#The Visitation

[notyoujamie]

[gallifreyanhotfive]

He couldn't have stayed on as a companion because their homoerotic tendencies would have made the Master explode with jealousy.

[sarahwatchesthings]

The Doctor whenever they try to land anywhere, ever.

[cuties-in-codices]

mary and elizabeth, both pregnant

miniature from a copy of "speculum humanae salvationis", c. 1427

source: Sarnen, Benediktinerkollegium, Cod. membr. 8, fol. 48r

[heimeldat]

I forgot about that line at the end of Pyramids of Mars where the Doctor says, "Wouldn't want to be accused of starting a fire. I had enough of that in 1666."

In context it's just a throwaway joke, but looking back, it means there were two Doctors on Pudding Lane when the great fire started, and the younger one got falsely accused of starting it, only to learn at least a lifetime later that the accusations weren't technically false, just too early. That also explains why Five was in such a rush to get away: he remembered being there and didn't want to risk crossing his timeline.

(fyi I'm imagining Two and Jamie as the ones who were falsely accused. That's just the sort of coincidental and ironic trouble they would land in.)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Antonio de Pereda y Salgado (Spanish, 1611-1678) The Visitation, ca.1640-50 Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

[lasttree-garsennon]

I FUCKING LOVE ADRIC I WANNA HUG HIM AND NEVER LET HIM GO IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO HIM I WILL KILL EVERYONE AND THEN MYSELF

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

[bowtiesarecool11]

5th Doctor in The Visitation

[koredzas]

Antonio Pirri - The Visitation. 1480 - 1500

[apenitentialprayer]

Okay, so Bishop Barron brought up a really cute parallel in today's Gospel reflection, comparing the leap of John in the womb to the dance of David before the Ark. Little fetal boogeying before the Lord.

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Okay but one of the many reasons I think the Doctor really, really liked Richard Mace is that he asked Mace to free him from his handcuffs and then provided him with a safety pin to do so.

Like this is Mr. I-Learned-It-From-Houdini. This is Mr. I-Can-Get-Out-Of-All-Sorts-Of-Traps. And yet he needs help getting out of a simple pair of handcuffs?

And so he asks Mace to help him and provides him with a safety pin to do so. He's purposefully asking someone else to do something for him that he has easily done himself in the past. He's letting Mace show off a bit, letting Mace be a hero. That is Doctor-brand flirting.

Basically, I have many reasons why I think the Doctor and Richard Mace would have been wonderful, and this is just one.

[sarahwatchesthings]

Companions: just bounce yourself off their skulls!

[transistoradio]

1. Alex Colville, “Horse and Train” (1954), casein tempera on hardboard, 54.2 x 41.2 cm.

2. Ellen Rogers, photo from the series, The Visitation Pt. 1.

[alexlacquemanne]

November Who Watch → The Visitation