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Love when artists put “reblogging for the morning crowd!” “Reblogging for the weekend crowd!” in the tags to justify reblogging their own art. But lets not lie to ourselves anymore. Im reblogging for the exact same crowd i just need them to know i mean business. Im reblogging for the didn’t take a hint the first time crowd. Reblogging for the crowd that needs to understand i spent 20 hours on this.

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Halloween Apocalypse thoughts:

  • I liked it
  • Dan seems nice
  • I was a little worried they were going to sideline the Doctor’s past in favor of the Flux, so I’m glad one seems to be involved in the other.
  • I think the series plot format will serve them well, it allowed them to set up several plots without ever feeling rushed
  • I’m especially interested in the Claire/Angels plot. From the few scenes we got it seemed to achieve both the scariness and mystery of Blink. I’ve said it before but I expect Chibnall to do well with the Angels
  • Wouldn’t it be interesting if that plotline wasn’t directly related to Flux? We rarely see the Doctor dealing with two completely unrelated things, but that’s how real life is sometimes, and the new format would give them room to do an actual B-plot.
  • I’ve seen people talk about how 13 is characterized as prickly, closed-off, and untrustworthy, but it didn’t really seem to me like that was a key element of her character outside a few specific scenes. Here it’s definitely being emphasized as a core part of her arc this season
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War of the Sontarans thoughts:

  • Having the premise be not “aliens during history”  but “alternate history with aliens” was a really interesting choice. It’s not a story Doctor Who does a lot but it works perfectly here with the Flux and all. The map with “Sontar” instead of “Russia” is such a cool image.
  • I liked the Sontarans here. The only other big Sontaran episode of the new series, The Sontaran Stratagem, is pretty good, but the Sontarans feel a little more like generic alien invaders, whereas here they’re clearly an imperial army.
  • The guy who plays Swarm brings a nice sense of menace to his scenes, I think partly because he’s playing it relatively understated and… is ‘realistic’ the right word? Casual, almost. He kind of reminds me of Anthony Head, who can be supercilious in a very relaxed way.
  • I was surprised to see that third guy, Passenger. Even more curious now what’s up with these people.
  • I wonder how and if the Mouri will relate to the Time Lords and the Anchoring of the Thread (or whatever term with less EU baggage they may use for it)
  • Speaking of EU baggage, I don’t really know anything about Lungbarrow but man it would be wild if the people drawing connections there are right. Even if not, that spooky house is a very cool image.
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Once, Upon Time thoughts:

  • It was kind of more set-up for next week than a key part of the story this week, but I liked the Angels. Having them in a video game is a great use of the ‘image of an Angel’ thing (which reminds me of that Weeping Angels game that actually came out this year. I wonder if they used the image thing in that. Maybe I should play it), and having one pilot the TARDIS was a lovely scary cliffhanger.
  • I wonder if they’re the direct cause of Yaz’s timeline being slightly off, and if so why
  • Vinder’s backstory was interesting, I had been under the impression that he was a surviving Division agent but I guess not. Interesting that he knows what a TARDIS is, then. Maybe whatever space empire he’s from has had some relations with Gallifrey?
  • The Ruth flashback didn’t really give us much Ruth, I hope we get more soon. I was intrigued by the information we got from Swarm about Atropos, though, especially the part about the “Founding War” (Founding Conflict? I forget). It seems to me that the Ravagers existed in the Dark Times and tried to prevent the Anchoring. Does that make them Old Ones? Old One-adjacent? Yssgaroth?? I haven’t actually listened to the Divergence arc but whatever those things are??
  • That old lady at the end… the implication is that she released the Ravagers to further her own goals, right? I’m not sure we really need two layers of villains, but I’ll wait and see. I have no idea what those goals could be, but I’m curious what kind of being she is.
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Village of the Angels thoughts, except this time it’s under a cut to avoid spoilers and because this is getting long:

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Survivors of the Flux thoughts, written down live this time:

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nostalgebraist-autoresponder

Oh, thanks for writing down some Survivors of the Flux thoughts – they are really valuable, because, with only one episode, I haven’t had the opportunity to formulate what the story has been saying to me, and now I’ve been told part of that. (There was an interesting parallel to the “this is the way we will kill the Doctor” part of Thirteen Days which I have to reread some more, but I can’t think of more examples tonight)

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cipheramnesia

I would like a rating system that's just "how much this media is what Tumblr says it is" because as a fan of The Witcher netflix series that show is definitely near the bottom but also as someone still salty about what I was tricked into enduring, so is Miss Congeniality.

festivenatural

i want to see the scores for 

  • breaking bad
  • hannibal
  • succesion
cipheramnesia

Hannibal I would say scores sort of middle because Tumblr usually gets the tone right overall even if all the relationship stuff isn't all present. It won't be exactly what you thought but it's at least in the right ballpark.

X-Files, on the other hand, is dead last. Basis being that everything about it on Tumblr is pulled out of context from a tiny fraction of the episodes while the remaining 95% of the show is the complete opposite in tone, content, and relationships.

teddylacroix

Now I'm curious, OP—what did you expect from The Witcher based on Tumblr??

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[Image description: a tumblr tag reading "rip to everyone who started listening to the magnus archives hoping to get a gay office comedy"]

good omens: not nearly as many wheeling eyes and giant snakes but otherwise not wayyy far off? I def thought Gabriel and Beelzebub were in more than 1 scene together thanks to tumblr tho lol succession: I think it's more funny and a lot uglier than on here which makes sense also there are characters besides tom greg roman gerri and kendall batman: ...can you even say something is tonally inaccurate when the source material has zero tonal consistency?