This Is Worse Than Jazz

And then Doctor Who and Russell T Davies really wanted us to know that things turned out a-ok for racist, classist Joan in the end. Really thought it was necessary to give her story a special little bit at the end of the Tenth Doctor’s story, really thought he should care that much. And really wanted to show us how her eerily lookalike granddaughter was profiting off the story of that time the Doctor put Martha Jones through Hell for two months all because he wanted to be “kind” to some alien mass-murderers.

Doctor Who | Spyfall Part 1

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my fav dw quote: “but that picture cannae be the moon, the moon’s way up in the sky!”

Azure. Loved her so much & literally had to pause the show a few times to get a closer look at the make-up, because it's just stunning!!

ten is four. the iconic one, the one you could dress as for a non-fan’s halloween party and there’s some chance you’d be recognized. also they have the same companions, see previous post on this subject.

eleven is five. baby face contrasting with kind of violent stories, big shoes to fill but did it. the five doctors vs day of the doctor.

twelve is six. also big shoes to fill and ended up being more niche appeal but my favorites. orange cat vs grumpy cat. twelve had the ‘prickly outside slowly revealing kind heart’ arc that six was supposed to have. deep breath is a reworking of the twin dilemma (see previous post on this subject). there’s an excellent post extant (not by me) on why these two are parallel, I’ve lost it but it can probably be found by searching

and thirteen is seven. (all love to Hannah Grace Long who argued that thirteen is like six, I agreed with her at the time but I think thirteen’s ended up developing in a more sevenish direction.) her first series was fairly light and sort of aimless stories, I don’t mean this as a bad thing, I just mean they were self-contained rather than exploring an arc; then they got darker and more embedded in lore, especially gallifrey stuff. and now she’s using nitro-nine and she’s apparently about to get a dark coat. she also has that dangerous small gremlin energy.

(nine and three don’t have very much in common but they were both effectively soft reboots–narratively as well as production-wise–with the Doctor’s exile and the time war)

note: I am not saying the show is going to get cancelled. obviously not. they have rehired RTD, they wouldn’t do that and then cancel it. also for example they handled twelve’s arc well where they handled six’s badly–it’s going even better this time! it’s just that the show consistently revisits old arcs and themes and that’s very cool

Which technically would be Martin!Doctor.

Who as far as we currently know, has enough information to flesh her out and yet no series of her own, is riddled with amnesia plots, is destined to get completely messed up by the Time Lords even more than they are being currently, is ultimately a victim of medical trauma, and people foolishly dispute how ‘canon’ this Doctor is even if they obviously are.