The Giggle - Blog Posts

what if i never stopped crying huh?

Um...I have a few thoughts about this episode. It's not entirely negative because I think I liked it... but still.

The big thing is obviously the bi-generation and the splitting of the TARDIS. We have seen that the TARDIS is a living being with a personality. It even got a human form and confessed it's feelings. So what does splitting it do?

Also, New Who has made it a point to make REgeneration a big moment for all of us. We are saying goodbye to a face for good. If they ever reappear, it's at an earlier point in that Doctor's history. We will not get any REAL new stories from the timelines perspective. A favorite doesn't return return unless visiting them in the Doctor's mind.

Does Bigeneration cheapen our emotional connection to a certain Doctor? A Doctor that we've tuned in to watch each week for several seasons and then cried as they come to terms with being replaced. The monolouges and goodbyes that were beautifully written to comfort both the Doctor, any companions, and us the audience?

And really, that's all I'm worried about. How does this change how we view the most beautiful moments of Doctor Who, old and new? The grief and acceptance we go through each time with a new companion or a new Doctor. The loss and beginning anew? I love checking in on companions from different runs.

But if one Doctor is settling down and one is still going on through the stars, which one gets the happy ending? Because leaving 10/14 to live his life and never checking in on him again, he's just like a companion or the severed hand Doctor in a lot of ways. And the now "main" Doctor? Is he not still going to struggle with the same things?

Lastly as just a side note, did the Toymaster purposely missgender Missy? Because she was dying at the end of Capaldi's run and that looked like a woman's hand grabbing the gold tooth that he had trapped "The Master" in after he had won the game. I'm of the belief that 13th's Master takes place before Missy because of the character development we saw throughout 12's run ending with her "dying" alone instead of betraying the Doctor.

Does the whole 'bigeneration' thing as an introduction for Ncuti Gatwa make anyone else feel icky? Because I definitely feel like they did Gatwa dirty with a botched transition between regenerations because people are getting a liiiiiiittle too nostalgic with the whole RTD/Tennant thing.

Tennant is a brilliant actor, and I'm not trying to downplay everything he's done for the show, but by leaving Tennant alive, they robbed Gatwa of an introduction that shows respect to his iteration of his character, instead leaving him to be the Random New Person while The Real Doctor is yet to come into the completion of his arc.

It's just a disappointing diversion from giving Gatwa's Doctor the focus and development he deserves.

*THE GIGGLE ENDING SPOILERS*

EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING

I’ve just read the novelisation of the Giggle and the ending has me on my knees - it goes into much more detail than the show so guess what

THE DOCTOR BOUGHT THAT HOUSE

THAT IS HIS HOUSE

He chose it, he went to an estate agents and said ‘I want this pretty house’, offered them £60, then rang Kate Stewart and discovered he was getting paid by UNIT this whole time, was able to afford the house/mortgage and BOUGHT THAT HOUSE

The Nobles still have a house in London but they STAY WITH THE DOCTOR NEARLY ALL THE TIME

He chose the house with a sunroom so WILF COULD LIVE DOWNSTAIRS COMFORTABLY

Some thoughts about The Giggle:

HUH?? WAH?? WAHUH?? AAAAAAAA!?!?! Okay, this episode was super weird, and I'm not sure I liked it. This just proves that every doctor who writer does weird ass retcons for the sake of a more interesting plot/character development. It makes sense that we got multiple doctors as many other anniversary specials do that, but man, was this was weird. Them defeating the Toymaker felt so anticlimactic. I'm glad the doctor did self therapy, I guess. I liked the ending scene it was very sweet. I'm excited for Ncuti Gawa he seems fun. As one final thought: I think Russell T Davis just hates seeing companions get abandoned by David Tennant and likes to make up excuses for him to stay with them forever.

Ayrton Senna | 1993

Doctor Who × SCP × Nutcracker

Toymaker ! Dr Wondertainment ! Drosselmeyer

AU: Игрушечник-Дроссельмайер — добрый бог, любящий людей. Создаёт необычные игрушки и иллюзорные миры. Словно Хороший Развлечудов, он подкидывает игрушки с аномальными особенностями секретной организации UNIT, чтобы помочь им в борьбе с инопланетными угрозами. Обычно — на Рождество. AU: Toymaker-Drosselmayer is a kind god who loves people. Creates unusual toys and illusory worlds. Like a Good Wondertainment, he gives toys with abnormal features of the secret organization UNIT to help them fight alien threats. Usually appears at Christmas.

I think it’s interesting that Bi-generation could be interpreted as some sort of trauma response to everything the Doctor has been through.

All the stress the doctor has been through, all the loss and pain and death, both for the people he cared about and himself countless times. It just got too much for him, to the point where his body split into two distinct personalities. A trauma holder, who is 14 and 15, the "new" personality.

I’m not very well researched in it so please correct me if I’m wrong, and I know that it isn’t quite the same, but what’s happened with the doctors’ Bi-generation does make me think of DID systems. While it's probably not 1-1 I would believe it if the writer had that in mind when coming up with the concept.

Again, I'm not well versed enough on the topic to say either way, so take it with a grain of salt. I just wanted to bring up this thought because it's been on my mind since I watched the episode.