#the power of the Doctor

[glitterypin]

God, I love Doctor Who. Where else are you going to get end credits as bananas as these?

[headcanonsandmore]

Some people online: So glad to see Doctor Who being fun and campy again! This previous era was too serious!

The previous era:

[notyoujamie]

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. - William Russell 1924 - 2024

[logray]

2005 | 2013 | 2022

[villiarty]

I can’t get over how the Doctor not only had to witness two (2) evil campy dance numbers in a row, but also get shot with a deadly laser beam twice (2x) in a span of 15 hours. The Toymaker must have been doing it on purpose, i.e. nicking the Master’s latest hits and throwing them at the Doctor.

[gallifreyanhotfive]

The Doctor: *exists*

The Master every few centuries: I want to crawl inside your body.

[themastergifs]

Well, that's quite a good beat, really, isn't it?

THE MASTER + spinning

[thegoldenghost4]

Imagine you are a LESBIAN and you only just came to terms with that and your SPACE GIRLFRIEND is killed by her freaky EX who also has a CRUSH on you and then your SPACE GIRLFRIEND turns into a GAY MAN

[the-force-awakens]

DOCTOR WHO (2005 - ) — 13.09 "The Power of the Doctor"

[evviejo]

thirteen + her goggles

[dandelionjack]

the ninth doctor trusted rose enough to believe she would stay with him after his face changed. and twelve took some convincing but towards the end of deep breath accepted that clara would stay by his side no matter how old he looked. but thirteen was so used to losing people. her previous self had loved clara and lost her, he had looked after bill and failed to save her, he had tried to redeem missy and (to his knowledge) lost that cause too. no wonder she wouldn’t trust yaz to stay for her fourteenth face. no wonder she believed she ‘had to do this next part alone’. she had grown quietly distant with the new knowledge that she was no longer even an ordinary gallifreyan, not something of this universe, but outside of it, alien even to the aliens. isolated and inaccessible, standing on an invisible pedestal her ancestors placed her on — a pedestal that more resembled a cage. glass walls on all sides like the forced regeneration chamber. thin glass wall between her and yaz now, transparent but too solid to break through. harder than azbantium when there’s no solid footing to stand on.

of course yaz would run when she saw her new self. of course she would leave. companions would never stay now, they would never fully understand. when thirteen said that she would need to do ‘this next part’ alone, by ‘next part’ she meant ‘the rest of her (potentially eternal) life’. it’s the classic gambit: push the one you love away before they get the chance to reject you. because they always will, now. either that or they die in horrible circumstances. better to flee like you’ve always done.

this is why the bigeneration was a narrative necessity, why the giggle was the perfect vision of a positive finale. the original version of the doctor gets to settle down with people that he won’t lose. people that he won’t turn away from. people whose hearts he won’t inevitably break. he’s sitting there in the back yard and he’s not going anywhere…

…yet somewhere out there in sheffield lives a police officer named yazmin khan. she’s not all sunshine and rainbows — all cops are bastards, after all. sometimes she takes her nameless rage out on a shoplifting suspect. sometimes she hands a parking ticket to a kid that didn’t deserve it. and sometimes she does genuine good for the community, sometimes she goes to the club and dances with strangers, sometimes she sits on the sofa and watches a documentary about space exploration and laughs at the painful inaccuracies. and many miles south, the doctor spends time with his family, but he’ll never get the courage to visit her. because she’d want to run away with him again. and he could never give her that, not anymore. anything but running.

yazmin khan loved the universe in the eyes of her doctor. oh, that doctor in the garden? the stay-at-home-doctor? he’s brilliant, but he would never be enough for her. his presence would never replace the cosmic vistas and myriads of stars thirteen gave her. and she’s never coming back

[nkp1981]

William Russell, Who Played One Of The 1st Doctor Who Companions, Ian Chesterton, Has Passed Away At The Age Of 99.

[legok9]

Ian Chesterton

In honor of William Russell (1924-2024)

An Unearthly Child (1963):

The Chase (1965):

Hunters of the Burning Stone (2013):

Untitled (DWM 169) (1990):

Ian Chesterton: An Introduction (1999):

The Five Companions (2010):

The Time Museum (2012):

Susan's War (2020):

The Power of the Doctor (2022):

Bonus: An Adventure in Space and Time (2013):

[idkaguyorsomething]

So many options with equal potential for hilarity, homoeroticism, and bloodshed. ¡Elaborate on you pick in the tags and reblog please!

[bnxxshthealien]

doctor who numbering explained

The 1st to 8th doctors are the 1st to 8th doctors.

The 9th doctor is the war doctor.

The 10th doctor is the 9th doctor.

The 11th doctor is the 10th doctor.

The 12th doctor is the 10th doctor.

The 13th doctor is the 11th doctor.

The 14th doctor is the 12th doctor.

The 15th doctor is a bunch of daleks.

The 16th doctor is the 13th doctor.

The 1st 17th doctor is the master.

The 2nd 17th doctor is the 14th doctor.

The 18th doctor is the 15th (and current) doctor, Ncuti Gatwa.

Also all of these numbers are off by about 15 if you count the shalka, foundling, fugitive, division and morbius doctors (who are all technically canon)

Hope this clears things up!

[witchofthemidlands]

companion support group is everything to me because there has to have been a session where everyone is talking about the day they met the doctor & how excited they were to be invited to travel in time & space…

because then ian who'd be sitting there, would be getting vivid flashbacks to the day he & barbara did (1) welfare check on a student & technically ended up victims of a friend shaped alien abduction being like what do you mean you guys were invited