I Always Thought I Was Rory, But As I'm Rewatching This Year, I'm Definitely A Mix Of Lorelai And Paris

I always thought I was Rory, but as I'm rewatching this year, I'm definitely a mix of Lorelai and Paris which....is interesting.

It's funny seeing Galadriel being on Gil-Galad's side when last season she would have gladly have strangled him if it meant she got her way

i firmly believe that nobody ever intended for any iteration of Elrond to be a massive fan favourite but we all took one look and went "him. thats the one. he's the chosen one."

I love doing color blocking so this is my attempt for The Acolyte, just something in honor of the show.

Original poster by Disney+

Pls don't repost w/o credit.

I thank People from other Fandoms who also signed the petition and shared with others. Even the ones who never completed the Acolyte, or watched it or even liked it but signed anyway and shared.

THANK YOU!

May your favourite series never get cancelled and may you always get help when you need it.

Who vs Why

Ruby kept focusing on 'who' and not 'why' in regard to her birth mother and it drove me wild.

Does the 'who' technically make sense for the overarching storyline? Yes! They clearly understood that this myth of Ruby's birth mother needed to up be built up both for the audience and for the characters.

BUT, that gets lost when they're constantly focused on who Ruby's birth mother was, especially towards the end. It's more interesting as to why she left her at the church on Christmas.

What was so special about Christmas? About that church? Why would a woman abandon a complete newborn?

If they had stuck specifically to why she was left that still would've played into the legend. Maybe Ruby kept making stories up when she was a child, that her birth mother had some secret mission and had to leave Ruby there or SOMETHING because that's what children do!

So to find out how normal her birth mother is, it's both confusion but also a slight relief because Ruby realizes that her birth mother was just a girl like her.

It makes that reveal with Louise at the end more impactful because let's be honest, they brushed over that so fast.

This also helps to align Ruby's story more with the Doctor. The Doctor wants to know why his parents left him on that planet. Yes, who is important, but why? Why there? Why then? That is so much more interesting and compelling.

Maybe the Doctor has started to make up stories in his own mind about who they are. They could've had such a wonderful scene where Ruby shares the little stories she's made up over the years.

Also, side note and I'm not going to get personal, but I do have other issues with the way Louise was presented as Ruby's "mother" and not "birth mother". I give RTD the benefit of the doubt as he did address that in commentary (though it wasn't the best response).