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thefiresofpompeii · 3 days

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the ninth doctor trusted rose enough to believe she would stay with him after his face changed. and twelve took some convincing but towards the end of deep breath accepted that clara would stay by his side no matter how old he looked. but thirteen was so used to losing people. her previous self had loved clara and lost her, he had looked after bill and failed to save her, he had tried to redeem missy and (to his knowledge) lost that cause too. no wonder she wouldn’t trust yaz to stay for her fourteenth face. no wonder she believed she ‘had to do this next part alone’. she had grown quietly distant with the new knowledge that she was no longer even an ordinary gallifreyan, not something of this universe, but outside of it, alien even to the aliens. isolated and inaccessible, standing on an invisible pedestal her ancestors placed her on — a pedestal that more resembled a cage. glass walls on all sides like the forced regeneration chamber. thin glass wall between her and yaz now, transparent but too solid to break through. harder than azbantium when there’s no solid footing to stand on.

of course yaz would run when she saw her new self. of course she would leave. companions would never stay now, they would never fully understand. when thirteen said that she would need to do ‘this next part’ alone, by ‘next part’ she meant ‘the rest of her (potentially eternal) life’. it’s the classic gambit: push the one you love away before they get the chance to reject you. because they always will, now. either that or they die in horrible circumstances. better to flee like you’ve always done.

this is why the bigeneration was a narrative necessity, why the giggle was the perfect vision of a positive finale. the original version of the doctor gets to settle down with people that he won’t lose. people that he won’t turn away from. people whose hearts he won’t inevitably break. he’s sitting there in the back yard and he’s not going anywhere…

…yet somewhere out there in sheffield lives a police officer named yazmin khan. she’s not all sunshine and rainbows — all cops are bastards, after all. sometimes she takes her nameless rage out on a shoplifting suspect. sometimes she hands a parking ticket to a kid that didn’t deserve it. and sometimes she does genuine good for the community, sometimes she goes to the club and dances with strangers, sometimes she sits on the sofa and watches a documentary about space exploration and laughs at the painful inaccuracies. and many miles south, the doctor spends time with his family, but he’ll never get the courage to visit her. because she’d want to run away with him again. and he could never give her that, not anymore. anything but running.

yazmin khan loved the universe in the eyes of her doctor. oh, that doctor in the garden? the stay-at-home-doctor? he’s brilliant, but he would never be enough for her. his presence would never replace the cosmic vistas and myriads of stars thirteen gave her. and she’s never coming back

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logray · 5 months

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2005 | 2013 | 2022

#angelslatte #tvedit #dwedit #doctor who #the power of the doctor #the day of the doctor #born again #the doctor #david tennant #matt smith #the curator #tom baker #gifs**#dw parallels

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violetmessages · 1 year

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Besties I refuse to call david tennant the 14th doctor, that is strictly ncuti gatwa’s, I think we should make up a fun nickname for him like “the echo doctor” or “the false doctor” or “the mamma mia here we go again doctor”

#the power of the doctor #dw spoilers #doctor who

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villiarty · 3 months

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I can’t get over how the Doctor not only had to witness two (2) evil campy dance numbers in a row, but also get shot with a deadly laser beam twice (2x) in a span of 15 hours. The Toymaker must have been doing it on purpose, i.e. nicking the Master’s latest hits and throwing them at the Doctor.

#doctor who #the doctor #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #the master #dhawan!master #the toymaker #the power of the doctor #the giggle #mine

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gallifreyanhotfive · 4 months

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The Doctor: *exists*

The Master every few centuries: I want to crawl inside your body.

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thelvadams · 1 year

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This song is ending, but the story never ends.

#dw spoilers #doctor who spoilers #doctor who #dwedit #dwgifs #doctorwhoedit #new who #classic who #the doctor #the power of the doctor #thirteenth doctor #jodie whittaker #david tennant #thelvadams.gifs #i love this silly police box show 🥺

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themastergifs · 6 months

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Well, that's quite a good beat, really, isn't it?

THE MASTER + spinning

#dwedit #doctor who #usertennant #usertoph #userteri #parallels #multi #last of the time lords #deep breath #the witch's familiar #world enough and time #the doctor falls #spyfall #the power of the doctor #simm!master #gomez!master #dhawan!master #ours #by lanie

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the-force-awakens · 5 months

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DOCTOR WHO (2005 - ) — 13.09 "The Power of the Doctor"

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #tvedit #dwgif #timelordgifs #doctor who #s13 #the power of the doctor #thirteenth doctor #tegan jovanka #ace mcshane #yasmin khan #nym.gifs #if i got the episode number wrong pls don't tell me

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mossflower · 1 year

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#i mean it was 50/50 but still. david tennant jumpscare at the end was a bit of a shock #doctor who #dw #the power of the doctor

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yournewlodger · 1 year

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Okay, so here are our options:

1. David Tennant is the Fourteenth Doctor because the Jodie Whittaker's Doctor regenerated into him.

2. Ncuti Gatwa is the Fourteenth Doctor because Ten3 does not count.

3. Sacha Dhawan is the Fourteenth Doctor because Jodie Whittaker's doctor regenerated into him.

4. Jodie Whittaker is the Fourteenth Doctor due to the existence of the War Doctor.

5. Peter Capaldi is the Fourteenth Doctor due to the existence of the War Doctor and the time David Tennant regenerated into himself.

6. Matt Smith is the Fourteenth Doctor due to the existence of the War Doctor, and the time David Tennant regenerated into himself, and Jo Martin’s Doctor.

7. David Tennant is the Fourteenth Doctor due to the existence of the War Doctor, and the fact that he regenerated into himself, and Jo Martin's Doctor, and the existence of TenToo.

8. TenToo is the Fourteenth Doctor for the above reasons.

9. Donna Noble is the Fourteenth Doctor for the above above reasons.

10. Both David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa's Doctors' true numbers are unknowable due to the existence of The Timeless Child.

11. Both David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa's Doctors' true numbers are unknowable due to the existence of The Timeless Child, and the uncountable amount of times The Twelfth Doctor died and was reborn in Heaven Sent.

12. Both David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa's Doctors' true numbers are unknowable due to the existence of The Timeless Child, and the uncountable amount of times The Twelfth Doctor died and was reborn in Heaven Sent, and all Doctors seen in noncanon materials are actually canon (Peter Cushing films, Scream of the Shalka, Curse of the Fatal Death, etc...)

13. Both David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa's Doctors' true numbers are unknowable for all of the above reasons and also because pseudo-Doctors such as The Valeyard and The Dream Lord are also The Doctor.

14. The above is true, but The Doctor is simply a title, and anyone who claims to be The Doctor is also The Doctor. Jackson Lake is The Doctor. Clara is The Doctor. Missy is The Doctor. Graham is The Doctor. Every actor who has played The Doctor are also The Doctor.

15. The above is true, but due to The Egg Theory everyone else is also The Doctor. We are all The Doctor.

16. None of the above is true because no Doctor after the Revival is canon.

17. None of the above is true because no Doctor after the First Doctor is canon.

18. None of the above is true because there is no Fourteenth Doctor. The number was skipped for some reason.

19. The numbering system is flawed and useless to current canon, and we should switch to identifying Doctors by their actors, as we do with The Master. (Example: Hartnell!Doctor)

20. The above is not true because we would still need to find a way to differentiate the 3 - 4 Doctors played by David Tennant.

21. All of the above is technically true, and Russell T Davies should put it up to a poll and see who wins, and we must all commit to the democratic vote.