i think the funniest thing they could do on the next episodes with Billie Piper as the doctor would be her just genuinely being the doctor and not mentioning or acknowledging Rose Tyler or the stolen face at all. show goes on and it's not explained. wouldn't be good at all but it'd be funny
having a great time at an alien jungle
having a teacher/professor who's an actor is a wild experience because one moment you're listening to him explaining about greek amphitheatres and Italian stages in a completely normal way in a completely normal university setting and then another moment you're watching him in golden sparkly underwear breastfeeding another guy in golden sparkly underwear while they plot evil plans as a parody of the city's mayor
something irks me in the power of the doctor, not the writing and I don't think it's the acting exactly. maybe the directing or the editing of the episode ? I don't know they seem so unnaturally standing there sometimes and doing things in a way that doesn't make sense (ace photographing the blue of the wall I'm looking at you) (also there is a scene in which ace TELEPORTS to somewhere else in the room and I'm pretty sure it's the weird editing)
everyone always acts so aghast about the whole “the doctor kidnapped his first companions!” thing which yeah obviously terrifying from ian and barbara’s pov but you really gotta look at it from the angle of “guy who just ran away from home comes across someone breaking into his car and in a panic locks the doors hits the gas and now they’re all very very lost” and then it becomes hysterical
the syllabus for my weaving class legit said "don't have sex in the weaving studio"
as someone who only watched new who as a kid: one of the sexiest things classic who ever did was killing a teenage boy companion. not bringing him back. he's dead, he's gone. he was a child. they really don't do it like they used to anymore
The thing that keeps getting me about the original Master (Delgado) is how his downfall keeps being his trust. He holds the Doctor and his friends captive and forces him to help out with scientific work… and it never once occurs to him that maybe, just maybe, the Doctor could be sabotaging the work. He collaborates with alien forces to destroy humanity… and is shocked, every time, when his allies eventually turn on him.
It’s just such an incredibly fascinating fatal flaw for a supervillain who himself lies at every turn. He’s so naive. He seems to think himself superior enough that surely no one except himself would ever be capable of deception or betrayal.