#ten X donna

[deeneedsaname]

Can we have a moment of silence for Sylvia, who now has an Alien living in her backyard, and a moment of triumph for Wilf, who now has an Alien living in his backyard

#Truly everyone in that house won EXCEPT for sylvia #Who has given in poor woman #Doctor who #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #wilfred mott #donna noble #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #doctor who spoilers #ten x donna #doctor x donna #fourteen x donna #honestly looking forward to the day i cna stop using SO MANY BLOODY TAGS

[crowley-anthony]

I've never been so happy in my life.

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #dw spoilers #fourteenedit #fourteen #donna noble #donnanobleedit #ten x donna #mine* #5k

[davidtennan-t]

don’t look at me

#I’m a mess #david tennant #doctor who #dt #donna noble #ten x donna #fourteenth doctor #catherine tate #wild blue yonder #bernard cribbins #wilfred mott

[mindibindi]

Everyone is assuming Rose Noble named herself that because the Ten part of her, inherited by the metacrisis, loved Rose so damn much. And yeah, that might be true or part of it, but let's not forget how significant Rose was to Donna. Because ROSE was the one following Donna from day dot of her adventures with the Doctor. ROSE was the one who sought Donna out in an alternative reality in which Donna had forgotten the Doctor (for the second time, if you count her experience being saved by the Library). ROSE was the one in that reality to tell her she was brilliant and important and belonged with the Doctor, NEEDED to be with The Doctor, AND he needed HER. And ultimately, it was Rose who helped her to get back to him. Rose told her she was brave and capable and could find a way. So while it's possible that Rose Noble named herself after Rose Tyler because Ten loved her so much, it's equally possible that the metacrisis part of Donna that Rose Noble inherited was trying to remind herself/her mother of the weird blonde woman who stalked her across dimensions, insisted that she remember (The Doctor, their adventures together and HER own importance) and returned Donna to her rightful place at the side of The Doctor. The suppressed memory of Rose Tyler inherited by Rose Noble is another indication that Donna Noble wanted to remember, (re)remind herself and return to the Doctor again.

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[doctordonna-protection-squad]

Ngl, I really really want Donna to find out how Ten died. Imagining her finding out that her best friend gave himself up to save her grandfather… it would tear her up inside. Wilf really was like a father to Ten

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[hero-the-meep]

Why is the Doctor making Donna a cup of coffee so significant?

Well, he is trying to impress her, to get her to travel with him again – like he tried to do by using the TARDIS to make it snow at Christmas the first time he asked her to travel with him.

But he got that attempt wrong. Donna doesn't like Christmas, and the Doctor having the power to make it snow "scared her to death."

A cup of coffee, just how she likes it, is (on the surface of it) a smaller gesture to show that he remembered the little details about her. A cup of coffee is what brought them together all those years ago.

But it's what Donna told the Doctor about what Lance making her that cup of coffee meant to her that the Doctor really listened to and remembered.

"I was temping. I mean, it was all a bit posh, really. I'd spent the last two years at a double glazing firm. Well, I thought, I'm never going to fit in here. And then he made me a cup of coffee. I mean, that just doesn't happen. Nobody gets the secretaries a coffee. "And Lance, he's the Head of HR, he didn't need to bother with me. But he was nice, he was funny. And it turns out he thought everyone else was really snotty too. So, that's how it started, me and him. One cup of coffee, and that was it."

Donna fell in love with Lance because he made her a cup of coffee. So used to being unnoticed and uncared for, something as simple as an 'important' man taking the time to make her a cup of coffee meant everything to Donna.

She thought it was a sign that he was kind, that he was nice. She thought it was a sign he noticed and cared for her.

And the Doctor sees how it devastates her to learn the real reason why he was making her coffee was to drug her for his own ends. Despite their differences, he's gentle when he breaks it to her. And it connects her to him in a shared grief.

So when the Doctor makes her a cup of coffee after she regains her memories, he's not just telling her that he remembers the little details about her like how she likes her coffee, but the big things too.

He's showing that he sees her, that he cares about her thoughts and feelings, that he wants to care for her after all these years when he couldn't. That he knows how important this is to her.

But that's not all.

In the alternative timeline, Donna never meets Lance. And yet, when she is upset, and afraid, she asks Rose Tyler for a cup of coffee. Steam rises from her mug as they stand around the console inside the dying TARDIS, and have the most honest conversation they've had yet about the Doctor and their feelings towards him.

In the proper timeline, the person we see Donna drinking coffee with is Wilf. In moments of joy and moments of upset they bond over coffee. Before she finds the Doctor again, Donna brings Wilf a thermos to escape Sylvia's criticisms.

Wilf is the only person in Donna's life who she can be herself around, who has unconditionally cared for her, and who she takes joy in caring for back.

Even in the alternative timeline, Wilf has held onto not only the telescope but the exact same thermos Donna brings him coffee in when he's up on the hill.

For the Doctor to remember how she takes her coffee, we know they must have had moments together like this off-screen too.

So when the Doctor makes her a cup of coffee, just how she likes it, he is communicating he remembers not just the small details of her but that he remembers all these things that she associates with making someone a cup of coffee – kindness, acceptance, being noticed, caring for someone and being cared for, home, and family.

It's possible, for the Doctor, there's an apology in that cup of coffee too.

But wait, there's still more.

Did Donna spill the cup of coffee on the console on purpose?

The slight of hand was rather obvious. And it came at a time when Donna was trying to convince him not to leave her, to come back home to her, if only just for a visit.

He'd not said no, but she'd easily seen through him the first time he lied about coming inside to have dinner with her family that first Christmas, and likely saw through him again – the avoidance of eye contact, fiddling with the TARDIS, the wane "yeah, maybe."

She also rather clearly wanted to go on another trip with him (she never wanted to stop in the first place), and was only saying no because of her obligations to her family. It's possible she was buying time by spilling the cup of coffee – just one more than one last trip, without it being her "fault."

She had, after all, just dropped a cup of coffee on a computer and lost a job she'd probably hated, knowing Donna. And before things had gone really wrong, she'd definitely been enjoying herself.

It's also possible she's still quite angry with the Doctor, but unable to fully verbalise this yet.

He connects the cup of coffee to remembering every detail of her. She has not been able to remember any detail of her life with him. The last time they were standing around the console together, he took her memories against her will. He says it killed him; but she – or that version of herself, the one she actually liked – was arguably the one who was killed.

And she might be remembering Lance, another man she truly loved and trusted, and how a cup of coffee seemed like a kindness but was in fact a lie, a violation.

The Doctor quite possibly also suspects something like this is what might have happened, given his level of anger at her.

Despite the fact that this Doctor is more able to admit his feelings, we don't see what happened between them when he took her memories ever properly resolved in words.

Instead, there are a series of proxy arguments that stand in for it – Donna's anger that she gave away all her money because of him, that he sees taking the slow path, living a life day after day as such agony when he made her do it, his anger at her faith that he will know how to defeat the Toy Maker.

And their most emotional proxy argument of all – who is at fault for stranding them at the edge of the universe? Is it Donna, who spilt the cup of coffee, or the Doctor, who she couldn't stop from wandering off?

Thematically, however, there is some resolution. The Doctor lets Donna decide to regain her memories, even if it means she'll die. The Doctor knows Donna enough to save her from being left to die alone, even if it is at the very last moment. The Doctor admits he used to think he knew everything, but now he knows he doesn't.

Donna gets to tell him it's not all about him saving her, gets him to stop, finally gets him to come home with her.

And in their last scene, it's the Doctor who is having the cup of coffee.

#doctor who #catherine tate #fourteen x donna #fourteenth doctor #ten x donna #david tennant #doctor x donna #donna noble #tenth doctor #tatennant

[lady-of-the-spirit]

I think most stories could benefit from having two characters whose relationship is just "those two guys" (gender neutral). Most of the time if you look for one of them you'll find both of them. They can hate each other or be the best of friends or something in-between but they just can't find that same spark with anyone else. Their relationship is best described as "do not separate them". They are fully fleshed out characters individually but if either of them are left alone without the other for any reason it feels so wrong.

#and if you ship them it's either 'they've always been together what are you talking about' #or 'idk how they would even get together in the first place but they should kiss' #i'm saying stuff #relationship dynamics #ship dynamics #you know what i mean #rosencrantz and guildenstern #also whatever tf mu qing and feng xin from heaven official's blessing have going on #ten and donna #ten x donna

[moonah-rose]

Considering Donna was very much not dead when Fourteen was cradling her, she probably heard every word he said, including the bit about him egging on the soldiers to kill him because he didn't care what happened to him anymore.

A few days later when they're all settled in France she finally brings it up like; "Right, Spaceman, sit your skinny Martian arse down because we need to unpack some of this self-destructive things you got going on! Mum, you make the tea, Shaun, go buy some biscuits, Rose start piling your teddies around your Uncle."

#dw spoilers #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #donna noble #ten x donna #rose noble #doctor x donna

[brixuth]

Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes will collapse.

So?

#doctor who #dwedit #dwgif #tenrose #ten x rose #ten x donna #gifs #m #* #i'm suffering

[tatennant]

The Doctor and Donna Noble

#doctor who #donna noble #fourteenth doctor #tenth doctor #doctor x donna #catherine tate #doctor donna #david tennant #ten x donna #mine

[deeneedsaname]

“I really do remember though. Every second with you. I’m so glad you’re back, cause it killed me, Donna. It killed me, it killed me, it killed me.”

The recognition of the fact that losing Donna was such a last straw for the tenth doctor though. He lost her, and Donna had been so perfect for him, and just…this line and the delivery is exactly about that.

#doctor who 60th anniversary spoilers #Donna noble #doctor donna #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #ten X donna #fourteen × donna #doctor x donna #doctor who spoilers #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary

[crowley-anthony]

The Fourteenth Doctor & Donna Noble in 'Wild Blue Yonder'

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #dw spoilers #donna noble #donnanobleedit #ten x donna #fourteen #fourteenedit #mine* #3k

[davidtennan-t]

somebody sedate me

#I can’t even #this is beautiful #david tennant #doctor who #donna noble #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth Doctor #ten x donna #catherine tate #ncuti gatwa #Doctor who 60th #the giggle

[mindibindi]

"𝙳𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚆𝚑𝚘" || 𝚃𝚎𝚗 𝚡 𝙳𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜 [𝚙𝚝. 𝟷] [pt. 2]

#dw #dr who #doctor who #ten x donna #the doctor x donna #donna noble #the 10th doctor #the tenth doctor #tatennant #tennant x tate #catherine tate #david tennant #otp: partners in crime #otp: I think you'll find we're quite something #texposts #one per ep #dw textpost meme

[thegingergoddess]

+bonus

Doctor Who AU: fake!marriage "The Doctor and Donna Noble pretending to be a married couple on a reality TV show." — No Place, The Tenth Doctor Adventures

#the gifs are fake but the lines are canon #david tennant #catherine tate #donna noble #doctor who #tenth doctor #doctor x donna #ten x donna #big finish #no place #The Tenth Doctor Adventures #doctor who au #fourteenth doctor #fourteen x donna #tatennant #tatennant au

[hero-the-meep]

David: Oh, I don't know there's so many things that... I still phone up my Dad when the least little thing – Catherine: Yeah. David: I don't know how to do anything yet. Catherine: No, I – David: It worries me a little bit because I'm 30 – well, by the time you watch this faithful viewer I'll be 37 and I think I don't know how to do stuff that my Dad seems to know how to do everything, you know... Catherine: No, no, mmm. David: I worry that it's generational. I worry that if I were to have children they would literally – you know that each generation – Catherine: It would get less – David: It would get less and less practical till no one's able to do things for themselves. Catherine: Oh, don't cause I'm pretty useless. David: Yeah. I am too. Catherine: Umm... David: My Dad taught me how to change a tyre I suppose. Catherine: See, I can't do that. David: My Dad taught me to drive as well. Catherine: I don't know if this is helpful but my Nan gave me some great advice. David: Mmm? Catherine: She said "deny everything."

#they are us #doctor who #catherine tate #fourteenth doctor #ten x donna #doctor x donna #tatennant #david tennant #tenth doctor