holy shit i love this

the stakes just didnt feel real at all, great foreshadowing though!

the doctor refusing to do his job and instead practicing his yoyo tricks is the most relatable thing about this show tbh

i feel like i need to reread this already to understand wtf is happening... the 5th doctor... oh my god

akjljfd;kljfsa;jg the doctor jumping out of that window. i relate to the doctor so much bc i to find light painful

my dad watched parts of this with me and could not stop laughing at the portal thing. great special effects.

the only interesting part of this episode was the phrase "antiman" tbh

meril and raphael my beloved

if doctor who has taught me anything, its that nothing good ever happens in wales

"first the timewyrm, now super hitler" wtf is this book

+1 for scotland, -1 for the horrible texture of the zygon's control panel

alien teaches man from 2500 bc what a thermo nuclear bomb is. what could go wrong.

im so tired i cant process anything except "harry sullivan is an imbecile"

harry im standing on a landmine

FUCK YES. FUCK YES. THIS IS WHAT DOCTOR WHO SHOULD BE. WEIRD AND DRAMATIC ANC MUSICAL FUCK YEAGH

i have no real words. i think i might be in love with ruby sunday.

sarah jane smith is a better woman than me, if the doctor was doing that "can we destroy them morally" shit id grab the cables off them. f**k your morals, nerd.

shout out to sarah janes iconic yellow coat. i love her.

i relate to sarah jane bc i to wish harry sullivan would shut the f**k up

"he might be more eccentric post regeneration" wow that was not an exaggeration at all. poor brig.

okay so this links entirely back to my invasion of the dinosaurs review. but. mike finally healing, not for anyone else but for himself? iconic. hes doing a great job. its actually very f**king difficult to wake up one day and realise everything you believe has been a lie, and that youve been radicalised, so its genuinely spectacular to see a character willingly get support and change after that. hes doing an amazing job. love the sarah mike friendship as well.

i genuinely do not trust anyone who doesnt find mike yates at all redeemable or sympathetic after this episode. yes, operation golden age was objectively wrong and immoral, im not arguing that at all. what i am arguing is that mike was deliberately chosen to be radicalised towards this cause because he was already fragile mentally and isolated from his peers. that's how radicalisation starts. they deliberately pick on people who dont have a support network but desperately need one - trust me, i know this shit. did he decide of his own accord to join the group? probably. was he in a good frame of mind to be making that decision? i dont think so. lots of people seem to think that his involvement makes him inherently evil but i fully believe he was just vulnerable and targeted because of that. im absolutely going to go on another wild tangent about this when i watch invasion of the spiders, but for now i just need to emphisise that hes not irredeemable. yes hes made bad decisions but hes not evil. no i dont project my own feelings onto doctor who characters wtf are you on about.

the look of pure joy on mike's face when he realised the blackmail potential he now has over the doctor is hands down the best part of the episodes. that, and the "here kitty kitty! time for din-dins!" "SARGENT BENTON" scene. also a massive fan of the welsh accents.