#ParaDoxic TV

[cottagehorror-lesbians-stuff]

i love when cinematographic works literally apply the notion "the image is the text" because in a killer paradox, roh-bin has a poster on which it is written "robin dies in the end" or something of the like, and batman carrying him. very early in the show, the poster comes in full focus on the screen, so if you know how to read an image, you could immediately know how the show would end. and i think that's super clever and a nice detail.

#a killer paradox #tv

[dang-dood]

i completely forgot that house md was canon in torchwood

#OWEN OF ALL PEOPLE BEING THE ONE TO MENTION IT 😭 #house md #torchwood #owen harper #jack harkness #ianto jones #toshiko sato #gwen cooper #gregory house #james wilson #also if i’m remembering correct there is a mention of doctor who in house #paradox #walk with me #house is canon in torchwood #which makes it canon in doctor who #AND house is canon in psych #so my big three tv shows at least have one connection to each other in some way #sorry i have issues #mine #rewatching torchwood #just finished season 1 #that fucking creature looked like it was ripped right out of ps2 I REMEMBER IT LOOKING SO REAL WHEN I FIRST WATCHED IT #tbh same with the mannequins in doctor who #can’t act like it wouldn’t be in character for owen to be the one to like house btw #it just caught me off guard to see my favorite toxic alien workplace mention my favorite toxic medical workplace #and star wars is canon LMAOO

[zarophod]

i hate when shows says something and then later on do the opposite and create plot holes.

unless it’s Red Dwarf. the show is inherently paradoxical it could have 42000 plot holes and i would defend them all.

#i’m watching the big bang theory rn #leonard was eating melon when in season 1/2(?) he said he can’t eat melon #just annoyed me #but i’m also obsessed with red dwarf again #and plot holes remind me of red dwarf lmaooo #the funny thing is i can’t think of many plot holes the show has #but it is a paradoxical mess and we <3 it #red dwarf #tv #plot holes #arnold rimmer #dave lister

[emotinalsupportturtle]

what is this fruity bastard doing in the TVA?

#TVA recruitment criteria be like: “do you meet the minimum required fruitiness level of 10/10? Yes? Okay you’re hired” #Paradox #mobius #tom wambsgans #matthew macfadyen #deadpool & wolverine #tva #deadpool 3 #loki tv

[jumpscaregoose]

cozmez is so funny because like. imagine you're watching the x factor and in the season finale it turns out harry styles was an illusion created by the miku holograms. how would you even react to that

#paradox live #paralive #cozmez #just learned I don't know SHIT about musical reality tv because I was SO SURE one direction was formed on american idol #they were. not

[gorogues]

#Captain Boomerang #the Trickster #Mirror Master #Golden Glider #Professor Zoom #Reverse Flash #the Flash #gifs #TV #JLU #Flashpoint Paradox #Harley Quinn animated series #my gifs #my stuff #John Constantine #Orion #Wonder Woman #Poison Ivy

[kpopfangirl052615]

📺: a killer paradox (2024)

#a killer paradox #choi wooshik #son soku #tv series #netflix

[moonlitkilljoy]

@giftober 2022 | day 23: full body

Gotham (2014) Season 3, Episode 17 "The Primal Riddle"

#stabbing cw #edward nygma #ed nygma #the riddler #riddler #gotham #gotham 2014 #gotham tv #gif #gifset #bennys gifsets #really happy with how the colors came out on these ^__^ #also if u saw me already make this post and then delete it thats bc i spotted a typo </3 #idk why but this gifset in particular has been causing me so many problems ^^; #should all be good now tho >:3 #hope anyone reading this has a lovely day/night ^w^ #i mean-- i hope everyone has a nice day/night regardless of if they read this #tho i prolly dont need to specify that #if someone who didn't read these tags. read these tags and noticed the exclusion they'd be creating a paradox #oh well-- better safe than sorry <3 #ANYWHO. fare well friend

[i-looove-dillydallying]

Currently pondering whether the Ship of Theseus Paradox can be applied to the Doctor… I believe the concept was subtextually touched upon through a conversation between the 12th doctor and the Half-face man in the season 8 premiere “Deep Breath”

#using the word pondering because I love the Ponds #doctor who #12th doctor #the doctor #paradox #ship of theseus #tv show #bbc doctor who #peter capaldi #regeneration #nuwho #new who

[trinitysyndrome]

There’s this interesting dissonance between all the men in shiv’s life turning to her for emotional comfort because they’re socialized to believe vulnerability is only okay around women (mostly Kendall, sometimes logan [who sees her as a woman first daughter second] and definitely Tom [they are married in his defense, but he should know her by now]) and all of them being disappointed by her inability or in some cases utter disregard in helping them. But shiv hasn’t a single nurturing or motherly bone in her body. Partly because of them. I mean she IS cool girl she’s “I grew up with 3 brothers” not like other girls girl and when they want her to be a mother a good wife a loving sister LIKE other girls all those years of conditioning turns around and bites them in the fucking ass

#she’s such a little paradox I love you alive girl #shiv Roy #succession #tv

[familyparadox]

Tossing my penny into the ring on John and Gillian fan theories.

John and Gillian Who are real. They are thew Doctors Grandchildren. They are Human.

The Doctor has John and Gillan as one of Morbius Doctor.

John and Gillian travel with the First Doctor for a while whilst Susan is at school and have fun adventures, for many years. The Doctor does eventually get back to London 1963 and sends John and Gillan Who back to live with their parents.

At this point Time Lines shift. John and Gillan are now Time Lords (and the Doctor’s grandchildren) who fled with the Doctor and Susan to earth, they still have those adventures with one whilst Susan is at school. And when they end up back in 1963 they are recruited by the CIA in exchange for full pardons. Whilst the Time Lord do not capture the Doctor they manage to insert a retro virus in to John and Gillian’s time stream which saver their link to the Doctor. They never had adventures with the Doctor. They stayed on Gallifrey like good little Time Lords and where recruited by the CIA.

After the Second Doctor’s trial in “the War Games” John and Gillian return to the Doctor’s adventuring with them guiding the Doctor to the right place and time for missions that the Time Lord’s have ordered them to go on. They are the Doctor’s handlers making sure he don’t realise that he is in the employ of the CIA and not merely adventuring (this is after several mind wipes and adventures in other circumstances (the mind wipes explain 6B inconsistencies). However when sent on a mission to defeat a group of Time active Rebel Quarks the Doctor panics and leaves John and Gillian at a university with no way of contacting their superiors. It is during this time that they encounter emissaries from Faction Paradox and are recruited.

John and Gillian go on one or two solo missions, with John becoming the “Boy” in “Unnatural History”.

In the end They become Sibling Different and Sibling Same and are torn from the War in Heaven into the New Who world alongside several other war time individuals due to a blurring of Time Lines thanks to the “Time Lord Victorious” Event.

And we see what happens to them in the anthology “A Wintertime Paradox”

#doctor who #dweu #faction paradox #doctor who eu #edas #john and gillian #Tv Comic #canon welding

[cottagehorror-lesbians-stuff]

the dreamed sex scene in a killer paradox was in no way useful to the plot. my only attempt to justify it is that it portrays lee tang as no different from the men he kills. he too views women as commodities and objects of comfort when that suits him, and that's why he remains so passive when he witnesses women being harassed around him.

he never kills someone because they violated women, he kills them because he feels like it and they turned out to be freaks.

it would be wrong to read his character as morally superior to his victims, or in any way different from them. he is indeed as shitty as them. even more so, since he is believed to be above them and given higher purposes, when in reality he does not act for justice but to satisfy his own twisted desires.

he does not care that his victims were bad people, it's just his own way of justifying his behavior, so that he can face his guilt and keep on doing whatever he enjoys.

in that aspect the show is really brilliant cause you cannot back him up without corrupting yourself.

#a killer paradox #tv

[intuitive-revelations]

Thinking more about the Eighth Doctor / War in Heaven / Time War timeline, and I remain convinced that the Doctor is in Gallifrey's future timeline for the near entirity of the EDAs.

What's more, I think it's possible to pinpoint the exact moment the protocols of linearity broke and the Doctor got thrown out of sync with Gallifrey's relative time. This may also be the exact moment where the Great Grey Eminence makes his deal to rewrite Romana's presidency.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it all comes down to the TV Movie.

In the beginning of the movie, we have the Doctor explicitly travelling from Skaro to Gallifrey, 5725.2 RE. What's more, it's the "Local Dateline" so we know that's the actual date there, and not just the Doctor's own relative time.

This is following on from Lungbarrow, where President Romana enlists the Doctor with retrieving the Master's remains as part of the "Act of Master Restitution".

Now, we don't see a different RE date in the movie, but do we get a glimpse of Gallifrey at the end, and something is...well...off...

Incidentally, have you ever paid attention to the dialogue here? First of all there's the contentious line about Gallifrey being "250,000,000 ly away" on the other side of the galaxy, contradicting the usual placement of Gallifrey 29,000 ly away at the centre of the galaxy. But there's something else the Doctor says first:

DOCTOR: So, let's see where we are. There. The future. LEE: Wow. DOCTOR: Look over there, on the other side of your galaxy. That's home. GRACE: Gallifrey. DOCTOR: Two hundred and fifty million light years away. That's a good ten minutes in this old thing. GRACE: So, where are we? DOCTOR: December twenty ninth. Do you want to get off here?

Note, the Doctor simultaneously says the TARDIS is in 'the future' and still on December 29th. Seemingly, the "future" the Doctor is referring to is Gallifrey's, and his own. In other words, the planet we see isn't 5725.2 RE Gallifrey, but 6916? RE (estimated based on Romana III being 150 years into her presidency in The Ancestor Cell) Gallifrey.

It should also be noted that the TV movie seems to be the one time in the series where Gallifrey's present and Earth's present are actually synced up, at least roughly. Technically previous Gallifrey stories all take place in Earth's past, whereas later stories take place in Earth's future.

This can actually be inferred from the TV Movie itself, based on the TARDIS console, even before the Master starts meddling. It's seen aiming for December 30th, despite present-day Gallifrey being the target. Though granted, it could be that the RE time control - bottom right in the left image - is disconnected from the other date controls.

Considering the time between Greyjan's presidency and the TV Movie for the Doctor/Gallifrey and the Earth, roughly 250 years for both, also supports this, further cementing that the 'future' line can't make sense if it's meant to be a present-day Gallifrey.

My personal take is that the Nine Gallifreys project has already been initiated by this point in the future. It's ambiguous whether we're looking at the original planet, moved and disguised, or one of the cloneworlds, although given it's the Doctor who shows us, I assume the prior. Either way, if the project is active then it's another sign we're in the future, as according to the Book of the War, it's not initiated until 400 years after Greyjan's death, in contrast to the 250 years previously mentioned. (I do have some issues with Book of the War's timeline, but this isn't necessarily one of them.)

We also see history has changed in The Eight Doctors, which takes place directly after the movie's events where we do actually get to see the present-day Gallifrey monitoring the Doctor as he continues unstuck from his own time, albeit in his past rather than future. In contrast to Lungbarrow, Flavia is now president once more and seemingly has been since the Doctor's trial, with Romana's presidency now having seemingly never occured. This concurs with Big Finish's stories, where Romana doesn't become president until 6776 RE. On Flavia's Gallifrey, there is no mention of the Doctor's mission to recover the Master's remains.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the timeline begins to change at the same time the Doctor gets thrown out of sync with Gallifrey.

OK, so the Doctor's linearity with Gallifrey seemingly breaks during the events of the TV movie, but when exactly?

The answer's pretty simple, actually. For the TARDIS to have jumped in relative time, it must have skipped a time track, hence also the changes in history. Usually when a time track is skipped we see some turbulence in the TARDIS and usually some damage causing sparks, maybe some monitor glitches. See the beginning of The Empty Child as an example.

And what do we see at the beginning of the movie?

Now obviously some of the damage is likely from the Deathworm!Master's sabotage, but things are clearly getting weird even before he starts meddling, none of which is ever explained beyond cinematic flavour, even by the books which went out of their way to explain the Master's survival.

We even see the record literally skipping, exactly the same analogy used for jumping time tracks.

And so the Doctor gets thrown out of his own place in time for the next century or so...

#Doctor Who #Faction Paradox #Eighth Doctor #Seventh Doctor #Gallifrey #War in Heaven #Lungbarrow #The Eight Doctors #Rassilon #The TV Movie #Doctor Who EU #EDAs #DW Theory #DW Meta #long post

[being-of-rain]

I know why Mel Bush came back for The Giggle, it was for the parallel with Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor. Both characters happily left in the TARDIS at the end of their first story, leaving audiences to go "...Wait, so do they not have a past anymore? Is their existence a paradox? What's going on?"

#I'm sure hoping that the TV show will tell us what happened to Gatwa Doctor's past #but if it doesn't then the EU will be there for us like it was to explain Mel jdksljfsdf #doctor who #mel #fourteen #Also this only just occurred to me but. Faction Paradox Agent Fifteen. #my posts

[pl9090]

Happenstance or did a fellow fandom member write this one? Either way this seems like a possible basis for a short story or fanfiction.

#faction paradox #doctor who #bbc doctor who #whoniverse #evil overlord list #evil overlord #tv tropes #skull masks #skull mask #cellblock I

[gorogues]

#Golden Glider #Weather Wizard #Heat Wave #Mirror Master #Captain Boomerang #Evan #Abra Kadabra #Captain Cold #the Flash #gifs #Flashpoint Paradox #JLU #batman: brave and the bold #TV #Harley Quinn animated series #my gifs #my stuff #Linda Park #Superman #Poison Ivy