After reading that Weeping Angel commentary I am now formulating elaborate headcanon about the origins of the Weeping Angels. 

However, as I have a paper to write currently, it must wait. I shall post it when it is complete.

dontdisthesonic:

tearsoftheponds:

auniverseofimpossibilities:

sherlocked-inside-the-tardis:

thedisreputableblog:

riverthedetective:

callmeconquistador:

 #APPARENTLY THAT WAS HIS MOM

I heard that the reason they made her put her hands like that was a Timelord form of disgrace. And that she was stuck in that limbo forever, until her and the other disgraced Timelords became the first weeping angels. Monsters forced into feeding of time energy, as it used to run through their veins now their veins were stone they needed to get it other ways. 

I don’t even care if that’s the real reason or not because it’s awesomehorrifying.

I’m crying.

omg

And in the fourth gif you see her nodding because even she knows who her son is. She raised that boy who has changed so many times, raised him from birth and knew who he was. She knew what his choice would be and approved, even if inevitably it would be her death. You see his eyes widen in the sixth gif because he realizes that to end everything, he will be doing it not just to the timelords but to the face of his mother. It will be her that he is sending back and oh, it hurts him. The grief and the pain… and his mothers acceptance of it. You can see the tear in her yes even as she knows her son will do what’s right.

I love this commentary, however I am still of the belief (despite RTD saying otherwise) that this is Romana. The majority of this commentary would work just as well with a long-time close friend, which Romana is. Also, to me it would make more sense for her to be there in the first place if it was Romana. After leaving the Doctor, Romana became the President of the Time Lords. Clearly, some time during the war after Rassilon was resurrected there was a power struggle (probably about Rassilon’s military methods) and Rassilon won and became President. This event likely changed the whole of the war, turning it into the hell it became as Rassilon had no-one to check his ruthlessness, giving the Doctor no other alternative but to turn against his own people for the good of the universe.

As Rassilon knew he was going to Earth to confront the Doctor and the Master, taking an old friend of the Doctor’s along with him in disgrace would be a demonstration of his power, trying to intimidate the Doctor into giving up as Rassilon had already won.

Either way this scene is incredibly heartbreaking as the Doctor must once again condemn one of the most important people in his many lives to hell.

fuckyeahgallifrey:

She does it, but without understanding why or even realizing she does it. She just knows, in her heart of hearts, that somewhere out there, somewhere very near or very far, there is someone who wishes he could spend Christmas with her. 

She thinks “Just in case,” as she lays one more place. 

Five minutes later, she returns to the table, wondering why she’s prepared an extra setting. 

She starts to put the surplus plate and silverware away, but stops, and returns them to the table. 

“Just in case.”

whovianheadcanon:

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