#school reunion

[doctorwhogirlie]

#doctor who #doctor who girlie #10th doctor #rose tyler #tenth doctor #the doctor #new earth #tooth and claw #the christmas invasion #school reunion #the girl in the fireplace #rise of the cybermen #the age of steel #the idiot's lantern #the impossible planet #the satan pit #love & monsters #fear her #army of ghosts #doomsday #doctor x rose

[pizza-with-death-blog]

9 fell in love with life again because of Rose. Then on Satellite 5 he thought he saw her die before his eyes, got her back, then almost watched her burn from the inside out because she loved him enough to sacrifice her life for him. He then died for her.

Of COURSE Ten is afraid of love, and specifically loving Rose. He's held what he thought was her ashes in his hand, and his whole existence he's known that one day he might lead her to her death for real.

Nine fell in love with his pink and yellow human.

Ten was born in love with her, and that terrified him.

#I have so many feelings about these two characters #ninth doctor #doctor who #tenth doctor #timepetals #rose tyler #ten/rose #nine/rose #the doctor #doomsday #david tennant #christopher eccleston #billie piper #school reunion #the end of the world #the unquiet dead #the long game

[the-force-awakens]

DOCTOR WHO | 2.03

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #timelordgifs #dwgif #usersophie #doctor who #s2 #school reunion #tenth doctor #nym.gifs #maybe /he/ only wants to use it once but it's part of /my/ casual vocabulary now

[belpheg0r-luna]

"I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy." is ten's best quote. It's permanently housed inside my brain.

#the tenth doctor #tenth doctor #the 10th doctor #10th doctor #david tennant #rtd #dw s2 #doctor who #doctor who season 2 #the doctor #dw #school reunion #s2 ep3 #belphegor luna

[notyoujamie]

#doctorwhoedit #dwedit #doctor who #modern who #my gif #** #*dw #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #school reunion #the lazarus experiment #the rings of akhaten #the girl who died #twice upon a time #compilation #parallelmw

[clairedelune-13]

#i need to see it now 😂😂😂 #rose tyler #sarah jane smith #school reunion #doctor who

[thefiresofpompeii]

gwen and martha gossiping about jack just as he overhears in reset 🤝 sarah jane and rose giggling about the doctor just as he walks into the room in school reunion

#best dynamic. besties by proxy through our pet enigmatic immortal #gwen cooper #martha jones #dw #doctor who #rose tyler #sarah jane smith #school reunion #reset #torchwood #jamie catches up #ten #tenth doctor #jamie.txt

[doctorkinktraveller]

#billie piper #sarah jane smith #liz sladen #rose tyler #school reunion #new doctor who

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of the Doctor Who Series Two Radio Times Covershoot

Paul Smith, art editor: The Radio Times is here today to do a cover shoot. It's a bit of a gatefold special - it's going to fold out twice. What we're doing here is a chase scene. We've got David, Billie, Elisabeth Sladen, and K-9 being followed by a series of monsters. The new series is very fast paced and slick, and we actually want to reflect that. Matt Holyoak, photographer: Doctor Who is such a great program. Obviously I remember it when I was growing up, and so to be part of the Doctor Who cover shoot is someone's dream. It's perfect. I've got to play about with Daleks and Cybermen and all of that kind of stuff. It's great!

A link to all behind-the-scenes sets can be found [ here ].

#david tennant #billie piper #elisabeth sladen #doctor who #rtdedit #school reunion #photographer matt holyoak #and stevie smith doing their hair of course! #whoBts #whoBtsCovershoot #stuff i posted

[tinkerbitch69]

You know what would have been a stroke of genius? If The Doctor used the name Chesterfield while going undercover as a school teacher in School Reunion and Human Nature/The Family of Blood. Just as his own private injoke.

#doctor who #dw #the doctor #ian chesterton #school reunion #human nature #the family of blood #if you know you know

[nightmanatee]

Sarah Jane: I waited for you. I missed you.

The Doctor: Oh, you didn’t need me. You were getting on with your life.

Sarah Jane: You were my life.

Sarah Jane: You know what the most difficult thing was? Coping with what happens next. No, with what doesn’t happen next. You took me to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, you showed me supernovas, intergalactic battles and then you just dropped me back on Earth. How could anything compare to that?

The Doctor: All those things you saw, you want me to apologize for that?

Sarah Jane: No! But we get a taste of that splendor and then we have to go back.

The Doctor: Look at you, you’re investigating. You found that school. You’re doing what we always did.

Sarah Jane: You could have come back.

The Doctor: I couldn’t.

Sarah Jane: Why not?

#thasmin #dw #doctor who #13th doctor #yasmin khan #sarah jane smith #10th doctor #the power of the doctor #school reunion #dw spoilers #yaz khan #4th doctor #classic who #i HATE this parallel

[catelyngrant]

The Doctor Who Script collection dropped earlier this week and I've already spent, uh, many hours digging through various scripts (including all of the SJA scripts!), but if you've been here awhile, you know that the first one I went for was School Reunion.

It was really fun reading through what was changed, what beats were scripted vs. which weren't, and the emotional backdrops. One of the things that struck me most was that, for a very bittersweet episode, the script absolutely leaned harder into the bitter side of bittersweet than the episode as aired did. There were elements that I'm very glad didn't stay as well as moments I desperately wish had been kept. Overall, it was a joy to see the original draft of the story that got me into Doctor Who all those years ago.

He's so happy. Transported. Mesmerised. Dazed, reeling from the encounter. Oh, my HEART. This scene was pretty much aired as written, and David played it to the nines, of course, but it's really sweet to see how explicit the script is about how overwhelmed the Doctor is in this moment. So much of the episode focuses on Sarah's emotional reaction (rightly, if not always perfectly) and the hurt/discomfort that colors their relationship once she realizes it's the Doctor, so to have this moment of the Doctor's unadulterated happiness to see her is really lovely.

More highlights (including things that were cut, changed—for better or worse, and just directions that made me happy or that I found interesting) under the cut!

This scene was definitely different. The script didn't include the bit about them both investigating at the school and it has a bit more flippancy. I can't imagine this scene without the iconic slow shot of Sarah backing up and turning to see the Doctor behind her, so I'm really, really glad that they moved away from the idea of them colliding into each other and leaned into the gravitas a bit more.

Oh, what I would've given for them to have kept this!!!

On to the diner scene...oh boy, feelings about this. I've written essays about this scene—how in some ways it feels perfect and appropriate and Sarah's grief/lines like "you were my life" make a lot of sense in the context of the shock and hurt of an old wound reopened so violently, how that shouldn't be taken to mean that she'd wasted her life or that she's been paralyzed by a broken heart for thirty years, how everything is heightened and that's okay even if, on their own, some of these beats paint a grim picture—but whew. This would've been harder to swallow with the last bit, which I remember Lis having mentioned as something she fought back against.

I actually do love that she mentioned UNIT and Harry! But yeah, very glad that Lis talked them out of the last lines. There clearly wasn't an effort to adhere to Big Finish canon but minimizing and deflating her successful career on top of everything else would've been upsetting, and there just wasn't a good reason to paint her entire life as tragic outside of the raw reactions the Doctor's return illicit.

"If I thought about you..." Project it onto my GRAVESTONE!

THIS WAS SCRIPTED I AM SCREAMING, this is one of my FAVORITE little beats of the episode (so much so that I made a gif out of it like 13 years ago!)

The Sarah/Rose dynamic was a little 🙄 in the episode and a little more-so in the script, but I liked this bit:

The explicit apology is nice, but goddamn, I wish they'd kept "He doesn't deserve us."

I'm fascinated by the fact that in the script, she shrugs him off! The script generally has a slightly more bitter tinge than the episode itself did, which is so interesting to me, and that I'm glad was tempered.

The goodbye scene as scripted is set in the ruins of the school. I like that they moved it and created some space and time—everyone's changed clothes, they've had some breathing room, emotions have cooled a bit. It serves the scene better than I think this would have. This bit of the script includes a line that I always assumed had been cut given her line in the episode about "And like I said, I wouldn't have missed it for the world". Other than that, the dialogue and beats are pretty much what we see onscreen.

And then:

I have a very messy tangle of feelings about "Last chance" / "I know" that I'll be sorting out for the next 4-6 business weeks, so...stay tuned. (I also have an essay about ace-spectrum Sarah Jane that builds on the "he was a tough act to follow" line that WILL exist outside of my head at some point!)

Anyway! This was a fun deep dive 💞 I got a Doctor/Sarah-inspired tattoo earlier this month so I'm really in my renaissance era here!otp

#doctor who #sarah jane smith #school reunion #i will be going through the sja scripts next if anyone cares #otp: my sarah jane

[notyoujamie]

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #modern who #my gif #** #*dw #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #mickey smith #amy pond #yasmin khan #father's day #the parting of the ways #school reunion #doomsday #the family of blood #flesh and stone #death in heaven #the legend of the sea devils #parallelmw #compilation

[clairedelune-13]

I will never get over David’s - yes, David’s - face when he sees Sarah Jane in School Reunion. That look is him going full fanboy.

#look at him #literally an excited little kid #david tennant #elisabeth sladen #tenth doctor #sarah jane smith #school reunion #doctor who

[insomniac-101]

I have to say, after having gone out of my way to see what the alternative interpretations of the overall plot of the RTD era are on YouTube and reddit, it confuses me how often I see people fall into the trap of thinking that the 10th Doctor is the hero of his story. A mere victim of circumstance that was undeserving of the end he got.

Although we see him do many heroic acts throughout his run, he is not incapable of doing any wrong. And when I say this, I mean way before the time lord victorious arc.

He is not faultless. He is capable of making selfish decisions and calls. At times he makes decisions not because it's what's best for the people around him, although he tries to convince himself otherwise, but because it makes him feel better knowing that it is no longer his responsibility to deal with. That it is more comfortable to ignore the problems around him, then confront them because that would mean acknowledging it's existence.

Hell one of the biggest examples of this is the tension filled interaction Rose and Sarah Jane had upon first meeting. That in turn, arose because the two women unintentionally took out the frustration they had towards him, on one another.

The doctor should have told Rose that she was not his first companion.

The fact that Sarah Jane had to find out through Rose, that he had not mentioned her, in spite of the deep friendship they once shared, is heartbreaking and rightfully a reason why she was so frustrated upon finding out. Here you have, the most wonderful man who so suddenly disappeared from her life, come back by chance and she's so excited! Elated to see an old friend who she feared had suffered something terrible given he never visited, only to be confronted by the reality that he indeed moved on. In her place, a young woman who is both pretty and brave who up until now was unaware she wasn't the only one.

And Rose, finding out that he had a history of leaving behind his companions without even the bare minimum: a proper goodbye, felt uncomfortable at the revelation. Because again, the uncertainty of the nature of her relationship with the doctor is likely a touchy subject, given that he has a habit of withholding his feelings. So here she is confronted by someone who personifies that very possibility. Someone who appears to have been close to him at one point, but yet he so callously left behind and never mentioned. She is left to face this fact with no warning, no reassurance, and no real reason to believe that she is the exception. All while Mickey, taunts her about it.

So can someone explain to me why people boil down this very nuanced interaction into a cat fight between two jealous woman who were in love with him? When in reality:

1) Sarah Jane never indicated that she cared for him in that way. Her jealousy does not stem from romantic interest, but from the hurt she feels at having been thrown out and replaced by a person she considered a beloved friend (in her perspective, because again the Doctor has yet to give a valid explanation)

2) Both were justified in feeling wronged, and from how easily the two make up, it is quite obvious that the interaction was not that deep. Both were mature enough to realize that the problem was in fact, him, and even bonded over it lol (talk about girl power)

Because again, the narrative demonstrates the perspective of the three involved but subtly separates the time lord's perspective from that of the humans. After all, this is the episode where the inevitable truth that one day Rose will die is confronted, and so it's not far fetched to think that this was indeed the intention.

We humans don't have long to live. We're aware of that fact. And so, we derive value from such inconsequential formalities such as goodbyes because we reason that it's best to anticipate never having another chance to say it. To a time lord, this is silly given how long they live. They are guaranteed a regeneration in the case they die, and given how very little time they spend with him on average (not lasting more than a few years, or until they die) he doesn't see it as wrong to leave without saying anything, because they can move on. Live a normal life, have a family, and have security.

His life is not one that grants him that privilege of hanging on. He knows what happens when humans die, they cease to exist and out of the duty of preserving his own sanity, he leaves them long before it ever reaches that point.

So with that in mind, the episode makes both sides confront these two drastically different perspectives. If it had been merely a romantic tiff between the parties involved, then the first question Rose would have asked is what are we? But no, what truly bothers her is how easily he can simply forget the people he claims to treasure.

"how many of us have been traveling with you?"

"does it matter?"

"it does if I'm just the latest in a long line"

The doctor makes them feel special. Valuable. Irreplaceable. She assumed that what they had was special, but upon seeing what happened to Sarah Jane she begins to reconsider. Viewing herself as a mere assistant or friend, rather than something more.

"I've been to the year 5 billion, right, but this... Now this is really seeing the future. You just leave us behind."

She doesn't assume she is above Sarah Jane, or that she is more important. If her hurt had been out of mere romantic interest, she would have asserted herself as his partner. Someone that is owed an explanation because they chose to take part in a relationship. But no, she advocates for herself and Sarah jane.

Mentioning how he never mentions her in spite of having been so close to her once. To her assumption, perhaps on the same level.

When she asks if he will do the same to her, he tells her that no she's the exception but that is not enough of an answer. She wants to know why she was never mentioned because it's important to them, to know their place in his life. She never threatens to leave, but the least she deserves is an explanation so that her heart doesn't suffer the backlash. They give him the time and patience to be honest about his intentions, not out of the threat of leaving but out of sheer decency.

But one of his main flaws is that he has this knack of withholding feelings, because he fears the repercussions that may come from giving in to said endearments. He's emotional and incapable of repressing said feelings, the complete opposite of what is expected of a time lord. He should be above this, according to his people. And yet with a body born out of the love he holds for humanity, can one really blame him for the internal battle he is experiencing?

Well we can confidently say that the episode ends with the conclusion being he can suck it up lmao.

Because when presented with the chance at achieving godhood, he almost caves. Not because of the power that it grants him, but because the thought of no longer experiencing loss is something he craves given how traumatized he is by it. This is what separated him from other time lords, thus showing that he is indeed capable of growing and maturing. But ultimately it's not him who makes the call. He has to be reminded by Sarah Jane, someone he hurt deeply by his inconsiderate actions, that the pain and loss matters. That it defines us just as much as happiness and love but that eventually everything ends, but that in itself is not enough of a reason to avoid it.

Because it's that pain of having left her behind that allowed him to find other great people and change lives. And in return, it's that pain that also allowed her to pursue a life that is just as great. Granting her a son of her own and the opportunity to help out in a manner fitting of her.

Had the episode been advocating for his perspective, he would have been validated in his assertion that he should avoid pain at all costs. But no, the episode ends with Sarah Jane finally getting the farewell she wanted. No longer allowing him to run from the issue, but instead, confront it.

Not to mention, it can also be asserted that he took this lesson to heart given that later on he even burns a sun in an attempt to grant Rose that final goodbye. And he makes it clear to the companions after her, that there had indeed been companions prior to their time on the TARDIS. A brilliant young woman by the name of Rose Tyler that inspires him to keep going, being one of the many.

His treatment of his companions is something that the narrative often criticizes throughout the RTD era. Ranging from the manner in which he unintentionally takes them for granted, explored heavily throughout Martha's time on the TARDIS and how he often decides what is best for them without asking. Time and time again we are shown that the doctor is flawed. That he makes mistakes and is capable of falling into the same problems humans do.

By him insisting to impose his views of situations in the manner a time lord would, he dismisses the importance of human customs which in turn, heavily affects the outcomes of his relationships. This is why the lives of the people he holds close often improve after they leave. Because while they embrace the change of perspective they have while exploring the universe, he stubbornly refuses to do so. Instead feeling comfortable in the self pity and misery he imposes on himself and unintentionally pushing away the people who love him. It is no coincidence that he falls into the same bad habits of self hatred his ninth self was privy to after Rose is taken from, because with the reason of his initial change being gone, he is left to heal on his own from scratch.

All this to say that the story the RTD era is not one that is always explicit. It's relationships are often filled with many subtle details that allow for numerous interpretations. However by not acknowledging the faults and shortcomings of all the characters alongside the good, you risk taking away the nuance that makes the story so special.

#tenrose #ninth doctor #10th doctor #doctor x rose #sarah jane smith #tenth doctor #doctor who #introspective #scene analysis #character analysis #rtd era #rambles #school reunion #dr. who

[gacktova]

#David Tennant #Doctor Who #The Doctor #10th Doctor #School Reunion #DW s02e03 #hello #smile #gif