First of all, I have to stand up on my table and clap. 

I actually don’t know how this will land for New Who viewers since there was a lot of lore drop there.

( Timeless Children )

I really liked this episode, it had the proper creepiness of a ghost story and good mystery in the center.

( *She* is from somewhere much, *much* stranger. -- The North. )

( Just watching the planet turn across a day. )

Thoughts on Killjoys? What fandom do you love to revisit? for aurumcalendula​

I really really love Killjoys and I'm forever sad it never became popular in fandom as it should be. I love the complicated dynamics between the characters and I adored the worldbuilding in the first two seasons, especially the politics and religion of that world because it played off nicely with each other, especially the religion. Because it made sense, the Qresh was the main planet and the water levels rose and swallowed up the majority of the other lands, the other people fled, the remaining people became royalty called the Nine Families.

Birthright is based on land ownership and where they're born rather than blood ties, hence the important royals all have "Land" attached to their names. The Trees are rare and became sacred to them and are folded into their religion, "Praise the Trees".

If I think about it, it's really just so elegant which makes me sad they moved away from all of this to pursue more intergalactic storytelling. It took me a while to like the new direction of the show, which involved fewer Killjoys and politics and more outright war.

I do love the whole theme of memory and living on through that legacy, and how Dutch struggled hard for that remembrance.

Most of all I love Dutch a lot because she's strong but flawed, she was raised to be an assassin but the toll of that was something she wore heavily around her shoulders. Also, this is the first show I watched the engaged honestly with abuse and how it's not a cut and dried emotion because Dutch both hated and loved Khlyen, her father.

I love Dutch's stronger than blood relationship with Johnny and eventually, I did come around D'avin (much, much, much later).

This was such a fun cracky show with excellent characters and even better characterizations.

Dammit, Disney!

I thought I was done with Star Wars! And then this!

It has everything I want! The Epic-ness, the tragedy, the way so many people are fighting so hard in the face of everything else, and the inevitability of fate. And, of course, the music

This is my Star Wars.

Top three most loved and top three most despised moments in television for the decade? A book that changed your life? for thymejot

My instincts is to go as far back as Buffy only to realize they're not in the decade!

Top 3 Most Loved moments in Television

• The ending of Contingency and Bad Code, I had chills through all the flashback and the revelation that Nathan's death could have been preventable but like a Greek Tragedy, choices and chance meant that he would die.
• Sarah Shahi as Shaw, the whole ending sequence of Relevance, I had chills.
• Not a moment but the whole episode of RAM in Person of Interest, I love circular storytelling and finally getting the full backstory of how everything connected.

I just remembered how much I loved Person of Interest

Top 3 most despised moments in TV

• The moment I realized Olivia Dunham is no longer the protagonist of Fringe
• Carter in Person of Interest dying.
• Any moment the writers of Grey's Anatomy makes characater do something stupid or killing half the cast and then I have to break-up with the show again.

A Book that changed my life

I wouldn't say it changed my life but its formative to me was: The Riddlemaster Trilogy by Patricia McKillip where the heroes spent significant time apart from each other growing and learning and still loving each other. It had such an impact on me, and blew me away that a couple didn't need to be in the same continent or even staying together joined to the hip to love each other.

Thirteenth Doctor of course :P for braddersbangerz

Thirteen! I love her the moment I saw her, she worked for me really fast, I love the feeling I got in The Woman Who Fell to Earth where it felt like she had to paraphrase American Gods she's fighting for the sheer joy of it, for the fuckin' holy delight of it.

The thing about Thirteen is she was born amidst contrasts, the Doctor was actually contemplating death before they changed their minds last minute, this is a last-minute reprieve life. She wants to be joyful and new this time around and she's grabbing every instance of joy she can find but she's also actually depressed. She's being hopeful with all her being because if she lets go for one second she'll sink into a quicksand of despair, just like what happened in The Ghost Monument.

She pinned all her hopes on finding the TARDIS, and for everything to be fixed once she gets her TARDIS back that when she reached her destination and didn't find it -- everything went crashing all around her. She also didn't tell the team a lot about herself because she never intended to travel with any of them, it was the TARDIS that decided to keep the Humans for the Doctor until the Doctor became attached to them.

Still, the pattern of behavior has set in with the Doctor, she didn't tell them a lot about herself other than surface level because she never intended for them to stay. And when the team decided they wanted to stay, I think the Doctor made a conscious decision to just not say anything about her life.

She looks open and carefree, but she's actually closed off. She doesn't answer any personal questions about herself because as missmarthanightingale put it:

ok but the doctor really has been going “due to various traumatic events, including the betrayal of my entire species followed up by that of my oldest friend, i will from now on refuse to acknowledge anything about my past beyond surface details”

I think that's a decent summation of where Thirteen's head at, and what's becoming more apparent since series 11, is that Thirteen shares Twelve's aversion to touch, but this time she's smart about it by not broadcasting it to anyone, since the last time they did, it seemed to encourage people rather than discourage people from coming into contact with him. Also, I feel like her touch telepathy is more sensitive this time around. (Again, I feel the text in series 12 is highly encouraging of that reading).

She's had a whole year (give or take a few more months in between) off from any kind of trauma and this year explodes into TRAUMA, BIG TRAUMA.

( spoilers for Doctor Who 12x02 events )

And now she's back to a lot of internalized anger, and I won't be surprised if she pulled out the psychic paper and just like with Twelve it would be full of swearing.

Thirteen's going to be in it for a while, and she's been dealing with it on a low simmer going on boil. On the other hand, it's so fun to watch the Doctor being 100% Sparkling Gallifreyan Sass. I can't wait to watch where all this is going tbh.

s!10Twelve for 12 please???? i miss my grumpy space granddad, his lesbian granddaughter, his weird cyborg friend, & his spouse/nemesis/constant pain in the ass for yesokayiknow

The Twelfth Doctor, oh, Twelve. Honestly, I had such a journey loving Twelve. I was immediately on board with him the moment I saw his eyebrows and thundered, "No, sir, all Thirteen!"

I screamed when that moment happened because prior to the The Day of the Doctor I stopped watching the show so I haven't been keeping up with the news, I had no idea Matt Smith was leaving or the next Doctor was cast. So, yes, I was on board and I loved Deep Breath, it felt like such a refreshing change from the things that have alienated me from the Eleventh Doctor... until he became so abrasive, Twelve turned me off and I stopped watching again.

Fast forward to learning about Bill Potts, and contemplated starting back again... Then I watched Husbands of River Song, and I was so charmed by it and I feel addressed the things that put me off the River/Doctor relationship, also Capaldi and King's chemistry just popped.

I decided to do a full rewatch starting with The Time of the Doctor and then found myself going through a journey of really loving Twelve, by the time I reached Heaven Sent, he rose the ranks into number 1. And then Bill happened, and Pearl Mackie is fantastic, she has such fantastic chemistry with Peter Capaldi, and IMO series 10 was when Peter really felt comfortable in the role. He truly felt like the Doctor to me.

Not that he wasn't before, but Twelve's uncertainty about himself really came off and he had to have 'Doctor moments' that made me go, each time, oh! There you are!

But in series 10? That feeling was there from the first second of The Pilot.

And the team has settled in with such fun dynamic, the first few episodes with the focus on Bill Potts were amazing, but alas, as much as I adore and love Missy her story arc intruded on Bill's. In a 12 episode season, there's not enough room for two character development arc so by the time The Lie of the Land happened the emotional focus of the show pulled heavily on Missy's direction.

Still, by the end, I honestly love Twelve and the small family unit he made, it's unfortunate we only had one season with them. I love Thirteen a lot but I felt Twelve and Bill could have done with one more season, but ah, well, such is the wheel of Doctor Who.

How about... a fandom that you wish you were more invested in (and why you're not) for rose_griffes

I have to think... I think the only thing I can think of, maybe The Expanse but that's only for season 3 where I've stalled because I really couldn't stand one character and he's marring my enjoyment of the show. I know I shouldn't let him because there are so many awesome women on the show but whenever I see his face and trying to be self-righteous I have a strong urge to close the video.

I have to get over that to get to the good parts or fast forward because I know I'm missing a lot.

This is entirely on me, and not a reflection on a really great show.