bad!1!!11!”
What substance?
Love and Monsters: An episode about a group of people with complex backstories (losing children to drugs, having their mother killed when they were a child) who bond over the Doctor. Manipulated and killed. Subplot about Jackie Tyler dealing with never knowing when her daughter will be home, if she ever comes home, and the shit she has to put up with because of it.
“Let me tell you something about those who get left behind. Because it’s hard. And that’s what you become, hard. But if there’s one thing I’ve learnt, it’s that I will never let her down. And I’ll protect them both until the end of my life. So whatever you want, I’m warning you, back off.”
It parallels Elton (who lost his mother) and even Bridget (who lost her daughter), who got involved with LINDA as a coping mechanism for being left behind.
It’s also got a great ending speech:
”you know, when you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all, grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker, and so much madder. And so much better.”
A message that RTDs Doctor tries to convey in almost every episode.
Frequently dismissed by people because “lol monster not scary”. Maybe if he was a stone angel with some pointy teeth…
Space Pig: Clearly not meant to be taken seriously. Designed to be obviously not an alien to the audience, to show the gullibility of humans and their tendency to overreact and act violently when faced with the unknown, as the soldiers did when they shot him to death when he clearly showed no threat. Also, meant as a DISTRACTION for the overreacting humans so that the real alien threat could put the world on red alert and they could get ahold of nuclear weapons.
Scribble: A product of an emotionally disturbed child from an abusive home where her only living family member refuses to give her closure of the abusive part of her childhood.
Slitheen: Skinned human beings and wore their pelt. Intended to use nuclear weapons to destroy the planet to sell for profit. A clear symbol for the destructiveness of corporate greed. But like “lol it fart and green so it bad”, right?
Lazarus: Tried to play god and delay the inevitability of aging and death. It resulted in him becoming quite literally a monster who’s fears and selfishness made him disregard other’s lives.
”It doesn’t work like that. Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.”
Everything ends. That’s a common theme in Davies work. He’s informing us that death is inevitable but it doesn’t have to be horrible if we make the most of what we have.
Shrivelled Ten: The Master purposefully made the Doctor pathetic and weak to destroy the will of the people of earth. The Doctor is a symbol of hope, and if you weaken him then people give in to their fate.
Max Capricorn: He planned to wipe out London just to get revenge on members of the board. His inability to let go of his anger at the board is paralleled by his inability to let go of life, hence his existence as a cyborg at 200+ years of age. but “lol head on wheals, right?”
The Master: He’s completely physically unstable, because he planned his own resurrection as a means to escape the Doctor and cause the Doctor grief. His physical instability is just a visual manifestation of his emotional/mental instability. It’s symbolism Davies uses to get his point to the audience.
Chloe Webber: Already addressed this a bit, but I’ll continue. Chloe was being possessed by another child who she felt kinship to, because she literally had no one. She had no way to communicate to other children because of the emotional distress her father caused, and her mother also had emotional distress which caused her to not be able to communicate with Chloe about her father. The means the Isolus uses to get to Chloe is hardly relevant when you put it into the perspective of WHY she targetted Chloe.
Tinkerten: This is admittedly a Deus Ex Machina, but it’s a decently executed one, because the story arc is intended to take a backseat to character and emotional one. From a narrative perspective, Martha’s journey is less about finding a solution to the Master and more about her coming in to her own person. Furthermore, the God Symbolism is used for a reason, so it can be deconstructed (as RTD tends to do), as the minute he survives, he’s punished for his hubris. His self-righteousness (forgiving the master) leads to the Master deciding to leave him alone in the universe, and later leads to Martha leaving, as he caused a HUGE rift in her family life.
RTD knew he was writing a kids show. He took serious stories and complex emotional arcs, and buried then under sixty feet of silly to get them accross to the young audience, as he should. Moffat, however, takes silly nonsensical stories and shallow emotional “arcs”, changes the chronological order, ads some scary monsters and flowery speeches, and thinks himself mature.
I read somewhere that RTD’s Doctor Who was a serious show pretending to be silly, and Moffat’s was a silly show pretending to be serious, and I think this all explains it well, and you’re a perfect example of the people who buy into it.
Now, tell me again why I shouldn’t prefer RTD to Moffat?
#I WILL REBLOG IT ANYTIME IT’S ON MY DASH #BECAUSE YOU SHUT UP WITH YOUR CRITICS #GO AND LOVE YOUR MOFFAT AND HIS SPECIAL EFFECTS WITH NO SENSE #AND I PREFER THE PLOT AND EMOTIONS AND FEELS AND GREAT ACTORS AND GOOD SCRIPT
PREACH
I love these rants.
I’ll always reblog this post.
I will reblog this even after I have died, so there’s that
*Clears throat*
You are not a martyr for having a disabled kid.
You are not a martyr for having a disabled kid.
You are not a martyr for having a disabled kid.
YOU ARE NOT A MARTYR FOR HAVING A DISABLED KID.
YOU ARE NOT A MARTYR FOR HAVING A DISABLED KID!
That is all.
Okay seriously, let’s talk about this.
Do you know how harmful it is? Do you know how hurtful it is? Do you know how damaging it is to disabled children?
When parents turn themselves into martyrs, when they talk about how amazing they are, when they post on social media about the sacrifices they made and how they’re proud to make those sacrifices, when they get dozens of likes/comments, when they talk about the things they could be doing instead of dealing with medical problems, when they talk about how they’re superheroes, when people comment/repost/etc. their photos or stories saying that not all heroes wear capes, when they repeatedly give off the impression that they are better than everyone else because they have a disabled kid who they haven’t killed
yet…No, seriously, that’s what all of this is implying. Oh, sure, on the surface, it’s all about the attention and the glory. But really, what you’re saying each and every single time you do one of these things is that you’re not like other parents - you don’t care that your child is a burden, you see them as your inspiration, you would never harm them, you would never kill them, etc.
And all you’re doing is letting your child know that there are people out there who would have neglected, abused, even killed them and that you, you, the super-parent, you would never do such a thing and so that child should count themselves lucky every single day. Why? Because you’re being a parent? Because you’re choosing to not neglect your kid? That’s not heroic. That doesn’t deserve praise. That’s your damn job.
And I know, you might not think you’re implying that, but you are. Every single time you talk about the sacrifices that you’ve made for your child, every single time you talk about how amazing you are for being the parent of a disabled child because it’s not easy, you are just hammering in the fact that your child is a burden. You’re dehumanizing them, you’re exploiting them, and you’re teaching them that you deserve praise for not treating them like crap.
It’s manipulative, it’s abusive, it’s disgusting, and it needs to stop.
People are not martyrs for having disabled kids. And anyone who thinks they are really shouldn’t have those disabled kids to begin with.
Isn't u dating Paper Wiki illegal since he's underage?
Anonymoustamascotchi-deactivated20190101:
im only a year and a half older than him? so no??
Due to the romeo and juliet clause, if two people were in a relationship and the age difference is only 2 years or less, it’s still legal when one partner turns 18.
I have never seen grape ice cream.
Actually, i know why this is:
Grapes contain a a special molecule Anthocyanin that prevents freezing, so you’d keep ending up with grape milk. Many ice cream companies and manufacturers have made bold attempts at grape ice cream, hardly any of them successful.
But then, finally, those geniuses at Ben and Jerry’s did it. So why don’t we have grape ice cream?
Here’s the thing: Ben confessed in a People Magazine interview in 1984 that he had a huge crush on Becky and promised to create the flavor just for her. Knowing the history of grape ice cream, she coyly requested it, thinking it to be impossible. Ben began to include the grape skin and juice to better see the differences between batches. While he didn’t understand the science behind this at the time, he found that including the skins increased the levels of anthocyanin enough to make the ice cream freeze. “Becky was impressed,” he remarked, “We were at her house, alone. I gave her the scoop – on a cone. I was really getting somewhere. She was laughing and happy. She couldn’t believe I did it. I’ll never forget what happened next.”
“Becky jokingly gave her dog a lick from the cone. He liked it and took a couple of licks. Then he just gasped and dropped dead. He flipped down onto the floor and was just gone. I had no idea grapes are toxic to dogs. Specifically to the anthocyanin. Becky was devasted. I had invented a deadly dog poison, and I definitely wasn’t getting anywhere with her now.”
Yeah.
tldr; The reason we don’t have grape ice cream is because Ben from Ben and Jerry’s killed Jerry’s hot sister’s dog with it.
holy fuck
If they don’t make an ice cream cause it kills dogs, why do they make chocolate ice cream still?
Because more people know not to feed chocolate to dogs than not to feed grapes to dogs.
