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The Doctor’s Wives

Here’s my request for the 50th anniversary. Actually, for any episode.

I want to know about the Doctor’s first wife. Who is this woman? How long where they together? Did he lose her before he took off for the universe or as late as the last Time War? Was she a Time Lady or a Gallifreyan with another type of service?

Did their child sleep in his baby cot? Is that why there’s at least one other inscription on it?

Did they argue over his desire to see the universe? Or did she understand by, like so many of his companions later on, she wanted home more and not that life?

During the Fifth Doctor’s time, fans had a theory that a reason why the Doctor was so hands off with his companions and other potential partners was because he remained faithful to his wife. The show never said.

She was a major part of his life, but we know nothing about her.

Personally, I imagine River coming across something and asking about her. Now, River has a big jealous streak — we’ve seen it and Moffat confirmed it again a few months ago — but it’s for someone the Doctor would be cheating with now, (when it looks that way - like his jealousy over Octavian) not just any person at all. She knows how important this woman was to him, how crucial she was in his life for centuries. (I’ve asked my husband about his first wife out of curiosity: how are we alike, how are we different, how they met etc.)

In my mind, River comes across the baby cot, notices the other wording on it, and asks him. The TARDIS probably put it right in front of her, to make sure her Child and the Doctor’s new wife, knows about the other important woman in her Thief’s life. After he first stays quiet on it, he finally talks about her.

It would add explanation to River’s look at the baby cot inA Good Man Goes to War; some of her fond memories is that day when he opened to her about someone he’s never talked about before.

(I also have head canon that somewhere in the Tardis are paintings of the Doctor’s loves with his first wife’s and River’s together on one wall, marking them as special as the Women Who Married Him.)

8 months ago

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Via kerjenfanfic

# Doctor Who

# Time lord

# The Doctor

# or maybe Time Lords don't mate for life? are there married Time Lords in classic Who?

gallifreyburning:

equalseleventhirds:

angstinspace:

tomhiddly:

I literally screamed when I figured this out, though. The Daleks, all wrong. They’re not right in Dalek standards; they’re skewed, they’re not made of hatred. When Amy walks into the room, she sees what the broken Daleks perceive themselves to be. Compassion, love; two Daleks ballroom dance and one introduces Amy to a party. He’s homely; he’s welcoming. And then there’s a Dalek swerving in circles, like she’s dreaming; she’s still a little ballerina girl. She is not hatred.

And then there’s Oswin. Dear Oswin, who was clever and hid herself in a dream. She was human. The rusty, broken Daleks don’t think they’re Daleks. Remember that.

#Okay but so if this is actually the case #then this episode is utterly horrifying on so many levels #because instead of trying to find a way to save the planet-full of more human Daleks #to set them on course to be more empathetic #to nurture a small population of them into compassionate and thoughtful creatures #THE DOCTOR LETS THEM GET BLOWN UP #he doesn’t rescue ANY of them #not even Oswin #He lets the Parliament-full of regular ”healthy” hate-spewing order-taking rage machine Daleks live #and he lets the planet full of human Daleks die #This actually really really disturbed me #Because as much as he hates the Daleks (which is probably more than anything else besides himself #honestly) #He’s the DOCTOR and if there’s a place for hope and saving anything worth saving #at least TRYING to save something worth saving #the Doctor will risk life and limb to do it #But he didn’t #Not this time (via gallifreyburning)

HAHA THANKS

and dude even if this is not the case

even if the insane Daleks are evil and horrible (which is really really ableist and hurts me inside as a mentally ill person)

the Doctor never even asks

the regular Daleks tell him that these Daleks—who he has only ever heard whispered legends about and let’s be honest the Doctor is probably not the expert on whether Dalek legends are true or not—need to be blown up

and he just agrees

they send him down to this planet

and he just kills all the Daleks he finds

without even thinking about it

without even checking to see what makes them so different

so can I just say

this is not my Doctor

#Rose would be ashamed of you Doctor #you had better learn something from this #if Oswin comes back as Clara or whoever #you had BETTER learn from this

I am desperately hoping that this was all because the Doctor is careening down a Time Lord Victorious path, tbh. And it comes to a head sometime this season, and he gets called out on it in a big way and/or actually suffers some consequences.

Because if this is just his character development, and this is just the Doctor now … yeah.