#the doctors regeneration

[thek1ngspoet]

{I LET YOU GO} — The (12th) Doctor, Doctor Who

You wait a moment, Doctor. Let’s get it right. I’ve got a few things to say to you. Basic stuff first. Never be cruel, never be cowardly. And never ever eat pears! Remember – hate is always foolish…and love, is always wise. Always try, to be nice and never fail to be kind. Oh, and….and you mustn’t tell anyone your name. No-one would understand it anyway. Except….Except….children. Children can hear it. Sometimes – if their hearts are in the right place, and the stars are too. Children can hear your name. But nobody else. Nobody else. Ever. Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind. Doctor – I let you go.

[nipuni]

Phoenix

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon soon 😊

[emotinalsupportturtle]

David Tennant being a lifelong Doctor Who fan who was inspired by the show to act, becoming the Doctor and Ncuti Gatwa who watched David Tennant and was inspired to act, playing the Doctor opposite David’s Doctor is the most beautiful thing

[avemakuta]

I think that the real fantasy of regeneration isn't living forever, it's being able to die without having to end.

It's the War Doctor being able to hope that after he dies, his next incarnation won't be a warrior anymore. It's Ten praying that when he does go, that new man who saunters away will be the Doctor in a way that Ten doesn't know how to anymore. It's Fifteen hoping against hope that maybe this time, maybe this life, he'll be able to avoid becoming a killer.

It's the ability to look back at your past and your regrets and your failures and say "I was a different person back then" and maybe, just maybe, genuinely believe it.

[huntersroses]

There's something in the whole "regenerations are affected by who the Time Lord last sees/first sees/is thinking about at the time" that has some undertapped characterisation potential.

Like, 9 becoming young and bubbly 10 for Rose, Simm choosing to be young to match with the Doctor (to do battle better, obviously. Definitely not anything else haha. Definitely.) 12 having a Scottish accent after 11 died thinking of Amy?? And then Missy taking the accent for herself??

The Doctor taking traits from their companions and the Master taking theirs from the Doctor being the pattern here. Like come on. So much can be read into that. It's just sitting there for free.

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant dancing on the set of The Giggle - Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials

The Doctor doesn't even dance in the UNIT scene - this is all pure, joyous David Tennant

also featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Ncuti Gatwa, and Ruth Madeley (who are all glorious)

[claraoswalds]

60TH ANNIVERSARY + foreshadowing

[canonsensical]

Donna Noble has never witnessed a regeneration that doesn't result in multiple doctors, at least one of them being David Tennant.

She spends life living with fourteen worried that he's going to fall down the stairs and she'll end up with another one.

[yesokayiknow]

i 100% do not believe any of the doctor's 'wow what a cool and fun thing to just happen! anyway' bs btw. i think the doctor went through such an extreme identity crisis that was originally triggered by the timeless child discovery and compounded with literal millennia of unsolved trauma that they literally split in two

[carefulzombie]

it’s been said a hundred times but man it must’ve been fucking wild to be a doctor who fan back in the 60s. like what do you mean the doctor’s just a different guy now

[piniatafullofblood]

something that really gets me about the doctor is that if your looking, it’s very obvious that they’re the same person across regenerations. the important things stick- the wit, the thinking under pressure, the emotional constipation, (which gets lessened over time, but that’s less on an on/off regeneration thing than you might think and more of a character arc thing so it further proves my point) their inherent love for humanity, their drama, their nonviolent tendencies.

all the obvious changes between the doctors are surface level, and if you go poking around you find that they’re all really similar to each other. I just love watching different peoples portrayals of one single character, and I think it’s really fun to see that regeneration really is mostly just changing the *body*, not the *soul*.

[scroogemcducksbastardchild]

i think the most devastating bit about doomsday is that ten had never had to live without rose before.

ten was born in front of rose. he existed as a physical manifestation of nine's love for her: the embodiment of all the wounds she had tended to without knowing. rose could not save the doctor from hating himself, but she let him love again. she laughed and listened to music and got chips with him, and "run for your life" became "thank you. i need you. please stay with me." to live without her, to live with the knowledge that he could never ever see her again would have been utterly SHATTERING.

[quietwingsinthesky]

hear me out: doctor regeneration that leaves them looking like a human teenager.

[catabasis]

The man without a home. The lonely god.

[arkitiore]

New master just dropped 😛

[oldbookshop]

David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker discussing how they found out who the 13th and 14th Doctors would be! [x][x]