Dave Gahan On Stage At The Crystal Palace, London On 31 July 1993. Photos By Phil Nicholls

The Reputation Era so far

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Kurt Cobain, Rio de Janeiro, January 23, 1993

This is the radio programs that Taylor is gonna be, and the times

when the Doctor goes to the Powell Estate on New Year’s Eve as he’s dying, he asks Rose what year it is. all of the other visits were so calculated. he saves Mickey and Martha on a distant planet, just in the nick of time. he swats Luke out of the road before a car comes. he goes back in time and finds Geoffrey Noble, borrowing a quid, and gives Wilf a winning lottery ticket worth millions. he caught Donna’s wedding, just as she stepped out of the church.

But Rose. Oh, with Rose.

the Doctor says: “what year is this?” because he doesn’t even know.

do you think he just jammed his hands into the telepathic circuit as his body failed? do you think he just dreamt of her, desperately, the one face he was dying to see? do you think he hoped, prayed, that somehow he’d end up on her doorstep?

and the he’s in an alleyway full of snow. in London. and he knows that building, knows those stairs. and it’s finally snowing, for real this time. and he sees her, doesn’t even mean to speak to her, too afraid of timelines and paradoxes as putting her at risk…

but he’s in pain, and he grunts, and Rose—always ready to help someone in pain—turns around.

and the Doctor says: “what year is this?”

and when Rose says it’s 2005…oh, how his face lights up. It’s all ahead for her. And for him, too. I bet—he says—you’re gonna have a really great year...

Photo : Anton Corbijn

DOCTOR WHO THE CHRISTMAS INVASION

the actual causes of ten's regeneration are probably the best it's ever been, because the stakes are... one person. one person's life. not the whole world; not a whole people; not a whole country. not even a companion. just one guy that the doctor happens to like. he doesn't even have to give up his life. wilf could die and he could just walk away. but he can't. because he's the doctor, and his reign of terror ends with the sight of the first crying child. it's also good because ten fully deserves to be kicked down the stairs repeatedly