#doctor the widow and the wardrobe madge saves her husband

[sandymybeloved]

moffat stories always save the day with big important spee- WRONG the day is most often saved by people who love each other so much, no enemy however big, no obstacle however insurrmountable, sometimes not even death, can stop them from saving each other

[icewarrior2000]

The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

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Summary: Madge Arnold saves a back-to-front spaceman on Christmas Eve and three years later, he gets to repay the favour by making her children’s Christmas magical when her husband is shot down over the channel (boy does Moffat love WWII). There's a forest in a box with real life Christmas trees but it's under threat from some cameoing buffoons and Madge has to save the day.

Watch because: I dare you to watch Madge flying through the time vortex without crying.

Original Air Date: 25 December 2011.

Doctor: Matt Smith.

Companions: Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) & Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill).

Writer: Steven Moffat.

Director: Farren Blackburn.

Producer: Marcus Wilson.

Executive Producer: Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger & Beth Willis.

[thedalektables]

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A blue envelope awaits Rose at home after Krop Tor, an invitation to witness the Doctor’s death.

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Genre: #fluff #ua #rewrite #hurt!comfort #adventure DW Timeline: #moffat era #post tentoo Episode: #post satan’s pit #the impossible astronaut #a good man goes to war #the wedding of river song #post the doctor, the widow and the wardrobe #season6 DW Trope: #circular paradox Domestic Trope: #picnic Time of Year: #christmas Relationship Status: #husband!wife #bonding Angst Trope: #jealous!rose Hurt!Comfort Trope: #kidnapping #prison Whump Trope: #injury #torture #near death Other Doctor: #tenth doctor DW Alien: #the silence #teselecta Main Character: #jackie tyler #jack harkness Moffat Character: #river!bashing #amy pond #rory williams Side Pairing: #amy x rory Location: #powell estate #united states #demon’s run Era: #1960s #future

More on what to expect while reading this fic under cut:

About the Writing

Chapters: Very long Chapters | ~6.5k words per chapters POV: Seen through Rose’s point of vue Plot Development: Fast development | Jumps from one point to another

About the Genre

Canon Alterations: Rose joins Eleven, River, Amy and Rory at Lake Silencio | Rose wakes up at Demon’s Run after her death in Pete’s World | Rose and Jack joins Eleven before is wedding to River Rewrite: Goes through season 6 | Need to see the series first | Jumps from one point to another without explanation | Seen from Rose’s time line Hurt!Comfort: Rose rushes to Eleven when he dies | Rose comfort Eleven when he talks about losing her Adventure: Rose and Jack escapes from Demon’s Run and search for Eleven

About the DW Timeline

Moffat Era: Rose joins Eleven, River, Amy and Rory at Lake Silencio Post Tentoo: Rose was a flesh during her stays in Pete’s world | Mentions of being married to Tentoo and having kids | Mentions of Tentoo’s death

About the Episode

Post Satan’s Pit: Rose recieves a lettre from Eleven right after her trip to Krop Tor The Impossible Astronaut: Rewrite of the Lake Silencio part of the episode with Rose in it A Good Man Goes to War: Post-Tentoo Rose wakes up as a flesh on Demon Run but Eleven doesn’t save her The Wedding of River Song: Rose finds Eleven back in a prison on The Tower Post The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe: Madge Arwell invite Eleven and Rose to her Christmas dinner Season6: Rewrite of season 6 seen from Rose’s point of view

About the DW Trope

Circular Paradox: Ten’s Rose visits Eleven and learns of the Doctor’s death | Eleven dies but doesn’t die on the beach of Lake Silencio

About the Fluff/Domestic

Picnic: Eleven, Rose, River, Amy and Rory have a picnic at Lake Silencio

About the Time of Year

Christmas: Madge Arwell invites Eleven and Rose to have Christmas dinner with her family

About the Relationship Status

Husband!Wife: Rose was Tentoo’s wife before they both died in Pete’s World | Eleven calls Rose is wife while taking to Madge Bonding: Bonding over time | Eleven tells Rose his name

About the Angst

Jealous!Rose: Rose slaps River after she told the Doctor she was the one who loved her the most

About the Hurt!Comfort

Kidnapping: The Silence kidnap Rose and bring her to Demon Run replacing her with a flesh Prison: Rose wakes up imprisonned in a room on Demon’s Run | Rose ends up in a prison with Eleven on The Tower

About the Whump

Injury: Scratches of tally marks on Rose’s arm Torture: Rose and Jack are kept on Deamon’s Run for scientific experimentations | Midly mentionned Near Death: Eleven dies but doesn’t die at Lake Silencio

About the Other Doctor

Tenth Doctor: Ten is kind of the taxi driver bringing Rose to Eleven but doesn’t take part in the adventure

About the DW Alien

The Silence: Mention of encountering the Silence | Rose sees the Silence around Lake Silencio Teselecta: Rose and Jack hitch a ride on a Teselecta’s ship to leave Demon’s Run

About the Characters

Rose Tyler: Slapping!Rose | Comforting!Rose | Clone!Rose | Immortal!Rose | Older!Rose Jealous!Rose River Song: Jealous!River | GunBaring!River | Killing!River River!Bashing: Very mild River bashing | Rose says she wouldn’t have let her kids muck about with Time like River does

About the Location

Powell Estate: Ten and Rose visit Jackie at the estate United States: Eleven, Rose, River, Amy and Rory at Lake Silencio, Utah Demon’s Run: Rose wakes up in a room on Demon’s Run

About the Era

1960s: Eleven, Rose, River, Amy and Rory in 1969 Future: Rose wakes up in 5176

A Little Bit More

Phobia: Dead body | The Silence | Stuck in a paralysed body Violence: Rose slaps Eleven when she learns he is going to his death | River shoots Eleven on Lake Silencio | Rose scratches some tally marks on her skin when shes sees the Silence because she doesn’t have her marker | Rose slaps River in the face

[rcrantz]

Reviewing Modern Who: Christmas of the Trees

The Doctor, The Widow, and The Wardrobe. The Doctor builds a Christmas funhouse wonderland for a family that’s sheltering in some creepy old house from the London Blitz, by way of repaying a favor to a nice lady who helped him out when he’d fallen from the sky once. They just got a telegram saying their father’s plane crashed in the English Channel, but their mother, Madge is keeping this information from them because that’s the sort of thing that ruins Christmas.

Anyway, one of the things in the funhouse wonderland is a portal to a wintry world where the trees produce Christmas ornaments and twinkle and it’s supposed to be safe but of course a Problem is about to Ensue and the children show up early and out of order and, long story short, some mining company is about to melt the forest with acid rain and use it for fuel, and the trees are sentient so they’ve built a big ol’ tower in the hopes of attracting someone to serve as a vessel for their life force, and it turns out they need someone who’s a mother to do it. Fortunately one shows up! The tower also flies through the time vortex, and Madge, thinking of her husband dying in the Channel, flies them home. It turns out that her flying through the time vortex saves her husband’s plane, though. It’s a Christmas miracle!

Credit where it’s due: episodes like this are where Moffat really shines, and this may well be the Christmasiest of the Christmas specials so far. B+