not to be a thoschei stan on the main but if that were twelve who heard that the toymaker trapped the master he wouldn't have hesitated they'd have just decked his face until that tooth fell out and gotten them out of there
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my whole brain is absolutely fucking fried and i cannot believe we have two fantastic Doctors running around now but also i will never ever get over the image of the Toymaker dance-spinning poor Kate and cracking her skull against a wall to Spice Up Your Life 😭😭😭
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I really enjoyed Neil Patrick Harris as The Toymaker in the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special!
Then, it got me thinking... Neil Patrick Harris plays a lot a musically inclined villains, doesn't he? I can name four just off the top of my head:
1. Dr. Horrible in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
2. Music Meister in Batman: The Brave and the Bold
3. Count Olaf in A Series of Unfortunate Events
4. The Toymaker in Doctor Who
Guess that's what happens when you can sing, dance, and play fun, campy villains.
Any others that I'm missing?
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THE GIGGLE OH MY GODDDD
Was not prepared for the thesis statement of the specials to be “the doctor needs to take a freaking break and also get therapy”
Genuinely such a gripping hour of television I was on the edge of my seat the entire time did not lose my attention for a SECOND
ooh such good creepy moments in this episode too
BAMF DONNA NOBLE!!!
I love Mel in this!!! I obviously haven’t seen classic who but I loved what they did with her here
The social commentary on the reactionary nature of modern social media culture was so well done!!!
Screamed when I heard that little bit of The Shepard’s Boy
Neil Patrick Harris in his doctor who villain era was everything I wanted and more oh my god that Spice Up Your Life scene is going to be living in my brain rent free (the goofy German accent gave me Count Olaf flashbacks tho)
loved the puppet show scene, both visually and narratively
ooh the tease of the master and possibly an even bigger baddie than the toymaker has me INTRIGUED
Oh, David. Such a BEAUTIFUL final performance full of weariness and tragedy and genius and courage and bittersweetness and joy. Truly the swan song his doctor deserved all along.
I’m glad that even though fourteen didn’t ultimately end up having to die we still got to see him accept regeneration without having to die alone or scared, having “allonsy” be what he thought was going to be his last words was BRILLIANT
“I’m the happiest I’ve been in my life” OH TEN!!! OH TEN MY DEAR MY SWEET
cannot say ENOUGH good things about Ncuti Gatwa oh my gosh he is a DELIGHT. He’s going to breathe so much new life into the show we’re in such good hands with him. His physicality his delivery his EYES
also omg the biggest perk of the bigeneration aside from fourteen getting to live was SEEING DAVID AND NCUTI PLAY OFF EACH OTHER they have such good chemistry and oh my gosh that hug healed my SOUL
overall quite possibly entering my top ten or five favorite Doctor who episodes possibly the most cathartic tv experience of my life literally my ONLY gripe was that the defeat of the toymaker felt too easy
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