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Gallifrey Burning: Ninth Doctor Headcanon
When the Ninth Doctor first asked Rose to travel through time with him and refused, the Doctor accepted that and moved on. He traveled through space and time, saving the universe, all lonely for years thinking “I wish Rose could have been here.” Eventually, he goes back to a few seconds after he left Rose and says “By the way, did I mention it also travels in time?”
Rose never knew how long the Doctor waited for her.
I think this makes sense. In the episode Rose you see all those photos of Nine at the assassination of Kennedy and at the Titanic (on his own). But also in that episode he’s checking his reflection in the mirror like he’s seeing it for the first time, so he can’t have been long regenerated. So maybe he does all that stuff in the time before he comes back and says “Did I mention, it also travels in time?”
which makes that line even more powerful because this time he would really want her to say yes, because he knows what it’s like without her.
What’s interesting are the events the Doctor (theoretically) chose to visit during that time between when Rose (theoretically) first said no, and when he returned to extend the invitation a second time. Nine was photographed/drawn near the Titanic, Krakatoa, and the Kennedy assassination. All horrible catastrophes with tragic loss of life, all catastrophes that caused profound change in human history, catastrophes that (if Pompeii and Bowie Base One are anything to go by), would likely qualify as fixed points in time.
This leads me to believe that the Doctor was nearly in the throes a Time Lord Victorious breakdown as a result of the Time War and Rose’s rejection. He was dancing around the edges of these fixed points, likely looking for a way to save lives and prove to himself that he wasn’t a vile person. To prove to himself he could make a difference.
To prove to himself that he’s worthy of having someone brave and clever like Rose as a companion.
And Nine (obviously) doesn’t save Kennedy’s life or stop the eruption of Krakatoa, but in the episode “Rose” we find out he DOES save one family originally scheduled to travel on the Titanic by convincing them to delay their trip. A small measure of redemption.
Enough so that the Doctor summons the courage to return to that dark London sidewalk and casually lean out the door of his TARDIS like no time had passed at all, like he hadn’t been scrabbling in the wake of Rose’s rejection. And then he said the words he’d practiced alone in his console room dozens of times, with the exact amount of calculated swagger he’d rehearsed: “By the way, did I mention it also travels in time?”
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Submission #2427
The real reason Phil Coulson is so competent and unflappable isn’t just training and hard work: he’s actually stuck in an elogated Groundhog Day-style loop several iterations in.
The actual point of restart is slightly before the first Iron Man movie (which is why he was so conveniently waiting for Pepper right as she was leaving Stane’s office) and the current canon is the most recent iteration.
He amuses himself each iteration by taking out the burglars at the gas station in a different way. They haven’t gotten away once.
It took him a quite a few times to figure out how to nudge Thor into being “worthy.” Giving him a wrong to right by taking Jane’s science equipment (and Darcy’s iPod, even though he knows exactly how much of a grudge she’ll hold) and letting Loki (who has never heard of a security camera) talk to Thor and all of that. Once or twice he tried to just shoot Loki when he showed up, but that always ended badly.
In the second Iron Man movie, he obviously didn’t have much patience for Tony’s woe-is-me antics after the fourth or fifth time he had to put up with them. In a couple iterations Tony did discover the new element to fix the reactor but the palladium poisoning was too far gone to cure, so making Tony FOCUS was a big priority to him.
Fury knows about the cycle, of course. He finds it mildly annoying how Phil always has a perfect comeback to everything he says as a result. Fury first same up with the idea of Phil faking his death, but Phil has claimed credit for it ever since.
Phil was seriously tempted to start again with a new iteration the first time he found out Fury bloodied up his Captain America cards, but Fury eventually convinced him it was necessary.
And yet, no matter how many times he goes through it, he still can’t seem to keep himself from looking like a moron in front of Captain America.
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OMG I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS THIS IS AMAZING~~
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And the Trogdor comes in the niiiiiiight!
I have been waiting for this photoset for so long
Thatched-roof cottages! Trogdor!
it is a travesty this took so long to appear as a photoset
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“The Imperfect Enjoyment”
"No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom.’ If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs."
Joss Whedon Signed for ‘The Avengers 2′
Breaking news: It was just announced on the Walt Disney Investors Conference Call that Joss Whedon will return for The Avengers sequel. Whedon is signed to both write and direct the upcoming sequel. Disney confirmed that Whedon is also involved in the development of the long-lead ABC live-action television series which will be set inside the Marvel cinematic universe. More info as we get it.
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kind of had to when i saw this on my dash
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