Featured image: Promo Picture from Doctor Who S12E05 Fugitive of the Judoon. Yasmin Khan, The Thirteenth Doctor, Ryan Sinclair, and Ruth and Lee Clayton stand in an open, airy flat, leaning over a grey table, looking suspiciously at a round, red device with spikes. Glass from a broken window surrounds…
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Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks Review
Featured Image: Revolution of the Daleks promo image, featuring the Doctor in a red prison jumpsuit and Daleks in the background, and Yaz, Ryan, Graham and Captain Jack in the foreground. This post is adapted from a thread I posted on my Twitter (@rebecca_15) on 08/01/2021. Something I’ve learnt about…
Doctor Who Series 12 finally makes me feel seen
Featured Image: Headshots L-R Jodie Whittaker, Jo Martin, Tosin Cole, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, John Barrowman and Sacha Dhawan with a starry sky filter covering the bottom half. Series 12 Promo Image. Content Notes and Warnings Spoilers for Series 12 of Doctor Who Discussion of anxiety and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy…
“I’m her best enemy”: Viewing the development of the Doctor/Master relationship as a disabled woman
Featured Image: The 13th Doctor and Dhawan Master facing each other in the citadel. (BBC Promo Image) Watching Series 12 of Doctor Who was an incredible and intense experience for me, and it’s taken a long time to process that, and to work out exactly why I feel such a…
‘One day, it’ll come back around’: The return of my Doctor Who
Featured Image: The Doctor, Ryan, Graham, Yaz and O in formal wear from Spyfall Part 1. SPOILER WARNING- This post contains direct spoilers for Spyfall and indirect spoilers for the rest of Series 12 so far, including Fugitive of the Judoon, so maybe don’t read on if you haven’t caught…
How Doctor Who pulled me through 2019
Featured image: Colourful banner featuring illustrations of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 13th, 10th and 11th Doctors and the Doctor Who logo. Image by the BBC. On Friday I was feeling reflective as we all tend to do around this time of year, and I realised that for the first time…
Challenging the timey-wimey patriarchy: The Doctor SHOULD be a woman!
On Sunday, when it was announced that Jodie Whittaker was the 13th Doctor I was surprised by my own reaction. I would usually squeal and giggle at this type of news, but when Jodie was revealed from underneath that hood, I started crying and shaking with disbelief and joy. I’d…