one thing i know is that jack harkness is sweating and taking notes from rogue, like how did he do that in 20 minutes??
gwen is somewhere like “here here,, it’s not your fault all your doctors were in their repression era…”
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Jack: You know, I often dreamed of how we would reunite.
The Doctor: Is this meeting your expectations?
Jack: *smiles softly* Almost exactly. How about you?
The Doctor: ...I’m an insomniac
Kinda adore the fact that any time the Master comes back to Doctor Who the Doctor basically pauses the story and tells their companions "sorry, gotta deal with some psychosexual romantic drama with my on-and-off-again genderfluid homicidal ex/narrative foil that WILL traumatize you (and your family/boyfriend/loved ones) for the rest of your lives" all the while the companions are literally just the Live Slug meme
Doctor, talking about Jack: WHAT THE FUCK I WAS ARGUING WITH THEM AND I SAID “OOH YOU WANNA KISS ME SO BAD” AND GUESS WHAT? THEY DID. THEY KISSED ME. WHAT THE FUCK WHAT DO I DO.
the doctor + jack harkness
end of days / amy’s choice / last of the timelords / exit wounds / the age of steel / lost souls / day five / hell bent
more stuff about becoming a god being inherently dehumanizing pls
too much focus on Ascension or becoming Greater not enough focus on what is Lost of you
you're not a person anymore, just a personification. you're a concept, an abstraction. all neatly defined boundaries and borders, none of the vagueries or blurring of lines or grey areas that come from being mortal.
you can never change, now. never grow or evolve, you are this, forever, stagnant. and the thing you've been made to embody might not even be your best trait.
Guy who was wrong and then died and came back fine. Nobody figured out what the issue was but the hard reboot seemed to do the trick
fuck it. throw david tennant in as the master next. "hey i stole your face. you really liked this one, right? you keep using it." he'd have fun.
my doctor who story idea party piece was always this:
the Doctor and the Master, in classic orange spacesuits, are both mortally wounded and regenerate together in the TARDIS. They wake up in unfamiliar bodies - the audience doesn't know who is who, and due to the proximity of their regeneration energy doing some fuckery, neither do they.
The TARDIS console becomes unresponsive and the doors slam shut - they're locked in a box together and they can't leave or operate the controls until it's established who is the Doctor and who is the Master.
Their memories come back slowly and patchily. Is this one remembering defeating the Master? Or are they remembering being defeated? They have flashbacks to childhood on Gallifrey (probably a bad idea but eh) - one of them was always causing trouble in the Academy, the other was always in tow and trying to mitigate the chaos, but who were those children? Who did they grow up to be?
The episode ends with both of them reasonably certain who is who, the Master is tricked in a particularly despicable fashion and is teleported off the ship. The Doctor relaxes and goes to operate the console. It doesn't respond. More knob twiddling to no avail. Tries the door, it's still locked. Finally they deliver an enraged kick to the console. A long pause, and the TARDIS very slowly thrums into life. Almost reluctantly.
(bonks u with the cardboard tube of inspiration)
go write this right now
it always brings a smile to my face, remembering the first ever title drop on doctor who. it became a tradition for our titular character to introduce himself as the doctor and then have someone else understandably ask “¿doctor who?”. but no, the first time was susan mentioning that he was a doctor before anyone ever met him. then, since susan is his granddaughter and her last name is foreman, ian called him “doctor foreman”, leading this centuries-old mf who apparently doesn’t understand human naming conventions for a society he’s been presumably hiding out in for months to be the first ever character on the show to say the words out loud: doctor who
@moonlitlex yes, exactly.
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can you come collect your freak of a man please. He’s doing things
Can't think of anything else rn
and this isn't who you wanna travel with but who you feel like you'd get along with the best knowing who you are and who they are, feel free to explain in the tags!
my favourite thing about the bigeneration i think is that it's this really sweet and tender moment that would be absolutely fucking hilarious if it had happened in any other point in their life
nine bigenerates and is like i'm not fucking dealing with that thang and just leaves him behind with jack. not his problem lol. they turn up again in s3 except there's no ytnw bc nine just fucking launches himself across the valiant and decks the master. just fucking gets him
ten (original flavour) bigenerates and they end up with four fucking versions of ten on the crucible. at least one ten is like hm no i don't think so and ends up stealing donna away before ten prime can wipe her. jack also ends up with a ten in this timeline except gwen & ianto keep trying to send him to unit instead
ten(point five) bigenerates and eleven's like [pushing him out the doors] have fun with the rest of your emo tour. bye. and ten's like no ❤️ and sticks around anyway. forever. just to show eleven up at every opportunity. every few episodes eleven's like well this has been fun but don't you think you should be getting your own companions by now and ten's like Our Companions and also Our Wife which is so much worse
eleven bigenerates and spends the next few years sort of standing awkwardly in the corner while his companion has some really weirdly intense psychosexual drama with his future self. eventually missy turns up and is like goddamnit i thought i was gonna be able to skip this bitch
twelve bigenerates and also just doesn't leave except he actually gets on really well with thirteen. they toss genders back and forth between them like a hot potato. thirteen keeps biting the master and twelve stands behind her with popcorn
thirteen bigenerates and is like why the fuck do you look like that. like i know we're depressed but christ alive and fourteen's like 👍 and then they both end up staying in donna's shed for the next twenty years. donna's like i think your weird regeneration and years of trauma has made you unhealthily codependent with each other and also me and they're like who made you the coping mechanisms police
Now do the Master
