Scattered Wild Blue Yonder thoughts

[elisi]

Spoilers under the cut for 2nd Special, but NONE for the 3rd. (I have avoided the previews, don't tell me anything.)

ETA: It has been pointed out that there are no thoughts, just a lot of flailing about Fourteen. I accept this.


I have been thinking about the New Who Doctors and having fun summing them up. :)

9: I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go- That's who I am.
10: I am a ball of man!pain
11: I'm a Pond! \o/
12: I shall unravel the ball of man!pain
13: I'm a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
14: I'm a happy gay emotionally competent lil cinnamon roll <3

I still don't know how to process that this is who the Doctor is now. Wild Blue Yonder is endless moments of the Doctor being aware of Donna's emotions and modulating himself and his behaviour. ETA: He performs emotional labour! The Doctor with TEN's face performs emotional labour. What is this witchcraft?

But ALSO.

Also we get moments like this and I can't remember anything like it, ever? He plays a prank and laughs at her response! Who are you, delightful alien creature? *hands*

Speaking of 'Who are you?', then I find myself agreeing with this. (Apologies to any Chibnall fans, I salute you!)

Just look at all the emotions. And it's not that he isn't traumatised (he's clearly deeply, deeply affected by the Flux and the Timeless Child), but he is capable of articulating it. (There will be thoughts forthcoming on the Timeless Child. We might be willing to like it now.)

And then there were moments like this which were just sheer poetry and beautifully illustrate how very differently the Doctor views the universe and the passing of time...

I should write more, but all my thoughts keep running in different directions, so I shall leave you with this:


^Tomorrow's gonna be rough 😢


ETA: SPECULATION on the regeneration that I need to add somewhere.



I think Fourteen's face came back because of Donna somehow. There is the fact of the clothes also, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was something going on, a loop like when Four generated to Five?

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[promethia_tenk]

[elisi]

[promethia_tenk]

I love that you titled this post 'Scattered Wild Blue Yonder Thoughts' and then just proceeded to squee about Fourteen for several paragraphs. Not an episode thought to be found.

Not that I don't approve of your priorities.

[elisi]

I titled the post before writing it. That might have been a mistake. *g*

[promethia_tenk]

LOL.

Loved this from the one Tumblr post:I’ve been thinking a lot of Fourteen’s forearms. As one does.

*looks back on my past two months of commentary* Indeed one does . . .

It's so gratifying when one's own preoccupations turn out to be so thematically relevant.

[elisi]

I would love to be able to travel back, like, 10 years, and tell past!you that David Tennant portrays the BEST Doctor and that his forearms are very important.

*g*

[promethia_tenk]

This may not be the darkest timeline, but it sure is the weirdest one.

Good weird, but . . . weird.

Maybe I should change my mind about being angry. Before Rusty eats my soul or something.

[elisi]

And here we are...

[promethia_tenk]

I'll reiterate my statement about it being the weirdest timeline. That's definitely held up.