#doctor who series 4

[lovelyinspiration1463]

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

[ghost-bison]

[songforten]

doctor who series four + ao3 tags

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[g3othermal3scapism]

just finished david tennant’s doctor for the first time and am sobbing over rose tyler as my first cry of 2025 <3 new year same me

[diariart]

Time for season fourrrr (aka the best season)

[willgrahams-dog]

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

[pizzacade]

The letter sent to River Song by the Tenth Doctor, after his chronologically misplaced first meeting with her, and her last over all.

[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 🥰

[whathehe11]

To the Doctor and Donna Noble!

[lovelyinspiration1463]

Tentoo, on Earth Slang

[ghost-bison]

what i love about rtd companions is that even martha who was a fricking doctor was just a normal young adult. donna was the most normal woman in her mid-thirties you could find. rose was what people call a "chav". and the ninth doctor didn't have a "posh" accent. he sounded like a northerner. this is great

i am a northerner myself, but from france, where (surprise!) people with our accent and background are belittled like in britain, as we're working class. france isn't as elitist as britain but it's been getting worse

i live in france where people like rose are called "cas-sociaux" (charity cases basically, "cassos" for short) which has become an insult. we use it to tell people they're stupid. so basically, your level of intelligence is mesured by your up-bringing. if you're rich and still have both your parents, you're smarter. if you're poor and have only one parent, you're dumb. which is fucking shit, btw

but this classicism can be associated with so much racism in france towards mixed-raced people (and immigrants in general, even those who are now naturalized). cause statistically speaking, a lot of them are poor. thing is, they're poor and some of them even labeled as "delinquants", not because they're lazy or stupid, but because white people won't let them get jobs! duh

so yeah, i know rose is white (2005 uk tv, right?), but she's still poor and "underpriviledged" (much like myself, and even more so than myself), and eccleston even talked about this during a convention, how when billie piper was cast as rose there was a lot of negative feedback, because she was a pop-star. it's again very much linked to classicism, "people having to stay in their boxes"

and it's crazy hilarious and fantastic how the doctor himself gives a big fuck you to all those people who have been fans of the show for so long, by giving ZERO FUCKS that rose lives in a council flat or donna is considered a "lowbrow" due to her up-bringing her education and job or that martha has more melanin than his previous companions

the most brilliant creature in the universe would rather travel with your curious broke ass than with some snooty sophisticated daddy's girl and it makes the boomers so mad

[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 😭😭

[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