Look who showed up at the SYFY booth at NYCC! I haven’t seen the premiere yet (was going to a watch party that got postponed to next weekend!) but the crowd’s energy was palpable when Jodie took the stage.
Peter Capaldi’s 12th Doctor regeneration was everything he deserved. Twelve was the most tormented Doctor, the most haunted by his past, so full of secret pains we would never know about. He really felt like he was hiding back so much, and was putting on a mask so much of the time. Seeing the Doctor find peace in himself, and the optimism in himself (herself!!!) for the future, was absolutely incredible. I honestly can’t think of a more suiting end for Twelve. It was bittersweet, but I feel like I can comfortably and peacefully say goodbye.
they were ruthlessly exploited. a refugee, an orphan and the last of their kind. a minority literally abused and tortured for the benefit of others. murdered over and over and experimented on like some thing by the Gallifreyan natives in the pursuit of the idea of a ‘superior race’ that would truly ‘deserve’ their regeneration ability, then mindwiped and gaslit over the circumstances of their own life so that they were living with the echoes of trauma they couldn’t even begin to recognise in themselves.
the Doctor is now more than ever what they have always been, an outcast that ran away in pursuit of something else, of freedom and joy away from an oppressive regime, and decided to take a stand against the evils of the universe. and doesn’t that all just make painful sense now.
