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steven moffat appreciation week || day #1. favourite doctor: female doctor

Am I cheating here? Maybe. But do I care? Not really. Listen, to be honest, Eleven is my favourite Doctor of Moffat’s era. But I’ve done gifsets for him a few times and this time I thought that I want to do something different. Then I thought: huh, is there any other Doctor I really, really freaking love? Hell yes, there is. Maybe not actually the Doctor, but the concept of the female Doctor that was so strongly present during Moffat’s era. You don’t believe me? Well, let’s see:

- Missy aka Mary Poppins who forgot to take her meds, the one who went utterly bananas and one who thinks so outside the box that the box is in a completely different galaxy. Slowly introduced throughout s8, she blew up in the last two episodes, causing complete mayhem and leaving destruction wherever she put her little trigger-happy finger. She’s absolutely mad, but you can’t help but root for her. She’s capable of exactly the same things as the Doctor, but instead of choosing to do good, she chooses to be unapologetically wretched - and yet she does it with charm and a song on her lips. Was regenerating Simm!Master into a woman a bold move? Heck yes - especially considering how loved by many that regeneration was. Was the change successful - fuck yeah. Missy is not only as kooky (if not more) as her previous regenerations, but she’s definitely far more scary - at least for me. You never know what she’s going to do next and that is simply delightful. To make things better, she changes throughout the 3 series she’s in - but she still remains the same insane ball of madness. Incredible, eh?

- Clara Oswin Oswald. Where do I start with Clara? Well, to start with, she’s absolutely perfect. Wait. No, she isn’t and that’s absolutely amazing. But let’s not talk about that, but let’s focus how much she changed during her time as the Doctor’s companion. From the young girl who was often terrified/emotional in the beggining (’cold war’ or ‘hide’ come to mind), she becomes a woman who takes the role of the Doctor more than once: ‘flatline’ where she saves a group of people and behaves/thinks exactly like the Doctor. Let’s not forget about ‘dark water’ where she is ready to manipulate/drug/hurt her best friend to make him do what she wants. And how about ‘death in heaven’ where she lies in the face of the Cybermen, pretending to be the Doctor? Our little girl is a little girl no more. And how does her story end? She takes her life into her own hands: she gambles on her memories - she keeps them and then she leaves in her own TARDIS, with her own girlfriend companion. Doctor Oswald, am I right?

- River Song. Do I even need to say anything here? I do? Oh,okay. Let’s see: child of the TARDIS. Human+. Able to regenerate. Strong enough to rip her way out of a enhanced astronaut suit (and she was just a child then). Fought years of programming and training, and disobeyed orders of her makers: she choose to love instead of hate. Can fly the TARDIS - and does it the right way. Walks in and out of Stormcage like it’s freaking bed and breakfast. Takes the Doctor’s TARDIS for a spin whenever she feels like it (and he doesn’t even notices it). Strong and capable af. Daleks fear her. Instead of sitting in Stormcage waiting for her release, she actively works for her pardon. As smart as the Doctor - she builds a distress beacon and sends a message outside the bubble of frozen time. Travels the universe without the Doctor, marries people all over the places, steals shit and has fun. Basically, she does what she wants and she’s fierce af.

- Thirteenth Doctor. But wait, I hear you saying. She is Chibnall’s Doctor. Moffat had nothing to do with that! Really? You think? Don’t you think that without Moffat’s work and him proving over and over again that women are as capable of being the Doctor as men - we would have Jodie as the next Doctor? Maybe. But I kind of doubt it. And it’s not just a case of Moffat writing his main characters that way - there are also small things like Missy mentioning that the Doctor was once a little girl, Amy being able to construct something akin to a sonic screwdriver or putting in a script a white man regenerating into a black woman. And also... Let’s go back to 1999, shall we?

#doctor who #dwedit #moffat appreciation week #river song edit #claraoswaldedit #well I got wordy on this one #sorry??#mine #river song #clara oswin oswald #missy #thirteen #smaw

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