Thoughts and Stuff of a Thinker

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finalowen:

For the remaining people that don’t think the Eighth Doctor was the one involved in the Time War (and yes, there are posts saying that in the Eighth Doctor tag). It’s there written in black and white. McGann was the one who ended the Time War, it was what ‘happened’ to his incarnation, and Eccleston’s stuff happened ‘immediately after’. Officially licensed by the BBC.

Unfortunately, “Officially licenced by the BBC” =/= canon.

Until last night, the Eighth Doctor was the one to End the Time War, but only because that assumption was never contradicted onscreen, and Matt Smith was unrefuteably identified as the Eleventh Doctor(and we can all count).

Now it seems we may be given an alternative explanation - and the onscreen canon takes precedence. 

I’m still not sure how I feel about this, but I know I’d feel a whole lot more positive if there was a slight hint that Paul McGann will be in the 50th.

Onscreen =/= canon either.

Because guess what? Canon doesn’t exist in Doctor Who! The only time that canon has ever been mentioned by the BBC was in a press release about the Adventure Games saying that they were canon! And that’s if we believe random press release writers to have the authority to declare canon. The only people with that kind of authority were Sidney Newman and Verity Lambert, and they never spoke of it.

Officially licensed is about the only rule about what counts, and even that’s not stuck to hard and fast. Unofficial stuff has been referenced over and over in official stuff. And nobody has ever said that on-screen trumps off-screen. That’s why we have a chameleon circuit rather than a camouflage unit. Target Novels > Televised Pertwee.

Basically, Doctor Who is the anti-canon.

It’s very fluid, yes. But the BBC isn’t allowed to make it’s UK viewers pay any more than their TV licence to follow a TV show that they make. 

Thus: Anything aired on British TV onscreen is canon. Anything not onscreen may or may not be canon until confirmed/contradicted by the TV show.

In the case of the Adventure Games, they were freely distributed in the UK via the official BBC website and declared canon by the producers of the show.

Expanded Universe material is available to be referenced/drawn upon, as long as a plot point doesn’t require you to have read one of the novelisations/listened to an audio/bought the Official Doctor Who magazine/read a comic/etc.

As soon as it is onscreen, it is canon. As soon as onscreen canon is contradicted by other onscreen canon, we have a problem. But if it is in the expanded Universe and then contradicted by the TV show, then it is the TV show we refer to.

If all officially licenced material is canon, then the Tenth Doctor should have remembered the name “Sally Sparrow” in connection to a similarly convoluted space-time event that he experienced as the Ninth Doctor.

And what of “Human Nature”? The Tenth Doctor lands in the English countryside to become human, and proceeds to play through almost the very same events he experienced as the Seventh Doctor a year later, with some of the people even sharing names.

I use “Chameleon circuit”, because the writers on the show decided to adopt that, it was onscreen. The writers used it because they liked it. If they hadn’t used it in the show we might still all be calling it the camouflage unit.

The original producers were in charge of the original canon. They eventually passed that duty of canon-smithing on to new producers, who in turn passed that on to new producers.The BBC made Steven Moffat the showrunner, and right now he is in charge. We can dispute the canonicity of “You leave the brakes on,” (because we know the Doctor lies/River shows off), but if we are shown what happens during the Time War and that happens to contradict something in the comics, then we must find some alternative explanation for the events in the comics.

Doctor Who is not anti-canon. It’s wibbly-wobbly, canonny-wanonny. There is a free exchange between onscreen and off, but the TV show is where it is at. Doctor Who is the TV show.

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hinoneko:

I noticed a ton of people starting/asking about Classic Who after Series 7’s finale aired, so I figured I’d put something together to help the newbies out! Reblog to share the retro sci-fi love.

PRAISE OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR HINONEKO

Seriously, the crushes panel XD And that’s not even including the incarnations of the Master, either!

To any of my followers who haven’t seen any Classic Who yet, I can thoroughly recommend it.

(I can even provide recommendations if you want to know where to start. :) )

ladyyatexel:

What if the background skants in The Next Generation had caught on? In obligatory “Generic Star Trek Poster” style.

I wanted to do this for so many reasons. I enjoy the idea of this kind of outfit as an option for everyone, and I enjoyed the exercise of what it did to my brain to see these kinds of silhouettes on men and how even with all the feminist ideas I hold, my immediate bias was that these were not ‘man shaped’. My tumblr crew and I were all surprised to see how good this shape looked on O’Brien, and that it didn’t automatically look the best on Bashir, who we all thought would default to looking best in a dress-shape since he’s all tall and lanky. I’m not interested in portraying this as a humorous option, I’d want it to be taken as seriously as the jumpsuits, which, objectively, are like space footie pajamas and are just as ridiculous. In general, I take some serious issue with clothing deemed ‘feminine’ as somehow diminishing the non-female-identifying people who might choose to wear them.

All this said, I don’t think this outfit option as presented here would be best for O’Brien’s job, and probably not Bashir’s either. O’Brien is best served by the jumpsuit since he’s crawling in vents all day. I did a lot of talking about this on tumblr, and made six variations of these for each of them, which you can see here. There are some options with pants for every permutation of the uniform, though I didn’t do a dress version (yet?). I planned to just do Bashir and O’Brien, but some enthusiastic tagging and realizing I might as well do a command version and one more body type led to Sisko as well. It was an interesting exercise to look at body types and how this clothing shape serves each one.

There’s individual postings of some of these as well as just some general talk about skants and gender roles as they pertain to clothing on my tumblr under the skant tag.

Promise I’m done with these for a while! If I do more skants, they’ll be on new people or at least new poses and maybe action shots rather than generic posing. But I put this poster-ish final thing on dA and thought it should be here too. 

I really like these. Although I feel the design (including the original costume from which this idea has sprung) would be better served with some sort of belt?

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The God’s Complex/ The Name of The Doctor
I think i figured this out! The Doctor saw John Hurt in his room in The God’s Complex

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