We Never Did Get That Date

RIP Captain Jack Harkness you would have loved - oh nvm he's back lol

*sigh* fine, fine, i'll be the new doctor who showrunner. bring me two twinks, britain's tallest woman, and 1000 pounds worth of alumininamian foil

and the winner of superwholock is officially??? no one. we all lost. congrats team

my feeling with regards to the billie piper cliffhanger was like 'well it's stupid but i suppose if this is what it takes to secure the show's ongoing existence it will be worth it'. consequently i now feel comfortable saying: that was simply fucking stupid wasn't it

I really enjoy torchwood for asking the important question of like what if all your coworkers were in the the worst polycule ever

soooooo funny that gwen ends up being the one to run torchwood in jack's absence. like yeah I guess when the competition is "woman with no people skills who doesn't really want to do anything other than hack into top secret government databases and mess around with alien tech", "emotionally unstable man who recently got dumped by someone he was never actually dating and handled it so bad he joined an alien fight club about it", and "24 year old who commands zero respect and still kind of gets treated as the intern who fetches everyone coffee by his coworkers regardless of his actual contributions", the woman who's worked there like six months tops and still doesn't entirely understand what they do but at the very least has the ability to tell people to shut up and listen and have them actually do it does actually end up being the best pick for leader

heartbreaking! a pretty solid standalone horror story has gotten a continuation that recontextualizes all of its self-contained events as part of a massive & banal "epic" mythos