All of it. Well, everything fitting into Doctor Who canon following a specific set of guidelines that are very broad and expansive. This took a long time and I’ve done other versions of it before, but it’s pretty much the most comprehensive list you’ll ever find on the Internet. PLEEASE contact me if there’s something missing.
Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
the director of jurassic world really made the mistake of telling tom holland the plot of the film, tom immediately went and told it to chris pratt who’s the star of jurassic world, pratt didn’t believe tom but later read the script and found out that tom actually did spoil the plot for him, then over a year later the director found out that tom spoiled the film for pratt and he called tom holland a weasel on twitter and tom said that he genuinely couldn’t help himself
What I love about Twice Upon A Time is the emotional layer it gives the First Doctor’s regeneration.
This is something that is… really quite absent in The Tenth Planet - which is understandable given the context, but also makes it feel so weirdly separate from the rest of the show.
The only reason we even had a clip of the First Doctor’s regeneration is because Blue Peter showed it once, some decades back. On top of all the early Doctor Who stuff that has been lost from the BBC’s archives, this vital piece of the show’s DNA was almost lost to history as well…
I’ve primarily seen the talk about the First Doctor’s usage in Twice Upon A Time revolving around how the episode addresses the character’s casual misogyny and… not much else.
Nothing about how scared he was to be facing regeneration, to be grappling with the idea - for the first time - of becoming a new person.
Nothing about how, on top of that, he comes face-to-face with the legacy of his future selves, presented in the negative way they are, as ‘the Doctor of War’. An idea that he finds unthinkable, even as he hasn’t yet found himself truly stepping into the role of ‘The Doctor’.
And certainly nothing about one of my favourite scenes in the episode - that profoundly philosophical discussion he has with Bill, reframing a piece of the show’s mythology from a new angle by asking a different question. There were many reasons why he ran away from Gallifrey, but it has never been asked before what exactly he was running to…
And we get to have the First Doctor say his piece on that, subtly tying back into a famous quote of his from the end of The Daleks:
“You wanted advice, you said. I never give it. Never. But I might just say this to you. Always search for truth. My truth is in the stars.”
Indeed, this is something of a recurring motif, as he says this again to Susan in The Reign of Terror - the last serial of the first season.
“Our lives are important - at least to us - and as we see, so we learn… Our destiny is in the stars, so let’s go and search for it.”
So what the First Doctor says to Bill about pursuing an answer to the question of good and evil, trying to understand how good can prevail when it requires things that are inherently selfless - things such as sacrifice and love - and evil should, in theory, always win, fits in beautifully with his established character. He learns to hope, in a way that he didn’t quite before, in saving the Captain’s life and witnessing the Christmas truce.
He previously said that the universe rarely turns out to be a fairy tale, but he learns that it’s up to him - to us - to try to make it one.
The Tenth Planet wasn’t the First Doctor’s story, it was Ben who was largely put forward as the main character - William Hartnell’s illness leaving the Doctor on the sidelines for the most part, save for a few key scenes.
I feel that Twice Upon A Time managed to give us that - a proper final send-off for the First Doctor, one that doesn’t just work with the limits of The Tenth Planet but embraces them. When David Bradley enters the TARDIS, accompanied by Murray Gold’s Vale, and it transitions back to William Hartnell lying on the floor as we see his face morph into Patrick Troughton’s while the music swells to a triumphant climax… it emotionally recontextualises something that has, for so long, existed purely to serve the function of keeping the show going when its lead actor was too ill to continue.
The First Doctor got to have the explosive fanfare of regeneration the way every other Doctor has had without changing a thing, save for his final line - no longer “Keep warm” to Ben and Polly, but a promise to himself to go about living his life the long way round.
*kid presenting meme* Iron Man 3 was a good movie you’re all just unnerved by the plot twist because it revealed that the white American mastermind was behind the whole terrorist ploy instead of just painting muslims as the stereotypical bad guy terrorist
The Supreme Court just issues a ruling allowing Ohio and other states to purge voters from their election registration rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot in previous elections.
This is a major victory for the Trump administration and the GOP, and a direct consequence of the Supreme Court being stacked with more conservative judges (the votes were 5-4). This is also a huge part of what Trump/the GOP were counting on to save them in the 2018 midterm elections, which is where Democrats have been hoping to take back a majority in the House, giving them more power to combat Trump’s abuses of power and Republican legislation.
What this means is YOU CAN NOT ASSUME THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED for the 2018 elections, just because you SHOULD be. Thanks to this decision, red states can purge voters’ registration based on their not having cast a ballot in even just previous federal elections, NOT just the national Presidential elections. Effectively, if you haven’t voted in previous senate races or for congressional representatives in the past few years, that’s all they need now to say you’re no longer registered and need to register again.
They’re deliberately counting on people assuming they’re still registered and so not checking until after registration deadlines have passed, or showing up to vote this November and only then finding out they’re no longer registered, when its too late to do a damn thing about it.
And this is absolutely targeted at marginalized communities, low income voters, disabled voters, and basically anyone who simply can’t always AFFORD to keep on top of every federal election and show up to vote in every senate race, etc. Which not so coincidentally happen to be all the communities and voters who have the most to gain from Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms and are the least likely to cast votes for GOP candidates at this point.
This was absolutely a calculated effort aimed specifically at keeping the GOP in power with a majority control of the government come November, and unfortunately, it has a DAMN good chance of accomplishing just that if it goes by unacknowledged. I’m not looking to alarm or panic anyone, simply to say:
If you are a registered voter in a red state at this point, please please please do not take your registered status as assumed. Check on your registration status, look up all relevant voter registration deadlines for your state and district, CIRCLE THAT SHIT ON YOUR CALENDAR, and check your registration status AGAIN right before those deadlines pass, so you can be sure of it before its too late to do anything about it til the next voting cycle.
favorite story: apparently, while filming “black swan,” the director would try to pit mila kunis and natalie portman against each other, telling them that the other woman was doing a better job, in hopes of making their characters’ rivalry seem more authentic. but it completely backfired, since instead of getting angry or competitive, natalie and mila would just congratulate each other on doing such good work.
Directors who do stuff like this are pieces of shit
“I’ve been reading a lot of reviews where people who are nervous about the premise want Adam to be really punished, and they’re not happy that he, in their sense, gets away with it,” Ariel said. “I don’t see it that way. … I think it’s the whole idea of Adam being punished is really interesting because he’s deceiving somebody — he’s lying, that’s wrong. But people are really angry specifically about appropriating an oppressed identity. I just think that’s fascinating to think about because what is so terrible about appropriating an oppressed identity? And what’s terrible is that people are oppressed. But ultimately his deception is just a deception. He’s also lying about his age but no one seems to care about that. Why is one deception worse than another? I just think it’s interesting to think about that.”—
can you imagine being 26 years old and in marketing and you want to settle down with a rich stupid man who’s crazy about you and you FIND a divorcee who hasn’t talked to his ex in over a decade and has a very forgiving custody arrangement that would easily enable boarding school and is willing to MARRY you after a SIX TO EIGHT WEEK SUMMER ROMANCE with NO PRENUP and then his brat kid comes back from summer camp and it turns out his ESTRANGED OTHER TWIN DAUGHTER came back from camp and they hijack your entire life and put a lizard on you and then your hot old man ditches you for his hot mess of an ex WHO DESIGNED… THE CUSTOM WEDDING DRESS YOU HAD ALREADY PAID FOR. truly. a roller coaster summer…. all that scheming WASTED
Either this is the plot to a movie I haven’t seen or Tumblr user spikenards has some very specific fears
I just watched an old couple get into their car and set off the alarm and then try to turn it off for like ten minutes before giving up and driving away with the alarm still going off
now that i think about it maybe i just watched an old couple steal a car
