...mostly classic who stuff

The Doctor’s companions in the early years tended to be “my beloved surrogate granddaughter” and “guy I found in a dumpster.”

i sometimes see people suggest that the doctor speaks gallifreyan and the tardis translates it, but i tend to think that tardises don't translate gallifreyan. the time lords wouldn't want alien lowlifes sullying their precious language, you know. and also even if he was speaking gallifreyan at first, i think his years trapped with unit probably got him into the habit of speaking english. or at least not gallifreyan. i don't know, maybe he was speaking hungarian the entire show. he probably switches up languages to keep things interesting. but one thing he's definitely not speaking most of the time is gallifreyan.

One great thing about 60s Who, especially Hartnell era is how by the end of each harrowing adventure the characters look suitably fuuucked uuuup. Dirty faces, hair's fucked up, clothes torn...if they've been running through a swamp from a tentacle monster the production really took the time to make it look like they've been running through a swamp from a tentacle monster. Whereas Fifteen manually hurls an ancient Death God into the howling vortex at the center of time and doesn't even break a sweat.

New headcanon that Seven climbed over that cliff in Dragonfire because at this point he's so used to being in some sort of cinematic mortal danger every 20 minutes that if such a situation isn't readily available, he's been conditioned to seek it out himself. And his subconscious has to be a smartass about it by making it a literal cliff-hanger.

My thing with doctor who canon is that ‘not in the show’ ≠ not canon and even ‘contradictory to the show’ ≠ not canon, because the show is not the start and end of canon