#exileposting

yes, i'm about to compose a long and meandering post about how, in classic who, the doctor facing a court of law is an emphatic gesture at his fate as an exile and how this is a criminally underutilised trope in new who, you mIND YOUR BUSINESS

[cicero voice] my new year’s resolution is to return from exile

top things to give the Doctor 1. exile issues 2. psychotic memory issues 3. a very timey wimey plot 4. asexuality

eighth doctor in regeneration amnesia going Wait, wait. I remember I'm with my father, lying back in the grass. It's a warm Gallifreyan night… Gallifrey! Yes, this must be where I live. Now, where is that? agh THIS MUST BE WHERE I LIVE PRESENT TENSE as if everything but home has collapsed in his memory and then WHERE IS THAT is just like even if he forgets his exile, forgets the war he is actively fleeing, forgets himself, he couldnt make his way back. i’m normal about the doctor and his exile.

cicero voice my son only gained sentience at the age of six. and then he only experienced misery

i'm exileposting again but i'm far less interested the doctor's leftover gallifreyan racial superiority impulses than i am in the doctor having a fondness for earth as the place of refuge in his exile. humans are the species that took him in as one of their own. the people he has lived among whether or not by choice in 1963 in totters lane, in exile as the third doctor, with martha in 1968, in that hotel in 2024 (?) for a year, with donna present day and and and.

translating cicero in exile and trying to preserve fun alliteration like. the great growth of my misfortunes. the long list of my misfortunes. the considerable count of my misfortunes. the vast volume of my misfortunes. the huge heap of my misfortunes. someone help him