#look who’s back in their doctor who era

[tubesock86]

9🌹

gonna start drawing all the doctors and my fav companion of theirs ! weeeeeee

#well well well #look who’s back in their doctor who era #I just started watching Jodie’s seasons #I’m in love with her! #so I’m gonna draw all the doctors and their companions :)) #doctor who #9th doctor #christopher eccleston #rose tyler #rose x 9 #rose x nine #billie piper #doctor who fanart #my art! #tubesock86

[greencarnation]

eleven is fascinating to me because he came right off the back of tens horrible traumatic breakdown after he lost everything and he immediately tried to establish himself as the opposite of that. he is funny and goofy and almost childlike, and he bulldozes on in his adventures with amy like nothing happened at all. but then something happens and his masks slips and it's like oh! the core of this man is still anger. he is so so angry all of the time and this façade is the only thing stopping him from being consumed by it. he isn't over any of it and he hasn't moved on. he is wearing a fez and laughing but under that all that exists is age old anger and grief and it is going to consume him

#i do think that this pit of anger was eventually covered and soothed by the ponds #but he didn't adress it and he couldn't even look at it until he was twelve #when he stopped pushing back and repressing everything and finally allowed himself to exist as he was #but ok listen #its all layed out in the first 3 episodes of season 5 and in the way amy sees him #episode 1. here is the new doctor he is energetic and reeling and fun #episode 2. the space whale comparison. here is the new doctor. he is unthinkably ancient and almost godlike but he is so so kind #and patient and good. he is ancient and lonely but he can't stand to see children cry. so the doctor helps people #episode 3. daleks. the doctor is a soldier. these are his age old enemies. he wants them dead and he will stop at nothing #all logic and reason vanish. he is hitting the dalek with a pipe and yelling his head off while amy watches in horror #like obviously we know why but amy didnt #this is not a sane or rational man he is unstable and angry #and in that episode he was stripped back to what he largely is: hate #you would make a good dalek ect ect ect #anyway 3 episodes with 3 very distinct and equally definitely traits layed out like: here you go #i don't like elevens era much but those first 3 episodes were great #doctor who #eleven #amy #eleventh doctor #matt smith #dr who #dw #i mean idk this is what river literally had to spell out for him #eleven was careening completely out of control #how long til doctor means warrior indeed? #mine

[tenthrees]

I HOPE THIS PAIN'S JUST PASSING THROUGH, BUT I DOUBT IT Stick Season by Noah Kahan for @chaotic-autumn who gave me this painful idea

#dwedit #doctor who #tenrose #ten x rose #rose tyler #doctorwhoedit #rtdedit #mine #rtd era #david tennant #billie piper #noah kahan #I havent gifed tenrose in like 7 years ahhhh #ive missed them! look at their smiling lil faces!! #just stay on the last gif dont scroll back up and they stay happy #*

[doverstar]

reading your posts about your time watching doctor who reminded me of the first time i discovered doctor who, mainly, the eleventh doctor. i was going through such a tough time, and one day i just decided to watch doctor who to see what all of the fuss was about and started 'the eleventh hour.' it was pure magic to me. everyone has their doctor, and matt smith will always be mine. he was great! i loved how eccentric and warm he could be. i loved how he was just so sweet and kind to all of his companions, and i loved that undercurrent of darkness that was always bubbling under the surface of his character. matt smith was brilliant and i really, really wish they'd bring him back as the doctor in some way. i miss him so.

I so enjoy your blog and I was delighted to get this in my inbox. I loved reading this and picturing how you discovered the show; if anyone else wants to share their own DW experience with me, please take this as a sign! Commiserating over loving and missing the Doctor, feeling like he really is your friend (silly but true), is very cathartic to me. Nine was my first, and so was Rose. I didn't know anything about the show at all when I started in that basement bedroom, went in completely blind. I know what you mean by pure magic! I thought Christopher Eccleston would be the Doctor forever, and I was totally in love with him. I thought he was the reason everyone loved the show (I hadn't even seen Matt Smith's face yet, that's how in the dark I was at the time!). When he changed into David Tennant, I'll never forget how strong my feelings were. The revulsion and despair were huge. I was a lil teenager wrapped up in a zebra-patterned blanket downstairs, outraged that the 40-something with the big ears had transformed into hot young hair man. When Harriet Jones pleaded for the Doctor's help and Rose started crying in the kitchen, I was a mess. No television show that I can recall inspired in me such realistic emotions before Doctor Who, not like that! It took me so long to get used to Ten, and even now I still look at him and remember how hard it was to get used to him. Felt like someone had forced me to move homes or something. And when I finally got caught up to the show on live television, Matt Smith was finishing off his first season, and oh, he was so easy to love. Even as an adult now, his variation feels so safe. I love everything about him, the childish energy, the old man movement, the rhyming way he talks, and when he's angry, he reminds me of Eccleston. I'm like, That's him! That's the Doctor! I rewatch that era for Matt alone. When Clara looks at him regenerating and whispers "Please don't change," I cry every time. She's right. We were all saying it. Also reading your I miss him so totally made me stop and actually get emotional too - that says it all about the Doctor, about that time in my life (yours too, sounds like!) Eccleston to Smith. I miss him so.

#got a little dramatic there #but that era of my life is so comforting and good to look back on and your words opened the freaking floodgates #it's fiction but it's such a good story and it means so much to people and has so many true themes in it #good versus evil. all life has value. do what's right even when everyone else just runs away COME ON- #if you're reading this I want you to tell me how you discovered the show and who was your doctor and what it was like. let's be nostalgic #let's give credit where credit is due for a really wonderful story spanning 60 years! #doctor who #dw #asked #answered #wiitzend #ask doverstar #bbc #david tennant #christopher eccleston #rose tyler #timepetals #eleventh doctor #eleven #rose #matt smith #ten #nine #chris eccleston #billie piper #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #11 #10 #9

[bericas]

cuts and bruises, baby

#twedit #hayden romero #haydenromeroedit #usermem #lyricsongifs #hayden in her chimera pack era!! her chim(era) if you will!!!! #shes so interesting i loved her morally ambiguous era it was so fun of all the chimeras to have varying levels of evil moments #so gif wise its how they figure out hayden is a chimera #and the thing about chimeras is that they die. and so its hayden with her nose bleeding mercury. its hayden after being injected with more #mercury by the doctors #then her death and her rebirth. coming undone and then having her death undone #and then hayden playing along with what theo wants. so she watches mason and liam through a car window reflection #and then she shows up when theyre at the nemeton and tells the police thats where the bodies were #and then its her listening to theo who controls her and rolling her eyes at her sister who loves her #and then her turning her back on both theo and liam. but she looks back when liam calls for her #and she keeps going after theo releases her #and she spends a lot of 5b being caught between liam and theo and what they offer and in a larger sense #what they represent. theo seems strong and liam seems weak and she doesn't want to die again. weak = dying #so she kisses liam because she wants to and then she lets theo flirt with her in front of liam bc he wants to piss liam off #and then she gets caught between like. #the sharpness of a cut (being left behind with deucalion because she's forsaken herself just to be dismissed anyway #bc theo would never actually care about her in any way that could matter) #and the tenderness of a bruise (what liam can offer her and what he can't. love without enough safety for it to be love enough) #and ultimately she defects to the mccall pack but it makes a lot of sense that she struggles with it for so long #when both options hurt and you're so scared (for yourself. for your sister; the only family you have left.) like. #the one that lets you hurt back would be very appealing and very hard to say no to #anyway i love her

[rust-in-polar1s]

thoschei academy era!! :3

close ups below the cut!

#my interpretation on how they looked back then #the sillies #doctor who #thoschei #thoschei academy era #academy era #theta sigma #koschei #the doctor #the master

[youremyonlyhope]

Hey. RTD2. If you're playing some sort of long game with this whole not even mentioning the existence of Martha Jones thing as a way to throw us off the scent of a possible appearance from her later in season "1" or "2" of this era...

Nah. I can't even begin to let myself hope it will happen.

#dw spoilers #doctor who spoilers #doctor who #martha jones #i was gonna say he's on thin ice but nah boy is underwater with me #i'll still be tuning in. for Ncuti Gatwa. i've currently lost the bit of hope i had in RTD2's era though. #because so much of what i predicted would happen in the handling of Fifteen came true. and then top it off with Martha. #but i let some hope grow during Wild Blue Yonder. because i was enjoying it. a lot. #but we've really gotten off on the wrong foot. making Fifteen really have to share being the Doctor. #and Fourteen's face as Ten traveled with 3 companions. 4 if you count Sarah Jane. 5 if you count River. #and you mention all of them. besides Martha. #not even a joke of 'hey well Martha got out.' to the Toymaster in retaliation for all the dead companions #the Fam and Dan were left out too. but they all survived relatively unscathed. and none of them traveled with Ten. #you have Tennant's face. you mention all of Ten's other companions. you leave out. Martha Jones. #will he gain it back? hopefully. but dude. you do a 6oth anniversary special. you bring back Tennant for the THIRD time. #you leave out Martha Jones. almost purposefully. not even Mel or Kate saying 'lots of companions worked for us. like Martha.' #SIMPLE. JUST NAME DROP HER. SOMEWHERE. ANYWHERE. AT ANYTIME. JUST ACKNOWLEDGE SHE EXISTED. #all those 'ah your old face' 'look same face' 'i got this face back' comments. no mention of someone the face traveled with. #i'm upset

[wayward-wren]

Am I the only one who doesn't think that 60s era Doctor Who's trend/themes of 'protect women' isnt sexist?

Most of the complaints I see about 60s Who sexism, and the male characters of that era is largely due to the men being like 'girls stay back.' But a) there is nothing inherently sexist about that imo? Men protecting women is the most healthy masculine thing possible. And b) when the women are like 'no lol' the men are like 'okay fine let's go' and respect their decisions on the whole.

Like that isn't sexism? That's just recognising men and women are different?

#wren rambles #doctor who #classic doctor who #this is mostly about jamie #who yes he does make sexist comments appart from his drive to protect #but only ever does that in the context of trolling his female friends #honestly i feel like if i look close enough i could argue that modern who is MORE sexist than 60s who #tempted to make that argument shfhs #i mean just look at the variety of women we have in the 60s era alone! #theres people from the past (victoria) and the future (vicki) #theres people who hang back and tend to be more damsel in distress (susan) vs women who are on the front lines (polly) #theres ladies who are pretty streets smart (dodo) and ladies who are able to keep up with the doctor intellectually (zoe) #there's BARBARA WRIGHT #the 60s era ladies are so different and all stand out in their own way #they have different skills and gifts and personalities #and (on the whole poor dodo) are pretty well developed characters #vs the same trope of 'Contemporary British Woman Who Adores The Doctor As The Best Ever Who Can Do No Wrong' fits like 70% nu companions #idk man. #i get tired of people saying 60s who is sexist #cos i dont see that it is? but maybe im missing something #i will say that i love all the 60s ladies soso much #and find some of the modern ladies less developed #ANYWAY RANT OVER THANK YOU

[waterbending-warrior]

Brutus convincing the senate to stab Julius Caesar: Don’t you think he looks tired?

#ides of march #doctor who #yes I’m back in my doctor who era #harriet jones #don’t you think she looks tired

[terranceholdsapencil]

I am a chibnall era hater at heart but if you dare disrespect the queen I WILL come for you

Jo Martin thought she ate but she DEVOURED

And this is one of the most beautiful tardis designs ever:

It even has the round things. I love the round things. What are the round things? No idea.

#doctor who #fugitive doctor #also she would absolutely win in a fist fight between all the doctors #im just saying #and she would look cool af #her style is immaculate #i would die for her actually #shes the best thing the chibnall era has produced and I NEED her to return desperately #also dhawan!master is underrated I didnt like his writing but he was so insanely good #back to the fugitive doctor there was not a single bad thing about her #timeless child who? #she deserves everything

[demigodofhoolemere]

Watching the Behind the Sofa features for the season 2 Hartnell episodes (surprisingly they’re on YouTube but who knows when that could get taken down) is a weird experience because a lot of the time it’s really enjoyable seeing the various reactions and they’re often very complimentary towards things that you don’t see people appreciate enough, which makes me quite happy, and then other times out of nowhere you’ll get odd comments of a few of the actresses perceiving certain lines as sexist or something. Specifically in The Time Meddler, which was otherwise a crowd favorite among them, Steven complimenting Vicki on being clever was apparently patronizing, and they acted as if the Doctor telling Vicki to keep her nose away when he was messing with the Monk’s TARDIS was him brushing off her questions as if she needs to stay in her place or something, when in context he’s dealing with precarious electrical wires and was telling her not to get her face so close because it could give her a shock — he says as much, but they talk over it. I enjoy very much that they were often appreciating things that people look over and really getting into a lot of it, but every now and again something like that would take me out of it. Don’t like when people attribute their own assumptions or biases as the meaning of something that was totally innocent.

#on that note i love peter purves to the moon and back for not having done that #he in particular was great fun to watch in these because his love for bill and the whole show is so deep and so sincere #i would marathon the entire hartnell era with that man #classic who #first doctor #vicki pallister #steven taylor #behind the sofa #never like the assumption that something was meant in bad faith that really wasn’t #it’s stuff like that that often keeps people from watching this era #because they just assume it’s there and when they do try to watch it they find it because they looked for it on purpose #this is the kind of thinking that gives us inaccurate perceptions of characters like twice upon a time #they also brought up cooking quite a bit and i’m like…? i don’t think any companion has ever cooked during their travels #much less with that as some kind of expectation of them as The Woman #makes me think of twice upon a time where they have the doctor indicate that polly was expected to keep the tardis clean #as if polly wouldn’t smack anyone who suggested that that should be her role. as if THE DOCTOR wouldn’t smack anyone saying that. please. #begging people to stop trying to make the classic series something it’s not #rant

[grayrazor]

I think I love the 70s office aesthetic of the TVA despite being irritated by the Flash Gordon rayguns and blinky light computers of the Time Lords because to me the former feels like a deliberate artistic choice, while the latter feels like a failure of imagination. Like, "spaceships and robots is the most advanced thing we can think of, so that's the aesthetic we use for everything from the 22nd Century CE to the End of Time trillions of years in the future."

#loki #doctor who #aesthetic #space age stasis #deliberately retro #star trek enterprise kind of had the same problem--everybody already has TNG tech they just don't share it with Earth #star wars TOR annoyed me with this in reverse--we go back to the old republic era 5000 years ago and things just look a little more art dec

[falderaletcetera]

I'm only a few episodes into jodie whittaker era (my first time), but thirteen has a lightness to her that's reminding me of nine and, not gonna lie, I'm tearing up a bit. and I'll be really interested to see if the comparison holds when the stakes get more personal.

#doctor who #it's a really weird transition from twelve who I was Not a great fan of and who felt pretty casually dark a lot of the time #nine (imo) was dark inside this very deliberate and consistent kindness and lightness and I'm looking to see if that's what's going on here #though I'm unsure yet if thirteen is lighter (and tbh politer) or if that's my own biases. withholding judgement for now. #also an interesting transition from twelve-era: I'm getting the feeling we're back to a different style of space worldbuilding with this #which I'm very interested in even if the decision to establish that there are white supremacists in the far future is.......... #really not my favourite. I'm english that's how I express deep distaste. #it was fun for like five seconds to compare that guy to jack harkness and notice the differences #but nobody punched this guy in the face and dragged him off to face some sort of justice so it felt a bit unfinished you know? #I would have settled for seeing him suddenly face to face with a dinosaur with the camera cutting away mid-swear. given the circumstances. #(I have perhaps been watching too many shows where repugnant people get punched in the face! this is the opposite of a problem.) #that was a tangent upon a tangent; apologies #falderal speaks #hi I'm still half-asleep and very distracted at any given time but i'll figure out how not to be eventually <3

[frog-on-leaf]

this episode healed me fr

#the most gut wrenching end to a doctor/companion run and they get to come back... they get to have a happily ever after... #I literally never would have expected or guessed they'd do something like this but I'm so happy they did #we need more hopeful media #the giggle #doctor who #doctor who spoilers #I thought FOR SURE they'd have 14 & 15 share a Look because they know they can't both exist at the same time #14 would go on another goodbye tour but would be ready to accept his fate because he got to save donna; he had closure #it would be a perfectly acceptable ending and I'm sure that's what they would have done in eras past. it's the dw precedent that they can't #cross their own timeline too much #but they said actually no. he gets to live he gets to have more time #he gets to REST #he gets to have a family #and donna gets her best friend back #I just 😭

[littleweepingdalek]

honestly the more i think about the whole “nph is the toymaker” thing the more convinced i get that it’s a very mean red herring.

#someone in the comments on a yt video said he kinda looks like a younger professor yana which...... #let's just say I wouldn't put it past russell #i mean the whole 'the greatest enemy the doctor ever faced' thing SCREAMS master. or doctor. #idk seems weird to call a villain who last appeared on-screen in the 60s the greatest villain. unless he would be responsible for A LOT #of stuff behind the scenes...... #then again i really don't want another master we have had so many of them already and i don't want them to pop up every two seconds. #and i want sacha to keep on being the master for a little while longer. #this one master per doctor stuff is getting a little bit tired i wanna go back to the ainley era #ah well guess we'll have to see #what does it mean russell what does it all mean #doctor who #doctor who spoilers

[pizzalordofgallifrey]

every day I am grateful my 2013 ass never got into the “super” part of superwholock. the other 2 shows may have imploded in their own ways, but at least I was spared investment in the dumpster fires of super-hell

#supernatural #sherlock #doctor who #its so weird to look back at that era #we were so optimistic about basically everything #superwholock #god its so cursed to use that tag in the year of our lord 2022