Lya Calvet

it still amazes me how twelve’s era was arguably one of the best in the series, yet hardly anyone i know has seen it.  it was thematically consistent (death, love, identity, queerness, moral complexity, trauma, hope) and cinematically beautiful (heather coming up through the water on an alien planet, the stars in the child!doctor’s eyes, the universe crumbling).  twelve’s era explored the otherwise taken-for-granted concept of quirky-guy-with-automatic-authority trope; not that the show never explored it before (midnight is a gorgeous example), but this era continuously called it out, questioned it, and broke it down (think time heist, everything danny pink says, and how flatline was basically a whole-scale deconstruction of it).  the doctor went through real and steady character development, emerging first from regeneration as hiding his vulnerability behind a brusque exterior, then becoming softer yet willing to destroy the universe when it comes down to it, before eventually deciding that the most important thing to be was kind.  this era gave us a morally ambiguous companion (clara) who actually gets her own opening sequence, and then her own tardis.  we got a female master with her own character development arc.  bill actually gets to take off to explore the universe with her girlfriend (after a season long arc about identity).

Enjoy my unnecessarily retro Doctor Who posters in honor of tonights stellar episode 🌟