#bigenerate

[worrynoodle]

It's a good thing humans can't regenerate because I would have a bad day and just..........

[zacixn]

i'm literally so obsessed w how doctor who keeps finding new ways to multiply david tennant like he's a cell whos just learned how to perform mitosis

[ickleblorg]

[uncharted-constellations]

I’m Me

[lililovesthings]

Regeneration happens when a time lord's body is damaged beyond repair? Yes?

Well I have thoughts on the bigeneration and it makes total sense because at this point 14 is damaged physically AND mentally. So being the timeless child his body knew what it had to do; bring the face back to go find home, then when the time came heal that psychological damage by literally halving it.

"a problem shared is a problem halved"

The bigeneration was the only way for his body to heal mentally and physically. He needed to stay at home but he also needed to travel, he also needed to get better. So The Doctor created a healer.

[truebluewhocanoe]

also reeling at the implications of the Doctor having had "his soul torn in half" by bigeneration. like are you gonna elaborate on that orrrrr

[tinkerbitch69]

So, everyone has pointed out how funny it is that fifteen claimed to have gone through therapy and be fine now only to immediately act just like his old traumatised self and it is but like…

Has anyone considered fifteen was lying?

What if he hasn’t actually experienced that domestic bliss that fourteen got to enjoy or have fourteens memories following their split at all?What if he just told fourteen he did to convince him to stay on earth and be happy so fourteen could have a chance at happiness that fifteen believes he will never have and doesn’t deserve and his seemingly incredibly upbeat personality is just a facade?

I mean this sounds incredibly in character for the doctor to me tbh

[mythweaverarts]

The real reason the 14th Doctor bigenerated was to get one over on Michael Sheen.

[frankencanon]

I like to think that the reason bi-generation was so rare and mythical and unheard of and why it happened now is because it's an extreme self defense mechanism of the Time Lords — even more extreme than regular regeneration.

Simply put: the Doctor was too stressed. All of that stress built up over time more and more and more, until...

Until, much like with Donna and Rose in The Meep, the Doctor split themself into two so that they could share the burden.

[fennelockley]

Do you know whats most interesting about this scene?

This is the first time the Doctor has ever been utterly kind, loving, and forgiving to their younger self.

Multi-doctor interactions always have them arguing and throwing insults. And sure, it's mostly written for the laughs, but the self-loathing is very heavy in those scenes.

15 is the first Doctor to stop and go, "I don't deserve this negativity, least of all from myself". And chose to forgive himself, and all his other selves.

And he stopped that cycle of trauma and self-hatred in an instant. He chose happiness.

[deeneedsaname]

If bigeneration has a million fans, then im one of them. If bigeneration has one fan, then I’m that one. If bigeneration has no fans, it means I’m dead.

[ickleblorg]

as soon as they separate

they run back to themselves

[mylifeiscomics]

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[burntlikethesun]

This is adorable 😍

[katelynsimpsince2016]

after sleeping on the latest anniversary special i think i’m at peace with the whole bi-generation thing because it does something i don’t think it would’ve been able to do if it was executed in any other way. it allows the show to move the fuck on.

nuwho began with this mysterious sense that something bad happened. that this man, this alien, is filled with guilt and pain from something terrible. that theme of a horrible anguish being thinly veiled under a witty, dorky shield has been consistent throughout every incarnation of the doctor since. it’s a brilliant piece of characterisation but the doctor always being weighed down by this insurmountable grief i think was always going to hold the show back eventually. tragedy is inherent to doctor who but when does it become hard to believe that the main character is somehow able to continue on after everything they’ve gone through. what effect would this have on the audience, especially long-term fans? letting go of past companions and doctors is something that doctor who fans are notoriously bad at and i just wonder if it would become too much for the show to handle at one point. but now it won’t anymore.

bi-generation allows the doctor to heal from everything they’ve gone through whilst still being able to barrel into the next adventure. there’s a million theories on where 14 will end up but i think what matters the most is that the doctor is finally happy. not in a temporary, tenuous state of thrill that will only last until the start of the next episode or when the next threat appears around the corner but truly happy. unlike in previous versions of this story where the doctor gets an impossible happy ending which we never get to see onscreen (e.g. tentoo settling down with rose) we are actually going to witness 15 be joyful and alive, no longer held down by what’s come before. a fresh start almost. not to say that the time war or the flux were so horrific that the doctor never could’ve gotten over them but i don’t think the doctor healing would’ve been believable without him literally splitting in two, allowing him time to breathe and slow down as 14 whilst untethering him from the past and allowing him to fully spread his wings as 15. it’s not a perfect conclusion to this era (and discussions on whether bi-generation undermined ncuti’s entrance and role as THE doctor are completely valid) but i’m ultimately glad it happened

[teashadephoenix]

It just hit me all over again how awesome the bigeneration was.

The Doctor's future self arrived on the scene and said "baby boy. my love. my darling. GET. SOME. SLEEP. I am only fine BECAUSE you get help. I am you, and this is our future and we're happy-- but that means you have to start. So stop running and start living. Have coffee in the morning with the love of your life/best friend. Bake bread. Go for a walk (for your stupid mental health.) Take your niece out shopping for her side business. Stay up all night talking to grandad. Get to know your brother in law and mother in law. Smell the roses, breathe the air, and LIVE."

So, so, SO many of us wish we could do that. Reach back through time to our broken little selves and say I promise it gets better and I love you and I am here. But I am only here because you stayed and got help and lived.

So START. LIVING.

And I dont think I'm ever gonna be over that.