The Fourteenth Doctor Bi-generates! | David Tennant to Ncuti Gatwa | The Giggle | Doctor Who

After taking a direct hit from the Toymaker's galvanic beam, the Fourteenth Doctor begins to regenerate - but it feels different this time...

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[ronaldeliascorderocalles]

David Tennant cannot stop making copies of himself that go to live peaceful lives with their companions.

[ThePatxiao]

Man Tennant really took Michael Sheen’s statement of him not being the doctor SUPER seriously

[derrickmehok]

"Do you come in a range of colors?"
"Yes...Except for Ginger, apparently."

[EnycmaPie]

Looking forward to 20 years later when David Tennant is in his 70s to return again as The Doctor.

[cocops]

I love the little detail of his "last words". Last time he said "I don't want to go" but this time he said "Let's go". He was ready this time. He wasn't alone.

[jeremywilson]

Gotta love how Tennant nicked a line from his father-in-law: “It feels different this time”.

[valmid]

“I might never make sense again! *I might have two heads!* Or no head! Imagine me with no head - and don't say that's an improvement”
—The 9th Doctor

[Cameron-tchs]

The look on the toymakers face when he realised he doubled his problem.

[Waterflame]

I love how 14 got the undershirt, vest, and trousers, while 15 got the over shirt, tie, underwear, socks, and shoes. It was the perfect separation.

[malbourne]

When Tennant says: "It feels different this time!", that's EXACTLY what the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison, who is also Tennant's real-life father-in-law) said back when he was about to regenerate into the Sixth Doctor while lying in the TARDIS floor way back in 1984.

[maggot_]

Can't believe that there are three simultaneous David tennants active in the Dr who universe

[WackoMcGoose]

Love how Fourteen, Donna, and _the Toymaker_ did the Tennant "What? What?! WHAT?!?" thing together.

[tombell]

Loved how 9s regeneration theme plays, as well as him being told he will be fantastic. Has brought the era full circle at the end.

[theelfinator]

At this stage, Martha’s the only one that didn’t get her own personal tenth doctor, which is very irnoic

[ItsMichaelHardy]

When Mel said “every one of you is fantastic”, is it just me or did the music swell up similar to when 9 regenerated, and he said to Rose “You were fantastic, absolutely fantastic, and do you know what? So was I?”

If so, it was an amazing callback to RTD’s first regeneration as showrunner.

[eurovisionfannz]

Think I worked out how the Doctor bi-generated. According to the novel, the 14th Doctor was only 15 hours old when he got shot, which means he was still regenerating at the time, as Time Lords take 36 hours to complete their regenerations, hence why they tend to suffer from regeneration sickness afterwards (which the Doctor has experienced multiple times before). Now, it was proven that a Time Lord can heal themselves during that time (i.e. the Tenth Doctor growing back his hand) so, when the Toymaker shot the Doctor, the intensity from the galvanic beam triggered the Doctor's body into regenerating again instinctively while his body was also instinctively healing itself due to still being in the first regeneration's 36hr cycle, which caused the 15th Doctor to regenerate inside the 14th's body and the 14th's body to heal itself around the 15th. The Doctor most likely didn't even realise all this was happening to him while he was regenerating so was surprised to see he spilt into two incarnations.

[SpideyWarsStudios]

I was so unready for Tennant to have another sad goodbye. Was so happy that he actually had a happy ending for once

[tiekogalaxylatte]

Suddenly Donna's comment to the Metacrisis Doctor "You grow like worms!" is accurate after all..

[femoman]

I read a very cool interpretation that 15 is kinda like the next regeneration, but from a bit further down the Doctors timeline, not from that moment. The line "I'm fine because you fix yourself", seems to imply this: 15 is the next regeneration, but from a time AFTER 14 has already lived a long life with Donna and sorted himself and all his personal baggage out. Hence why he seems so much more happy and full of life than many of the more recent regenerations

[milkyage]

You know every new doctor has their moment in the first episode of "I am the doctor!"
Ncuti had it right at the end here. The "I challenge you to a game". It's said at the exact aame pitch and exact same infliction as David. At that moment for me with their minds in sync at that point Ncuti had his moment and the torch has already been passed I love it.