ACTORS SHARED ACROSS THE WHONIVERSE
⇢ RICHARD E. GRANT as...
The Doctor in “The Curse of the Fatal Death” (1999)
The Doctor in “Scream of the Shalka” (2003)
Dr. Walter Simeon | The Great Intelligence in “The Snowmen (Special) / The Bells of Saint John (7.06) / The Name of the Doctor (7.13)” (Doctor Who | 2012-2013)
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10 years ago, The Snowman premiered and gave us these two and sealed the deal between the two.
Also Merry Christmas.
Also Victorian Clara is the best imo.
Whouffle ftw
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Jenna Coleman On The Set Of "The Snowmen"
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So my fellow whovians, i have a theory…
I watched the snowmen again last night and the doctor’s sudden shift following the ponds death doesn’t really make sense to me. All of a sudden he’s changed his whole outlook on life, stopped travelling, refuses to help people and just generally becomes Scrooge more or less. Like I know the ponds death would have hit him hard but like THAT seems a bit much…
And everyone in the paternoster gang says he has been this way for a long time but they don’t seem to be that much older than they were when we saw them in a good man goes to war. So he can’t have been parked on that cloud and moping about for more than a few years which idk that doesn’t exactly qualify as a long time to me, especially with the doctor.
So, people have often asked why he couldn’t go back and get them, even if all of the 1930s was off limits to his TARDIS because of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, couldn’t he have just popped to the 40s or 50s and retrieved them when they were a bit older? He does have a Time Machine after all …
Well what if he DID?
He picked up the ponds and essentially kept travelling with them on and off for the rest of their lives but ultimately he lost them again when they died of old age and he had to visit those graves again. No matter how many times he would travel back in time to find them at a point in their past where he could pick them up and take them on a new adventure, eventually he would have to drop them off again, knowing they are inevitably heading to their deaths, however slowly. No matter he does, he can’t save them.
No matter what he does, his time with them is always finite.
And it’s THIS realisation that hits him so hard that he gives up on travelling and decides to brood in Victorian London for the rest of his life (excellent locale for brooding btw). the paternoster gang know he’s been this obsessive about the ponds and it’s not healthy for him which is why they say he’s been like this for a long time. He shut everyone else out long before he ended up on that cloud. he stopped trying to move on and find a new companion because he can’t go through getting attached to them when he knows his time with them will eventually and inevitably run out…
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“clara who?”
“doctor who?”
the foreshadowing in the snowmen…
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