#patrick/donna

[ngatwa]

DOCTOR WHO: THE GIGGLE (2023) + LETTERBOXD REVIEWS

[catastrophicalcat]

I dunno y'all, I think that is pretty funny. Premise: Donna is trying to persuade Dick to join an exclusive capes dating app (which Jason!) joined.

Nothing Butt Nightwing #8z

[donutdrawsthings]

I think it would mean a lot to Kate Stewart to meet the Doctor who ultimately started her father's UNIT journey. Because of Timey Wimey stuff she can't tell him who she is of course, but she can still show some thanks.

Bonus:

I like to imagine since Donna works for UNIT now, she likes to ask Kate along for lunch occasionally. And I also think 14 wouldn't hear the END of it once she finds out about Jamie.

[britelites000]

reallll (there is no him)

[oldbookshop]

Our whole lifetime, that Doctor that first met the Toymaker never, ever stopped. Put on trial. Exiled. Key to Time. All the devastation of Logopolis. (Adric.) Adric. River Song. All the people we lost. Sarah Jane has gone, can you believe that for a second? (I loved her.) I loved her. And Rose. But the Time War, Pandorica, Mavic Chen. We fought the Gods of Ragnarok, and we didn't stop for a second to say, what the hell?

DOCTOR WHO | The Giggle

[marvelsgirl616]

Donna said “this little disastrous twink is perfect. We’re keeping him” 🥹❤️

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Giggle - Part Thirteen

Excerpt from Doctor Who Magazine #589 - Paul Kirkley’s interview with the directors of the three 60th Anniversary specials:

DWM: Chanya, David Tennant was your first Doctor, wasn't he? Chanya Button [director of The Giggle]: Yes, I was very much a fan of David's first tenure. I remember being so captivated by him, and Billie Piper as Rose. DWM: Did you tell him that on set - that you loved him as a teenager? Or would that not have been terribly professional? Chanya: I don't think I put it quite that way, but I did demonstrate a pretty encyclopedic knowledge of his episodes. He knew I was going back and rewatching a lot of them while we were working together. Which I think he was quite amused by - me coming back in the next morning with a question about the Ood or the Adipose or something. He was like, "Are you just going home and watching Doctor Who?" Which I was. It was fun to revisit something I really remember loving at such a formative time of my life.

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[lililovesthings]

Seriously... Russell T Davies just went:

"Ha! I've got my show back bitches!"

Then proceeded to do whatever the F*CK he wanted.

[winter-seance]

Doctor Who | The Giggle

[starleska]

ohhh!!! guys, the Toymaker is wearing sleeve garters because it's the traditional outfit of poker dealers...they'd wear them to hike up their sleeves and show they haven't hidden any cards!!! the Toymaker is wearing sleeve garters to show that he is an honourable player and won't cheat!!!! 👀

[ngatwa]

BARBIE POSTERS feat. Doctor Who: The Giggle characters (insp)

[gbrogut]

They: You can't serve cunt while dressed as a ringmaster in a Doctor Who episode.

Neil Patrick Harris:

[embracethefeels]

Honestly, Neil Patrick Harris was BORN to play the Toymaker. Nailed it. 10/10 stars. That musical number? Tony Award worthy. I’m terrified of those dolls, but if he sold them to me, I’d take them too.

[mobius-m-mobius]

Why did this face come back? To say goodbye?

DOCTOR WHO - 60th Anniversary Trailer + Ep Titles

[schizolabratt]

These were the three best TARDIS duos, hands down.

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Giggle - Part Six Excerpt from Benjamin Cook's DWM #597 Interview with Catherine Tate (with guest appearance by David Tennant)

"Do you know, we went to an escape room with Neil? He loves them. It was his birthday while we were here…” [ Neil Patrick Harris ] celebrated his 49th while filming Doctor Who in Bristol last month. By day, he donned the Toymaker’s tux and shimmied gleefully on the streets. By night, he took David and Catherine out to dinner, then on to Worlds Collide, Bristol’s best – and only – Doctor Who-themed escape room. Players are given 60 minutes to work out how to close a tear in the fabric of spacetime, before the Cybermen break through (the Toymaker has fought the Cybermen!!). “He’d booked it out,” says Catherine. “He’d shut down the whole place [for the night] and they let us in.” “Proper Hollywood,” says David. “Innit, though! That’s old money, that is,” she laughs. “And Jodie [Whittaker’s Doctor] turns up,” says David. “She was on a PA. As if –” “– as if she’s calling you. And there was a scarf. And a sonic screwdriver.” “And a Cyberman.” “A Cyberman head, yeah.” Aren’t Catherine and David… you know, overqualified for a Doctor Who escape room? “I was quite hopeful,” he says. “I thought, these are puzzles I’m going to be able to solve. But then–” “There were chess pieces,” says Catherine, in much the same tone of voice in which Donna once informed the Doctor that Santa’s a robot. “I mean, oh my God! Sorry, but how the hell –?” Neil was brilliant at it, though. “He was annoyingly good.” The Toymaker and his games are quite notorious. “Yes, because then he went, ‘Let’s do another one! We’re gonna do the World War Two room.’ That’s when I came to life.” “It’s true,” says David. “I loved that one. It was great. We were spies and we’d infiltrated a Nazi bunker.” “It involved a bit more role play, didn’t it? Very Toymaker. And zome outrageous ack-sents!” “But after the Doctor Who one,” says Catherine, “it was clear that Neil and David were better at it. There was a clear division between the coulds and the could-nots. So Neil and David went into one room, and me, [executive producer] Phil Collinson, and Charlie [De Melo], who plays… is it Charles Banerjee? [glimpsed in last year’s Christmas Day trailer, rushing through the rain towards Mr Emporium’s toyshop] – went in another room. I’d said to Phil and Charlie, ‘Let’s cut the deadwood and go into a room on our own.’ You do it against each other, and see who gets out first. “So me, Charlie and Phil had a right old laugh,” recalls Catherine, cracking up, “while David and Neil went off and… got out much quicker. Midway through ours, they’d already finished and were watching us scrabble around trying to get out of our German bunker.” She chuckles at the memory. “Then suddenly through the PA comes: ‘DONNAAA!!!’” David says nothing, but he looks very pleased with himself.

Also, from Charlie De Melo's Instagram:

I'm struggling to think of a stranger evening than one, last June, doing a @bbcdoctorwho themed escape room, with The Doctor, Donna and the Toymaker. David and Neil, it turns out, are *very* good at escape rooms. The rest of us, less so. They rushed around the room, picking up clues and turning switches and all manner of other things, whilst the rest of us looked on, utterly bemused (& a little tooty in my case). So on they powered. Leaving us scratching our heads in a room full of disembodied Cybermen ones. Before confusion could give way to frustration, the tannoy crackled. It was David. They'd somehow managed to finish the entire thing whilst we all had stood still where we'd been left. Although he'd lost his lilting, melodic, Scottish brogue. He was now The Doctor. And in the Doctor's voice he began barking orders at us, talking us through the puzzles and guiding us out of whatever wibbly wobbly mess we were in and back to the safety of Bristol. "Donna! Quick! You have to get them out of there, the Cybermen are coming!"

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