The absolutely heartbreaking realization that at this point Yaz has probably spent more of her relationship with the Doctor waiting for her to come back than she’s spent actually traveling with her.
Currently sitting here on a Friday night laughing my ass off at the increasingly elaborate headcanon my brain is cooking up about the Master and the Grand Serpent both spending like the entire second half of the twentieth century and a good chunk of the twenty-first century trying to infiltrate what is basically the same ten square kilometers of Britain.
Like, after long enough the Master is pretty-sure-but-not-entirely-sure that Prentis is an alien of some kind, and the Grand Serpent is pretty-sure-but-not-entirely-sure that all of those dudes who keep turning up and calling themselves “the Master” are all the same guy, but neither of them can prove it without outing themselves so they settle for being petty as hell to one another instead:
the Delgado!Master has his first stint in a UNIT prison and the Grand Serpent keeps sending him notes on Official UNIT Letterhead
the absolutely INSANE interagency rivalry that must have gone on in the early 2000s between a Torchwood backed by rising star politician “Harold Saxon” and a UNIT backed by “Prentis”
the moment Saxon gets elected Prime Minister he announces that he’s redirecting all of UNIT’s funding to the NHS
for the entire Year That Never Was, a single Toclafane follows Prentis around playing the “ooh it’s a snake” part of the Badger Badger Badger song
half of the places the Dhawan!Master had to escape from when he had to relive the entire 20th century over again were just various cupboards in the Grand Serpent’s house
Agent O’s final act after being sacked by MI6 was to create the most 2002-Geocities-style website that was just a massive conspiracy theory infodump about how Prentis was secretly a Lizard Person running the world from the shadows, with every single piece of evidence being 100% true but so over-the-top that no one would actually believe it, and knowing that it wouldn’t actually expose the Grand Serpent but would absolutely piss him the hell off while the Master fucked off to Australia
Our favorite Genderfluid Immortal who is Just Fine and has Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Her and the Dead-Eyed Stares and Constant Flashbacks are Nothing To Be Concerned About, thank you very much
Her exhausted snarky Girlfriend
A Scouser Himbo with a frying pan and a dog that hates him
One Very Intriguing Space Lad who I have several Theories about
Some grumpy Top Hat from History
Two random women who were just sort of forgotten Mid-Peril after episode 1
A pair of Glam Porcelain Dolls who turn everything they touch into Glitter
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Roughly stitched together the pan shot of the house™ from War of the Sontarans.
Ok, but seriously…
The way the black and white and slightly crumbly quality calls back to 60s Who, hides the true colours of the scene, and low-key works in universe as a dream of the Doctor’s childhood because of that whole ‘I was colourblind for my first two incarnations’ joke Moffat added in the Day of the Doctor novelisation?
And we have this shot of Thaddea Graham’s character “Bel”, who I think is due to show up over the next couple episodes, surrounded by red vegetation and an orange sky from the trailer?
And the architecture? Those towers? The landscape?
Yeah, I’ve accidentally convinced myself that the house is you-know-what.
Pretty much confirmed, baby!
(I mean of course they technically didn’t use the name or say it was the Doctor’s family home but… come on…?)
I know it wasn’t technicallyLungbarrow. But also its my headcanon going forward, that the Doctor’s shifting lost lives were visualised as a twisted version of her old home, Lungbarrow. Because imo that sounds really cool
Oh 100%! I’m pretty much certain it was the intention too.
Cause seriously, there’s no way Chibnall just coincidentially chose that imagery right, at this point?
Master and Companion ep 3: Pisa Italy 9 August 1173
“Are you sure us messing with the foundations are a fixed point?” “How else would it become the ‘Leaning’ tower love?” “So now what?” “Now we go forward and watch it topple over!”
Doctor Who Flux simply mentioned The Master and I had to indulge in my self insert companion for The Master, this time a lovely date in Pisa on the day they broke ground for the famous tower.
