Thoughts on Ten

[shivver]

Along with the announcement that DT and CT will both be returning for the 60th (though no details on exactly what form that 60th will take next year), there've been pics posted of DT on set in costume. Apparently, his brown suit, rather than sporting thin teal pinstripes, is now brown-and-teal plaid. I'm sure speculation on what this means is running wild over the tubes. So what do I think?

Warning: Don't open the cut. What's inside is entirely what I hope will happen, which is probably not what you hope will happen, and you will likely be disappointed and/or horrified.



I actually took my cue from the picture showing DT in that suit and wearing a dark blue wool coat. Now, it could just be a costume protector, though usually those aren't wool coats. It looked more to me like a blue version of the brown wool coat.

And that got me thinking that this is an alternate-universe Doctor and Donna, not just D&D from Series 4 caught up in a short in the time differential and aged by fifteen years. Maybe it's alternate timeline rather than alternate universe, but further thinking on it made me decide I wanted the following, and thus it can't be alternate timeline.

Because what I want is basically "Disassembled" from Big Finish's Gallifrey series: Fourteen encounters Ten and Donna while trying to solve some situation and they work together to solve it, and just before they succeed, Ten is revealed to be the actual antagonist (yes, I'd love him to be the Burner Doctor, which I guess means that Donna will be the Best Assassin in Chiswick) - and to top it all off, Fourteen enlists whatever previous Doctors RTD can attract to defeat him.

Now that's what I want to see. It's your fault for clicking the cut.

Comments

[a_phoenixdragon]

Well, I say you'd better get to writing it, in case Rusty doesn't pick up what you are laying down for him! :D

*HUGS*

[romanajo123]

That’s actually a great idea! I haven’t heard Disassembled ( I really need to hear more Gallifrey ) but what a cool twist.

I didn’t know about the suit thing so THANKS for getting me speculating now.

And there’s been a post I’ve seen that essentially says “ Please , RTD, don’t make this like the 50th” and yes, I can see that- I do wonder if we’ll get The hype for Ten & Donna like there was for Ten & BP

[shivver]

Was there hype for Ten & BP? I'd only just started watching DW (and falling madly in love with the show) about two months before the 50th, so I had no idea at the time that the 10/Rose romance was any more than just the series 2 storyline, and I certainly wasn't looking for media hype. But no, I doubt there will hype for Ten and Donna beyond "DT and CT are back!" Ten and Donna are not a canon pairing, so it's no more special than, say, Eleven and Amy coming back. Ten/Donna shippers may be excited by their return, but they can't expect the show will pair them, while Ten/Rose shippers absolutely could hope for more romance between the two. They must have been so disappointed with the 50th.

I absolutely agree, don't make this like the 50th. I loved the 50th when it came out and watched it like every day for a month. And then slowly, I started seeing all of its flaws and, well, I can't stand it anymore. Sigh.

[romanajo123]

I started really watching DW around… Christmas 2012, and fell deep into it in 2013. And there was a bit of hype for it. But yeah, you’re right about the disappointment. There were loads of 10/ Rose fans on Tumblr who were saying they weren’t watching it and then there was a lot of the “ THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANTED “ kind of thing when it turned out BP was playing a… weapon? An AI? What do you call the Moment anyway? I guess because it wasn’t just an hour of them smooching or whatever.

But I do agree- the 50th wasn’t perfect. Looking back it felt just like a special regular episode.

[arcanetrivia]

Alternate universe/timeline is the biggest theory going around on my 'tubes.

They did a good job this time making him look properly like Ten. Like he always looked "off" to me in the 50th. I know that in season 2 (with Rose) he really did have that much flatter hair than the wild cock's-comb 'do from season 4 (Donna) but still... somehow I was like "I'm not buying it". There was something about his face, too. Yet despite him being even older now it's somehow sitting better with me.

[shivver]

You're not the only one. Ten looked awful in the 50th. He looked puffy, like he'd gained twenty pounds, and pasty, and his hair was stringy and oily, and hung down. Compare to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gFkTMKvR88 which was 3 years later or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRAoSCO2O0 5 years later.

I'm pretty much convinced that the 50th tried to make Ten look bad. Couple the way he looked (come on, the BBC makeup and hairstyling department must be better than that!) and the way he was treated (Ten was the inept, bumbling comic relief who didn't do a single thing right) with Clara's reference to War and Ten as "We've got enough warriors; any old idiot can be a hero" while Sir John and DT had to stand there staring blankly off into space and I think it's pretty obvious that the 50th was meant to be a love song to Eleven.