Who-y things

[elisi]

Firstly, then I FINISHED my fic! \o/

All Breakages Must Be Paid For: Epilogue (Okay)

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Secondly, then I just came across the most AMAZING post on Tumblr, delving into 73 Yards, the latest Doctor Who episode. If you have seen it, you will know why you will want to read about what it all meant. (No really.) (I'm being very careful not to spoil anything, because it helps to go in blind! If you haven't watched yet, stay away from spoilers!)

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Council of Geeks loved the episode (without any of the insights offered by the post above!) and has a video review here.

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And in case anyone has ever wanted to watch the show in chronological order [of when the stories take place], then fandom has provided a google doc. :)

Comments

[ragnarok_08]

The chapter was just fantastic, and just wonderful!!

Well done!!

[sea_thoughts]

That's a really good take on the episode. But "This is the first time I have ever seen a non-Welsh TV programme that was set in Wales and didn't patronise, insult or belittle it"? DW is literally made by BBC Wales in co-production with a WELSH production company (Bad Wolf), the BBC Orchestra of Wales is playing on the opening theme, I... don't know how much more Welsh you could get unless we had an episode take place IN Welsh (DO IT, RTD, DO IT).

I'm not going to say anything on the post because that would be a dickhead move but it's so obvious this was written/directed/produced by a Welsh crew!

[greenwoodside]

That's one epic spreadsheet. It's even colour-coded by Doctor! Though I feel that shade of blue suits 10 more than 12. Twelve is surely more of a jade or obsidian kind of Timelord. Or scarlet given the lining of his evening wear.

[trepkos]

Thank you for that link to the brilliant explanation of 73 Yards.

[kazzy_cee]

That comment about the Welsh folklore is fascinating. It’s a shame some of it couldn’t be explained during the episode.

[shadowkat]

Weirdly I can't find anyone outside of that Tumblr post that delves that deep into it or figures out the Welsh Legend end of it. Also can't get much on the lore. But I adored that post which trepkos found for me. It's a good episode - with the necessary flaw of not explaining anything to the viewer, nor should it. The psychological horror is because of the lack of explanation. The viewer does it on their own.

[promethia_tenk]

Firstly, then I FINISHED my fic! \o/



Congratulations <3 I know I haven't been, like, reading it, but getting the weekly notification that you'd uploaded another chapter has truthfully been one of my more consistent markers of time recently and comforting in its own right. 'Ahhh, everything is insane, and yet elisi is uploading another chapter, like clockwork.'