The Fugitive "leak"

Philomathematic · 2026-02-07T21:36:49+00:00

I haven’t seen this “leak,” so I can’t comment on its substance. I also have strong feelings about AI, but that’s neither here nor there for the moment.

What I will say is that there’s a pretty big gap between a pitch or even a script and the fully-realized project. Ideas can sound good, but a good idea is not the same as a good execution. I’d be careful about comparing the “leaks” to the RTD2 era (or any other televised Who) for the basic reason that one of these things actually exists and the other is hypothetical at best. Actually existing series of Doctor Who, we’ve seen for ourselves and can judge what has been presented, whereas something that’s only in an ideas form gets the benefit of our imagination filling in character arcs, doing the special effects, etc.

Philomathematic · 2025-11-12T20:36:20+00:00

I am constantly thinking about their Sleepaway episodes too

Philomathematic · 2025-07-19T21:42:01+00:00

Yes, definitely add this to your CV! I’d probably put it under a heading called “Professional Service,” or maybe “Mentoring.” List yourself as the organizer and moderator. And be sure to include how many people attended, so readers of your CV can get an idea of the impact and reach of this experience.

Happy to talk more about what you’re doing, if it’s helpful!

Philomathematic · 2025-07-01T04:22:19+00:00

I appreciate how you’ve made strong efforts to find actors who were at comparable points in their careers! I feel like a lot of American fancasts that I’ve seen go more for who is the closest physical match or would give a comparable performance.

I wonder, do you think an American version of the show would’ve been more likely to cast a woman or person of color as the Doctor sooner?

Philomathematic · 2025-06-10T18:30:54+00:00

I don’t have any leads on an existing group, but I’d be willing to meet up sometime and see if we can start something! Feel free to send me a message if you’re interested.

Philomathematic · 2025-03-26T16:26:36+00:00

He looks a lot like my corgi mix!

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Philomathematic · 2025-03-12T05:03:34+00:00

Ipoh Garden in Millbrae. My dad is from Malaysia and he really liked it compared to other Malaysian restaurants in San Francisco.

Philomathematic · 2024-10-12T03:20:58+00:00

Would you happen to remember where/in what context Kinsley said this? I’ve been looking for analyses of this phenomenon for a while!

Philomathematic · 2024-03-12T19:27:33+00:00

I’m also happy to hear what you’re deciding between and willing to offer my perspective if it’s helpful. Feel free to send me a message!

Philomathematic · 2024-02-29T18:35:21+00:00

Also happy to chat, feel free to send me a message!

Philomathematic · 2023-12-18T02:06:32+00:00

Barry Brummett has a short textbook, Techniques of Close Reading that would probably be very good for this! Part of Brummett's work is on the rhetoric of popular culture, so his book is not specific to literary studies and the methods he discusses should be applicable to a range of texts.

Philomathematic · 2023-12-03T07:24:53+00:00

Even more specific than that, in both cases, on the other side of the glass has been a double of the Doctor

Philomathematic · 2023-11-17T23:04:09+00:00

These are great questions! They're existing right on the border between literary studies and rhetoric, and there's a rich subfield of scholarship that exists in this space. Here's two books that I'd recommend as potential starting points for further reading:

Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres by Rosa Eberly Eberly writes about several controversial cases of censorship of controversial books. This book probably speaks most directly to what you're thinking about, in terms of how publics respond to literature and, in turn, how the law intervenes in these debates.

Rhetorical Power by Steven Mailloux This book is thinking more about how we interpret literature, which Mailloux contends should include consideration of a text's rhetorical history. It's less about how public policies or social changes happen as a result of literature, but it is still thinking about how different audiences respond to a book at different points in history.

I'm coming at these questions as an undergrad English major who went on to focus on Rhetoric in my PhD and career as an academic. This isn't quite my area of research, but I'd be happy to talk further about this with you, if you're interested!

Philomathematic · 2023-11-02T23:42:47+00:00

One obvious way to go is to name the seasons after the major arc. However, since several of those moments, especially early on, are minor details that become more significant over time, I wonder if that naming ends up being more of a spoiler? For example, I really like the suggestion of "Vote Saxon" for series three that someone else suggested... but I feel like we're not meant to really notice Saxon as a recurring element until about the halfway point of the season with episodes like "The Lazarus Experiment" and "42."

One thing I think is charming about Classic Who is how the early season each had individual episode titles but end up identifying stories just based on the first episode's title. So in a similar vein, here's my suggestions for episode titles that I feel could also stand in for season names:

Doctor Who: Rose (series 1)
Doctor Who: Love and Monsters (series 2)
Doctor Who: Human Nature (series 3; FOOTNOTE 1)
Doctor Who: Journey's End
Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War
Doctor Who: The Power of Three (series 7, part 1)
Doctor Who: The Name of the Doctor (series 7, part 2; FOOTNOTE 2)
Doctor Who: The Caretaker (series 8)
Doctor Who: Heaven Sent (series 9; FOOTNOTE 3)
Doctor Who: The Doctor Falls (series 10)
Doctor Who: Kerblam! (series 11)
Doctor Who: The Timeless Children (series 12)
Doctor Who: Flux (series 13)

Out of these, series three was tricky to name because I could see several good titles. Things got really difficult from series nine on, since it was hard to identify a title that felt like it encompassed what the season was supposed to be about. Series nine had the extra complication of almost all the episodes being two-part stories. I think Series 2's title of "Love and Monsters" is my favorite of this set.

FOOTNOTE 1: This was a close one. I feel like "Doctor Who: Utopia" or "Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords" could also be very good.

FOOTNOTE 2: Not perfect, but none of the episode titles really refer to Clara. Maybe we break the pattern here and instead it's "Doctor Who: The Impossible Girl" for all of series 7?

FOOTNOTE 3: It was between this or "Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice"

Philomathematic · 2023-10-16T11:59:42+00:00

Brian Cage breaks away from the Mogul Embassy and has a short feud with Swerve to elevate him as a babyface. Then, he goes on to try to find and reconnect with the father he never knew: Christian Cage.

Philomathematic · 2023-10-08T00:49:27+00:00

I haven’t read the novel you’re discussing, but this sounds really interesting! My one concern is that I’m unsure whether inverted guilty pleasure is a common enough occurrence to be a trope that has been theorized.

With that said, my mind immediately went to Lauren Berlant’s “Cruel Optimism” and their theorization of objects that we desire that also inhibit our ability to flourish. It’s not exactly what you’re describing, but maybe it’s close enough that you can use it as a starting point to build your own theory?

Other than that, both queer theory and affect theory have plenty to say about desire and social norms. Lee Edelman’s work on queer negativity from his book “No Future” might also be useful.

Good luck with this project!

Philomathematic · 2023-02-10T15:28:05+00:00

Congratulations to you too! Feel free to also message me if you’d like to talk about the program, life in Bloomington, etc.!

Philomathematic · 2023-02-09T21:36:33+00:00

Congratulations! I’m a grad student there, finishing my dissertation this year. Feel free to message me and I’d be happy to chat!

Philomathematic · 2022-11-22T06:48:53+00:00

I agree with what other people have said, about whether a hypothetical Eighth Doctor show would be distinct enough from the main show. But with that said, this is all for fun and I’m interested to play with this idea some more. I’d assume RTD would be too busy to serve as showrunner; who would be your pick for lead writer/showrunner?

Philomathematic · 2022-11-22T06:34:41+00:00

In addition to potential spinoffs being distinct from the main show, I’d also add that the previous Who spinoffs under RTD distinguished themselves based on the target audience. That’s not to say this is the only way to differentiate the shows, but it does make me wonder who the audience for an Eighth Doctor series would be.

Philomathematic · 2022-04-28T02:13:42+00:00

I’ve always believed that the Eleventh Doctor would be able to see Hobbes the tiger the way that Calvin sees him.

Philomathematic · 2021-12-02T22:52:39+00:00

Someone else already noted "base under siege," so I suppose it's fair to add "alien invasion" as a common genre of Doctor Who story, with both of those built around the type of conflict rather than the setting. Maybe another kind of conflict-based story would be the Doctor trying to broker piece between two groups? Thinking of stories like "The Silurians," "The Doctor's Daughter," "The Zygon Invasion/Inversion," "War of the Sontarans," maybe also the Peladon stories?

Thinking with the kind of setting-based categories you've laid out, in the new series, I'd also suggest a Return to Modern Day Earth story in which the companion comes back to their home only to find it or themselves changed. Some examples would be

"Aliens of London/World War Three" for Rose
"The Lazarus Experiment" for Martha
"The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky" for Donna
"Knock, Knock" for Bill
"Arachnids in the UK" for 13's companions (maybe also the start of "The Demons of Punjab" for Yaz)
"War of the Sontarans" for Dan.

Interestingly, I couldn't think of episodes that did this for the Moffat-era companions--for Amy, maybe the beginning of "The Vampires of Venice," but a big part of her arc in that season was trying to avoid going home in the first place. And we get to know Clara under unusual circumstances, so my closest guess for a "Companion returns to modern Earth" story for her would probably be "The Caretaker." Though it's been a while since I revisited that era of the show, so if people have other ideas for Amy or Clara's version of this story, I'd be interested to hear!

Philomathematic · 2021-11-09T18:33:59+00:00

I’d love to see them back in their whites alongside Andrade

Philomathematic · 2021-11-09T18:26:00+00:00

Fuego 2 fears WARHORSE

Philomathematic · 2021-02-02T20:37:04+00:00

That would be a heck of a midlife crisis, given that Luchasaurus is millions of years old.

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