The Question :

Shoutout to the Tardis for actually landing in the PERFECT spot this episode. Love that for her.

Yeahh I had a younger classmate in university that said that he had to write a 700 character "thing" to describe what his internship is about.

My reaction was "that's small, 700 characters not words that's like a 4 to 5 lines"

His follow-up "that's a lot"

What do you mean that's a lot ?? That's shorter then a text to a friend where you spill some tea !

im still losing it over the "how did high schoolers write 600 word essays before chatgpt" post. 600 words. that is nothing. that is so few words what do you mean you can't write 600 words. 600 words. this post right here is 45 words.

i’m not joking when i say i’m perfectly okay if kingdon ends up taking SEASONS to build up. i was raised by boothbones & stablerbenson i can promise you i’m in this for the long haul

Episode 20.

I think we all need a day or maybe a month to recover from wtv just happened in this episode.

I pray for our little boy. I know they won't do that. I hope the writers won't do it. But they did so many things i thought they would never. But they won't. I hope they won't.

Let's just recover first.

I don't know what destroyed me more. When she hugged her son and kept him away from her mother. Or when she told Cihan that she doesn't have anyone but her son.

His reaction is "you have me", he didn't finish his sentence, but that's what he wanted to say. And the look on her face. And when he said "i don't know if I'll be good for you, but i can promise you to give Deniz that family love you long for"

I can't...

.......

I'm not crying. "I don't know if I'll be good for you"..... 🥺

And Oh My God where is our little boy ??

I hope he wasn't thrown into the waters. I hope that Ecemel had nothing to do with this. I hope it's not a plot line that will force someone to say to Ecemel the boy you tried to kill is your grandson.

Where is DENIZ !!!

Then we have this...

I present you Alya that has officially hugged everyone from the Albora family.

We need a post just for that.

When the axe came into the forest, the trees said “the handle is one of us.”

Turkish Proverb

gonna hold your hand when i say this. the reason rtd keeps connecting this era back to ten is because ten is the most popular doctor. doctor who was at the height of it's popularity in 2006-2009. you people act like it's a crime to make a call back to what is objectively a very important time in the doctor's life. when moffat and chib were showrunner ten and his companions were rarely mentioned and when they were it was done in a way that was caricature-like and silly. for basically all of eleven's era it was as if NONE OF IT HAPPENED. it makes complete sense to me for rtd to come back and finally bring his own writing back to center stage when that writing is what made the show so popular again. for 15 years rtd fans have heard about river song and fish fingers and custard and now that ten isn't being completely ignored by the narrative people get borderline offended about it. you can't crash out because you were forced to think about ten for the first time in forever, when ten is a huge part of why the show even exists as it is now especially when ncuti himself has said david tennant is his favorite actor/doctor.

the fact that 15 only suggests the church on ruby road, the devil’s chord, and boom to the whovians as stories that should be their favourite instead of blink hilariously implies that each incarnation of the doctor would only consider their greatest adventure to be one that’s occurred within their current incarnation, which i love so much 😭

There was this scene a couple of episodes back. Where Alya told Cihan that they left her all alone, with no one to turn to when she needs to, no one to hug for comfort.

I can't seem to find the scene.

But her hugging Cihan when she is in trouble again and turning to him for help (or him being there for her, we haven't seen the 20th episode yet) with her mother.

Somehow, the parallel brings me comfort for this show.