#tenth doctor tales

[ninemelodies]

ooooh my god. oh my god i can’t do this anymore.

[whatsfourteenupto]

Doctor: Brilliant stuff, psychic paper! Makes whoever reads it believe whatever you want them to.

Doctor: Even convinced security at an ABBA concert that Donna and I were Björn and Frida. But, eughhh…sorry. You don’t know Donna, do you? You’d have loved her.

(Doctor Who: Dead Air)

[k1ngspencer]

BOWTIE DUO!!! A shame these two never met. They would have been amazing. The hobo doctors ❤️❤️

[inhonoredglory]

💎 David Tennant Birthday DTIYS 💎

For David's b'day, I made a #TennantDTIYS ! Click here for prizes & rules!

David Tennant is sacred to me. His humility endeared me to him ages ago & his activism made me love him even more. Ten & Crowley shaped who I am. 💜 Thank you David!

[nileqt87]

Jamie McCrimmon in Tales of the TARDIS

The most special thing that's come out of Doctor Who in years. But the most important return for me will always be Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon. I want him back in a full episode. His story is so rich for a return that could only involve the Doctor (and/or the TARDIS), as well as not only having clear parallels to Donna Noble's mind wipe, but also being the Classic companion who most meant it that he'd never have left the Doctor willingly and would've followed him until the end.

For the record, this Jamie was the inspiration for Jamie Fraser (note the actor's first name being Frazer) in Outlander, as The War Games (my favorite Classic serial) was what Diana Gabaldon was watching when she came up with her idea, which is arguably Doctor Who fanfiction that 'ships time-traveling highlander Jamie McCrimmon with that serial's WWI nurse, Lady Jennifer. Frazer Hines is well aware of being the inspiration and even cameo'd.

Jamie was not only the longest-serving companion in Doctor Who history (yes, even more episodes than the Brigadier, though Sarah Jane beats him with her spinoff) with his 116 episodes (1966-1969, 1983 and 1985) and this short (2023), but he's also one of the greatest examples of the Doctor's closest and most-beloved companions not necessarily being chosen for being the most "equal" (the idea that companions from humble or easily-belittled beginnings like Jamie, Jo, Leela, Rose, Donna, etc…, who all struggled with insecurity over their worth due to their backgrounds, are his intellectual inferiors and thus not as worthy or appropriate as non-human companions like Romana or River, or even human genius Zoe here, for the Doctor to love--which is an insult to the Doctor and what he fell in love with humanity for), but for being the most human, genuine, loyal and loving as well as brave. This is one thing that Russell T Davies understood so well and Steven Moffat didn't quite get.

Jamie was hardly afraid to call the Doctor out when he disagreed or thought the Doctor had callously gone too far, by the way. Just watch/listen to The Evil of the Daleks for that, which is where the Doctor manipulates Jamie's very humanity to get him to rescue Victoria from the Daleks along with him being the source of the "human factor" used to create human-Dalek hybrids. Jamie's desperate, heartbroken, unrequited reaction (sadly, reduced to just audio, which captures the sound of a kiss) to Victoria's departure likewise puts to bed the idea that sentimental emotionalism and the Doctor dealing with companion reactions at their most human began in the Russell T Davies era.

Jamie certainly was more of a skirt chaser, albeit quite innocent, than you'd assume would be depicted in Classic Who! As much as Ian and Barbara, and then Ben and Polly, were depicted as couples in the TARDIS, they never got such an explicit declaration of feelings as Jamie's in Fury from the Deep.

Jo is the Classic companion who arguably admitted to having feelings for the Doctor himself, describing Cliff Jones as a younger version of the Doctor for why she's choosing him. These shorts allude to this moment as well, though frame it in retrospect as Jo having chosen Cliff over the Doctor, despite her arguably having more of a basis for feelings towards the Doctor than Sarah Jane in School Reunion and her inability to move on (highlighted beautifully when she walked down the aisle alone after her wedding day betrayal, only to be comforted by the Doctor, not to mention her adopting all the children she never had), which made her a mirror to Rose's future. Jo is thus a mirror to Sarah Jane as the companion arguably in love with the Doctor in a not-so-platonic way who moved on and found real love vs. one who didn't move on until it was too late, and who was likewise a mirror to Rose, who is famous for being the companion most explicitly in love with the Doctor to the extent that her moving on involved ending up with the Doctor's Metacrisis (but ultimately choosing him, their daughter Mia and a human life over the Eighth and Eleventh Doctors in Empire of the Wolf).

The Second Doctor's favoritism of Jamie extended so far as to go back for him (quite rare for the Doctor) when he was forced to work for the Time Lord Celestial Intervention Agency (season 6b, which isn't so much a theory anymore) and the reaction towards Jamie was probably the most cuddly and warm the Sixth Doctor (to the extent that the turbulent relationship with Peri got a little better for that one serial because of Jamie's presence) sadly ever got on screen before Big Finish salvaged the era. Jamie always brings out of the best in the Doctor and what the Doctor loves humanity the most for.

That Frazer Hines was so genuinely close to Patrick Troughton in real life (they were quite the mischievous pair, often sneaking gags in past the censors in addition to their pranks!) comes across so beautifully in every voice impression of his old friend and through his portrayal of Jamie whose love for and wish to have never left the Doctor is unquestionable.

Obviously, there was that fear of what he had left to return to, but also his belief that he needed to be there to protect the Doctor, which he always took it upon himself to do. Jamie would no doubt get along very well with the Brigadier (whose first story was with Jamie), Leela and Ace in their willingness towards protective violence, not to mention Ian and Rory often facing having to fill that role a little more reluctantly. And most of all, one of the deepest, most-loving friendships among Doctor and companion. Yes, there is exactly one iteration of the Doctor whose closest, most-favorite companion (that tendency towards favoritism was already there) was unambiguously not any of the female ones and was an even firmer break from the Doctor's old model of replacing his granddaughter with a relationship that felt far more like friends/partners in crime with a hint of fatherliness or mad uncle. And of course, this twin mop-topped Odd Couple fit in nowhere. Jamie was as out-of-place and "alien" as the Doctor wherever the TARDIS landed.

And given where he was sent back to by the Time Lords, his future without his memories looked pretty dire. His immediate return involved being being shot at, hanged, put on a slave ship by the Redcoats or fleeing to France--which was the context of his situation when the Doctor saved his life and he walked into the TARDIS when he was a piper from the Battle of Culloden in 1746 who could neither swim or read, and who was as likely to call an airplane a "flying beastie" as calling a Cyberman "the Phantom Piper", and then was returned to that sans all memories but for his first adventure before entering the TARDIS.

Obviously, Russell T Davies has given Jamie quite a happier ending than his tragic comic fate in The World Shapers in which old Jamie has finally gotten his memories back, but his family (he married Kirsty McLaren, daughter of the laird whom he was a humble, orphaned piper for, from The Highlanders) has abandoned him over it and he rapidly ages to death in sacrifice. The Tenth Doctor also had a comic companion named Heather McCrimmon (descended from those five daughters, but still retains the surname!) who still carried her ancestor's Artron radiation energy from the TARDIS. I would love to see Jamie meet Heather, who would be awesome to see realized on screen.

[seaweedstarshine]

‘Is something funny?’ asked Swagger. ‘Did I miss a funny thing?’ Only then did I realise I was laughing — laughing so hard I had to use the wall to get to my feet. ‘What’s funny?’ he demanded again. ‘Tell me!’ ‘Look at us,’ I said. ‘Go on, look! You’re trying to tear me apart, he’s trying to pull us off each other, and now I’ve got the giggles.’ ‘Why the hell is any of that funny?’ he thundered, but his face was so hurt and confused I almost wanted to hug him. ‘Because,’ I told him, ‘this is what I’m like when I’m alone.’

—The Day of the Doctor: The Target Novelization, by Steven Moffat

[rosenlily-aka-choconut]

Top 5 ships?

I’ll give you more than 5, my friend

Lee Rang/Yeo-hee (Canon, Tale of the nine tailed 1938)

Jaime/Brienne (Canon, Game of Thrones)

Lee Rang/Ki Yu-ri (Tale of the nine tailed)

They had such explosive chemistry!

Ten/Rose (Sort of canon) Doctor Who

Go Seung-tak/Cha Young-min (C’mon, they were in a romcom) - Ghost Doctor

Jang uk/Mu deok (I refuse to watch season 2)

Alchemy of Souls

Han Joon-hwi/Kang Sol A - Law school

(The script said legal drama, but Mr. Kim Beom wrote a rom-com here)

[machinenerding]

Headcanon! The 14th Doctor is already halfway to becoming the Curator - and his police box is turning into a Memory TARDIS. Much like he became the War Doctor and distanced himself from that incarnation mentally and physically, 14 is already on the road to a new mentality and that zen means trouble never comes knocking. That's why he lets the Doctor (15 and otherwise) take his place when trouble hits present day Earth in his vicinity!

[sparrowsabre7]

Thirteen stopping Ten putting his foot in it by going on and on about Rose again in front of Martha

[fantastictalesofadventure]

𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰…

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Gabriel Woolf on Doctor Who Return: "The Fans Kept Sutekh Alive... and I'm Over the Moon"

Gabriel Woolf on #DoctorWho Return: "The Fans Kept Sutekh Alive... and I'm Over the Moon"

Ahead of tonight’s episode of Tales of the TARDIS, the BBC has released an interview with Gabriel Woolf, voice of Sutekh in both the 1975 serial, Pyramids of Mars, and in the Series 14 two-part finale, The Legend of Ruby Sunday/ Empire of Death. Sutekh returned in last week’s episode of Doctor Who, and is set to bring terror to 21st Century Earth in this weekend’s Empire of Death. Fans were…

[whatsfourteenupto]

Not me listening to Dead Air at work. “If I’m lucky, you’re listening to this on the boat.” Buddy, have I got news for you!

[k1ngspencer]

“Retirements hard work” prt 2! 14 tries to ask the second doctor for tips to relax, needless to say; Jamie is talking his ear off. Next up is 3!

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

tenth doctor. do you see my vision or am i going fully insane

[eutravels]

Tales from New Earth

Now this is some refreshing content! Apparently people don't like this boxset very much? Personally I'm totally fond of it, it's a wonderful sequel to the New Earth trilogy from the TV series, Devon and Hame are great at leading the show and the Lux is truly a menacing and interesting villain.

I don't think it will get a Volume 2 but I don't think it needs any anyway, so it works great.

I was a bit startled at the Tenth Doctor bits because of the oddness of how he's inserted through third person narration by Devon while the rest of the characters speak normally. Hodgson's impersonation does the job but it does not hide the absence of Tennant in the cast, especially when his character was not really needed for the whole story to work out. I'd rather have listened to it without the Doctor in it, even though I love him really much.

Each story is really unique so it'll be way more interesting to talk about each individually!

Escape from New New York

This one really hooked me up. It's probably my favourite from this boxset. It sets up a lot of background for Devon as well as for the rest of the story, and it's great to see Hame again.

This whole story is a great pilot, it establishes the Lux really properly and all the events within it demonstrate how and why Devon is about to get so invested in the battle against the Lux.

Death in the New Forest

This is the first one in which the Doctor appears. As expected it's not that great. He takes too much light away from Devon but it still doesn't feel like a Doctor Who story. In the end, both are wasted in this.

The story in itself is really great, there's tension, suspense, you keep wondering who did it until the reveal: just great. It does not really live up to the previous one, but it shows what a casual Tales from New Earth story looks like (since the first establishes the characters and situations). It's a good start, even though it could have done well even without the Doctor.

The Skies of New Earth

This one was a wonderful piece of action and political discourse. What are you supposed to do when the two possibilities you have are as bad as one another? Doing his best, Devon convinces both camps to fight against their common enemy: the Lux.

It's a great start, but it gets messy as soon as the Doctor comes in. Having some Tenth Doctor content once again is great, but the same phenomenon as the one before happens, the Doctor shines way more than the main character, who then becomes an observer of the Doctor's doing. In a sense, he is supposed to be just an observer, he even pretends to be a journalist in this one, but it's a great let down from the first story.

Anyway it does not take away the other qualities of this story. The side characters are lovely, especially Oscar the Solar Bear, and the Lux is as frighteningly mad and powerful as ever.

The Cats of New Cairo

More Hame, less poor man's Tenth Doctor, what's not to love?

I really liked the character of Sister Jara and her rivalry with Hame, which shows how much Hame has learned from the events of the TV series. It's even more obvious during Hame's talk with The Most Exalted High Persian, her dedication to New Earth and to her Senatorial duty is remarkable.

Otherwise, the story was just great, not the boxset's best one, but definitely a great one. It's a good finale, and I liked the senate bits at the beginning and the end of it.

[rosenlily-aka-choconut]

A Lee Rang scene that reminds you of something from a different universe?

You just drove me to tears 😭

Goodbye to Rang and Goodbye to Ten 😭😭