They’re So Effortlessly Funny

I’m going old school, Doctor.

on the one hand, it's so funny how every time the doctor has to introduce the master to new companions they never fail to mention that they used to friends. “this is my evil archenemy but we were in the academy together, we used to run in the red grass before the murder attempts” even though we literally just saw the master committing multiple atrocities.

but. on the other hand. the tragedy of it all. it's the doctor saying: this is the site of grief that's now a festering wound. this is scar tissue still tender to the touch, this is the relentlessness of memory. this is a ghost, this is a monster, this is a haunting, this is an unburied grave. this is love as terror, love as horror, love that came back from the dead as a hunger. this is what it means to remember. this was my first love and the only thing i cannot outrun.

and then we cut to the master who is committing more atrocities

i just think theyre neat

You and the Doctor are a well-matched pair of pests.

The rest, as they say, is history.

DOCTOR WHO, S12E02 Spyfall: Part Two

aww this is one of my favourite episodes of 3′s era.. jo’s leaving had been teased time and time again, whenever someone fancied her and asked her to stay with them, she’d regrettably say “no” bc she still had so much to see with the doctor and couldn’t possibly leave her planet but here, she finally finds a reason to stick around and it’s so lovely to watch. i still miss her terribly though :(

ten minutes into jo grants last episode and im already tearing up!!! it’s so clear that she’s pulling away from the doctor to seek out her own passions and he’s so proud of her but also!!! he doesn’t want her to!!! he’s not ready to lose her!!!

this feels so much more like the modern companion send offs I’m used to, the way it’s eased into, the way you can see the companions character arc coming to its close, the way the doctor helps assuage the audiences sadness and resistance to change by expressing the same feelings himself :,)

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12x19 "The Future" - April 27, 2017

born with teeth poster but make it spygatwa