#The Giggle

[tyba1t]

In the lil

TwoJamie au where they take the place of 14 and Donna

Fugitive is 15 cuz I like the idea of her as The Doctor between 2 and 3

So yeah

Them

#doctor who #art #sketch #classic who #fanart #classic doctor who #jamie mccrimmon #2nd doctor #second doctor #traditional art #fugitive doctor #the giggle

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

#through happy coincidence this could also be a torchwood briefing #David Tennant #the giggle #doctor who #spoilers #10th Doctor #14th doctor #tentoo #ik the math ain’t mathing but it made me giggle

[davidtennan-t]

*THE GIGGLE ENDING SPOILERS*

EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING

I’ve just read the novelisation of the Giggle and the ending has me on my knees - it goes into much more detail than the show so guess what

THE DOCTOR BOUGHT THAT HOUSE

THAT IS HIS HOUSE

He chose it, he went to an estate agents and said ‘I want this pretty house’, offered them £60, then rang Kate Stewart and discovered he was getting paid by UNIT this whole time, was able to afford the house/mortgage and BOUGHT THAT HOUSE

The Nobles still have a house in London but they STAY WITH THE DOCTOR NEARLY ALL THE TIME

He chose the house with a sunroom so WILF COULD LIVE DOWNSTAIRS COMFORTABLY

#I’m still processing this oh my god #baby girl owns his own house #I’m crying #doctor who #donna noble #fourteenth doctor #dw spoilers #the giggle #David Tennant becomes David Landdlord

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

Fifteen immediately changing the TARDIS to warm toned lighting is such a mood

#he has his priorities right #I'm immediately sold on his doctor #ncuti gatwa #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #the giggle #15th doctor #fifteenth doctor

[thebootstrap-paradox]

The face of a woman who has her best friend back, her memories back, an open UNIT job with 5 weeks holiday on a £120K salary, a husband, a daughter, a TARDIS… DONNA NOBLE YOU WON

#doctor who spoilers #doctor who #donna noble #the giggle #doctor who special #catherine tate #doctor who specials

[cosmic-day]

Rose gets her own Doctor. Donna gets her own Doctor. Martha gets a lifetime of PTSD and a t-shirt that says 'I walked the world for the Doctor and I didn't get so much as a lousy t-shirt'.

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #the giggle #martha jones #wtf #cosmic posts

[unnamednarrat0r]

#doctor who #the giggle #dw spoilers #the doctor #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #text post

[colbrot]

its 2053. 90 year old russell t davies is made showrunner of doctor who just in time for the show’s upcoming 90th anniversary. 82 year old david tennant feels a chill in the air

#and i WILL be watching #he’s gonna drag his ass out of retirement for one last spin #not like he’s gonna say no!! #doctor who #dw spoilers #doctor who spoilers #the giggle

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

honestly the real mvp is shaun temple. his wife shows up after the world almost ended and is like hey, remember that little fruit who you met 3 days ago? he's my best fucking friend he's my younger brother who's a gazillion years old he desperately needs therapy and he lives in our garden now with his time machine. and shaun was just like okay! what are we making for dinner :)

#husband of the year!!! we stan a legend!!! #doctor who #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #donna noble #shaun temple #14th doctor #fourteenth doctor #david tennant #catherine tate #karl collins #the giggle #doctor who 60th anniversary

[timelordgifs]

#is catherine tate going to be in the unit spin-off???

#doctor who spoilers #dwedit #doctor who #usertennant #userteri #special #the giggle #donna noble #kate stewart #* #by lanie

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

15 being kind and caring to 14 was very sweet after years of the doctor hating themselves when they meet up, HOWEVER it is extremely funny that he was like 'bestie beloved babe you are SO traumatized you need to take a break...' as if he doesn't have. the exact same trauma fsdhkshdjfksd I feel like in his head he was like get AWAY from me you sad bitch if I'M repressing my feelings and YOU'RE repressing your feelings then WHO'S FLYING THE TARDIS

#doctor who #dw #the giggle #15th doctor #14th doctor #ncuti gatwa #david tennant #molly mumbles

[death-by-sc0tland]

“david overshadowed ncuti blah blah blah” dude everyone in the fandom is falling head over heels for ncuti’s doctor just from the 15 minutes of content we’ve had with him plus ncuti himself got to act alongside his idol he grew up watching like i don’t think there were any losses here

#anyway i’m really looking forward to the christmas special #doctor who #ncuti gatwa #fifteenth doctor #the giggle #dw spoilers #1k #5k #10k

[unexpectederawhilesubmitting]

WARNING: DOCTOR WHO SPOILERS EXPLAINING REGENERATION SHENANIGANS

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okay so I was kind of not on board with the concept of bi-regeneration, mainly because of how it seemed like all of the Sad and the Trauma that the Doctor had undergone got kind of handwaved away? i'm all for ncuti's Doctor being sort of a fresh start/jumping on point for new viewers, but i didn't get how that could work if like, literally 40 minutes ago he was David Tennant being a sad wet puppy dog of a man

however, after rewatching it, i've realized what i think happened there, and it goes all the way back to something introduced with the 4th doctor's regeneration that was never explained: the Watcher

^this spooky guy

so, for those that don't know (or haven't seen every episode of a show that is over half a century old), the Fourth Doctor regenerates at the end of a story called Logopolis (he falls off a satellite dish, but that's not important right now). all throughout the episode, this weird figure, The Watcher, stands off in the distance, and even intervenes slightly by saving the Fourth Doctor's companion. there's not much given in the way of an explanation until the Fourth Doctor regenerates, saying "it's the end. but the moment has been prepared for..."

the watcher walks up, and gets absorbed in a super rad 1980's digital effect (never change doctor who), while his companion just gives us the not-super-helpful-for-lore statement "He was the Doctor all the time!"

then, in a crossfade, the Doctor goes from Four to weird-powder-man to Five

canonically, the Watcher is explained as a future version of the doctor that comes about in sort of a weird overlapping thing with the doctor's timeline, it's very wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.

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SO what does this have to do with biregeneration and satisfying character arcs/moving on from trauma?

Well, remember, Fifteen said this, about Time Lords doing rehab out of order:

so, here's the thing: Fifteen is the Doctor AFTER Fourteen (duh, I know?) But to be clear...Fourteen lives out an entire lifetime with Donna and family, gets to a ripe old age, and then, when his lifetime of healing is over, he gets yeeted back through his own timestream just to zoot himself out of David Tennant's chest.

Remember, his first words to Fourteen (after popping out of his chest) are "So good to see you! So good!", not the RTD classic "what?". He greets himself like he's almost expecting this, he then says "does anyone want to tell me what the hell is going on here?" which only makes sense if he's coming from a different point in his own timestream (remember, when two doctors interact, memory gets really weird, 10 and the War Doctor don't remember the events of Day of the Doctor until they live through them as 11).

SO TO BE CLEAR: Ncuti Gatwa is playing the Doctor AFTER he has spent years healing from his traumas. His Doctor is fine because Fourteen takes the time to rest and work on himself.

tl;dr: I didn't like biregeneration at first because I thought it looked like this:

In actuality, it looks more like this:

#doctor who #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #the giggle #dw #dw spoilers #dw 60th #tenthree #the doctor

[davidtennan-t]

oh he is already such a great uncle, giving her the look of ‘I’m supposed to be retired but for you? Say no more, we’ll sneak away tomorrow, your wish is my command’

#I just adore this one little interaction so much #he loves his niece #also anything to do with fourteen and rose noble #will be tagged with uncle doctor #so yeah #uncle doctor #david tennant #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #rose noble #the giggle #yasmin finney

[mwagneto]

the companion will go oh god doctor who is that?? and the doctor will get all serious and somber and say listen. he's the most evil creature in the universe. he's the worst enemy i've ever faced. he's horrible and unpredictable and you can never ever let your guard down. and then the villain will walk into the room like this

#PLEASE IM LOSING MY MIND S3 FINALE I CAN'T DECIDE AND THEN THIS BACK TO BACK IS TAKING ME OUT #it was literally the perfect place to be in for my rewatch these are great episodes to follow each other #im at the part where nph busts in with confetti but i had to pause immediately coz i was laughing so hard😭 #this isn't me mocking drag queens or the villains or whatever this is me saying im obsessed with campy evil rtd guys. by the way #doctor who #dw lb #14th doctor #the giggle #the toymaker #10th doctor #tensimm

[freuleinanna]

no but you do not understand we collectively spent YEARS heartbroken over donna! and doctor never ever got over losing her! and now they are together, and they have chosen each other for family, and donna's family has warmth enough for him, and they are happy and having dinners, and 14th is casually sneaking his niece away on adventure while making sure not to tell donna because she would obliterate him and IT'S OKAY THEY'RE CHOSEN SIBLINGS IT'S WHAT THEY FUCKING DO.

listen. LISTEN.

donna's every day was taken away from her.

the doctor has been running every day ever since.

and now they get to spend time together. not a brief trip in a tardis. not a reunion before parting forever. but every. day. every day, one after the other. and they are finally home.

#I WILL NEVER STOP CRYING #IT'S PERFECT IT'S PERFECT IT'S PERFECT IT'S SO WARM AND RIGHT AND HEART-THROBBING #their best mate is there #and the family is too #snd it's just..... okay. it's good. #every day. #doctor who #doctor who spoilers #doctor who 60th anniversary #the giggle #donna noble #fourteenth doctor