I Dont Know If Im Reading Into It Too Much Or Not, But Im Watching The Behind The Sofa For The Sun Makers,

I don’t know if I’m reading into it too much or not, but I’m watching the Behind the Sofa for the Sun Makers, and Matthew Waterhouse’s demeanor seems to shift after the scene where Citizen Cordo goes to jump off the building. It’s heartbreaking knowing that his brother killed himself when Waterhouse was a teen but seeing that work itself back up watching Doctor Who is even more saddening. This is part of the me-reading-into-it-too-hard, but his eyes get a little redder and his voice a little hoarser like he’s holding back tears and I started tearing up to at the idea that sitting there, having a lovely time watching Doctor Who with Katy Manning, that he couldn’t shake off the memory of his brother.

Wait what is this story about colin baker in the woods, you can't just say that and leave us hanging

 oh god, okay… this is a fairly long story that colin baker relates in the dvd commentary for mark of the rani, i will be paraphrasing it but i’m pretty certain i remember all the major details because i was laughing SO hard the first time i heard it

first of all you have to know that mark of the rani was filmed on location in this particular village and the public woods surrounding it, and also that the weather was being rather inconsistent on this one day. it kept raining and then the rain would stop again, so every time the rain shifted, the whole filming crew would immediately jump up and run between two locations – for continuity reasons, because they were alternately filming one scene where it needed to be raining and one where it was sunny

so they’re doing this scene where the doctor is tied up and hanging from a pole like so:

it’s super uncomfortable to be actually hanging from a pole by one’s wrists and ankles for multiple takes of a scene, so the crew built some kind of contraption to make it easier on him… it was basically a metal frame-like thing that was hidden under his jacket and pants, supporting his back so that he wouldn’t actually be straining his wrists, i guess? at any rate, the downside of this was that this thing took a LONG time to set up, so it wasn’t possible to UNTIE him from the pole in between takes, so they just kind of. set him down on the ground. during the moments when they weren’t filming

anyways, in the middle of this situation with the intermittent weather, at some point it starts raining and the director calls for everyone to go to the other current filming location!! everyone is rushing about trying to get the cameras and props and people over there as quickly as possible (because you never know when the rain will change again) and in all of this hullaballoo they somehow manage to

forget colin baker on the ground

(actually he said that he sort of noticed them leaving him behind but was initially hesitant to say anything, thinking “surely i’m just missing something and they’ll come get me in a moment” and then by the time he fully realized he was left behind, they were too far out of earshot for him to say anything)

so he’s just like. well. i’ll just wait. and they’ll figure it out soon enough

he lies there tied to this pole for a good ten minutes or so until he hears someone coming down the path

but it is not the film crew, because these are PUBLIC WOODS they are filming in. it’s a random middle-aged couple walking their dog. and the dog comes running up to colin baker (who is a little ways off of the main path) and sniffing him and barking

and the couple just … look at him, tied to the pole on the ground… he said he could tell that they didn’t recognize him as being dr. who, so god knows what they thought about his COAT

he looks at them

there is a deeply awkward silence in which he doesn’t know what he could possibly say about the situation of him being TIED TO A POLE IN THE WOODS and they are clearly being TOO POLITE AND PROPER AND BRITISH-Y to bring it up

eventually one of them is like “nice weather today isn’t it” and he’s like “er yes quite” and they just keep going and leave him lying there on the ground tied to the pole

he just stays there for another twenty minutes or so until FINALLY he sees one of the camera crew running back to get him while yelling “COLIN OH MY GOD WE’RE SO SORRY”

…aaand that is the colin baker tied to a pole in the woods story, more or less as related by colin baker himself, aka my all time favorite thing that ever happened behind the scenes of doctor who!! ACTOR DVD COMMENTARIES ARE SO WORTH WATCHING, KIDS

oh so when wax ncuti gatwa smiles it's "beautiful" and "a work of art" but when i, wax tom baker,

disaster s19 family <3

made with like 10 different forms of traditional art supplise lol. most notably gouache, alcohol markers, and colored pencils.

ID: a multi-media traditional illustration of the fifth doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, and Adric surrounding the tardis console. The doctor is in the foreground with his hands on the console and is speaking across the console towards adric. Adric is facing forward and seems distressed. Between them are nyssa and tegan who seem slightly less on edge and are focused on the console. Nyssa has her hands on the controls and tegan is watching.

sometimes that sad feeling is due to low blood sugar, and sometimes it's from decades of history. not that complex

Once again thinking about how the average life span of a renegade is so much shorter than that of a normal time lord