I Become The Person Who Wresked Me.

I’m going old school, Doctor.

Brax: How was school today?

Theta: It was good, but Torvic pushed Koschei off the seesaw.

Brax: And where were you?

Theta: I was over on the bench.

Brax: And what did you do?

Theta: Nothing, I was over on the bench.

Brax: But you saw what happened.

Theta: Yes, because I was over on the bench.

Brax: So you saw what happened, and you did nothing.

Theta: Yes, because I was sitting over on the bench.

Brax: Let me ask you this. IN NAZI GERMANY, when people saw what the Nazis were doing and they did nothing, were those good people?

Theta: Oh no, those are bad people, you’ve gotta stop the Nazis.

Brax: But you saw what they were doing to Koschei and you did nothing-

Theta: Because I was oVER ON THE BENCH.

Brax: Just explain to me this, how are you better than a Nazi?

Penelope: I made a salad with craisins!

Okay but can we appreciate the fact that the master is always like here is my elaborate 70 year plan that involves 40 double crosses, 10 undercover roles, 12 government take overs, and 3 ruling positions and the doctor is like okay bitch I've got a bomb

“An account of the Doctor’s boyhood claims that he and the Master grew up together, and played near the river Lethe. A bully, Torvic, menaced the Master, but the Doctor fought back and thereby caused Torvic’s death. Death later visited the Doctor in a dream, and sought to take him as her Champion, but the Doctor told her to take the Master instead. This gave rise to the Master becoming Death’s Champion, and would motivate the Doctor and the Master to leave Gallifrey. This account is told as a fable, and so may not be true.”

— Lance Parkin & Lars Pearson, AHistory: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe (3rd edition), p.706

fifth doctor era as incoherent textposts

a moment of self-reflection