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Mucca woke me up with this this morning. (The last time she did that was with astoundingly hot clips of Gregory Peck. I appreciate her attention to quality material.)

I loved it. I love Bill! I love what the Doctor's doing with himself at the start of this episode. Nardole's still a sweetie. And Bill is seriously the best. Did I say that already? I love how she logics things through carefully instead of leaping to conclusions she wouldn't have data for. I love the whole thing with the girl. (Bill's going to fall adorably in love with like three separate space princesses this season, right? Make it happen, Moff.) And the pictures, awww my heart. ❤❤❤

Anyway. This one definitely fit my criteria of "silly adventures with heart" for a good Dr Who outing. Moar plz.

(And Missy returns sometime soon! Yesss.)

(Comments may contain spoilers, though if you haven't seen it, I'll try not to spoil it myself in my replies.)

Date: 2017-04-17 10:23 pm (UTC)
brin_bellway: forget-me-not flowers (Default)
From: [personal profile] brin_bellway
While the pronouns were written as if addressing the Doctor, I was mostly thinking from Bill's perspective: even if "keep this secret from the muggles" isn't among the Doctor's goals, she doesn't know that. When she starts talking about memory erasure, all she knows is that in stories, people who get a brush with this kind of Weird Shit tend to get mind-wiped afterward by the more experienced people, and that the Doctor has adopted a pose traditionally associated with mind-melds.

*checks transcript*

Ah, interesting: after she accuses him of trying to wipe her memory, but before the "just for one week" bit, the Doctor says this:

"I have no choice. I'm here for a reason, I am in disguise. I have promises to keep. No one can know about me."

(Oh, and also, he adopts the mind-meld pose right after this exchange:
DOCTOR: No, no, no, no. No, no. You have to forget about that.
BILL: I don't see how I can.
DOCTOR: I do. Come here, Bill.

So it's actually even more obvious that he's planning to wipe her memory than it would be from the situation alone.)

(Chakoteya is so great. I love transcript sites.)

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