something that really gets me about the doctor is that if your looking, it’s very obvious that they’re the same person across regenerations. the important things stick- the wit, the thinking under pressure, the emotional constipation, (which gets lessened over time, but that’s less on an on/off regeneration thing than you might think and more of a character arc thing so it further proves my point) their inherent love for humanity, their drama, their nonviolent tendencies.
all the obvious changes between the doctors are surface level, and if you go poking around you find that they’re all really similar to each other. I just love watching different peoples portrayals of one single character, and I think it’s really fun to see that regeneration really is mostly just changing the *body*, not the *soul*.
fobwatch!eleven would go to a rave without telling amy or rory, come back at 3am after absolutely not answering his phone, drunk out of his mind, and with at least three phone numbers. amy is considering making a "how many guidelines have we failed to follow" bingo out of this.
he spends the next twelve hours hungover as hell curled up under three weighted blankets trying to recover from the insane levels of stimulation he decided to expose himself to
it struck me today that a massive part of what makes the Doctor the hero and not the villain of the show is that he actually is not a good guy. he's not good. he's terrible, and he could be really bad for the universe, but the thing that makes him the hero is that he knows what he is really like sometimes and he is actively trying to do the right thing at every opportunity and be better, so in this essay I will-
If russel t davis keeps mentioning rose and making her important to the plot of the new seasons of doctor who then i will have to think of him the same way i think of moffat - much too self-congratulatory to the point of ruining the art that they have the responsibility of taking care of.
oh you mean the doctor who that has flattened human skin as a character? the doctor who that has the episode love and monsters? the doctor who that says that the english royal family is werewolves? the doctor who that has james corden in it? the doctor who that in the same episode that james corden is in not only does the doctor speak baby, but the baby wants to be named Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All, AND the doctor can also play soccer very well.