#The Next Doctor

[notyoujamie]

[logray]

THE NEXT DOCTOR (2008) | THE STAR BEAST (2023)

[landscaping-your-mind]

uhhhhhhh

[sentientsky]

hey rtd what the actual fuck

[casasupernovas]

LAKE: Tell me one thing. All those facts and figures I saw of the Doctor's life, you were never alone. All those bright and shining companions. But not any more?

DOCTOR: No.

LAKE: Might I ask why not?

DOCTOR: They leave. Because they should. Or they find someone else. And some of them, some of them forget me. I suppose in the end, they break my heart.

This is a very intriguing quote, especially if you go in order of his companions...

[drop-dead-dropout]

the face I make when someone asks me (a totally normal & well-adjusted individual who is definitely not suicidal) if I have a reason to live

[vendimeyers]

The Next Doctor really is a tv special of all time

- It starts out with the vibe of a two doctor crossover special but then it’s just some guy whose deeply traumatized

- “my faithful companion Rosita” -> lolll

- Cybermen wandering around the 1860s

- “That’s a screwdriver. How is it sonic?” Taps it against the doorframe. “Makes a noise, see?”

- the main villain is literally “girlbossed so close to the sun all the cybermen are SIMPing for her”

- “Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style”

- 3rd act Pacific Rim giant robot… in the 1860s

- fluffy lookin Cyber creatures and a bonus sleek lookin’ multicolor Cyberman (who blows up)

- The Doctor gets his brooding interrupted by clapping and cheering -> attitude get wrecked

- “This is nonsense. Complete and utter, wonderful nonsense. Very very silly.” Pack it up everyone. Jackson Lake found us out. Summarized the whole show.

- The Doctor finally having Christmas dinner with someone besides Rose’s family. You know what that is? Growth.

[officialeggsuprise]

Not to immediately talk about the 14 being the curator theory again but this line from the curator:

The Curator : Well, that's entirely up to you. Your choice, eh? I can only tell you what I would do. If I were you...

"If I were you..." Perhaps I was you, of course. Or, perhaps you are ME.

And these lines between 14 and 15

14: You’re me.

15: No I’m me. I think I’m really, really me. Oh I am completely me!

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Is really mmmmmmmm it’s really making me feel more confident in this theory.

[just-a-twinge-of-cosmic-angst]

When someone tells you about a show, and you have to pretend you haven't seen it so you don't spoil anything :

[thematrix-theuniverseofdoctorwho]

The Tenth Doctor “Doctor Who - The Next Doctor”

[wheelybard]

Day of the Doctor takes place during the specials season for ten right?

So he's already disappointed that Jackson Lake wasn't his future self.

THEN he meets Eleven, who's the opposite of Jackson Lake.

He's probably thinking what War's thinking.

THIS GUY IS MY FUTURE!?

[notyoujamie]

My children. My screams. I could not save you, little ones. Such pain. And yet, still, still I am not brave enough to die, to let go of this wretched life. I will endure, but no more babies. I cannot, will not, suffer such heartbreak again. From now on, it's me against the world.

[fishymom-art]

it's midnight, time to think about Jackson Lake from "The Next Doctor" special and how much of a great (and gay) companion he could've been

he was so enamoured by the tardis, the time lords, the adventures, THE DOCTOR??? There was no fear of the adventure, he stayed behind only because it was a bit too much for him to comprehend. Otherwise, Jackson and Doctor could've been SO GOOD but the writers were COWARDS

I WANT MY INNOCENT DREAMY JACKSON AND MY NEURODIVERGENT SAD 10TH DOCTOR TO BE TOGETHER IN THE TARDIS GOING ON ADVENTURES ANd maybe holding hands a little bit

[landscaping-your-mind]

Top Ten Suicidal Tenth Doctor Moments*

*in no particular order

Smith and Jones: Just TAKING IT when the plasmavore is draining him.

Daleks in Manhattan: Screaming at the Daleks to kill him before it negotiated with them to not kill the others.

Evolution of the Daleks: Hugging a lightning rod during a thunderstorm with the intention of getting electrocuted.

Evolution of the Daleks: Saying that the Time Lord Daleks first blood should be him to quote "baptise them."

The Lazarus Experiment: "The only certainty is that you'll end up alone" GIRL??? IS THERE SOMETHING YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT????

Utopia: Asking Jack if he wants to die.

The Poison Sky: Saying goodbye to Martha and Donna.

Forest of the Dead: Literally begging River to let him just die for her.

Turn Left: Actually dying because there was no one there to stop him.

The Next Doctor: "Don't you have anyone to live for?" "😐 *stares at him with his suicidally depressed autism eyes*"

[justahumblememefarmer]

Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 2 - Matchup 4

Episode Summaries under the cut

54: The Star Beast - 60th Anniversary Special 1: A newly regenerated 14th Doctor, unsure why he has regenerated to have the same face as his 10th self, lands in London and runs into his old companion Donna Noble, her daughter Rose, and husband Shawn. He tries to avoid contact as the last time he saw Donna, he needed to erase her memory of him to save her life after her DNA was combined with his Time Lord DNA. A spaceship soon crashes, which the Doctor goes to investigate. An escape pod lands near the Noble's residence and Rose meets an alien, The Meep who claims to be on the run from evil alien warriors.

Following UNIT's tracking of the escape pod, the Doctor shows up at the Noble's house, where Donna has discovered The Meep. The Doctor gets more information from The Meep, who says that Wrath Warriors are hunting the Meep for it's fur. The house is then attacked by both Wrath Warriors and UNIT soldier's who seem to be under alien control. While the two groups fight each other, the Doctor, the Nobles, and The Meep escape, but after noticing that the Wrath Warriors weapons deal only non-lethal damage he summons two to question them about the Meep.

The Warriors reveal that Meepkind were turned into evil world conquerors after their sentient sun went insane, and they seek to bring the remaining Meep to justice. The Meep drops it's cute facade and kills the warriors. The UNIT soldiers show up under the Meep's control and take them all to the Meep's ship, which will destroy the Earth upon takeoff. They escape capture and the Doctor goes to stop the ship, but Donna sends her family off and decides to go with him. As the Doctor works on disabling the ship, the room they are in is split in half. Knowing that it will kill Donna, he reactivates her memories, allowing her to help him stop the ship.

She grows weak and accepts her death, but then Rose appears, having been affected by her mother's reactivation and also has the knowledge of a Time Lord. The Doctor realizes that by having a child, Donna was able to share the burden put on her to a more survivable level. They defeat The Meep, who is taken into custody by the Wrath Warriors. Donna and Rose are able to release the Time Lord DNA, saving both their lives while Donna is able to retain her memories. The Doctor plans to take her to see her grandfather, but she spills coffee on the TARDIS console, causing them to fly to a mystery location.

75: The Next Doctor - 2008 Christmas Special: The Doctor lands in London on Christmas Eve, 1851 and meets a man who claims to be The Doctor investigating the Cybermen, who have been responsible for many missing children and murders, starting with the murder of a man named Jackson Lake. The other Doctor claims to be a future regeneration, but he has lost much of his memory and does not remember the 10th Doctor. The Cybermen and their human accomplice, Miss Hartigan, attack a funeral, where they kill most of the attendees but keep alive the owners of several warehouses and orphanages.

While investigating with the next Doctor, he sees that his "sonic screwdriver" is just a regular screwdriver and that his TARDIS is just a hot air balloon. They search the house of one of the Cybermen's victims and discover "infostamps", devices that the Cybermen use to store information. The next Doctor remembers holding one the night he lost his memory and regenerated. The Doctor finally deduces that the next Doctor is actually Jackson Lake. The Cybermen killed his wife and stole his child, but he managed to save himself by fighting them off with a damaged infostamp about the Doctor. The information also beamed into his head, and combined with the trauma of losing his family, caused him to forget his real life and take on the persona of the Doctor.

Miss Hartigan and the Cybermen have been using the stolen children to work in factories building a giant Cyber man warship, the Cyberking. Hartigan sits the throne and takes control of it and the Cybermen and begins to attack London. Lake goes to rescue the children, including his son, from the factory, while the Doctor takes his hot air balloon TARDIS. He uses the infostamps to reverse the conversion on Hartigan's mind and allow her to see what she's become. Her emotions overwhelm the Cybermen and self-destructs the Cyberking, which the Doctor teleports to the Time Vortex to safely disintegrate.

[6-and-7]

The Wheel in Space The TARDIS materialises on board a spaceship, the Silver Carrier, where the Second Doctor and Jamie are attacked by a servo robot. Jamie contacts a nearby space station known as the Wheel and they are rescued. Meanwhile, the Silver Carrier discharges Cybermats, which also travel to and enter the station. These pave the way for the invasion of the station by Cybermen, who intend to use its direct radio link with Earth as a beacon for their invasion fleet.

The Doctor sends Jamie and a young woman named Zoe Heriot over to the Silver Carrier to fetch the TARDIS' vector generator rod. Meanwhile, he frees the Wheel's crew from the Cybermen's hypnotic control and aims to destroy all the Cybermen on the station.

When Jamie and Zoe return, the Doctor installs the rod in the station's X-ray laser, making it powerful enough to destroy the Cyber-fleet. An approaching force of space-walking Cybermen is also vanquished.

The Next Doctor Christmas 1851, and Cybermen stalk Victorian London. The Tenth Doctor discovers a spate of mysterious deaths, and he's surprised to meet another Doctor! Are two Doctors enough to stop the rise of the CyberKing?