Not to jump on here out of nowhere, but am I interpreting it right that this regeneration is basically that one very popular tenrose fanfic thing from back in the day where tentoos conscience would time jump into eleven after he died and so it’s just a weird time split, not a proper split?? Like 15 has all of 14s memories and they’re the same doctor just later after he’s chilled for a bit and THEn somehow kicked the bucket? Which makes sense to me for giving 15 a cleaner slate of trauma and also allowing for more extended media appearances of 14?
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Graham’s companion support group.
i'm still on about this. that ending went against every single half-baked scrap of character development yaz has had. she spent four years trying to get back to the doctor. she watched that hologram every single day. she learned how to pilot the tardis. there is not a chance she would hear the doctor say "i'm going to do this alone" and go "yeah okay bye." not to mention that they literally never had any of the conversations the narrative was hinting at and yaz was asking for. biting.
I want to know what happens next.
Wait no but I propose for technicality 13 (og Whittaker) -> 13.25 (Dhawan master doctor) ->13.5 (Whittaker again) -> 13.75 (Tennant 2.0)
Paul McGann as Eighth Doctor DOCTOR WHO (2005-) “The Power of the Doctor” (2022)
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thank you, jodie whittaker, for being the thirteenth doctor 💙💙
there were four seasons, there was heartbreak, there was fear and there was loss, but my overriding emotion was excitement. i felt like the over-riding thing the doctor brought was curiosity and excitement. obviously fear, rage and all those things, but the thing that encapsulated my doctor the most was that bouncing into things, and that really fed into my evening and my weekend and my year. (x)
(1) GREAT episode nostalgia wise with all the cameos of classic characters and doctors!!
(2) TERRIBLE episode as a regeneration special beacuse of (1) !!
~ a quick mess of my thoughts on eve of daleks ~
- i think this may easily be in the running for best ep of 13′s era. i’m always down for timeloops, and i’m always down for daleks!
- as much as i enjoyed flux it was so great to have a nice little stand alone ep to watch (esepceially as i didn’t have to keep explaing shit to my family whislt watching!!)
- althouh me enjoying this ep so much makes me again SO SAD that jodie is leaving before RTD comes because i still think she has so much untapped potential left in her and i want to see what she would be like written by my favourite showrunner, and without such a constantly full tardis.
- i loved the lady guest star, she was a breathe of fresh air. aside from the obviously great comedic aspects to her, it was great to see someone not just blindly trust the doctor instantly and make her own judgements and do her own thing. i also feel like i already know more about her personality than all of 13s actual companions and she had more agency and impact on the episode than usually they tend to do which uhhh.... is not great comparitavely. i still feel like most of the time you could roll the dice with all of13s companions to decide who says what line and you even wouldn’t notice.
- anyway i really hope we see her back someday because she was great
- i’ve not been really into thasmin so far owing partly to the above where i still don’t feel like i have a proper grasp on the yaz character, partly because i’m a perpetual rose x doc shipper so thats all im ever thinking about lol, and partly beacuse i’m not generally one to hop on board ships when its based only on subtext. but it def passed on from subtext in that ep and i don’t hate it! i love evasive doctor pretending she doesn’t understand, and actually wanting to not understand cause like...that me lol. and I am very happy for those of you who do ship it that it has been acknowledged and made canon! but i don’t really see where it can go in 2 episodes when we know both are leaving and i feel like to get anywhere with this they still have a f*ckton to work though first emotionally and then what? like is yaz gonna die cause its feeling like theyre gonna set it up that yaz is gonna die. or get left stranded for a 3rd time with no way back. and i don’t know that i want that. but i feel like chibs might be thinking okay....last ep....lets give these bitches something real sad to remember me by and fkn off her!!!
- to add to the last though, i was really hoping for some specials where 13 was sans companion, as we’ve never gotten to see her alone, and have never seen her without yaz, and i think those types of episodes can be some of the most telling about each doctor. but with this development i know thats not going to happen. again, not a bad developement, but there are still just so many things i want to see from 13. it just really is too soon for her to go!
Do me a favor. Keep this safe. Somewhere deep within this TARDIS. Somewhere I can never find it.
Unless I really ask for it.
“genocide is only okay when the doctor does it” is a core value of doctor who.