#doctor who series 4

[lovelyinspiration1463]

This is my pièce de résistance. I've peaked.

[ghost-bison]

[quantumshade]

doctor who series four + ao3 tags

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[scroogemcducksbastardchild]

i've still got a lot of problems with the rtd era but i will literally never stop talking about how warm the colour palettes in early nuwho were. so much modern sci-fi is sterile and minimalistic (which i understand considering it's a trademark of the genre), but series 1-4 felt warm and dirty and lived in. the set design wasn't always the best, but you could feel that the people had homes and lives before the doctor. rewatching it feels like coming home from a very, very long day and sitting in front of the fire and i love that so much

[tenroses07]

If Rose ever found out what Ten did in The Waters of Mars…oh he would get chewed out so bad

[thetorturedlovergirl]

You know? It's so kind of Davros to give Sutekh his own nice little sauna in Journey’s end 🥰

[littlefanthings]

Just sitting here realizing the very weird and sad parallels between Rose Tyler accidentally ripping a whole in the fabric of time by instinctively trying to save her father from being killed by a moving car to years later having to be the one to convince Donna she has to go get hit by a car and die to save the multiverse.

I hope Pete’s Universe has really good therapists.

[shiveringfrogspawn]

that’s it i’m deleting threads

can we just talk about how this woman was like “UGHH the writers are shipping them AGAIN” WHEN THEY’RE A CANON COUPLE?? That’s not shipping babe, that’s a storyline.

Also, “I hope they can live and die together” is the funniest way of expressing ill wishes toward a couple, like “you better STAY TOGETHER for the REST OF YOUR LIFE and BE HAPPY TOGETHER and DIE OF NATURAL CAUSES AT AN OLD AGE” what are you going on about 😭😭

[lovelyinspiration1463]

Tentoo, on Earth Slang

[ghost-bison]

Just saw a post about Tentoo and Donna, and then it had me thinking. Do you think, in Pete's world, that it's possible Tentoo missed Donna so much that he found the version of her from that world, somehow managed to get a job where she works, and befriended her? And as he's partly her, she can feel a connection to him that she can't explain, and they quickly become that weird duo everybody knows around there and when Donna loses her job (spills coffee in the computer), Tentoo quits (he basically just follows after her as she leaves the office insulting everyone), and they start working for Rose (Tentoo gets Donna in, but he didn't need to, cause Rose just loves her), and when Tentoo and Rose get children, they make Donna the godmother to the first one?

[dandelionjack]

a lot of people talk about love don’t roam being about rose which, sure, obviously, the first time i heard it in the runaway bride and recognised the lyrics i cried, but what people don’t mention nearly often enough is that my angel put the devil in me is more than just a gag tune for tallulah’s showgirls to perform at the cabaret. it’s a song from the perspective of martha.

that’s essentially the plot of smith&jones. the little streetcar is the tardis

referring to the fact that ten kept promising martha ‘one last trip’ before he dropped her off. then another, and another. hey, it don’t have to be eternally, because he’s not the kind of guy to stick around…

davros’ admonishment in journey’s end: the doctor may be a pacifist who never carries a weapon, but he turns everybody around him into soldiers. martha’s no exception; she holds the osterhagen key. ten may be her guardian angel, but her traumatic experiences while travelling with him harden her spirit, and by s4 she’s working for UNIT. she was an ordinary medical student and he put the ‘devil’ of adventure in her, just like any other companion

now this one’s pretty self-evident. cold grey eyes and a simple smile. guile and charm and mystery. whisked her away like a witch on a broomstick. one and one and one: three hearts between the two of them. or maybe ‘three’ is martha, the doctor and the tardis. or — worse — martha, the doctor and rose.

the fact that the song is playing during this scene in the end of time also casts its meaning in a different light: jack has been radically transformed through meeting the doctor just like martha was. from a conman and a coward to an unlikely hero. jack shoulders the burden too. so many lives upended because of this bad bad angel. don’t make crowley jokes

[sentientsky]

hey rtd what the actual fuck

[guardianreadersofthegalaxy]

Every Episode of Doctor Who Series 4 (2008) Described by Peep Show

[actinganimagus]

I just realised something horrifically sad.

The Doctor took Rose and her family home to Peter's world at the end of Series 4.

The Doctor wasn't there to save the universe from Sutekh's gift of death.

Which means the Tardis landed there...

Rose Tyler, her entire family, and the Metacrisis Doctor are all dust...

[fandomtrash67]

Brooooo

I was just watching DrWho edits when I saw one from that one s4 episode (one right at the end i think), and holy shit. The way the Doctor's voice cracks when he says, "But they died. They all died." The way his voice breaks on 'all'. Omfg David Tennant is GOING to kill me with this shit