Do You Think The Doctor Ever Told Anyone What Happened In The Parallel World? Do You Think He Ever Had

Do you think the Doctor ever told anyone what happened in the parallel world? Do you think he ever had nightmares about it? Do you think he ever looked at someone and saw their parallel world counterpart? Do you think he ever accidentally called the Brigadier “Brigade Leader” whenever they had a heated argument, maybe over the Brig’s methods? Do you think he ever looked at Liz with her fair ginger hair and imagined it turning black and burning like Section Leader Shaw's? The Brigadier gets shot in another invasion and as the medics lay him on the ground to be treated the Doctor sees the Brigade Leader on the floor after being shot by the Section Leader.

Do you think the others noticed anything off with the Doctor in the weeks after? Do you think they worried over him? Benton observing that the Doctor seems uneasy around him sometimes when Benton's standing near him with a gun, even though they both know he'd never hurt the Doctor. The Brigadier noticing that the Doctor seems more standoffish with him at times. They've always had their fair share of disagreements but it's like there's another wall between them when they talk now. After the Inferno Project is shut down Liz and the Brigadier, curious, ask the Doctor how he'd known what would happen and what to do, since he'd disappeared for hours and then spent most of the time unconscious and he looks at them with an expression of such grief and despair that they find themselves regretting asking. They never actually get an answer.

Someone tries to restart Project Inferno or start a similar project involving drilling into the Earth and the Doctor explodes and is practically hysterical as he tells them to shut it down and stay away from any attempts at drilling into the Earth. Everyone at UNIT knows the Doctor's always had little patience for human incompetence but even for him this seems overboard. The Brigadier once again asks what's wrong, but the Doctor brushes him off or blusters and gives him a non-answer.

The Doctor tries to move past it. It's not easy and it takes time, but things get better. He doesn't slip up in front of Benton or the Brigadier anymore, doesn't overreact. He's got a new assistant, he's focusing on fixing the TARDIS, and with the Master here pulling a new scheme every Wednesday things are more interesting and he's always being kept busy with something. He thinks that maybe things are all right now, and will be all right. That maybe he can put what he saw and experienced in the parallel world to the back of his mind.

Then he gets strapped to the Keller Machine and the memories and fears are all brought back to the surface again in vivid detail.

yeah, the beast thing is so weird. I'm currently making my way through the 5th Doctor's run, so it's fresher in my mind, but the Mara's who shtick it that it's some local god born of the hatred and violence in one's soul (i think????? haven't checked the wiki and also Kinda's one of those episodes where things just start happening). So there is a point you can make about how violence and hate turns people into monsters and beasts, but God of Corruption, Insanity or the Mind. The Mara's a lot closer to how Sutekh is kind of acting so far, with possessing people and all that, so I also hope we see a modern exploration of the Mara. The current direction with the Pantheon is a little reductive, but I guess because it got banished it hitched a ride back into the universe with everyone too ig??? still forming my opinions on the whole pantheon stuff, but i do agree that the Mara would be great to see beyond the little cameo in TLoRS.

Did anyone else feel like the Mara should have been the god of the mind? It's been a while since I've seen the stories featuring it but if I remember correctly he didn't actually have anything to do with beasts outside of the fact he was a snake. But he was constantly possessing people, and screwing with their minds, so I feel like that would have been a better fit for his domain... Idk though, like I said it's been a few years since I watched Kinda/Snakedance so I might have forgotten something about how he was letting out the animal within or whatever. Anyway I hope they come back next, because they were a fun villain

Classic Doctor Who companion Adric hitting beloved video game character Mario Mario in the head with a branch.

I don't need to explain myself to you.

imagine if Donna and Uncle Spaceman miss all the action and Rose just casually walks through the front door when it’s all over, finding both of them having a movie marathon with hot chocolate and is like ‘you will not believe the day I’ve had’

this came to me as an idea fully-formed and i couldn't not draw it. love that photo of adric peeping into the tardis SO MUCH like he would have the best 0.5x photos

i am reading a biography of terry nation and apparently the first 'how do daleks go up stairs' letter that the bbc received was while the first dalek serial was still airing, fandom culture never changes