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Do you guys subscribe to the theory that (at least, starting in NuWho) the Doctor can, somewhat, subconsciously control his regenerations?
Like, of course, 8 wanted to be a warrior, so he became the War Doctor (I know that he drank a potion for that, but that might’ve just been lemonade according to the Target Novelization).
War wanted to be the hero, to earn the title, the Doctor, again, so he became 9.
9 wanted to be someone who was the perfect partner to Rose (human), so he became 10.
10, in his vanity, wanted his final regeneration to be young, so he became 11.
11, after all the heartache, wanted to be more distant (and also what they said in series 8), so he became 12.
12 wanted a kind, fresh start, so he became 13.
13 wanted to open up to someone, so she became 14.
14 wanted time to heal, so he split off 15.
This is not an original theory, and I'm not even saying that I buy into it fully it, but it's interesting. It would be interesting if the Doctor had a tiny bit of control over their regeneration (Romana did, somehow) and most of the time his wants either backfire or only half work.
What do you think?
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gallifreyanhotfive · 20 hours
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Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 38: Gallifrey at War Part 6
Tw: body horror, Time War stuff, death and destruction, lots of disturbing stuff, etc etc
During the Last Great Time War, Dalek experiments included mutating humans into Daleks to be used as cannon fodder. (Novel: Engines of War)
To fight against the Daleks, the Time Lords not only used Battle TARDISes but also time scooped N Forms, Bowships, and Black Hole Carriers from their own past to add to their forces. (Novel: A Brief History of Time Lords)
Mr. Saldaamir was a friend of the Doctor's parents. He originated before the first Time Wars, which erased his entire planet and left him as the last of his kind. (Short story: Mr. Saldaamir)
Gabrielideans are a race of liquid protean bioforms. During the War in Heaven, the Time Lords allied with them but poured packets of powder into them, which altered their biodata to an extent that it changed their physical form. This was to ensure that the Gabrielideans would be able to use humanoid skinsuits. (Novel: The Book of War; Alien Bodies)
The First Law of Time broke down during the War in Heaven, causing the War to spill over into the pre-War Era. Indeed, the Eighth Doctor (and other early incarnations, notably the Third but also the Fourth, etc etc) all had interactions with a future War. (Novel: Alien Bodies; Unnatural History; The Taking of Planet 5; Interference; Verdigris; Toy Story; Audio: The Judgment of Sutekh; Television: Pyramids of Mars; I don't think I'm missing any citations, but honestly I probably am. This happened A LOT lol)
The Predator Dalek is two times the size of a normal Dalek. The interior has a seat inside of it, surrounded by monitors, dials, probes, and spikes, including a large needle which would insert in the soft tissue at the back of a humanoid skull. This was intended to house the War Doctor inside of it. (Novel: Engines of War)
During the War in Heaven, the Celestis had used a fictional generator to bring to life H.P. Lovecraft's Elder Things. A group of Time Lords purposefully regenerated into bodies resembling these Elder Things in order to blend in and complete their mission. (Novel: The Taking of Planet 5)
The Celestis were the elite members of the old Celestial Intervention Agency who removed themselves from history to escape the War in Heaven. Other Houses typically thought of them as monstrosities. (Novel: Alien Bodies; The Book of War)
Project Revenant was a project set up by the War Council during the Last Great Time War to resurrect dead Time Lords from the Matrix. (Audio: Celestial Intervention)
It was housed in a pocket dimension connect to Gallifrey through the Death Zone, but when Daleks invaded the pocket universe to use the Project for their own ends, the pocket dimension was destroyed but not before the power core was removed. This power core allowed for the resurrection of Rassilon. His Martrix projection was imprinted on Valerian, which ended in Valerian's death. (Audio: Desperate Measures)
The planet Reave in the constellation of Kasterborous was so anti-Gallifrey during the Last Great Time War that they had graffiti depicting the demise of Time Lords and would douse their streets in Praxis gas to choke out any Gallifreyan that may be hiding in their midst. This was largely because the High Council was sanctioning terrorist attacks to blow up Reave's factories, but that did not prevent Gallifreyans not responsible for the attacks - like the Eighth Doctor - from getting Praxis gassed. (Audio: A Heart on Both Sides)
Considering that events in the Last Great Time War were constantly in a state of temporal flux, it was impossible to know for sure what happened. In truth, everything "has happened, then not happened at all, then happened again but at a different time entirely." (Novel: A Brief History of Time Lords)
The Moon of Tenacity was the site of a Gallifreyan Military Moon Base. The Eighth Doctor and his companions were taken here after they were captured. His companions were locked away to convince the Doctor to fight in the Time War, and he was conscripted to the recruitment camp. (Audio: The Conscript)
The Faction Paradox members wear masks made of skulls. These skulls sometimes belonged to Time Lords from an alternate universe where they lost the Eternal War. (Novel: Alien Bodies)
Not all Faction Paradox members used these AU Time Lord skulls though. Some wore the skulls of other species, and Godfather Auteur had his actual skull exposed. This was because his skin had been ripped off, so his body was just bones held together by shadows. (Short story: A Bloody (And Public) Domain)
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nipuni · 1 month
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A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on march 1st! 😊
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raspbel-art · 1 month
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Time Lord Victorious is wrong
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doctorwhoisadhd · 4 days
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tardis anemone time lord clownfish. is this anything
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mydoctordrivesatardis · 8 months
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I think one of the best, most beautiful thing about Doctor Who is that it can quite literally go on forever.
It has a constantly rotating cast, writers, producers, everything. As long as people can think of more stories to write about it, and there are people who want to watch it, it can keep going.
And isn't that wonderful!? It's a legacy! And it can be one that literally never ends.
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nonametoblame25 · 4 months
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Me to old New Who fans returning to watch RTD'S return:
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spinninwiththestars · 6 months
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how many seconds in eternity? DOCTOR WHO | S09E11 - HEAVEN SENT
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longlivewalls · 6 months
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No thoughts, just Twelve progressively hugging Clara back
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georgiacooked · 8 months
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Sorting through my drafts for paintings I haven't posted yet. Have this older painting of Missy from a few years ago! One of my favourite Master regenerations. I need to draw her more often!
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glad to know you have no idea what regeneration is
now can you explain the bigeneration scene as best as you can? (its when david doctor performs mitosis and everything)
SORRY WHAT? hang on let me go to youtube reeeeeeeeeal quick.
i-i'm sorry. Okay. So David doctor is hit (typed hot accidentally there, my bad) with that light saber beam thing. And Ncuti doctor kind of... takes form inside him. He feels Ncuti wriggle in his innards, I assume, because he looks deeply concerned and tells his friends to pull.
Wriggling-innards-Ncuti is yanked out bit by bit from the flesh of doctor-David, and he's not him, he's him. And then they push and become two separate entities, but not really, but yes. They are both thrilled about the whole David giving literal flesh mitotic birth to Ncuti doctor, which, uh, I'm not gonna judge. To each their own.
I assume Ncuti is thrilled because he got into acting coz of David at a play, and uh, David is excited to be birthing Ncuti and not vanishing. Which I gather by the reactions of everyone is not natural, apparently usually while giving birth the maternal doctor is a casualty.
Good for you, guys. *backs away slowly*
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gallicrows · 5 months
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"Guess what I've got, Donna. Pockets!"
After a week I finally finished my first digital art of Ten :D I wanted it to be simpler but I got carried away..
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gallifreyanhotfive · 21 days
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Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 35
When the TARDIS was infested with a Vortex parasite, she uploaded the Eighth Doctor and Izzy to her datascape, and a manifestation of her consciousness helped defeat the parasite.
Time Lords possess a psychic empathy field.
The Seventh Doctor and his companions at one point one teddy bears during a festival. Their names were Jasper and Stewart.
The Second Doctor was able to remotely operate his TARDIS from Koschei's TARDIS.
The Sixth Doctor informed the Celestial Intervention Agency that he ran into the Rani and the Master in 1830s Killingworth, but they didn't believe him due to his "notoriously unstable" nature.
The First Doctor once lost the TARDIS in a bet and used it as an opportunity to take Susan, Ian, and Barbara on a road trip while getting her back.
The Clocksmith was yet another violent renegade Time Lord, but they were also an artist. They had a device that froze people in place, causing them immense pain and could kill them, and was known to encase people in metal.
The Doctor and the Corsair got wasted together on three different occasions we are aware of. Twice, they woke up in jail and once, in the Bank of England vaults.
The Corsair indeed did not like to travel with humans, but they did occasionally take on a parrot or a cat as a companion.
Before leaving Gallifrey, the Doctor was a Scrutationary Archivist in the Bureau of Possible Events.
The Second Doctor was once forced into an arena to fight a dragon. After enthralling it with his recorder, he set the dragon on the audience.
The Time Lords locked Koschei and his "friend" (we all know who this is referring to 👀) in the Tower after a "silly prank gone wrong." His friend would recite him poetry, after which Koschei would feel more in control.
Eventually, they had an argument, after which Koschei's friend escaped and left him behind. At some point before leaving, Koschei's friend wrote the following on the wall:
"Here lies the master of the dirt, the muck, the grime. May that pompous fool sit here until he learns better manners."
Koschei lost track of the time he spent in that Tower after his friend left him. He thought it could have been centuries or millennia. He said that he would get his friend back one day after he got out of the Tower.
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comets-nix · 7 months
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What is a Time Lord
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riverswaltz · 2 years
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an analysis on how 10 and 12’s eras connect so well
i saw a post on tumblr said that twelve would burn up a sun for clara but ten would never spend four and a half billion years in a confession dial for rose. i agree and here’s why. cause ten lost his own planet and people before. and he couldn’t do anything about it. so whenever he loses someone close to him he doesn’t even think that there’s a way to get them back. now here comes donna who is the first person to tell him that it doesn’t always have to be this way. that scene in fires of pompeii is so important to this because it’s where he starts being doubtful about the rules of fixed point in time and stuff. and ten’s whole journey leads up to the waters of mars where he finally realizes that the laws of time are theirs and that they can do anything and save anyone without thinking about the rules. donna and clara are two different ends of a spectrum. but they are alike in the sense that both of them would call out the doctor on their bullshit. and donna telling the doctor to save at least someone impacted them so much that twelve subconsciously chose his face because of her. and when you think about it a lot of twelves big arcs are opposite of ten’s. ten couldn’t bring back rose to her timeline but twelve brought back clara from the dead. ten had to wipe out donna’s memory but twelve wipes out his own memory because he knows it wouldn’t be fair to clara. twelve does the things right that ten did wrong. and it all goes back to donna showing them that he can still save people without thinking about the consequences. each incarnation fixes things that went wrong in the previous incarnations. and it all connects so beautifully. not to mention the river stuff. i get it why 11’s era doesn’t have that many connection to 10’s. and i like it that way cause 11 tried to heal himself by forgetting his past and found a family within the ponds. but 12 acknowledges his past and since the doctor didn’t expect to live past his eleventh incarnation, twelve seems very fresh and he doesn’t have to no longer deal with his guilts. so he tries to make things right this time. they wish they tried to bring back rose or didn’t take away donna’s memories but since he can’t undo any of that he does it all for clara.
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