#doctor who season 3

[lovelyinspiration1463]

Rose: Have you got any hidden talents, Doctor?

Ten, thinking: Uhm... I can cry on command. Does that count?

Rose: Absolutely! It's a show of your acting skills!

Ten, shaking his head: No, it's nothing to do with acting. I'm just constantly on the verge of a mental breakdown.

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[thirdeyeblue]

Doctor Who | S3E4 | Daleks in Manhattan

#doctor who #tenth doctor #david tennant #rtd era #dwgifs #dwedit #my edit #Because S3 Ten is peak heat #doctor who season 3 #daleks in manhattan

[local-queer-disappointment]

Never ever ever getting over Smith and Jones because you know the doctor could've just hid in a broom closet somewhere if he needed to check the place out but he CHOSE to admit himself as a patient KNOWING they'd check his heartbeat. This man really said I'm about to ruin a med student's entire life

#and the SMIRK THE EVIL LITTLE SMIRK AAAAAA #he's so fucking insufferable i love him #the doctor #doctor who #martha jones #doctor who season 3 #smith and jones

[2018wattpaduser]

This

This is Jack.

He's talking about the Master, right. He's telling the Doctor that he's not alone. That the Master is still there for him.

(I mean, he could be talking about Gallifrey and the Time Lords not being dead, but I think it's more probable that he's talking about the Master. Since we're in season 3 and the Time Lords are nowhere, while the Master does appear at the end of the season.)

He's telling the Doctor that he has hope. He doesn't have to be alone. He's not the last of his kind. He doesn't have to carry alone the memories and the grief. He has someone he could rely on, someone who understands.

He's trying to reassure the Doctor, calm him, that he's not alone. That the Master is still there for him.

He knows how important this is for the Doctor. How important that he's not alone. That he still has the Master. I-

I'm having emotions.

IM HAVING EMOTIONS

#please tell me Im not going insane #maybe im imagining things i dont know at this point #doctor who #thoschei #tenth doctor #tensimm #the master #simm!master #david tennant #bbc doctor who #jack harkness #face of boe #last of the time lords #doctor who season 3 #emotions

[guardianspirits13]

guys guys im actually crying why did nobody warn me about the Doctor Who season 3 double feature Human Nature/The Family of Blood??????

That was heartbreaking and I'm going insane.

I was gonna say David Tennant should have gotten an Emmy for his performance and then I remembered it would have been the BAFTAs, and he did win a BAFTA for his 2007 portrayal of the Doctor, but I like to think it was primarily for those two episodes.

Like he killed it as the Doctor but John Smith??? Regular human guy from 1913 in love with a widowed nurse???? Who had to die so the Doctor could live???

Rip both of my hearts out why don't you :,(

#jess rewatches doctor who #im so not normal about this #david tennant #doctor who #dw #doctor who season 3 #john smith #jess's thoughts #tenth doctor #10th doctor

[ghost-bison]

Hey... Anyone else wonder what happened to Donna during the Year That Never Was? Did she die? She knew the Doctor, so was she one of the people manifesting his name in the end? I get that the Doctor doesn't talk to her about it because it's kind of hard to understand, or maybe it would traumatize her to think about it (it could stir some things up), but I wish we knew what happened to her and to Wilf and Sylvia... Just thinking about it, I feel really bad

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[roxannepolice]

hi!!! hows it goin i’m here to dump my thoughts about simm!master/lucy vs ten and martha cause i have MANY. also a disclaimer before i begin that i’m white and that likely does color my experience as a viewer compared to a BIPOC viewer. anyways: i’ll start with ten and martha because by sound of drums we’ve spent all season watching them and its that already established dynamic which i think lucy/saxon are meant to parallel in a way. you have ten very much still grieving rose and his entire planet, which makes him try and push away any new companions for a bit. but he’s still looking for - and i think needs, in a way - this kind of connection where he can depend on someone, and ideally they could depend on him. however. ten sucks at this second bit. for the entire season. so he’s in need of this connection despite not wanting any whatsoever, emotional intelligence completely out the window right now since he’s grieving x2, and martha unfortunately walks in right in the middle of this. so you get this dynamic really starting from i’d say the shakespeare code wherein martha is carrying a lot of the weight in their relationship. ten will entrust her with the most deeply personal shit (like his memories of gallifrey, his feelings on losing rose, even in 42 where he’s like "i’m scared i’m so scared" where he depends on martha for emotional support) and then when martha’s like hey can i get some support here or something ten’s like “uh sorry all out too busy being sad” i mean that's a bit exaggerated/summarized but thats the vibe they have. in the beginning he doesn't even admit she’s traveling with him! he’s all “just one trip” “just one more” and refuses to make a concrete decision that martha really needs him to make already. and despite this emotional unavailability shtick ten still relies on martha quite a bit! off the top of my head you have 42(martha freezing/unfreezing ten as he screams in pain), blink (they get sent back to the 1960s… and only martha gets a job???), and. human nature. wherein martha endures racial abuse alongside lesser shitty working conditions in order to ensure the doctor doesn't get his body possessed or something. and in the middle of it this human version of the doctor falls in love with another woman(after basically uh leading her on for the whole fucking season) (sure maybe unintentionally but that's not the point here) who. also was racist to her she's not even a nice person. and her only friend in this godawful place gets possessed. and human doctors a dick to her. and i think. i reflect on it and i come to the conclusion that ten very much does expect martha to just… do his job for him sometimes. handle all the dirty work like making sure human him doesn't get distracted or hurt or die. and still immediately after is like haha we are in 1960 now. i will not get a job what is that. why do you want me to “communicate” or “pull my weight” you’re traveling across space and time lol.

and the master and lucy are a darker extension of this dynamic that i actually haven't really seen people talk about much!! the master is very clear about why he married lucy, and there is no love/admiration/respect whatsoever in there. it is purely a means to an end - her family gets him influence, and she helps him carry out his plans. he gives nothing to lucy, only takes. which is in itself a mirror to ten & martha - the audience knows ten isn’t intending to be malicious in how he treats martha throughout the series, but when paralleled to lucy & the master i think you really get a sense of the harm this can cause down the line. what resentment this kind of dynamic can lead to. and ALL THE WHILE martha is walking the entire planet for a year to save all of humanity while ten hangs out aged 100 with his little tent & dog bowl & seething sorta-ex-husband-boyfriend-whatever. i mean he doesn't have the best time either but he also doesn't have to do that much and also is perhaps a bit too happy about not being the last time lord to fully grasp that hey, uh, humanity's in pretty dire straits right now. martha watches as the master turns earth into a living nightmare, slaughters millions of people on a whim, turns ten into a 900-year-old tweety bird, and tortures her family for a year, only for ten to go “guys dw i can fix him lol we’ll just live in the tardis for eternity together” as if she hadn't had to fight for that too. and ten is still shocked-pikachu-face when she goes “yeah no i’m leaving. i gotta get out.” and that is very much similar to lucy's moment in a way! where she sees the doctor forgiving(without really considering everybody else's opinion on the Past Year), martha's mom talked down from killing him, even Jack is talked down from his confusion at the whole idea, and i think in that moment she goes. okay. you guys can forgive. you guys can let him walk away having just taken, taken, taken everything without any repercussions. i meanwhile have this gun and two years of pent-up rage coursing through my veins. and both of these moments - martha leaving, lucy firing the gun - come at a shock to the doctor and the master. i mean you can see the master's little "oh" face when he gets shot. even if he plays it up like he expected it after i don't think he considered it before. and i think on a certain level neither really expected to be called out like this - ten because he’s got the emotional intelligence of a baseball bat, the master because he doesn’t think humans are capable of wiping their own asses - so in both of these moments in LoTL theyre like "wait i didn't know you could do that"

anyways tl;dr thats why i think lucy and the master are a darker parallel to the doctor and martha in their own way. which feeds into the rest of the finale where the master is just showing the natural extremes to who the doctor is - this is that toxic dependency taken to its natural worst possible place, where you treat someone as a tool rather than as a person. the master's generally a great foil to the doctor but the series 3 finale is just a fantastic example of it i think.

OMG, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts like this! And I love your thought process here so much.

First, absolutely, Martha is the case of right person, wrong time... which is probably what makes hers my favourite companion arc - as I like to put it she travelled through hell and pulled her Virgil (because yes, the Doctor absolutely always has this guide role that brings Virgil to mind, at least in companions' first episodes) to the Earthly Paradise in the process. There's a lot of debates going on about whether Ten was leading Martha on, because on the one hand - well, he's very clear he's not into her romantically, on the other - ok, bitch, you made it clear the kiss doesn't mean anything, but also you hit off with flirtatious winks and end showing off time travel while also casually showing off your Adam's apple. Yeah, a girl can make deductions. And you're right that this superficial frankness is mirrorred in Master's relation to Lucy - though if anything he's crrepily keen on playing a caring husband, what with the 100% performative hug he gives her while the Toclafane are hacking a journalist up. Though I suppose in his head this is what the Doctor does as well when they comfort their companions. And let's give it to Ten - when he said he's not going to let Martha *checks notes* fry in a small capsule in far space because of a sentient sun, he does bend head over tits and does as promised. But historically it has happened that the Doctor's reassurances were hollow (future, but kind of most painful in Twelve assuring Bill he's going to de-cybermanize her only to later admit yeah not really an option... considering Saxon was there to witness this, I wonder if he marked this in his Notebook (of Rassilon) of Spiting the Doctor).

Ten's handling of the chameleon arch is kind of pathetic, thanks for pointing that out! Like, ok - if the Family gets a whole Time Lord lifetime it is a genuine threat to the universe, but his attitude of oh I'm just going to spend three months as a human in a random timespace, what could possibly go wrong, and anyway, Martha will be there to clean up any mess? is a mess. I do like John Smith's romance with nurse Radfem, though, not in the sense of shipping them, but more of an appreciation of the concept: a classic victorian/edwardian romance, but when you look at it from the persective of a BIPOC servant... it kind of becomes apparent both parties are dickheads. This does tie back to the Master in a way, because I think... want to think... that by the time the Doctor went oh no, we're better than a tyrant maniac that spent a whole year destroying the planet and torturing everyone in the room specifically, so we're not going to execute him, I'm going to put him in my nice spaceship and we'll have nice cuddle movie evenings instead, she was already hardened by the fact that he put her in an (unintentionally) tailor made emotional torture room for three months only to later reveal oh yeah, I could absolutely have handled them all along. Is just higher moral ground, innit?

I guess as all best foils do, the clue lies in the diffrences, though, right? Both Martha and Lucy end up deeply disillusioned with their respective semi-immortal twinks from space, but in one case there is still a disillusioned friendship (Ten's surprised Pikachu face, excellent comparion) and in the other there's only hate - and for good reasons! And where the Doctor grows to really respect Martha (and I wouldn't say he started off dismissive, I mean he is impressed when she tells him oh no mister, a doctor isn't something you just are, you have to earn the title) and is not just saddened but... humbled?... by her leaving, the Master shows up in EoT and is like Hey, my widow, did you miss me, hope you haven't remarried, that would be awkward to explain in the registry office :D!

*sigh* I suppose this is why tensimm is so special to me. It's 20 seasons of foil dynamic condensed into 5 hours. It really shows how thin the difference between the Doctor and the Master is. And how in the right circumstances, including the loss of the handy mirror villain to show how things can go wrong, a madman with a box can turn into an eldritch horror deciding the future of the universe. So, again, thank you so much for poining out yet another excellent parallel!

#ask #ahh i hope the answer was worthy of the ask because your analysis is so. good! #doctor who #doctor who meta #thoschei #tensimm #tenth doctor #simm!master #martha jones #lucy saxon #doctor who season 3

[rambleonwithrosie]

Okay fellow whovians...

I am rewatching 10 and maybe I've forgotten or maybe I just found a plot hole. But inH the Lazarus Experiment episode in Season 3 Martha's mom Francine leaves that famous frantic voicemail at the end warning her daughter that the Doctor isn't safe and explaining she has it on authority from Mr Saxon himself... so here's my question.

Why is The Master trying to stop Martha from traveling with the Doctor by using her mum? Like surely he has to realize if Martha isn't with the Doctor then there's a good chance he never gets freed from his watch and stays Professor Yana stuck at the end of time looking for Utopia. Like... am I missing something here or is the Master literally so blind in his hatred of the Doctor that he'd fuck his own timeline up just to inconvenience him by having him lose his companion?

I'm having a little Whovian crisis over here send help!

#whovian #doctor who #10th doctor #david tennant #tenth doctor #martha jones #freema agyeman #francine jones #leo jones #doctor who season 3 #doctor who series 3 #bbc #the master #professor yana #harold saxon #here come the drums

[ebenelephant]

just finished season 3 of nuwho – literally how could anybody not like martha jones?? i mean i know there's the racism, obviously, but everyone's bitchiness about her is so widespread i had sort of assumed that maybe there would be some abrasive aspect of hers that people exacerbated which they might have let a white character get away with. but no. she's just a delight.

#it's just the racism isn't it? #martha jones #doctor who #doctor who season 3 #nuwho #fandom racism #mine

[brainrotsucks]

tenth doctor in a different color Converse each episode but got my girl Martha in the the outfit since episode one.

#doctor who #tenth doctor #doctor who season 3 #martha jones

[lovelyinspiration1463]

Ten, entering the TARDIS: I'm quite concerned about the humans of this time period. One young lady called me a 'snack' as I was passing by, to which her friend replied, 'he's a whole meal.' Do you suppose their language has been encrypted? Or have their minds been scrambled and they truly believe me to be food?

Martha, to Donna: ...We should tell him, right?

Donna: Don't you dare. I want to see how far this goes.

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[thirdeyeblue]

The Shakespeare Code

Doctor Who | Series 3, Episode 2

#doctor who #tenth doctor #martha jones #underrated episode #william shakespeare #the shakespeare code #doctor who season 3 #dwedit #dwgifs #shakespeare #david tennant #freema agyeman #dw #rtd

[damnhedied]

Just gonna leave this here.

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[excali-bruh]

The Doctor will stand before the Daleks. | S3 E05: “Evolution of the Daleks” | The Tenth Doctor | Digital Painting

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[yeti-zeus]

just so folks know if you watch the S3 finale of doctor who on HBO they have cut the Masters dance scene for some reason? its the only scene thats missing, im going to guess music rights issues but pirate the episode if you want the whole thing

@deathdefyinggarlic (tagging you cause I would guess you would want to know)

#doctor who #the master #the doctor #david tennant #doctor who season 3 #martha jones #freema agyeman #jon simms

[theswirlsphere]

how did they get this rare pic of me and david tennant

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