#and having a doctor who is happy again and is bursting with verve is SO necessary
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I TAKE IT BACK I TAKE THIS BACK SOOOOO MUCH.
IT WAS NOT HAND WAVEY ABOUT THE DOCTORS TRAUMA AND GRIEF!!!!! NOT AT ALL!!! IT DID NOT JUST DISAPPEAR IT ALL!!! AND I TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY MISSED THAT UNTIL NOW!!!
the "we're doing rehab out of order" line!!!!!! it TOTALLY went over my head the first time. and then seeing a post that specifically highlighted that line and how fifteen says he's fine because you (tenthree) fixed himself. as in — tenthree does all of the processing and healing through his life on earth with donna and co, and because they are still the same person the healing tenthree does is the healing that fifteen DID already!!! the bigeneration isn't an exaxt split of the doctor in that very moment — it's a split of the doctor in that moment and the doctor of the future!!!! so tenthree gets to live out his life with donna and when that comes to an end, he dies and gets reabsorbed into fifteen. they merge back into the one doctor, because they always HAVE been one doctor, even if two of them are co-existing.
okay. OKAY. on the one hand i love love LOVED the doctor getting to live out a normal life with his best friend platonic soulmate donna and be apart of that family unit again and be SO HAPPY TOO. but on the other hand. i do kind of not like how hand wavey it felt wrt all of the doctors trauma and grief and that deeply unmoored feeling that has been following him for AGES and has only grown stronger as of late. like i want to see the doctor actually like. FACE IT. and like work through it, head on. OBVIOUSLY this bigeneration thing has raised SO many new questions so who knows!! maybe it WILL get addressed with fifteen!! maybe it WASNT as hand wavey as it seemed! but yeah idk man. right now specifically, i just wish we got that.
#look i have NO idea if this is actually what rtd was thinking when he did that#but im going to say it is because i actually LOVE that explanation for it#and yes it still is a little bit hand wavey in the sense that we dont get to SEE the doctor actually process and overcome that grief#and heal that trauma#but at the same time the last several seasons have been SO chock full of trauma and grief and the doctor being weighed down by it all#and we are at a point in time where the franchise needs that reinvigoration#and having a doctor who is happy again and is bursting with verve is SO necessary#like god just from the 5 mins fifteen had onscreen it already feels TOTALLY rejuvenated!!!!#and i LOVE that#and ofc doctor who wouldnt be doctor who without angst and pain and i am POSITIVE that fifteen will get some of that along the way chdisjs#but its nice to get that fresh start that hard reset#i think rtd is a genius the way he did this#he was able to give dt the sendoff he and his doctor deserved (while still keeping the possibilities open atm!)#while ALSO keeping the fans happy that they didnt have to say goodbye to him in that bittersweet way a full regeneration would have done#while ALSO introducing the new doctor and the new direction and pumping it SO full of life that people get SO excited about the future of it#absolutely BRILLIANT#doctor who spoilers#doctor who
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