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I would just like to thank every single person involved in this Doctor Who season premiere for not making Ryan Sinclare magically overcome his disability through determination. When he goes back up to learn to ride a bike because that’s what gran would have wanted, any other show would have used that as an inspiration porn moment.
But he still falls.
Because wanting to do what gran wanted you to do won’t instantly make your hands keep still if they never have before. You can’t focus your way out of a medical condition and you shouldn’t have to. Ryan still climbs a crane but it isn’t miraculously easy just because it has to be done. “Trying harder” isn’t a miracle cure. And if he hadn’t chucked his bike off a cliff in frustration, he never would have gotten to travel the universe.
So thank you, Doctor Who team
-a kid who learned to ride a bike at 13
Seriously this is the first Doctor since Four whom I can picture saying “the galaxy’s a fun place, you’ll need to have this fish in your ear” in EXACTLY the right tone
Graham: Hey Doc, do you have a spoon that i can borrow?
The Doctor: *launches her sonic screwdriver at Graham*
Graham: What was that for!?
The Doctor: its made of spoons 😀 😀
Graham: …
Graham: come on Ryan, we’re going home.
yeah to be honest, I think 13 is literally going to be the embodiment of what 12 wanted his next generation to be.
Laugh hard. 13 seems to be way more cheerful, way more friendly, way more willing to smile and laugh even in the face of danger.
Run fast. She’s all over the place, she runs right into an alien threat that she has no idea about. She has a very energetic personality.
Be kind. She’s so kind. She literally fell from space down to earth through the roof of a train with almost no idea of who she is. She had no TARDIS, she had no sonic screwdriver, no fancy gadgets, not even her vast knowledge of aliens and the galaxy. Yet her first action was to try to stun a tentacle monster that was scaring passangers. The Doctor is overly kind here, almost magically so. Like the Doctor had no obligation to help as much as she did. She had no obligation to try so hard. She also had no obligation of consoling them, listening to their issues and then giving words of encouragements at the end about hope and how to cope with loss. She didn’t need to do all that, she had bigger things to worry about but she saw people in distress and knew in her soul that she must help them.
It’s just…very poetic and I love how she reflects 12′s final wishes. I love the writing so much here.
