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Oct 24, 2022 11 tweets 7 min read Read on X
Excuse me as an old woman gets all emotional over what started as a children's show, which I watched as a child.

A part of my life, and like most things in life, there were good and bad moments in it.
1/10
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Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Sacha Dhawan, Bradley Walsh, Sophie Aldred, Janet Fielding, Jemma Redgrave

David Bradley, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann

Katy Manning, Bonnie Langford, William Russell, and David Tennant
2/10
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Let me get one grump out of the way, Jodie was IMO the 14th Doctor.
3/10
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Though through the power of retconning she could be the 15th.

Or any other number since there exists an unknown number of previous Doctors.
4/10
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I also thought that Capaldi had at time been poorly served by the writers, but this was doubly so with Whittaker.

However, for this finale pulled out all the stops, and mad me quite emotional.*

*British shorthand for tears and all.
5/10
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So much to say, and about this episode. The writers made me care.

Companions, there were a few. I must admit I wanted to be Jo Grant (as in be her, with the Doctor).
6/10
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That group chat, so lovely. And of course, the Doctor cameos.

McCoy's line, "...there's always one."

When questioned about the robes.
7/10
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Graham and Ace, and another tug at the heartstrings.

Ace, because that was the first time Dr. Who broke my heart, when it was canceled by the BBC.
8/10
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Then there was that scene. So gloriously over the top, yet so perfect.


9/10
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So, The Power of the Doctor. My rating 10/10

Missed the opportunity for a lesbian kiss, but did what any good story should do, made me want to watch more (and feels, all the feels).

Not everyone's cup of tea, but what a ride.
10/10
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Typo... don't you just hate the fact that Twitter doesn't allow editing a tweet after posting it.

Mad should read made; though now mad at Twitter for lack of edit feature.

Social media: can't live with it, can't live without it.

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Jun 2, 2022
Today to celebrate the Jubilee holiday..

I am going to refute this quote:

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

― W. Somerset Maugham
Here are the three rules to writing... ;-)

1. Do what works – corollary you have to learn what works.

2. Don't do what doesn't work – again one has to learn this.

3. To be a writer one needs to read – reading is learning, writing is practice.
This thread is slightly tongue in cheek.

Just saying.

For those with sense of humour.
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Jul 10, 2021
I'm now going to defend The Tomorrow War by dismantling the criticism I've seen on Twitter. Wish me luck.

Rule number of of time travel paradox movies is that it's a paradox.

As such the ending will always seem contradictory.
At the beginning of the story, travelers arrive from the future and announce they are the few remaining survivors and blah, blah, blah.

Notice that the story think skips forward by a year.

That's important.

Also remember that time continues to flow.
Therefore any sensible response that you can think of has happened.

For example. We now know that time travel is possible and we start researching how to make a machine, because why wouldn't you?
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Aug 10, 2020
As long as you realize this is just an opinion, okay. As soon as your opinion becomes, you're all racists for not agreeing with me, then you're wrong.
There seems to be a belief that reading books with bad things in them (killing, racism, and fascism etc.) leads to people becoming killers, racists, and fascists etc. 2/10

#OtherOpinionsAreNotMyConcern
This belief is not support by research. At best there's some correlation, but correlation is not causation. 3/10

#OtherOpinionsAreNotMyConcern
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