#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.

[glitterypin]

I appreciate the Thirteenth Doctor for a great many reasons but the thing I loved about her more than anything else is that of all the NuWho Doctors she's the first one who had the presence of mind to not fucking regenerate in the TARDIS, in flight.

I assume it's because after Twelve's regeneration, Thirteen was the first one to actually lose the TARDIS instead of just crashing the fuck out of it like her previous incarnations. (Side note, the TARDIS fucking throws her out like a salt shaker, do we think Sexy was miffed that she got a woman Doctor after all this time? Or was she just fed up with all the Doctors regenerating in the console room and giving her the mother of indigestions and just took it out on Thirteen to teach her a lesson? If it's the latter, it obviously worked, just sayin'.)

Look at her, respectfully parking the TARDIS and stepping outside to regenerate out in the open:

...like a reasonable Time Lord who knows and understands that regeneration Fucks Things Up and you shouldn't do it in cramped spaces.

And it's not like the others regenerated accidentally or were running away from something, in fact they all held it in until they were safe and then calmly walked into the TARDIS, took off and then promptly regenerated. Like, my dude, you know you're going to break everything in the ship with your regeneration and you know you're totally out of it for a while after you regenerate, so absolutely not in a position to deal with a broken, crashing TARDIS. WHY THE FUCK DO YOU KEEP DOING IT LIKE THIS? smh

Thank you, Thirteen, for being the first Doctor to display some common sense in your regeneration.

[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.

[dandelionjack]

“i won’t die, i’ll change”

characters dissolving in golden light after being passed the star as a duty, a relay baton, a mission

no TARDIS, but hundreds of doors in a building all leading to different points in earth’s history. and the doctor doing basically nothing but waiting, like a companion would

i’m connecting the dots. i’m building a scheme. i’m ivy, if you’ve been here a year then you know me, and i know that steven moffat never writes a story that’s exciting only on the surface

the doctor does nothing because the role of doctor is played by everybody else this time. “my little doctor”, says joy. this isn’t about him at all

[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.

[willgrahams-dog]

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.

[justletmeramble1701]

Do you guys subscribe to the theory that (at least, starting in NuWho) the Doctor can, somewhat, subconsciously control his regenerations?

Like, of course, 8 wanted to be a warrior, so he became the War Doctor (I know that he drank a potion for that, but that might’ve just been lemonade according to the Target Novelization).

War wanted to be the hero, to earn the title, the Doctor, again, so he became 9.

9 wanted to be someone who was the perfect partner to Rose (human), so he became 10.

10, in his vanity, wanted his final regeneration to be young, so he became 11.

11, after all the heartache, wanted to be more distant (and also what they said in series 8), so he became 12.

12 wanted a kind, fresh start, so he became 13.

13 wanted to open up to someone, so she became 14.

14 wanted time to heal, so he split off 15.

This is not an original theory, and I'm not even saying that I buy into it fully it, but it's interesting. It would be interesting if the Doctor had a tiny bit of control over their regeneration (Romana did, somehow) and most of the time his wants either backfire or only half work.

What do you think?

[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]