Abby :)

Like I remember the popular headcanon, back in the day, about the Rosette Nebula being formed because the Doctor was just missing Rose a lot.

Now, I can’t help but think of all the possible Rose themed mementos strewn across time and space. They probably mean nothing to the average person but for the people who know…well🥲

The Rosette Nebula, captured with a DECam, NOIRLab USA

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn’t realize, I can’t, it’s so much, I, I… are the chips good, at least?

Forever.

That one scene where Campbell fakes a manic episode to avoid being discharged is such a precursor to the Tenth Doctor, it's insane. It's a well-acted, fast-talking, urgent gibberish-used- to-distract-and-disarm version of David that we have since come to recognize from his tenure on Doctor Who and looking back, it's so obvious. They didn't know it at the time because it hadn't happened yet, but from our vantage point TOTA is a clear and pivotal step toward what would one day become David's most famous, most serendipitous, and most beloved role, and thus everything else that followed.

I think Takin' Over the Asylum is the first major milestone in David's career, not because it was a more popular show than other things he'd done before, but because it is the foundation of who he is as an actor - the energy, the enthusiasm, the full-on commitment to a scene - on which everything else was built. Without Campbell Bain there is no Ten, there is no Hamlet, there is no Alec, there is no Kilgrave, and there is no Crowley. Just think of Macbeth screaming and howling on the floor in front of Banquo's ghost - those seeds were planted with Campbell.

And then there's that magic, that spark, that David-Tennantness that no other actor can match - it was in him from the beginning and Takin' Over the Asylum lets us see it early on, that first glimpse of who he is, and who he was going to become. No one says lines like he does, no one shares the same physicality or propensity for standing on furniture like he does. The Tennantisms that I've never seen anyone - professional or amateur - successfully impersonate. It's there, you can see it.

my things for shinobi at the good omens holiday exchange last year yooo

I just wanna tell you you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I.