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Ian and Barbara's different responses to the unravelling mystery and events tell us so much about them and the Doctor is performed so excellently. He is imposing and devious while appearing to Ian and Barbara doddering when he wants to, then the way he changes his tune once they're all captured is *chef's kiss*. He's scared and in full self preservation mode to the extreme this whole serial, when Ian and Barbara first start poking around he's confident in his deceptive abilities but the second they enter the tardis he is panicking silently with a great poker face, pulling the extreme rip chord of an unsafe takeoff to god-knows-where because he's so afraid of being found out. He's violent and selfish but there are these occasional glimmers of the hero he'll one day become, most famously his 'fear makes companions of us all' speech. Susan's ongoing desire to feel like she belongs somewhere that eventually (if messily) concludes in TDIoE being set up and her empathy being at the forefront.

The serial has its flaws, some more substantial than others, but it's a phenomenal introduction to these characters who I love so much!

- NEW FAVOURITE STORY

- this is just the sort of chaos i absolutely adore when it comes to who

- ian and barbara just trying to have a chill cute time together and suddenly they’re just thrown into slavery. let them lounge about and flirt.

- meanwhile you have the doctor and vicki being idiots and manipulating nero

- hartnell’s silly doctor really shines through here it’s beautiful to watch

- ianbarbara got me in a chokehold. the scenes at the beginning and end of them just having fun together in the house. i love these two so so much.

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

Trans activist Jamison Green's passport photos before and after HRT. Left he's age 32 (1980) Right age 41 (1989) after being on testosterone for one year (x)

NONE OF YOU TOLD ME SUSAN IS SAPPHIC?!

~ Quote one, from ‘The Wall of Lies’ ~

Comic version of this post made by @penny-anna.

i also took some martial arts in school and hated it. i took it up only bcos my best friend was doing it and at all times was like 'i wish i was spending my lunchbreak doing Anything Else'. i was also bad at it.

before anyone is like 'well you don't have to be good at an activity to enjoy it-' yes you do. sorry. when it comes to Sports if you are bad enough at it, you simply do not get to access the fun part. for example: me and my best friend used to 'play tennis' together in PE lessons but we were both extremely bad at tennis so we would just take it in turns to serve the ball at each other over and over bcos neither of us could hit it back. this was not fun.

i did a lot of musical theatre extra curriculars including dance as a teen and this was probably the one i enjoyed the most but once you hit a certain age there is an Expectation that you will want to get good at it. i was not a good dancer and struggled a lot with memorising the routines. this was not fun. it is not fun doing an activity you are bad at while surrounded by people who are better at it than you.