Doctor Who Is Big On Tumblr Again. Can You Connect It To Tuberculosis?

Doctor Who is big on Tumblr again. Can you connect it to tuberculosis?

It's not even difficult!

David Whitaker was the first story editor for Doctor Who.

In 1934, when he was a five-year-old boy, David and his brother were both sent to live in a TB sanitarium (like millions of children around the world before the discovery of antibiotics that could treat and cure TB).

In most sanitariums, visits from family were discouraged, not only because it could spread the disease but also because visits might "excite" the patients, and the patient's job was ... to be patient. Experts believed patients had to be as calm and still as possible in order to recover.

Now, I should acknowledge here that there are many stories about why the show is named "Doctor Who," and credit is often given to co-creator Sydney Newman. I'm not an Doctor Who expert, just to state the obvious!

BUT David Whitaker's surviving family members told this to a biographer, and I have no reason to doubt them: in order to pass the time in the utterly boring, anti-child environment of the sanitarium, David and his brother invented a game to play together in their minds. The game was called "Doctor What and Doctor Who."

when i watched doctor who at fifteen, i was like “why is rose still dating mickey if she’s in love with someone else?” and now i see it much more as part of the story they’re trying to tell. rose doesn’t know what she wants. she doesn’t know where she’s going to be in a year, a day even. she wants to be with the doctor, but the doctor is only giving mixed signals. she is caught between two worlds, part of both and neither, and it is tenuous and maybe even selfish, but she is happy, and she knows it won’t last forever, so she holds on for just a moment more.

rtd is sooooo funny. he has made us wait 15 years in agony and anticipation wondering how donna will survive the metacrisis and then he just waltzes in for the 60th and says "oh donna has a child and they just decide they don't want to do that anymore" and by funny I mean I'm going to strangle him with my bare hands

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