#tenth doctor / interactions

[claraoswalds]

The End of the World // Gridlock

[incorrectquotesconaisseur]

I think it's time we talked about the doctor's "do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?" in relation to the master.

Bc throughout their lives, everytime the master did something bad, when he’d cone back they'd still have a sort of teasing relationship. Like they both knew it was a game. They both knew their limits and the true extent of their games. So there wasn't really place for betrayal in the game bc they both knew betrayal (on the master's side) WAS involved in it.

Then comes the time war and the doctor thinks he did the unforgivable and committed genocide on his own planet. And then the master shows up, arguably his most important friend, the only one who truly understands him - and then the master does something that's pretty unforgivable by enslaving the human race and turning the people at the end of the universe in killing machines. And yet the doctor, in a very important scene, forgives him like it's the easiest thing. Because they're still the same, the game hasn't changed, they're still on tjr same page, still doing the same things to each other.

And 12 was careful and a bit wary but he wholeheartedly wanted to help missy change - he saved her life in the process too. And I think he was happy at the prospect of missy becoming good bc that meant that the person he felt closest too, who was fundamentally different from him before (and it was okay bc it was in the rules of the game), was ready to be even more like him. Soulmatism x1000.

He thought missy wanted to change the rules of the game and that meant betrayal would no longer be part of it. He wouldn't run and she wouldn't stab him in the back for it.

Thing is - he thinks missy betrayed him. And he STAYED. He asked her to stay too, which is different from what he used to do to her - abandon her, run from her etc. And he thought that he was changing the rules of the game too. But missy betrayed him (in his eyes, he doesn’t know she wanted to come back) and he felt like they no longer even had the game.

The thing with 13 and the master is that the whole "do you think I care for you so little thag betraying me would make a difference?" doesn't seem applicable anymore and you wonder why. Bc it's not like they don't CARE about each other, in a twisted way. It's that the master still wants to play the game, although with significantly more violence because he's significantly hurting more than ever before, and the doctor doesn't want to play the game anymore at all.

[huntressofartemis001]

favourite doctor who interactions that simply refuse to leave my mind:

“daleks have no concept of elegance”

“this is obvious”

“i just want a mate”

“you just want TO MATE??!?!???!?!?!!”

“i just want A mate!!!!”

“you’re not mating with me, sunshine!!!”

“got my spaceship, got my boys”

“we are not her boys”

“yes we are”

“yes we are”

[metacrisisdoctor]

DOCTOR WHO | 4.13

[its-that-gay-fox]

i wanted to talk about the similarities between how the doctor acts in “the waters of mars” and “hell bent”. like the amount of similarities between ten and twelve stemming from the fact that the doctor just can’t lose anyone else is crazy. i think that just the references to ten’s era as well is great, like the older face to reference donna saying just save someone, the doctor taking donna’s words too seriously and trying to save everyone, the whole time lord victorious similarities, etc. i just think that the writers did such a good job connecting ten and twelve and twelve’s writing is just so good overall. like the zygon inversion speech will forever just be looping in my head. anyways uh hell bent broke me and i am very sad rn, also off topic the reference to rory and amy in the cafe when the doctor almost died was really good

[sallysellsseashellssundays]

I rewatched "The Impossible Planet" two-parter and I'm dying over the mortgage scene, when she's talking about how they could both share he immediately swallows and starts subtly nodding a couple of times like his own body betrays him before he starts more aggressively nodding and says "anyway" 😭😭😭😭and even then he doesn't start rambling the way you'd expect him to with that sort of conversation he just lets it settle

I've also never taken that scene to be a rejection, he's always tried to play things off just like he did when he first asked Rose if she wanted to travel in the TARDIS and most obviously when he asks if she wants to spend her life with him

On a similar note it's fascinating to me that Rose is the one that keeps looking away and being awkward while he's entranced looking at her so intensely...

[comshipbracket]

Antis DNI

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Propaganda for both ships under the cut.

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TenRose Propaganda (Age Gap - 10th Doctor is 903 and Rose Tyler is 19, Species Difference - 10th Doctor is a Gallifreyan Time Lord and Rose Tyler is Human)

"Tumblr Classic, if people don't recognise this as big as the Wincest in Round 1 then they're doing Tumblr a disservice"

Thoschei Propaganda (Abusive Dynamic, Obsessive Dynamic)

"The Doctor and The Master are childhood friends turned enemies and have remained enemies since. They've been through so much, The Doctor choosing to take the path of kindness and mercy while The Master took the path of control and command. The Master is the reason for The Doctor's death several times. When The Master was dying in one episode, The Doctor begged them to regenerate so that they could travel together, but The Master refused just to cause The Doctor more pain and distress. When The Doctor finally got their home planet back, The Master destroyed it again, murdering the entirety of the species and creating a new race of immortal Cyberman - enemies The Doctor has faced before. This was after, in a previous incarnation, The Master had converted several corpses into Cybermen to offer The Doctor an army, which was refused. It's gotten to the point where The Master, during one episode, decided to use a special manipulated regeneration to BECOME The Doctor. If that's not some form of malicious obsessive hatelove then I don't know what is. These two are SO bad for each other, but can't keep away from each other, and that's what makes them great."

[odetokeons]

if i had a nickel for every time one of my favourite characters got lost in the woods and befriended a rabbit, i would have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice.

[tardis-technician]

Donna Noble accidentally accepts an invitation to a gay bar in The Creeping Death. What more could could you want?

[soulless-angel25]

Please reblog for a larger sample size <3

[misteriios]

closed starter for @hiddenpxpercuts // amy & the tenth doctor

❝ have we met before? your face looks familiar, but i don't know ❞ how can a face you haven't seen before feel familiar? she frowned as she studied the man ❝ perhaps i have seen you in a store? to think about it makes my head hurt, shall not think too much of it i suppose ❞

[gallifreyanhotfive]

it's probably been requested before but i'd like to throw my hat in the ring for midnight as an episode in your watching the show fic. would be Very fun material i think (no rush or pressure ofc!!)

Hello!!!

I've never had anyone send an ask about my fic before, so I'm excited now!!!

Yes, I do intend on getting to Midnight at some point. :) I'm currently working on what order I want to do these episodes - particularly because there are some I want to do before others for Reasons (for example, I want to do Amy's Choice right before The Widow's Assassin for Reasons, but I have no idea when I'll get there quite yet lol).

I have the next few chapters planned out, though, but Midnight will come eventually (it's one of my favorite new series episodes).

[synodic-lupine]

BPD Tenth Doctor

[sailforvalinor]

Seeing your post got me thinking. How did you feel about Ten's ending? Especially the fact that he "didn't want to go". That hit me rather hard when I first watched Ten's ending. It was rather unlike Five's for instance where he accepted his fate. I forget in what order I watched it, I think I watched Five's story after, but I digress. I don't know, it felt so human to me, and raw and David Tennant delivered it flawlessly. So I wondered your thoughts on it.

I loved it. I loved it I loved it I loved it. I was a bit too emotional at the time to post anything coherent about it, but…yeah. If it tells you anything, my dad cried—and he’s seen it at least three times before 😂.

Here’s the thing about the “I don’t want to go” line: Series 1 and 2 is a positive character arc for the Doctor. At the beginning of Series 1, he is at his lowest, the Time War having just occurred. He is angry, closed-off, refuses to be “domestic”—i.e., he’s refusing to get attached again. But Rose drags him back into all of that anyway—and this arc is a lot of things, it’s about him rediscovering joy, confronting grief and guilt, but most importantly, he is allowing himself to care again.

But to care is to leave yourself vulnerable to loss, and that’s what happens when he loses Rose—and it’s inarguably devastating for him. His characterization takes a definite shift here, he’s lost a bit of his joy (and even at times when he does express happiness or joy it can feel like a mask, or at least somewhat forced), and he becomes so unwilling to let go—think of the “I can do this, I can do anything” scene where Astrid dies in “Voyage of the Damned.” To me, Series 3 and 4 and the specials are a negative character arc for Ten, though a subtle one, one you don’t realize is occurring until it culminates with the Time Lord Victorious—a slow, agonizing trainwreck. He’s lost so many people by this point—not just his Rose, but Martha, Donna, the Tylers, Mickey, Astrid—and he’s been isolating himself to avoid getting attached again, to avoid hurting anyone else, but when he comes to care for the crew of Bowie Base One and loses them, he snaps. And we all know what happens—he falls for the lure of power, the illusion of control. And he himself falls.

“The End of Time” is the consequence of that fall, and I would argue that the Doctor finds himself much in the same position as he was in at the beginning of Series 1–desperately lonely, but unwilling to get close, so so scared of loss. Though in a very different way, I think Wilf helps Ten relearn the same lesson Rose taught him all those years ago, that he has to care, to try to force himself to be apathetic is so much worse, but Wilf (and the Ood) help give him the second half: he also has to learn to let go. It’s a constant cycle: “you have to love -> you have to lose -> you have to love -> you have to lose,” and Ten finally, finally understands—but as he’s dying. He’s finally grasped the truth, he’s seen the light, but he’s seen it too late. And that’s the tragedy of it. As I watched the specials, I got the sense that he wanted his time to end—it’s never explicit, but you can sense it, he seems tired, makes references to having lived too long. He had all that time he wasted self-isolating and alternately wallowing in despair or trying to force apathy, but it is on his last day, at the sound of four knocks, that he finally realizes that he wants to live. And he can’t.

I think that Matt Smith was an absolutely brilliant casting choice as Eleven, because it would be impossible to not resent any other replacement after that. Smith’s Doctor is just so sweet and goofy and joyful that it’s hard to dislike him for long. Honestly, my personal headcanon is that Eleven is like that because of Eleven, trying to make up for Ten’s lost joy.

Anyway, sorry about the ramble, I had more thoughts about this than I realized.

[doctordefinitearticle]

doctor I need ten bananas. It’s dire.

- @oopstoomanymasters

Sending them over as we speak! Added an additional five, hope you don't mind!