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There's literally NO top!ten tensimm fic in AO3 I'm crying

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Anybody wanna play Thoschei once said? Put it on the comments and I'll make the video! Classic Who is welcome too!

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I miss how in the Classic Who the Master can turn themselves into anyone, Simm!Master used this trick again in world enough and time but I wanna see something worse. Like the Master let the Doctor defeat them in a flight, only to lower their guard and shrink their companion to replace them. Think about how horrific the Doctor will feel when they find out the companion they have been traveling with is actually Master in disguise.

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Also his plan almost worked out if he wasn't so obsessed that he opened the coffin just to see the Doctor's new face 😭

In castrovalva the master tortures a teenager to create a world specifically to lure the doctor in, and crucially it works. The doctor (amnesiac, dazed, confused) wanders into castrovalva and right into the masters clutches, even drinks his nefarious potions and goes to sleep, after which the master decides to ........not kill him. Alright.

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Tenth Doctor + The Master

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I will say the scene where they were folding that jacket out of existence because poppy was disappearing WAS very cool

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After sleeping on "The Reality War", I've come to a sort of verdict on it: I don't think this episode can be properly judged without acknowledging the behind-the-scenes issues that heavily impacted it.

Specifically, Gatwa's decision to step back due to the postponing of a formal renewal of the show.

This image has been kicking around. It's a promo image from "The Reality War" of a scene that isn't in the final episode.

It's known that reshoots for the S15 finale took place in February. Based on what the rumours and leaks say, the episode originally had a totally different ending, involving that dance party. I've also heard speculation that it would have set up Poppy as a plot hook for the next season, and there would have been a cameo from Susan Foreman to set up the plot about her return that RTD has been teasing from as early as "The Devil's Chord".

It's clear that RTD and co. were expecting the renewal to come much, much earlier than it did, and that waiting until after S15 had broadcast was not actually the original plan at all. Gatwa gets fed up because he doesn't want to put his career on hold like this, so RTD quickly concocts a new ending with a regeneration.

Poppy was never, ever intended to be turned into Belinda's daughter in the original ending, but whatever RTD had planned for her, he clearly felt it would only work with Gatwa, and so he hastily wrapped that up while also setting up a regeneration. (Incidentally, this also may have left answers to the Belinda/Mundy resemblance hanging.)

As for the Billie Piper of it all? The reshoots being almost last-minute meant RTD didn't really have time to do a full-blown casting for a new Doctor, and he clearly decided to go for shock and spectacle (for reasons that have yet to be determined). I suspect he decided on this rather than a mid-regeneration cliffhanger as a way to have a more decisive cliffhanger, hoping that people will want to know why this happened.

I will also add that Piper probably isn't playing the Doctor: no official source up to and including the episode credits have referred to her as such, and the regeneration itself also looks off.

Although RTD bears some of the responsibility for the messy way things went down, he doesn't own all of it since the lack of decision on a renewal was clearly the inciting incident here. I do hope that someday we learn what the original ending was – it doubtless would have fit the story better. And it would have fit Belinda better as well.

At least we got Jodie Whittaker in a scene not written by Chris Chibnall. The way Thirteen is written there tells me that RTD hasn't completely lost his touch.

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The Master: Stop yelling at me!

The Doctor: I didn't say a word.

The Master: No but you have been staring at me with tears in your eyes for 10 fucking minutes!

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Me when the Master:

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me age 13: been getting really into doctor who lately

me age 18: i can’t remember the last time i’ve felt genuine happiness

me age 22: been getting really into doctor who lately

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Reposting my 5Ainley edit bc I miss them <3

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your reminder that this image exists

where I saw it first (idk what are posts called on pintrest, I only really go on there when I'm sad) I'm not sad anymore so it worked :)

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Modern Doctor Who Doctors:

- the one that regenerates into David Tennant

- David Tennant

- Clone of David Tennant

- the one David Tennant regenerates into

- The one that looks like that guy David Tennant met in Pompeii

- The one who regenerates into David Tennant

- David Tennant again

- the one who came out of David Tennant

- The one that became David Tennants old companion

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love how 11 is always considered the childish one when 12 canonically asked for a kids' menu on his first day alive and then some time later had beef with a 14 y/o. and he lost

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yes we know

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*whispers into the ether* the writing for thirteen's era really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. rtd is making a lot of the same writing mistakes that chibnall did. jodie's doctor was good and deserves all the love. the timeless child arc is lowkey better than whatever the hell is happening in doctor who right now. *ducks for cover*