Madame Vastra

If that's the first time you're seeing yourself in something you care about, That matters if the first time you see someone that you relate to and they don't end up happy or they're not able to express what they feel.

If we can't have like genuine, thoughtful, intentional representation on a silly little sci-fi TV show, then how are we going to actually be able to like explore those things and break down barriers in real life, like in society, like with real people, you know? And that's something in my little research, I stumbled upon Jenny Flint and Madame Vastra, 2011, which from what I can tell, they're both very iconic, very wonderful individual characters.

And basically they were married functionally.

And

And did those feats in ancient time.

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Who named them that?

Oh, the fandom.

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Earlier in it is the Madame Vastra character who's the Silurian green lizard lady and she's talking to the companion Clara and Clara's like, but he looks different and I don't like it.

And Madame Vastra basically says, oh, it's because he's old and Clara's alluding to, yeah, he used to look really young and now he doesn't.

And Madame Vassar was trying to say, he's always been old.

He's older than you think.

You've got to write that now.

Well, speaking of comedy episodes, Madame Vastra.

I don't think we need to talk about Madame Vastra a great deal.

She's woken up separately, presumably.

She's sort of found herself in Victorian society.

Do we learn anything about what homo reptilia are like from her? Because I was thinking about this watching it.

But the question is the other way round.

The question is, does Madame Vastra suit what we know of homo reptilia? Yeah.

Squally says, I love that we got extra companions in an episode where the audience and the Doctor really needed that support.

Yeah, the Paternoster gang.

A rare episode where the companion team wasn't wasted.

Yeah, and I'm thinking this is what Chris Gibnall's probably watched this episode and thought, oh, Doctor Who can handle three or four companions.

That's kind of cute.

I do love the whole Victoriana milieu that they've, uh, developed with the Paternoster gang.

I was kind of glad to see them.

As Matt said, it's, it's, it's great to have them as that linkage between the old and new Doctors.

I kind of did like the implication that Clara was gonna join them.

I thought that was s- fascinating.

Like, she was gonna maybe have to be part of the team, the Paternoster Gang, because the Doctor was not, um, really...

Like, it looked like he'd left her at one point.

But, yeah.

Matt says, anchoring a new Doctor with familiar characters works well to settle Capaldi in, and it's always good to see the Paternoster gang in a thank God it's not River Song again kind of way.

Oh,

Matt.